Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1886 — RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

Elijah Smith, President of the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville Road, is said to be at work on a scheme for a through route between Chicago and Cincinnati. It is stated that tho Baltimore and Ohio Directors have under consideration a plan lor the purchase of tho bonds of the Erlanger system in the Southwest and the transfer of the lease of the Cincinnati Southern Ro'd. The withdrawal of the limited trains between Chicago and S 3 Paul will still leave twelve solid passenger traius each way daily. Tho Minnesota and Northwestern Road has put on a stock train which makes tho run between Chicago and St. Paul in twenty-four hours? The Lehigh Valley Kailway Company bus awards l a contract for a mo.inter trcstlo at South Chicago, covering 100x9.0 feet of ground, to cost SIOO,QOO, and be finished in seventy days. Work is about to commence on a railway from Now York to Boston, contracts having been awarded for tlie track from tho former city to Danbury. A syndicate lias subscribed for $1,000,000 in first-mortgago bond c About one-half the claims for damages aris ng out of the Rio disaster have been settled by tho Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Road. A New York “drummer” lias put in n claim for the loss of a new trunk and sow quarts of wh : sky. S. H. 11. Clarke has been appointed to the Vice Prosill ncy of tho Missouri Pacific Road, in place of 11. M. Hnxie. deceased. The Canadian Pacific Company have signod a can root with the Poston and Lowell Road by which the former secures a winter terminus in Boston.