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Excitement At Jackson, Miss.

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Day
17
Month
September
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Jackson, Miss.. Sept. 14. - The people here have continued to be greatly excited over the fever outlook. During Monday night and Tuesday people continued to leave the city. and wagon' after wagon passed, hauling household goods to places of ref uge in . the surrounding country. The chief interest centers in Edwards, twenty-five miles distant, where Dr. Furnell, the fever expert Monday night reported three suspicious cases out of a total of thirty. The city is surrounded on all sides by an armed guard and the utmost vigilance prevails. The fears of the people were greatly relieved by the receipt of an official report from the mayor of Edwards, saying that an epidemie of ague was raging, but there were no yellow fever cases.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News