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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
THE FOOD OF PLANTS.
Careful Tnlase Is a Prime Factor in Sue
cessful Farming.

Careful Tlilase Is Prime Factor in Sue
cessful Farming.
Philadelphia Record
The substance principally used by plants
as food is carbon, and yet it is the cheapest
Of all substances on the farm, for the reason
that the plants derive it from the atmos-
phere. The atmosphere is almost four-ffths
nitrogen, and it is now believed that plants
also have the. power partially to derive
nitrogen from the air as well as carbon. The
nitrogen in the atmosphere is always in a
free Cor uncombined) condition, but carbon
exists in a state of combination, principally
as carbonic acid gas, in which condition it is
united with oxygen.
When the leaves of plant absorb carbon
from the carbonic acid gas of the atmos-
phere the oxygen is set free. In that man.
ner the leaves purity the air by lessening
the amount of carbonic acid and liberating
the oxygen. The carbon is then utilized BY
the plant as food, and is converted into
many other substances, such as oil, starch
and sugar, according to the characteristics
Of the plant. From the plant the animals
derive their carbon as food, and they in
turn convert the carbon into some other
nothing, therefore is the prime substance of
his butter, lard, fat pork, and of many of
his crops. Butter takes little or nothing
from the soil, and the same may be said Of
lard.
Plants derive the greater portion of their
nitrogen through the agency of their roots,
and in the form of ammonia or nitric acid,
although nitrogen is so abundant in the
atmosphere. II plants were capable of de-
irving the whole of their nitrogen from the
atmosphere Gas with carbon), there would
be no necessity for manure or fertilizers,
except tor the mineral elements, and bread
would be the cheapest of all substances; vet
many OF the foods derived from carbon are
cheaper than those more nitrogenous, owing
to the labor required in their production.
If the leaves and roots can convert the car
bonic acid of the air into food, and derive
from the rains that which is brought down
in the form of nitrogen compounds, the
farmers duty is to promote rapid growth of
the roots and leaves Of his plants, in order
to increase their capacity for deriving those
substances. An early start given the plants,
by preparing the ground properly, makes
the cost of production less by enabling the
plants to procure a portion of their food,
and in this respect they do not differ from
animals, as the more favorable the cor
ditions the lower the cost and the greater
the increase.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
END OF THE VOTING Trust.
few Stock of the Philadelphia and Reading
COMPANY to Be Issued To-Day

New Stock of the Philadelphia and Reading
Company to Be Issued To-Day.
PHILADELPHIA, August 1.-The exchange of
the voting trust certificates of the Pbiladel-
phia and Reading Railroad Company for cer-
tificates of stock begins tomorrow. and will
continue until October 10. August marks
the expiration Of the voting trust, which
during the past five years of reorganization
has had possession of the stock. This work
of reorganization has been one of the most
weighty and extensive undertakings that
has entered American financial circles for
years and has been attended with conspicu-
Gus results.
The total capital of the stock will be, in
round numbers, S45,000, 900, which includes
$5 000. .O0e convertible third preference bonds;
$2O0, 900 of the certificates OF Brown Brothers
& Co. representing stock deposited under
the reorganization plan, whose holders have
not EXCHANGED them for voting trust certtfi- :
Gates and $10o, 900 of the old com mon stock Of
the company, which was not deposited un-
der the plan, all of winch are exchangeable
for the new stock certificates.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
A COLLECTION OF OLD RELICS.
Many Rare Old Specimens Promised for
the Worlds Fair.


Chicago Herald.1
terest which will be shown at the Worlds
Fair will be legion. One of the best con-
tributions will be shown by Pennsylvania,
the collection being furnished mainly from
Philadelphia under the auspices of COM
mittee of its city Council.
Among the objects of this collection are
the chair occupied by Thomas Jefferson
when writing the Declaration of Independ-
ence; the table on which it was. signed; the
silver inkstand used on that occasion;
Thomas Jefferson's sword; chair of memorial
woods, including parts of Columbus house
in Spain; bell rung at Valley Forge when
Washington occupied that place with his
army; sofa belonging to George Washington
and used by him when he lived in Phila-
delphia; bench from pew in old Christ
Church occupied by Washington and
Lafayette; punch bowl used by Gen.
eral Washington and other officers
clothes made by Mrs" John Adams for her
son John Quincy Adams; ale mug that
belonged to John Paul Jones; Peale's
portrait of General Washington, the first
ever painted; first lightning rod invented BY
BENJAMIN Franklin; electrical machine in
vented by franklin; original model Of John
Fitch's steamboat which ran between Phila-
delphia and Burlington from 1877 to 1890;
unsigned copy OF the Declaration of Inde-
pendence; fans used by Franklin at the
court of France when he was minister there;
cast of Washington's face taken during lite
from original mold used for Hodon's statue;
clocks of Benjamin Franklin, William
Penn and Oliver Cromwell, running and
keepinp GOOD time: Gilbert Stuart's nor
trait Of Washington; Thomas Jefferson's
thermometer; lock of Jefferson's hair; Poca-
hontas' necklace; surveying instrument
used by William Penn in laying out the
city of Philadelphia, and the famous liberty
bell.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
As GOOD As HER WORD.

