Show it LA GRIPPES HOLD statistics of the past week show an enormous DEATH RITE RATE IN GOTHAN forty thousand cases reported to be now in chicago 0 o THE DOCTORS INTO 1 guisti f I 1 they charce charge a th tard rd for lasits bublic the disease in STANDARD special a F P chron tele cle service NEW YORK jan 4 mrs joseph tooker sister of william J florence actor and of police inspector peter coffin died yete uly rJay alter after buffering suffering for over a week from an attack of in flu enzi wai was finally supple amentt d by hear heart failure THE DOCTORS MAKE MONEY FINDLAY ohio jan 4 the doctore to ra of his this city met last thursday and formed a trust after which they advanced the price of professional lisita from tl 1 to each and the announcement haa has caused great indication di among the beope as la ja grippe has ha just bec an epidemic here and it tie is charged that the physicians took advantage of the necessity m bich exists for their perdices per vices lo 10 make a good thing out of the epidemic CASES rs IN CHICAGO CHICAGO jan 4 within the past few days russian influenza orla oria 4 grippe which ie is an all ep damle in chicago liae has developed dv d ve loped eloped into a far more pron no C ed and dangerous type this act fact is due to the warm damp w wrather and the slight rain which fell this morning had bad the effect ot of causing the me condition that crote create the greatest feelings of alarm among physicians for their patients the doctora doctors claim that the damp atmosphere at present produces a tendency toward the coagulation of the blood the hert heart is 13 easily effected by the influenza under the conditions as they nox no v exist and it makes the moat most dangerous complication that medical science has to meet the public is bat just awakening to the fast fact that it will not do to trifle with the disease any longer and the 4 doctora doctors have rea hel hol he l the same conclusion cl it I 1 has reached startling proportions and even the most conserva live tive estimates place the number of at it is not confined coo fined to any section of the city over two hundred p alive dice and firemen are laid up u unfit for duty the public schoola which will open monday will not riot ave live more than two thirds the busuti attendance if indeed the figure will be so high toe too agents of file llio board of education re pirt that thousands of the children are sick so many in fact that an estimate can hardly be made un il it the schools open and the absentees aro are counted up RAGING baat NO IS IN YORK new YORK jan 4 the alarming of mortality in this city continued tody to dy doy when deaths were reported to the bureau of vital statistics eleven of those deaths were said to have baen ben c caused au ed by influenza alone anil and 23 resulted from bron chial troubles ice which had been aggravated vl oba by the same disease during the amk 1202 per ona ons have died in the city such a record for a single fingle week meek in winter has never been pual equalled equal led only in the middle of the tile leate I 1 term in summer when children by hundreds die from troubles in ill the tenement housidis hou house districts does the mortality reach 1200 flie elie prevailing epidemic does not affect children about 11 per cent of the olice police force buffered suffered from influenza today to day men being on the sick list BIX SIX DEATHS IN BROOKLYN NEW youk jan 4 in brooklyn peveril il ministers ill be unable to preach sunday on account of in fluen z A within the tile last week six cases of death from influenza have beed reported ONE THOUSAND CASES IS IN newt I 1 1 a 10 3 WICK 4 NEW YORK jan 4 arh iff i I 1 e ere Fire 6 re about 1 1000 ca caes cae e a of la Is I 1 grippi grippe 0 in new brunswick N J among the tile vi victims efima being many prominent lawyers physicians mini stera and business men LIP READING 1 IN 14 4 ILLINOIS bloomington BLOOMI NITON ill jan 4 there are nearly ono ne hundred cases of influenza enia at Say broek brock this county the tile doctors are kept busy day and night there are a great many cases in bloomington but they are of the mild variety RAVING MAD NEW YORK jan paul iloff man assistant distant superintendent of schools was se taken to tal this ir a raving maniac from S the effects of ila la grippe from w m hichi he lie had been suffering sut fering ring for the past put 0 o daya days CLOSED BERLIN ja jan a 4 the cools at liol lehan are closed owing to influenza TELEGRAPH orric its CLOSED AMSTERDAM jan 4 athe the telegraph officers ceis here have closed the emp employee loyes being prostrated by influenza ARMY MAN DEAD CoN court N 11 II jan 4 captain rufus P 11 aniela St a prominent ent insurance end and grand army man died lied today of la grippe I 1 it began dayan day and into typhoid pneumonia AN EMPRESS AFFLICTED BERLIN jan 4 dowager empress A auguata has influenza accompanied with high fever and severe catarrh doctors are somewhat anxious TWO HUNDRED CASES IN LI DANIEN DAVENPORT PORT DAVENPORT DAVEN foRT jen jan 4 doctors pay ay there are more than two hundred cases of antl enza in davenport HU 1111 nois the spread has been raad for foi forty eight fioura AS AN ACTOR DEAD NEW YORK jan 4 frank leall brother of pauline hall and anti a mem her ber of the brigande Uri Bri gandt gands company died laed this tills morning from pneumonia which began in an apparently alight attack 1 1 of the prevailing influenza 1 IN 14 LIVERPOOL LONDON jan 4 influenza hae has made ite its appearance in liverpool Liver the contagion is directly traceable to letters from russia I 1 I 1 r t |