)T IN HIS. ttrooke fere in a Q »XEV FOR r ERS. ''f. S,I, P wr «ne !»«,. Havana. July ,S>'' i( ' au 'y known as ""ft Mel her," which prctf" 111 " - ' 1 ,he 11crest of Africans ir "ts, has asked f,nt.M\"n*ion < > L ' fibers are to be found many Congo blood. Kusebio /.ayas Rented a long statement to'{Jeti. '* "I'ich he asserts that one J l '- ,lu ' of the sonictv lit illegally col lecting money* iig'niz.ing the ne groes. Zavas b' v ,()r .I"stiee, as he says he h.* ( '- v enottgh. He requests (ien. B'° declare him the true king- organization end to oust the pre- Kniannel. Ac companying tlA' on !,r '' several affidavits of Cub vers s "l»l»orting the statements ili,is * (.en. Brooke, 1 decided that the recent hisforv ' s "sufficient to deter Amcr Irorn interfering in disputes be so-called roval factious," have anything to do with the ma The former fode proviileil that robbery* of eti s should be pun ishable under ''ends, theft and "sacrilege." ignor Santander, the bishop ufma, contends that this modifieatr prejudicial to the interests of tjoreli, and has made a formal prof' '' lo governor gen eral. ' lien. Broolfl issued a decree ap propriating 112" n ' n settlement of arrears of S.T' ll 'l"' education de partment. Jof the schoolmasters have gone wft pay since January. Fifty* tlionsa"liars will be appro priated monfhereafter. The local press is unaf's in applauding thi.-s act. as it is jrst time in years that anything |j|egularity of payment has been ni«ted in this direction. I-I Ciil>and ,n l , er published in the city* of Pini'el Bio. says that, not withstandiifepeated denials, the brigandnwojieh always begins.with cattle theiv' s rapidly increasing in the yvestenitricts of the island, in cluding frtrovinces of I'inar Del Bio and lljia. The dcafate largely exceeds tlui birth rate the city of Matanzas. Last monfll* deaths were otlicially reported, compared with ~s births. The locpapers devote columns to yvhat the-erm "A mysterious pro ceeding."'They say that the Span ish liner inberto Rodriguez left Ha vana on inlay morning, carrying an Americaf'fficer, uhose name is not given. ' behaved in a friendly man ner tow/I all the passengers, but Alien fljvessel reached Nuevitas. he trdered ie captiiin to keep all 011 ward. t*n disembarked himself, sent i>odv armed men to occupy the teainer placed a guard in the tel irraph fTice, declining to allow any lessag* to pass, took the night train lr Cafiguey. returned the following lornir*. released the ship and left >r I'urto l'rincipe by train. Ilead larttfs declines to give any explan ion 'egarding this alleged incident. i'riciJ to Hold Ip a Train. (CaijClnire, Wis.. July ■■>. —An attempt is mule last night to hold tip the nala f-ist mail running between Dll - ind Chicago. The attempt was 1 r.-iuu.ouu. A DEADLY DELUGE. Score* of Lhci l.o»l by Flood* In Texan The Liim lo I'roperl) in Fully $5,000,000. Austin, Tex, July 4. —IJcporls from up ami doyy 11 the lira/os river valley indicate that the Hood is holding' its own. It is now figured out that there are over -too county bridges and about 2">(> railroad bridges swept away in the flood. News from Eagle Lake, Harris coun ty, directly in the path of the flood, is that thousands of acres of growing tobacco which escaped 1110 flood until Sunday arc now covered and that it will prove a total loss. There are nine lives reported lost a) l'agle Lake and the surrounding country. No names can be ascertained. In McClcllitn county alone the loss w ill be $1,000,000. licports from southwestern Texas are to the effect, that heavy rains there ha\e swollen the (iattdalupc and Low er Colorado and they are spreading all over the country again. Ity means of building much temporary trestle work and operating trains slowly some of the trunk lines are moving a few through trains, but most of the rail road business in Texas is still tied up. For seven days Texas throughout its central and western portions has been visited by daily rainfalls. The rain continued yesterday and reports from as far south as Nueces county re port that everything is being flooded afresh. That section of the state, however w ill not suffer nearly as much loss as tin- l!ra/os bottoms, for the reason that the water can spread out over the low country much more rap idly than in the lira/os country, and it is not so generally cultivated. The reports from all along the Bra zos bottom show that the water is still very high and the fact that every sec tion of the state continues to be visit ed by rain makes the situation look extremely gloomy.. The reports of the total damage to county, railioad and personal property as well as to crops, continue to come in and it is figured out that it will amount to s.">,()( )n.