The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-04-22
AND TRAIN TALK.
Matters OF Interest Concerning
Railroads and Railroad
Men.

Missouri Pacific engine No. 279 was in
the shops for repairs yesterday.
New side tracks are being put in at a
number OF points on the north end of the
K. & T.
Several new side tracks have been laid
at the different yards, greatly increasing
the facilities for switching.
Passenger engine No. Is has been
beautifully painted and striped with gold
leaf. She will pull the passenger train
from this point to-day.
New scales are being put in at the
Russell coal mines. Ii will be remembered
that the miners struck some time ago on
account OF the dissatisfaction existing in re-
gard 10 weights, and the new scales are be-
ing erected In accordance with the demands
made by them.
Extensive repairs are being made on
the north md of the K & T. The road
bed is being gravelled from Hannibal to
Sedalia. At present the work is progress
ing rapidly between Moberly and Hanni.
bal, sixteen car loads Of gravel being for
warded from the latter place daily.
Engine No. 63, attached to the north.
bound local freight on the K. & T., broke
En-
CINE No. 80 came to the rescue, but met
with the same fate at BoOnville, although
it managed to reach Moberly, from which
point engine No. 81 took the train 10 Han
nlbal. A man was sent from Sedalia to
repair engine No. 80.
HE DIDN'T SCARE.
On the train from Cincinnati to Chatta-
noOga the talk CT the mob of six or eight
IN the smoking car ran to train robbery,
The subject was canyassed from every
standpoint, and all but one agreed that a
passenger car could be robbed without
danger to the robbers This chap was SELL
ing drugs for a Baltimore house, and he
announced his readiness to lay down his
lie whenever an attempt was made TO de-
prive him of his cash. IL was generally
believed that his courage W all talk, and
by and by when he fell asleep we put up a
job on him.
A giant of chap from Dayton, o., was
chosen to play robber. He was about the
Hgllest looking white man anybody had
ever laid eyes on, and he borrowed two re-
volvers, removed the cartridges and waited
for the right moment. As the train stop
ped at little station the big fellow opened
and slammed the door and cried out:
Hands up, gentlemen ~ The first one
OF you who drops hand is dead man p'
Up went our hands, and the drugman
awOke.
Up with m-throw 'em upP' COM
manded Dayton as he leyeled both shooters
at the drummer and slowly advanced.
'Not if | know MYSELF was the cool
reply, and what did the Marylander do
but out with his revolver and began
popping away! He had fired four shots
and driven the "robber" to the door before
any one could grab him and explain
matters. One bullet went through the big
mans cap, second burned his cheek, and
the third and fourth went through the
windows. He was whittier than snow as the
affair ended, and returning the reyolvers
10 their owner he stood in the aisle and
said /:
Gentlemen, you can put me down as
the biggest blamed fool in America ! Good
night %
And he took his coat and grip and left
ior sseat In another coach.-Deroit Free
Press.
RATE WAR AT LoUI svILLE.
The Ohio & Miss ssippi yesterday an
bounced that il was In the fight for BUSH
ness between here and New Orleans, and
zane out offering 50 rate via its road 20
)din, ILL.,, and from there over the Illinois
This complicates matters some
What, and is likely to make final settle
nent more difficult. The Cincinnati
Southern has not yet met the l. & n. rate
# SO, and it is considered doubtful if it
will for the present. 1t was stated on the
treets yesterday that the l.. & n intended
o push the war, now that it had COM
nenced, and if the Southern met the So
ate ii was prepared to "food the town"
With posters announcing IS, SIS or So
Journal.
AN INVOLUNTARY PEDESTRIAN.
whats the fare to Griggsville ?" asked
lank specimen of an Illinoisan at the c.,
3. & Q. ticket counter last night.
Three sixty-6ve," answered the cherub
N the other side.
81 knowed it. That's just my darnei
uck. Said / couldn't stand the racket on
hat last round of drinks"
Then slowly pulling out three silver dol
ars, he added: "Gimme ticket to Chaplin.
we got to foot the other twenty -one miles
nd catch Jerusalem from the old woman
fhen get home, too, but s'pose Pve got
o stand it. That's what fellow gets for
making a burned fool of himself in st.
4ewis."
The cherub passed over the ticket and
fifteen cents, and the gentleman from Illi-
lois rolled up his pants, spit on his hands
nd left for his pedestrian tour and the old