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TACGART SERENE I ) Chairman Democratic Committee Says He'll Stick. "KNOCKED" BY HEARST -Declares Charges of Gambling Ar? false and Were Made for Revenge Because Indiana Democrats Indorsed W. J. Bryan. A special from Lick Springs, IndL, -says: Thomas Taggart Thursday gave "to the Associated Press a statement 'in reply to the demand made by the. New York World that he resign the -national chairmanship of the democratic party: "The World has allowed Itself to *be imposed upon by the false and scandalous publications of a rival newspaper, whose editor Is my personal enemy for reasons best knows -<to himself. "There has been no raid nor at? tempted raid upon the French Lie* -Springs hotel, nor has such a thing been thought of save by Mr. Hearst and his correspondents. V...U! W +V.Q, TTrPnnh "A UUilUiiig u w ucu uj i.uw ~ . -^w? 'lick Springs company, wholly disconnected from the hotel property, was leased to a party to be used for billiards and bowling alleys with a strong clause against gambling in the lease. After a time this tenant ^permitted gambling. We brought suit -for the annullment of the lease and demanded judgment. He appealed the -case, and it Is now pending trial in the present term of court "The authorities have supplemented our efforts to suppress gambling by raiding the building, and that i? mil there is to the grossly sensational ^publications in which The W)orld has placed credence. "The French Lick Hotel company has not and will not tolerate gam ' bling in any form on its premises. This is attested by the court records, which show our efforts to sup press it, and it is well known to Mr, Hearst, who, with such knowledge, continues the publication off his vindictive and libelous falsehoods. I regret that The Wforld has seen tfit to dignify these atrocious falsehoods by editorial mention. "The proposition that I should re* sign is preposterous. It deserves and will receive no attention. "T. TAGGART." Intimate friends of Mr. Taggart.who are usually authorized to speak for him, call attention to the fact that on June 7th the Indiana democratic convention, indorsed W. J. Bryan for the presidential nomination in 1898, 'and attacks on this action followed, the action of the convention being attributed to Mr. Taggart's influence. Judge Thomas 3uskirk at Paoll has grated a continuance of the French Lick and West Baden hotel : cases till July 13 on the promise in the meantime that no gambling will be allowed at either place. Fifty additional affidavits were filed by the state Thursday against the eleven attendants of the Casino arrested when the raid was made. The total number of affidavits against them is now seventy-two. John W. Kern, of counsel for the hotel companies, during the argument ? in court, called attention to the damJ age that had been done to the two *properties4 valued at $2,000,000 bn account of the publication of the raids :;und insisted that the hotel companies ihad no control of the Casinos whati ever; that the Casinos had been leased to third parties for a term of years \ and after the leases had been signed the hotel companies had brought suit to cancel these leases upon finding that gambling was being allowed in the Casinos, and that these suits are now pending. 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 congress 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 302 left undisposed of. The words "bills" is inclusive of bills, simple, joint and concurrent resolutions. The total number of laws enacted by this congress is given officially as 3,9S9. SEVEN HOLOCAUST VICTIMS. Mother and Six Children Meet Death in Burning Home. Mrs. Solomon Gobbau and her six children were burned to death Friday 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. PICKED UP- AT SEA. Balloonist Was Borne Far from Land and Miraculously Rescued?Voyage Breaks Record. After one of the most remarkable experiences in the history of aerial navigation, James K. Allen, the aeronaut, 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 scnooner 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 frou? death by drowning, the winds that prevailed Wednesday having blown his balloon a long distance from shore. Until news of 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 southwest The aeronaut was carried in his balloon in a northeasterly direction, and noeaaH nvcr tho tOWn of AttlebOrO. J/UOWVU V VTA v. ? He had his balloon under perfect control at that time, and while in the vicinity 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 headed straight out to sea. When Thursday dawned without any news being received from Allen and it became known that the last time he was seen was when he was headed out to sea, it was then believed he would never return. After Allen passed over Massachusetts bay his plight was more perilous. Wednesday night he was over Provinctown. At this point of the voyage 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 Sylvia. 