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crew taken prisoners.more BallroU Consolidation—TheNorthwestern and Galena United*The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad was held in Chicago Wednesday morning last. It resulted in an election of an entirely new Board of Directors and total change of management, The following is a list of gentlemen appointed for the year 1864:—John B. Turner, A. C. Coventry, Mahlon D. Ogden, Edwin H. Sheldon, Francis B. Peabody, Ira Y. Mmjn, Wm. H. Ferry, of Chicago; James D. Fish, Wm. B. Scott, Wm. P. Sands, James W. El-well, of New York; Thomas D. Robertson, ol Rockford; and Edwin P. Bancroft of Boston.A meeting of the newly elected Board of Directors was held in the afternoon of tliat day, when the following officers were elected:— President—John B. Turner; Vice President— A. C. Coventry; Secretary—Wm. M. Larrabce.A proposition from the Directors of the Chicago and Northwestern railway company for the consolidation of the two roads was presented and was unanimously accepted. The consolidated company will be called the “ Chicago and . Northwestern Railway Company.” The terms of the consolidation will le made known at an early date.One of the results of the consolidation is to be a Union depot for the two roads in Chicago on the north side. The Northwestern is now the most gigantic railroad corporation in existence. It comprises and controls no less tlian four grand trank lines, three of them ex_ tending from the Mississippi river to Lake Michigan, and one of them reaching from iAke Superior to Chicago. The entire extent of its lines in actual operation falls but little short of one thousand miles—a distance equal to that from Milwaukee to New York city.
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Saint Paul Weekly Minnesotian And Times
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Fri, Jun 10, 1864
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