The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-04

IcrSOn0ls LOc0f au0 Gemeral NOteS. !.
The Big -Four viii adopt its summer
On Sunday. June Il, the Louisvills. New
Cedar Lake. at 81 the round trip.
VIM. Bells. general manager Of the. Rail-
left for Boston last night, to be absent one
week.
Ex-Congressman Bacon of Goshen, N Y,
has been appointed counsel of the Erie
Railway Company In place Of L. Z. Carr.
resigned.
On June the new Car Service Association
begun operations at .Kausas City. adopting
the rules governing Eastern associations OF
that character. ~
W. J. Graham. of Cincinnati, has purchased
from y. dinner the Union Station, restaurant,
at Terre Haute. Mr. Dinner still holds his
interest In the hotel at Terre Haute.
In a few days trial will be made of an
engine which. Il Is said Is so constructed
as TO 100 miles an hour. The locomo-
tive is being built at Sparrow Point. near
| Baltimore.
The express companies are again doing a
heavy business In carrying bicycles. Last
night the American Express Company took
four carloads out OF indianapolis for one
establishment.
The Jurisdiction of c. A. Bernard. assist
ant general freight agent of the Ohio South
ern, has been extepted over the Lima
| Northern; also that OF L. Z. Fisher, assist
ant general passenger agent
| Regular train service was established on
Monday between Lima and wauseon, on the
Lima Northern. The American Express Com
pany will operate on the line. The track
| layers have reached Morenci
Charles Townsend, Who has resigned the
general agency OF the Baltimore & Ohio
City next week TO accept the secretaryshlp OF
| the National Guarantee Company
John Horgan. assistant trainmaster of the
Lake Shore, has been appointed trainmaster
| for the company. with headquarters at West
field Mr.. Horgan commsnced service on the
road fifteen years ago as train dispatcher
r. s. Greenwood has been appointed trav-
cling passenger agent of the Wabash for
Michigan. Mr.. Greenwood recently left the
| Ann Arbor road, where he has been In
service fer eleven years. He succeeds John r.
Green, resigned.
Chicago, Will place in service Pullman Sleep
! ing car on the train which leaves Chicago at
2:i5 "a q. m. and nd, reaches indianapolis At 5 a.
| night after . o'clock.
| George W. Dsman. who has been general
superintendent OF the Lima locomotive
works and machine shcp For twenty-five
| Monday evening presented him with an ee-
| CANT gold-headed cane.
George Sherman. general manager OF the
| Vanderbilt fast freight lines, was in the
| city yesterday, going 10 Cincinnati last night.
/ He speaks of freight trafic all over the coun-
| try as being unusually light. but anticipates
| an early Improvement.
The suit of H. G. Kemne against the To-
| iedo, st. Louis q Kansas City. has been
| transferred from the Clinton County Circuit
| Court 10 the United States District Court
| for trial. The plaintiff claims that he was in
| jured on account OF defective drawbar.
| Last month but eight new members were
| received into the Pennsylvania voluntary
relief department on the Indianapolis
| lines DIR. Talbot saws the fact is that
| nearly every empioye, unless section man.
now has a membership In the association.
I A number OF Omaha capitalists have inter-
| ested themselves In the projected Yankton Il