(mm;. Alarming reports are coming in from La (irange and Senley of loss of life in the vicinity of Brookshire. Hous ton has been appealed to for help and the mayor of that city has issued a proclamation calling for men and boats to rescue those in danger. The Missouri, Kansas A Texas railroad is sending out relief trains from Hous ton, La 'lrange and other points. Austin, Tex., .lulv —»iov. Savers has received the following telegram from a number of residents of BrooL shire. a small town in Waller county, on the Brazos river, about .'lO miles from Houston: "Hundreds of people here, with everything swept way by flood, have not a mouthful to eat and no shelter. I'nless food is sent at once starvation is inevitable and to you. as governor of Texas, we appeal for immediate aid and food." Gov. Savers replied by wiring the mayors of Houston, (ialveston and San Antonio as follows: "Am .just advised that hundreds of people are suffering at Brookside for want of food. Have no public funds at my disposal. Please "all on the people of your city to as sist." A report from Brookshire says that To person-, have been drowned already and many more may soon be. A re lief train was sent out from Houston last night with boats and physicians, but not nearly enough. The people were not warned and had no time to escape This afternoon it was report ed that between 100 and 150 farmers and their families were on a small hill near where Dewey was situated and which has since become an island, with the water slowly rising. It is feared that many of them have been lost. The total number of dead accurately reported at nil points now reaches 63. UNDER FALLING WALLS. Ll»c» of Arllfiaii* are Crushed Out 117 a Fire ill u Paper .Mill. Chicago. July 4. —Four persons are believed to be dead beneath the tot tering walls of the Western l'aper Stock Co.'s plant on Indiana avenue, which burned yesterday. The dead: Bartholomew Sparkiew ietz. 50 years old. Julius Ostowsky, 50 years old. Mrs. .losie Doyle. J1 years old. Stettina Badgeis. Courageous wtirk resulted in the res (•ue of a large proportion of the too women and:2o men employed in the building, but eight of the more im petuous and frenzied ones were badly hurt in escaping from the blazing struct lire. All of the injured women were taken to St. Luke's hospital, about "00 feet from the scene of the tire. The fir" is thought to have started from spontaneous combustion among some old rags in the basement. The flames spread to the upper floors by way of the elevator shaft and stair way. The highly inflammable nature of the stock caused the building to fill wilh dense smoke, rendering "scape difficult for employes on the three higher stories. The oeupants of the building became panic-stricken and rushed to the windows. Those who went to the front, where there was a tire escape, were able to make their way to the sidewalk by a ladder from the second story. On the south side of the burning structure, however, many of the frenzied women leaped out of the third-story windows to the roof of the shed. It was at this point that most of those injured suffered. On the north side of the building sev eral women escaped down a ladder raised by women of the neighbor hood. Sailor* Celebrate "Santiago Day." Newport. I!. L, .July 4. The first an niversary of the destruction of the Spanish fleet off Santiago was ob served here Monday by the ships of the North Atlantic squadron, by the attaches of the naval stations and of vessels in the harbor in general. The celebration begun when the warships ran up flags and bunting of many col ors. At noon a salute of !il guns wast fired from all the ships of the squad ronaml each crew had a special dinner. Sports and races by the several crew#, minstrels :md vaudeville entertain ments on the ships were features CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1899. FOLLY APPROVED. Peace Congress Delegates Agree on Arbitration. NOW THEY WILL REST. The Sessions are Suspended for a Period of Ten Days. TO GET FINAL INSTRUCTIONS The (•OTfromenlii llrprrMiilrtl at the Conference aroto Advlac Tlielr flrle galcN Further Itetore the t oiigrcK* IteMitmcN II l mill eft*. The Hague, July The third com mittee of the peace conference t\ester day discussed the scheme I'oiVhe medi ation and arbitration convention drawn up by Comte D'Kxamen. Many of the delegates have only been ac quainted with the proposals since Thursday and have not had time to consult their governments. Conse quently it was decided that when the from mitt ee adjourned yesterday it would be until July 1". in order to al low the delegates a week in which to consult their governments and receive final instructions. The scheme is headed "Draft of convention for the pacific settlement of international conflicts." The first part deals with the maintenance of general peace, the second part with arbitration. The reporter of the committee ex plained lengthily the motives which inspired the drafting committee in elaborating the scheme. M. liour geois, head of the French delegation, thanked the reporter in warm terms and congratulated him upon his re markable exposition, which, he said, would remain an otlieial commentary upon the provisions formulated, both for the delegates and for their govern ments. The sitting was then ad