Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. ADDING NEW EQUIPMENT Lafayette Journal: There are persistent rumors that the Monon railroad will centralize the business of the system in this city, add new equipment and increase the force at the shops. There is now talk of bringing the claim office of the freight department to Lafayette and, in that event, that the passenger station at North street will be enlarged by the addition of a story. The company is having a handsome passenger train built at Dayton, 0., for the air line division and is .niaking specifications for twenty new freight locomtives of powerful type. These engines are to be used in hauling coal from the mines recently purchased by the company near Linton.