A Pretty Girl EIopes With the Man OF Her
Choice, According to Threats.
AsBURY PARK, N. j., Aug. 1.-rSpseisL ]
"A sensational elopement, in which the
belle of the Hotel Brunswick figures az one
of the principals, has been the theme of
conversation among the guests of the hotels
here to-day. The young lady was Miss
Mabel Tinley, of Philadelphia, while the
man is Richard w. Roeloffs, who was
employed last year in the Philadelphia
postofice. The couple were married YES
terday afternoon By Rev. Frank Chandler,
pastor. of the First Presbyterian Church on
Grand avenue, at the parsonage Of the
church.
Mrs Tinley seriously objected to Roe
lofts, and frequently told her. daughter 50.
A week ago Roelofs came to Asbury Park.
To her daughter Mrs Tnley said: 81 want
you to never see that man again" Mabel re-
piled: "Jf you speak like that before these
people viii marry him before o'clock"
She kept her word, and was married within
that time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
THE PROTECTIVE POLICY
And Breezy Discussion OF It Occupy the
Time of the Senate

And Breezy Discussion OF It Occupy the
Time of the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Aug. L-Almost all that
occupied the attention of the Senate to-day
were speeches on the tariff question by Mr..
Hawley and Mr.. Hiscock, advocating and
defending the policy of protection, and q
statement by Mr.. Vest respecting the profits
of the Arlington Wool Mills MI. Vest
had in former speech asserted that that
company had in 1891 paid a dividend of so
per cent, and that there had been troubles
and strikes among its workmen. Both
these assertions had been characterized in a
letter from Mr.. Whitman, the Secretary of
the company, to Mr.. Allison (Which had
been read some davs ago and printed in the
Record as absolutely false" and Mr..
Vest, in view of that denial, undertook to
prove from Mr.. Whitman's own report to
the directors that his (Mr. Vest's) original
assertion was practically true, and that Mr..
Whitman's assertion was suggestio falsi.
As to strikes and labor troubles at the
Mills, Mr.. Vest sustained his first state
ment by various extracts from newspapers
of Boston and other places
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
A DISH OF MIXED POLITICS.
The Minnesota Campaign Likely to Develop
Some Peculiar Features.

The Minnesota Campaign Likely to Develop
Some Peculiar Features.
ST. PAUL, Aug. with the exception of
two counties, the delegates to the d. mo-
cratic State Convention are all CHI sen.
They number 7Ss all told. The
situation, so far as the Cove NOR
ship is concerned, is very badly nd E1ed,
the vote being divided among City ! ttor-
ney Lawler, of ST. Paul; eI-Congref sman
Wilson, of Winona; ex.Marshal Cam pbell,
of Litchfeld, and E. T. Champlin, 81 eaker
Of the House of Representatives of Man
kato Lawler has about 300 delegates
pledged to him, larger number than to
any other candidate, but the uninstructed
men seem very decidedly inclined to com
1891 was made Speaker of the House as an
Alliance man, although always Democrat
up to the campaign Of 1890
More than majority OF the delegates are
instructed for Daniel Breck, Thomas Oanty,
and William Mitchell for Judges of the
Supreme Court. Canty and Breck, al
though both ON the Peoples party ticket,
are Democrats. Mitchell is a Democrat
now on the Supreme Bench, and is on the
Republican ticket named last Thursday.
This makes a queer and unexpected COIL
pllcatlon, for 1t renders 1t certain, Whatever
may occur as to the remainder of the State
ticket, that three Democrats will be chosen
to the Supreme Bench, giving them one ma
jority in the court of last resort, the two
hold-overs being Republicans
In the event Of Lawler's nomination for
Governor. the Minnesota contest will be
one of the most unique in the history of
American politics. A bitter fight will be
made on Lawler because he is Roman
Catholic, but no less relentless war has
already been begun on Nelson, the Re-
publican candidate, because he was born
in Norway. This fight was begun by the
American element. who protested against
the running for Governor any man not
born in this country. The warfare thus
begun is heartily seconded by the
Swedes, who hate all Norw egians
cordially. and in this campaign have
special grievance, because Albert Berg,
their candidate for Secretary Of State, was
disregarded for another Norwegian in the
Republican State Convention.
The net result of all these unhappy Sc
lections, past and prospective, is that
great many voters in both old parties, al
ready numbering thousands, have declared
their intention to cast their ballots for Ig-
natius Donnelly as the least of three evils.
What effect these complications will have
on the electoral ticket is problematical.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
REFlNERIES ANSWER.
They Deny That They Entered In'o Any
Illegal Comb mbination.

