Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1886 — RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

At the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Robert Harris was re-elected President The Illinois Midland Railroad was sold at Springfield, 111, under a decree of the United States Court The road is 141 miles long, and brought $1,120,250, of which $332,000 will bo paid in bonds of the road. The Borgs, of Now York, who represent the stockholders, were tho purchasers. All of the Northwestern roads will reduce passenger fares to three cents per mile Oct. 15.