'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8056, 3 November 1897, Page 2

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

YELLOW FEVER : SHOCKING TRAGEDY. CRIMES OF VIOLENCE IN LONDON. Auckland, to-day. A yellow fever plague has been raging in the Statesof MississippijLouisiana, Alabama, and Texas. The deaths in New Orleans were (il and Alabama 20. One. of the worst disasters in the history of South Dakota occurred at Plankinton at midnight on October 0, when seven lives were lost by the burning of a girls' dormitory at the State industrial school. The structure was of wood and three storeys high, and about 23 persons in the school escaped in their iiightclothcs. A search for the bodies of the unfortunate ones who did not escape revealed the fact that seven girls perished, each being burned beyond recognition. At present there is an extraordinary epidemic of murders, suicides, and outrages upon women in London and its vicinity, which seems unequalled since the days of Jaok-the-Rippur. During September the public \\ ore startled by an atrocious murder, and the alarm wa« increased by the fact that the perpetrators of the crime battled the police. The news of the murder in a railway carriage of a Miss Camp was followed by another railway tragedy in which Mrs Bryan, the wife of Dr. *]sryaii, of Northampton, waskillcd under circumstances pointing to murder, and the Key, Aubrey Price, the well-known divine, was killed at his residence. In one day ti little boy was kidnapped and murdered in the suburbs ; a rich miserly uomau was found cut to pieces at her residence, liethnal Green ; a farmer's daughter named Emma Jonson was murdered at Windsor ; and the body of a man, nnitilaled, stripped, iiiid thrown into the Thames, WRb found.