Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-18

Mr.. Robert s. Hair, general passenger agent
of the st. Paul & Daluth railroad, left yester'
day noon to attend the national convention OF
general passenger agents, at New York next
Tuesday, intending to go to New York by way
of Washington.
MIR. VIM. n. Dixon, general passenger agent
of the st. Paul & Omaha line, accommanied by
his wife, left here, last evening, to join the
party of northwestern agents who are to leave
Chicago this afternoon for the national CON-
vention at New York next Tuesday.
Mr.. John P. Ilsley, president of the st. Paul
4 Duluth railroad company, lett last evening
for Philadelphia.
Mr.. Harry O. Ives, secretary to General
Manager Hill, is spending the week in a trip
over the st. Paul & Manitoba lines, on busi-
ness of the general manager.
The land sales of the Northern Pacific last
month amounted to SO 600 acres.
Mr.. r. w. Prittie, the Canadian emmigra-
ton agent, arrived here yesterday morning,
over the eastern division of the st. Paul &
Omaha line, with 225 immigrants. with whom
he went on to Manitoba last night, over the
st. Paul & Manitoba road,
A carload of French immigrants from the
East and Canada arrived here Thursday even
ing, and went north that night by the st. Paul
l. Manitoba road.
Two carloads of Canadians bound for Mani
toba, arrived by the Milwaukee q st. Paul
train of yesterday morning, and were forward
ed to their destination last night.
The Minneapolis d St. Louis railroad COM
pany has put on to its White Bear branch
spur track at Lake Owaseo and side track
Just south of Lake Josephine, for encourage
ment of Minneapolis grain traffic with the
townships of Rose, Mounds View, and New
Canada, this county.
Twenty carloads of Montana cattle, for Chi
cago, were delivered at the Rice street stock
yard last night by the Northern Pacific rail-
road.
Sixty German emigrants, going to settle in
Stems aud Douglas counties, arrived here yes
terdsy from New York.
Mr.. Cornell, head of the Cornell iron works
of New York, has selected seventeen sections of
st. Paul and Manitoba lands in Polk county
for himself and friends, all men of large
means, with the intention of bringing the land
under cultivation as early as possible.
Mr. b. McDougall, telegraph superintend-
emit at Winnipeg, and MIR. @. Mackenzie, of
Ontario, brother of the late Premier of the
Dominion, arrived at the Merchants yesterday
from Winnipeg. Mr.. McDougall is also agent
for the St. Paul and Manitoba company at
Winnipeg.
The brakemen and fremen on the Canadian
Pacific road in Manitoba are reported to have
eu uCA AoL Oh oufauSo VI wages, wucho uPon
policemen we're detailed to prevent them inter-
fering with the companys property and oper-
atoms.
The old st. Paul & Pacific freight house,
which has until lately been occupied by the
Northern Pacific company, and which stood on
the Union depot track grounds, has been taken
down and the material carried out to the st.
Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba shops while the
addition of sixty feet belonging to the North
ern Pacific company, has been removed to the
Northern Pacific yard, where it is to be rebuilt
for car repairing shop.
General manager Sargent being informed
yesterday morning that certain parties dealing
in grain in Moorhead were being denied equal
facilities for shipping at once telegraphed
orders reversing the denial, which denial was
based on mistaken supposition that the
parties were not in position to load and de-
liver cars promptly.