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Show A Threatened Railroad Kupture. Chicago, January 29. News was received yesterday by interested railroad managers that the Canadian Paoific road would make a demand upon the Transcontinental Association Associ-ation for admission, and a per cent, of not less than 50 per cent., accompanied by the threat that if not granted it would cut rates on Transcontinental business 20 per cent, or more. It is said by some that the claim will not be listened to, and " that an active war .nexi summer will be the outcome. The lines running through the middle belt are said to be indifferent whether the Association Associ-ation is continued or goes to pieces, as it is asserted the southern route has in the past carried 70 per cent, of the traffic from the Atlantic seaboard, and what is left is not worth fighting for. It is stated that in the event of a contest the Southern Pacific will turn its overland trade from New Orleans and Galveston, and send it via Newport News, over the Chesapeake Chesa-peake & Oto system. |