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, nearly half 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 Report of Yellow Fever. Information that a report was published in Mobile, Ala., Friday, saying that yellow fever had appeared in New Orleans was received by the Louisiana state board of health. Dr. Irion, president of the Louisiana board, authorized. the statement that the Mobile report was probably based on the fact that a case of fever, which was officially diagnosed as typhoid, 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 - - (r New Orleans. ft 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, trere convicted in the United States district court at Chicago Friday of illegally granting rebates to the Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Packing company. Sentence was suspended pending arguments for 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. GROVER CLEVELAND IS ILL. Former President Unable to Take a Fishing Trip to West Ex-President Grover Cleveland is at iiis home in Princeton and will be unable to go west as he had intended. Mr. Cleveland and James H. Eckels, former comptroller of the currency, had planned a fishing trip in Wisconsin, but Mr. Eckels was notified that Mr. Cleveland would be unable to keep the engagement on account of illness. TRANSPORT THOMAS ON REEF. Government Vessel Goes Ashore Near Island of Guam. A Manila dispatch says: The United States transport Thomas is reported to be ashore on a coral reef near the Island of Guam. General Wood has asked the secretary of war for authority to send the transport Meade to take off the jassengers and cargo The Thomas is reported to have run on the reef a distance of 100 feet. All on board are safe. She carried no troops. # HEARST SAYS NAYj' Avers He is Not Candidate for the Presidency. DECLARATION EMPHATIC ' j 1 Comments on Remarks Made by Bry- j an and Says Any Candidate Would ' ; be Welcome to Him Except 1 Joe Bailey of Texas. | Congressman William R. Hearst, who is at nresent in San Francisco, i has given out the following: "I would like to state very posi- ' tively that I am not a candidate for the democratic presidential nomination in 1JK>8. 1 "Mf. Bryan said the other day in London that there were others besides himself who had claims on the nomination through services rendered i the democratic party, and mentioned pleasantly Mr. Folk, Mr. Bailey and myself. "While appreciating Mr. Bryan's compliment I must decline to be considered a candidate. Let the list stand if Mr. Bryan pleases, Bryan or Folk or Bailey. For my part I would substitute Stevenson for Bailey. i "Mr. Bryan's services to the democracy are too well diagnosed to be rehearsed. He has led the party conspicuously in two presidential campaigns and one senatorial campaign. In the national house of congress he has made the issues himself and expounded them with a brilliancy unequaled and unapproached. "Mr. Folk's services to the democracy are notable and real. In fact, his services have been rendered to all citizens irrespective of party for his career as an honest and efficient public servant is an example to republicans 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 republican 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 Bailey's nomination for second place is conceivable. It would have the material advantage of insuring Texas to I I J ?allniMnor a rfllK. I LIU ueiuuuittvjj auu \jl cuuuug u duu stantlal campaign contribution from John D. Rockefeller. But its ad van- , tages are obvious. Folk and Bailey, for instance, would be an oil and water ticket that would not mix?a ticket of good, pure water and Standard Oil. "Bryan and Bailey would be illiteratlve and tickling to the ear, but would sound too much like Barnum and Bailey to suit the discriminating taste of the convention. v "Why not Bryan or Folk or Stevens in 1908 on the democratic side, and why not Roosevelt and LaFollette on the republican side? "I repeat definitely and positively I am not a candidate." MAYOR HELD IN CONTEMPT. Rote Mutt Vacate Municipal Office and Pay Fine of $1,000. The Kansas state supreme court Friday handed down a decision holding Mayor Rose of Kansas City, Kans., in contempt for having assumed