Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1891 — The Monon Route Receivership Matter. [ARTICLE]

The Monon Route Receivership Matter.

People who live along the line of the L., N. A. & 0. Railway and thus have actual knowledge of the great improvements made in the road-bed, tracks, bridges, and rolling stock of the company, during the past year, take no stock at all in the sensational I charges against President management, made by . the parties ■ who filed the petition for a receiver, in Chicago, last week. There is little question but that the petition was i filed simply with the hopes that the matter would be of service in help-' ring Breyfogle’s enemies oust him irom the management, at the ensuiingstockholders’ meeting in March. The _ notorious Henry Crawford is supposed to be the principal mover behind the scenes in the receivership matter. He was solicitor for the Monon until a short time back, but got into a row with Breyfogle because he could not be pe im itted to unload upon the Monon, at an extortionate price, a section of his white elephant known as the Indiana Midland. President Breyfogle’s answer to the petition for a receiver was filed Tuesday. It handles Crawford without gloves, and says that he tried to bribe Breyfogle to buy the Midland for $2,000,000 by offering I him $600,000 of it; and further that • Crawford, as general counsel for the ! Monon, suggested and advised the ' doings of the very things that he i now urges as reasons for having the ■ road pass into bankruptcy.