Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — Adams Company Shut Out. [ARTICLE]

Adams Company Shut Out.

The most important exp ess company deal of recent years was consummated in Chicago on Wednesday, by ex-Sena-tor Platt, President of the United States Express Company. By it that company, will Yayaupy the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway and all its branches, retiring from the Chi, cago an:l Northwestern Railway in favor of the American Express Company. This practically shuts out the Adams Company, which has hitherto had 1 the St. Paul's business from the northwest. The Adams Company 's offices in Milwaukee will be closed. The agreement goes into effect about March 1.