Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — THE RAILWAYS. [ARTICLE]

THE RAILWAYS.

The citizens of Freeport, DI., have given $75,000 worth of lands and buildings to the Blinois Central’s new branch, in consideration of securing the division shops. . Fifty fcleeping-car porters met at St. Louis, and organized the Sleeping-car ’Porters Association. They have drawn up a petition, which will be torwarded to all the companies, asking for increased pay. ] .... The Superior Court at Taunton, Mass., decided that sleeping-car companies are liable for losses sustained by passengers while in the cars, and the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the ruling. The plaintiffs sued for money which had been stolen from their vests, which they had concealed in their berths. The Santa Fe Road has 1,000 teams at work in the garden of the Oklahoma country, and piles are being driven for a bridge at Arkansas City. It is said that trains will be running to Cimmaron by Nov. 1. A Chicago company is engaged inßending trains of twenty cars of ice to San Francisco, over the Northwestern and Union and Central Pacific roads, on passenger time, to compete with the artificial product in California.lt is said that the Rock Island road, by the purchase of two lots at De? Moines, balked the plans of the Burlington and Northwestern roads to join their tracks for trains from St. Paul to Kansas City... .John D-,Taylor, Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, died in Philadelphia.