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The evening times., 1900-03-06
BEATING A BLIND GIRL.
Extremely Cruel Treatment Alleged
Against New Yorker.

NEW YORK. March ernst MUIR Of
So Butler Street, Elizabethport, was ar
rested yesterday charged with beating his
wife. and committed TO the county jail for
one month.
For at least three years Murr's neigh
bors have been shocked by the treatment
Of his daughter Lena. who is eighteen and
weak minded. She is completely blind the
result. il is said. Of the punishment 10
which she has been subjected Only the
fear inspired by MUIR, who IS a man OF
violent temper and fond Of drinking. deter
red the neignbors long ago from calling
the attention OF the authorities TO the ease.
Il now appears that the girls mother has
delusions. and steps viii be taken 10 have
both properly cared for.
MUIR is an expert machinist and owns
the little tWo-story cottage in which the
family lives MIS- Elsa MUIR was in an
insane asylum several years ago. Some
times she is under the impression that she
is the daughter Of the Emperor of Ger
many. The other child. Elsa, is a pretty
lttl girl OF four years.
The neighborhood was reused yesterday
morning by the shrieks Of the blind girl
and BY an outburst Of flames from an attic
room in which the unfortunate creature
was confined. Murr put out the FIRE. and
a few minutes later Mrs. MUIR ran from
the house pursued by her husband He
overlook her and struck her down with a
club. Before he could repeat the blow he
was arrested by Constable Sailer-
When a reporter went TO the house Mrs.
/ MUIR was greatly excited and declared her
/ name was Elsa Rae and that she was not
| Murr's wife but his sister-in-law. She
( said MUIR had repeatedly beaten her and
! her daughter. Then her talk became in
| coherent. and catching up her youngest
child she ran down the street and disap-
! peared.
/ Lena stood behind her mother as she
/ talked. The child was wretchedly clad
/ having no shoes and only tattered stock
| ings to cover her feet. She had bucket
and cropping her way along the wall Of the
/ house she went TO a well from which she
! made piteous attempts 10 draw water.
"Oh. I so cold!" she repeated over and
/ over again. In reply TO questions she
/ stammered; 4 beaten always. always. and
| l always cold. He knocked out my eyes
| with a poker last week and beat me
/ See, and she showed a witheTed arm GOV.
cred with black and blue spots. She said
she did the washing and cooking FOR IN,
/ family.
Neighbors say the girl, when not a
| work, usually has been confined in a wood
shed behind the house, and that hardly
| day has passed that she was not beatei
| either by her father OF mother. She ha
been demented from birth. but becam,
| blind a few years ago. Physicians thinl
! her sight may be restored.
The evening times., 1900-03-06
FTNDFD DERT.

The outstanding = per cent Equipment Bonds
sf the Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad Company
which would have matured October list, 1900.
having been purchased and cancelled, the Gen
srll Mortgage 3 - per cent bonds OF that Com
pany beariug date July lst, 1890, now constitute
the only lien upon its property.
Under the terms Of the General Mortgage oi
the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad Company
. new series Of s.. CO. 900 was authorized by the
Company, bearing interest at l-2 per cent, run.
ming fifty years from August lst, 1879. anu
designated Series 'D'' TO he used IN payment
for betterments to its road and in the redemption
Of prior lien bonds As the last o. these prior
lien securities mature November lst, 1900. the
General Mortgage bonds will then become the
only lien upon this property.
As a.. .s63, 900 Of the Consolidated Mortgage
bonds issued by the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and
St Louis Railway Company will mature August
lst. 1900, IL deemed wise 10 take advantage OF
the condition of the market and provide for their
payment through the issue Of - per cent.
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and st. Louis
Railway Company. These bonds are part Of q
series Of Sl2,OO 600 designated Series -, and
running fifty years from August lst. 1890. OF the
bonds maturing August lst. S3,sil,O00 were out
Standing at the close OF the year.
The amount Of bonds issued under the Con
solidated Mortgage Of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati
Chicago and 81. Louis Railway Company outstand
ing December SIst, lSg9 was $50. SIS. 900.
The outstanding frst mortgage per cent bond.
of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Com
psny, amounting 70 100000, having mstured
October 1st. 1899, were, in pursuance Of the agree
Inents heretofore made with that Company, guar
snteed principal and interest by you Company
The evening times., 1900-03-06
TRANSFERRED THE cUTICLE.
4 Successful Skin-GrHftinE Operation
Performed in Pennsy


