Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1887 — AILROAD INTELLIGENCE [ARTICLE]

AILROAD INTELLIGENCE

The Illinois Central Load has given notice that it wi.l next tall surrender ilu itas~of the liubuqno and ikioux C ty tracks. Nine-tenths of the traveiers on the Pennsylvania i»oaVt on the last day of March were deadheads, taking advantage of the last chance for a free r.di. alii same, to a greater or less extont, was the story of the day on all tno railroads. Judge Gresham gave his approval to a recommendation n, l.ee.ivor , o uuy that •1,000 tons of steel rad bo lajd ou the W>l ash iine3 oast of the Mississippi, at an outlay of sßo,oo'. All the daily newspapers in Cincinnati appear, a ou tli • Ist n l wit lout the customary column giving the time of the arrival and departure of trains. This is i.» accordance with a proposition mad) by the new - papers jointly, in view of the stoppage of passes, to atop the free publication of matter for the bonefit of tue roads but to accept tickets in payment for all advertising. Tne rafroads replied accepting the prepositionvior advertisements which they should order, and intimating that the daily publication of timetables should not be regarded as an advertisement The Chicago and Eastern Illinois lioad, I39mdes in length, has been purchased

by a syndicate headed by H. H. Porter, in the interest of the Chicago and Ind ana Coal Road. The new Board of Directors elected Richard M. Hoe President The earnings of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railroad last year, in excess of expenditures, were #1,031,380.