2 CAMERON COUNTY PRfiSS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Fer year St 00 It paid la advance 1 aO ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of #oe dollar per square for one Insertion arid fifty •ests per square for encli subsequent insertion Rates by the year, or for six or three months, •re low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three limes or less, (2: each subsequent inser tion to cents per square. Local notices lit cents per line for one inser •ertion: & cents per line lor each subsequent consecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five line*. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar • rinpes and deaths will be Inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less. S5 per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No loaal Inserted for lesa than 75 cents per laaue. JOB PRINTING. The Job deportment of the PHESS 1* complete •nd affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PAKTICULAU ATTENTION FAIDTO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages arc paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid tor in advance. The Journal of the American Med ical association is of the opinion that Crowded Modi- there is a surplus of doctors in the »1 United States, and regrets that the surplus is increasing-. There is now one doctor to every 600 of population. As this is not on the whole an unhealthy country, one phy sician ought to be able to look after the aches and pains of 1,000 ordinary people. Wherever more men are ein jiloyed to perform any kind of service than are actually needed, either the community has to pay too much for services rendered or some of the men employed must be unable to make more than a bare living, if they make that. According to the Journal 1,600 doctors die yearly, in spite of their skill, but almost 6,000 are born. The medical colleges, although the require ments are severer than formerly, are turning out 0,000 graduates a year. If this keeps on, how long will it be be fore there is one doctor for every 100 of the population? Then societies will have to be organized for the relief of starving M. D.'s It is odd, remarks the Chicago Tribune, that so many young men should wish to study medi cine when there are so mr.ny doctors, and when the physician has to face the competition of faith healers and prayer healers. Probably the oft quoted statement that "there is al ways room at the top" in an over crowded profession is responsible for the existence of numbers of poor law yers and doctors. Nearly every young man who is about to begin the study of medicine is convinced that he will reach the top and will get the big- fees for surgical operations or meddcal treatment that he reads of. Perhaps lie will, but the chances are about two thousand to one against him. This is a point which medical colleges, na turally enough, do not impress on stu dents. They do not endeavor to dis courage the young men who are will ing to pay them money for an edmca-j tion. But it would be a kindness to manj r of these, and to the community generally, if the authorities of medical colleges would tell many of their stu dents that while "there is always room at the top," they never will get there nor half way there —but will remain near the bottom, where it is always overcrowded, and hence ought to drop medicine and turn to something else, j One of the members of the United ' States geological survey recently A StrikiiiK C«n- tall *d attention to a striking contrast trust. . , , , in the development of the country lying on each side of the ! boundary line between Oregon ar.d Idaho. In southwestern Idaho, near Boise City and the state line, there is a considerable section well developed by irrigation. Owing to the combined advantages of the rich character of the soil, the favorable conditions of the climate and irrigation, this district contains some of the best fruit-grow ing country in the world. Just on the other side of the state line, in Oregon, along the Malheu and Owyee rivers ex actly tlie same conditions exist—riv ers, soil and climate—with the excep tion of the application of water to the land by irrigation, the vital condition. In consequence this section, though but a few miles distant from the other and just as capable of high develop ment, is a desert country. Here is th< whole important question of irriga tion in the arid west in a nutshell, with it, homes, farms and industry; with out it, a desert. Enterprising game dealers in the west are said to be arranging a storage trust of quail. Severalstat.es have adopted laws forbidding the slaughter of Bob White for two years, and these men are