Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1886 — RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

Robert Garrett has been re-elected President of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The Texas railroads, with two thousand car-loads of beeves awaiting transportation, complain that their cars are detained or used by the roads about Chicago and St Lou s. Announcement is made that Mr. C. P. Huntington will have secured control of tho Illinois and St Louis Road before New Year’s; that he will then extend it to Cincinnati, with a branch to Louisville, and will be able to make it connect with the Chesapeake and Ohio L : ne. The Missouri Pacific directors have declired the regular quarterly dividend of 1% per cent, payable Jam 3. A dispatch from Alton claims that tho Chicago and Pekin Road was purchased by the Vanderbilts for the Bee Line extension to Kansas City, in connection with the Missouri Central bridge at Alton. It is asserted that C. P. Huntington is negotiating for control of tho Illinois and St. Louis Hoad, with thirty-four miles of main track and the most desirable terminal grounds in East St Louis.