The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-12-25
G. j. LEISURE,
UNDERTAKEN!
RAILWAY RACKET.
Local Squibs, and Notes Picked
Up Along the Different
Railways.

The sleet was causing the operators
considerable trouble all along the line yes
tsrday.
Bob Fleming, employed IN The Pacific
yards, sprained his ankle severely Yesterday
afternoon owing to fall caused by the
sleet.
Joe Tremble, the popular young bag.
gageman on the Texas run, is laying off
for couple Of weeks. He will visit friends
and relatives in Illinois. He left for the
east last night.
Daring the first week of the present
month the gross earn MS of the Illinois
Central railroad amounted to S136.571 in
Illinois, SS9, $50 in Iowa, AID to $40, 225
on the Southern division, making the total
earnings, SSl5,546.
The railroad commissioners of Ten
nessee have ordered general reduction of
% per cent, and great excitement has en-
sued. The Louisville IL Nashville has
appealed to the United States court for an
injunction. Vice-Pr, sident Smith saws if /,
the proposed reduction goes into effect it
will almost bankrupt his road.
The Warrensburg Standard says: The
airline railroad from 81. Louis 10 Kansas
City is talked of again. Ii will come up
on the north side Of the Missouri river 70
Boonville or Arrow Rock, and thence up
Blackwater to Brownsville, and from there
probably on or near the Hawkins and
Hayward survey to Kansas City. The
hannibal & Southwestern is not dead yet
either, and its friends still claim that il
will be built.
Doctor: And how do you feel this
morning, my poor fellow Sufferer: Much
better in most ways, but I am afraid I
won't mend very fast, / worry too much.
Doctor: You have nothing to VERY about
You will not lose any of your limbs, and
the railroad can be made 10 pay heavy
damages. Sufferer: know that, but just
think of the hnmilistioni Doctor: The
humiliation? Sufferer: Yes, was con-
sidered a man of energy and activity, but
now my reputation Ia ruined. No one will
want to employ O man who was so lazy ~
TO get run over BY an accommodation
,rain.-Philsdelphia Call.
HOSPITAL ARRIVALS
But two additions we're made 10 the hos
pital roster yesterday.
John Miller, Denison, Texas, section Ia
borer, pneumonia.
Thomas Kearney, Atchison, Kansas, sec.
tion lsborer. On the morning OF the 10Th
while driving spike the hammer glanced
and the spike few back and struck the
right leg below the knee.
CHEAPER THAN DAYLIGHT.
A locomotive engineer running on the
Big s." route out of New Orleans, was 10
the habit of rolling into the terminus Of
bis run. three or four hours alter sunrise,
with the headlight of his engine brightly
blazing, and his attention had been called TO
the fact several times by certain officials.
Finally, the general superintendent tackled
him and said:
"See here; haven't you been on the road
long enough to learn that you should put
your headlight out after sunup? We can't
stand no such expenses as that you kaow"
well" replied the engineer, shat may
be all right enough from your standpoint,
Mr.. Superintendent; but the cold facts are
that, with such az internal poor quality of
oil as you furnish, it's a blamed sight
cheaper than dsylight"-Texas Siftinss.
A BRAVE ENGINEER.
The Nsryville Republican tells of he
'oic deed performed BY an engineer, which
Is worthy of note and reads rs follows: On
tuesday of last week, Will Cheney, an en- 4
yineer on the Wabash, performed q deed ;
hat PAGES him among the heroes OF the
He was running the Cannon
Bail" and just as the train struck high
restle Just this side of Malvern, be saw q
title girl on the track, nearly in the center
If the bridge. To apply the brakes
md reverse the engine was but the
york of an instant, but the
rain was too close to stop before it reached
,er. The little girl turned TO run, but fell,
ret she had presence of mind to roll from
he track and crawl clear to the very end of
he ties. Here if she had lain still the
rain would have passed her in safety, but
Is the cars were coming to q stand she
aised her head, and was struck BY the
tops on the forward coach and knocked
INTO the water, forty feet below. The en-
,ineer ran back on the tender and sprang
lown the fearful depth, crashing through 4
ne branches of q tree that grew on the
dge of the stream. The little girl was
escued bat slightly hurt, but the brave en-
ineer was terribly bruised, and he is still
enfned to his bed. This vas indeed no.
lie deed.