preparing to accumulate big stocks of the birds before the protective laws go into effect. They expect to control the prices of quail in the principal cities of the country for a considerable period. A recent dispatch from I'aleigh, X. C., announced the final decision of the will ease of Mr. lee Snow. The dispatch also mentioned the names of other members of the family as Hail Snow and Bain Snow. In the same connection other curious names of people living in North Carolina were mentioned, namely, Sharp Blunt, Sink Quick and JBarly Dawi. fciuch names are funny. THEY ARE CHANGING. Ilgn« of a Shift in the Democracy on the bximiiNtuii Ques tion. Is the democratic party preparing to change front on the expansion question? The signs of the times in dicate that it is. Editorials in dem cratic newspapers and incidental re marks by party leaders all point that way. It is true the Ohio democratic convention, in repudiating Bryan and Bryanism, declared against the an nexation or retention of territories "that imperil our national safety without promoting our national wel fare," and announced that the demo cratic party always has opposed and opposes now any expansion of the na tional boundaries not meant to carry speedily to all inhabitants full equal rightt with ourselves. But it was ap parent a week after the convention that this guarded statement of policy was not to be accepted by party lead ers in other states. A newspaper supposed to speak for the democratic party in Illinois s*ys that democratic reluctance to deal j courageously with the question of ex pansion is due to the fact that the ! party is in opposition; that if demo crats were in power in Washington they would have a policy in regard to newly-acquired American terri | tories which would be i:i harmony ; with the practice of the party in the past; that, as the case stands, demo crats have fallen under the influence of a respectable but undemocratic ele -1 ment which is of the same caliber as the class which "during the 00 years of democratic supremacy resisted ev ery stride which the republic made toward its natural and inevitable de vejopment." Just so. That is what republican ! leaders said in 1898 and in 1S!)9. Roose i velt said very much the same thing in . 1900. Democrats who voted for Mc ! Kinley on"the paramount issue" last ! year insisted that expansion was not ! a party question, but an American | question. And yet 6,000.000 democrats voted against the traditional demo | cratic policy, simply, as the party or gan now explains, to be in opposition. | But the organ goes further and in pists 112 that the democratic party shall I announce an expansion doctrine which I "they will not find in the wails of the ancient federalists nor in the emotion al cries of the anti-imperialists of this ! day," but in the ordinance of 1787. Of this it is said: "It is an interesting fact, that the government of the north ' west territory, which sufficed for thou ' sands of Americans for many years, was as arbitrary as any which has been established of late in the new posses sions of the United States." I Two years ago such statements were common in republican newspapers. Now the.y are appearing in the stand ard democratic newspapers. If they mean anything they mean that the democratic party is endeavoring to execute that most difficult of maneu vers, a change of front in the presence of the enemy. They mean that the anti-expansion movement of this day has failed as utterly as did those of the past.—Chicago Inter Ocean. DISGUSTED WITH FREE TRADE The Protection Policy IN Coniiny: In to Favor with KIIKHKII J«»u r n a Im. The economic policy of free trade, which in this country has found its apologist in the democratic party, has been fought off in the United States by the arguments of facts and by the facts of ballots. Great Britain has been the standing illustration used by free traders, but Great Brit ain is getting the tired feeling over that once-vaunted policy. So con spicuous a journal as the London Daily Express openly declares for pro tection, and presents arguments therefor which will be particularly interesting to Americans because, when presented by the republican party, they have been accepted as the basis for the protective policy of the United States. The London Express says: The protective policy Is worthy of sup port: 1. Because there Is no such thins as free trade, ar.d other nations refuse to admit our merchandise free into their markets. 2. Because, undtr the aegis of protection, other nations have developed industries which would not have been developed, or not to such an extent, had they granted free admission to foreign manufactures. 