the office of mayor after the court had ousted him for the non-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 immediately filed a writ of error. CLEMENCY FOR PERJURER. President Pardons Judge Tanner, ths Partner of Late Senator Mitchell. Former Judge 0. B. Tanner, who committed perjury in the trial at PortI land, Oregon, of his partner, the late Senator John H. Mitchell, has been [ pardoned by the president. Tanner committed perjury when he testified in relation to his partnership agreement with Mitchell, swearing that a written agreement had been in existence for years, whereas the agreement was not three months old and was drawn after Mitchell got into trouble. HORRORS OF HYDROPHOWA. ? - - UUcna In I DDK I rii CC IV1CII w I iw.w ... Death Struggle. Lynch Hinson, a moulder, died In Louisville, Ky., Saturday of hydrophobia. Hinson was bitten two weeks ago. He had 200 convulsions, amd during his last hours his agofales were such that it required the efforts or three men to hold him in bed. DZAR'S TROUBLES GROW. The Revolt Among Troops of Hapless Russian -Ruler Spreads?Empire in Dangerous Ferment. Dispatches received in St. Petersburg Thursday from Samara state :hat two regiments, garrisoning that important provincial capital, have mutinied and presented a series of political and service demands. The ofdcers promised to satisfy the service demands if the mutineers would return to duty, but the men replied that they would be satisfied only with compliance with all of their demands. --*? j ine muuueei*; cumuutuu me situation, and are Indulging in excesses. The situation, is complicated by the tact that in Samara the revolutionists are pushing a movement, to proclaim a republic in case a general strike Is declared, and may seize the present opportunity to further their aims. ' The ferment among the soldiers and Bailors at Odessa and Sebastopol continues. No inkling of the reported rioting and pillaging at Vladivostok has reach, ed the Russian public, but the military authorities, who control <he telegraph, would be liable to withhold for days any news of such conditions. Reported Mutiny in Vladivostok. The correspondents at Tokio of the Daily Telegraph (London) reports that the Asiatic Steamship company's steamer Colonia, which left Vladivostok on account of the disturbances there, and which has arrived at Nagasaki, 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 connection with the revolutionary movement, the correspondent further says, number six hundred. Girl's Slayer Sent to Siberia. Maria Spirldonovo, who killed Chief of police Luzhenoffsky, of Tamboy, was sent to Siberia from Moscow on Thursday with other prisoners. Spectators 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 published its ninth annual summary of deaths and injuries caused throughout the United States by Wednesday's celebration. Figures up to an early hour were as follows: Dead ... 88 By fireworks .. 9 By cannon 1 By firearms .......... 11 By explosives .. 7 By toy pistols ............ 4 By runaway 1 By drowning ...... .... 5 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 .. .. ., $66,450 In Chicago?'Dead 2; injured 157. Last year 42 persons were killed outright, but when lockjaw and other diseases induced by injuries had completed 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 COAL LAND. Central Railroad Officials Acquire 17r 000 Acres in Alabama. The Gulf Coal and Coke Company of Mobile, Ala., Thursday sold to J. P. Hanson, president of the Georgia Central railroad, and his associates, 17..000 acres of coal lands located in or*/} nAimtina A lo. " auu uuuvi ouu wuuww^i bama. The consideration is said to be |l,2o ,CU0. Hanson's associates are said to be the Pratt Coal and Coke company of Birmingham, Ala. MISSISSIPPI TOWN BURNEOw Business Section of Philadelphia Is Practically Destroyed. 'Fire of unknown oMgin practically destroyed the business section of Philadelphia, Noshota county, Miss., Friday, wiping out ten buildings and damaging the bank building. The loss is given at thirty thousand dollars with Insurance of twenty-two thousand. Congressman Adam Byrd is a heavy loser, three of the buildings having been owned by him. linemen have battle. Union and Non-Union Men Engage in " ?' A In Cauannah oenuua nina; wu? Union telegraph linemen and nonunion men employed by the Southern Bell Telephone company in place of the strilws had a serious affray in Savannah Saturday night. Several were injuresd in the melee, which assumed the proportions of a riot. A number of arrests were made. The superintendent of the Bell company arranged for the release o! the non-union men on bond. .