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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-18
NEWS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Henry Willard Resigns the Presidency
of Two of His Roads.
Operations of the New York Central for the
Past Year-New Trunk Line
Arranged.
WILLARD QUITS.

BE Resigns the Presidency of Two of His
Oregon Roads-NOrthern Pacific State
ment.
NEW YORK, Dec lit Ia officially announced
that Henry Willard has resigned the presidency
OF the Oregon g. Transcontinental company, and
of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company,
and that W. EndicotT, jr., of Boston, succeeds
hin, president of the oregon Transconti-
mental company, and T. Jefferson Coolidge, of
Boston, as president of the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company. Coolidge also enters the
Oregon & Transcontinental board of directors
The reason assigned for the resignation of Viii
lard is that he has become impressed with the
conviction that it would not be proper for him
60 continue as president of all the companies
whose management he has heretofore directed
after the completion of the Northern Pacific
Willard, some weeks ago, urgently pressed Endl-
cest to accept the presidency of the Oregon q
HranscOntin entail. 1t is stated on the street
shat Fred. Billings has severed his connection
with the Oregon Transcontlnental
company. Ralston, of the Farmers Loan aud
Trust Company, has been appointed on the
Oregon 81 Trauscontinental investigation
committee with Fabrl and Endcott. The rise in
Oregon dS Transcontinental was the report
that the statement will show assets of between
80, O00, 900 and $25, 100000 over all liabilities
1T is since alleged that the report started by an
old bear clique, who have gone in for turn on
Tho bull side.
Asyndicate has taken part of the bonds owned
Dy the oregon Transcontlnental company
amounting to between 5000, 900 and 100000
600. This will relieve the company of a large
part OF the debt which has of late been so bur
S1NnSome. report of the condition of the COM
pany will be made in a few days. 1t Is positively
asserted that the report will show on hand an
aggregate of stock fully equal TO the amount held
at the time of the annual meeting in June last.
ycePresident Cakes, of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company, has teegraphed the follow
ang statemeut OF the operations of the company
.Eor October: Gross earnings, ST 1897, 221; oper-
ating expenses, S614,5S6; rent ais and taxes S53,-
Ill; surplus, $40, 1852. 49, Gross earnings for No
TsnIber are estimated at S1,253, 200; operating
expense, 1851, 700; surplus $650,000.
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THE CITY IN BRIEF.

August Blank and Angie Keehny have been IL
censed to marry.
VIM. Thompson, cOlored, is slated at the sta
tion-house, charged with stealing violin.
The Knights of Father Matthew will give
another of their interesting soeials at Masonic
Hall on next Sunday evening, Dee. 23, for which
an entertaining programme has been prepared
The public are cordially invited.
The Helfrich Saw and Planning Mill Company,
of Evansville, was Incorporated under State
laws yesterday, with capital stock of $780,
600. The directors William Hartig, Alvin
l.. Bennett, Adam Helfrich and William Helf-
rich. s-.. 9.t
Kiigore, the postmaster from Starke county,
charged with the violation of the postal laws
was sentenced to imprisonment in jail for one
year, but the time during which he has been i'm
prisoned awaiting trial was deducted leaving
five months more for him to serve.
The sunday-sehool of the Second Presbyterian
Church will give their Christmas ENTERTAINMENT
on Friday evening of this week. Dec. 81, in the
audience room of the church. Owing TO the in
clemency Of the weather on Sabbath last the
attendance was small Notice ia therefore given
in this way TO each teacher and each scholar, de-
string them to be In attendance at the Sunday
school room at 730 on Friday evening as the
entertainment will commence promptly at 8
O'Clock.
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The ComPany's Answer to McHenrys
Amended Complaint.

