Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — THE REAIL WAYS. [ARTICLE]

THE REAIL WAYS.

Officials of the St. Paul Road are testing two systems of heating cars without stoves, one being the dissemination of steam from the locomotive through the coaches by pipes. In the matter of the recent disastrous collision at Republic, Ohio, on the Baltimore and Ohio Road, the Coroner’s jury lays the blame wholly upon the company, which was using, a poor engine and employed careless or unexperienced trainmen. ..The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy ■Railroad has been notified from Washington that it would be given sixty days to show cause whv legal proceedings should not be instituted to recover its lands in Nebraska “in excess ‘of the- quantity to which it is entitled,” and also why the tracts north oTTfs deffnlfe" location should noFBe canceled. Over 200,000 acres of land are involved.