Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1887 — THE RAILWAYS. [ARTICLE]

THE RAILWAYS.

Judge Cooley, of the Interstate Commission, explains that the order granting relief to certain Southern roads can be annulled at any time. A high official of one of the large Western systems states that the effect of the law has been to almost suspend interstate business. A company has been incorporated at Springfield. 111., with rt capital of $1,000,■900710 bnild a railway from the Indiana' State line to Kankakee, Wilmington, Marseilles, Aleiulota. and thence to some point on the Alississippi River. Henry Ihmkk, the oldest locomotive engineer in the United Statos, has just died in Whistler, Ala. He ran the first engine over the Charleston and Hamburg Railroad, the third railroad built in this country. The drivers of the engine were of hardwood. The N.ckel-Plate Railroad will be sold atnuction at Cleveland, 0., Alay 19. Sixteen million dollars will be accepted as the purchase price, and $100,1)00 must be paid in cash on the day of sale.