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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
Dukes Death Due to Bicycle Accident

BREsLAU, July 1.-THE Schlesische-
Zeitung declared that the death of the
ozarewitch, Grand Duke George, who
passed away July 10, was due TO BIZ
cycle accident. While wheeling over
the hilly country about Abbas Tuman,
in the Caucasus, the paper adds, mis-
hap caused him such loss of blood that
he died on the spot of the occurrence.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
MAY CONTROL THE P. &. w.
Asserted That the b. s o. Has Secured
Some Second Mortgage Bonds.

Asserted That the Il. & o. Has Secured
Some Second Mortgage Bonds.
PITTsBURG, July IA. Wall street,
New York, sent outa bit of information
which, if true, it was asserted here,
means that the Baltimore and Ohio will
control the Plttsburg and Western at
the reorganization of the latter. An
Associated Press dispatch was as fol-
lows:
NEW YORK, July 14.-It was reported
in Wall street that the Lake Erie and
Western Railway company had sold its
holding of Pittsburg and Western Sec
ond mortgage bonds to the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad company. The
terms were not given out.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15

oa1, bO1, DAD DOU SEE d baD1 f1isouNb
HERE?"
tices on fat mems pillows as, "Bill the
Barrel Gets Into His Pants With Shoe
UOrn," and Carpet Stretchers Must
Not Be Used on Uniform Coats"
All this increased the mental anguish
of the ponderous ones. They are TAX
ing hot baths and joining gymnasiums,
and some have gone so far as to refrain
from eating peanuts. on the ground
that they put on tissue. The gentle
men who wear gold earrings and con-
duct corner stands are planning testi-
monial of gratitude to Chief Devery.
The next move in Mulberry street is
awaited with fearsome interest, and
corpulent ones are preparing to use cor
sets to improve their figures for the
next inspection.-New York Herald.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
TINPLATE SCALE SIGNED.
About $4,000 Workers Get an Advance Of
10 Per Cent.


CHICAGO, July 1.-THE officers of the
American Tinplate company and the
wage committee of the Amalgamated
association signed Il scale which granted
straight increase of 10 per cent. The
increase takes effect July l. The wage
list as adopted is to be the minimum
scale for the year ending June 80, 1900.
The other night bars instead of billets
and ratio of one-seventh instead OF
one-fifth was practically decided ON as a
basis for figuring the scale of wages.
This was abandoned, however, the
scale as adopted being based on 81 25 as
the selling price of 1C0-pound box of
coke tinplates. On each cent increase
in the price per box, per cent advance
on the scale as adopted will be paid,
while for each 10 cents decrease, de-
duction of 2 per cent will be made.
Over $4,000 tinplate workers are bene-
flied by the increase.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
Summer Tourist Tickets

Via Great Lakes now on sale. For
tickets and full information see c..
ID. Honodle, Union depot, agent D..
& G. S. n. Co., c. & b. line, Anchor
line, Merchants line, Northern
Transit Co., Northern Steamship Co.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
NOTICE.

BY virtue of an order of the Probate court
of Summit county, Ohio. the undersigned
will sell at public auction, at the west door
of the court house in the City of Akron.
summit county, Ohio, on
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
THINKS QUAY WILL BE ELECTED
McElhaney Believes There Will an Ea
ira Session of the Legislature.

tra SESSION OF the LeSIslatufe.
PrrTsBURG, July 14.-Representative
w. w. McElhaney, one of the most
active of Senator Films local insur.
gents during the senatorial deadlock,
was quoted us saying:
Information has come to me within
fortnight which leads me to believe
that arrangements are being made to re-
convene the legislature and elect a
United States senator. 1t is my opin-
ion that the legislature, if reconvened,
will elect Colonel M. S. Quay to succeed
himself
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
Notice for Parole.

Notice is hcroby.eiVen that Albert Treen,
"A priSoner now confined in the OHIO state
HeformntorV has been recommended to the
BOARD bv the superintendent and chaplain
as worthy Of consideration for parole or dis
charge said application will he for hear
ing on and after July Is 1922.
July l-S-l5t
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
Strike at Conneaut uarbor.

