The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-31

Boston, claimed to be due TO the flying Of
minute particles Of metal failing from the
rails Of the elevated road.
The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and
ago put into service its new double track
rolllng-lift bridge across the Cuynhoga
river at Cleveland, Ohio.
Plans for eleyatlug the tracks OF the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
railroad through Wilmington, Del. have
been submitted TO the street and sewer
department OF that city by the company.
The Mexican government has granted
concession to the Kosmos Steamship com
rany Of Hamburg. Germany, by which
monthly steamship service between the
west coast Of Mexlco aud Mediterranean
ports Is assured.
Trunk Western railway Is progressing as
rapidly as the present scarcity of labor will
permit and Is reported completed from
Port Huron to Durand on the east and
from Chicago 10 Valparaiso on the west.
on November 3 the Chicago aud North
western Union Pacific aud Southern Pa
cihc VIII adopt new time schedule for
hrst-class passenger service. between Chi
cagO and San Francisco which VIII short
en- the time OF the Overland Limited" by
three hours and ten minutes.
Strict orders have been Issued by the
Great Northern railway forbidding train
mNn to allow tramps TO ride on freight
trains under any circumstances All
trains on this line must be looked over
tHlfIullN NJ uittNlnE points anu Important
stops and all tramps put off.
Judge Iochren of the United States court,
who recently decided, at Minneapolis. Ind,
the suit of bank against the Minneapolis.
st. Paul and Sauit Ste. Marie for loss Of
registered package stolen from mail
bag by IN cmploye Of the road, held that
( loss sa'i"'y Is not responsive Tor Sueh
Improvement are 10 be organized at various
division points of the Union Pacific rail.
way. Libraries will be established, ques-
tons pertaining to mechanical and operat.
ing departments will be discussed, and lee
lures and instruction In other forms viii
be given.
The Marconi company proposes to estab
lish a wireless telegraph service between
established on the coast of England, at
Lands End Gibraltar. Malta, Algicrs, Sar-
dinla Sicily, Cape Mlalea in Greece Alex
andrla, Alden, Socotra. Colombo, Sumatra,
Perth, Albany Adelaide and Melbourne
Canadian exports to the United States
are sitll increasing. The exports for the
quarter Just closed show an increase Of
/ 100000 compared with the corresponding
! quarter of last year. An interesting Item
| IS that Of $50 296.74 for steel rails re-
turned by the Michigan Central to the
! Inited States to have the ends sawed of
! and otherwise repaired.
The authorities of the British govern
ment In India have made arrangements
| for conference Of Indian railroad en-
]
to consider the adoption of standard
| type of locomotives The primary object
! Of the authorities Is said to be to help
| British manufacturers and prevent future
contracts from going to foreign firms.
The Western Union Telegraph compang
now operates 1889 miles of poles ana
! cables and $40, i66 miles of wire. II has
| % 23S offices, which last ear handled So.
657 ,0i0 messages, for which. the receipts
were Ss6354, 1jl, and the profits above ex-
penses were S6,6S5, 249. In ten years the
lines have increased 56OS miles and the
length of wire has increased 257,17j miles
travelling crane now being erected to
be used I'm the building OF the large steel
shops for the Alls-C Chambers company at
Milwaukee, it Is said, will be the largest
travelling crane ever erected In America.
The derrick or traveller will be thirty feet
wide at the bottom and 100 feet high
with arms seventy feet in length Tho
crane will have lifting capacity of 1000,
pounds.
4 piece Of roadbed on the Spokane Fall,
and Northern branch Of the Great North
ern system has a habit or disappearing oc
casionally. New roadbed material and bal
last has been dumped into the place al
various times during several years. bu
without apparently finding a reliable bot
tom. small mountain lake some dis
tance away will be drained In an endeavo
to locate the trouble