Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-05
mortgaged property to the Central Trust
Comnanv for 90 I'll 010

mortgaged property to the Central Trust
Company for 81, Isl. 900.
ALL travel on the Canadian Grand Trunk
Railway is suspended on account OF bridges
over the Salmon river being washed away.
IT is reported that j. S. Leeds will be ap-
pointed Traffic Manager of the Union Pacific
road, to succeed Mellon, who has resigned.
This is contingent upon jay Gould cont1nu-
ing in control of the road.
COLONEL JOHN OvERroN, Of the Tennessee
Midland, confirms the report that the roao
has been sold to the Paducah, Tennessee and
Alabama Railroad Company, and 1t Will De
extended to Nashville and Birmingham.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad bridge
across the Yamaska river, on the old South
eastern branch line, was carried away BY
the ice jam Of Sunday night, which crushed
to pieces the ice piers above the bridge,
and, sweeping down, ground the structure
to pieces.
THE officials of the Pittsburg, Youngstown
and Ashtabula Railroad. furnished special
train yesterday and 300 employees from
Youngstown, O., and points along Ss;-i ine inc inc
of the most popular engineers on the road
at Ashtabula.
A CHARTER was granted at the State De-
partment at Harrisburg, yesterday to the
Tionesta Valley and Hickory Railroad Com
pany, capital $500 900. The line viii be hve
in Forest county. Truman ID. Collins, OF
Nebraska, is president.
THE Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul road
continues to show large increases in
revenue from traffic. During the fourth
week of March the gross earnings were
$50, an increase as compared WITH I'D, the en-.
corresponding week last year of $202S Sa7.
For the entire month the earnings were
So IA, ,040 ar increase of s609, ,H7.
Ara meeting of the Chicago Railroad As
sociation to-day the following officers we're
elected: President, James c. Pond, general
passenger agent of the Wisconsin Central;
Vice President d. B. Martin, of the Big
Four; Secretary and Treasurer, A. F. Nc
MILAN, of the Michigan Central; Executive
Committee, George 81. Heaferd, c. L. Stone
and W. Z. Davis.
AT the annual meeting of the Chicago and
Alton board yesterday the following officers
were reelected: President, 7. B. Black
stone; Vice President, j. C. McMullin; Secre-
tary and Treasurer, Charles H. Foster; Cen
eral Manager. Charles H. Chappell: General
Solicitor, William Brown; Auditor. Chauncey
stone, John B. Drake, John Mitchell, j. c.
McMullin and A. A. Sprague.
THROUGH shipments of flour, grain and
provisions from Chicago to the seaboard by
the lines in the Central Traffic Association
aggregated 45,44 tons against 81, 739 for the
preceding week. an increase of 7,7o5 tons,
and against IS, los for the corresponding
week last year, an increase of 1889 tons.
The Vanderbilt lines carried 81 per cent of
the traffic; the Pennsylvania lines. IA per
cent: the Chicago and Grand Trunk, % per
cent, and the Baltimore and Ohio, per
cent.
MEETING OF the stockholders Of the PAN
anna Railroad Company was held at the
Comsany's headquarters in New York yes
terday. There were but two changes in the
officials, these being two new members on
the Board Of Directors, to fill the vacancies
of two deceased members. General William
B. Franklin, Commissioner of the Worlds
Fair to Paris, and j. H. Parker, President of
the vacancies caused by the death Of T.
De Bebian and D. A. De Dina.