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...fron, the University. To renew call Telephone Center, 333-840O UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN m 02 m 08 APR 15 APR 1 8 CPASWF 87-0... ... afghanis=US$l (November 1986) Fiscal year: 21 March-20 March Communications Railroads: 9.6 km (single track) 1.524- meter gauge, spur of Soviet line ... ...ersion rate: 4.14 leks=US$l (1986) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Railroads: 437 km 425 1.435-meter standard gauge, single track, governmen... ...gerian dinars=US$l (November 1986) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Railroads: 4,146 km total; 2,632 km stan- dard gauge (1.435 m), 1,258 km ... ...ench francs=US$l, 136.13 Spanish pesetas=US$l (November 1986) Communications Railroads: none Highways: about 96 km Civil air: no major transport aircr... ...-1,500 kwanza=US$l (December 1986) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Railroads: 3,189 km total; 2,879 km 1.067 meter gauge, 310 km 0.600-meter...

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...iiK Brerything np'to date piiac Straet, Williamttown Games with Michigfan, Illinois and Chicago Tlio WiliiamB bnsobail team leaves WilliauiBtuwii Tuos... ...n trip, playing the University ot Michigan on Wednesday, the University of Illinois on Friday, and the University of Chicago on Saturday. The nine wil... ... ^Mcm mtttvWi \roL. XXI WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1907 NO. 15 ILLINOIS AND CHICAGO Final G»niet of Western Trip—En- tertainment at Chicag... ...g at their destin- ation tomorrow morning, and play- ing the University of Illinois the same afternoon. Id this team the Parple will meet what will pr... ...tbe strongest of its three western opponents. Three of the games played hy Illinois so far were with the University of Chicago, in the first of which ... ...erce Commission, Under tbe present system of rate- making which leaves the railroads free to make rates, there is abund- ant opportunity for further i... ...does the negative propose to treat with the problem in question? Shall the railroads continue to have the power of making unreasot'iablo rates? Eustac... ... just basis. Mr. Seligman stated that the rates ob- taining among American railroads are not exorbitant, as compared with European tariffs of a simila... ...is absolutely necessary in order to supervise with equity the rates of the railroads of our country. The last direct argument for Amherst's side of th...

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...her obscene lie modern history books spout…the virtue of these new industrial railroads serving as cheap mass transportation for the poor. That is ... ...ving as cheap mass transportation for the poor. That is total bullshit. The railroads were built by rich Robber Barons to get rich quick. The ... ...h peasants were herded into railroad cars like cattle on the hoof. The first railroads were used for transporting of English peasants from the count... ... cowboy, the myth of the great gunfighter, the myth of the building the great railroads, the myths of the great empire builders of the American and ... ...eroes: the trapper, the explorer, the rancher, the cowboy, the lumberjack the railroads are all just forms of improved mass slaughter and industriali... ... happens when they become too happy? Look at what happened to the Mormons of Illinois. Look how Harlem was systematically destroyed when American ...

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...nesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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.... The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the... ...ife’s garden and the farmer’s coat. Precious horses painfully brought from Illinois, were drowned in bogs or stampeded by the fear of blizzards. Snow ... ...rices in Chicago, but when we tried to get freight cars to ship there, the railroads wouldn’t let us have ‘em—even though they had cars standing empty... ...ations when there had been no railroad, and had no awe of it; but here the railroads had been before time was. The towns had been staked out on barren... ...dvantages, so that the hills are covered with brush, the lakes shut off by railroads, and the creeks lined with dumping-grounds; of depressing sobriet... ... I’m going to ask Ezra Stowbody why he’s opposed to the nationalization of railroads, and ask Dave Dyer why a druggist always is pleased when he’s cal...

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...nry S. Burrage, of Portland, Me., and to General Tho- mas J. Henderson, of Illinois. For various courtesies received, the editor is furthermore indebt... ... way until the spring of 1830, when his father “moved again,” this time to Illinois; and on the jour- ney of fifteen days “Abe” had to drive the ox wa... ...have heard him say so often.” Then he lived several years at New Salem, in Illinois, a small mushroom village, with a mill, some “stores” and whiskey ... ...t lack ambition. He dreamed even of making himself “the De Witt Clinton of Illinois,” and he actually distinguished himself by zealous and effective w... ...ide of his State he had attracted compara- tively little attention; but in Illinois he had been recog- nized as one of the foremost men of the Whig pa... ...issippi, always in advance of schools and churches, of books and money, of railroads and newspapers, of all things which are generally regarded as the... ... them at the Bar and on the Bench, without re- sort to technical learning. Railroads, corporations absorb- ing the chief business of the community, co... ...ly proves to be labor lost. There cannot justly be any objection to having railroads and canals, any more than to other good things, provided they cos... ... to enable our State, in common with oth- ers, to dig canals and construct railroads without borrow- ing money and paying the interest on it. If alive...

