Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1901 — 1 ** |ir.A.n [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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It is stated that the St. Lawrence and Adirondack will soon be merged with the Canada Southern. The Nickel Plate bridge over Conneaut Creek, just completed, is 1.320 feet long and 90 feet above the stream. Union Pacific Inanagers promise to lop twelve hours from the running time between Chicago and San Francisco. The Jackson & Sharp car works has completed a drawing-room coach ani a dining car for King Alphonso, of Spain. Citizens of Nashville, Tenn., voted tp authorise the city to subscribe for sl,000,000 stock in the Nashville and Clarksville Railroad. William Revel, of the I. & V., is the oldest Pennsylvania engineer in time of service. He has driven an engine fortyseven years. He will be pensioned in two years. Illinois railway commissioners have decided that hereafter one railroad shall not cross another at grade, but that one must go over the other. Present crossings must not bo disturbed. The Chicago and Northwestern has been chosen as the offi< lai route for the delegates to the national convention of the Christian church, which is to le held in Mlnneapolia Oct. 10-17. Arrangements have been made by the Rix-k Island, Lake Shore and Nickel Plate Roads to tr%* the Grand Central station and terminals in Chicago during the construction of the new tb'an Buren street depot. It is likely that building will be begun inte in the fall. »for it is the purpose of the Lake Shore and the Rock Island to have the new depot completed by one year from next October.