Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1887 — RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

The Missouri Pacific officials have under consideration an extension northward from Omaha to Yankton, with branches into the Elkhorn territory. The continuous wrangle with southern railway lines over the freight on pig-iron to Chicago has made the pool roads decide to establish arbitrary rates from the Ohio river. Citizens of Dlinois, Kentucky, and Texas have secured at Springfield a license to incorporate the Chicago, Paducah and New Orleans Railroad Company, with a capital stock of $10,000,000. They propose to lay tracks from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River. A Boston syndicate has taken sll,000,000 in 4 per cent bonds of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Road at 95J£ They are a first mortgage on 900 miles of new track A monument to soldiers who fell in the war for the Union is about to be placed in the public square at Burlington, Wisconsin. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature of Texas requiring railroads to give thirty days’ notice of the discharge of employes or reduction of their wages, and also requiring laborers to give a month’s notice of a strike.