The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-08-24
RAILWAY RACKET.
A Budget of Local Information
for the Especial Benefit of
Railway Men.

1
for the Especial Benefit of
Railway Men.
Three new men were put to work
Friday.
Engine No. 50 will be turned out
Monday morning with a thorough
over-hauling.
The railroad men keep the skat-
ing rink pretty well crowded after
supper.
+. A. Wann, assistant general
freight agent of the Alton, has re-
turned from the north, to his home in
St. Louis.
--Engine No. 323 ran off a mis-
placed switch at the Third street cross
ing yesterday and for about an hour
made complete blockade of travel.
General Freight Agent c. V.
Lewis, who was in the city Yesterday,
states that the freight department:
have all the business that they can
furnish ears to handle
"A force of hands were engaged
laying a side track to the north side
OF the depot yesterday. The track
VIII be used to convey the materia.
for the new depot to the grounds.
The semi-annual meeting of the
national association of general passen-
ger AMI ticket agents Will be held in
New York at the Hotel Brunswick
on Tuesday, September p, at II
o'clock a m.
SUPERINTENDENT J. j. Frey, of
the VI X. d T., was in the city at
tending the funeral yesterday. He
reports everything running smoothly
at Parsons, and says the talk of a
strike is all a humbug.
Mr. Lon Hewitt, assistant gen.
eral foreman of the Missouri Pacific
shops left for Kansas City yesterday
morning on a short vacation. Mr..
Hewitt is one of the most able me-
chanics on the entire system
w. E. Jacobs, section laborer
from jamestown, with intermittent
fever, and Geo. L. Clark, bridge
carpenter from Parsons with sun
stroke, were the only admissions to
the hospital yesterday. Albert No
this was discharged.
The tea shipment over the Central
Pacific and Union Pacific roads so far
this season have reached 300 tons,
and during the past year over 2, 900
car loads of oranges have been sent
over the Central aud Southern lines.
David Wilke, section labOrer, Eu-
fala w. B. Gilman, brakeman, Sc
dalia; and Richard COckney. section
laborer, Kansas City, all suffering
from disease were admitted to the hos
pital yesterday. Z. PARROT and James
Baker were discharged.
Mr.. Simon CrOnin, of California, I!
No., has been appointed travelling |
auditor for the Missouri Pacific Raft
road. Simon is first-class business !
man, and we have no hesitancy in !
saying that the railroad company
could not have placed their interests
in safer hands.
Mrs. NJ. J. Shoemaker, wife of
Conductor Shoemaker, was in great
trouble yesterday on account of her
effects being attached, and
the fact that her husband was dis
charged last Friday and has not since
been seen, and she is unable tn account
for his absence.
The supreme court of Tennessee
mas decided that railway company
5 liable for the baggage of a passen-
ger when stolen or lost from the sleep
ng-car of train, even if such Sleep
ng-car be the property of another
The Court holds that
he road is not released from its re-
possibility for the protection of pas 5
engers by turning them over to an
ther corporation or individual who '
nav own or manage the sleeping-cars L
sed in connection with the railway
trains.