The ComPanys Answer to NIcHenry's
Amended Complaint.
CLEVELAND, Dec 1.-THE separate ans wer of
the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad to
tho amended bill of complaint of James Nc
Henry ct al against the New York, Pennsyva-
MIA d Ohio and the Erie was filed this afternoon
in the United States Court. The answer denies
that McHenry is a citizen of Great Britain, and
says he is citizen of Pennsylvania 1t says the
Atlantic & Great Western was built by James
McHenry as contractor, he receiving In payment
all the bonds and shares issued and that he had
a secret and fraudulent contract with the en-
gineer of the Consolidated Divisional Com
panies, by which the engineer shared with Nc
Henry the profits OF the road McHenry
elected his own boards of directors, controlled
the corporations and settled all his accounts
with himself. He mortgaged the road to the
extent of more than 5000 ,000 many millions
more than the cost value of the road, which
never paid its maintenance until defend
ant obtained title. The great mass of foreign
creditors were ignorant of the value of the prop
erty, and were falsely told by McH1ssS- that
the failure to raise money was due to lnlsman-
agement. The answer is volumnOus.
McHenry filed lengthy deposition, in which
he claimed to be the owner of $l5, 900, 900 stock
of the road. He said he had been deprived of
control of the road by fraudulent MEANS hun
klreds of shares OF fictitious stock having been
voted In order to deprive the legitimate stock
holders of their rights.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Operations of the New York Central and Atoh.

Operations of tine New York Central and Atch-
ison Topeka g. Santa Fe the PastYear.
The annual report of the operations of the
Aschison, Topeka & Santa Fe road for the year
esding June So 1888, has been made to the
railroad commissioners. The common stock OF
1Ebe company is $56,913,25O; stock issued for
dividends, branch roads, ETC., $50, 125, $50;
beaded debt, $685. 1875; total debt, $95, 28S, $50.
"a cost TO construct the line $50 744 901; the av-
eTage cost and equipment per mile having been
$s9,285. The total freight tonange of the year
was 2,100, 400; number OF passengers carried,
767 1906 total earnings for the year, sos, $685.
tosal operating expenses, 81, 157,3l4; average
operating expenses per mile, "a, ITO; average
gross earnings per mile, So, O43; average net
warnings per mile, S4, 103. The policy of Pres-
dent Garrett, of the Baltimore 81 Ohio ROAD, of
'usHng part of the profits OF the main stem to ac
quire these feeders has frequently been criti-
Cised with more or less of severely, Int the re-
suits have Justified the policy of the manage
Hnegt. An examination of the annual report
shows that these tribu taries have now in a dull
year. been more than self-su staining, giving a
HeeIing of confidence for the present, and a GER
Fatnty of vast augmentation of profile in years
p8 heunteous harvest.
The Abatement of operations of the New York
Central & Hudson River railroad for the fiscal
year -uding Sept. 80 1893, shows the cross
earnings OF the system to have been S33,77O,-
y2l. 81. the largest in It's history. They exceed
The gross earnings of 1882 by SO, l4l $40 A.
13e total expenses for the year were $50, $780,
S94 %, the net earnings being therefore 3d.
OZO,IZI.I9. inc STOCK and debt OF the CON-
pAny, as compared with last year, Is given as
follows:
1882. 1892
Capital stock 1886, 428, 800 90 500. 428 500 90
Funded debit. AZ AIS, 033 SO 1897, 233 SO
Unfunded debt. 5,254,369,93 4,689,24271
Total funded AID
nnfunded debt 53,727,4O3 20 54,686476 o.
r. The value of the road and equipments is fixed
nj $114,T31 ,9l7; total length OF track, 1855;
canipment-655 locomotives and %, lat cars of
all kinds The salary account was So 401, POS;
assets amount to S160, 241 ,975. OF the earn
1ngs. SS,256, S43.09 was from passenger busi-
news, $50, ABB 10 from freight. and $780,
468 y from mails. Dividends paid were
SLl4S,1 1872; the average profit per share was
$s.1S against S642 in 1882. The expenses in
1873 were 81 A per cent. of the gross earnings,
as against 90 80 per cent in the previous year.
The total number of passengers carried was
1O,746925, an increase of 437,946 over last
year. The increase wholly in way passen-
gers, as there was loss or 38,9l2 in the num-
Der OF through passengers carried There was
= decrease of 437953 tons Ia the total freight
tonnage, the major part of the loss being in the
through freight business.
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A Peouliar Damage suit.

