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Show LATEST TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. YELLOW FEVER. WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 - Surgeon General Hamilton, of the marine hospital services, furnishes a review of the progress of yellow fever in Texas the past week. Since the last weekly statement, the progress of the epidemic at Brownsville has been somewhat on the increase, though it still appears to lack the malignancy which usually accompanies this disease. During the week an effective cordon was established by the treasury department around the infected district, and mounted guards patrol both sides of the Rio Grande; Mexico having co-operated [cooperated] with our government to this end. The disease is now confined within the triangle bounded by the Rio Grande, the Gulf, and the cordon, extending from Laredo to Corpus Christi. From telegraphic advices received to-day, it is learned that the cordon was established just in time to catch the refugees from the infected district. Fifty were stopped between Corpus Christi and Laredo yesterday, seven of whom were from Tampico, Mexico. They will not be allowed to cross the railroad until their clothing has been fumigated, and they will then be detained a proper length of time. Under no circumstances will any of these refugees be allowed to carry any baggage across the line. BROWNSVILLE, Tex.[Texas], Aug. 30. - There are fifty-two new cases and three deaths, being two Mexicans and W. C. Carberry, manager of the Western Union Telegraph office. There are some new cases in Fort Brown, among them Major Witherell? of the Nineteenth Infantry. Mail to Rio Grande City has been ordered stopped. Eight deaths in Matamoras. The weather is very sultry. PENSACOLA, Fla. [Florida], Aug. 30. - There are fourteen cases of yellow fever up-to-date and two deaths. The disease is confined to one district, embracing town squares in the lower part of the city. The city is otherwise very healthy. The Board of Health has adopted the most stringent sanitary measures to prevent the spread of the fever. RESIGNING. LIMERICK, Aug. 28. - The Lord Lieutenant has ordered the dismissal of the five sub-constables who objected to being removed to the North. The event caused considerable excitement, and already there have been many resignations among the constables in consequence. DUBLIN, Aug. 28. - The Kings county constabulary have approved the action of the Limerick constabulary in refusing to be transferred, and they have opened a subscription to sustain them, and also telegraphed their sympathy. LIMERICK, Aug. 28. - The constabulary held a meeting Saturday at the police barracks; most of the constables deserting their beats for the purpose of attending. Telegrams were forwarded to other towns asking their support and a memorial was ultimately forwarded to Earl Spencer, to which a reply is awaited. There have been thirteen resignations from the constabulary, in consequence of the dismissal of the sub-constables. The Inspector General made an attempt to address the men who resigned, but they refused to listen. The city is without the usual police on beat to-night. Fifty-seven men had resigned by eleven o'clock to-night. The men received telegrams from their comrades in various districts, expressing a determination to resign in three days, unless the five dismissed sub-constables are reinstated. CALL FOR UNCURRENT COIN. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. - The Acting Treasurer has given instructions for the transfer to the mint at Philadelphia, for recoinage [re-coinage], of all uncurrent subsidiary silver held at the different depositories throughout the country. There are about 500,000 of these coins at various offices, including three cent, five cent and twenty cent silver pieces and other uncurrent silver. TURK AGAINST GREEK. ATHENS, Aug. 29. - Yesterday morning, the Turkish troops attacked the Greeks all along the front from Zorbus? to Degani?. The fighting was continued to-day. The Greeks lost four killed and ten wounded. The government has dispatched 10,000 infantry, artillery and gen d'armes [gendarmes] to the frontier. LONDON, Aug. 29. - The Turkish account of the fighting on the frontier between the Turks and Greeks is as follows. Some Greek troops attempted to take forcible possession of the disputed territory of Karalik?, ???, on the Thessalian frontier, but they were repulsed with heavy loss by the Turks under Raghah Pasha. Eight men were killed on the Turkish side. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 29. - M. Condomeetes? Condomcetes?, Greek ambassador, represented to Said Pasha a collision provoked by a violation of Greek territory by the Turks. Said Pasha replied that last month a detachment of Greek troops crossed the frontier and cut the telegraph communication between the Turkish military post and the village. The Turks, requiring supplies, were obliged to pass through a part of the Greek territory. They were opposed and fired upon by the Greeks, and retaliated, driving off the latter. The Porte telegraphed the minister at Athens, instructing him to make representations to the Greek government, insisting upon a cessation of hostilities. The Porte now insists that Turkish troops be permitted to land at Alexandria, and urges that Alexandria serve as a common base for British and Turkish operations. