The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-12-18
RAILWAY RACKET.
Local Squibs, and Notes Picked
Up Along the Different
Railways.

was thought at 81. Joseph that Winslow
Judson would receive the appointment.
1T is said that the receipts of the st
Louis Bridge company realized from traf-
fc over the upper roadway of the bridge,
this year, on several different OCCASIONS has
run as high $4,000 during single day.
The Missouri Pacific general freight
officials are complsing loudly of the manner
In which local patrons are treating them
BY overlooking cars with local freight
They have at times found as high as SO, 900
lbs in cars when bargain was made for
"a, 900 or 10000 This class of business does
not come under the weighing association,
and il is easy for such imposition to be car
ried on unless local agents use extrsordi-
nary precaution.
HOSPITAL ARRIVALS.
Four unfortunstes have been received at
the hospital since the last report.
They are j. NJ. Battles, Bello, Texas,
section foreman. About noon of the 9th
inst, while sitting on hand car, the car
ran over q torpedo, which exploded, and q
portion was driven clear through his foot.
VIM. OConnell, Concordis, section la
borer; fever.
Frank Howard, colored, Denisou, Texas,
wiper. While cleaning out hre box the
little finger OF the right hand was caught
between the slash bars" and the CRATE and
badly mashed.
c. A. McCollom, Hiawaths, brakeman.
About half past O'Clock of the morning of
the 18th inst while making 9 coupling, he
had on a pair Of gloves, and the link being
frosty the glove stuck and held his left
hand so that the draw bars mashed the
thumb and index finger.
RAILROAD PoLITENESS.
"POliteness has developed to a remsrka-
bic degree on one of the local trains run
ming up the Hudson River road. Nearly
every .mploye on the line knows the story
President Rutter came into the Grand
Central station to take a train. and asked
brakeman: Is this train for Pongh-
keepsie? The Obi CT of the question was TO
test the mans civIlity. The brakeman did
not know him and nodded his head. Mr..
Ru;ter asked the Question three times, aud
each time received a nod in reply FL
nally he inquired: Have you NO tongue
in your head ? The man nodded
again. Mr. Rutter obtained the name
of the man. The brakeman found it out
and went to Mrs. Rutter. Il think made
u mistake said he Yes, should say
you did, replied Mr.. Rutter; you took me
for one of the patrons of the road. Ont of
the money received from patrons you re-
ceive your pay. They are entitled to every
and as you cannot afford 1t TO
them will see to it that yoH are discharg-
ed at once The man begged, promised 10
profit by the lesson, and said he had
mother to support. For the sake OF his
mother Mr.. Rutter said he would overlook
the mistake but repetition would re-
suit in instant dismissal. New York
Times.
THE TRAIN wRECKER.
The train wrecker is the worst product
OF our times. The midnight assassin, who
Stays one person, is bad enough. But the
train wrecker plots the destruction of two,
or FIVE, or any number of persons, who
have never done him a wrong-peOple he
has never laid eyes on-children, women
and .men-all that he may wreak his
grudge against a railroad company or Of
fetal. 1t is the quintessence of human ma
Lightly. Ii is high time that war should
be wsged against this particu-
lar phase of cii me, and the governor has
taken timely step in furnishing a stand
ing incentive to sctiOn. The reward is
large enough TO enlist earnest and encour-
aging interest on the part of officials and
citizens, in the work of attempting to break
up train-wrecking, and ii will be astonish-
ing If the evil does not undergo a marked
diminution from this time on. Very few
people are aware that Gov. Ireland has
adopted this policy in hopes of meeting the
emergency. Every paper in the state
should call attention TO il, and take care
to keep the fact we'll advertised. In the in-
terest Of humanity il should be- known
Fort Worth Gazette.
GETTING EVEN WITH THE CONDUCTOR.
1.-THE last time | went to Boston," con-
ide1 a copsnmUtivs-lookiDg traveller on
the Eastern road to a fellow passenger,
''the conductor grew monotOnous. He in
sisted on examining my ticket at every sta
ton, and grew restless as we passed wa.er-
ing troughs. This time" the traveller con-
tinued, as he looked anxiously toward the
car door, Eve play a change of programme
aud the boxes are all taken" AS the con-
ductor entered with. pompous "tickeIs,
please" the stranger quietly presented
single trip ticket for the next station. The |
next time he entered the unknown handed |
him q mileage ticket, foIlowing il later
with q sportsman's ticket Tor Labrador
As the conductor was passing him on the !
next rOund the traveller pressed An /
emigrant's ticket for Puget Sound |
into his hand, and then tried to get him to
take a 6rst-class passage to Sing Sing |
with sleeper check. Didn't i just punch |
a pn0et Sound ticket for yon9o demanded !
been another party" replied the traveller
burying hsmself in the last Harper's.
Again tickets, please" echoed through the
EAR, and the stranger confronted the CON-
iuctor with FLORIDA for the winter" ex-
cursion via the Richmond boats. ''See here
said the enraged official, "what does this
mean? / have punched tickets for you to