Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1886 — RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

The Illinois Central Road is making contracts at Freeport for bridge material for a line thence to Madison, Wisconsin. The Rock Island will run three harvest excursions via the Albert Lea route under the following conditions: Tickets to be sold Aug.. 18, Sept. 8 and 29, to the following points and at the following rates from Chicago: Elkton, Dak., and return, 811; Watertown, Dak., and return, sl3; La Moure, Dak., aud return, sl7; Jamestown, Dak., and return, sl9; Bismarck, Dak., and return, S2O; Dickinson, Dale, and return, $22; Crookston, Minn., and return, sl7; Grand Forks, Minn., aud return, $17.53; Devil’s Lake, Dak., and return, $18.50. Tickets to be limited to twenty days from date of issue. A mortgage of $9,000,000 is being recorded in the Illinois counties touched by the reorganized Toledo, St Louis and Kansas City Railroad in favor of the American Trust Company and Joseph E. McDonald of Indianapolis. The money is to be used for altering the road to standard gauge and paying pressing debts. The Paramore narrow-gauge track, leading from Cairo into Texas, is being widened for seven hundred miles, anl it is probable that close relations will be established with tho Illinois Central.