The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-02

that the Grand Trunk was favored because
It carried its passengers over the Lehign
Valley, while the Canadian Pacific carried
its over the New York Central.
N. w Taylor, general freight agent of the
Vandalia lines, was in the city yesterday to
confer with Receiver Malott. Mr.. Taylor
ne a. Ss fo5 al haa ns Mas ba nf
October which was a record-breaking
month.
c. C. Waldo, general manager of the Gin
cinnati. Hamilton & Dayton. Chief Engi-
neer Wilson and George Lowell, general su-
perintendent of the Monon lines, and
Chief Engineer Hall were in the city yes
the new joint freight depot. Plans were
agreed on and the Improvement will be COM
menced at once.
The board of directors of the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad Company has declared it's reg
ular semi-annual dividend of 21z per cent.
1t is known that the earnings of the COM
pany have been in excess of this sum, but,
as was generally anticipated in financial
circles, the board adhered to its conserva-
tive policy, in declaring the regular half
yearly dividend of 21e per cent.
Henry Fraser, general agent of the Big
-Four lines at this point, stated last even
ing that the cash receipts from freight re-
ceived at indianapolis in October We're the
largest Of any month since the road was
consolidated. There were loaded and un-
loaded at the city freight depots during the
month 1874 cars and cars are loaded 20 per
cent. heavier than at any former period.
Judge Kicks, of the United States Court,
at Toledo yesterday took the Columbus.
Lima & Milwaukee Railroad out CT the
hands of the receiver and turned Z over, TO
the stockholders. An application was fiied
by Oliver NJ. Stafford showing that all the
accounts of the road had been adjusted.
The receiver. Frederick Riltman, Ilied q
similar report. and stated that ne believed
the road TO be all right. The petition was
granted.
Suit was filed in the United States Court
at Cincinnati Tuesday by the Mercantile
Trust and Deposit Company, of Baltimore,
asking that a mortgage be forecloSed on the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. 1t alleges that
a mortgage for $2s 900 600 was given in 1885,
and that last August $4,000 interest was
due and unpaid. They ask for receivers.
the road and receivers Cowen and Murray
into court.
Governor Pingree is determined to carry
his suit brought to compel the Michigan
Central to sell him a thousand-mile mileage
book for $50 10 the United States Supreme
Court If possible Yesterday Attorney Cen
eral Maynard, of Michigan, applied to the
State Supreme Court for writ of error
to permit removal of the case TO the high
est court. Failing in this Maynard will
apply to Justice Harlan, presiding justice of
the federal circuit which embraces Mich
gam or, If necessary to the Supreme Court
itself. The attorney general insists that the
Supreme Court has never passed on the
claim that the right to fix transportation
tolls is part of the police power of the
federal government only and not of state
governments.
The Baltimore & Ohio will not adopt the
Raub locomotive for service between New
York and Washington, as has been stated
in an item which has been going the rounds
of the papers for the last month. The motive
power department of this railroad has
looked upon the rumor with considerab BILE
amusement, as within the past year and a
half the Royal Blue trains have been hauled
by the finest. fastest ard strongest ten
wheel passenger engines in the world
These locomotives have seventy-eight-inch
drivers and since they have been in serv-
ice have proved so eminently satisfactory
that nothing better can probably be secured.
1t will be remembered that one of these
magnificent new locomotives, the 1873, pulled
1896. from Philadelphia to Washington in
1856 minutes a distance of 135 miles, and
made one five-minute stop. They frequently
run eighty-fve miles an hour with six and
eight cars