AsHTABULA, July 14.-More than 500
dock laborers at Conneaut harbor were
out on strike. They demanded the re-
instatement Of two dock foremen. All
docks were tied up and several boats
We're waiting to be unloaded.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
srrnfching Graycl.

Fond Father-No. sir. my boy doesn't
let the grass grow under his feet.
Observcr-No: | generally see him
standing on the sidewalk in front of
the corner grocery.-Clevelan6 Leader,
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
POLICE ARE TOO FAT.
SO AT LEAST THINKS CHIEF OEVERY
OF NEW YORK.

And, With an Eye to the Usefulness
of the Force, He Makes n Suggestion
Which Causes the Corpulent Mem
bers to Stagger.
1t came as great light to Chief Dev-
cry after he had been promoted to a
thinking part in the conduct of his de-
partment that Il fat policeman was an
offenSc 10 the aesthetic eye and a bad
proposition as regards economy and
utility. Resting his chin in his hand
he gazed into the future and saw the
time when only five bluecoats could
sleep in a dormitory now accommodate
ing fifteen, and when it would be neces-
sary to equip them with pneumatic
.ires and let them roll after the agile
thief
Appalled, by the vision, he conferred
with Mayor Van Wyck, and many of
the finest who proudly marched before
the reviewing stand on June 1, with
their chest development all below the
waist line, served to confirm the dread
which had been communicated to the
municipal executive. He noted with
dismay that the interval between the
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
A MANLY INDIAN shot.
Came Back From Cuba to Be
Executed For Murder.
Z. S. JUDGES WRIT DEFIED.

sheriff Refused to Accept It-Choctaw
Judge Ordered Execution TO Proceed,
In Spite of Stsy-spot Painted For Tar
cet-slow Death After the Shot.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
A Resolution

Resembling a resolution entitled, "A
resolution directing free-holders to
report an estimated assessment of
the cost and expense of construct
ing a storm water sewer in and
along the water course through
Gilhooley's property to point
about one hundred Q00) feet from
Adams street, in sewer district
No. t.
Be it resolved by the council of the city of
Akron, Ohio. that a resolution entitled, "a
resolution directing free-holders to report
an estimated assessment of the cost and eX-
pense of constructing a storm water sewer
in and along the water course through Gill
hooley's property 10 a point about one hum
dred feet from Adams street, in sewer dis
trict No. 4, passed June l9, 1892 be and the
same is hereby reScinded.
This resolution shall take effect upon its
passage.
Adopted July 5. 1899.
ChaS. H. Isbell, E. p. Sprigle,
City Clerk. Pres't City Council.
Approved by the Board of City Commits
sioners- ChaS- II. lsbell- Clerk
July Is
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15

WANTED-Case of bad health thrt
R-EP-A-N-S will not benefit. send
cents to Ripans Chemical Co., New Yorh
for 10 samples and l,0oo testimonials.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
ANARCHY AND MURDER
Would Follow if We Left Phil
lippines, Said Thoburn.
REBELS PLANNED A MASSACRE.

The Bishop said Two Filipino Servants
Warned Their EmpIoyers-Inhabita
of Other Islands Except Luzon Loyal.
Z. :. Should Have Slice of China.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
Preferable.

(which is the best-to be lucky or
rich?'
"ro he rich. Then you don't have to
he ucky."-Chicago Record.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
New Champion.

The Pug-I know l amt been able
to git battle on fer eight months, but
you bet I'll be champeen yet.
Backer-Yes, IL this keeps up, you
will be the champion long wait fighter
of the world.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15

