HEARST SAYS NAY
Avers He is Not Candidate
for the Presidency.
DECLARATION EMPHATIC
Comments on Remarks Made by Bry
an and Says Any Candidate Would
be Welcome to Him Except
Joe Bailey of Texas.
Congressman William R. Hearst,
who is at present in San Francisco,
has given out the following:
“I would like to state very posi¬
tively that I am not a candidate for
the democratic presidential nomina¬
tion in 1908.
’’Mr. Bryan said the other day in
London that there were others be¬
sides himself who had claims on the
nomination through services rendered
tho democratic party, and mentioned
pleasantly Mr. Folk, Mr. Bailey and
myself.
“While appreciating Mr. Bryan's
compliment I must decline to be con¬
sidered a candidate. Let the list stand
if Mr. Bryan pleases, Bryan or Ftolk
or Bailey. FV>r my part I would sub¬
stitute -Stevenson for Bailey.
“Mr. Bryan’s services to the democ¬
racy are too well diagnosed to be re¬
hearsed. He has led the party con¬
spicuously in two presidential cam¬
paigns and one senatorial campaign.
In the national house of congress he
has made the issues himself and ex¬
pounded them with a brilliancy un¬
equaled and unapprcached.
“Mr. Folk's services to the democ¬
racy are notable and real. In fact, his
services have been rendered to ail
citizens irrespective of party for his
career as an honest and efficient pub¬
lic servant is an example to republi¬
cans and democrats alike.
As for Mr. Bailey, well, Bailey’s
services have been rendered to that
corporation end of the democracy that
I do not consider democracy and
whose control of the machinery of the
democratic as well as of the repub
’ iican party has led me to seek my
ideals of the democracy of Jefferson
and the republican that of Lincoln
in the independent league.
“Bailey’s nomination for first place,
even by the machine that nominated
Parker, would be impossible, but Bai¬
ley’s nomination for second place is
conceivable. It would have the mate¬
rial advantage of insuring Texas to
the democracy and of eliciting a sub¬
stantial campaign contribution from
John D. Rockefeller. But its advan¬
tages are obvious. Folk and Bailey,
for instance, would be an oil and wa¬
ter ticket that would not mix—a ticket
of good, pure water and Standard Oil.
"Bryan and Bailey would be illiter
ative and tickling to the ear, but
would sound too much like Barnum
and Bailey to suit the discriminating
taste of the convention.
“Why not Bryan or Folk or Ste¬
vens in 1908 on the democratic side,
and why not Roosevelt and LaFol
lette on the republican side?
“I repeat definitely and positively
I am not a candidate.”
MAYOR HELD IN CONTEMPT.
Rose Must Vacate Municipal Office
and Pay Fine of $1,000.
The Kansas state supreme court
Friday handed down a decision hold¬
ing Mayor Rose of Kansas City, Kans...
in contempt for having assumed the
office of mayor after the court had
ousted him for the nou-enforcement
of the prohibition law and the law
against gambling. In the order Mayor
Rose is ordered to relinquish office
and is fined $1,000 for contempt. The
court further orders, if Mayor Rose
fails to pay the fine within twenty
days, he shall be committed to jail
until such time as it is paid.
Mayor Rose’s attorneys immediate¬
ly filed a writ of error.
MANY BILLS WERE PASSED.
Summary of Work of National House
of Representatives.
A detailed statement of the work
of the house of representatives during
the first session of the fifty-ninth con¬
gress just closed, was given out on
Thursday by Winthrop C. Jones, tally
clerk, and shows that there were 4,501
bills passed by the house and 362 left
undisposed of. The words “bills” is in¬
clusive of bills, simple, joint and con¬
current resolutions.
The total number of laws enacted
by this congress is given officially as
3,989.
HAILSTONES BIG AS ORANGES.
Great Damage Done in Spain by a
Downpour of Icy Pellets.
In Valencia, Spain, and vicinity, Fri¬
day, a hailstorm killed a child and
injured fifty persons. Hailstones as
big as oranges smashed the roofs of
houses and drove the inhabitants to
the cellars. The crops in many dis¬
tricts were destroyed and great dis¬
tress prevails.
PICKED UP AT SEA.
Balloonist Was Borne Far from Land
and Miraculously Rescued—Voy¬
age Breaks Record.
