Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-07
RAIL AND RIVER.

Omaha Express to be Removed Monday
and Personals From the Railroad Ofices
Return of the Mary Barnes-The Libbie
COnger In With Big Load From Be-
low.
The Hastings & Dakota road is again in
working order as far as OrtOnville.
While waiting for the Sioux City & Pacific
road to be repaired the ST. Paul 81 Omaha COM
pany's Omaha express has been suspended
west of st. James, but that road being now re-
paired, the through express will be resumed,
beginning Monday The train leaves here at
$40 P. NJ. and includes a sleeper which goes
through to Council Bluffs.
Exclusive of the M. g. st. L. trains, the
business of the st. Paul & Omaha road yester-
day included the bringing of one hundred
freight cars into St. Paul from the West and
the taking out about the same number, the
latter mostly loaded for Nebraska and Kansas
points.
, The Minneapolis q St. Louis company's
regular trains, Nos. 1, 2, 8 and 4, will leave
Minneapolis on schedule time tomorrow, and
run over the company's road to Chaska,
thence on the H. & D, road to Shakopee, and
thence to the company's road, at Merriam
junction, over the st. P. & O. track. In a
few days, perhaps by Monday, the washouts
near Carver will be repaired 80 that the de-
tour to Shakopee will not be necessary.
Mr.. E. A. Whitaker, travelling passenger
agent of the M. & St. L. railroad, has recently
had added to his duties those of travelling
freight agent. If there is a corresponding ad-
ditiOn to his salary, it's all right. He's capa-
bic of caring big pay.
A circular from the Wabash, st. Louis &
Pacific railroad company, of date the Doth ult..
announces the acquisition by that company OF
the Havana, Rantoul & Eastern railroad, to be
designated as the Rantoul division of the Wa
bash, etc., and of which Mr.. T. B. Burnett is
division superintendent and general agent with
headquarters at Rantoul, H.. Mr.. Burnett was
assistant superintendent of the st. Paul & Sioux
City railroad.
The stockholders of the Fort Dodge & Fort
Ridgely Railroad company have ratified the
action of its board of directors, taken few
days ago, agreeing to the articles of consoidla-
tion between the Minneapolis q st. Louis
Minneapolis 81 Duluth, Minnesota & Iowa
Southern and the Fort Dodge & Fort Ridgely
Railway lines. The new combination is to be
known as the Minneapolis g. St. Louis Rail
way company of Minnesota and Iowa. The
capital stock is to be $40, 900 900, of which moi
| over $S,000,000 is to be preferred stock and
$l2, O0O, 900 common stock. At present there
will be issued $40, 900 900, of which 81 900 ,00(
will be preferred and 100000 common.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul com
pany has issued pamphlet, giving list o.
| all the hotels and country houses on its lin,
which will take boarders during The summer
Mr.. E. w. Gaylord, late superintendent O
NJ. s. st. L. railroad, having resigned tina
| position, has gone to Winnipeg, to attend t.
contracts on the Canadian Pacific, in which
he is in partnership with George A. Bracket
of Minneapolis.
| Judge Chandler the st. Paul Representative,
of the Milwaukee & st. Paul company, wa
confined to his residence yesterday by an at
tack of his old enemy, the rheumatism.
| Langdon, Bishop & Co. are said to hav
1900 men already at work on the NJ. & st. P
company's short line across Iowa to Council
Bluffs, and to be intending to put Oh 1,50(
more before this month is over.
| st. PamPs Southwest Trunk Ltne Road.
After months of snow, followed by heavie
floods than ever witnessed by the "oldest in
habitant," we are glad to announce that th
St.. Paul & Omaha short line, of the c., St. P.