The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-10

will continue in the position. but have the
title Of division freight and passenger agent
of the Marietta division of the Pennsyl-
vania Lines west.
The Grand Rapids e. Indiana will build
a number OF new bridges on it's line, re-
placing wooden structures with steel OF
the number will be a new bridge at Men
done, where the road crosses the st.
Joseph river. Several new depots will be
built, one at Petoskey TO cost $4,000.
Passenger Traffic Manager Edwards. of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton e. Dayton, Gen.
eral Passenger Agents Lynch, or the Big
Four, and McCarty, OF the Baltimore q
Ohio Southwestern, were in the city last
meeting of the Central Passenger Associa-
ton, to be held to-day.
There is said to be some truth in the re-
port that p. III. Morrisey, late grand chief
resigned with the intention of forming an
other federation of American Railway En-
ployes, to include trainmen, firemen. teleg-
raphers and engineers who are not in har-
mony with the Brotherhood OF Locomo-
tive Engineers.
A meeting of the stockholders of the ST.
Louis. Vandalia & Terre Haute Railroad
Company was held yesterday at Greenville,
Ill. The old board of directors was re-
elected and the following officers were APP
pointed: President, James McCrea, Pitts
burg; vice president, Joseph Wood, Pitts
burg; secretary, S. B. Liggett, Pittsburg;
treasurer, t. ii. B. Mcknight, Pittsburg.
There is excellent authority for stating
that the pension plan recently adopted on
Pennsylvania Lines east will be extended
over the western lines in the near future.
Pamphlets, giving information will soon be
published among employees on the western
lines educating them in what the plan
means. If extended west of Pittsburg sew
eral of the high officials will be affected,
and also a number of men in train serv-
ice.
rTlo
Company of New York against Judge
Stevenson Burke and his associates in the
old Columbus, Hooking Valley & Toledo
Railroad Company, involving $780, 900
worth of bonds, has been dismissed by
agreement. This action is said to be the
outcome of the recent deal by which the
interests of the Hooking Valley and the
Ohio Central roads were pooled, Judge
Burke having been heavily interested in
the Ohio Central
Sixteen years ago Saber Rouse, the
daughter of a section foreman on the
Union Pacific Road, was run over by q
freight train on that line in Cherokee
county, Kansas, and one of her legs was
crushed below the knee. AT that time she
was two years old. She grew into woman
hood without making any claim against the
railroad company. but short time ago.
Just before her eighteenth birthday, the
Union Pacific Company was notified that
she had brought suit for damages for $50,
600.
1t is said that General Superintendent
Blodgett, of the Lake Shore, will be given
the title of general manager, a position
that has been vacant since w. II. Caniff
went to the Nickel-plate, and that A II.
smith, division superintendent at Toledo,
will be promoted to general superintendent.
With this accomplished the Michigan divi-
sion Of the Lake Shore will be extended to
include ell the western division except the
Chicago terminals. which will be place
under a superintendent, A. B. Newell hav-
ing charge of the entire Michigan and
western consolidated divisions