After one of the most remarkable
experiences in the history of aerial
navigation, James K. Allen, the aer¬
onaut, who made a balloon ascension
at Providence, R. I., on the 4th of
July, was brought to port in Boston
Friday night on the fishing senooner
Francis V. Sylvia. Allen was picked
up at sea 12 miles off Chatham at
7:30 Thursday morning, eighteen and
a half hours after his departure from
Providence.
Allen had a narrow escape from
death by drowning, the winds that
prevailed Wednesday having blown
his balloon a long distance from shore.
Until new3 ol his arrival in Boston
became known it had been thought
he had met his death, as it was
known that the last time he was
sighted on -Wednesday evening he was
traveling out to sea.
That Allen is alive is due wholly
to a fortunate shift of the wind. When
he made his ascension at Providence
on Wednesday the wind was blowing
a brisk breeze from the southwesL
The aeronaut was carried in his bal¬
loon in a northeasterly direction, and
passed over the town of Attleboro.
He had his balloon under perfect con¬
trol at that time, and while in the vi¬
cinity of Attleboro he descended
twice.
From Attleboro the airship traveled
in the direction of Brockton, and the
last seen of the aeronaut by observers
on shore was when he passed over
Scituato early in the evening.
At that time the balloon was head¬
ed straight 'out to sea. When Thurs¬
day dawned without any news being
received from Allen and it became
known that the last time he was seen
was when he was headed but to sea,
it was then believed he would never
return.
After Allen passed over Massachu¬
setts bay his plight was more peril¬
ous. Wednesday night he was over
Provinctown. At this point of the voy¬
age the wind shifted from southwest
to northeast, and from Provincetown
the balloon sailed down the outer
Cape Cod coast. tA 7:30 o’clock the
aeronaut was rescued 12 miles off
Chatham by the fishermen of the Syl¬
via. The balloon was saved in good
condition, and was brought to Boston
on the schooner.
During his flight Allen covered a
total distance of about 200 miles, near¬
ly halt of which was over the water.
The point where he was picked up is
about 77 miles from Providence in a
direct line.
WAS ONLY A CASE OF TYPHOID.
Louisiana Board of Health Denies Re¬
port of Yellow Fever.
Information that a report was pub¬
lished in Mobile, Ala., Friday, saying
that yellow fever had appeared in
New Orleans was received by the Lou¬
isiana state board of health.
Dr. Irion, president of the Louisia¬
na board, authorized the statement
that the Mobile report was probably
based on the fact that a case of fever,
which was officially diagnosed as ty¬
phoid, previously reported to the state
board as suspicious.
Dr. Irion said that so far as the
state board of health can learn, there
is now no yellow fever anywhere in
New Orleans.
MORE REBATERS CONVICTED.
Government Secures Verdict Against
Railroad and Its Officials.
The Chicago and Alton railroad and
John N. Faithorn and Fred A. Wann,
formerly officials of the road, were
convicted in the United States dis¬
trict court at Chicago Friday of ille¬
gally granting rebates to the Schwarz
schild & Sulzberger Packing compa¬
ny. Sentence was suspended pending
arguments tor a new trial.
It was claimed that the defendants
had allowed the employees of the
packing company to travel free of
expense by refunding to them all
money expended for transportation.
LINEMEN HAVE BATTLE.
Union and Non-UAion Men Engage in
Serious Affray in Savannah.
Union telegraph linemen and non¬
union men employed by the South¬
ern Bell Telephone company in place
of the strUws had a serious affray in
Savannah Saturday night, Several
were injuresd in the melee, which
assumed the preportions of a riot. A
number of arrests were made.
The superintendent of the Beil
company arranged for the release of
the non-union men on bond.
TROUBLE FOR THOMAS TAGGERT
Move to Revoke Charter of His Hotel
at French Lick.
Attorney General Charles Miller of
Indiana, acting under instructions from
(lovernor Hanley, has filed an action
to revoke the charter of the French
Lick Springs Hotel company at French
Lick. The company is a corporation
of which Thomas Taggert, chairman
ot the democratic national committee,
is president. It is charged that gam¬
bling is allowed on the property own¬
ed by the hotel company.
'FOURTH’S VICTIMS
Deadly Explosives and Toy
Pistols Get in Their Work.
