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

| luC uoC VI tuC OulOu uCpOt Will Dtklu dS
soon as the ticket offices and baggage
rooms can be made ready, which will be in
about two weeks. Meantime track connect
ions are to be perfected and the upper part of
the building will be finished during the month.
| Reports from all the railroads show that
there was large excursion travel on the
! Fourth. At northwestern and western points,
| beyond the daily range of newspapers, there
| were lively celebrations of the national holiday
before the news arrived of the attempt to
assassinate the President.
Superintendent Hatch, who returned from a
trip to Sioux City yesterday, reports crops in
| the southwest, all along the c., st. P. & o.
| road, to be looking well. A light rainfall oc-
Cured at Sioux City and for some distance up
the line Tuesday night, which the telegraph
ers correctly predicted would be repeated in
st. Paul last night.
Messrs. Angus, Hill and Marvel, of the St.
Paul & Manitoba, left here yesterday morning
by the Breckenridge train for general tour of
their road and branches, on which they will
be absent week or ten days. 1t is not i'm
possible that during their absence they may
meet Messrs. Willard and Haupt, who, with
their large excursion party, will be at Fargo
to- morrow and arrange compromise between
the St. P. & NJ. and N. P. companies, regard
ing TIE building of rival branch lines.
Mr.. Stephen, of Stephen, Marshall county,
one of the leading farmers of Northwest
Minnesota, brother of the president of the
St Paul & Manitoba company, was in the city
yesterday on business with the st. P. s. M.
land department. Mr.. Stephen has $50 acres
in crop this year and has broken up 900 acres
more for seeding next season. In addition he
has made large beginning with stock. He
reports all crops of the Red river valley of
Minnesota, so far as he has had opportunity to
observe them, looking well and promising
good yield.
The franchises, ETC., of the projected Lit
tie Falls g. Dakota railroad, were for
mally transferred to Henry Willard and
associates Tuesday evening, under an
arrangement which contemplates that the
road will be built and put in opera
to be built from Little Falls uia Sank Center
and Morris to Big Stone lake, unless in the re-
ported pending negotiations between the
Northern Pacific and st. Paul & Manitoba
companies, it may be arranged to use the
Morris & Browns Valley branch for part of
the Little Falls line.
| William L. Aldrich, of Morenci, Mich, a
consumptive, died Tuesday night on the
Northern Pacific train coming east. He had
! taken second class passage from jamestown
for st. Paul, and when first seen by the con-
ductor was eating a lunch with which he had
provided himself before starting. He then re-
| marked to the conductor that he was rich and
wanted to take sleeping car berth, The con-
ductor told him he could not let him have
birth on second class ticket, but on his say
Ing he would pay the difference in fare, prom
| ised to arrange it for him as soon as he had
| gone through the train. On return
| ing shortly after the conductor
| found the man at the point OF death, and he
| breathed his last before anything could be
done for HIM. At Brainerd his body was
| boxed in ice and it was then brought to St.
| Paul by the same train and delivered to Stees
| Bros, undertakers. The relatives of deceased
at Morenci were notified by telegraph of his
| death and at once replied directing that he
be buried here. The deceased was reduced
| very low by consumption and when he left
Jamestown was fearful he could not live to
reach home.
Beginning next Monday the entire trains of
the Omaha express, over the Chicago, st. Paul
& Omaha railway, will be run through from
St. Paul to Council Bluffs and the sleeper
coaches will 60 through to Kansas City, 563
miles from ST. Paul. At Kansas City and
Council Blnffs close connection will be made
| with western and southwestern trains. Both
| ways, tne tralhs VIII run tnrouRn Without
delay at any point. The train time will be
as follows: Leave St. Paul at $3.50 P. NJ,
$50 next evening. Leave Kansas
| City at 1910 A. NJ. and arrive in st. Paul at
1890 P. NJ. next day. The route will be over
the c., St. P. & o. road to Sioux City, from
| Sioux City to Council Bluffs over the Sioux
City & Pacific road, and from Council Bluffs
City, St. Joseph s. Council Bluffs
road The Nebraska division of the c., St. P.
& 0. company, over which 1t will some day
run its passenger trains into Omaha and posi-
| bly, to the Union Pacific road by way of Nor
folk, lacks bridge over the Missouri from
Sioux City to Covington, but for freight pur-
poses is made complete by exce.ient transfer
service on the Missouri.
Hon. James Smith, Jr., president of the St.
Paul G. Duluth company, went to Rush City
by the train of last night, to meet there this
morning Superintendent Sewall and ac-
company him to-day on tour
over the graded way of The proposed
Grantsburg branch to estimate the
probable cOss of completing the road and also
the business to be gained by ironing and ope
rating the road. The original company, com
posed of residents and property owners oil
Rush City and Grantsburg and along the line,
have graded the road and provided ties and
bridge timber, Except that for the bridge over
the st. CroiX they have provided part of the
stone required for abutments and only part
of the timber for the bridge. The cost of COM
pleting the road will therefore be so small that
the only question is whether the
new business pay for operat-
| ing the branch. 1t is thought
the conclusion of Messrs. Smith and Sewall will
he that the branch will pay There are excel
lent booming privileges on the St. Croix, just
above the intended crossing, and thirty acres
of land bordering on the river in that vicinity
has been bought by lumbermen, who will pro.
coed at once to build large sawmill when
the St. Paul & Duluth company begins to iron
the road. The country between the st. Crolx
and Grantsburg, and in all the vicinity of that
village, is well adapted to farming and thickly
settled, and will furnish a good deal of bust
ness to the road te