The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-09
Acknowledgements
TELEGRAl'HlC.
III, Atlantic & Pacliic Company
ITI.oS,rIcysIy Boards the Great
it""tric lion IN Its Den.

IanFIeNNty L1EAt"
IirctriC Lion In Its Den.
%xryy,rl, November G.-The Allan
Z p.ciic Telegraph Company stole
: ;no,r,ant march on It's great rival,
!. " %s.,ern Union, last Saturday night.
=. ,,l,nrc 4 Pacific Company, it seems,
- -, lon, desired to run line from Gin
,..,,,i to Louisville by way Of North
r,,syp, IaI., but has been crowded out
s,,5. Western Union, which claims tue
.,.ir,iye control Of the poles Of the Ohio
Mississippi Railroad for the purpose
,n,i,,,c teIcgrnphirg. This claim the
,I,s,;c i Pacific Telegraph Company
."., .,,cnuously resist, taking the broad
,;,T ,b,, the poles are part OF an cleo
, ~ bi,hwav, which is, and must be, open
~ ~ al The evidence a. hand shows that
,,,r regarded the acceptation Of this
,..s Of The case as somewhat important.
G.Il events, tho Company started in to
ti9re 1t ii possible, on Saturday night,
=, their success or failure is not yet u
s,,.e, Of record. The fac: that
Jay GOULD,
o. real Boss Of tho Atlantic 4 Pacific
apany, went ovOr tho Ohio 4 Missis.
|rygi railroad, from here to Louisville,
IN, CL,,rc.v Dillon. tho President OF
4, Union Pacific railroad, abou! a month
10 and Cvincei great curiosity as to the
wtkiugs Of tho telegraph, might have
g,cI suspicious.
On Saturday night q special train from
|sltinorc, consisting OF three box cars
sd passenger coach, let the Ohio 4
Mississippi depot Tor Louisville. There
R,e about sevcn,y.fve men in tho pas.
torcr car, supposed to be Government
..o9M for the South, and the box freight
AZ, we're said to contain the parapher.
ala Of circus. The men were in the
hbimcrts Of ordinary day laborers.
Tie train was paid Tor, however, and,
<trl the reception Of the money for
h charter aud the giving of instructions
n % how it should he run 80 rs not to
,utia;o collision with other trains, the
5.r. Of the road seem to have given
THE SPECIAL"
mr little attention. About II o'clocI;
he real character Of the train became
a4ai'r.t. 1t stopped about fifteen miles
t!ori Aurora, Ind, and put down hall
lona men, who Immediately produced
ir4uber Of coils OF telegraph wire from
he freight cars and went to stringing ~
! asr Iira on the posts, working cast to
AaDm. Thirteen or fourteen miles be
'osi the same thing was repeated, and
lie Train speeding on to Louisville, de-
ailments Of four, and six, and eight
z'a we're put down at points separated
maearh other by twelve to fifteen miles
srtii the whole force ofsixty.ive was en-
gSu! ia putting up the line. The gang
Iv't,l all night mud all day Sunday, nj
% io'cock in the afternoon, Mt which
Inc the company, having previously
.l'tiIhc privilege OF operating the CAT
ire TO Aurora, had n direct communities
TEA between Cincinnati and Louisville
4, ,oon as the several gangs finished
ss;' work, they took the first train for
C!scinnati. The whole line between Au'
ia and Louisville, 1"7 miles, was put
pima little less than seventeen hours,
81 tor some time was operated very sat
s.lcLoriIy-Ihat is to say, until the West.
ia Union folks got wind OF the thing,
's.ch they did early Sunday morning.
Iatn, acting under legal advice, they
R'nen to tearing down the newly placed
teOtiwcen DilIsboro and piercevilIe, a
!s'iHce Of about ten miles, md had two
zen arrested at North Vernon for having
ShIel in putting the line up. The men
'''s'lei were speedily discharged from
s';Ody, however, and at last accounts
K Atlantic & Pacific Company was re-
'ting the broken wires without oppo.
4'n, and the Western Union, under later
Ericc possibly, were letting the rest Of
> line severely alone. The matter will
sobably occupy the attention Of tie In.
ana courts this week, when the rights Of
ss0hio & Mississippi Railroad Company
The premises may be found to figure
sHiplcnously in the controversy. The
Eapany claims to own the telegraph
pie in its own right, and regards the OK,
isiI!ion Of "wire.pullers" az trespassers
W. David Terrence, the President of the
'i4, e a large stakeholder OF the West.
IN uGion Company, and may be relied
a a % give the Atlantic & Pacific Company
" @c'ronbIe he can conveniently occa'