The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-04-09
Couplings.


Couplings.
BY order Of the management Of the !
Hannibal and -. Joseph railroad the !
through trains will from this date run from
Kansas City To Hannibal instead 81 to
Quincy, as heretofore. They will make
close connec ions there with the Chicago,
Burlington AMI Quincy anil waba-;, lire
both east AMI west.
AT a meetins Of directors -; the Chi
cigo, Burlington AMI Qaincy railroad in
Boston, the following officers were elected
President, R,tert Harris; vice president
AMI general manager, 4. f. Perkins
treasurer, AmC.s T. Hall; assistant secre
iary, J. y. Denni>on auditor, Geo. Tyson.
The general passenger and ticket agents
Of the United States met in convention at
the Grand hotel in Cincinnati last Thurs
dsv. W. Il. Shaiiuc oi the Atlantic aud
Great Western was elected president, and
II. L. Townsend vi the Wabash road ~ecre-
tlry. The session WAS devoted To the
subject ot immigrant tickets to Kansas and
other land grant territory. A rate Was
adopted for this class of travel on the basis
oi ) cents pr mile one way Tor the round
trip oi y cents ior the distance travelled.
Colony tickets one way only were liked ON
basis OF 2! cents per mile, the distance to
be Computed in mileage by the s;,crtc>,
line. To-morr"w Es>,hound rates viii be
considered.
Asa Reynolds has jis, oj,sin.i ja!s-
men, III 5000 against the Erie Railway
company for violent eiec,msn; from a
train. Tie point I'll the decision i 'hai
there is NO such thin; as legally Throw
Ing" a man of. a train. The plaintiff,
Who was sixty three years oil, bought a
ticket ON the Erie railway. \, the lime
Of the pur..h,se he a+kei the aScn, a'vri
how he could III iIase 10 stop over at var
ious places or the way. The asent t"iI
him he could stop over at any place by
telling the conductor oi the train jus: be-
fore its arrival at the particular station
aud have him Z, indor-- the tick,; with
his initials. L. cl>e he again desired 10
stop over, the agent tod him he could do
20 by having the first Endorsement erase,!
and having the second conductor ayain
irdorse the ticket. Mr.. Reynolds got
-I--.I 20 an Erie trI;n and stopped over
At Oswego, previously having the ticket
Endorsed. On getting on another train the
condnctoT-xho properly belonged To a bag
gage train-saw that his iicke, was
punched for the Su-lIehIina division,
and told the p! ,in,ifi he must pay either
double fare OF he pat of. MIR. Reynolds
refused to pay the double fare, AMI after
vigorous resistance vas knocked Of the
car by the conductor, who had To summon
two brakemen to his assistance. The
plaintiffs trunk was pitched cut ate. him.
Mr.. Reynold was seriously injured, ard
remained in a hospital for some weeks al
terward. lie sued to recover damages and
was awarded 5000 by jury at trial term
This Judgment the general term has ROW
affirmed.
Tile annual meetin. Of the stockhold-
ers Of the Panama railroad UIsthmus 81
Panana) was held last Tuesday. at New
York City. The report of the general sup
erin,en,!ent showed that the gross earnings
If the road for 1877 from all sources were
81, 9SS, $50 81; the gross expenditures S9,6..
AZ iS; leaving net balance Of profit Of
S5l OIL ,6S3 81, which is over Is per cent.
IN the capital stock. The total number
ii passengers carried Exclusive If the ma
tive travel between local stationsj in 1877
was ~, 10, being a decrease IF $50 p,s-
sengers rs compared with 1876, which II
accounted for by the extra travel in 1876
tn and from the Philadelphia exposition.
The business xith Central America shows
very marked Improvement over any
previous year.
The superintendent say: "Our business
With the west coas, of South America, to
which alluded especially in my last re-
port, also shows Satisfactory results. Of
cocoa, from Ecuador, l;S.22l bags we're
forwarded in 1877 BY our route, against
81, .96 bags in the year previous; while,
at the same time, the eropof 5000 qnin
tails les than that Of 1876. Of European
and American manufactures, &c, We de-
livered TO the Panama last year, l5.a0s
ton, sgains, only 1868 IL rs IN 1876.
Our freight traffic between New York and
San Francisco (bo;h way-) show IN in
crease over the previous year OF lo.ois tons
while through passengers exhibit slight
decrease, rs Indie sied above, though the
IoSs than We had right to expect when
compared. xith the returns Of other rail-
roads Throughout, the world. ] am glad To
repor. that the whaling business, which
had almo-, disappeared from the Isihmus
il gradually finding its way back here, and
the prospect are now that not only the
Pacific, but large portion Of the Arctic
feet will come 70 Panama to ship their
catch and receive their stores. Great care has
been taken With this traffic, both captains
and owners express Themselves veil salts
6ei With the manner in which the bnsi
ness has been done here during the last
wear. AMI facilities We offered them"
On the 23l ult.. 'the spring fights"
at Mckinney Mill, Ripley |
county. There VAS no whisky, bat twelve
or fourteen men u-ed their fists, clubs anil
stones, all vi whom we're more or less hurt,
some Of them seriously.
Mrs. Mary II. Piper, While returning
home from Hannibal few days since, driv-
ing her team which vas manageable. hal