The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-27

A cablegram was received from Nj. T..
Ingalls,, yesterday, stating that ne. was in
Paris on Sunday. and would be there for
two or three days
To keep its shops in operation. the Le--
high Valley will build two thousand coal
venient to be well provided with.
The Vandalia will to-day have three
switching engines and crews at work at the
block coal mines at Brazil, and before the
week is out expects TO have five kept busy.
Mort Pearson, formerly train dispatch
er on the Vandalia. in his new office with
the Order Of Railway Telegraphers' Asso-
citation, is to receive $1,000 a year and ex-
penses.
Walter Wilson. the Oldest engineer, in
point Of service, on the Lake Erie Vest
ern. is threatened with total blindness and
has retired from railroad service His
home is Peru, Ind.
Grand Master Sargent, Of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen, returned from
New York on Sunday, and on Monday
started for an extended western trip in the
interest of the organization.
Samuel Brash, passenger conductor on the
Peoria x Eastern, is a great sufferer from
rheumatic troubles, SO much so mat ne
cannot move about without help He has
been taken to Spencer for treatment.
A new feature has developed in the
Southern rate war by the inclusion OF. New
Orleans point where the graduated cut
rates are operative. This will draw the
Illinois Central into the decentralization.
The Cincinnati, Union City q Chicago
Railway Company has struck a snag at
Bluffton An election has been ordered to
vote subsidy to the road OF $SS. OOO. and so
bitter is the opposition that 1t is likely to
be defeated.
The friends of George H. Valiant vice
president of the Erie will regret that he
has entirely lost the use OF his limbs and is
moved about only in chair Some weeks
ago he suffered an attack or paralysis, and
more recently second attack.
The first six months of 1894 the Lake
Shore road has been operated On 65.91 per
cent of its gross earnings, against 7O.9 per
cent. in the corresponding six months OF
1893; the Michigan Central on Ills per cent,
against 1862 per cent. last year.
The Pennsylvania shopmen and their
friends at Fort Wayne had their annual
picnic on Saturday, going to Eagle lake.
The train which carried the eXcursionists
was run in three sections. Not a drop of
intoxicating liquor the ground, and
not an accident occurred to mar the occa-
sion
The passenger agents of the roads in the
Chicago & Ohio River Association have
formed local association and elected /.
d. Baldwin, general agent OF the Monon
and the c., II. & D., at this point, chair
man, and II. NJ. Bronson, assistant general
passenger agent of the Big Four, secre-
tary.
Nine weeks ago the coal miners strike
was inaugurated the indianapolis &
Vincennes road, and the roads which de-
pended on the mines on that line for coal
have not been able 10 get pound or coal
| from this source until yesterday, when the
l. & V. delivered ten carloads TO the Lake
Erie q western
General Counsel Carey, of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul, who has been in
Washington some weeks looking after the
| amendment to the interstate-commerce act
| cago, and says the amended interstate
| commerce act will pass both houses within
/ the next ten days.
The improvements which the present man.
| agement of the Louisville, Evansville & st.
| Louis proposes to make at the st. Louis
terminal are taking definite shape. The
plans for the new buildings have been ac-
| cepted by the company's officers and it is
proposed to take advantage of the present
| favorable times for doing such work.
The case of the State on relation Of F.
/ road to secure a forfeiture of charter of
/ the road, which has been in the courts for
| fore Judge Capron at Rochester, Ind. One
/ OF the Logansport papers Is so sure that
| the charter will be forfeited that IT has
/ appointed w. A Osmer receiver Of the
road.
| The first Northern Pacific through pas
| senger train since June 1 arrived at Ia
/ coma yesterday. Hereafter trains will run
! regularly. In eight hours, Sunday, AS cars
| of delayed freight which had been col
| lected at Tacoma were shipped to Port
| land. The first train of four hundred car
| loads of freight which has been tied up
east of the break in Idaho was moved
| yesterday.
Freight Traffic Manager Walker, of the
| Chesapeake e. Ohio, cables from London
| that with President ingalls,, he has accom-
! plished all he set out to in the putting on
| OF additional steamships between Newport
| News and London and Liverpool. The par
| ties who established the line are more than
| pleased over the results thus far, claiming
| that never has steamship line been es-
| tablished which has so quickly come TO the
| front.
Harry Mounts, secretary of the Indian
| apolis division of the Order of Railway
] Conductors, says this is another of the
| older railway organizations whose members
are not jumping over each other TO become
| He does not know member or the Indian
| apolis division who has gone TO that or
| ganization. ard it is one of the largest Of
| the divisions OF the Order Of Railway Con-
| ductors
| ployes who have given satisfactory service
| for twenty-five, thirty-five and fifty years.
| At the end OF 1898 rewards of $12 each had
been given during the year to 1872 en-
| years, $40 each to 323 men who had
worked thirty-five years. and S24 each TO
| five men who had served over fifty years.
The half-century employees are also deco
| rated. These payments are made only 10
| the lower class of laborers who have no
| official position and are not in line to have
| one.
The Chicago Burlington & Quincy has a
| relief association. similar in its character
| to that of the Pennsylvania Company The
Supreme Court OF Nebraska handede down
| a decision, last week, in case where an
employe OF the c., e. a q. sought dam
ages, after drawing benefits from the as
| socia ton, to the effect that where benefits
were accepted from the association, a suit
for damages was void. In this decision the
| Nebraska Supreme Court agrees perfectly
| with a recent decision of the Supreme Court
| of Indiana where an employe on the In
| dianapoliS & Vincennes sued the Pennsy1-
| vania Company for damages after drawing
| benefits from the relief department.