The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-28

Line railroad. A meeting of tho Nor,h.
western company directors will he held
next month, at which tins proposition viii
oe submitted for adoption.
me hnes oil railway in the five divisions
W the earth cost, IN round numbers. sis.
VIeOVVu,OVO, and would, according TO Baron
Mold reach eight times around the globe
although it is but little over half century
since the first steam railway was opened he.
tween Darlington and stockton, September
~ $50, and between Manchester and
Liverpool, Septem Der To- lS30. IL is shown
tnat IN France, previous to the existence of
anyways ways, ihere was one passenger in every
BOO UVO Killed, and one in every 5000
wounded; whereas, between 1855 aud ISIS
tnere was but one in 5,l7SCPO killed, and
one 10 5S0,l5O wounded, 50 that We may in.
ler that the tendency to accidents is yearly
diminishing. Railway travelling in England
is a. ended with greater risk than in any
other country in Europe. a French Sta
listlcian observes that, tia person We're 10
i've continually in railway carriage, and
So nd all his time in railway travelling.
the chances of his dying from railway ac-
cident would not occur I'm he was oG6 5,ss,s
old 0"''
one. effect of the complete apd powerful
organization of the Gould lines is seen i'm
the manner in which crime against the
roads is being followed up and punished.
The detective force in the service of the
system is composed of some of the best
workers III the west. On the report OF any
wrong'doing involving the road, a man is
sent to the locality without DELAY. and
there is no let-up until the guilty parties
are ierreted out and the machinery of the
courts put IN operation to enforce the pen.
atty. Two recent cases on the Iron Noun
tam Will serve to illustrate the point A
pass, on which man had been transported
from Bismarck to Harrisburg, Arkansas,
was turned in the other day and pro-
nounced forgery by d. Z. Bailey, the
agent whose name appeared on it. Super
intendent Kerrigan was notified and put
detective on the case. The man, young
farmer who had Travelled on the pass, was
found near Harrisburg. He had traded for
the paper, giving watch. The authorship
was traced back to Bart Mitchell, who had
represented himself as assistant agent at
Bismarck, Mitchell was working on
freight train, and when confronted with the
evidence against him made no defense. At
Pennington, Missouri, on Monday, an eX-
animation was had and the brakeman was
bound over tor the grand Jury.
Superintendent Kerrigan has also sue
ceeded in putting a stop to The plfeling OF
lINl6Lt NalS ~ pulou, III iIdi COUNTY an
This work was traced to a gang who had
gone into that county from Nebraska, ana
were ostensibly working as woouchoppers.
They had kept up their punderinE until
goods to the value of So 600 had been stolen. |
-Four of them are now under bonds to be
tired at the July term of court. Their
steaings embraced q little of everything
that went over the road.
An exchange says: Track laying in the
United States was retarded greatly durng
the first quarter OF the current year by the
unu ual severity of the weather and tne
dullness and depression which prevailed in
the market for railway securities during
much of the time Notwithstanding these
776 miles of new mainline
track, on fortg-nine different roads, have
been added this year 10 our railway mile
N 40 s,,,,,or;,nl 1,In,.