The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-30
ern Missouri river business from the re-
quirements of the agreement

ern Missouri river business from the re-
quiremenrs of the agreement
Seventeen landowners in the Big r &C.
coon bottom brought suit against the Fort
Wayne. Terre Haute IL Southwestern. and
the court decided that the appraisemens
was fair and just. and awarded damages
accordingly. The company Is not satisfied
and Will carry the case TO the Supreme
Court.
The Louisville. New Albany & Chicago
will. with the taking effect of the spring
timetable. increase the number of its
trains between Louisville and Chicago,
putting on a local train which Will stop at
every station. and an additional express
train each way: also, o morning train out
OF Indianapolis for Chicago is promised.
c. ii. Hoover. of Cleveland, O.. travelling
freight agent of the Big Four, Will on JAM.
1 take the general agency of the Big -Four
at Anderson. Anderson has become one of
the most important points, aside from ter
mirais, on the Big Four system. Five
switching crews and engines ere In service
there. and the entire force numbers fifty
two men.
TIVE Indianapolis and Ksnkakee, are
now hauled by the large ten-wheel engines
loO and Isl, each engine making 2S4 miles q
day. Coming south one of these en- gines
made mp forty-five minutes which the ILL.,
nois Central was late in turning the train
over to them at Kankakee, which is said TO
be the best run ever made on the west end
with a regular train.
One of the Bedford stone quarry COM
panles has furnished the Monon this year
with 3 COCO of its revenue in shipments of
stone. An examination of the orderss showed
that on Wednesday there were $500 car
loads of stone to be shipped East between
now and APRIL ]. which. in addition to it's
nearer home shipments, means a great bus
iness in this class of traffic for the Monon,
which business Is carried at good rates.
Yardmaster Lickert, of the VandalIa at
Terre Haute, on Wednesday discharged a
man for drinking intoxicating liquors
when on duty. The other men in the yards
took the matter M and threatened to
strike, and the penalty was changed to
thirty days suspension from work. A
strike for the reason that q man disobeyed
the rules of the company in drinking IN
| toxicatinR liquors when on duty would not
be countenanced by the SwitohDen's As
sociatlon. which Is as exactlng in the mat
ter of temperance as is the Vandalia man.
agement.
The general managers and chief engi-
neers Of the proprietary lines owning the
Union railway property at Columbus, o.,
were In consultation most of the day
Wednesday, planning to cut down the
grade or the Union tracks from two to five
feet for q distance of two thousand feet, n
portion of thu cut TO be in passing through
the Union Depot. There are eleven main
tracks TO lower. and all the sidings in and
about the Union Station. and the improve
ment must be completed before the worlds
fair business through that important rail-
road center sets in.
For courageous services and fidelity to
duty in repelling train robbers On No. A.
near Huntin gton, w. Va. Dec. 12. $780,"
was the unusual wording of q voucher.
just received by collector w. A. lingerie.
ofthe Chesapeake 81 Ohio railroad. 1t was
incl0sed in q letter from General Manager
u. w. Stevens. dated Richmond. Va. Dec.
p, and was intended as a Christmas gift
for the brave collector. who entered the car
just after Oscar Tick had. received his
death wound, and frightened the robbers
from the train. The letter is priced by. Mr..
lingerie fully as highly as it's valuable
inclosure.
The Big Four people have given the man.
Rgement of the Indianapolis stocky ards to
understand that hereafter Indianapolis Is
to be treated with some respect as q mar
ket for selling live stock and as q point for
resting, watering and feeding through
the Big Four secured copsroi of e the oe Bees
line, any stock which was picked up on
| the st. Louis division or shipped from st.
Louis was shipped through Indianapolis
without an hours delay. such rates being
given as would induce the shipper to ignore
this market and rush stock through with
out resting.
The new depots which the Big Four is
erecting on South Delaware street are
reaching a stage where the immensity of
Ing depot is 642 feet long, the loading
depot $40 feet. and beside the platforms
against the depot walls there are six Plat
forms between tracks. as long as the depots.
and conveniently located to handle freight.
The western building Will. when COM
pleted, have a three-stOry front on South
street and $50 feet on Delaware street. The
unloading depot is 80 arranged that the
draymen can drive under cover and unload
their freight.
The commercial travellers have not
dropped the matter of inducing the rail-
road companies to issue a ive-thousand-
mile interchangeable ticket. Petitions are
being circulated Mt the variousrailroad GEN.
tiers. and already over twenty-five Thousand
names have been secured. Ii Is no secret,
however, that railroad officials are not in
favor OF such a ticket, but those connected
with the strong lines would rather bave
the rate 2 cents per mile, with no deviation
therefrom on any class of travel. and, at
the same time. do away with all excursion
rates, which lead To more rate wars than
any other departure from regular rates any
railroad company makes.
The louisville. New Albany * Chicago
earned in the third week of December S5S.-
S3l. an increase this year over the cor
responding week of 1891 of So IA; the Lake
Ire and Western earned S66. 100. an in
crease this year of Ss61; the Toledo. ST.
Louis & Kansas City earned SiS,074, an IN
crease this year of $40: the Louisville. Ev-
ansville x st. Louis tMackev line), $50. 7SS,
an increase this year of SlS.S6 1he earn.
ings are now placed against the period that
the Patton tunnel was closed. The Gram
mai lines earned as follows: Evansville &
Terre Haute. $50. 2i2. an increase this year
of 81. l56; the Evansville * Indianapolis
S7,054. an increase OF $3.50; the Evansville
The Peoria. Decatur & Evansville. another
of the Mackey lines. earned a1g ga an in.