San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-05
RAILROAD NEWS.

The Mexican Central has begun
running through Pullman from the
City of Mexico to st. Louis.
A number more of Sunset specials
with California fruit passed through
yesterday.
The st. Paul and Duluth proposes
to make Superior, Wis, its lake ter
minus.
1t is stated that under the new deal
E. p. Viuing is to return to the Union
Pacific to occupy a prominent po-
sition.
Some amendments to the interstate
orously urged at the short session of
Congress.
The New York state railroad COM
mission has refused the application of
the Rochester and Lake On tario road
for permission to suspend the opera
ton of the road during the winter
months.
Telegraph Operator &. w. Davis OF
the Southern Pacific, is to be married
Wednesday, December II, to Miss
Sarah He'll, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
&. A. He'll. The ceremony will be
performed at the First Cumberland
Presbyterian church.
The net earning of the Chesapeake
and Ohio road since July were $780,
COL, an increase over 1889 of S49 ,063.
OF this amount Sl7 ,lS9 was made in
October, and November promises
equally good results.
The order of the Rogers Locomotive
Works from the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy is for thirty locomotives,
aud an option is given for forty more,
The Baldwin Locomotive Works are
said to have duplicate order from
the same road.
The Southern Pacific sells one fare
round trip tickets to FL Paso for the
races and bull fights, commencing
Dec. 9th, good to return until Dec. 25,
inclusive.
The position now accorded s. II. III.
Clark in the Gould reports is that of
confidential adviser and Vice Pres
ident of the Union Pacific.
Within the next four months the
Toledo, st Louis and Kansas City
road will add 500 cars and ten freight
locomotives to Its equipment.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day.
ton company will add ten new freight
and five passenger engines to its mo-
tive in the near future.
The S. A. p. passenger trains be-
tween this point and Yoakum have
not been stopping over at Cuero, ow-
ing to smallpox in that town. There
are only few cases there, but no eff
fort having been made to check the
disease, Health Officer Rutherford
at that point for three or four days.
The New York Central has built at
its West Albany shops five handsome
new cars for the new fast mail train
which will be put on the New York
Central and Lake Shore on Sunday
next. The bodies are of pearl color
with a very light stripping.
The Baldwin Locomotive works
have closed con tracts with the Union
Pacific for thirty locomotives; with
the Texas and Pacific for ten; with
the Northern Pacific for nine; with
the Missouri Pacific for fifteen; a
total of sixty-four.
General Superintendent G. E. Top
ping, of the United States Express
company, has notified the Express
agents in Mexico to refuse the ship
ment Of all moneys suspected of being
intended for purchase Of lottery
tickets.
The Uriln Pacific viaduct at Chey-
enne, Wyo., will cost $40, 900, $4,000
to be paid by the city and the balance
by the railroad company. The via
duct is to be OF steel and Iron and
is to be commenced as soon as the
contract is closed.
The first electrical railway in
Sweden has been completed. It is
situated at the Boxholm Iron Found
ry and works capitally. The whole
installation has only cost ESQ, of
which the locomotive absorbed $500.
1t is worked through dynamos al
ready in use for electric light, which
accounts for the cheapness.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas
road would like to build about Is
miles of its road to Lockhart, to
which point the road bed is in perfect
condition for the ties and rails, Lock
hart beng on the S. A. p. road. 1t
would thus have an entrance to San
Antonio. The road however, being
in the hands of receiver, cannot
be built without permission of the
federal judge, which permission is
not forthcoming.
Assistant Land Commissioner G.. w. |
Polk, of the Houston and Texas Cen |
trail and S. P, is in the city.
The following changes In the new |
L. and G. N. time table which goes |