Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-01
RAIL, RIVER AND LAKE.

More Trains to Elmo-Change of Time of
Mtnnetonka Trains--The ST. Paul g. Pa
cific Mortgage Cases-A Visit to the Bad
Lands. Which are not Bad but Good
Progress of the Northern ac;fic--The
Daily River Mail and a Boat Every Day
Duluth Port List.
The st. Paul companies do not propose to
change their Chicago time to meet the fast
New York train. Their connections for the
east are the same as heretofore, and the fast
train is still considered temporary affair.
The eastern division of the c., st. p, &
o. line, beginning this morning, will run
seven trains daily, each way, between st.
Paul and Lake Elmo-except Sundays, when
there will be four trains each way. Wednes-
days and Saturdays there will be on eight
trains (the swimming train) leaving st. Paul
at I'm
Sunday next new time table will go into
effect on the Breckenridge division of the st.
P. 81 M. road. The changes materially af-
feet only the st. Paul and Manitoba trains,
which will start from here earlier in the even.
ing than now, and will leave Manitoba later
in the morning.
There are still pending in the United
States court three of the suits brought in
the name of the minority bondholders to set
aside the sales of the st. Paul & Pacific
property under the $2,SOO,0O0, 100000
$6,O00,O00 mortgages. But as the facts and
equities are substantially the same it is pre-,
sumable these cases will meet tue same fat,
which Justice Miller awarded to the one
brought to set aside the sale under the
15,000,0 600 mortgage.
A township of st. Paul & Sioux City lands
in the southwest part of this State has late
ly been reserved for colony of Austrian
Mennonites which is coming over the ocean
this season.
The Chicago & Northwestern contractors
are laying track on the Black Hills line OF
that company, through southwest Dakota.
at the rate of half a mile day. -
The gross earnings of the Minneapolis &
st. Louis railway for the week ending June
Ia were: 1880, $13, 1O4. 6S; 1879, $8,274.92
increase in 1880, $4,S29.76.
The two routes between New York and
Philadelphia are now being supplied with
engines capable of making sixty miles pei
hour. When the roads are fully supplied
with these engines, which will be very soon,
the schedule time between New York and
Philadelphia will be ninety minutes. Phil
adelphia claims the honor of having origin
ated this movement.
A movement is said to be on foot for a
consolidation of the Erie, Atlantic 81 Great
Western, Ohio & Mississippi, and Missouri
& Pacific railway companies under one man.
agement, with Mr.. Gould at the head, the
Boston connection to be via the new POUCH
keepsie bridge and Hoosac tunnel. while the
Union and Central Pacific railways will
make continuous route from Boston to San
Francisco This, it is reported, is the great
movement which Mr.. Gould has had in con-
temptation for years past.
According to circulars lately sent to stock
holders of the Chicago, Clinton, Dubuque &
Minnesota railroad, the transfer of that road
to the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail
way company is intended to be consum-
mated on or about July 1st., when the stock
holders will receive for their stock the 6 pc,
cent. bonds of the latter company at the
rate of 80 per cent. upon the par value there.
to.
Winnipeg Times, Monday: A new switch
from the ST. Paul road has just been CON
structed at ST. Vincent to the boat landing
on Red river, and on Saturday through some
accident two freight cars ran off it into the
river. One Car contained ordinary mer-
chandise, and the other was laden with agri
cultural implements. They are now lying
in thirty feet of water, and will not withou
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