Warren sheaf., 1881-04-06
NEWS SUMMARY.
RAILROADS.

NEWS SUMMARY.
RAILROADS.
The New York Central has determined to
build two additional tracks between Buffalo and
Rochester, maxim six tracks in all.
Parties who profess to know say there is
more in the rumored consolidation of the Chi
cago & Northwestern and Chicago, Milwaukee
l. st Paul companies than has come to the sur
face.
Rates are reduced on grain, provisions and
live hogs, five cents, commencing on April l.,
thus making rates on grain thirty cents and on
provisions and live hogs thirty five cents.
These rates remain in force during the summer
months.
MrC. G. Smith of La Crosse, has taken the
contract for building an additional ten miles
of the north Wisconsin railroad, making thirty
miles in ALL This leaves but ten miles yet in
tervening between the end of the present con-
tract and the lake.
The passenger and freight depots of the Oc-
cidental railway, at Montreal, were burned
A quantity of gunpowder stored in the latter
exploded, blowing the building to atoms 9, and n?
the excitement by an engine running over him.
Loss $50, 900.
A Duluth dispatch says that the contract for
nine miles of the Northern Pacific extension
eastward has been let, the work to be complet-
ed by August l, next. The grading is let to
David Sewall of st. Paul, the clearing, grubbing
and bridging to James starkey Of St: Paul.
James Paine of Northern Pacific Junction has
a sub-contract.
The Northern Pacific Railroad company has
81 900 tons of rails contracted for, to be de-
ivered before the first Of November next.
This quantity is equal to 1900 miles of con-
tinuons rail, or $50 miles Of railroad. All but
5000 tons are steal rails, and all are for the
eastern end of the road.
Perkins and Morrill,, two brakeman on the
Northern Pacific, sustained serious injuries
while coupling box car to an engine The
bumper of the car was broken, and let the
car and engine come close together, thus crush
ing both men. Perkins received such internal
injuries that he cannot recover. Morrill, is seri-
onsly injured, but not fatally.
The general freight agents of the Illinois
Central, North western, and Chicago, Milwaukee
l. st. Paul roads and all the river lines and
steamships met at Chicago and agreed on sum-
mer rates to all competing points on the upper
Mississippi river. It was decided to enforce
the rates of last summer, but a few changes
were made in the classification
Henry Willard, president of the Oregon COM
bidding the listing and transfer of the extra
stock of the Northern Pacific, includes in his
exhibit among the persons benefited by the is-
sue of this stock the name of Secretary Win
dom, to the amount of 2, 146 shares, repre-
senting at the market price Of to-day $S7, ,9S6
u value.
The new monster passenger engine which is
to make revolution in railroad travel did her
first work on the roau fl ON Altoona to Harris
burg. The run was made in two hours and
tfty-two minutes. 1t il intended to put her on
the train between Philadelphia and New York.
and it is expected she will make the fastesttime
ever known, ninety minutes being the figures
named by the confident railroad folks
Frederick Billings, president of the Northern
Pacific, telegraphs as follows: ''There has
been no new issue and no new increase of North
ern Pacific stock. The whole issue was provid-
ed for by the plan of reorganization, and the
whole amount was long since listed on the New
York stock exchange. The stock, now in ques-
ton, was held in trust by the treasurer for those
70 whom the plan said it should CO. I have
heretofore hoped that it would go out gradually
as the road was built: but parties in interest
claimed that they were entitled to it's delivery,
and the council 80 directed. So it was distrib-
uted instead of being longer held in trust"