3. Because by so doing these other na tions have become wealthy and self-sup porting communities. 4. Because England's Industrial suprem acy has vanished and her prosperity is gravely threatened under her free import system and under the attacks of protec tionist nations, which attacks must be met by counter attacks. 5. Because economic scif-containment, particularly In the matter of food supply. Is a necessity to the well-being of any na tion, and in this country can only be se cured by a return to protection. 6. Because the experience of other na tions shows that manufacturing greatness and a big foreign trade are not incompati ble with protection, even to agriculture. 7. Because the national revenue can best be raised from import duties. 8. Because a customs union will, as noth ing else will, draw the empire together and promote the mutual prosperity and loyal cohesion of its component parts. Those who remember the great tariff debate between Blaine and Gladstone will observe with special interest the signs that the country of Gladstone is beginning to approve the policy of the party of Blaine. Every such indication is a renewed tribute to the wisdom of American institutions as conducted by the re publican party and an added condem nation of the suicidal policy which the democratic party would have fast ened upon this country.—Troy Times. (ETThose papers that were calling Mr. Bryan "the peerless leader" a year ago are not warranted in turn ing- their praise into ridicule by put ting the words in quotation marks. •—lndianapolis Sentinel. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1901. MARYLAND'S MAIN ISSUE. To ninfranplilKc All Colored Voters Wlio Vole tlie Iteiiulilleun Ticket. "We declare again," said the demo cratic national convention in its Kan sas City platform, "that all govern ments instituted among men derive their just powers from the consent of the gov.erned; that any govern ment not. based upon the consent of the governed is a tyranny." This was the paramount issue, and the demo j erats of Maryland make It still a para mount issue, but with an exact reversal of partisan position that would bewil der and stun any foreign gentleman who was trying to get a line on Amer ican politics. They say that peace, good ordor, their personal safety, the proper de velopment of their material interests depend "upon the control of the com monwealth by its intelligent white residents," that t-hey have 40.rt00 ma jority of the white people of the state, that the republican party would be in a hopeless minority without the aid I of its 00.000 colored voters, and so ore 1 driven by their irresistible logic to the following declaration: "We. therefore, without hesitation, pro claim that the success of the democratic part}- will mean that, while we shall deal with perfect fairness in securing all the benefits of good government and full and free opportunities for education to ail classes, such action must be taken as to prevent the control of the state govern ment from passing into the hands of those who have neither the ability nor the inter est to manage public affairs wisely and well." "Consent of the governed" vanishes completely at this touch. Govern ment or control is distinctly claimed !as the prerogative of intelligent whites. All other people should tako orders from these superior beings, but apparently it is a virtue to have a white majority, whether it is intelli gent or not, and the prerogative is modified somewhat with a benevo lence toward all whites. The main idea is to disfranchise 00,- 000 colored citizens because most of them vote the republican ticket. They are to have government decreed for them without any thought of their content, and are to be forced to sub mit to what the national platform calls a tyranny. Possibly the negroes, like the Fili pinos, "cannot," in the language of that pronunciamento, "be citizens without endangering our civilization," but it follows also from the same au thority that tney "cannot be subjects without imperiling our form of gov ernment." The dilemma does not J help the democrats of Maryland. | Xor does reference to the constitu tion help them, any more than to the Declaration, because it is plain that | while they talk of intelligence they | arp really discriminating against col or. They evade the great charter which the Kansas City resolutions ap prove.