The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-27

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on official business.
George Bradbury. general manager of the
Lake Erie & Western, returned from
Cleveland yesterday.
that he win not accept The presidency Of
the Santa Fe while he Is the receiver.
IT. H. Noonan. general manager OF the
Central States Dispatch, left for New
York yesterday TO be absent ten days.
Otto Gresham. general solicitor for the
Chicago & Erie. is in the city looking after
some legal matters for the company.
]. II. Emmert. formerly assistant to the
general manager of the Kansas City, Fort
Scott & Gulf. has been appointed a d.
vision superintendent
Charles Hall, x-commissioner Of the de-
funct freight bureau. Is making an effort
70 revive the bureau on q different plan
than the former was operated
The Big -Four has just completed the lay
~ OF two miles OF new steel rails on sun
and weighs eighty pounds to the yard.
William X Bells, general manager of
the Railway. Officials and Employees As
house for some time with malarial fever.
Is about again.
General Passenger Agent Edwards. of the
Cincinnati ays nam III 3ats q cd Dsyson' frD mas min, In
age books of travelling statesmen in pay for
excess baggage.
Robert Rantou has been appointed gen.
eral division freight agent OF the Northern
Pacific. with headquarters al St. Paul. Mr..
Rantoul was formerly the secretary of Gen.
eral TraF-c Manager Hannaford-
The (hsago n Alton will, on Nov. 1. put
on a D cough daily line of Pullman and
tour sleepers. from Chicago and Bloom
tngtoIt to CALIFORNIA points. over the Iron
Noua lain and Texas Pacific routes.
The Chesapeake & Ohio will build an cleo
fric-light plant at Richmond, Va, TO sup
ply its storage batteries, which are used on
Its passenger trains for lighting tnem' and
which are proving a great success.
The ten-wheel engine "a. on the vandaila
yesterday hauled Train 20 from Fillmore TO
the Belt road. Indianapolis, thirty,one
cars in the train. including three sleepers.
The stockholders OF the Cincinnati. San
dusky & Cleveland will. on Nov. 1. receive
ope alstesp By the Big Four Snn' which ms sua rant
s per cent. annual dividends to stockhold-
The programme now is that on Nov !
non yards at New Albany, will succeed l..
II. Parker as agent at Lafayette. and
20 New Albany.
In the grading of the Fort Wayne &
Western the workmen are using very ef'
f~ectively an eight-horse-power grading ma
chime. The machine Is OF a new device. and
after the ground has been plowed-
Frederic Danforth, of Gardiner. Me-, has
Commissioner Of Maine. succeeding Coionel
Wildes. deceased. Mr.. Danforth Is a civil
engineer OF note and a prominent member
OF the American Society of Engineers
The gross earnings OF the Missouri Pa
cihc the second week of October reached
. little over $4,000 and came within 1900
OF It's high water mark The Toledo. St
Louis a Kansas City. in the second week
earned $5.sS, an increase this year OF $S23
General superintendent Waldo, OF the
Cincinnati, Hamilton a. Dayton, was In the
city yesterday He says all over the sys'
tenn a healthy volume of both passenger
and freight business Is moving; in fact
ebJut as much as they have power &C
handle.
rex To BOSTON ma sssd fhroueh here Thurs
day. I'm which there were 5000 pounds o.
cotton In III cylindrical bales. compressed
~ . new process This method OF balini