Performed in Pennsy
HAZLETON. Pa. March 6.-The opera
tion Of skin grating was performed at the
Miners Hospital here under peculiar cir
cumstances- A young Hungarian lad nam
ed Markaline furnished the cuticle. and
boy named Bootze is the lad to whose back
it was transplanted.
One day last week young Bootze joined
number Of companions near the breaker
where they were Willing away their idle
hours. A mischievous boy had lighted
cigar, and this he dropped down Bootze's
back. His oily shirt became ignited. and
before he was relieved Of the burning gar
meut his back was burned so badly that
the physicians at the hospital saw no hope
for his recovery.
To heal the wounds the skin Of another
was necessary. On Saturday the cutting
and grating was done. Drs. LathTop and
Gregory did the work assisted by a nurse
Markaline. who is a spIeIdid specimen OF
physical manhood. barred his arm to the
shoulder, The nurse lifted the skin from
the flesh with an instrument. while Dr.
Gregory snipYed 1t off. The man did not
even whimper. In fact. he was more stolid
than the operators themselves. Before the
doctors stopped they had taken thirty
patches OF skin from the Austrian and put
them in position on the back OF the boy.
The boy viii need about sixty patches in
all to cover the exposed parts. Markaline
will submit to more cutting and the bal
ance viii be made up from others who
have volunteered.
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and eztondcd at 3I-2 per cent. until July Isl,
1871.
The Cleveland Akron and Columbus Railway.
which forms a connection between Hudson. on
your Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad. and
Columbus. Ohio, on the Pan Handle Road and
also through its Dresden Branch connects with
the latter road at TrinWay, was purchased in vour
interest during the past year. The traffic of this
line being naturally tributary to your system and
its construction having for that reason been orig
inally promoted IN your interest. it was thought
advisable when an opportunity offered 10 acquire
its ContrSl at a reasonable price. to do so In
order 10 bring its debt within the earning ca
pacity Of the property and put IL in condition 10
move its traffic effectively and economically 4
plan Of reorganization has been prepared in which
the cooperation Of an the shareholders has been
invited.
BY virtue Of agreement under date Nav l..
1899. certain amendments have been made in the
lease Of the Little Miami Railroad 10 the Pitts
burgh Cincinnati. Chicago aud ~. Louis Railway
Company which were deemed to be 10 the interest
OF all parties. These amendments mainly covered
the retirement of sectional bonds that had ma
tured. and the acceptance, in payment for bet
tcrments and improvements made by the lessee,
Of 3iz per cent nOn-convertible bonds in the place
Of per cent bonds convertible into the stock
Of the Little Miami Railroad Company.
The number Of tons Of freight moved on the
lines west Of Pittsb Tgh g. POS s02. increase
Of u.955, $50 The number OF passengers carried
was ls,s5i sse, an increase OF l,112,930, as com
pared with 1893
The gross earnings Of all lines east and west
OF Pittsburgh for the year Sl52 100 lO6.G .G3,
operating expenses SiO6 so. .9ss and net earnings
s45,662 llSGS, an increase in gross earnings.
pared with 1895, Of Sl6O3S S34 81 and an increase
in net earnings Of - .202. .70S.45 There were
s0s,sSe,ne tons Of freight moved, being an in
The evening times., 1900-03-06