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. Insult has been COM
menced mere in the United States Circuit Court
by Mrs. Minnie Heinreich, who claims to be a
wealthy resident of Minnesota. against the Pull
man Palace-car Company for the recovery OF
$25, 800 personal damages. While recently on
her way to Oregon, via the Northern Pacific,
plaintiff met with serious accident, which is
alleged to be the fault of the company The
porter passed through the sleeper occupied by
the woman with loaded pistol in his hand
The weapon slipped, fell, and was discharged,
the ball passing through plaintiffs leg. inictlng
a very ser1ons wound, The damages are claimed
for great bodily suffering, delay and expenses
occasioned by the accident The case involves
the vexed question of the extent of the liability
OF corporations for the acts OF employees, and
creates muCl iDterast
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Mrs. James P. Caldwell rode on a free pass the
other day, from Mexico Mo-, to Leadvile, Co..
to see her son. This pass was given to her hus-
band and herself twenty years ago, and is life
pass for both, and is good for trip over any
railroad ia the United States. It was given to
them by the North Missouri Railroad Company
after they had respectfully declined the COM
pany's offer of gift of $4,000. How the COM
pany happened TO offer the couple, who were
Well-te-do in the world, gift of $4,000 is told
by the Hanaibal Journal: In January, 1861, the
confederate Oushwhackers set fire to the bridge
over YOung's creek and Mr.. Caldwell got out of
bed in season to check the flames with a pail of
water. Then he hurried to Centralia TO give the
alarm, leaving his wife and children TO keep the
fire in cheek 1t was a bitter cold night, and Mrs
Caldwell had to wrap her children in blankets;
but despite the cold they worked and eXtin-
guished the flames. The bridge, however, had
been reduced to mere shell. Mrs. Caldwell
knew that iC could not bear up a train hat was
almost due, and, hurrying to her house, she got
"a lantern and stood on the. bridge in the biting
blasts OF a January night until the train, with
its freight of human life, had been warned and
stOnDed.
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PERSONAL.

II. A. Reed, Of Orleans, is at the Deuison.
r. d. Evans, of Liberty, is at the Grand Hotel.
A. d. Martin, of Cincinnati, Ia at the Denison.
]. A. MEG regor, of Columbus, is at the Grand
Hotel.
sewell Coulson of Sullivan, is at the Bates
House.
]. W. Campbell, OF Boonville, ia at the Bates
House.
r. r. Morris, of Richmond, is at the Bates
House.
Major II. P. Barton, OF Chicago. is at the
DeBison.
s. 8. Whitehead, of Marshall, H., is at tho
Bates House.
Hon. d. W. Voorhees,, of rerre Haute is at the
Bates House.
Colonel f. H, Address, of Lafayette, is at the
Grand Hotel
G. j. Grammer, Evansville; W. NJ. Marsh and
wife, Muncie; William Mack, Terre Haute
Frank Stafford, Auburn, N. Y; c. W. Greene
Frankfort John Stephenson, BooRville; john A.
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Instruments filed for record in the Recorders
office Of Marion County. Indiana. for "a hours
ending at 5 o'clock P, NJ Dec. II, 1888. as fur
nished by ELLIOTT Il BUTLER. abstracters OF
titles. room No. 3. HJna Building:
Elizabeth f. Phipps and husband to
Jane A. Cotton, lot 16, in Traub's
west addition to Indianapolis .-....- 1925. 90
Clarissa e. W0Odson to Lucinda Nc
Cormick, lots and 6, IN square 4,
in brakes addition to Indianapolis 100000
Elizabeth Wilcox and husband to
Daniel Monninger, lot 90 in Samuel
j. Patterson's addition to Indlanap-
VIM. c. Soper and wife to Joseph II.
Taihert, lot IL and part OF lot 10, in
McCarty's second west side addition
to Indianapolis. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $4,000
James W. Watt, guardian, to William
GLADDEN., part of the south half OF
the west half of the northwest quar-
ter of section 8, township Is north,
of range east. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10000
Conveyances, S; consideration. 81, 7S5. 90
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The New St. Louis BRIDGE.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. 1.-THE incorporators of
the Chain of Rocks Bridge Company. whose pur-
pose is TO build bridge across the Mississippi
river at the location known as the Chain of
Rocks. several miles above the present bridge,
have elected the following directors: william
Glasgow, IT., James P. Card, John L. Ferguson,
Amos F. Hoffer, Thomas Howard, Erastus Wells,
John Edwards The officers for the ensuing
year are as follows: President, Thomas How
ard; vicepresident, William Glasgow, jr secre.
tary, A. F. Hoffer; treasurer, John L. Ferguson,
Two millions of stock have been subscribed for.
An act of Incorporation will be applied for at
once, and as soon as Congress gives permission
to build construction will commence.
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PERSONAL, LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Promotion of Master Mechanic Stevens, of
Eikhart-The West Shore To Be Opened on
Jan. 1.
The Big Four yesterday completed new iron
fruse bridge at Wadron, where the heavy freight
" ok. in which the old bridge was destroyed,
o. rurred.
Colonel Fred. DeFuniak has recently refused an
offer to become general manager of a prominent
southern road at a salary of $40 900 year. He
prefers to remain citizen of Louisville
The Michigan Ceutrars new transfer ferry
boat, the largest and most perfect ever CON
etructed. will DO launched at the WyandOtte
lon->Els yard, near Detroit, today. THIS man.
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Superior Court.