DYNAMITE TAKES FIVE
Little Mining Town Shows Largest
Score—Summary of Fatalities in
Various Citiei ■Lockjaw Vic¬
tims Yet to Come.
At Wanamie, a mining town five
miles from Wilkesbarre, Pa_, five hoys
were killed and nine others injured
by celebrating the 4th of July.
They had placed powder in a pipe,
and it failed to go off. They then forc¬
ed a stick of dynamite into the pipe,
and began pounding it. A terrific ex¬
plosion followed. Four of the hoys
were badly mangled, and the fifth died
on the way to the hospital. Some of
the injured are so badly hurt that
they may die.
Legislators injured.
At Baton Rouge giant fire cracker*
injured two members of the Louisia¬
na state legislature during a fourth
of July parade of the house of rep¬
resentatives. The legislators lighted
and discharged the crackers as they
marched. One exploded before the face
of Charles B. Stroudback of New Or¬
leans, tearing his hat and gashing his
forehead. Another tor© two fingers
of Representative J. M. Hart of Re¬
serve. Previous to the parade, a bar¬
rel was placed in the house cham¬
bers, where the members had been
in session, and giant crackers were
exploded in it, some of them big
enough to jar almost the entire state
house.
Boy Kills Companion.
Murray Kitts was accidentally shot
and killed at Fulton, N. Y., Tuesday
night by Frederick Parker, a com¬
panion about the same age. The boys
were planning for the 4th of July. Par¬
ker discharged' what he supposed was
a blank cartridge from a revolver,
and Kitts fell with a bullet in his
head and died almost instantly.
Four Fatalities in Indiana.
Reports received from throughout
Indiana show four fatalities and a
large number of persons injured as
the result of the celebration of the
4th.
Oniy One Killed in New York.
While the list of minor accidents
as the result of the celebration of
the 4th in New York reached far up
into the hundreds, there were fewer
serious casualties than for many
years, only cne death was reported
by tile police, that of Morris Shapiro,
a Seltzer water manufacturer, who
was shot in the head by a stray bul¬
let as he was driving in Harlem. He
died soon afterwards. The police were
unable to learn where the bullet
came from.
Deadly Toy Cannon.
Edward Guthrie, a 17-year-old youth,
was killed at Memphis, Tenn., by the
explosion of a toy cannon which he
was firing. The cannon, which was
made of galvanized piping, broke into
fragments, one of the fragments pierc¬
ing his heart.
Both Eyes Destroyed.
Dealey Tllghman, six-year-oid, son
of R. L. Tighman, a prominent busi¬
ness man of Lonoke, Ark., lost both
eyes from a firecracker explosion on
Wednesday afternoon. He was holding
a lighted firecracker before his face,
when it exploded with the above re¬
sult.
BAILEY BOOSTS BRYAN.
Senator Arouses Texans to a High
Pitch of Enthusiasm.
Speaking to an audience of about
5,000 people at Abilene, Texas, Wed¬
nesday afternoon, United States Sen¬
ator Joseph W. Bailey declared in the
most emphatic way his desire and be
liet that W. J. Bryan will be nomi¬
nated for and elected to the presiden¬
cy of the United States in 1908. This
declaration met with wild applause,
amounting almost to a demonstration.
STATE TICKET NOT NAMED.
Georgia Populists Met and Adjourned
Until August 28th.
The Georgia populist state conven¬
tion met in Atlanta Wednesday a few
minutes after noon in the house of rep¬
resentatives, but failed to slate a state
ticket.
After about 15 minutes’ session, on
motion of C. T. Parker of Fulton coun¬
ty, it was decided to adjourn until
August 28, and at that time name a
candidate for governor and every
state house officer.
SEVEN HOLOCAUST VICTIMS.
Mother and Six Children Meet Death
in Burning Home.
Mrs. Solomon Gobbau and her six
children were burned to death Fri¬
day night in a fire that destroyed
their home at Lafayette, Ind. Solomon
Gobbau, the husband and father was
badly burned, but will recover. The
entire family was asleep when the
fire started.
CZAR'S TROUBLES GROW.
The Revolt Among Troops of Hapless
Russian Ruler Spreads—Empire
in Dangerous Ferment.
