Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-17

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!, The phenomenal storm which struck this
State, and in fact the entire Northwest, on
Friday afternoon, has interfered very seriously
with the operations Of the different lines OF
| railroad. The avant courier of the storm was
fierce gale of wind which prostrated nearly
every telegraph line. This was followed by a
heavy fall of rain, turning, at last, into driv
ing snow storm which lasted during the whole
of yesterday GLOBE reporter called in vain
! at all the railroad offices of the city for news.
| In every instance he was met with the reply,
| "We have no news for you to-day, our lines
| are all down." Trains were running as usual,
| however.
rumor reached here last evening of a COL
| lision between freight trains on the ST. Paul &
| Manitoba road yesterday morning, at or near
! Maple Plain in Hennepin county, IN which, it
| is said, none of the train hands were hurt.
Neither confirmation or contradic tiOn Of the
rUmor could be obtained here last evening.
The officers OF the Chicago, Milwaukee d st.
| Paul road report that their trains were nearly
all on time.
The train which was TO leave Sioux City at
i0:lv P. d. on Friday evening, over the st. Paul
65 Sionx Cisy road due here at IL A. NJ. Yester-
day, had not been heard from at p. n. and
the supposition was that it had not left Sioux
train. The out going trains over this road
were all on time as far as Mad ella, to which
point the wires were working.
The wires were down along the line of the
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba road and
nothing definite could be learned from the
Northwest.
The Eastern division of the Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha line was all right,
and trains were on time.
The storms seem to have confined chiefly to
the West and Northwest, and the princi pal
damage was TO the telegraph wires.
new time table goes into effect over the
Minneapolis q St. Louis road to morrow morn
ing, by which through train to Des
MONIES, Iowa, leaving st Paul at 7:10 A NJ
and Minneapolis at 7:20 A. II, arriving at Des
Moines at 10P. N. This is the only dlrect line
To connect the two capitals of Minnesota and
Iowa.
General Freight Ggent a. III. Eddy, of the
st. Paul & Duluth road has issued the follow
ing circular 10 shippers: Owing to the closing
of the ship canal at the outlet Of Lake Supe-
rior On the 18th of November next, the last
boats of the season for lower lake ports will
leave Duluth about the 10th of November.
Eastbound shipments must leave st. Paul or
Saltwater by the 9th of November, and west
bound shi pments must be at Buffalo October
25; Cleveland, October 2G; Detroit, October %;
Sarnia October 81, TO insure their being taken
via Duluth.
The Central Illinois aud Wisconsin Railway
Company" is r. new phizapOd for the Chicago,
Milwaukee &c st. Paul railway system. The in
cnrporators of course, chiefly prominent in
the O., NJ. & st. p. company Their purpose
is to build railroad of about 100 miles, from
Rockton, on the Racine & Southwestern d-
vision, to Rockford, ILL.,, thence to Davis
Junction, aud thence to Kapkakee. This
branch will cross the coal fields near Braid
wood, ILL.,, recently bought by the c., NJ. & st.
Z. company, and will have for its principal
business the carrying OF lumber and coal. and
will give short connection between the G.. nj.
& St. p. and Illinois Central systems 1t is
interesting here il Minnesota mainly an in
dication of the development or growth of the
c., III. &. st. z. railway system.
MoorJsea6 Bridge Is.j.snction Denied.
United States Circuit Court, Minnesota Dis
trict-The Northern Pacific railroad company
vs. the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
railway company ct al. Motion for preiim-
mary Injunction to restrain the construction
of railroad draw bridge across the Red
River of the North. Gilman s Oiough for
the motion; Bigelow, Flandrau Clark.
Geo. 3. Young and Il. 3. Galusha against
the motion.
1t is not clear TO my mind that the complain
ant can maintain this suit in which an in
junction is prayed. The Northern Pacific
railroad company WAS chartered TO construct
and operate a railroad from Lake Superior to
the Pacific ocean. The authority to build
a road between these two points, thus
giving almost continuous route
of transportation east and west,
across the continent gave the chief value to its
franchises. The road was not to be built tor
the purpose of securing the trade upon the
navigable waters it crossed on its route, al
though the navigation Of these waters might
| increase its revenues, and l am not fully salts
| fed that this navigation Is important that
the value of the railroad would be seriously in-
| jured by anything that DISTRACTED it, but con-
cede that an obstruction to the nayigaT ion
| of the Red River of the North. navigable
river which it crosses, would seriously impair
the value of the road and affect injuriously the
| private interests of the company SO that it
| could epjoin such obstruction The question is
| then presented, will the contemp plated bridge
| t. be erected by the defendants be an obstruc-
| tion and nuisance.
lie it will be q nuisance to the
| company legislative authority for its
| construction by the state of Minnesota would
| justify it's erection, and no authority from
| the Legislature of Dakota Territory could pre-
| vent It's abatement as a nuisance unless sane
| toned perhaps by the Congress of the United
States. 1t is doubtful whether the bridge is
authorized to be built by the legislature of the
| Territory of Dakota, but this point il will
| only be proper my opinion to consider when
| sn objection to its construction is made by the
| United States.
The State Of Minnesots, if it objects, can be
| heard In its own courts.
An examination of the affidavts fled bY the
defendants show that the bridge will not De an
obstruc ion necessarily amounting to q nuis-
ance. and following the principle adopted by
| the United States Supreme Court iu the Whee-
ling bridge case, as l understand it, 1 shall
not interfere with the erection of the bridge
proposed by the defendants at this
time. They may take the responsibility of its
construction, and if 1t should be settled afte1
it is built that il Is nuisance and injuriously
affects the complainants private interests, il
| will be abated.
Motion for injunction denied.
NELSON, J.
The Chicago. st. Po1tt tG Omaha Line the
| Great Lawber Line