journed until July 17. During the discussion the plenary committee amended \rticle S so as to provide that when pejivers between whom there is a serious dispu>- accept mediation, they cease all direct rela tions in regard to the disputed ques tion, which shall be considered as ex clusively referred to the mediatory powers. Two additional paragraphs regard ing the permanent court were also adopted, as follows: "Members of the permanent court shall enjoy and exercise all the func tions of diplomatic privileges and im munities. "The bureau is authorized to place its officers and organization at the disposal of the signatory po;vers for the proper exercise of any special ar bitral jurisdiction. The signatory powers undertake }o communicate to the bureau a eopv of any stipulation regarding arbitration decided between them and all judgments of the per manent court, and they undertake to communicate to the bureau the laws, regulations and documents setting forth the education of judgments pro nounced by the court." The Plague Appear* 111 Africa. Washington, July fi.—Advices to the state department through the I'nited States legation at Monrovia confirm the report that a plague is raging at firand liassam, in the French ivory coast colony. This colony is adja cent to Liberia on the east coast and to the British gold coast eolonv on the west coast. The disease is similar to the bubonic plague of India. It is having the most fatal effect upon all attacked. It is reported that between 200 and .100 persons, including three European physicians, liavc already fal len victims to the disease. lirtal Scramble for t'onimlwMloiia. Washington. July B.—lt is stated at the war department that almost every officer who served in the volunteer army during the \\?ir with Spain and who was honorably mustered out iias again offered his services to meet the needs of the Philippine campaign. Al together no less than 10,000 applica tions for commissions in the new vol unt -er army now forming have been received at the war department and have, been placed on the files. On Thursday alone the application:, num bered ISO. Striker* Defeated. Chicago, July 8.- \fter a straggle of five weeks Norton f »ros., tin can makers, of May wood, have triumphed completely over their I.SOO striking employes. A determination on the part of the firm not t . recognize the union ui' ler any circumstances and the weak organization of the strikers are the main causes which led to the defeat. The strikers all returned to work by degrees and a full fore was working Friday. Coke Ovciik to ICiia* ■•'nil Time. Pittsburg, July 8.- -Orders have been issued for the resumption on Monday of all the idle coke ovens in the coun try, and all ovens heretofore on fi-e days a. week will be put on full time. This will be the first time in the his tory of the coke industry that all ovens will be on full. <;old lliisiterM Die f+oni Scurvy. Seattle, Wash., July s. Word conies from Dawson that parties arriving from Kdmonton route report that about 7" prospectors were wintering there and that 15 or ..0 are reported to have died from scurvy. The remain der are more or less affected. t'crvcra 1* Acquitted. Madrid. July 8. \dmiral t'crvcra and the other commanders nf the Spanish fleet destroyed in the battle of Santiago, whose conduct has been the subject of inquiry by special court martini. were yesterday acquit!.ml and formally liberated. CAUSE AND EFFECT. Why All the People uo an Incoming Steamer Were ShakiiiK Their Handkerchiefs. It was a blistering hot morning'. The white sand reflected the sun's rajs like a glass, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. What little breeze there was stirring only served to whip up the sand and liil one's lungs with the parch ing dust. The surf broke on the ocean side of Sandy Hook with a monotonous roll. Even the sea looked hot. 1 en tered the ship news tower and slowly climbed the five flights i»f stairs to the observer's room at the top. There are 110 windows in the tower below the up per floor and care was necessary, not only owing to the darkness, but because of the danger of fracturing one's skull against the iron braces wlych ran diag onally from floor to ceiling at each land- GODDESS OF LIBERTY FOR DEWEY'S FLAGSHIP. t -7SOMItHB* ; -Sf ULYMWA• jfj| // Jl 111 AMS'STATi' • ■: ot'Mw JVll/iMjI Iticron- '< • MSWifIS. // Mi !fiJ Of OLI Mi»A. •; •to I j toMUNttt' I On Admiral Dewey's arrival In New York on the Olympia he will be called on to receive for his vessel a handsome gift from the citizens of Olympia and the state of Washington. It is a bronze panel, which will be placed on the forward turret of the ship, between the two big guns. It weighs 300 pounds, is four feet high, while its greatest breadth is four feet and a half. Paul \V. Morris designed the panel, under the direction of I>. C. French. The panel will contain the historic legend "Gridley, you may fire when ready." The picture of the panel is from N. Y. Herald. ing, crossing each other at about