Room No. l-Hon. Napoleon B. Taylor, Judge.
David II. HOughtaling ct al. VS. Edward G.
Bagley; account Judgment against defendant
Tor S97.
Henrie Leppe ct al. VS.. Leonidas c. Loudon ct
al; suit to enforce mechanics lien. plaintiffs
dismiss,
JohE Kidd, administrator, ETC., vs.. Charles T.
Gilmore; damages.
Room No. 2-Hou. D. W. Howe. Judge.
James Mitchell VS.. City of indianapolis; suit
for damages; demand $4,000. On trial by jury
HOratio q. Newcomb ct al Alfred W.
Morgan ct al. Finding. Judgment for plaintiffs
for So, 400 so and attachment sustained.
Room No. S-Hon. Horace Speed Judge pro tenn.
John Florea VS.. John 2. Meyers; suit to recoY-
err On trial by Jury,
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LORD & THOMAS, of Chicago, the leading news
desk of every general advertiser i'll the country.
IL combines an agate, nOnpariel and an inch
measure, ruler, check and paper cutter, made of
sheet metal formed as to combine utility,
beauty and strength, and is an artistic piece OF
work. They will furnish 1t free to all general
advertisers, and to others wishing it upon re-
ceipJ of ten cents in postage.
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The county having the largest production OF
wheat was st. Joseph, where there was an aver
age yield of 1877 bushels per acre. The produc-
tion OF corn was largest in Posey county, which
had an average of SO. 2 bushels per acre. The
average in the State was about % bushels per
acre. The production of tobacco larger in
Warrick than in ally other county, where 2,646.
800 pounds was raised. Statistics gathered re-
gardlng the drainage of land show that there are
now IL, 497, s14 rods of drain tile in use in the
State, while last year there were 9,824,297 rods.
1t is evident that there are several mistakes in
the foregoing table, but it is probable that these
may be founG TO be clerical errors merely and
easily corrected
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A Disputed Crossing.

} YOUNGSTOWN, O.. Dec. 17.-Employes of the
New York, Pennsylvania Sc Ohio at noon tore
np the track Of the Pittsburg, Cleveland To-
ledo railroad at MarketsIreet crossing. Two
hundred p. & T. employees soon arrived, drove
of the N. Y, P. & o. men, and relaid the track
No one was seriously injured. The P. c. & t Is
q new road being built by Chauncey Andrews
from Akron, o., TO New Castle, Pa. 1t is being
fought vigorously by other roads, Tut will be
completed this week.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
ELKHART, Ind, Dec. 17.-G. w. Stevens, mas
ter mechanic of the railroad shops here. has
been promoted to the position of general master
mechanic of the Lake Shore & Michigan South
eru railway. W. S. Gilmore takes the position
yacated bv Stevens
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An elaborate art reception and musicale, to be
given by the young ladies of the indianapolis
Seminary, has been arranged for this evening
ana will take place at the seminary. The pro
sramme includes musical numbers and recitS
tions by the pupils, who will be assisted by Pro
fessor Pearson aud others,
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Rinai FIRTH Election.

Abraham Lodge No. So, l. o. b. B., has elected
officers as follows President, Jacob Kahn; vice.
president, L. 1. Mossler secretary, ]. NJ. King;
financial secretary, II. Bamberger;, treasurer.
Meyer Lipshitz; warden, L. Ciener; outside
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guard, SolOTlon Mosser; monitor, Henry Rauh;
trustees, J. Mitchell, Fl. Cohen and s. B. Rauhi
representatives to district grand lodge No. ,,
which meets at Evansville in MAY, 1884, Samuel
B. Rauh, c. B. Fei0leman, l. n. Helms.
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WHITE MOUNTAINS, N. ia. L. Barron, of
the renowned Twin Mountain House and FABIAN
House, who employs hundred and fifty
horses, accords his preference to st. Jacobs OIL
over all other medicines as cure for pain In
man or beast.
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CROP STATISTICS.
a Comparative Statement of the Acreage
and Yield of Staple Crops in
1882 and 1883.