body is worn out with
constant, unrenittiug toll. Just about the
time a man stops to take account of things,
he finds the dollars have come, but health
has departed. Then he reverses matters
completely. He devotes the rest of his life
TO spending his dollars to regain his health
What MAN with worn-out BODY and
tired brain needs most of all is a good
stomach. Dir. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery is the proper remedy to set the
stomach right. This medicine will make
his appetite good, make his weak stomach
strong and help It to digest the food he puts
into IT. Good digestion makes pure blood
and pure blood vitilizes the whole system
This great remedy also cures those who
have sore throat, persistent cough, weak
and bleeding lungs and bronchitis, all of
which often arise from weak stomach and
consequent indigestion. 1t is cleansing,
Strengthening, purifying, invigorating al
terative tonic. 1t puts life into the blood
and nerves, into the brain and body. 1t
cures every form of indigestion, makes the
sleep sound, and nerves steady There is
nothing so good, and you should refuse all
substitutes offered by dealers.
II had catarrh for four wears and also liver
and kidney trouble" writes John A. Galloway
Esq, of No 2Is 10Th Street, Columbus Ca
when it would commence troubling me- I
would have a slight aching little below the
chest In 1894 broke ont in Jumps all over and
when these left the skin peeled off l took six
two bottles of his Pleasant Pellets and be
lieve am sound and well. have good appe-
tite; before ] commenced treatment 1 had no
appetite at ALL
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
A Resolution
To improve North Summit street
from Market to Furnace street.

from Market to Furnace street.
Be it resolved, by thelcouncf of the city of
Akron, (two-thirds of all the ememberselected
thereto concurring) that 1T is necessary and
the intention is hereby declared to improve
N. Summit street in said city from Market
street to n point l25 feet southerly from the
south line of Perkins street. by grading the
same to the established grade. curbing with
stone gutter1ng and paving the same with
brick. and from the last named point to
Furnace street by grading the same to the
established grade, curbing. guttering and
paving the same with stone, all in accord
ance with the plans, profileS and specifica-
tions relating to said improvement on file in
the office of the city civil engineer.
That the cost and expense of said improve
ment Except one-tiftieth and the cost of in
tersectiOnS) shall be assessed upon all the
lots and lands and parcels thereof bounding
and abuttlng upon both sides of said North
Summit street in proportion to the benefits
which may result from said improvement.
Said assessment shall be payable in five (5l
equal. annual installments and bonds shall
be issued in anticipation of the collection of
the same, provided that said assessment
shall in no case exceed the limitations i'm
posed by section 22I0 of the revised statutes
OF Ohio. and the council find and hereby de-
clare that only the property bounding and
abutting upon said street will be specially
benefited thereby, and that no other prop
erty than that specified shall be assessed for
said improvement.
The clerk is hereby directed to cause this
resolution to be legally published and Frank
Bonstedt is hereby appointed to serve no.
law.
Passed July 3. 1890.
Chas. II. Isbell. E. P. Sprigle.
City Clerk. Pres't City Council.
Approved by the Board of City COmmis-
sioners- Chas- H. 1sbell, Clerk.
July Is
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15
Dewey Reached Port Said.

PORT SAID, July 14-Admiral Dewey
with the cruiser Olympia arrived here.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-11-15
Weeds.

Here is hint from Vick's Magazine
that is worth remembering:
Don't pull up weeds and then leave
them on the flower bed or throw
them down in the path, for the next
rain will make many of them grow
again. Always take a basket with
YOU and go ''malketing' in the garden
every day for weeds, and when you
have found one (yOu may pos
sibly find two or three more),
account that you have found
treasure and cOnsign it to the
compost heap. You will soon have no
need of investing a fortune in ''Baw
ler's Chemical Fertilizer" because you
will carry on live and enterprising
chemical works of your own. My lazy
neighbors marvel at the fneness of
my pottng soil, after [ have sifted it,
but it is mostly weeds. | make the
raising of weeds business. | like
weeds. They make grand flowers.
Good weeds, like good Indians, are
the dead ones.
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try it. You, who can start the seed in
early spring, would do very well to
treat it as an annual. A dozen or more
of the species yield edible fruits and
my incarnata is one of them. The
Southerners call the berries MaypOps.
| do not expect ever to live upon them
and probably they will not grow here.
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Thunbergia Fragrans.

In his list of desirable plants for
Florida, our friend, Pike, did not at
tempt to give a complete list. Yet it
seems strange that Thunbergia fra
grams should have been omitted. 1t is
a strong growing herbaceous perennial.
Perhaps not so rampant as the annual
varieties but still very vigorous. The
blossoms are pure white and about an
inch and a half in diameter The spe-
cifc name, fragrans, means fragrant
but as grown here it is a veritable mis-
homer, there being no perceptible
OdOr.
From early spring until cold weather
it is seldom out of bloom.
The roots are hardy here, having
gone through the freeze of last Febru-
airy uninjured.
There is another perennial variety T.
laurifolia (syn. 7. HarrisD with large
blue flowers, but as we have never
seen it in bloom we cannot say much
about it.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-11-15
HOW SHE KNEW.

