Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — OUTPULLS TWO STEAM ENGINES [ARTICLE]

OUTPULLS TWO STEAM ENGINES

New Electric Locomotive Demonstrates Its Strength. All possible question of the ability of electric locomotive No. 1 of the Baltimore and Ohfo Railroad to pull the heaviest trains through the Baltic tunnel have been disposed of. With the tremendous load of twenty-six freight cars, all laden to their utmost, and two large locomotives, the electric motor pulled through the tunnel with not nearly all power on. This test of the locomotive was the most important that has yet been made. The load pulled was at least 2,800,000 pounds. The two steam engines, which were attached to the train, joined their forces when the electric l»6omotivo was detached to take the train on its journey east. Mary Ellen Lease lost in her appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court to be reinstated on the State Board of Charities, but her prosecution of Housholder and Waite, Populist members of *he board, has resulted in their conviction on chargee of gross irregularities. Tlienew steamship line between New Orleans and Colon to connect there with San Francisco, established by the Wholesale Grocers’ Association of New Orleans, will be suspended, the Southern Pacific changing itis rates to suit th* New Orleans shippers