Spokane International Railroad begins operations. Unknown date events Rebuilding of Gare Saint-Lazare terminus of the Chemins de fer de l'Ouest in Paris is completed. Rebuilding of New London Union Station of the Central Vermont Railway in New London, Connecticut, is completed to the design of Henry Hobson Richardson. Colorado Midland completes construction of the Hagerman Tunnel. Tapa–Tartu railway in Estonia is extended to Valga where it connects to the Riga–Pskov line. The first battery rail car is used on the Royal Bavarian State Railways. Reuben Wells is appointed as shop superintendent of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works. Stuyvesant Fish becomes president of the Illinois Central. Births March births March 9 – Nathaniel Lamson Howard, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1925–1929 (d. 1949). September births September 5 – Charles Fairburn, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1944–1945 (d. 1945). Deaths April deaths April 19 – Alexander Mitchell, president of Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway 1864–1887 (b. 1817). April 20 – Horatio G. Brooks, founder of Brooks Locomotive Works (b. 1828). July deaths July 4 – Anson P. Morrill, president of Maine Central Railroad 1864–1866 and 1873–1875 (b. 1803). August deaths August 14 – Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician; authored the first Pacific Railroad Act (b. 1827) References Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved November 8, 2005. (1902), Ohio Railway Report. Retrieved July 18, 2005.