Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-19

Shtpments-Annual Meetings, personals
and Local Notes. ts
The jackson street M E. church is to
have an excursion to Lake Elmo Thurs
day, July 7. ~
A meeting of directors of the Union
depot will be held at the company's
office tomorrow forenoon.
Electric bell calls and signals were be-
ing placed in the Chicago, St. Paul &
Omaha Office building yesterday.
Fifty eight immigrants went out on the
st. Paul 6 Manitoba trains yesterday, for
Cokato, Willmar, Fergus Falls, etc.
The annual meeting of the st. Paul s.
Duluth railroad company will be held at
the company's headquarters in this city
tomorrow, from II NJ to ppm.
Hon. F. R. Delano came down from
Casselton yesterday to brace up his NOR
ais in St. Paul, as is his weekly custom,
and will return to Fargo by the train
leaving this evening.
Mr.. Teasdale, general ticket agent of
the Chicago, St. Paul Sc Omaha, and Mr..
Flournoy, general agent of the Lumber
line, will leave here tomorrow afternoon
for Omaha, to be absent all the week.
The Lumber line shipments from and
via St. Paul to the Southwest during the
week ending with the 18th inst, filled 321
cars and amounted to $4,000 feet of
lnmber, 100, 900 lath and zoe, 900 shingles.
The funeral of Major John G. Hamil-
toms child yesterday afternoon was at
tended by the officers and nearly all the
clerks of the freight and passenger de-
partments Of the st. Paul & Manitoba
railway.
The Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha COM
pany has arranged to place sleeping car
berths for its night trains to Chicago on
sale at Minneapolis, SO that selections
can bemade there without telegraphing
to st. Paul.
The Neillsv1De branch of the Eastern
division of the St. Paul & Omaha road,
from MERRIAM to Neillsvllle, Wis. twelve
miles, is to be formally opened July 4th,
with big blow out and free ride for both
Mcmillan and Neillsville.
The GLOBE recommendation of yester-
day that proper house be- provided for
shelter of immigrants during their short
stay in St. Paul, is warmly approved by
railroad employees who are most familiar
with the conditions on which that recon-
mendation was based.
Messrs. Merrill, Van Horne, Cary lJno.
W. and Myers, of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee g. St. Paul railway, arrived here by
the River division train yesterday morn
ing and spent most of the day in visit to
Saltwater. They are to remain here IN
til Monday evening.
The storm which visited st. Paul Fri
day night was observed all along the c.,
st. P. 6 o. lines, from Elroy to Sioux
City, and yesterday afternoon in the vi
cinity of Sioux City, and thence to Oma-
ha, on both sides of the Missouri, the
weather was threatening.
Fl. II. Porter, Esq, president of the
Chicago, St. Paul & Omaha and St. Paul
g. Duluth companies, accompanied by a
few gentlemen interested with him in
these companies, arrived yesterday from
Chicago on the St. Paul & Duluth bust
ness car, sent to Elroy to meet him.
The St. Paul & Omaha company is ar
ranging to send a big special
over to Saltwater next Thursday to con-
vey the knights Templar, of Owatonna
and other Southern Minnesota cities, to
participate in the grand parade on assem-
bling of the grand commandery in Still
water.
A revised time table goes into effect on
the ST.. Paul 6 Duluth railroad to-day,
but the changes only affect the operation
of the road between Northern Pacific
junction and Duluth and are made to &C
commodate second passenger train on
the Northern Pacific between Duluth and
Brainerd.
G. E. Hughes, who for several years
has been in charge of the day force of
operators in the Northwestern telegraph
Office, has resigned that position to take
charge of the operating force OF the Chi
cago,St. Paul & Omaha company in their
new building. Mr.. Hughes is one of the
most competent telegraph operators in
the entire country. He has made the
work of telegraphing study, and has
thoroughly mastered all its intracacies.
The railroad company in question have
secured VALUABLE HldH III OU FALLING MI
Hughes.
For several days last week the opera
tors in one of the St. Paul & Omaha COM
pany's telegraph rooms were DO thered by
fault in one of the Sioux City wires.
Search was made in the Office and along
the line, but without result but to locate
the trouble opposite Irvine Park in St.
Paul. But what the trouble was no fell
low could tell or find out. Yesterday the
company's telegraph superintendent, Mr..
Hope, concluded he would help in the
search, and after he had walked and
looked until he was tired he lay down on
the grass under one of the trees in the
park to study the mystery. AS he lay
there looking upward he saw a glistening
line through the air above him reaching
from the direction Of the tele-
graph wire into the shady
depths of the park. 1t looked like a
SPIDERS thread, but closer observation
showed two threads Mr.. Hope followed
this clue to the telegraph wire, and then
back into the park, and SO learned the
whole mystery The ingenious, inquis-
tive and experimental small boy had
been there. There are several score,
more or less, of him in that part of the
CITY, and most of them were parties to
the experiment. A few hundred feet of
thread wire had been passed over the
telegraph wire, and the two ends carried
back into nice retreat in the park,
where the small boys, by taking hold OF