4 further issue Of Car Trust securities was made,
consisting of Si3O. 900, SeTie, ID, Pcnusy .vaula
Rolling stock Trust, bearing interest st the rate
Of four per cent. per Jnnum, S5,uoN,u1r SERIES
I'll 90 -" and * Pennsylvania Rolling stock
Trtf,' and - 2sG COO Series "A " '.B." and 'C''
Pcun,y lvania Car Trust, bearing interest 40 the
rate Of 8 II per cent. per anuum. making an AK
Vregate OF SJ.366OGO. There will thus be- fun
nishcd i0r the Iaiu Line 6lj steel gondoias, 2i59
box cars, IglD hopper and j9f long gundOlas,
Northern Central Railway Company, go bon ear;
Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago and 81 Louis Rail
wlv Comuauv TOO steel gcnd0as $40 box cars.
so long goudaiss. and 800 fat ears; PennSyl-
vania Company. 400 steel goudolaS and 200 box
cars Allegheny valley Railway Company, $50
long g0ud0ias: and Toledo. Peoria. and Western
Railway Company, 300 box cars and 20 stock cars,
will be substituted for equipment having a ca
plcitv of $4,000 pounds or less Through this
course and the current replacement Of vacant
numbers hy new equipment oi standard capacity,
that portion Of the rolling stock OF your system
which does not earn sJIfiCieut revenue to Justify
ITS retention in service viii practically be elm
mated during tnis and the following year.
The total number Of Car Trust cars now in ser
vice Is p 35l and the Car Trust certificates out
standing December 3lst ls9g. aggregate - 23 00O.
The number a tons OF freight moved on the
three grand divisions cast of Pittsburgh and EHe
in 1870 was 100 700 u7 an increase Of Is S 22. OF
Is - per cent; the number of passengers was
. 02q g22, an increase Of 2.06I 5j6, OF 5.15 per
cent. as compared with 1895.
The other railroad companies cast Of Pittsburgh
and Erie In which YOUR Company Is interested
show satisfactory results. Detailed statements ot
their operations viii be- found IN their respective
annual reports, as well as IN the pamphlet report
Of your Company.
The evening times., 1900-03-06
A NEW GRAIN ELEVATOR.
Railway improvements at Newport
News Nearly Complete


News Nearly Complete.
NEWPORT NEWS. Va. March ct IS
beginning TO look as if extensive improve
ments under way here by the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway will be completed and
ready for operation in four months, at the
longest. These Improvements will cost in
the neighborhood oi $1,000, 900. The 1.0OO.
OOO-husheI grain elevator is now about one-
18TH completed. workmen having raised
the structure about forty feet above the
ground This building viii be taller than
the present elevator. which has a capacity
OF 1.75O. 600 bushels. but fl will not be as
large in other dimensions The working
capacity OF the new one viii be .000 600
bushels. The capacity Of /. $50 900 bushels
given for the old elevator is its utmost ca
pae!ty.
On the water front opposite the new
elevator and some distance below Pier Z,
is Pier 5, which will be one Of the busiest
at the terminals when IL is in operation
On the south side Of the pier above the
house is a large grain conveyer. which Will
connect the new elevator with this pier
That part OF the conveyer on the pier has
been completed as far as the timber work
is concerned and the connecting stretch is
now in course Of construction.
On the north side OF the addition 20 Pier
runs a track. on which cars loaded with
/ rough stuff, such as phosphate rock viii
/ be sent out 20 the ships. The large treste
/ approach to the new coal pier, which viii
/ be known as No. 10. is rapidly nearing
! completion. and in a few weeks it viii
/ reach the water front. This pier viii be
! used for supplying the steamships calling
/ here for bunker coal. Between Piers and
+ 10. Pier 8. which viii be a general mer-
! chandise pier with double deck, will be
/ built 1t is reported that work on il viii
I soon be started
The evening times., 1900-03-06
SINKING FTNDS.