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... and flog negroes in Nebraska was popular sovereignty. SPEECH A T CLINTON, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 8, 1858. The questions are sometimes asked “What is all... ...ngs of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five TO H. L. PIERCE AND OTHERS. SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, April 6, 1859. GENTLEMEN:—Y our kind note inviting me to attend a... ... as I understand the Massachusetts provision, I am against its adoption in Illinois, or in any other place where I have a right to oppose it. Understa... ...ncoln: V ol Five TO THE GOVERNOR, AUDITOR, AND TREA- SURER OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. GENTLEMEN: In reply to your inquiry; requesting our written opini... ...him. He was one of the few distinguished men of the nation who gave us, in Illinois, their sympathy last year. I never saw him, but suppose him to be ... ...ttended to: 1. Let Manassas Junction (or some point on one or other of the railroads near it) and Strasburg be seized, and permanently held, with an o... ...rvation, one occupying Sedalia and the other Rolla, the present termini of railroads; then recruit the condition of both corps by re-establishing and ... ...d equipments, and pro- viding less uncomfortable quarters. Of course, both railroads must be guarded and kept open, judiciously employing just so much... ... can withdraw from these points and direct to others as may be needed, the railroads furnishing ready means of reinforcing these main points if occasi...

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... Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six ORDER TAKING MILITARY POSSESSION OF RAILROADS. W AR DEPARTMENT, May 25, 1862. Ordered: By virtue of the authori... ...ted by act of Congress, the President takes military possession of all the railroads in the United States from and after this date until further order... ...rter. Nothing further from McClellan. If Porter effects a lodgment on both railroads near Hanover Court-House, consider whether your forces in front o... ... Fredericksburg railroad was not seized again, as you say you have all the railroads but the Richmond and Fredericksburg. I am puzzled to see how, lac... ...io. Alexander Ramsey, Governor of Minne- sota. Richard Y ates, Governor of Illinois. Edward Salomon, Governor of Wisconsin. THE PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE MA... ...twice as many new troops in the field as all the other States together. If Illinois had got forward as many troops as Indiana, Cumberland Gap would so... ... ASHINGTON, D.C., September 15, 1862. 3 P.M. HON. K. DUBOIS, Springfield, Illinois: I now consider it safe to say that General McClellan has gained a... ...VE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, September 20, 1862. GENERAL KETCHUM, Springfield, Illinois: How many regiments are there in Illinois, ready for service but f... ...re them for en- larging the capacities of the great canals in New York and Illinois, as being of vital and rapidly increasing importance to the whole ...

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...come from as much as thirty miles back in the country, and from over in the Illinois bottoms, too, just to look at him — and there they’d stand and ... ...the ship down ‘most to the earth, and had him spin her along so close to the Illinois prairies that a body could talk to the farmers, and hear everyth... ...ain’t.” “What’s the reason we ain’t?” “I know by the color. We’re right over Illinois yet. And you can see for yourself that Indiana ain’t in sight.” ... ....” “What’s the color got to do with it?” “It’s got everything to do with it. Illinois is green, Indiana is pink. You show me any pink down here, if yo... ...now?” “Why, the thing that’s happened is that this old bladder has slid over Illinois and Indiana and Ohio like nothing, and this is the east end of P... ...birds — a wild pigeon, maybe, or a railroad. But T om said he had read about railroads in England go ing nearly a hundred miles an hour for a little ... ...in New Y ork, and they put it on country people’s eyes and show them all the railroads in the world, and they go in and git them, and then when they r...

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...e Linder—Daniel Linder, I think, and certainly the son of U. F. Linder, of Illinois, please send him to me by an officer. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO MILI... ...r to effect a special exchange of Lieut. Col. A. F. Rogers, of Eighti- eth Illinois V olunteers, now in Libby Prison, and I shall be glad if you can e... ... TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: 1. The Governors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wis- consin offer to the President infantry troops for ... ... ing campaign as follows: Ohio, thirty thousand; Indiana, twenty thousand; Illinois, twenty thousand; Iowa, ten thousand; Wis- consin, five thousand. ... ...or of Ohio. O. P . Morton, Governor of Indiana. Richard Pates, Governor of Illinois. William M. Stone, Governor of Iowa. James T. Lewis, Governor of W... ... with military land war- rants, agricultural scrip certified to States for railroads, and sold for cash. The cash received from sales and location fe...