* r:;'-V'"'' "I AM HOUNDED"! s Excitedly Declares Flanders in Georgia Legislature. SENSATION IN THE HOUSE Representative Demands the Removal from the Floor of Man Whom Ho Charges With Systematically Spying Upon Him. Perhaps the most sensational epi sode in the annals of the Georgia legislature occurred at Monday's session when, quivering with anger and excitement, Hon. W. J. Flanders, representative from Johnson county, arose from his seat and demanded in stentorian tones the instant removal from the house of one Professor Garnett Quillian, vice president of the Nannie Lou Warthen Methodist Institute at Wrightsville, Ga. He alleged that recently two well laid plots had been made to murder him at Wrightsville, and that he had escaped death upon each occasion. Quillian was seated in the rear of the house when Mr. Flanders assumed the floor, but withdrew before the latter had concluded his remarks. "Gentlemen, I have been hounded; I have been persecuted until I can no longer stand it," cried he as he passed excitedly up and down the side' aisle near his desk. "I am going to be plain. I will mention names, and I wish it distinctly f Vl q + T tttIII noro/vnollw j ' VUMb i HiJA Otauu respousible for every word I utter." Picking up a copy of the constitution of the state, Mr. Flanders then, proceeded to read that section which provides that no member of the legislature shall be arrested while in atr tendance upon the sessions except upon certain charges. "I waive that provision," continued the speaker as his voice shook with emotion, "and I am willing to stand liable for what 1 say in any court on1 earth, either civil, criminal or eccl* siastical. "Before I go further I wish to demand that Garnett Quillian be removed from the floor of this house," and Mr. Flanders pointed his finger toward the rear of the halL Scores of faces were immediately turned in that direction. Several members moved closer to the speaker in order to prevent any possible altercation. "Holding it up to the world that I am an enemy to the Methodist church, these people have been seeking to ruin me in every manner possible. They have defamed my character and have attempted to bring about the execution of my church and political career. "Among the number are Judge A. F. Daley, Rev. E. F. Morgan of the Savannah Grace Methodist church and Rev. W. F. .Quillian of my town ?think of it!?two ministers of the gospel. "One of them, Rev. W. F. Quillian, stands proven a perjured liar before the courts. I have made this statement before. And Rev. E. F. Morgan stands impeached. *"As for Rev. J. M. Lovett, if that man were prosecuted on charges that I know are true?even if a negro were prosecuted for the same cause?he would be chainganged for life. "They had, kept this thing up for so long that I thought surely it would stop some day. But on last Tuesday I saw this man here," with a gesture toward the rear of the chamber, where sat Garnett Quillian. "I went to him and said: " 'I don't want you, here meddling in my business. If you are seen here agaffc, your presence will he construed by me as a bid for personal trouble.' "The next morning I saw him upon the floor. It was the Fourth, ana a number of the senators were present. For that reason I managed to control myself. I happened to pass by Mm on the floor, when he placed his hand quickly in his pocket?as though ho was reaching for something ? and looked at me viciously. "Finally I decided to give him another Sunday on which to read his Bible and remember that prayer he used to say as he knelt at his mother's knee. "It all did no good. He is here again, and I could stand it no longer. "I make this statement as a Methodist in good standing. If I fail to establish the charges I will resign my position." whpn Mr. Flanders resumed his seat, the house at once took up ita regular business, but soon afterward adjourned. The incident was the solo topic of conversation. CHOLERA SHOWS DECREASE. Situation in Manila Indicates More Hopeful Outlook. The cholera situation in Manila has improved. The report at 6 o'clock Thursday night showed nineteen new cases since jnidnight of July 4, and ten deaths. The report for July 4 shows 28 cases and 19 deaths. Two Americans are dead, but to date only Ave Americans have been seized with the disorder. BUND AND DEAF CENSUS. | One Person in 1,200 In United States 3 Blind and One in Every 850 Deaf, According to Report Issued. About one person In every 1,200 sj was blind and one In every 850 per- Xt sons was dumb In the United States In 1900, according to a special oen- ; -4S sus report on the blind