They Deny That They Entered In'o Any
Illegal Combination.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1.-The position taken
by the Philadelphia sugar refneries and
sundry individuals I'm the recent Sugar
Trust deal was more fully defined to-day by
numerous answers filed in the United States
Circuit Court to the suit brought for the
Government by District Attorney Ellery P.
1ngham to have the consolidation declared
Illegal. The answer of the Z. C. Knight
COMPANY says:
ave admit that on or about the 4th day OF
March, 1892 John Eserlas, DR., did enter into
q contract with the parties holding all our
capital stock. viz: Edward c. Knight. Ed
ward c. Knight, Jr., Thomas Cochran, Fred
George franklin Davis, Edward Browning
and ourselves for the sale by them or by US
for valuable consideration OF all the shares
of stock Of our company, or in lieu thereof
belonging to US. We deny that we ever
entered into any concert, collusion or COM
bination of any sort OF kind with any parties
to do any of tile acts set forth in the bill.
We joined in the contract of sale because
we were conditionally offered a fair price
for our refinery, machinery and real estate,
and for no other reason and with no other
was not within the provisions Of the act of
Congress of July 2. 1890; that it did not con-
Germ Congress and that it is not within the
jurisdiction of the courts OF the United
States We deny that we agreed to make
sale of our property for the purpose of
giving complete control of the price of re-
fined sugar III the United States to the
American Sugar Refining Company or to any
other person. Our agreement to sell was
made solely for the reasons We have stated.
1--WE aver that We entered into no other
contracts saving the one we hava
stated, viz, to sell our refinery, etc., for q
satisfactory price, and with the Intention to
obtain such price and with no other intent.
The contract we made, as we have said, was
never consummated, because the purchaser
took from cur stockholders their shares of
stock and did not buy our refinery, etc.
reasonable costs in this respect most wrong
fully sustained, and we proy that we may be
entitled to the same benefit OF exceptions of
law to which we would have been entitled II
we had plead in bar or had demurred to this
bill OF to any part thereof"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
RICHARD TENBR0ECK NO MORE
Death of the Noted Horseman at His
California Home

Death of the Noted Horseman at His
California Home
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. L-ISpecial J.
Richard Ten Brock, the famous Kentucky
horseman who was the first American to win
victories on the English turf, died to-day in
his home in San Mateo, which he had christ
ened 'The Hermitage. Death came when he
was entirely alone, as he had driven away
all servants by his eccentricities He had
made arrangements for taking an inventory
of his furniture to-day, as he was hard up.
When the dealer arrived he found Ten
Brock in bed dead.
-Four years ago Ten Broeck's wife applied
to have him examined for insanity, but the
court held he was of sound mind. Mrs
Ten Brock then left and went East. The
old man has lived alone ever
since, suffering much from gout.
He was over 80 years old. Ten Brock
still owned breeding farm in Kentucky,
but it is heavily encumbered. He will al
ways be remembered as the breeder of Lex
ington, Ten Brock and The Prioress.
With the latter he captured the English
Derby
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
A SERvIAN SONG.
The Century.1