—Chicago Record-Herald. HOW ABOUT BRYANISM? The Time to Write tlie Obituary, It Seem* Hns Not Vet Arrived. Are the ingenious gentlemen, dem ocrats and republicans, who are say ing that Bryanism is dead, absolutely sure of their ground? Ohio recently rejected Bryan personally by refusing to indorse him or his platforms of 1806 and 1900, but it adopted a plat form which in many particulars was equally as bad as anything which he ever favored. Several other states in their democratic conventions are ex pected to deny recognition to the Xe braskan. There are great whoops of joy from the democratic reorpranizers all over the country at what they are calling the death of Bryanism, but are they sane or sincere in all this? There is a strong probability that in the states west of the Mississippi there is a powerful sentiment still in favor of Bryan. Missouri has many Bryanites. Probably the Bryanite sec tion of the democracy in this state, in Kansas, in Nebraska and in most of the other commonwealths between here and the Pacific is> dominant in that party. There are reorsranizers in the democratic party in Missouri, but they are confined to St. Louis, Kan sas City and St. Joseph. In the rural districts they cannot be found. Omaha may have many of them anions' its democratic element, but in the rest of that state they are likely to be scarce. The same is true as re gards the cities and the farmitur re gions of the rest of the trans-Missis sippi states. Then. too. if the democracy rejects Bryati in 1004, as it probably will, it will still be under the necessity of framing a radical platform. It can not make a conservative deliverance, for that would be an imitation of the republican creed, and tl neople do not like imitations in po.itics. The democracy will be forced to combat the republican party on many lines, and 'this necessity will compel it to put forward many follies and absurd ities which will be as bad as Bryan ism, and some of tliein will probably have to be taken from the Bryan platforms. Moreover, Bryan himself is goiiur to stay in politics, as he has frequently informed tlie country, and lie still has a spell over the minds of many of the 0,500,000 of men who voted for him in two successive can vasses. The time to write the obitu ary of Bryanism will not, at the ear liest, come before the evening of No vember 8, l'Jo4.—St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat. IC7"The leading democratic paper in Indiana admits that the world has adjusted itself to the gold standard, but fails to make due acknowledg ment to the valuable assistance ren dered by the republican party.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A GREAT DISASTER. Many Lives Loot in P. Tunnel Uu der Lake Erie. A Temporary «'rlb a Few .titles from Cleveland In lirntrojrd by Fire— About a Dozen .tlen are liiirn e«l to Uruili or Drowned. Cleveland, Aug. 15. —Five men were burned to death, four were drowned, end one suffocated in a lire that de stroyed the temporary waterworks crib No. 2 early Wednesday morning. Forty-two men were in the crib when the building' was set on fire by tlie smokestack of one of the boilers, which had become red hot. lileven of the men were at work in the tunnel 136 feet beneath the crib. They were imprisoned four hours be fore aid could reach them. Only one man succumbed to the suffocating gases that tilled their underground prison. The rest were taken out just alive and resuscitated. Five men were suffocated in their bunks by smoke and their bodies burned to an unrecognizable mass. Twenty-six men obeyed the orders of Manager Van Deusen and took refuse in the water on floating pieces of wreckage. Four of them lost their hold upon their frail floats and sank beneath (he waves just as help reached their comrades. The tug J. I{. Sprankle heard the lire whistle blown from the crib and raced to the scene from the harbor. She picked up 18 of the survivors, who 'had drifted to the west of the crib on boards and wreckage. The crib is a total loss. It was a frame building 200x50 feet, the sides sheathed with iron. It contained valuable machinery. The crib and machinery were the property of Shai ler &■ Schninglau, contractors. Their loss will exceed $200,000. The burn ing of the crib will delay indefinitely the completion of the waterworks tunnel. One of the rescuers lost his life in his efforts to rescue his friends in the tunnel late Wednesday afternoon. A party from No. 3 crib, made up of Ed Johnson, Burkhardt, I'lummer .Tones and David Kelly, went down into the tunnel at 3p. in. Johnson and Kelly were pulled out half con scious a few minutes later and said Burkhardt and Jones were overcome. James Williams went down for the two missing rescuers. lie got Burk hardt out, but Jones was dead. Over come by the gas, he fell into the water at the bottom of the tunnel and was drowned. A DARING CRIME. A Lone Highway man Holds I'p a Stajje t'oaclj Near North Itlver, M. V. Glens Pall*, x. y., Aug. 15.