Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-30
RAIL AND RIVER NEWS.

Danish Colonists-Land SIide-EditOrial
Extensive Storm-Office Removal-Im-
portant Purchase of City Front-False
Rumor About an Impending Change In
Northern Pacific AIanagement-To- Day g
Boats for the st. Louis Fair-Pcrsonals,
| Etc.
| Mr. D. T. Bacon has been appointed assist
ant superintendent of the Middle Iowa divis-
ion of the c., B. & O., railroad, with head
| quarters at Ottumwa, Ia.
Railway telegraph operators reported the
heavy transform of yesterday afternoon pre-
vailing in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and
Dakota, all along the lines of the C.,St. r., M.
e. D. railway.
Representatives of the freight departments
of the Milwaukee s. st. Paul and Chicago q
Northwestern companies at 4 meeting in Chi
cagO Tuesday, agreed upon unlf Orm gram
rates from competing points.
A special emigrant train, consisting of seven
passenger coaches and one baggage car, from
the Great Western of Canada and bound for
Manitoba, will arrive here to-day, from Chi
cago, over the c., st. 2. & o. line.
Roosevelt Miller, Esq. late general superin-
tendent of the Cairo & Vincennes railway, of
which Mr.. Morgan was president, left here for
the North yesterday to join the Pierpont Nor
gan party on their excursion to Glendlve.
Peter Harvey, travelling passenger agent OF
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, being about to
settle at st Paul as Northwestern agent of the
company, arrived here yesterday to make ar
rangements for moving his family to st. Paul.
Mr.. f. Ii. Hughes, late general travelling
agent of the Michigan Central, has been ap-
pointed general western passenger agent of the
Canada Southern, in place of Mr. W. II. llul-
burt, promoted to the position of general
passenger agent. Mr.. Hughes will have his
office at No. SO Clark street.
Another land slide from top of the St. Croix
bluffs occurred on the Taylor; Falls road
night before last, SO that the passengers by
the forenoon train from Wyoming had to
walk about a mile and half into Taylors
Falls. The track was cleared yesterday, and
it is hoped that trouble is now over.
Mr.. J. A. Hanson and Others, representing
a Danish colony organized at Oconto, Wis.,,
for settlement in the Red River valley of Min
nesot returned yesterday from Stevens, Mar
shall county, near which point they have Sc
lected large body OF railroad lands, and
yesterday afternoon proceeded to Oconto to
report to their associates.
The general managers office of the Northern
Pacific railway will be moved next week to the
fourth story of the Davidson block. where
four large rooms are being fitted for Gen.
Haupt and his clerks. The other offices of
the company will probably remain in their
present location until the company'S building
on Broadway is ready to receive them all.
The st. Paul & Sioux City Railroad COM
pany, having lately bought for S25,O 900 block
81 and lot 5 of block sc, st. Paul Proper, and
having before purchased the TivOli property,
now owns all the south side of Second street
and the cliff side between Second street and its
levee right of way from the Mississippi river
bridge, or Wabashaw street, to Minnesota
street.
Capt. r. P. Gere, superintendent OF the
Sioux City division of the c., st. P. & o. rail
way, returned to Sioux City yesterday after
noon. He was busy at headquarters through
out his stay of less than two days in St. Paul,
but rushed away from business Wednesday
evening long enough to congratulate Gen.
Hubbard, who was his army commander and
comrade, upon his nomination to be governor
of Minnesota.
The Minnesota editorial excursion party
which left here yesterday afternoon for pal
ace car ride to Sioux City, Council Bluffs,
Kansas City, Chicago, and Milwaukee, num-
bered 100 persons, of whom forty-seven were
ladies. Several more editors of the southwest
counties were expected to join the party en-
route. General Passenger Agent Teasdale of
the c., st. P. 81 O. railway accompanied the
party as far as Sioux City and j. r. Buchan-
an, general passenger agent of the Sioux City
& Pacific railroad, who will have charge of
the excursion over his line, also accompanied
the party from here,