Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1887 — THE RAILWAYS. [ARTICLE]

THE RAILWAYS.

“An order has been entered in the Common Pleas Court at Cleveland for the sale of "the Nickel-Plate Road for not less than $16,060,000. Thirty days’ notice will he given,...A fire at Omaha destroyed the Missouri Pacific round-house, valued at $35,000. A LARGE number of theatrical managers met in Chicago to voice their grievances against the interstate commerce law, and appointed a committee of nine to prepare a memorial tcMhe commission.... A Philadelphia dispatch says that railway officials generally express the opinion that the temporary suspension of the long and short haul clause by the Ifiterstate Commission is the entering wedge that will split the whole log. They argne that every railroad in the country can justly make the same claim as that contended for by the Southern lines. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad has finished the adjustment of the damages on account of the Rio disaster last fall. The amount paid was $04,616, of which 40,550 was for sixteen lives, $13,316 for personat effects, anffl $4,750 for injuries to the survivors.