BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, NOV. 9, 1900 RAILROAD RACKET. Lynn DODDS, Fireman on the B. & O. Branch, was in the city Sunday, the guest of friends. Engine 83 was turned out of the Monon Shops Saturday after receiving a general overhauling. Passenger engine 102, of the Monon, was run out of the shops Sunday in spic and span condition. Car Inspector McDANIEL is smiling all over because a steam radiator has been placed in his office. Geo. OWENS is acting as Southern Indiana Depot Janitor while Phil CLIPP is laid up with a sore hand. Fireman Charlie BROWNSCOMBE, of the Southern Indiana, was in town Tuesday, to cast his vote for McKinley. The passenger trainmen on the Monon have been ordered to don their winter uniforms on the 10th of this month. Otis BOTTORFF, who had been working in the Southern Indiana Shops, returned to his home in Elnora Wednesday. Brakeman HAYES, of the Monon, has resumed his run on the Bloomington accommodation after a few days' illness. Samuel STEVENS, an Engineer on the B. & B. left the Monon Station Wednesday with a dead rooster tied on the headlight of his engine. Twenty-one Bedford men employed on the new Terre Haute round-house of the Southern Indiana took a lay-off Tuesday, to come home and vote. E. J. DAVIS, late an Engineer on the C. & E. I., who attracted attention to himself by suing the company for $1,300 overtime, is now running a mine hoisting machine (rest missing). Tilghman WALLACE, James H. LAKE and Henry KINDRED, who are working with the Southern Indiana Engineer Corps that is locating a coal branch running from Jasonville toward Sullivan, came home Monday night to vote, and returned to work Tuesday. The Indiana, Decatur & Western last week broke all records in number of loaded cars handled at Indianapolis, bringing in 599 and forwarding 166 loaded cars. The inbound business was chiefly corn and live stock. The Santa Fe is building at its own shops a number of heavy helper engines, which will have the largest boilers ever used on locomotives. The boilers will be eighty four inches in diameter and will weigh 71,450 pounds each. The Indiana & Illinois Southern has been so improved in roadbed and equipment that since the Illinois Central has controlled it it is proving a valuable feeder to the Central. At no distant day this line will be extended to a point that will make it a good property. There seems to be a fair prospect for a railroad in Switzerland and Ohio counties, two of the three Indiana counties that have no railroad. Brown being the other. The Big Four is talking of building a road along the Ohio between Cincinnati and Louisville. Should the Big Four do this it would pass through Ohio, Switzerland, Jefferson and Clark. This would be a great help to that part of the State.