Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1887 — THE RAILWAYS. [ARTICLE]

THE RAILWAYS.

It is stated that fully SSTnTjiOO has already been put up on the great ocean yacht race, with the Dauntless as the favorite. ... SJr Alexander Campbell has been appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, vice the lion. John I>. llobinson, whose term has expired. . A Ni:\v York paper proposes to send convicts to Alaska, where they will not compete with free labor... .Captain C. E. Dutton, of the geological survey,.in studying upon the Charleston earthquake, ascertained 1 that the wares traveled'between four thousand and live thousand meters per second. A contract has been entered into between the Santa I'e Bead and the Chicago and Western Indiana Load whereby the former will enter Chicago over the tracks of the latter. The contract is for tKV.t years. . . . .Passes on the 1 ennsvlvaniaCompany's lines expired at midnight, of March Ml. and through Gains during the day were crowded with dead-heads. Nine-tenths of tlip travelers carried, passes.- : The Cincinnati newspapers appeared on the Ist of April without the customary column giving the time of the arrival and departure of trains. This was in accordance with a proposi.ion made by the newspapers jointly, in new of the stoppage of passes, to Stop "the free publication of matter for the benefit of the roads, but to accept tickets in paymentfor all advertising! The railroads replied accepting the proposition for advertisements which they should order, and intimating that the daily publication of time tables should not be regarded as an advertisement. trolling interest in the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad have been consummated, the purchasers being a syndicate identical 1 ■

with the Chicngo and Indiana Coal Company, of which H . H. I’ortfir is President.