Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-06-22
CURRENT NEWS.
RAILROADS.

One banking house in New York has taken
So. 500, 600 of the Chicago & Northwestern
sinking fund bonds, payable in 1926 and
bearing per cent interest
The st. Paul & Duluth company will soon
begin work in erecting new depots at Lake
Shore, White Bear, Forest Lake and Winstrom.
The buildings will cost $500 to $1,000 each.
At Omaha Henry s. Still was probably fatal
ly stabbed by his brother Leo Still, at the resi-
dence of the latter. Al Still, another brother,
had been drinking, and whisky was the cause
Of the tragedy.
It is alleged that there is free cutting, in
freight rates on everything between Milwaukee
and the east, and an open war is imminent
The regular rate of 25 cents has been beaten
down to IL cents in some instances.
The annual report of the Milwaukee & st.
Paul to the president shows the gross earnings
for 1850 to have been $13 ,OS6, lis. 81;
operating expenses s. ~ q leaving
the previous year of 100000.
Clyde Erskine, son of Green Erskine, we'll
known citizen of St Louis, was arrested on
warrant sworn out by John Scullin, president
of the Union Depot Street railroad, charging
him with embezzling Sis, 900 from that COM
pany in 1879, when he was secretary of it.
Six cowardly assassins in Arkansas called
Louis Sweenton of Van Buren, county, out and
shot him dead on his own doorstep. They
were pursued by the neighbours, and were
caught mapping with their cooked guns by their
side. When they were awakened they found
that their pursuers had the drop on them, and
they made no resistance.
Recently a contract was let by the Chicago,
St Paul. Minneapolis & Omaha company for the
construction of a portion of their northern di-
vision in Wisconsin, beginning at point north
of Mud Lake, in Burnett county. The road is
intended, ultimately, to proceed northward, the
objective point being Superior City, being an
extension of the North Wisconsin branch.
Surveyors will Immediately commence work
on the Sank Center Northern road. It is ex-
pected that grading will be finished to Long
Prairie by harvest time. The Todd county
Argus says: 'The promptness with which
this branch has been projected and brought to
it's present status shows the intensity of the
rivalry between the two railroad systems of
northern Minnesota"
The Union Pacific Railway company con-
templates building a line of railroad from
Granger, on the Union Pacific, between Sidney
and Cheyenne, to connection with the lines Of
the Oregon Railway & Navigation company.
1t is understood that the line has been virtually
laid OUT that maps and preliminary surveys Of
the proposed route have been.made. The road,
when completed, will bring the Union Pacific
into rivalry with tho Northern Pacific on
through business.
The st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Rail
way company has determined to build branch
railroad, commencing at a point in it's present
constructed line, at or near the village of Car
lisle in Otter Tail county, in Minnesota and rum
ming thence in a northerly direction, via Peli-
can Rapids, through the counties of Otter Tail,
Becker and Polk, to the Red Lake river in Polk
comfy. A preamble and resolution setting
forth the above facts, and map of the route
have been filed in the office of the secretary of
state.