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...n 5 river in the old times, could have transferred a slave from Missouri to Illinois and made a free man of him. The Mississippi does not alter its l... ...lous and painful trips between Montreal and a fort which he had built on the Illinois, before he at last succeeded in getting his expedition in such a... ...of Lorenzo Tonty, who invented the tontine, his lieutenant, started down the Illinois, with a fol lowing of eighteen Indians brought from New England... ...orant, sentimental, half witted humbug, an untraveled native of the wilds of Illinois, who had absorbed wildcat literature and appropriated its marvel... ...red dol lars a month. Here is a conversation of that day. A chap out of the Illinois River, with a little stern wheel tub, accosts a couple of ornate... ...he till and walked off with every dollar of the ample fund; and finally, the railroads intruding everywhere, there was little for steamers to do, when... ...owns, big and little, have made up their minds that they must look mainly to railroads for wealth and upbuilding, henceforth. They are acting upon thi... ...almost the whole way from St. Louis to St. Paul—eight hun dred miles. These railroads have made havoc with the steam boat commerce. The clerk of our... ...“new process” and mash the wheat by rolling, instead of grinding it. Sixteen railroads meet in Minneapolis, and sixty five pas senger trains arrive a...

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... try. 78 Spoon River Anthology Roy Butler IF the learned Supreme Court of Illinois Got at the secret of every case As well as it does a case of rape ... ... Springfield When the Legislature was in session To prevent raids upon the railroads And the men building up the state. Trusted by them and by you, Sp... ...dead in the meanwhile. We went by oxen to Tennessee, Thence after years to Illinois, At last to Spoon River. We cut the buffalo grass, We felled the f... ...urned to a guard and said: “Please say it’s old Aunt Hannah Armstrong From Illinois, come to see him about her sick boy In the army.” Well, just in a ... ... 14 If I could have lived another year 47 If the learned Supreme Court of Illinois 78 If you in the village think that my work was a goo 41 In a li...

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...o his already gathered constellations of those Western stars—of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa; nor did he dream of Texas conquered, Louisia... ... whole nation. It did not affect South Carolina otherwise than it affected Illinois, Pennsylvania, or even New York. The navigation laws may also have... ...r- ginia be saved, its position will be most unfortunate. I fancy that the railroads in those days must have been doing a very prosperous business. Fr... ...i, and the whole of South Ohio, to Louisville in Kentucky, and to Cairo in Illinois, where the Ohio joins the Mississippi. The amount of traffic carri... ... never paid a dollar of interest on the original outlay—of hotels, canals, railroads, banks, blocks of houses, etc. that never paid even in the happy ... ...not, in my mind, stand on a par with Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Illinois, 81 Trollope or Virginia. We are apt to connect the name of Benja... ... the south, had joined the South by a regular se- cession ordinance. Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, to the north, were of course true to the Union. Unde... ...olice and criminal regula- tions not external in their character—highways, railroads, canals, schools, colleges, the relief of paupers, and those thou...

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... family emigrate toward the Mississippi. He had come to Sangamon County in Illinois. For a time he tried wheat-raising, until the War, which skied the... ...r as Madi- son, seemed to accelerate their pace as they approached. At the Illinois T rust the walk became a stride, at the Rook- ery the stride was a... ...ion, and the same conditions seemed to prevail in the central counties. In Illinois, from Quincy and Wa- terloo in the west, and from Ridgway in the s... ...e hundred thou- sand bushels. I deposited the margin to your credit in the Illinois Trust this afternoon.” There was a long silence. Gretry spun a bal... ...to the Pit and break down the price—and Gretry has understandings with the railroads, through the eleva- tor gang, so we get big rebates. Why, this wh... ...t from Iowa and Nebraska, Minnesota and Dakota, from the dwindling bins of Illinois and the fast-emptying el- evators of Kansas and Missouri. Then, sq...

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...d beasts, and a large tract which the Mormons, after they were driven from Illinois in 1845, began to colonise. The journey from New York to San Franc... ...s ears. Thus he learned that, after long persecutions, Smith reappeared in Illinois, and in 1839 founded a community at Nauvoo, on the Mississippi, nu... ...ustice? Shall we yield to force? Never! Driven from Ver- mont, driven from Illinois, driven from Ohio, driven from Missouri, driven from Utah, we shal... ...CERTAIN INCIDENTS ARE NAR- RATED WHICH ARE ONLY TO BE MET WITH ON AMERICAN RAILROADS The train pursued its course, that evening, without inter- ruptio... ... night it crossed the Mississippi at Davenport, and by Rock Island entered Illinois. The next day, which was the 10th, at four o’clock in the evening,...