Under the provisions of the consolidated mort
gage of the Company, the annual amount set
auart out of the net income for the redemption
81 the outstanding bonds secured by that mort
vag. was s253. $50 Under its provisions 500
Of these securities were purchased and can
c,lled, reducing the funded debt by this amount
There are now S6.407,544gl. in securities and cash.
in the fund foT the redemption Of these bonds
Under the provisions of the four per cent
Equipment Trust Gold Loan. there was paid 90
the trustee during l-g9. for the sinking fund. the
sum Of SI36. 800 The trustee was unable 20 oh
tain any Of the bonds az the price fixed in the
the whole amount has been invested IN additional
equipment.
SECURITIES or OTHER CORPORATIONS.
The entire cost % the securities Of other cor
poratious. now held by your Company, was
SI2O. .362 425 %. The direct revenue received
therefrom was g. 739 500 l5. nearly four per cent.
upon the cost thereof which more than provided
for the interest on your funded debt.
CAR TRUSTS.
The outstanding certificates Of Series "H'' and
- of the Pennsylvania Equipment Trust hav-
ing matured during the year, were paid and can
CeIlcd These series covered 1850 box, 52J long
EoudOlas and 1000 hopper goudola cars in service
ON the PeuuSyivauia Railroad; 200 gondolds sub
leased Co the Pennsylvania Company, 500 box cars
siIhItassd 20 the PittShurg, Cincinnati, Chicago,
and ST Louis Railway Company; and li0 box
cars subleascd % the New York. Philadelphia and
Norfolk Railroad Company, representing in all
3JIj cars. and a total cost of 100000 These
cars have therefore now become the property Oi
the respective lines which contributed to- the cost
thereof
The evening times., 1900-03-06
Causes rIore Diseases in the Human
System than Any Other Poison.
The Great Kidney Remedy, Swamp=ROOt,
Promptly Cures All Uric Acid Troubles.
To Test for Yourself It's Wonderful Curative Properties Every
Reader of The Times May Have Sample Bottle
Sent Absolutely Free by Mail

Science has demonstrated that in a few
days time you brew enough Uric Acid
in your body TO produce death.
Your kidneys are your only salvation.
Because when they are well, they flter
out this deadly poison.
So when your kidneys are weak OF out
Of order you can understand how quickly
your entire body is affected, and how
every organ SENS to fail to do its duty.
Uric Acid causes more sickness and suf-
fering than any other form Of poisoning
II irriJajes the nerves, makes you dizzy
restless. sleepless, and irritable. Causes
rheumatism and neuralgia, pain or dull
ache in the back. joints. and muscles:
makes your head ache and back ache
causes indigestion. stomach. and liver trou-
BILE; you get a sallow. yellow complexion:
makes you feel as though you had heart
trouble; you lack ambition, get weak, and
waste away.
The cure for these troubles Is Dr.
Kilmer's swamp Root, the world famous
kidney remedy.
Il instantly relieves the cOngested over
worked kidneys and gradually brings them
back TO health In taking Swamp Root
you afford natural help 10 nature. for
Swamp Root is the most perfect healer and
gentle aid to the kidneys that is known to
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Healthy kidneys keep down the excess
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swamp Root should al once be taken
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Swamp-ROot is used IN the leading hos
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doctors themselves who have kidney all
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To prove its wonderful efficacy send
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Swamp Root IS so remarkably successful
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The evening times., 1900-03-06
Harmony That Grated.

(From the indianapolis News.)
Two well-known local musicians met in front Of
the Dcnis0n House the other day, and both hands
were instantly extended in broth .ly greeting.
"Ah, professor" Sid one. Glad 70 see you.
Do you know ! have changed the third strain Of
my last sonata? YOu know il used 20 60 like
this: Ra ia ia, DUN, dab. dee. dun, dab dee. -
and while he talked he waved his hand like the
leader Of an orchestra, and his eyes rolled Aeaven-
ward.
''How does il go nowf'
"Dum. dab. dee, dun, dah, dee, ra, IA, IA.
dee dee, dunn"
That will make a big improvement in it,
won't itP'
Certainly, certainly. i am going to play u
at the rehearsal next week
Then they parted, and as the one who had
not made the change in the sonata turned around,
an acquaintance who had heard the conversation
asked:
Is that fellow You haye been talking to crazy p
The evening times., 1900-03-06
Crime in North cnrolInn.