The Century,
Mother, dear little lad
Alone through the night Is creeping:
He has lost HIS way, and is sad;
hear him bitterly weeping.
know he Is coming to me:
Go to the door and see."
daughter, woman's undoing
Is to be won without wooin2.
When she meets her lover halfway,
He holds her favor light
As the cup he drains by day,
Or the lamp he burns at night"
"Mother, no more.
But open the door;
have Ills heart, he mine;
He must be housed and fed:
will give him kisses for wine,
And my eyes shall hight him TO bedp' I
n q. &odd0rd
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
Eight-Hour Law Signed,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The eight-hour
law, signed to-day BY the President, was
introduced in Congress by Representative
John O'Neil, of Missouri, former Chairman
of the Labor Committee, and was prepared
by tbe Labor ITnion II nrohibits ali am
ployes of the Government from working
over eight hours a day, and extends the
rule to those working under Government
contracts
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02

chartered to-day: The Bellevue Light and
Power Company, of Allegheny county, cap
ital $40, 600; Tube City Brick Company, of
McKeesport. capital SIS 900, South Fork
Water Company OF Cambria county, capital
Sl5. 600: Prospect Land Company. of Pitts
burg, capital 5000; j. ID. Chantler Leather
Company, of Pittsburg. capital 5000.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
EXPRESS BUSINESS TRANSPARENT

The Adams Retires in Favor Of Wells Fargo
b Co. an the ST. L. b :. F. Road.
NEW YORK, Aug. IA transfer of express
business of some magnitude from one COM
pany to another took place to-day. Up to
yesterday the express business on the lines
of the ST. Louis and San Francisco Railroad
had been conducted by the Adams Express
Company.
This morning the whole business was
trans erred to Wells, Fargo 4 Co., the Adams
company retiring. The lines OF the st.
Louis and San Francisco are run West and
South from ST. Louis and are now part of
the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe system,
the express business OF which Wells, Fargo
& Co. operate.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
Prices of coal Advanoed.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1.-Beginning to-day.
the circular price OF coal for this city is ad-
vanced 10 cents at the mines by the Reading
and Pennsylvania roads, making the rates
as follows: Egg, % IS; stove, 50 10; chestnut,
cents since the first OF the year The retail
dealers are expected to add about so cents to
present quotations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02

send you herewith, shows
that her use OF lactated
food has been perfectly
satisfactory. Living ex-
clusively upon this food
for months, without .
sick day. is the best evil
dence that lactated food
thoroughly nourishes. She
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
Ta,1ure Of a Trxn. clotbier.

GALVESTON, TEX, Aug. 1.-The failure was
announced here to-day OF NJ. Sohram, retail
clothier. Liabilities $4,000 including 100000
preferred. No statement of assets.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
THE PANHANDLE's EXTENSION.
Work Will Begin at Once on the Cumbsr-
land Branch

New CUMBERLAND, W. VA, Aug. 1.-The
contract for the extension of the Cumber-
land branch of the Panhandle Railroad has
been let and work will begin Immediately,
The branch extends from this city along
the east bank of the Ohio by way of Beaver
Falls to Pittsburg, and pas,e. through rich
and East liverpool. A large number Of fac
tories have been located along the line Of
the road.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02

had but little trouble while catting her teeth, and
ascribc this to the bone-formng properties Of the
food and that it prevents irritation Of the stomach
and bowels
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
An Iron Min. Closes Up.

MARQUETTE. MICH, Aug. l-Opsratiops at
the Champion Iron Mine were this morning
suspended for an indefinite period andthe
entire force Of 600 employees discharged. The
suspension Is due. 1t Is said, to the fact that
the company is unable to market its ore.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02

The people upon the two continents of
North and South America, without the Arc-
tic regions, are less than Ia, 900 900 in num-
or, or only eight to the square mile.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
BIG PURSES AT sTURGIs
Fast Trotting and Pacing Races Interest
the Talent.

STURGIs, MICH, Aug. LIT was not 9
large crowd nor fast track that greeted the
Association to-day, but the racing was Of
ths gilt-edged order. The talent had the
2:3U - AXE down fine and backed Muta
Wilkes for q winner, but in the 2:17 pace
Mintado would not 90 and rank outsider
carried away the money.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02

Charters Issued Yesterday.
HARRuBuae, Aug. 1.-The following were
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
Lactated Food Kept Her Well.

Mr.. J. b. Henderson, of Burlington. w.. saysi
1.-The photograph Of my little Marjorie which I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-14
THIRTEEN SAILORS KILLED.
Terrible Accident at the Mare Island Navy
Yard.

