Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1887 — THE RAILROADS. [ARTICLE]

THE RAILROADS.

A San i rancisco dispatch says the transcontinental roads will join in the “boycott” against the Americau connections of the Canadian Pacific Roads. The net income of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad for 1886 was 98,080,309.07. There is every prospect of a thorough demoralization in Western railway rates soon. Tho Burlington and Northern, which has local business, threatens to cut the through rate, St. Paul to Chicago, and the Milwaukee and St Paul will retaliate by making a cut on the Omaha business. Iu that event a general war would ensue.