You know that red-headed, freclle-
y0u?" asked the girl in blue
"Of course" answered the girl in
pink. what of him?''
Mabel Wilson is engaged to him."
'IIOW do YOU know? Did she tell
you?"
NO, she didn't tell me- But last ev-
ening she asked me if I didn't think
he was handsome. Chicago Post.
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Nina Lobata.

This is another plant that was an all
summer disappointment. 1t is climb
ing vine and nearly related to the
morning glories, being cla5srd as an
lpOmOea by some botanists.
We planted seeds early and set out
the plants in good season. They grew
rapidly and soon reached the top of
the wires put up for their support; still
they kept on growing, dropping down
and climbing up on themselves, and
forming complete tangle. For
months, they grew, festooning the
caves of the porch and house roofs
with their graceful vines and neat fol
iage, but no signs of blossoms. 1t was
not until the last of September that it
began to bloom.
At first, like the Cosmos, it did not
seem to promise very much, for single
flowers are quite insignificant, and
single clusters not very conspicuous.
But the vines were soon covered
with graceful racemes, each bearing
from ten to fifteen buds and blossoms.
The buds are a rich crimson at first,
changing TO orange, and the flowers,
when they open, are cream-cOlOred.
The flowers are only about three
fOulthS of an inch long, and when open
not over IA of an inch across. One
alone would not be noticed, but the
vast numbers Of buds and blossoms
against background Of rich. green
foliage is very beautiful
Nina l0bata seeds are claSsed among
the ANIMALS, and we are not sure that
it is perennial Yet from the looks of
the vines, we think it very probable
that in this climate the roots may be
preserved through the winter by bank
ing. If so, it will doubtless bloom
much earlier another season.
There is another variety offered in
the catalogues, Nina sanguinea.
The Illustrations show the flower to
be shaped like morning glory and
it is aid to be oven an inch in diane
ter, the color being blood red. 1t is
said to be a stronger grower than the
other variety. If so, it will cover a
very large trellis, as Nina lObata soon
reached the caves of a roof twenty
feet from the ground, and would un,
doubtedly have gone ten or fifteen
more if it had had an opportunity.
1t would seem that Nina sanguinea
is even more desirable than NJ lobata.
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are more than one hundred kinds of
fruit growing wild, and so numerous
that in places in the mountains or
anges can to-day be purchased for
eight American cents per hundred. OF
George G. Croft, U. S. N, San Juan,
Porto Rico"
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Passion Flower.

/ respondents experience with a plant
which is a common and often very an
noying weed in Florida. 1t is inter
esting as showing how plants, so COM
mon as to be nuisance in one place
may be very highly priced elsewhere.
Last spring, having ordered a pack
ct of PassifOra incarnata, as [ sup
posed it was, the native Passion flow
en- found from Maryland to the Gulf,
SOWed some of the seeds pretty early,
which failed to come up. After awhile
[ made another sowing, and this too.
was a failure | began to think the
Passion flower a little difficult, but
more seed, planted the last days Of
June, | think, grew readily enough.
lack of heat, no doubt, being the cause
of the first two failures. The seeds
are large and the seedlings are strong
from the first With heat enough to
! start them, plants can be had very
! easily. These stood erect until Il foot
or more high, but they are vines with
plenty of cOiling tendrils, so | stuck a
| bush for them to climb on. The leaves
are deeply three-lobed. and in my spp
cieS, at least, are less graceful than yoj
might suppose from the catalogue
: picture. Still the foliage is very goo /
dark green. smooth and shining. Not
expecting flowers the first year, | Wa
surprised to see little flower buds one
from each leaf in the later summer. IT,
plants being three to four feet high 1T
the time; but only one opened, tn
others were too late. The flower bUl
stands on ali erect stem, Il bladde'
capsule of light green, growing pale.
as the day of opening draws near, with
five erect, slender horns or aWnS. One
bud as ever you SaW-a perfect dis
appointment. But the flower! All
yes, that is another thing. There is
nothing the matter with the flower
The five SepaIS become horizontal, ana
five petals alternate with them, max
ing pure white circle two inches
across. Just above this white flower
is Il corona. horizontal also. and about
/ the same size. composed of a great
many long, slender tilanentS, white. or
nearly, at the center of the flower, but
blue and bluer until the tips are the
brightest violet. Nothing can be more
delicately beautiful. The five thick,
heavy. cllriOuSly curved stamenS are
bright green, the ivOry-like Ovary is the
size of an apple seed. 1t is mounted
high on stalk and there are three
white styles spreading from it. Alto
gether it is a splendid flower. worth
anyOne'S while to cultivate Most Of
the many species are tropical, and l
had a notion that the least hint of frost
would use it up But I was amazed to
see frost after frost fall without bend
ING it in the least Then snow came
and bent it to the earth All the 9TH
err flowers were dead but it was as
good as new. Finally, [ put all the
plants in the cellar in the same large
box they grew in, cutting off most Of
the tops, and now, January 9th while
the leaves are Withered the stems are
green. and I have some hopes of keep
ing them through They say it is hardy
as far as New York Getty. | suppOse.)
hIIt that is no sign that I could winter
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Porto Rico.

