The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-01-29
RAILWAY RECITALS.
Brief Variations Of Recent Events
in Railroad Circles-Pe1sonals
and Pointers"

Dan Billiard, agent of the Missouri
Pacific at Independence, will Sunday in
Sedalis.
R VI. Peck, superintendent of bridges
and buildings of the Missouri Pacific, was
in the city yesterday.
j. b. Van Dyne, general superintend-
ent of the h. & L., went 10 st. Louis yester-
day mOrDin.
MIR. l.. NJ WEIGH, the efficient road
master of the K x T., returned yesterday
from Parsons.
Near Pilot Grove yesterday derange-
ment Of the rails resulted in throwing five
empty freight cars frcm the track.
A man made application to al Indi-
ana road recently To have a school desk, a
rocking chair and dog-hOuse transported
as personal property.
The Wabash ,mpany has been una
able to life the freight blockade at Deca u,
H., and other points, In consequence OF
which the tracks are filled with hundr d'
of loaded cars, many of which are on the
Champaign branch, near Monticello. Drifts
OF snow on the Chicago division is mainly
the cause OF the present difficulty.
AT Russeville. Ind. day or two ago,
a novel incident occurred. Sheriff Warden
having bill Tor st, 900 ia taxes against the
l.. x " railroad, due since last October,
which the company had treated with indif-
ference from time 10 time when he pressed
il for collection, levied on locomotive ly-
ing on a side track, and, to prevent il being
taken away, locked Its driving wheels with
a lOg-chain.
james p. Alders, an old-time railroad
engineer on the K. & T., came up from
Dennison yesterday with his wife. Upon
the train was a coffin containing their
child, four years of age The funeral
takes place this afternoon at the family
burying ground al Dresden. The sympa-
thy of manv friends is extended to Mr.
Alders and family in this sore affiiction
1T is officially announced at Quincy
that Mr.. John B. Carson retires from the
position of general manager of the Han
nibai & st. Joseph railroad, the active
management of the road devolviDg upon
Mr.. L. j. Potter, who was elected vice pres
ident at the late meeting of the company in
Boston. MIR. Carson will remain with the
Hannibal q ST. Joseph in the capacity of
vice-president and occupy an advisory po-
sition.
HOSPITAL ARRIVALS YE -TERDAY.
Joseph Dyer, a section laborer, living in
Henry county, Mo While riding on a
hand car train overlook it. He jumped
off and the hand car ran over his leg,
bruising it somewhat severely.
VIM. Stookley, a switchman residing at
Hannibal. While engage in switching
his foo. caught in guard rail, and the car
ran over it, MASKING his toes.
II. p Hull, agent at Little Blue, Mo,
afflicted with rheumatism.
K A. Fredricks, brakeman, living at
ST. Louis. He was making a coupling of
an engine to a coal car when he had one
finger Of his left hand crushed between the
bumpers.
BIG WASHING BILLS.
A large item in the expense of maintain
ing a sleeping car is the washing bill. The
Pullman company's entire outfit includes
$4,000 sheets, 10000 pillow slips, $4,000
blankets, $4,000 hand towels and 5000
roller towels. A car is entirely emptied
and cleaned as soon as il reaches its desti-
nation, and the linen is sent straight to the
laundry. The Wagner company's total
equipment is 1000 wooden blankets, 1851
linen sheets, 2,202 pillow slips, $40 hand
towels and 2.347 roller towels. The ex-
peDse of keeping the Wagner company's
bedding clean is $4,000 a year; the Pull
nan eompany's is larger.
ALL A MISTAKE.
Mr.. Vedder, passenger engineer on the
(. & T., states that the item in yesterdays
BAZoo, referring to a difficulty between
him and the yardmaster at Parsons, was
nrirely incorrect. He never had such
quarrel, and dlsclaims any desire to be
considered a man of pugilistic propensi-
les. A BAzoo reporter, innocent and
,uileless, was badly imposed on when be
vas told that little fiction about Mr..
Vedder.
And do you ask who gave the item?
He's thought 10 be a truthful person,
Yet likes " joke" 50 il is rumored-
His name is Officer Mcpherson.