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The Boston ami Albany is testing in a daily ?ruu between Boston ai d Springfield tiie speed or it new passenger locomotive numbered 221, besides whose proportions the ruinous 999 ct the Empire .State Express sinksinto oompantive insignificance. Whether it will be duplicated iu the future depends on how well it luilfi s tue builders’ prediction of a sustamtd speed ot ninety miles per hour witn a heavy tram over ordinary roadbeds, grades and eurvesThus far is has “done” seventy miles an hour with such ease that it is expected to exceed the estimate of a.St. Louis and their excursion will leave St Louis on the night of Saturday, May 2*,reaching1 Sedalia at about i :.0 Sur day morning. They will arrange for a ball game between Jeffer-•011 Citv and Sedalia as one of the features of the dav In 1890 this same St. LiOui^ ortrnniZHt i u brought f?iirht b £coach loads of excursionists to Sedaliaand they promise to do even betterthis year.THE I,(IMHO!)LIUMr. \\ h. Taylor informs the Sentinel today ttiat he has all but about tjv0 raised out of the $100 necessary toiu vAcocu iiiu c^iiiuaic ul a . --^ — •• ‘ 7 »^mile every forty seconds rather than to 1 construct a telephone uue between tin* fall short thereof. The “999” tips the Cl*y a - y°ntfw‘od. Ine line is sueu scale at sixty-two ton-, but the Bostonand Albany monster weighs eighty-fivea long felt waut that subscriptions are being cheerfully given and it is be-tous• vuuj UUolUl n vlf^Uo y JLJL O » 1 * 1 * *111 • .without its tender aud 120 tons' lieveo tnere will be no difficultyin se-with that aopeudage. The train with curhu£ the remainder. Mr. Tavlor isnf r:n kq 1 anxious to begin worlwhich“999” makes its art rnge of 53 58 miles an uour weigns 243 tons. The' 0IiCt!* uew steam Hercules has reeled off seventy miles an hour, and it is expected to do much better, with a tram aggregating 310 tons The “999” has a maximum safety boiler pressure of 190 pounds of steam to the square \ mch, but this Boston aud Albany eu- I ____nnn _____i _ mi _ 4 i • Ieyjia-1k on the liue atMO.VTGOfl ERYIPPOIiVTEDThe inches,butgine carries 220 pounds ders of “990” are 19x24 those of its new rival are compound 22x34x36 iuches. The diameter of the driving wheels of the “999,” 7 feet 21«inches, exceed those of the new ma |chine 6 feet 2 inches, but the former engine has but double drivers, while the new idea has three, thus more than compensating iu power for what is lost in speed by reducing the Main-eters. The storage capacity of the big tender was calculated on a basisof several hundred miles without re stocking, and when she pulls out of Boston each afternoon, except Sunday, at 4 o’clock for her run to Springfield and back she carries 4560 gallons of water and eight tons of coal. _BIO EXCLUSIONThe tax attorney question txk another turn today aid this time, J. T.Montgomery was re-appoiuteu. He was confirmed this afternoon.NEWS NOTESlhe county court is in session.Houstouia proposes to school.have a highCOMMessrs. Albert and Charles Dierks, of St. Louis, were in the city today and arranged with Agent C. M. Pendleton, of the Katy, for a big excursion into this city on Sunday, May 28. The Messrs. Dierks represent the Military Hunting and Pishing club ofMiss Mae Gresham, of Houstonia,has just finished a quilt which contains 4,358 pieces.The new town board of Houstonia iscomposed of some of the best men of the town, They are: Henry Longan, Dr. Warren John Armgton, Jas. Cooper and W. Ernest Qvisenberry.COURT NOTES.Doug Albers was fined *5 and coets in Judge Kinsey’s court yesterday afternoon on the charge of distuibing the peace of Henry Rhodeimer. Clint and h rank Albers, arraigned on the same charge, were dismissed.Liss Bass, colored, was arraigned before Judge Burress today, charged with disturbing the peace of Detective Joe Turner, who is hignext door
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Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Sedalia, Missouri, US
Thu, May 11, 1899
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