RALEIGH. n. c.. March 6.-The attor-
ney general has completed his summary
of the returns of criminal statistics. This
shows that last year there were in the
State 1857 trials for crime, this being
1872 less than for the year previous.
Whites committed 1896 Of the crimes, OF
90 1-2 per cent. negroes 1874, or AZ 1-2 per
cent. The percentage Of negro population
is about SO 1-2 per cent. Indians COM
mitted IL crimes. Women committed Cos
crimes. There were 5,492 convictions in
these cases, or "a per cent.
The evening times., 1900-03-06
The Tabaseo to BE Dry Docked.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, March 6.-The
United States transport Mcpherson will
go out Of the dry dock at the shipyard
today and the British steamer TabaseO
will go in. The Mcpherson has received
new propeller shaft in place OF the one
which was broken at sea. She win now
proceed to New York, her original destina-
tion. The Tabasco was in collision in the
Chesapeake, near Cape Henry with the
tug Portsmouth. Her propeller was lOOs-
ened and several plates we're stove in.
The Tabssco carries a general cargo from
Baltimore to Rotterdam.
The evening times., 1900-03-06
A BicNcIe RerivnI Nenr.

Manufacturers Of bicycles predict that 1900 is
70 be the greatest year for their business that this
country has ever seen, and they base their pre-
dictions the size OF the orders already received
The West, especially. Is sending in big orders.
Good roads I'm the prairie districts and the pros
perity Of the farms account for IT, While the we'll
paved cities Of the East and West are pretty well
supplied with machines countless farm lads in
the agricultural regions Of the West and South
are having their first experience with the bicycle
and this development Of the trade bids fair 20
reach enormous proportions In 1900. A we'll
known bicycle expert figures that for every mile
OF good road constructed sale Of from ten 90
twenty bicycles in its vicinity be expected.
The evening times., 1900-03-06

Liabilities.
Capital stock. .Sl29 3O5, 500 90
Funded debt Gucludiug mortgages
and ground rCnt-l ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS es--l4-9lo q
Guaranteed stock and bonds Of the
Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. Joy
and Lancaster r. r Co... l,So--5JJ W
Securities received with the lease
Of the e. y. }. r. r. and G.. Co.. 3,2sS'462 -
Extraordinary Expenditure Fund L5oO,OJ W
Current Liabilities:
Pay rolls vouchers, and
traffic balances. .....-.S $, 500 -
Due controlled com
Vauics other than traf-
fc balance. s.......-...I2 Il. .674,2lO %
Interest accrued. MA
tured and unsullgCted.
and divdcnLs uncu
Icrted ................ J .705 952 p
Due Saving Fund, Re
lief Fund, and lusur-
auce Fund ........--- t'i-,s9. 50
Miscellaneous l5bIH-
tic, .................. l.445,574 %
Z5.3u2. 81 80
SipLipp, Funds and Trust Fund ... J.. So .5ll 81
prosf and loss ............. y ss1. .5a3 90
Total ....................... D. 756.g.g g.
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Assets.
Cost q road and equipment. .Sl24. .ll9jt3 %
cost Of securities owned. -.-..... l2O .3 ,g25 o.
Securities received with the lease
Of the L. y. J. r. r. and c. Co.. 3,2S3,4 462 p
Current Assets.
Due from controlled
companies for adj
vances for Construc-
ti0u and other pur-
poses ..............- $40. COS %
Due from agents and
supcrintendcnts --... 4,2Ss,S53 81
Bills receivable and
miscellaneous assets f.9ll.iil l6
Materials ........ 3741 sos 81
Cash ................lO .lO515,24O -
--- s7.2S5.5l9 40
Insurance Fund .................. g,19.5o7 s.
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BY order OF the Board.
a. J. CASSATT, President.

