The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26

Ticket Receiver Crane, of the Pennsyl-
wanna lines VINO has been i'll for a month is
Ihuch improved.
}; w. Kali has beer appointed ticket and
Ireisht agent OF the Panhandle at Gnaden-
hutten, vice r. s. Spring, resigned.
The gross earnings from the operation of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for July,
1898, were 81 ,SO5,991, an increase of $50, 499.
J. ii. Martin has been selected as the sue
csssor OF j. ;. George as general agent of
the Chicago q Northwestern at Chicago.
The Chicago Great Western has given
notice of its withdrawal from the Western
Railroad Weighing and Inspection Bureau.
A.. M. Mendenhall assistant tranmaster
OF the Panhandle lines, has returned from
Pa.
George Graves, superintendent of the In
oiana, Decatur & Western. who has been
on a pleasure trip East, is expected home
to-day.
Prominent railroad officials of the trans
continental lines TO the number of thirty
are IN conference at Denver on the freight
rate question.
Since July the Big Four lines proper
have earned H,6S5,S57, against 81, 655 217 in the
Sorrg9 s sLS period of 1897. and against
Within the last thirty days eight hremen
on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois have been
promoted to engineers and new men en-
motive power of the Northern Pacific. will
1etlre to accept a position with the West
AlSHOuSe AlI-pTdhc
The Toledo, ST Louis & Kansas CITY
earned in the third week of August S51O5S,
decrease as compared with the CORE
spending week of 1897 of 81 OS6
Ii is predicted that the Great Northern
system before many months. All indica-
lions, it is said, point that way.
Twenty-five or more Big Four men at this
point yesterday went to Union City to at
tend the funeral of A. j. Connolly, late
trainmaster of the Peoria & Eastern lines.
+. r. Beatty, road foreman of engines on
so strikingiy resembles Rear Admiral
George Dewey that he has been nicknamed
Dewey.
eighty pounds to the. yard, is being placed
in the track of the Big Four between Shell
byville and Greensburg at the rate of half a
mile day.
The Chicago e. Eastern Illinois has con-
traeted with the Pittsburg locomotive
works for two large passenger locomotives.
engines for that road.
1t is stated that employees on the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois who visit saloons and
drink too much liquor do not wait TO be dis
charged but write out their designations
ard call for their time.
In the near future the passenger depart
ment of the Big Four, now in charge of J.
will be transferred to the Office of General
Superintendent Van Wrinkle.
Between Pittsbitrg and Columbus the Pan
- putting III lOFly miles or new
heavy steel rail distributing large quanti-
ties of limestone ballast. and before Oct l
viii have placed seven new bridges on that
division.
al Borland. conductor of the Pennsylvania
limited express. accompanied by his wife,
passed through here yesterday for Nebras-
ka. where they will spend several weeks
with relatives, on their return visiting the
Omaha exposition.
w. c.. Arp, superintendent of motive
power of the Vandalia lines, returned yes
terday from Pittsburg. where with num-
Der of other Western officials. he went to
attend a meeting of the officials OF the
power department of the Pennsylvania lines
west.
Superintendent o. w. Case, of the Pacific
Express Company. has notified the state
officials of Texas that his company will
comply with the recent ruling of the State
Railway Commission to pay the war tax
express matter destined to points in
Texas.
For some time past the Indiana Decatur
e Western has been loading at stations on
its line sixty to seventy cars with grain a
day. and as II is brought In here on 4 local
rate the road IL making very satisfactory