The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-02-20
HEADLIGHT HITS.
Local Items Of Interest Picked On
Here and There.

Twenty fiat cars we're sent to St.
Louis, last night, for iron for the A., I. &
s. Re railway. A double track is now be-
ing laid on that road
-Superintendent Eddy went to Texas
yesterday. The payuasier took his special
car. and is using it As pay car, and the
colonel went with it
The Quincy Wing intim ties that w.
K. Woodland will become genei al manager
Of the Hsnnioa: 4 st. Joe when Mr.. Car
son takes charge of the Wsbssh.
Frank ions, the depot policeman,
who has bten confined to his room bv I'LL
ness for several weeks past, i, reported con-
valescent, and will soon be able to attend
TO his accus omed duties
1t is stated that the Westinghouse
Brake company have taken a contract To
equip all the freight cars oil the Central
Pacific system of roads, including he Chesa-
peake 4 Ohio. with Tho continuous freight
rain brake.
Col A. A. Talmage, general tran>por-
ta'ion man 'ger OF the Gould lines, is preb-
ably the most punctual railroad man To
attend meetings. He has just returned 10
81. Louis from the meetings of The union
depot at Hannibal, s.. Joe and A,chison. :
The train on ;he narrow gauge left a,
7:2O Yesterday morning for Warsaw, hav-
ing held over since Friday evening. when
it was due to leave, being held on account
OF high wafer. The tr ,in arrived at War
saw At 2 o'clock " yesterday, aud will not 70
turn until to morrow.
The X. Il 7. passenger train from the
south, snd the Missouri Pacific passenger
train from the west, were each DELAYED
about four hours last night, the X. Il T. by
ITS southern connections, and the Missouri
Pacific by derailed freight car, bstwsen
Kansas City and Atchison.
Conductor Lew Thomas, who has been
recreatiug AMI recuperaiing for some weeks
past, has taken a run ON the Missouri Pa
c.hc between this city and Chamois, and
has brand new cabsose Just out Of the
shops, of which he is justly proud. The
caboose is as pretty a. the traditional red
wagon, and has all the latest improve
mentS.
The Pennsylvania railroad is restrict
ing the very free us. heretofore made of
ciergyman's half-rate tickets. Circulars
have been issued to ministers on the New
Jersey lines stating that the half-fare priv.
llegeS will hereafter be restricted To- the
parish i'm which the minister resides. and
then only wheo such munster is actually
doing parish work.
Friday merning bridge over Little
Blue. near independence, Mo, ON the
Setalia, Lexington Il Kansas City road. was
Carried away by high water and trains OF
Course were unable TO pass. The high wa
ter prevented the workmen from putting i'm
a temporary structure until vest, r.iav. To-
morrow trains will run through as usual
The bridge was 10 feet span and Howe
truss.
The flood in the East DELAYED train Mol
on the Ohio and Mississippi railway, which.
leaving Aurora, Ind, four hours late Fri
day morning, ran into St. Louis at the rate
of sixty miles an hour very unusual
Spced-which will he more especially re-
membered by railway men and passengers
IN consequence OF an unusual circumstance.
An emigrani woman on the train gave birth
TO a female child. The tact was discreetlv
kept silent by the courageous mother until
the child was wrapped il. sha~i aud made
presentable When the fact became k..own,
the baby was received much as was Luck in
:" Roaring Camp Assistance, sympathy
and condol ence were proffered on all sides,
but, unlike "Sal" in the story alluded to,
the mother was quite able To take care of
her own. Leaving the train with the babe
in her arms she followed the other emf
grants as though nothing unusual had &c.
auyred, and yesterday evening passed
through this city with large number OF
other emigrsnts, on her way TO Texas.