Stockholders obtain Of application
by TO
The evening times., 1900-03-06

Sinking Fund. Trust F'.ud, and
Insurance Fund ....-.-...........
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-12-28
S''WHO STRUCK BILLY PATTERSON. Z
Attacked by a Mob While Riding
on a Street Car==Crowd Dis
persed by tile Police.
NOT: A. SINGLE PASSENGER CARRIED BY CAR LINE.

take the stalled car to the barn. The
strikers deplorc the assault as much as
any one. aa.. .6
Eleven Cars Moved.
Eleven cars were moved to-day. but
not more than SIX mt one time. Az far
as Is known not 4 single passenger was
carried. Some strangers who boarded
n car on Lacl,awanna avenue were In
duccd TO get off and accept free ride
In one OF the busses which the strikers
maintain for just such Il purpose. -t
Twenty three OF the dfty-three men
who came from New York last night,
returned to-day. Only eleven OF them
reached the company's office. Tho
others ARE scattered about The city.
Provisions for the Imported men ar
rived from Philadelphia. The local
business men refuse to sell TIM COM
pany nny supplies. Tho letter carriers
have hired busses at their own expense
nud viii not ride on the cars hereafter.
( Two men from Wllliamsport. one from
Sunbury and one from Blnghamton.
were turned back by the Birlkcrs to-
day. The company sccurnd six men
last nIght from St. Louis who refused
10 listen 10 tho strikers cntrcatlea
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-12-28
First Blow Delivered in Scranton
Street Car Strike Received
by the Superintendent

SCRANTON; Pa. Dec. 27.-"Who
struck Billy Patterson" is now Scran-
toms relgtiing mystery. The first blow
struck In the street car mens' strike
was received this evening by William
PATTERSON. the new superintendent OF
the Scranton Railway Company.
Transfers blocked the car he was
cunning and boys and street urchlns
assaulted It with potatoes stolen from
an adjacent freight car. When the
trolley car reached strike headquarters.
the strikers boarded II and attempted
to take OF the crew. Some one pulled
superintendent Patterson from the car
ana as soon M he landed on the pave
inent nc was dealt blow on the heud
With fist or club that Knocked or his
nat ana cnuned him 10 reel .
Two strIf"rs, Edward and Joseph
Pentley,. burly brothers, rushed the
suprrlntcnden, Into saloon, protecting
MN rom the crowd with great dtHicul-
W and barring the entrance TO glye the
superintendent tins to escape by the
rear door.
INC other strikers helped tho three
policemen dlsprrse tho crowd and also
"e'ped the trolley company officials to
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-12-28
''UNCLE JOSIE J.
And One 81 His Policemen ,,, 81 Suspended aGr q,

And One Of His Policemen Suspended
by Mayor Turner = Reformers
Al "scrapping" Among Themselves. n
Special Dispatch TO the Intelllgenccr.
& PARKERsBURG, w. Va, Dec. 27.-
On Christmas night, J. ?. Wilson, a
we'll known oil man was arrestelty Po-
liceman Mounts. On the, charge OF dis
orderly conduct, IA crowd OF his friends
followed him to police headquarters,
where he began abusing the officer, and
the latter struck him with his mace.
His friends interfered, and a general
melee cnsued, participated In by Coun-
Gilman T. L. Shields, and Chief of Po-
lice Cook. commonly known as ''uncle
Josie" In the mlx-up Mounts was
rather severely handled. e
At last nights council meeting,
Shields preferred charges OF conduct
unbecoming an officer against Officer
Mounts, and Chief Cook. as the result
OF which both were suspended BY Mayor
Turner to-day. The. affair has created
quite q stir and sensational develop
ments are expected at the investigation!
which will take place before the police
committee tomorrow morning. n