Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-11-23

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 Vice. President and General Mana. ger Russell Harding arrived in St Louis last week to take charge of his new position.
 Mr. Thomas Morris, night passen. ger brakesman, has resumed his du ties after slight illness.
 Kizer station on this road has beer closed against passenger trains.
 Engineer J. A. Stone can again bt seen handling the throttle on his cir GUS engine sbetween this place and Little Rock.
 MT. Carter Murphy, after suffering for the past week from q bone fellon is again at work in the machinery department.
 Mir. George Hursh has resumed his position after a business trip to Lit tie Rock.
 T. J. Mclean, formerly of the Great Northern, has been appointed chief clerk to Russell Harding, vice-presi- dent.
 MT. Jim Clark, for several years fireman on the switch engine in tue yard, has been promoted to firem an on the road.
 The gross earnings of this eompa- ny for the month of October were $5l ,435.
 It is rumored that the Pullman and Wagner sleeping car companies will consolidate in the near future.
 General superin tendent J. A. Ed son was in St. Louis last Tuesday. eonferring with General Manager Russell Harding.
 All tha cars on the rip track have been repaired and moved out and now the track presents a scene of loneliness.
 Paul Henderson, of J jacksonville Tenn, has accepted a position as mixer in the stock room of the paint 
 Blind mail and express car s7 has been run out of the paint shop.
 Mir. Chas. Roma will on next Fri dap night be initiated into the mys- teries of the A. o. r. ".
 Mir, Chas. HarveH, formerly a moulder for the Diliey Foundry com pany, has accepted a similar posi- ton with this company.
 L. $. Thorn, general manager of the Texas & Pacific, passed through the city this week en route to St. Louis.
 On next Thursday the shops will probably be closed on account Of Thanksgiving day.
 EngiL eer Bennett is still very sick at the hospital at Tyler, Texas. We hope he will soon be able to return home.
 Charley Kendall, an employe OF the rip track who recently went to the hospital on account of getting two of his fingers horribly mashed by pair of trucks, had one of them amputated while there.
 Mir. Chas. LeBaume, recently em- ployed in the paint department, can LOW be seen firing on one of Che switch engines.
 A new order is said to have recent ly organized called .'The Platt- Deutsche Grat Glide Van de Veree- ington Staaton Van Nard Amerika. " Whew! What name! This order certainly has at least a name.
 Mir. Thomas Hurley, who has been visiting friends, has gone to Little Rock to accept position as machin- ist at the Iron Mountain shops.
 A. $. Davidson, who has been run ming an engine on this road for a number of months, has severed his connection with this company.
 The pay car will arrive at this place about the 24th of this month ana pay off the employees.
 Charley Markley is now in the em- ploy of this company, having accept ed a position in the paint depart ment.
 Engine 96, which was recently built here and which has been switching in the Shreveport yards. has been sent to Cape Giradeau, Mo-. to work between there and Gray's Point.
 The Texas Ranger went north last x,,onl- ....