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Show RAILROAD JOTTINGS. Tho Pennsylvania railroad system cm-ploys cm-ploys 7,071 engineers. General Robert F. Iloko, who was elected president of tho North Carolina railroad, has declined to accept tha cilice. Tha Lake Shore peoplo have appointed D. B. Eldridge their southwestern contracting con-tracting agent, with headquarters at Kansas City, vice W. A. Follette, resigned. re-signed. At a special meeting of tho stockholders stockhold-ers of the Philadelphia aud Heading 1 Terminal company held recently it was unanimously agreed to increase the cap- ' ital litock from fluO.OOO to $8,500,000. An immense freiirht station, to enver nn entire block in Buffalo, is to be erected for tho joint use of the New York Central and West Shore railroads. An arrangement has also been made by which the Western Sew York and Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania road will use the New York Central's passenger terminals iu Buffalo. Captain Willard Thomson, superintendent superin-tendent of the Harlan & Hollingsworth company, of Wilmington, Del., haslieen appointed receiver of the Baltimore and Eastern Shore railroad. The road is admittedly ad-mittedly insolvent. It has a mortgage indebtedness of $1,600,000. and a floating indebtedness of $60,000. ' Judge Burr, of the United States district dis-trict court, granted an order at Louisville, Louis-ville, permitting J. Kennedy Tod, of New YoiU, receiver of the Kentucky Union railroad, to extend the road to Jackson, a distance of three miles, and to issue receivers' certificates to the amount of glS.OOO to pay oil debts to employes. |