The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-18
Personal, Local and General Notes.

1illCdSO COlIlIlittee y adjustment Is I'M
derstood here to mean that the a-cent
rate will not be disagreeable to the East
ern lines and it will probably be made.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Baltimore & Ohio has closed it's shops
at Connellsvflle, Pa, for the present. af-
fecting 500 men.
James McCrea, first vice president of the
Pennsylvania Company. has gone to New
York on official business.
Four of the Louisville lines have agreed
to make a one-cent-a-mile rate for the
u. A. X. Encampment next September.
On Wednesday ]. NJ. Barr succeeded ].
ID. Farrell as general superintendent of the
western division of the Great Northern.
The Evansville & Terre Haute in the
first week of January earned SIS, 316, an in
crease over the corresponding week of 1894
of $65.
President Fish. of the Illinois Central,
passed through the city yesterday over the
Panhandle lines, en- route from the South t.
Chicago.
The date on which the new class freight
rates in Central Traffic Association terri
tory go into effect has been postponed from
February l to April J..
The Southern Passenger Association has
practically passed out of existence. eight
of the eleven roads which were in the as
ISOLATION having withdrawn.
The engines which were in the wreck on
the indianapolis, Decatur & Western road
last Sunday have been placed in the shops.
1t is thought S., 500 will repair the dam
ages.
After several months of labor on the part
of the commissioners and general passen-
ger agents of Western roads, every point
over which there has been trouble has been
adjusted.
The management of the Grand Trunk
lines has eased the minds of its employees
by issuing notice that there will be no fur
ther reduction in the working and clerical
staff of the company.
Shipments of coal from mines on the In
dianapolis & Vincennes northw ard are now
averaging eighty cars per day, about 60
per cent. of it going to Chicago and the
remainder to Michigan points.
The Big Four begins the year well, earn
ing, gross. the first week in January $2l9,-
35S, an increase over the corresponding
week of 1894 of SIG. 72S, and the second week
Will show increased earnings.
William Bronson. chief clerk in the Office
of General Passenger Agent Fuller, of the
Chesapeake & Ohio, who has been visiting
his father. I'll. M. Bronson, for two or three
days, will return to-day to Washington.
A fast train leaving Indianapolis for ST.
Louis in the morning will be a new thing for
indianapolis and will be appreciated by the
travelling public, as it will be one of the
fastest trains run between the two cities.
The stockholders of the Terre Haute &
day, elected william r.. McsKee president
John G. Williams. vice-president, and G.
q. harrington secretary and treasurer.
1t is stated that the 500 company will be
ure sale of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North
ern Michigan. An impression exists that
TIE HTSI mortgage DOnunOluerS VIII secure
the property.
The Pennsylvania people are contemplate
ing. If they can make arrangements with
the New York, New Haven & Hartford and
its Old Colony division, the hauling of a
through sleeping car on trains No. 20 and
p. or the new trains between st. Louis and
Boston.
Superintendent Darlington, of the Indian
apolis division of the Panhandle lines, on
Investigation, held conductor Overshiner
and engineer Kendall responsible for the
Urlnk 1lSf uynnIr n - anEcnn StaftAr ~
both were discharged from the company's
service.
Gen. John Echols. coreceiver and general
manager of the Chesapeake & ohio South
western railway, saws regarding Howard
Jolly's shortage at Memphis that the loss
TO the company will not be much, If any
thing, as Jolly's bond of $1,000 would more
than cover it.
General Solicitor Thurston. of the Union
Pacific states that Mr.. Anderson's PROPOSE
ton as to assessing the stock of the COM
| pany and extending the government lien for
fifty years at ? per cent. is the fairest
scheme which could be devised for the pro-
lection OF the government debt
The report that there is likely to be a
compromise between the Burke syndicate
and the Columbus < Hooking Valley is con-
firmed. This litigation has been pending
several years, and bitterly fought by both
parties. Two or three times has the legal
battle been so fiery that ugly SANDER suits
We're threatened.
The Pennsylvania Company owns ground
at Dayton, o. and at another point in Ohio
which would be valuable property for the
Big -Four to acquire. On the other hand,
the Pennsylvania Compan would like to
secure the ground on South Alabama street
north of the Union tracks, which the Big
Four owns, and 1t is quite probabl thai
some arrangement will be made for an ex.
change OF property.
The new trains between st. Louis ant
New York over the Nandalia and the Penn
sylvania lines will haul, between st. Loui:
and Indianapolis. only a combination car
a ladies' coach, a dining car and sleepins
car; at Indianapolis another sleeping eal
will be added for New York. West bound
the train VIII be the same, except tina
the dining car will not be put on until tn,
train leaves Indianapolis for the west.
TIL Nandalia will utilize It's annex yards
on South PENNSYLVANIA street, north OF the
Union tracks in which to place ears loaded
with material for street improvements, such
as brick. stone and asphalt. besides using
the tracks for unloading fruits, vegetables
etc, In the two months the yard has beer
opened for business 500 or more carloads o.
brick and broker stone have been unloadef
by the contractors on these switches and i
has proved a great convenience.
j. V. Dorland is preparing to enter sui
in the Laporte Circuit Court for SO, 90
against the Lake Erie & Western for Tn,
: killing of his father. The case is OF NOR,
than ordinary interest from the fact tina
his father, when killed, was travelling OF
an editorial mileage book, which ticket con
tains an agreement that in case OF acciden
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