—News was received here last night that the Blue Mountain stage was held up by a robber at noon Wednesday at North ltiver. The stage which was stopped con nects with a train which reached North Creek, Warren county, at 10:20 a. in. When it left the station it contained seven men and one wo man. When the stage was one and one half miles north of Dunlap's hotel, at North ltiver, a masked robber sud denly appeared. His first move was to Shoot one of the horses. lie then ordered the passengers to hold up 'their hands and alight. Six of the men immediately took to the woods, •the remaining man staying with his wife, who was relieved of S2O, but the robber failed to find a larger su.n in another pocket. ' The highwayman then proceeded to rifle the mail bags ami plunder the express packages, taking everything of value. After he had di*ne his work he disappeared into the woods and searching parties have been un able to find any trace of him. BOGUS RAILROAD TICKETS. IliS Mock of « OIIIKC rfeit:« Found in the Olllce or u St. Louis Firm. St. Louis, Aug. 15.—As the result of the arrest yesterday of William Clin ton and Charles J. Leonard, ticket brokers, charged with swindling a customer, a gigantic railroad ticket counterfeiting scheme was uncov ered. After the arrest of the bro kers their office was ransacked and an immense number of tickets and passes was found. It is almost impossible to place an estimate on the value of the tickets recovered, but it is stated by railroad authorities that $50,000 would be a conservative figure. It i.s asserted that many of the tickets and passes were forgeries. The Baltimore & Ohio, Missouri Pacinc and St. Louis & San Francisco lines are said to be the ones which should have the most in terest in the discoveries made, though tickets were found in the stock from many roads. J. P. Uaricnn Flans a New Union. New York. Aug. I(s.—The l'ress says: "J. I'lerpont Morgan has planned the greatest labor union of the age—a union of labor and capital. According to his plans, stock of the United States Steel Corporation, val ued »t several millions of dollars at par, has been set aside for the pur chase at inside figures by the 105,000 men employed by the companies that make up the steel trust. It is con templated to form this co-partner ship between the shareholders and tne employes of the United States Steel Corporation. The plan was conceived before the steel strike was thought of." Mile** General Order. Washington, Aug. 15.—Lieut. Gen. Miles, commanding the army, lias is sued a general order intended to im prove the condition of the army. It admonishes officers and men regard ing their duties and points out the essentials of a good soldier, mention ing patriotism, discipline, physical development, self-respect, self-reli ance and resourcefulness. The gen eral says that on account of large ac cessions of officers and soldiers who have' had but limited experience in the military service, the instructions contained in tlie order are issued for their cuidance. THE CUP HUNTER ARRIVES. Sir Tiioma* Llpton'i Yacht Miumroch 11. Corneal to New York to Ituce foi the Ameriea'a Cup. Sandy Hook, X. J., Aug. 12.—Sham rock 11., Sir Thomas Lipton's second challenger for America's cup, in tow of her consort, the steam yacht Erin, arrived off Sandy Hook lightship shortly after 11 o'clock last night, and anchored for the night just inside the lightship half an hour later. A newspaper tug and the tugboat James It. Lawrence with David Barrie, Sir Thomas' representative in this coun try aboard, had been cruising oil Sandy Hook for two days awaiting the appearance of the foreign cup hunter. When off the lightship the Erin burned her signals, green and red with a green star, and the tugs ran alongside. Greetings on both sides were hearty, but beyond saying that the yacht had encountered fine weath er, neither Capt. Matthews, of the Erin, nor Capt. Sycamore, of the chal lenger, would give details of the trip. That they regarded it as a fine per formance was evident from Capt. Matthews' ejaculation of surprise when informed that the tugs had been on the lookout for her for two days. "Give her a chance," he shout ed. As a matter of fact the actual time of the Shamrock 11. is less than 14 days, counting her stop of one day at St. Michaels, Azores, a day better than the old Shamrock, which was far and away better than that of any for mer challenger. Capt. Matthews first inquiry after the greeting was of the cnallenger's opponent, Constitution, nnd when he learned that she had beaten Columbia on Saturday, he ex pressed his pleasure and then regret when he was informed of Columbia's accident in the race. The Shamrock 11. carries the jury mast of the old Shamrock, but her topmast is 15 feet shorter, so that the distance from deck to truck is prob ably not over 90 feet. She will be towed in to-day by the tug Robert Hadden, the first tug to speak her, under instructions from Sir Thomas before she left to accept the first tow offered. After passing quaran tine she will be towed to the man-of war anchorage off Tompkinsville and later to the Erie basin, where she will be stripped and her mast stepped, preparatory to going into dry dock. A HORROR IN GEORGIA. Negro Wlio Had Annaulted n Woman la (turned at tlie Stake. Savannah, Ga., Aug. 12.