Smallpox In Howell

Howell, the county seat of Livingston county, thirty miles distant from this city has been visited by the dreadfulscourge of smallpox. It has not developed to a very great extent. Nine cases have broken out to date and there has been one death. The first case was that of Calvin Wilcox, who came home from Dakota to vote, feit indisposed for two or three days about election time and went back to Dakota. A man boarding at the house and a brother and Mrs. Wilcox took the disease late in November. The schools in the village were closed. Later a woman who didthe washing for JSirs. Wilcox and ihe wife of the attending physician were taken svith the disease, and so was Murray Fishbeck, telegraph operator on the T. and A. who died on Tuesday of this week. The last case developed was that of a colored man named Anderson. C. J. Cook a merchant was, according to the Livingston Re publican, feeling indisposed for severa days on account of a vaccination and was kept in the house, a smallpox sign being placed on his door. The Finckney Dispatch in speaking of this case said that Cook was taken sick in his store and Cook has had a warrant taken out for his arrest and the editor has been placed under bonds for $1,000. Bather hard Unes, when an editor must pay heavily for trying to protect the people from smallpox A pest house bas been rented and a physician hired with $-500 salary for the first month.