The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-22

Train No. s. now leaving here at 40 p.
m, will leave about $50 p. m, ana be
made much faster.
1t is stated that the Pittsburg, Virginia
& Charleston has the largest number or
stations on IL in proportion 10 It's mileage
not quite ffty-four miles long. and has
ffty-four regular stopping stations, or one
to every mile.
Some years ago the Chicago. Burlington
q Quincy built a branch from Abba 10
Monrovia, but soon abandoned it; now IL
Is proposed 10 utilize il again, extending
1t TO Moulton, which would give the %.
sas City. To do this would require the
building Of forty miles of road.
Mention was made Monday Of an attempt
to wreck q train on the Big Four, Just
east. Of Sidney. ON Tuesday detective
Grady, of the Big Four, captured Ninton
Ross and Henry Warick at Pemberton, o.,
and is satisfied that he has the right men.
Yesterday the two were bound over
two-thousand-dollar bond TO the grand jury.
NJ. Burke. supervisor OF tracks on the
second division Of the Peoria < Eastern,
has resigned to become roadmaster on the
Lake Erie & Western. AS result, y.
Kiley is transferred supervisor from the
first to the second division, }. - Welder
IS transferred from the third TO the second
division, and II. Winter section foreman,
vision.
The meeting of the freight men at the
Bates House yesterday to equalize rates
on iron and that class of freights from In
diana points to Missouri river points, was
attended by every line interested, and the
work was completed late last evening. The
conference was not in any manner TO adj
vance rates. but 10 equalize them with
West-bOund rates given at points In Ohio,
Michigan and Pennsylvania
The receivers Of the Louisville Evans
vile q st. Louis are Boosting a good deal
of the heavy traffic the road Is doing. 1t is
unfortunate for that road and for other
roads that do an east-bound business that
hn fro rhf 10 = tod Of hGf "a faC
The earnings of the l., Z. & St. l.. from
week 10 week indicate that the business
Is handled at an extremely low rate, and
that the receivers working more for
tonnage than revenue.
The Union Railway Company finds that
1t was wise move, in it's REORGANIZATION,
TO have q voice in the management Of the
property. George Bradbury, general man
ager OF the Lake Erie & Western. and
William Green, general manager of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, are prov
ing valuable members. and at no time in
the history or the Union hauWay COM
pany has there been so much system in
handling the property.
The minority stockholders Of the Cleve-
land, Canton 81 Southern road have fled a
cross petition in the United States Circuit
Court, at Cleveland, protesting against the
recent order granted by Judge Kicks, al
lowing the receivers to borrow sl,1OO.O9
The money was TO have been used in nq-
uidating the bonded Indebtedness of the
company. The cross petition says that the
The cross petitioners represent 100000 worth
OF stock The petition will be heard
March %.
The contractor who is building the new
bridge of the Peoria & Eastern over the
Wabash river at Covington yesterday noti-
fed General Manager Barnard that by
the Sd of April the company might abandon
the old wooden structure and run over this
new iron bridge, which rests on stone abut-
ments, has six spans each $50 feet long.
and cost the company $4,000 This is two
months earlier than the company expected
to use the new structure a number of
other bridges of less Importance will be
completed in the near future.
The Kanawha Dispatch, operating over
the Big Four and the Chesapeake & Ohio,
has issued. TO take effect April /. a very
elaborate new tariff. said to be one of the
most complete books Of this character that
has ever been published. giving rates from
all Western and Northwestern points to all
Southeastern points In the Virginias. the
Carolinas, and TO any point the Chesapeake
q Ohio, through its connections. reaches.
The opening of the Chesapeake & Ohio has
resulted in a reduction of freight rates TO
all Southeastern points of 20 per cent, as
compared with the rates Of three years
ago.
A. P. Yates, an employee on the New
York Central, has invented a pyrotechnic
danger signal of novel construction. 1t
on a single rail, to which is fixed rocket
she'll seventeen inches in length and tilted
at an angle Of about twenty degrees. In
use the rocket Is ignited by withdrawing
a cap. when the carriage is propelled along
the rail- until the powder in the rocket shell
| Is expended; red fire then explodes and
continues to burn about ten minutes 1t
IS stated that the signal will propel itself
| along the track for a mile I'm seventy sec
| onds. 1t has been tested successfully on
two of the trunk lines.
The adjourned meeting of the New York
| & New England stockholders was held at
Boston yesterday. About fifty stockholders
were present, less than half the number at
tending the first meeting The reorganiza-
| ton committee reported the following ticket
| for directors: y. G. Tower, of Philadelphia
| John Keane, jr., Thomas c. Platt, Benz.
| F. Tracy, of New York; Spencer Erven,
| James f. Sinnott, Of Philadelphia: Arthur
| Brock, of Lebanon, Pa: 3. +. Vaughn of
| Providence; d. 5. Plume, of Connecticut;
| Arthur Sewall. OF Portland; Gordon Alb
| Lowell, F. NJ. Weld. of Boston: John G..
| Moore, Gen. Samuel Thomas. of New York;
| John y Doane, of Chicago; NJ. X Perry, OF
Rhode Island. The directory is con-
sidered TO be a very strong one and was
| received with applause.