the height of the average man. In the signalman's room it was sev eral degrees cooler than at the level of the sea. The solitary watcher was look ing seaward at the steamship City of Home, which was passing up the chan nel, bound in. From' er mainmast flew her signal Hags. Only a few persons ap peared on her decks. Then, as we looked at the ship as she slipped by us, her port rails became lined with passen gers. A long line of moving white ap peared from end to end. It had the ap pearance of the foam on crest of a breaker. "What's the matter with her?" asked the signalman, poking his telescope through one of the slides in the side of the tower. "They are shaking handker chiefs at something ashore here," he added, after a few moments' inspection of the ship. We looked down at the shore, 150 feet below us. On the ridge, of sand, stand- MARCUS DALY, COPPER KING. This famous Montana miner has Just sold his interest in the Anaconda copper mines to the Rockefeller syndicate for millions of dollars. He is a man of wide activity; owns a bank or two, a big hotel, street railways and ranches, and in each line his investments run well up toward the millions. Then his racing stables tire on a great scale, and among his horses h ave been some great winners, notably Tam many. Daly began life on the Pacific coast by digging potatoes. As soon as he had a little money he started tor the mines, and everytning tie touched turned intogold. ng OK bijrr Ji, was a boy. lie was wav ing his coat at the lin»»r. A Thrifty Dutchman. An Englishman who visited Albany ,11 1800 objected strongly to the alleged sharp practice of the Dutchmen with fvhom lie came in contact, and related jhe following as an evidence of the trufh of his statements: On crossing t'iie Hudson at Albany the Dutch ferryman, after 1 hail dismounted from my car riage, aslced me for my fare as a foot passenger. "How so?" "because you go t. out of the wagon; had you re mained in it 1 must have been obliged to consider you as part of the load." IlcatlhK: SuliHtnnee*. Water is the hardest of all substances to heat, with the single exception of hydrogen gas. The easiest two are mer cury anil lead, which stand in this re aped on nearly the same footing. SPANISH BLOOD IN IRELAND. The Combination MnUeei Women of Ureal lleaut? and )*er lerl I'oruix. When the Spanish armade was wrecked of? the coasts of Clare and <«a 1 - way counties many survivors of the dis aster who reached the shores were kind ly cared for by the Irish people, and considerable numbers of these unfor tunates remained in the families of their generous-hearted rescuers, says the American Quarterly Review. Spanish Point, on the coast of Clare, reminds of the disaster fo the great Spanish fleet. in the counties of Clare and Galway there is to be found at the present day a people differing essentially from any of the distinctive races existing on Irish soil. This people are descendants of the Spanish officers and soldiers who i had been cast ashore during the fearful storm which destroyed the Spanish fleet. The race marks of this people are well defined. Crossed as it has been \ with the Milesian stock, its Spanish | features offer a most interesting study, | for they remain prominent. The men j are tall, muscular, dark-featured, with black eyes and black hair. The women have decided Spanish traits in their physique; they are jsually tall; bru nettes in some cases and fair in others; with large, expressive black eyes and an abundance of black hair. Their beauty reminds of the women of the ISasque provinces, while among them are to be found the perfection of the female form in all Ireland. Ilnild Our Own Warship*. The Nautical fiazette states that it was always a matter for surprise that the. Brazilian government, for whom the New Orleans and Albany were built, should have been so anxious to get rid of these seemingly perfect vessels. The mystery now is explained, and the fact that the metacentric height wasa nega tive quantity was probably known by the builders and former owners and carefully concealed from us. They can not be cut in two and lengthened, as they are even now too narrow for their length. The moral of the story is that we must build our own war vessels. The Ijii/y l.lttle Mexican lice. The bee of Mexico does not "improve each shining hour." As there is very little cohl weather there no necessity exists for laying in winter stores of honey and the bee is therefore as lazy as a cockroach. Graveyunl fur Animal* nml lllrds. A 110-ncre burial ground for animals and birds has been established at Co* saekie, N. Y. