The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-03
THE RAILROADS.
Superintendent Eddy to be
Transferred to the Texas
and Pacific Road.
D. w. G. Perry and T. q. Col
den Will Hereafter Man.
age the K. & T.
Reduction of Force in the Pacific
Shops General Manager Tai
mage i'll the City.

The X. & T. train from the south was
one hour late last night.
w. j. Nichols, known TO many Soda
lians, is nov agent of the / & st. l.. road
at Indianapolis.
It. 8 Mcdowell, train dispatcher on
the X. & I. at Parsons. was looking afte,
business in Sedalis yesterday.
IT. G. Golden, assistant superintendent,
OF the K. & T., with headquarters at Deni-
son, called on the BAzoo yesterday.
G. Barber, master car builder on the
X. Il T., left for Hannibal yesterday morn
ing, and returned on the evening train.
-Rosdmasler Rockwell, of the Pacific,
returned y, sterday morning from the west
where he had been looking after the wash
outs.
Tom Furlong, chief of the Missouri
Pacific detective force, and w. II. BOnnell
one of his operators, were in the city yes
terday.
All the washouts along the Missouri
Pacific road have been repaired and train,
are now running through from St. Louis tO
Omahs.
-Oley Olson, a section laborer in the X.
& 7 yards, was received at the hospital
yesterday, and seeks treatment for inter-
mittent lever.
The employees of the railroad shops of
Sedalia will commence to-morrow morn
ing working only eight hOurs-quitting at
4 o'clock p. IN. This is q scaeme of econ
omy.
Charlie H. Gentry, formerly of this
city, is now travelling agent for the Chesa-
peake & Ohio road, and was seen by DIR.
w. n. Graham in indianapolis during the
past week.
S X. Ballard, assistant superintendent
of telegraph for The Gould Southwestern
system, left on the Sesr bound train last
evening for Independence, Mo-, to visit
friends.
Sick .ess prevailed to an alarming ex-
tent in the Missouri Pacific office yester-
day, Superintendent Cumming, Trainmas-
ter Dimmock and Traindispatcher Gould
all being off duty.
Arthur Johnson, clerk in the Office of
]. II. Dowland, auditor of the s., w & s.
road, left last night for st. Louis and will
witness the ball game to-day between the
Athletic and st. Louis clubs.
Pacific freight train No. q, west
bound, ran over q boy named Willis Taber,
at Kirkwood, early yesterday morning,
mutilating his left leg so that amputation
was necessary. The lad endeavored to
board the train, but missed his footing and
fell under the wheels, with the result
stated
On the 10Th of this month the annual
railroad picnic will take place at the beau
tiful grove of Major Gentry, and will be
one of the most pleasant affairs of this ma
ture ever given in this vicinity. The vari-
Gus committees are making elaborate prep
srstions, and no pains or expense will be
spared to make the occasion one long to
be remembered.
General Manager A. A. Talmage. &C.
companied by his private secretary, 7. B.
Drake, arrived in the city yesterday morn
ing At an early hour. The morning was
spent in visiting the shops and other places
connected with transportation management
of the great system controlled by Mr.. Tai
mage. During the forenoon he pulled out
east IS . special, going to St. Louis. Before
leaving he called on Warder Cumming, su-
perintendent of the main lire, who is an
invalid from rheumatism.
1t has been rumored for several days
past that the working force in the Pacific
shops was to be reduced on the LIST of July,
and of course many of the employees have
been extremely uneasy. The cyclone struck
last evening, and quite q number-one re-
port has il between 80 and 4O-were dis
charged, many of them having been in the
employ of the company for years. No
charges were preferred against any of
those let out, and the only cause for dis
missal was q desire to reduce expenses.
Thase remaipg will work but eight hours
q day hereafter during the heated term.
AT Cameron, Mo, on Friday morning,
Conductor /. T. Green, of freight train No.
Is. on the Hannibal & ST. Joseph road,
registered at that station with the words in
the remarks, "For the last time," and soon
after leaving the station took large dose
of strychnine and died at Kidder about
noon. He had been under the influence of
liquor for several days, and had acted
strangely, and when he registered acted
wild and talked at random. He was lately
employed on the Missouri Pacific, and has
a wife and family residing on Pattee street,
st. Joseph. Domestic trouble is assigned
as the cause leading to his death.
CHANGE.
Col. ]. NJ. EDDY, for two years past super
intendent of the K. & T., division of the
Pacific railroad, will in . few days retire
from the management of that line. Dur
ing Col. Eddy's administration he has been
a hard and faithful worker, always with
his face to the front when business was to
be transacted. He has the line In excel