Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1886 — RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

Under a decree of foreclosure, the Havana, Rantool and Eastern Railway, seventy-six miles in length, was sold at auction by tlio Marshal at Springfield, 111., for $100,003. At a meeting held in Atlanta by the Southern Passenger Association it was resolved that no more commissions on tickets bo paid. Somo of the roads will thus save $50,000 per annum. A committee of leading citizens of Omaha has requested the Northwestern Road to construct an iu dependent line from that city to Scribner, or some other .available point on its Nebraska extensions. 7 ’