Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-23
RAIL AND RIVER.

The Union Depot in Use-- Collision With q
sor ns Field Agent of the st. P. 8 8. Co.
River and Boat News--Local and Person.
al Rail News.
Nineteen thousand barrels of -four were
waiting shipment at Duluth yesterday.
Two full sleepers, for Kansas City were
taken out by the Omaha train yesterday.
g,Over one hundred trains are to be registered,
arriving and departing, at the union depot
daily.
The Omaha and Manitoba offices were first
to issue their new Union depot condensed
time cards.
Mr.. George Staehle, clerk at the st. P. & D.
headquarters, has gone to Duluth for few
days of needed rest.
/. W. R. Busenbark, general travelling agent OF
the Michigan Central, arrived at noon yester-
day on business visit to Minnesota.
Mr.. Cummings, general agent at Chicago
OF the Royal Netherlands steamship company,
Is IN st. Paul for short business visit
General Manager Haupt and Vice President
Oakes, of the Northern Pacific, will arrive
here from Glendive on Friday or Saturday.
The st. Paul & Manitoba survey from Sauk
Rapids to Pine City shows what the engineers
consider very favorable line for railroad.
Seventeen colonists went up the st. Paul &
Manitoba road yesterday to settle near Ada,
Stephens and Hallock in the Red River valley.
Mr.. R. T. Flournoy, general agent of the
Lumber Line, has gone to Green Bay to in
quire into the lumber resources of that re-.
gion.
The famous and poetical Cooper, general
agent at Milwaukee of the Erie & Milwaukee
fast freight line, was in the city yesterday on
business.
J. P. Ilsley, Esq, ex-president of the st.
Paul & Duluth Railroad company, after q
visit of three days in st. Paul, started last
evening to return to his home in Philadelphia.
The two trains loaded with cattle which
left Keith, on the Missouri division of the
Northern Pacific, Friday, will arrive here to.
day, having been stopped at Fargo to rest and
feed the cattle.
The first carload of flaxseed of the season
came in over the Omaha road yesterday. Rail-
road men estimate the crop of this season
along the Omaha main line and branches at
not less than 1900, 900 bushels.
W. c. Van Horne, general superintendent
of the Milwaukee & st. Paul road, made a
short visit to St. Paul yesterday, on which he
was accompanied by Col. johnson of the
Railroad hotel at Milwaukee, formerly pro-
prietor and landlord of the Park Place hotel,
st. Paul.
The August folder issued by the St. Paul &
Manitoba company is not only handsomely
printed affair, but is well got up in other re-
spects, and especially in giving good deal of
useful information in handy form. The map
shows the whole projected line of the Canadi-
an Pacific and other principal connections of
the St. Paul & Manitoba road and branches.
The Duluth night express, due here yester-
day morning. when coming into Hinckley
during the night ran over horse, which
threw the engine from the track and damaged
1t so that it will have to be brought to the
shops for repairs. The fireman was scalded,
but not dangerously. The train, in conse-
quence of this accident, was few hours late
in coming in.
Mr.. F. s. Capron, of Chicago, western
travelling agent of the Chicago & Grand
Trunk railway, being IN st. Paul yesterday,
said that his company is sending east from
Chicago two or three trains daily, each with
five sleepers, and carries about a thousand
passengers daily from Chicago. The rush
may be credited to the low rates-$5 to Bos-
ton and 81 to Portland. Mr.. Capren thinks
these low rates will be maintained for some
time, and his object here is to have line of
the rebate tickets on sale by the Minnesota
companies.