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 29 - Another engagement took place at Karalik? Dervend?, last night, and the Greeks were again repulsed. To-day the Greeks, with artillery, made a third attack, the result of which is unknown. CRIMINAL CALENDAR. KEWANEE, Ills. [Illinois], Aug. 29. - Great excitement exists over the arrest of Pratt, cashier of the First National Bank, on the charge of complicity in the recent robbery, in which the thieves got away with $20,000. The arrest is just made, and the detectives claim they have plenty of evidence to sustain the charge. DENVER, Aug. 28th. - Republican's, Las Vegas, N.M. At San Jeronimo, a small Mexican settlement close to this city, last night, Jack G. Perry, American, became involved in a fight with several Mexicans over a Mexican woman. Perry shot and killed one M. Gonzeales? and fatally wounded two other Mexicans. The Mexicans then killed Perry. BANK ROBBERY. CHICAGO, Aug. 29. - Edward N. Walsh, arrested three or four days ago in New York for robbing the First National Bank of Kewanee, Ills. [Illinois], passed through this city this evening en route for Kewanee, in charge of a detective who arrested him. The detective agency which has charge of the case says he made a confession to the effect that Dr. J. S. Scott, of St. Louis, formerly a resident of Kewanee, planned the robbery, though he took no direct part in it; that Pratt, acting cashier, was a party to it and instead of the large sum in gold notes missing being carried away in a valise with the other money, it was Pratt who carried it off previous to the day when Walsh and his companions locked Pratt and Mrs. ??? in the vault and carried away the remainder, mostly in paper money. Walsh refused to give the name of the man who helped him in the job. SIBERIAN PLAGUE. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 29. - The Siberian plague is appearing to an alarming extent in the most widely separated quarters of Lanepean [La nepean] Russia. One death from the disease has occurred at Odessa. THE TRANSIT OF VENUS. BERLIN, Aug. 29. - Four German expeditions will soon leave Hamburg for America to observe the transit of Venus, being destined for different points of view on the Northern and Southern continents. Each of the parties consists of two astronomers, a student and an assistant. The points of observation allotted the Germans are in Connecticut, South Carolina, Costa Rica and the Straits of Magellan. EMMA BOND VERY LOW. ST. LOUIS, Aug 29. - A special from Taylorsville says: Emma Bond was resting quietly at midnight, but the attending physicians agree she has a poor chance of recovering. Her death is expected within a few days, and it was thought once yesterday that she was dead, respiration having ceased for a while. She has been at most times conscious, but once or twice was found to be raving. On one of these occasions, her father says, she went over her former statement about the outrage made to the prosecuting attorney and detailed every circumstance without varying in the least from the written statement. While in this condition she made some remarks that reflect seriously upon one of the prisoners. TAYLORSVILLE, Ills. [Illinois], Aug 29. - Miss Emma Bond, the victim of the recent outrage, remains delirious, and the physicians say she cannot remain many days in delusion. She went over the scene of the outrage to-day, telling the same story as she told the prosecuting attorney. Bail has been arranged for Montgomery, Fettis? Pettis? and Clements, the alleged perpetrators of the fiendish deed, but they prefer safety inside the jail to freedom. YELLOW FEVER. BROWNSVILLE, Tex. [Texas], Aug 29. - There were 82 new cases yesterday, and 8 deaths, six of these Mexicans. Six deaths at Matamoras and a few new cases. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29th. - Captain Hopkins, commanding the navy yard at Pensacola, has informed the Navy Department that yellow fever is spreading in Pensacola, and that extra precautions are necessary. Owing to the prevalence of yellow fever at Pensacola, Fla. [Florida], the Secretary of War has given orders for the transfer of the troops at Fort Baraneas? Barancas? to Mount Vernon barracks, near Mobile. The navy yard at Pensacola will be practically closed in a few days. BROWNSVILLE, Aug. 29. - There are seventy-two new cases and two deaths; Americans. The few cases among the troops in Fort Brown are doing well. There are several cases at Point Isabella. Two Tampico refugees died recently with fever, eighty miles from here and on their way towards Corpus Christi. There are seven deaths in Matamoras, and but few new cases. The weather is sultry. NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 29. - The Louisiana board of health has prohibited the Louisville and Nashville railroad from bringing cars, passengers, merchandise or baggage, from Pensacola into the State of Louisiana. INDIANS PUNISHED. CHICAGO, Aug. 29. - An Indian Territory special says: Thirteen prisoners, taken during the ??? rebellion in the Creek Nation, have just been found guilty, and were punished with 100 lashes on their bare backs. Chief Cheyote refused to pardon the rebels, though there were large petitions for clemency. Two or three of the culprits almost fainted, but the majority exhibited iron nerves. |