Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-30


cago Passenger Line Proposed-R Railroad
Personals-Another River Shipment to
Glasgow-The Fast Gem City To- Morrow.
letter from General Agent Chandler dated
at Hot Springs Sunday reports continued i'm
provement in his health
Timothy Case, Esq, receiver and general
manager Of the Green Bay & Minnesota rail.
road, is at the Merchants.
Forty-four immigrants left here yesterday
for points on the Breckenridge division of the
st. Paul & Manitoba railway.
The tile-layers are at work upon the floor of
the grand hall of the Union Depot. and will
have it covered in few days.
A lumber buyer of Omaha, was in the city
yesterday arranging for shipping one hundred
carloads of lumber to his yards.
General Traffic Manager Clarke, of the Chi
cago, st. Paul & Omaha left here for Chicago
yesterday. to be absent few days.
j. II. Drake, ESQ.,, land commissioner of the
st. Paul q Sioux City company, returned yes
terday from business visit to Chicago.
The delay of the w. s. st. P. company's
Chicago passenger train Tuesday. was caused
by part of freight train being off the track
IN Wisconsin.
Mr.. Willard and his friends, who are to
| leave New York to-day for tour over the
Northern Pacific road, will probably arrive
here Sunday.
c. D. W. Young, Esq, auditor of the Chi
cago, st. Paul & Omaha company, returned
yesterday from the East, recuperated by rest
of several weeks.
Mr.. E. A. Whitaker, travelling agent of the
M. & St. l.. road, returned to his home in St..
Paul yesterday from an extended trip in the
South and Southeast.
About two hundred persons-..men, women
and children--are expected to go from St. Paul
to White Bear to-day on the Central Pres
byterian Sunday school excursion.
The Chicago train due at noon yesterday
over the River division of the M. & St. P.
was an hour late, having been delayed by a
wrecking train occupying the track.
Another hint for the Eastern trunk lines
and connections: The steamer Grand Pacific
took out from St. Paul yesterday 300 double
sacks of flour tor Glasgow, Scotland, by way
Of New Orleans.
A travelling agent of the emigration bureau
of the St. Paul & Manitoba company writes
that farmers of Michigan and Indiana are
much discouraged by crop prospects, and he
finds many inclined to migrate to the Red river
valley.
The st. Paul & Manitoba company will run
a special train from Willmar to st. Paul on
the fourth, as follows: Leave Willma- at 5
| md rriu Of of IT,
Leave st. Paul at AS P. NJ. and arrive at Will
mar at $3.50 P. NJ. The fare will he at round
trip excursion rates.
| dispatch from the Cnnard Line Office in
Boston to Mr.. A. E. johnson, Commissioner
of Emigration for the St. Paul & Manitoba
company, announces that eighteen Scandi.
navians who arrived by the steamship Atlas
Tuesday, left that evening for Minnesota to
| settle on railroad lands north of CrOokstOn.
A dispatch of yesterday from River Falls,
Wis, to General Superintendent Hatch, says
that the crops in that vicinity are looking
well, although heavy and frequent rains have
lately occurred. No damage has occurred
from hail, and there are no chinch bugs.
Farmers look for at least an average crop, aud
they place the wheat average for their valley,
the Kinnickinnic, at twenty bushels per acre.
f. St. John, Esq, general passenger agent
of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, G. +.
Lee, Esq, Chicago, passenger agent of the
same road, and B. T. Mills, ESQ.,, general pas
senger and ticket agent of the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids s. Northern, were at the Mer-
chants yesterday. 1t was supposed their visit
might have reference to pending proposition
to establish through passenger service be-
by way of the NJ. i st. L., b., G. R. & n,
and c., r. L. Il Z. roads, aud hence the purpose
of securing proper facilities at st. Paul.
Chicago papers announce that c. o. Wheeler,
ESQ.,, superintendent of the Western division
of the Michigan Central, has resigned to ac-
cept the superintendency of the Northern or
Red River divisions of the St. Paul & Manitoba
railway, and report that he makes the change
| at request of Assistant General Manager Man
vel, OF the Manitoba road. Mr.. Wheeler is to
leave Chicago Monday for st. Paul. He is
succeeded on the Central by Mr.. F. F. Nicho-
las, who was assistant superintendent of the
Western division. Mr.. Wheeler began rail-
reading in 1855 as laborer on the Michigan
Central.
1t isn't often that Southwestern zephyrs are
boisterous enough 10 upset railroad cars, but
they did that at Merrill Tuesday night. Mer.
rill is the first station west of LeMars, on the
Illinois central, Iowa division. At II P. M.
Tuesday train No of the st. Paul & Omaha
short line was at or close to Merrill station
when it was struck by a cyclone which upset
the baggage car and two passenger coaches.
Two box cars, Standing on a side track
near by, were rolled completely
over. The accounts received here
are meagre, but agree that no person was
hurt, and that the cars of the passenger train
were not much injured. TIE occurrence was
promptly reported at LIE Mars, where wreck
ing train was fitted out for clearing the
track, but meantime another big storm came
on, prostratng the telegraph wires, and COM
polling suspension of all operations on the
line, from Sheldon to Sioux City, until A. NJ.
yesterday, when the movement Of trains was
resumed, and the track at Merrill was cleared
during the forenoon. The telegraph wires
were restored late in the afternoon, but
were so occupied with railroad business that
no particulars were sent in as to the damage
to crops and property in the line of the storm.
Notes of the RiUer.
| The swell in the river yesterday amounted
| TO one inch.
| The Josephine of the Diamond 10 line made
the landing at the st. Paul levee at 8 O'Clock
Yesterday morning, bringing in good freight
and passenger trip. She left on her return
at 4 p NJ. with number of people and
considerable miscellaneous freight. The next
| boat of this line will be the elegant and fast
Mary Morton, in to leave at 10 A. NJ. Friday.
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