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. A student boasted once that he had studied in a very short time a treatise on anatomy, but, said he,"l skipped the arteries." Without in any way ignoring the so cial demands .Miss Elise W. Clews, daughter of the .New York banker, lias found time to win the degree of doctor of philosophy at Columbia college. Dr. Ilartland Law, of San Francisco, has declared in a public lecture deliv ered there that women ought to pro pose marriage as well as men. lie says this would result in 50 per cent, more marriages. A young woman whose leg was broken in an accident on the Orleans railroad in France has received §B,OOO damages on the ground "that her value from the matrimonial standpoint had deteriorated" through the damage done to her. A pa per published in Paris recently contained the following unique adver tisement: "A young man of agreeable presence, and desirous of getting mar ried, would like to make the acquaint ance of an aged and experienced gcntle man who could dissuade him from tak ing the fatal step." Frank Buekland, the naturalist, when collecting information about White, of Selborne, met with an okl lady who pro fessed to have seen him, "a white-haired old gent who used to walk about his garden with a crocodile." "Wasn't it a tortoise?" suggested Buekland. Theold lady admitted it might have been "one of them furreti birds." Henry Probasco, of Cincinnati, is a millionaire who.has for some years act ed on the Carnegie saying that to die rich is to die disgraced. lie made a fortune in the hardware business, and has expended some $700,000, in philan thropic and charitable activities. He once lived in a fine and pretentious res idence, but has now come down to a small house which he rents. A story at the expense of the colonial secretary is going the rounds. Mr. Chamberlain, when a little boy, was playing one day with his sister at a game of "battles"—each child having A regiment of toy soldiers and a popgun to tire at the enemy. The little girl's soldiers went down quickly under the brother's heavy firing, and he was pro claimed the victor. Thoughtful child, he had glued his men to the floor! HIS DREAM JAGS. Tliey I.cave the Smile lOlTeet* In the Morning a m Heal One*. "I am one of the people who ougTit never to touch a drop of liquor," said the only man of the group who had not yet told a story, "ltdc: I't bother mo at the time, but the after-effects are terrible. The least indulgence disor ders my nerves, upsets my stomach and makes me actually ill for days. As my physician puts it,l am constitutionally intolerant of alcohol, and, this fact dawning on me half a dozen years ago, 1 determined never to taste it under any circumstances. Since then, entirely against my will and without the slight est desire to do so, I have gone on three terrific sprees, and suffered such tor ments afterward that it unnerves me even to think about them. It happened, each time, in the most peculiar way. Fully two years had elapsed since I had taken a drink, when one night I dreamed that I was with a party of four gentlemen in a large room, apparently part of a restaurant. Why we had as sembled 1 could not tell, but it all seemed perfectly natural, as things do in dreams. We were celebrating some great event and were in jubilant spirits. As we talked and joked, the drinks went round and round. I remembered my failing, but the occasion seemed to justify a lapse, and I cast caution to the winds. 1 conversed with strange bril liancy, and so did my companions. One of them was an elocutionist, and re cited threadbare old poems in a way that made them new and thrilling. Another sang ballads in a wonderful tc-nor voice, sweet as distant bells. I myself tossed off a shower of sparkling epigrams and said things worthy of Shakespeare. All the while we drank. As the hours passed my comrades one by one succumbed and slid under the table. At last the elocutionist and I were left alone, and he was just begin ning Marc Antony's oration when I awoke. It was daybreak. For a mo ment I lay still, collecting my thoughts and smiling at my fantastic vision; then 1 essayed to get up. The instant I stirred 1 was aware of a splitting head ache. My eyes throbbed Like wounds; 1 hail a dark-brown taste in my mouth, and a hideous, indescribable nausea. In brief, the old symptoms were all on hand. It took me a week to recover, and my doctor upbraided me contin ually. I did not dare to tell him the truth, for fear he'd think I was crazy. Since then I have had two other dream jags, just like the first —same room, same company, same finale. 1 dread them unspeakably. Otherwise 1 am a teetotaler."—>«. O. Tirnes-Demowat. Stole n Fortune in Diamond**. A hole in the right heel enabled a negro workman in the diamond fields of South Africa to secrete and steal gems to the value of $~7'!,0()0. These he expressed in small parcels of fruits to a cousin in King William Town, in the extreme, south of Africa, from which place both recently departed for Knglatid.—Chicago Inter Ocean. K:IKMNII WetlilliiK Cake*. The cake at Hnglish weddings is al ways a star feature. Usually at a fashionable affair it is fully six feet high, and is a marvelous architectural struwture of icing adorned with flow ers and figures.—Chicago Inter Ocean. \ dinner tor n Coiiiiillment. She —Yes: my ino.io is: "hove me, love my dog." He—He must have a great mar..v ad mirers.—Judge. 3