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Show Smallpox In San Antonio, Texas. Galveston, January 24. A San Antonio special to the News says: Although the sanitary san-itary authorities declare that smallpox is not epidemic, there are about thirty. cases in various portions of the city. The disease is confined chiefly to the Mexican- population. This evening a quack, calling himself the "Diamond Khig," who has been selling various nostrums, was stricken down with the disease. His tent, containing twenty-eight twenty-eight persons, has been quarantined, and a vigilant watch will be plaoed to prevent people peo-ple from approaching it. |