Dispatches received in St. Peters¬
burg Thursday from Samara state
that two regiments, garrisoning that
important provincial capital, have mu¬
tinied and presented a series of po¬
litical and service demands. The of¬
ficers promised to satisfy the service
demands if the mutineers would re¬
turn to duty, but the men replied that
they would he satisfied only with com¬
pliance with all of their demands.
The mutineer command the situ¬
ation, and are indulging In excesses.
The situation is complicated by the
fact that in -Samara the revolutionists
are pushing a movement to proclaim
a republic in case a general strike
is declared, and may seize the pres¬
ent opportunity to further their alms.
't he ferment among the soldiers and
sailors at Odessa and Sebastopol con¬
tinues.
No inkling of the reported rioting
and pillaging at Vladivostok has reach¬
ed the Russian public, but the milita¬
ry authorities, who control fhe tele¬
graph, would be Itable to withhold for
days any news of such conditions.
Reported Mutiny in Vladivostok.
The correspondents at Tokio of the
Dally Telegraph (London) reports that
the Asiatic Steamship company’s
steamer Colonia, which left Vladivos¬
tok on account of the disturbances
there, and which has arrived at Nagas¬
aki, reports that all shops and houses
in Vladivostok were closed by police
order, and that on June 30 thirty ring
leaders of the rioters were arrested,
and eight big cases of dynamite seized
by Cossacks.
The same correspondent states that
the Russian volunteer steamer Kitai,
laden with military stores, struck a
mine in Possiet Bay and sank.
The executions in Harbin in con¬
nection with the revolutionary move¬
ment, the correspondent further says,
number six hundred.
Girl’s Slayer Sent to Siberia.
Maria Spiridonovo, who killed Chief
of Police Luzhenoffsky, of Tamboy,
was sent to Siberia from Moscow on
Thursday with other prisoners. Spec¬
tators at the railway station bade her
keep up a stout heart to which she
replied: “We shall soon be back.’’
MORE CASUALTY FIGURES.
Chicago Tribune Publishes Its Annual
List of Celebration Victims.
The Chicago Tribune Thursday pub¬
lished its ninth annual summary of
deaths and injuries caused throughout
the United States by Wednesday’s
celebration. Figures up to an early
hour werd as follows:
Dead.......... 88
By fireworks .. . W
By cannon .... H
By firearms .. .. h
By explosives .. . kj
By toy pistols .. rfk
By runaway .. ... H
By drowning ..... Oi
Injured ........ 2,789
By fireworks .. ., 1,099
By cannon .. .. 261
By firearms .. .. 393
By explosives .. 697
By toy pistols .. 804
By runaways 35
Fire loss .. .. 166,450
In Chicago—'Dead 2; injured 157.
Last year 42 persons were killed out¬
right, but when lockjaw and other
diseases induced by injuries had com¬
pleted their work over 400 lives had
been sacrificed.
The number of injured—2,789—is
in excess of last year's figures by 358.
BIG DEAL IN GOAL LAND.
Central Railroad Officials Acquire 17,
000 Acres in Alabama.
The Gulf Coal and Coke Company
of Mobile, Ala., Thursday sold to J.
P. Hansen, president of the Georgia
Central railroad, and his associates,
17,000 acres of coal lands located in
Walker and Jefferson counties, Ala¬
bama. The consideration is said to be
31,250,000. Hanson’s associates are
said to be the Pratt Coal and Coke
company of Birmingham, Ala.
DEAD MAN COMMISSIONED
To Be Postmaster at Dallas, Texas,
by the President.
The postoffice department has dis¬
covered that an error was made at
Oyster Bay Thursday in making out
a recess appointment of the postmas¬
ter at Dallas, Texas, B. A. Riobinson
has been appointed to succeed Wil¬
liam A. O’Leary, who died about a
year ago. The commission was erro¬
neously, issued in the name of O’Lea¬
ry. Robinson has held the office since
the death of O’Leary, but had not
been confirmed because of opposition
from Senator Culberson.
SOUTHERN TO MAKE CHANGES,
Big Shake-Up in Transportation De¬
partment Said to Be Planned.
It is stated that a big shake-up
will be made in the next week or two
in the transportation department of
the Southern railway. The system will
be divided into four districts, in¬
stead of two as at present, and an
assistant general superintendent will
he in charge of each.
Panama Canal Hospital.
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MEHRY-GO-ROUND.