''When the American army landed in
Porto Rico in August last they found
the island literally a land of flowers
and fruits Trees, bushes, climbers
and the grassy mountain sides were all
covered with brilliant red, yellow and
| blue blossoms, while the air was per-
fumed with the odOrs therefrOm. The
rose seems perfectly at home and
blooms i'll the open air throughout the
wear. On trees and bushes the bios
SONS most commonly indicated the
families Leguminosae and Malvaceae.
The double flowers of the COmpOsotae
were very rarely seen. Ferns are COM
paratively rare, though there is one
trpe-f fern in the mountains. There are
several palms, those most common be-
ing the royal palm, the cOcOanut palm,
the date palm. and the travellers palm
The royal palm is a beautiful tree
growing to a height of about fifty feet.
| The trunk is nearly white and spindle
shaped. swelling out in the middle in
value to the poor natives; their hogs
live on the nuts produced, it being al
lrmed that one tree will support one
Die. The branch which bore the fruit
makes a very good broom after the
nuts are removed The leaves of this
tree can be used for a hundred differ
ent purposes. The natives use the peti,
Oles for shingles and clapbOardS, each
being about six feet long and from
| twelve to eighteen inches wide. He
makes out Of them baskets, Washtubs,
collins. cradles, beds. hammocks, sad
dies. ropes, boxes; indeed, all that he
needs in his simple life.
THE cocoanut tree produces the we'll
known nut. the tree bearing through
out the year, and producing, it is said.
from 200 to 100 nuts in a year Here
the natives gather a large portion of
| the nuts green. when flesh is soft, and
each nut contains a large quantity of
delicious aqua de COCO (millE), which IS
| the safest and most refreshing drink
on the island The husk of the nut and
the wood of the tree are both valuable.
The leaves of the tree are gigantic. l
have measured some which were TWEEN
ty-tWO feet long by eight wide. They
are much used here to decorate the
walls of the large rooms in which
Americans live. This is done by
standing them against pillars and
along the walls. the effect being very
pleasing; they will remain green and
fresh looking for Il month OF more.
The travellers palm has this curious
feature, that the leaves are arranged
in two rows at the top of the tree, thus
forming a gigantic fan.
"POrtO Rico is a land of grass and
fine cattle. 1t is said to have the finest
grass. and finest cattle in the West
Indies. TO one accustomed to the
CRASHES areas i'll our Southern States,
the presence of grassy sWards, like
those of Kentucky, is certainly a re-
markable feature Porto Rico, unlike
other tropical countries, has no
swamps and jungles. 1t has no for
ests. but the mountains are covered
with luxuriant grass to their SUBMITS.
AS might be expected from the fore
going, the island has a healthful eli
D,ato. no endemic disease prevails
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-11-15
FLORAL DEPARTMENT.

Address all communications to the
editor, w. G. Steele. Switzerland, Fla.