Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1887 — RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

The Illinois Central has purchased the Champaign and Havana Road A contractor is looting over the territory lying between Duluth and Port Arthur in the interest of American capitalists, who intend to bu Id a railway for grain traffic. The Atlantic and Danville Road, fiftyfive miles m length, has been purchased by Senator Plumb, and will soon be extended to I|anvillp, Va. The Vanderbilts have declared dividends of 2 par cent, each on the Michigan Central and Lake Shore Boads, and Iper cent, ou Canada Southern. Stephenson Burke was elected P e3ident of the Bee Line Road, and a surplus of $105,060 over all charges was reported, but no dividend was declared. The Pennsylvania Company has arranged to heat two hundred of its freight cars with oil stove?. .II I : t