Judging by the alacrity with which
new amusement features are taken up
and the dearth of ideas that the amuse¬
ment managers declare to exist, the
new style of merry-go-round should
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Merry-Go-Round and Razzle-Dazzle.
prove popular. It is a combination of
the ordinary merry-go-round and the
razzle-dazzle. The carriages carrying
the riders are alternately swung up
and down, and at the same time given
a rotary motion. In the centre is a
tower, the carriages being suspended
on cables, the whole resembling a
spider. As the spider and its arms
rotate in a circle and as the arms ap¬
proach and reach the higher part o*
the plane they will lift the carriages
and give the passengers a pleasing sen¬
sation of being carried upward as well
as in the rotary motion. To enhance
the attraction electric lights can be at¬
tached to the cables and mounted on
the frame and give to the merry-go
round a pleasing effect in the night
time.
CARRIER FOR ORANGES.
In the present commercial usages of
orange growers and shippers, each or¬
ange is wrapped in paper, and any
number or quality packed in boxes for
shipment. The result is that even
when refrigeration is used during
there is much waste
Panama Canal Scenes.
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and loss in fruit, and the fruit
ing in marketable condition is
or less deleteriously affected. In
plan of shipment the fruit exudes
or less moisture, sothatat the
ing places of the paper it becomes
urated with decay, which is
cated to the balance of the fruit
results in much loss. The purpose
the carrier shown here is to
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a packing box so ventilated that the
fruit can be separated from each oth¬
er in a natural and dry state. In
transportation there would thus be a
minimum of damage, The box is
made of pasteboard and divided into
compartments, each box bolding a doz
en oranges, the partitions preventing
one orange from touching another,
Superstition Smashed In Kansas.
The two happiest people in the coun¬
try are the parents of thirteen daugh¬
ters, all bright, smart and good look¬
ing.—Eldorado Republican.
I ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SHADE
A Roller That Can Be Shifted at Will
to Any Desired Position.
The supports In which the roller of
an ordinary window shade rests are
usually fixed to the woodwork. Hence
the upper limit of the shade must re¬
main unchanged. Only the lower edge
can be shifted. Something would be
gained, though, if the roller could be
moved downward occasionally. Ven¬
tilation above it could then be easily
effected by pulling down the upper
sash.
Again, in many bedrooms it is com¬
mon to have muslin curtains that cover
only the lower half of the window
opening. They are more transparent
than the shade, yet afford privacy
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while a person is dressing. Light for
tile operation is usually secured by
running the shade rp as far as it will
go. Now, it Will he seen that if the
shade roller can be moved up and down
the curtains would not be needed, for,
by lowering the roller, plenty of light
would be admitted above it, while the
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shade would serve as a screen in front
of the lower sash.
A man named Stone has invented
means for adjusting a roller instanta¬
neously at any elevation. His mechan¬
ism is designed to go on the roller, and
the latter acts exactly as it would un¬
der ordinary circumstances except for
its change of position, The device
ought to improve the methods of regu¬
lating the light and air in a room, and
should be serviceable In schools and
business offices, as well as in private
homes.—New York Tribune Farmer.
Flock of Pelicans in Kansas.
The other day a large flock of peli¬
cans flew over the town of Hepler.
One of the birds was shot and it fell
into the large railroad pond. After it
had been shot the flock hovered over
the pond for three or four hours, cir¬
cling higher and higher until they were
out of gunshot reach.
It was after uight before the flock
abandoned the wounded bird and con¬
tinued their journey northward. The
bird that was shot was not killed, but
was disabled in one of its wings. It
is a fine large bird, standing about four
feet high and measuring eight feet
from tip to tip of its wings.
It as white as snow, with the excep¬
tion that it has one or two black
feathers in the top of the wiDgs. Its
beak is about one foot In length, with
a pouch underneath arge enough to
hold about one gallon of water. The
flock bad probably been disturbed and
driven cut of their course to the north¬
ern lakes.—Pittsburg Headlight.
Misled the Point.
At a recent political meeting in Eng¬
land, the speaker made a jest, and,
finding that his audience had missed
the point of it, said playfully: “I had
hoped, gentlemen, that you would
laugh at that.” A plaintive voice came
through the silence. “I laughed mis¬
ter.” Then everybody did.