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...al. Reminded me somehow of what I’ve heard about Colonel John Moredock, of Illinois, only your friend ain’t quite so good a fellow at bottom, I should... ... a peach. But Indians—how the late Colonel John Moredock, Indian- hater of Illinois, did hate Indians, to be sure!” “Never heard of such a thing. Hate... ...cennes. There she joined a com- pany about to remove to the new country of Illinois. On the eastern side of Illinois there were then no settlements; b... ...round. “At one time the colonel was a member of the territorial council of Illinois, ends at the formation of the state gov- ernment, was pressed to b... ...ngency arise, yet he felt there would be an impropriety in the Governor of Illinois stealing out now and then, during a recess of the legislative bodi... ...specially in these parts of it, some stories are told about steamboats and railroads fitted to make one a little appre- hensive, yet, I may say that, ...

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...0 miles, four whose course is from 800 to 1,000 miles in length, viz., the Illinois, the St. Peter’s, the St. Francis, and the Moingona; besides a cou... ...0 miles, four whose course is from 800 to 1,000 miles in length, viz., the Illinois, the St. Peter’s, the St. Francis, and the Moingona; besides a cou... ...order to deprive *Chap. I. sect. ii. Section 8. **See the constitutions of Illinois, Maine, Connecticut, and Georgia. 129 Tocqueville him of his powe... ...at occurs in New England or in Georgia, in Pennsylvania or in the State of Illinois? A kind of analogy may very readily be per- ceived between certain... ...westward, and most of the settlers who descend to the fertile savannahs of Illinois are citizens of Ohio. These men left their first country to improv... ...y the Northern States which are in possession of ship- ping, manufactures, railroads, and canals. This difference is perceptible not only in comparing... ...n five hundred leagues in extent which separates the two seas. The longest railroads which have been constructed up to the present time are in America...

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... the county seat, a few miles back, and was about to escape in a canoe to Illinois and freedom in the dull twilight of the approach ing dawn, when t... ...y a lantern when he goes visiting in the night to keep from stumbling over railroads that have been built since his last round. And also in that day, ...

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...e work-able, do-able words, that brought forth fruits in the revolution in Illinois, and in the passage of the 3 Mr. Stephen Myers, of Albany, deserv... ...he accommo- dation of colored travelers, was established on nearly all the railroads of New England, a dozen years ago. Regarding this custom as foste... ...colored people out of the country. In look- ing at the recent black law of Illinois, one is struck dumb with its enormity. It would seem that the men ...

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...cks of sea turtles. But these extravaganzas only show that Nantucket is no Illinois. Look now at the wondrous traditional story of how this is- land w... ...gineering forces employed in the construc- tion of the American Canals and Railroads. The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American ... ...hich, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and scowled with their th... ...ugh so short a period ago—not a good lifetime—the census of the buffalo in Illinois exceeded the census of men now in London, and though at the presen...

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...cks of sea turtles. But these extravaganzas only show that Nantucket is no Illinois. Look now at the wondrous traditional story of how this island was... ...gineer ing forces employed in the construction of the American Canals and Railroads. The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American ... ...hich, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and scowled with their th... ...o short a period ago — not a good life time — the census of the buffalo in Illinois exceeded the census of men now in London, and though at the presen...

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...ed the petition of H. M. Barney, post- master at Brimfield, Peoria County, Illinois, report: That they have been satisfied by evidence, that on the 15... ...at principle for the benefit of the State in which he resided the State of Illinois. The alternate sections were to be given for the purpose of con- s... ...d as it was, if it could be put in no more favorable form for the State of Illinois. When it should be before this House, if any member from a sec- ti... ...of the sanguine men have set down all the States as certain for Taylor but Illinois, and it as doubtful. Cannot something be done even in Illinois? Ta... ...adelphia, New York, and Boston, beyond what it is to the interior towns of Illinois. The next most general object I can think of would be improvements... ...t at last effecting the ostensible object of the bill— the construction of railroads in the new States; and secondly, that Congress would be forced to...

