'The. minority shareholders of the Cherapenke-Ohio Railway: Company fare about to take new steps in the Virginia courts to suspend execu-ion of the leasing of the property' to the Nickel Plate Company, on the ground that the terms of the lease are grossly unfair, inequitable, criminatory and confiscatory.
Note-—It was reported on April 2, that the stockholders of the New] 'York-Chiengo-St. Louis Railroad had voted overwhelmingly in favour leasing the property to the New Nickel Plate Company and that the stockholders of the Chesapenke-Ohio and the Rocking Valley-Pere tte Roads already had apthe scheme.—Reuter's Amer-
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