—Eighteen miles south of Savannah, near the Seaboard Air Line railway, the charred trunk of the body of Joe Washington, the (negro ravisher of Mrs. J. J. Clark, is all that remains to tell the story of a tragedy Satur day night. Washington was captured at Liberty City and was brought to Way Station, near which place his crime was committed. He was car ried before Mrs. Clark, who identified him positively as the negro who as saulted her. LiTe negro's positive identification by his victim sealed his fate. A mob of 400 men clamored for his life, but the leaders of the mob, numbering less than a dozen, burned him at the stake. The rest of the mob was kepi at a distance and was not permitted to come within 100 yards of the place where Washington met his death. This was at a spot a few feet from the railway track and not 500 yards from the house in which the ravisher committed the crime for which he paid so dreadful a penalty. He walked to his death without a tremoi and met it without a prayer or an ap peal for mercy. EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS. Tlicy are Brlipvert to Have Occurred Li»»t Wfck In Alaska. Victoria, B. C., Aug. 12.—The seis mograph at the meterological office here on Friday recorded some very severe shocks of earthquake, whicli are believed to have occurred in Alas ka, as the records are similar to those made when the last earth quake occurred in ilie north. The preliminary tremors com menced at 1:30 a. m.and continued until 4:OS, the pendulum in this inter val recording several oscillations. At 5:15 another disturbance commenced, which rapidly assumed immense pro portions, until, at 6:15 o'clock the swing of the pendulum had complete ly crossed the record paper and main tained this incessant movement fot 20 minutes. At 10:40 a. m. fresh vibrations began, which were very pronounced for nearly an hour. Near f'auauin. Kingston, Jamaica, Aug. 12.—Ac cording to advices received here from Colon, there was a series of engage ments last week in the neighborhood of Panama and the government ex periencing some difficulty in keeping out the insurgents. Strict martin, law is enforced at Panama and Colon the present districts of insurgent ac tivity, and an order was issued last week in both cities announcing thai all persons found under arms without a permit would be shot as traitors, The same order called upon all for eign residents to furnish themselves with arms, so as to aid the police whenever called upon. Ilomb Explode* Inn Clinrcli. Paris, Aug. 12.—A bomb was ox' ploded Sunday near the altar of the church of St. Nizier at Troycs, doing considerable damage to the windows but not injuring any of the 100 ehil dren who, together with a priest were in the edifice at the time. Spent 85,000,000 for Animal*. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 12.—C0l Skinner, of the British army, one o] the officers who has been stationec in the United States since the out break of the Boer war, buying horses and mules, lias returned to Kansas City. With the shipments just mad< from Kansas City to Cape Town tin British government has spent SI,OOO, 000 in Kansas City for horses anc mules for service in South Africa. Ap proximately 100.000 animals ha re beer shipped from this vicinity during the past three years. The average pric< paid for these animals is .'(SO a head (3TORM AND FLOOD. Gulf States are Swept by a Hur ricane. A Number of I'roplo ure Drowiird and Ureal lluiiiaso lo Property Is Ite ported—Cities of Nrtv Orlcaim and .Tlobllearc Flooded. Atlanta, <!a., Aug. 16. —The tropical storm which has been raging along the gulf coast for 1 wo days has com pletely isolated the city of Mobile, •Ala., from the outside world. Con siderable damage has been done, along the water front in Mobile, but whether there has bepn loss of life or not is mere conjecture. Nothing had been heard from the country south of Mobile up to the time the last wire to Mobile failed. At 4:30 Thursday afternoon the Western Union office in Mobile was Abandoned, Ihc water at that time being three feet deep in the operat ing room. Two hours