The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-02-25

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TWO NEW PURCHASES.
The Chicago, MiIacaukee g. st. Paul COM
pdnV Secures Control of T,c0 Ianportan ut
Feeders.
TChicago Tribune.
Some time g the Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railroad company made a proposition to
the people residing in that part of iowa be-
tween Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa TO build
a road between those points, provided local
aid to the amount of $25o,ooo was granted.
The proposition was favorably entertained
by the people, who voted aid to the amount
of $500 $1,000, or $4,000 more than was de
manded by the Milwaukee & st. Paul. Con-
sequently the proposed road was incorpo-
rated as the Cedar Rapids, Sigourney g. o.
tumwa, with Gen. }. M. Hedrick, of Ottum-
wa, as president. About twenty-five miles
of the new line are already graded. The
Milwaukee & st. Paul, however, has shown
no disposition thus far to make arrange
ments with the directors of the new line.
10 get the matter into some shape and to
find out what the Milwaukee & st. Paul
means to do regarding the matter, the
president. and directors Of the Cedar Rapids
u Ottumwa company came to this city yes
terday, and held a meeting at parlor l,
Grand Pacific hotel. There were present,
J. M. Hedrick, of Ottu,nwa, president; Judge
N. M. Hubbard, of Cedar Rapids, vice-pres-
ident; and the following directors: Messrs.
Upton, of Cedar Rapids; Yereer, of Sigour-
ney; and Hamilton, Blake, Carpenter, Bon
nifeld, Mahon, Daggett, Leighton, AMI Hack
worth. None of the managers of the Mil
waukee q St. Paul turned up at yesterdays
meeting, and consequently no action was
taken. Another meeting will be held to-
day. The Cedar Rapids, S~igonrney d o.
tumwa railroad is to run from Cedar Rapids
to Ottumwa via Sigourney, a distance
of ninety miles, through ono of the
richest aud most prosperous sections
in Iowa. The agreement with the Milwau.
kee & St. Paul is that the latter build, and
equip, and operate the new road, making it
an extension of it's Western Union branch,
on the condition that $25O,OOO of local aid
be raised along the line. The amount has
been raised and guaranteed, as already stated.
The directors mean to take such action to-
day as will insure the commencement of the
new road in the early spring, and its com
pletioh for operation by January l, 1881. If
the Milwaukee & St. Paul refuses to con-
struct the line as agreed, the directors will
take Independent action and the road will be
built anyway.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & North
ern railroad will be held at Cedar Rapids,
February "a. This meeting will be of more
than ordinary interest, because it will
determine who is to nave this prop
erty. As is we'll known the Chicago &
Northwestern some months ago made an ar
engagements with the directors for the lease
of the road, but afterwards the directors re-
considered their action and leased the road
to the Rock Island, subject to the approval
of the stockholders. The Northwestern,
however, smarting under the defeat it had
suffered, did not propose to step down and
out, and consequently made efforts to secure
enough to change the majority and upset
the arrangements made with the Rock Isl
and. The latter was not idle either, and
bought up all the stock it could get to pre-
vent the Northwestern from playing a coup
d'etat. The Burlington and the Milwaukee
& st. Paul, it is said, have also got hold of
some of the stock. 1t is claimed hat there
have been such changes in the
ownership of the stock dur
ing the last few months that
most likely the arrangement made with the
Rock Island will be- upset. Neither of the
four lines who took part in the fight, it is
said, will have sufficient strength to secure
the property, and consequently the owners
will be allowed to run the road independ.
emily for the time. The final outcome
however, it is believed, will be a cutting
up of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids &
Northern, each of the contesting com.
panies taking a slice. The Burlington &
Quincy will probably get the southern end
from Burlington to Columbus Junction,
which will enable it to keep competitors
out of Burlington. The Rock Island is to
take the portion between Columbus junction
and Cedar Rapids, with the Muscatine &
Pacific division, and the Northwestern is to
have the northern end from Cedar Rapids
to Albert Lea, and the Milwaukee & ST.
Paul is to get away with the Milwaukee
division, which would extend the Prairie do
Chen line direct to Cedar Rapids.
EATING Snow OR IcE.-Any one who
has observed children must know that
it is a common practice among them to
eat snow and ice in winter. It is COM
mon to see boys and girls devour a
SNOWFALL as though it were an apple, or
an icicle as eagerly as a bit of candy!
The hard palate which forms the roof
of the mouth also forms the floor of the
nostrils, and is no thicker than paste
board. The chilling effect of snow and
ice brought freely in contact with this
thin partition, the upper covering OF
which is a sensitive secreting membrane,
made up almost entirely of fine blood
vessels and nerves, produces a conges-
ton, often succeeded by chronic inham-
nation. As a consequence, these snow
and ice eating boys and girls almost al
ways have "colds in the head" and lay