Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-02-08
RAILROAD NEWS.
Matters From Here and There Concerning the
Great Corporations.

Matters From Here and There Concerning the
Great Corporations.
A dispatch from Roanoke, Va, 10
the Baltimore Sun of Monday says:
Rumors Of an impending strike Of
Norfolk and Western employees are
rife, but every effort 70 ascertain the
true state of affairs has been baffird
by those of the employees who are in
a position to know. The men arr dis
satisfied with the recent cut in wages,
but whether strike will be organized
cannot be foretold. Inquiries at the
general Office were net with the
assurance that conferences with the
committees of the labor organiZa
lions represented on the road had
been held. with the result that thew
acquiesced in the cut and that no
trouble was apprehended; still there
is much talk of secret conferences
having been held and the coming and
going of memb-rs OF the grievance
committees, and a general strike
would not surprise any body here
outside Of railroad circles.
Bob and Sam Austin and Sandy
Casey, the three negro men who at
tempted to wreck a train on the Nor
folk and Western Railroad, were taken
out of the jail at Pulaski. Va, the
other night and carried into the
woods aud hung up until they were
nearly dead with the hope Of eItort-
ing from them a confession OF their
crime. In each case the men asserted
their innocence. The mob returned
the prisoners to Jail. The men were
suspended until they had almost
strangled them TO death. The lynch
ers consisted of tweuty-siX masked
men, whose identity i unknown. A
day or two afterward John Dolman,
the first man arrested, made another
confession, in which he said he alone
was guilty. Casey and the Austins
We're then released from Jail
Work on the b & O improvements
al Harper's Ferry is getting near
completion now. Workmen are en-
gagged on the last span Of the bridge
aud the track il being laid on the new
embaukmpnt along the bluffs. II Is
said that the trains will run over the
Jew line in about month. The site
Of John Browns fort mas been com
pletely buried by the roadbed
Some Harprr's Ferry people think
that if there il another flood in the
Shenandoah river the changes in the
road will cause serioHs damage to the
lower part of the town.
The gross earnings OF the Norfolk
and Western Railroad for December
were S794. OIL, aud the expenses, in
Guiding taxes, S6070S5, making the
net earnings Sls7,S26, Il decrease Of
S3S. 500. For the year 1898 the gross
earnings wers SlO.O326l7. expenses,
including taxes, 81, 1919 AGO, aud net
earnings S2,S33,l57, II decrease Of
SsS,051.
Col. G. NJ. Futterer, the genial trav-
cling agent for the n. & w Railroad,
received a silk hat from a theatrical
company last week for being the ug
Hest man in Hagerstown. Some say
that the Colonel was entitled to it
and some say that he was not.
The Martinsburg World suggests
that as the b & q. Railroad shops at
that place are now Of very little use
to the company they might be secured
by the business mems association for
the location of some other industry.
The Norfolk & Western Railroad is
renewing its efforts TO gain an en-
trance into Washington City.
A freight train was wrecked near
Boyce on Tuesday, causing considera-
BILE delay to n. g. w. trains.
The Norfolk & Western pay-car
made its welcome visit here the first
of the week.