Show CROOKED HED OFFICE EPIDEMIC St. St Petersburg's Suffering Has Made Many Pocket PocketBooks Books Fat I ITHE THE CHOLERA IS SPREADING Jve FL Funerals Day and Night Hive I to Combat Superstition 1 of People ft I Republican Special ial Cable a fat St Petersburg Sept lj Asiat cholera continues to spread through out M the capital Tho The health au seem he to chock check t the th onward rd march of ot t the Ie scourge Sensa exposures were mado made today r rc re garding tho tile lou long neglected task of ot Ini ml P proving M the tho water r supply and ami I. facilities of or the capital The Tho sewer sever 1 now llO empty Into the river Nova Ne fron which the water supply for the l c city I 1 use uso Is a. a taken Tho residents of or th capital have havo often complained of or thIs arrangement knowing that thai Lake Lale La- La gone gono i on only I 20 miles mUes away offers an abundant supply of or clear water Appropriations Ap Ap- have havo been licen made In 18 the tho past to change the source of or tho the city's Water ater supply but dishonest officials f failed Called i 1 to act acl upon the tho states state's It is now alleged that their private pur purses es waxed fat Cat on the tho funds meant to hotter better the tho sanitary conditions con- con of ot 14 of the cl city t Officials In eha charge r the thic city's sanitation eve are re now loud in their condemnation of those who am are al at- at to bo be directly for tho present cholera epidemic Co A commission was appointed d today l to arrange arrange- for Cor Immediate Immediate- action In regard ro- ro gard gaid to tIm the necessary changes In th the water Supply v Premier is di dl- dl Interested in tho the commission nn and tho thi central government go will share n a part art ot or tho the expense The municIpal hospitals are filled with cholera patients For time the i 1 I I up to noon tod today c cases canes s- s sd and d I 1 deaths were reported There Ther Is a total of oC l patients in the hospi hospi- tal tale Fun Funeral ral processions 01 may Lo at all hours of or the tho day and night passing through the streets street At 1 one ono cemetery graves Sra have havo been du dug during the past days ays A story that the ph physicians of St Sl Petersburg hn had l caused causell the cholera epidemic epi epi- epi demic by Iy poisoning tho thin waters water of ot the Xeva n e as well vell as ae tile tho fruits sold In tho marl market et has been given wide publicity This rumor has played upon the tue superstition super super- of the common people to such an extent that the they rebel a against medi mcl- cal attendance when cholera Is present in III their families Camilles Tho The authorities are conducting an educational campaign among tho the people and are trying to discover cr the source of or this superstitious superstitious belief It Is now feared that t martial law I will 11 be proclaimed in the capital for tor coupled coupled cou cou- pled with tho the superstitions of ot the tho common com coin mon people Is the tho viciousness of tho the officers with wih funds for tor the betterment of the city's sanitary diton con con- PIn In 10 Merlin Berlin Sept Sept 22 Although Although every e pr precaution pre pre- caution cauton has haD heen taken to keep the cholera epidemic from Cram crossing tho Russian frontier yet et the first medically certificated case crise of the disease de developed devel- devel elop el- el I op d in the German camp today The victim Is the wife fe of ot 31 M. 1 Grig- Grig Russian state councillor She han hal been heen Iola Isolated In a ward card of or tho the el city hospital Two suspects taken to the hospital but after a thor thor- ou ough h examination It t was as found the they were not suffering from Crom cholera Later In the da day four tour more su suspects were taken to the hospital and will be held for tor examination These suspects suspects sus sus- are Russians recently arrived from St St. S1 Petersburg Tho The residents of ot Berlin greatly fear tear the spread of cholera In this thi cH city The authorities have hax-c 10 0 taken o er over every tion ton to guard the spread of ot the disease |