National Republican., 1885-05-20
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Sources.
G, K. Lord, general passenger agent, Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, was in the city yes
tcrduy.
Mr.. Kenyon, of the Atchlson, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railway Company, was in Washing
ton Monday.
W A. Carpenter has been appointed assist
ant general freight agent OF the Norfolk and
Western road, with headquarters at Lynch
hurp Va ,cf-....
which destroyed the round house OF the FL
mira, Cortland and Northern Railroad Com
pany on the 17th instant.
Henry s. Morse, who has resigned the man.
agcrship Of the Brunswick and Weston road
was at one time assistant master OF tIansporta-
tion of the Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago divi-
sion.
twenty-five families lost everything in the
fire which destroyed the town OF Granville,
! Mich IN the Detroit Lansing and Northern
railwGy, on sunday last Loss. $4,000 or
/ SljJ,OOD
H. NJ, Smith has resigned as master mechanic
| Of the Union Depot and 81. Louis Bridge Com
| pany to accept similar position on the Vir-
| ginia Midland road, with headquarters at
Alexandria, Va.
A company known as the Berkeley Springs
and Potomac has been incorporated in West
/ Virginia to build road from Bath Morgan
/ county, where the Berkeley springs are
| located to Alpine, on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad,
The Union canal was sold Saturday after
/ noon at public sale under a foreclosure of the
! first mortgage, the purchaser being counsel
for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company In the interest Of the bondhOlders.
The price paid for the property was 5000.
The hurricane which occurred in the little
town Of Taylor, Texas, on saturday evening
demolished the Missouri Pacific railroad
freight house. unrooied the round house,
wrecked the Clty,hall, and damaged about II
dozen other buildings. The railroad COM
puny 3 loss is 5000, and the damage to the
other buildings Is from $4,000 to $4,000. No
lSyGs were lost.
The United states Senate committee on In.
terstate commerce, consisting Of senators Cul-
lOm, Of Illinois. chairman; Warner Miller, Oi
German, Of Maryland, and lsham G. Harris, OF
| Tennessee, arc In session at New York to in.
ycstigate the subject OF the regulation of com
mcrco between the states The object Is 70
obtain full information on the subject to aid
in framing legislation In the coming Congress
The accident on the Philadelphia and Read.
in; railroad on Saturday Inst Is said TO have
been due TO the gross CarcessRess of Jacob
Hoover, the train dispatcher, who gave the
right OF way TO two engines moving ~ differ
cnt directions on single track al the same
| time. Hoover, on learning that Engineer
street aud Fireman Shark had been killed, al
once Left his post at Ashley, ana when las
seen was on a Pennsylyania train en- route fol
sunbury or harrisburg,
The different roads and car companies
reaching New Orleans that are Interested IL
the rcopeniug of the New orleans Exposition
next year are to subscribe 100000 to further
that object. Mr. Pullman says his company
viii do It's lull share toward the continuation
OF the Exposition; that the enterprise was oil
great service in many way5, aud II would bt
4 slama not TO reopen Il again, now that th'
buildings aud everything are in good shape
and the expense In future years will be but
I fraction OF that of the first year.
The present management Of Pacific Mail &
issuing a circular asking for proxies 10 be
used nt the.lorlhcoming annual election, ant
they base thGir ClaiIns upon the statement
that during the past iivO years they hay,
| added five new steamers, have paid Oft the en-
tire floating debt Of S2,2J0OOO, and have pRit
Sl,l23O OlO IN dlYIlehds, lhe hrst that haye peer
| paid IN many years. In addition to this, they
! have secured the repeal OF sOmO unjust laws
y aud the passage Of n new aud more equitable
= | law RumOrs have been In circulation to the
| effect thALR serious deialCaLiOn had been dis
covered in the Union Pacific olice. The repre-
sent0tiyes Of the company in Chicago makj
$ the most positive statements denying the stor!
In every particular and declaring that II Ia
no foundation in fact. dispatch was 70
! CeiYed yesterday from the Union Pacific ono,
5 In Boston saying that the rumor of dcialGG
. tinu IN thc cOnpany'S 0hice was pure tabr
cation. The friends Of Tie company bcliey
that the story was started by tho bears In th0l
Il desperation, for the purpose OF depressing tn
!, PRICE Of the stock, which has had such dc
- cded advance recently
Arguments were had by Judge Lawrence II
the New York supreme court yesterday upOl
r a motion to yuCate an order for the examina
j. ton OF Jay Gould and Russell Sage before trial
. Could and sage were the trustees of the con
- sOlidRtcd mortgage bonds Of the Kansas Pacifi
i kaliWGy company. Included in the tru'
property were shares Of tho Denver Pacih
HALLWAY Company representing about 5000
ugl. The Denver Pacific Company, not bein
j. in good condition. and tho Kansas Paclh
q Company claiming that II could make goo
1 use Of the stock, and that the security for th
mortgage would be sufficient without th
shares asked the trustees to give up the share
to Il. The trustees, who are members Of IN
i, executive committee OF the Kansas Paolt
A Company said they wero willing TO give u
- the shares, but they did not think they coul
r do 50 unless undGr Judgment of the court 4
Il proceedings duiy taken. In 1881 suit wa
Is brought In the supreme court by the kansa
. Pacific against the trustees Of It's own mortgag
= for the release Of the S3,OO0,G00 Of tho Denye
Pacific shares OF stock Gould and sage AZ
4 sWGred In that suit that they would plaC
N. themselves under the direction Of the cOur
2" The case was sent to a referee, who decide
n that there would be sufficient security for th
,. mortgage without the shares Of stock, and thl
.. Il would be 70 the advantage of the Kansl
Pacific 10 get control OF the shares. A Judi
D. ment was accordingly entered Ia favor Of III
Kansas Pacific Company,