and deaf % In ,v| the United States in that year, just >. issued by the census office at Wash- JM ington. The inquiry was conducted XxM under the direction of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. The total number of blind in the. United States in 1900 was 64,763, of whom 35,645 were totally blind, and . i||l 29,118 partially blind. " Of the total <| Dlllia 3Y,004 were mues unafemales Almost 65 per cent - of- the ;jj|i blind became blind alter 20 years of , age. About one-tenjth oC the total* number of blind were born so. The vV jlj number of blind per 1,000 of population was greater among the negroes than among the whites. In about 3 :, j|| per cent of the cases of blindness re- / .J|j ported the parents of the blind were' cousins. Of the blind whose parents were so related 25 per cent were congentially blind, while among the blind whose parents were not cousins the ;V-1| proportion congenitally blind was only j 6.8 per cent. Of the blind at least 10 v.-a years of age, 20 per cent were en- >||8. gaged in some gainful occupation. The percentage of persons engaged in the professional pursuits, trade zgjm larger among the totally* blind than. ffajaB among the general population. Deafness, on the who#, the report . --M says, is more common in the northern part of the United States than /:||m in the southern, and there are morer j^B males than females. The total num-v^SH: ber of deaf in the United States given as 89,287, of which 37,248 were ^SH totally deaf and 51,861 partially dean - j: From the latter class, however, are <??fl| eliminated those merely nara uj. The census report of 1890 gave ttoerf|jl'^ number of persons deaf as 121.178.' and the opinion is expressed that the returns for 1890 ate undoubtedly ex-. ^8 & cessive while those for 1900 are de- / ficient. Of the totally deaf 52.5 per - M cent were males. Negroes constitute -J 11.6 per cent of the general popula- ^.'f tion and only 5.2 per cent of the "aMp deaf. That the negroes seem less sueceptible to deafness than the Whites, v'Jj v the report says, is probably due part to less complete returns for the negro deaf. Of the totally deaf 91 pery^H cent were from childhood (under 20 ;^i| years of age) and 36 per cent fronti^a^ birth. Of the 89,287 persons returned as deaf, 55,501 were able to spe^^:;^ weli, 9,417 imperfectly, and. the re* :"3| mainder not at all. ^ Heredity has played a part In producing congenital deafness, and the'| |g deafness occurring in adult life; whereas deafness occurring in early.j$^B childhood after birth and under the age of f}ve, is probably to a large ex- ]gj tent adventitious. Of those at least ten years of age . ||j among the deaf, 38.5 per cent were-^^B gainfully employed as compared with 50.2 per cent among tne general illation. , t " '% J@jjB FIELD CLEAR FOR TILLMAN. : Col. Lumpkin Withdraws from Sena^>ranB torial Race in South Carolina. | Colcnel W. W. Lumpkin has witragB;'; drawn frcm the race for United States M H senator in South Carolina. This leaves' the field clear for Senator Tillman'a^J '|1 re-election. Colonel Lumpkin has issued the following card: > *On account of the change of coi^^||| . ditiocs surrounding the senatorial race. I deem it best to withdraw froiiL^^H the contest. I have endeavored to conduct my campaign in a mahlyiJfeaB straightforward way up to this time, ^;f$| and retire feeling that I have not ;|1 intentionally wronged any one. * ;'rJ|r (Signed) "Wl W. LUMPKIN." # No cause is assigned for this move, but the hopelessness of the fight, as Wx generally conceded by the press, msf havejarought the matter to a clin^ax^rjM WIRE TAKKbK^ UCl V/vm. Bettors lit Various Parts of Country .'.^R Badly Swindled. For the first time in several years real wire tappers have been success- ijga ful in defrauding bettors in manjr parts of the country. The wire leading into the race track at Windsor, ^||| Ontario, was tapped, the correct in- T formation withheld and false winners j?|s were sent to New York, which is a betting distributing point. It is estR x||| mated that from $60,000 to $100,000 was won by agents of the tappers. MURDEROUS MUTINEER HUNG. ;||j Negro Pays Penalty for Killing White Crew of Schooner. For the murder of the white crew si of the schooner Harry Berwind, off North Carolina coast last October, Henry Scott, a Baltimore negro, was ^ eexcuted at Wilmington, N. C., Fri* day afternoon. Beside Captain E. B. rp Rnmill of Maine, master of the Ber? . wind, he murdered the steward, mate | and engineer. 8cott acknowledged his gnilt Hit p^ATiArated Arthur Adams and Robert Sawyer, the other twfr .}M condemned negroea. _ .,|||