Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1887 — RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

There is little doubt that control of the Dubuque and Sioux City Road has been secured by the Illinois Central, and that notice of the termination of the lease will be given on April 1. The officials of the Atchison Road let contracts for 4,800 freight cars for the Chicago division, to be delivered during the latter half of this year. . Locomotives to the number of 148 have been ordered, as also eighty passenger cars. The Chicago Railroad Association positively refused to issue half-fare permits to members of the Salvation Armv. It is rumored in St. Louis that Jay Gould is backing the projected Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota Railroad, designed to connect the coal fields of Dakota with New Orleans.