Terrible Accident at the Mare Island Navy
Yard.
A terrible disaster, resulting in the killing of
thirteen sailors from the United States cruiser
Boston, occurred at noon yesterday at Mare
Island navy yard, near San Francisco. The
powder and shell magazine exploded with q
terrific report and the bodies of the mariners
who were at work in the magazine WERE horri-
bly, mutilated.
Early in the morning working parties Of If
teen men from the U. S. s. Boston were sent
down to prepare ammunition and AL shells for
ship. All were at work in the filling room Of
the magazine under the charge of Gunner Hit
finger. 1t is supp osed that one of the parties
dropped shell and that the conclusion caused
the explosion. When the smoke had cleared
away most sickening sight was presented.
The unacceptable remains of sailors were
strewn about the ground. Bloody arms, legs
and various parts Of human frames were scat
tered about, while on the partly burning grass
lay three Of the marines apparently in the az
ony of death.
The wounded men formed an awful spectacle.
Their faces were blackened and cut, their
clothes were torn into shreds and they moaned
and groaned in heartrending manner. The
report of the explosion heard at Vallejo,
Port Costa, Benicia, Martinez and other towns
within few miles.
One of the first to 60 to the scene was Dr.
Lewis Of the Naval Hospital. notwithstanding
that now and then explosion Of shells oc-
CURED. But the explosion had finished its
work and be found only one man alive, and this
man, filed with pieces of wood and Burned and
bleeding, was snatched from the flames and
rushed to the hospital. Twelve were killed out
right and three were taken to the hospital
L. d. George Hittinger. gunner U. 8. N.
Col. Sundberg, gunner's mate: Thos. Seymour,
chief gunner's mate; VIM. H. Reckel, appren-
tice; A. Keteyll, seaman; C. ". Smith, lands
man; Vim. Washburne. seaman; F. d. Legate,
seaman; W. Ostrander, apprentice; Il. Joos,
apprentice; Vim. Rush, seaman; - johnson,
seaman; R. Rincke, seaman; ]. H. Holton, APP
prentice.
OF three men taken to the hospital two have
died. The one surviving is named ]. Briscoe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-14
A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE.
A Pretty senorita. "a Long Lost Uncle and 9
Wedding.

Pretty senorita. a Long Lost Uncle and .
Wedding.
license was issued few DAYS ago. saws ths
San Francisco Cal. to Marquis Z. Hill of 500
Valencia street to marry Nictorina Gutierrez OF
lOl2 2lst street, and thereby hangs "a bat Of ro-
nance. He is twenty elk. -hs twenty. She for
ten wears HAS been attending the Academy OF
the immaculate Conception al 2ith and GUerro
streets where she has been known a Gertrude
Louise sinclair a name taken from Capt. and
Mrs. Sinclair ol 2lst street, whose home was
Gertie's
Evident il was from various circumstances
that she was not their daughter. and 1t IL
only recently that her birth aud position
have been fully established. When not yet
sixteen the pretty, dark featured senorits was
inadvertently told one dsy BY her foster mother
that she not her child, but she intimated
that the proofs Of her birth and lineage were
kept in a certain chef onier The girls natural
curiosity was aroused and one BY one she
gained possession Of he papers, but kept her
counsel until she met her fate in the young man
whom she will call her husband.
They naturally came 10 love each other, she
confided her secret 20 him, and he unraveled IL.
He found her uncle IN Candida 9ntierrez OF
45th street, Berkeley, a descendant of the old
Spanish family which appears In me early his
tory OF California. His grandfather and father
had business enterprises in China. and Candida
aud his brother. Appolinario, spent portions Of
their early lives in the and In the west.
More than twenty years ago Appoinario mar
ried Carmen Monte Verde. the daughter of .
well-known Mexican family.
The Young wife died at the birth OF the baby
girl. year later the father deed and the baby
WAS adopted by strangers. and her uncle knew
not of her living until a month ago. when the
proof shown to him. Victoria mat
lost niece. and. like all romanoes. al will end
happily with the marriage at ~. James Church
More shan this the interest of the odd frm In
the business ventures in China still survives.
and that which belonged TO Appolinsrio Cutter
reg Is now in right the property of hi daughter
and il sail 20 be something we'll wor fh looking
after Hill i a CLERK in The drug hoase OF tas
Langley a Michsels COMPANY. 90 s-A