later communication was had for a few minutes with Mo— | bile. The press operator there had made his way to the operating room in a boat. He took up his position.: on top of the switchboard, several feet above the flooded office and de taching the press wire from its place in the board, sent, this message: "Am on top of the switchboard here with a lineman. The water is over three feet deep in this room and it is still rising. The wind is blow ing at the rate of 50 miles an hour and we look for worse things to night. The business district is de j serted Here Ihe wire failed and nothing more could be heard from hiin, al though the most persistent efforts were made. The water at 3 p. m.was reported as high as in the great flood of 1893,. although at, that time the wind was. not as high. From Mobile to Fort. Morgan is a distance of 35 miles, and on both sides of the bay summer re sorts and summer houses are locat ed. These were, it is believed, in the direct path of the storm. It is feared there has been some loss of life on the islands in Missis sippi sound, just outside of the bar,, below Fort Morgan. These islands, which are inhabited by French fishermen, rise only four or five feet above the water under ordinary stage and were the scene of great loss of life in 1893. According to advices received here the Louisville & Xa shville railroad has washouts near Chefmenteur, Lake Catherine, Lake Lookout and Itigelets. Twenty miles of Louisville & Xasliville. track through the Ten sas swamps west of Mobile are re ported under water. Xew Orleans, Aug. 10.—The storm which has been sweeping the gulf •coast from Pensacola and moving westward during the past two days has prostrated telegraph and tele phone wires to such an extent that 1 news from the outlying sections is •hard to get. The greatest fears have been entertained for the safety of the people living at Port Eads, which, is the mouth of the Mississippi river, and for the ships that started for sea just before the storm began. The wires to Port Eads have been prostrated since Tuesday night, but the Picayune reached a man who left there at il o'clock Wednesday. He iwas at Burns, which is CO miles down the river and the farthest point with which there is wire communication at the present time. This man de scribes the storm which swept that section as a regular tidal wave, sim ilar to the one which resulted in such awful loss of life in 1893. He says all the people living on the east bank of the river have moved up to the "jump," which is 15 miles from the mouth of the river. The house of a man named Cobden, half a mile above the quarantine station, was swept away and the 15 members of the fam ily, including nine children, were drowned. The tug boat Velasco went down to Pass L'Outre, which is the western most point of the river, with two barges. When last seen she had her decks awash and is believed to have gone down. If this boat and her barges have been lost 20 more people have been drowned. There are nu merous reports of individual casual ties all along the river. There has been much damage done, at Shell Reach, a settlement on Lake Borgne, which is southeast of the #ity and connects with Lake Pontch artrain. All the buildings there have been nwept away and there are re ports of loss of lire among the fisher men. but the exact extent of this is not known. In the city of Xew Orleans and! suburbs there has been some damage.. At Milneburg, one of the lake resorts,, the railroad pier kead running out into the lake for a distance of 1,000 yards has been destroyed and all light buildings demolished. The big buildings on shore withstood the gale. There was no loss of life. The steamer Xeptune, tied up at this pierhead pounded herself to pieces and sank. Only 14 Failed. Lawton, O. T„ Aug. 10.-—Only 14 of those who drew numbers between 1. and 1,000 in the Lawton district, have failed to take their claims. The showing is considered remarkable, considering the promiscuous crowd of speculators and adventurers who registered with the bona lide home-, steaders. Three Addition* to tlie Navy. Baltimore, Aug. 16.—Three addi tions to the navy were christened and launched at the shipyards of the Maryland Steel Co. here yesterday. They are torpedo boat destroyers and will be known hereafter by the names of Whipple, Truxtun and Wor den. The three new boats are dis similar in name only. By far the largest of their type in the United States navy, they are also among the largest in any navy in the world. As bestos sheathing takes the place of veneering in the finishings and wood is totally absent from the construc tion of the vessel.-
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