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...me. There were no telegraphs in those days to disseminate news rapidly, no railroads west of the Alleghanies, and but few east; and above all, there w... ... from the co-partnership with Boggs, and, in May, 1860, removed to Galena, Illinois, and took a clerkship in my father’s store. While a citizen of Mis... ...en the election took place in November, 1860, I had not been a resident of Illinois long enough to gain citizenship and could not, therefore, vote. I ... ...eaking was over volunteers were called for to form a company. The quota of Illinois had been fixed at six regiments; and it was supposed that one comp... ...ny was mustered into the United States service, forming a part of the 11th Illinois volunteer infantry. My duties, I thought, had ended at Springfield... ...ant-General who supplied my deficiencies. The ease with which the State of Illinois settled its accounts with the government at the close of the war i... ... The enemy was in force at Corinth, the junction of the two most important railroads in the Mississippi valley—one con- necting Memphis and the Missis... ... constantly. Some of the men who had been engaged in various capacities on railroads before the war claimed that they could tell, by putting their ear... ...e north-west angle of the Mem- phis and Charleston and the Mobile and Ohio railroads, and were thus between the troops at Corinth and all possible rei...

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...ions through the immense Northwestern States of Michi- gan, Wisconsin, and Illinois, than which perhaps the sur- face of the globe affords no finer di... ...wn; then to descend the river as far as the States of Iowa on the west and Illinois on the east; and to return eastward through Chicago and the large ... ...ation as have these Western States. The list is as follows: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min- nesota, Iowa, Kansas to which I would a... ... 2,774,181 808,503 3,582,684 In the West: Ohio 2,377,917 Indiana 1,350,802 Illinois 1,691,238 Michigan 754,291 Wisconsin 763,485 Minnesota 172,796 Iow... ...ing. And in this way McClellan was, for some years, engaged on the Central Illinois Railway, and was for a considerable time the head manager of that ... ...s, have begun by the erection of first class hotels and the fabrication of railroads. Let the Old World bid them God speed in their work. Only it woul... ...urrent expenses. It is in this way that the thousands of miles of American railroads have been opened; and here again must be seen the immense advanta...

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...g running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going forth from the cent... ...gen, Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama. 5 I see the tracks of the railroads of the earth, I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Europe... ...h the streets of the cities, polite and bland in the parlors, In the cars of railroads, in steamboats, in the public assembly, Home to the houses of m... ... walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates. O the farmer’s joys! Ohioan’s, Illinoisian’s, Wisconsinese’, Kanadian’s, Iowan’s, Kansian’s, Missourian’... ...actories, arsenals, foundries, markets, Shapes of the two threaded tracks of railroads, Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, a... ...fic, Populous cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers, the railroads, with many a thrifty farm, with machinery, And wool and wheat a... ... the dwellers in Manhattan, Or with large steps crossing the prairies out of Illinois and Indiana, Rapidly crossing the West with springy gait and des... ... those shores, and my ever running Mississippi with bends and chutes, And my Illinois fields, and my Kansas fields, and my fields of Missouri, The Con... ...even but a wisp of hay under thy great face only, Harvest the wheat of Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, every barbed spear under thee, Harvest the maize of ...

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... With the introduction of the modern machine, the fac- tory system and the railroads, in the last century, our great modern cities were evolved. As th... ...cal and civil equality for the black man, and forbidding discrimination on railroads, in hotels, restaurants, theatres and all public places, have nev... ...a- bor, the odd jobs and common labor in small towns, the cheaper labor on railroads, in factories and all industrial plants is given to this sort of ... ... can be found in our code regulating dangerous machinery, the operation of railroads, the running of automo- biles, the construction of buildings, the... ...fessional criminals are against the parole board. Speaking of the State of Illinois, I am sure that the parole law, instead of shortening the time of ...

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...ng country such as the world has never witnessed. This trade is conducted on railroads and ca nals, on noble rivers and arms of the sea, which bind t... ...naugurated as the President of the Confederacy two weeks earlier. The former Illinois Congressman had arrived in Washington by a secret route to avoid... ...s ness and abuses of power of the great combinations of capital invested in railroads and in industrial enterprises carrying on interstate commerce. ... ...eth ods, further legislative and executive action are needed. Relief of the railroads from certain restrictions of the antitrust law have been urged ... ...ues of bonds and stock by companies owning and operating interstate commerce railroads. Then, too, a reorganization of the Department of Jus tice, of... ...secure a more rapid and certain enforcement of the laws affecting interstate railroads and industrial combinations. I hope to be able to submit at the...

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...pping containers have just begun. Surface transportation sys- tems such as railroads and mass transit remain hard to protect because they are so acces... ...stigation Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S.Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois CIA Officials Outline of the 9/11 Plot Jacqueline Maguire, Special...