comparative statement by the Chief of the
Bureau of Statistics, compiled from the reports
received from every township in the State, gives
the acreage and yield of the different crops IN
1882 and 1888 as follows:
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New Freight and trunk Line

The Buffalo, New York & Pennsylvania road.
recently consolidated, has made arrangements
for the operation of a new freight line, to begin
just as soon as the cars can be obtained. Trains
will be run from Chicago on the Pennsylvania
lines and New Castle Junction; thence over the
N. Y, p. & B. to Olean and Belfast. and from
that point over the Lackawanna & Pittsburg TO
Perkinsyille. where connection will be had with
the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western for the
seashere. The agreements for the line have been
signed by the different roads named, and all
that now remains to be done is TO get ready and
compete for business. trunk line is also
arranged which will begin with the Baltimore &
Ohio out of Chicago, the Wheeling & Lake Erie
TO Akron, the Pittsburg, Cleveland & Toledo TO
New Castle, the Buffalo, New York & Philadel-
phia from New Castle to Olean, and thence over
the Rochester division of that road to the West
Shore Junction, where connection will be made
with the West Shore The Ptttsburg, Cleveland
Toledo has positively been leased by the Balti-
more d Ohio. This may be put down as fixed
fact, no matter how often and by whom it may
be hereafter contradicted. This accounts for the
B. " O.'s cOnnec ton with the new trunkline
scheme,
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moth boat will be put in service between De-
troit and Windsor, and will greatly facilitate
the business Of the Michigan Central Railroad
Company.
towards changing the gauge OF the cincinnati
Southern from four feet to standard. 1t Will re-
quire special acts of the States Of Tennessee and
Kentucky.
Owing to the rate complications in New York.
scalpers in that city report an excellent bust
ness One OF them says they Will always De
found selling tickets at least hfty cents lower
than the trunk-line agents.
E. ]. Kelly, local freight agent of the c., l., st.
l.. Z. In Lafayette, has been appointed agehG
OF that road at Kankakee. The office Of local
agent al Lafayette is abolished and A. NJ. Slim
son will attend TO the same.
]. P. Smith, c., l., St. l.. & c. agent at Aroma,
ILL.,, has been appointed agent at Zlonsvllle, lnn
vice c. W. Armstrong resigned. John Galbreth.
of the train dispatchers Office at Indianapolis,
mas been appointed agent at Aroma.
Paper car-whee!s are now to be introduced ON
the construction OF fifteen frut-cars, to De sup
piled with these wheels, which Will run over the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, for California fruit
business.
George NJ. Robson, ex-Secretary of the Navy,
has been offered by the Reading authorities the
presidency of the Reading system in New Jer-
sey. Mr.. Robson has not yet slgnlneu MS &C
ceptance.
An important item to the State of Illinois is
the amount of taxes paid to 1t by the Illinois
gross earnings of the road to be paid into the State
treasury on business done during the ak months
ending Oct. 81, 1888, was $206,63S.3
Messrs. White, Hobbs and Netzell, of the Bee
line, Big Four and Vandalia, respectively, con-
stltute a committee to make necessary cOrrec-
tons In the new corn rates to the interior North
ern points from this city, which are announced
to go in % effect on Jan. l, If they found to
work injustice to shippers at any point.
The Columbus & Northwestern railroad which
was abandoned last spring and put into the
hands of a receiver. has been revived, having
been purchased by New York syndicate. The
road Will be a western outlet for the Ohio Cen
tral. passing through Madison and Champaign
counties, o., and Fort Wayne, Ind.
Official announcement is made that the New
York, Buffalo Il West Shore road will be open di-
rectly from New York to the International
bridge at Buffalo and TO the suspension bridge
at Niagara Falls on the opening of the road on
Jan. 1. The tracks west OF Syracuse have been
so arranged as to enable the company to do a
very large business without the use Of so much
OF the second track remains yet to be lai6.
Inc grading and bridging on the whole road
nave been completed for a double track, and
at the end of this month not more than seventy
miles of the second track will remain to be laid
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Hon Pierce Norton. Judge.
State vs.. Elijah Marrs grand larceny. Found
entity and sentenced to two years In peniten-
GiarY,
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Circuit Court.

Hon. Joshua @. Adams. Judge
Matter ofinsanity of Almon P. Loftln. Under
consideration