Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-18
RAIL AND RIVER.

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the North Shore line at st. Paul, has re-
| turned.
| Mr.. Whitman, western passenger agent of
the Grand Trunk road, arrived in the city yes
terday.
General Manager Haupt is working away
night and day on his annual report to the
board of directors. rr,n
General Passenger Agent Teasdale is the
happy recipient of pair OF horns from the
Yellowstone valley.
The stalk of corn in front of Mr.. j. c..
Boyden's office, is nearer eight feet than
twelve feet. The GLOBE did not measure it
exclusively" with an umbrella, but came
pretty near the correct figure.
The incoming freight on the Duluth road
ran her nose up against the outgoing freight
as it stood in the Union depot yards yesterday
morning, at about 6 o'clock. The arriving
train was heavily laden and in coming down
grade would not obey her brakes, but was
stopped with merely demolishing the pilots of
the two locomotives.
construction train OF the Milwaukee
road while running ion the cutoff near the
Short Line junction yesterday, came to dis.
placed switch and the locomotive with eight
cars went to grass. Engineer aud fireman
each made leap for lie, and landed. No
body was hurt, though engine and cars were
considerably damaged. p
A telegram was received by Mr.. G. h. Cross,
superintendent of transportation of the North
ern Pacific, dated Fargo, August II, stating
that the Rufus Hatch party, having found
everything satisfactory, will arrive in st. Paul
this morning and remain until Saturday noon,
when they will depart for Chicago, via the
Chicago & Northwestern road.
Tue question, "Why is the route through
Elroy and Madison to Chicago, over the Chi
cago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha rail-
way, called the royal route?" has been sat-
isfactorily answered by folder, which says it
is because the imperial palace dining cars and
the improved smoking room sleeping cars ale
run between Minneapolis, st. Paul and Chi.
cago.
Close Bros. & Co., who are fast becoming
important factors in the development of
northwestern Iowa and southwestern Mime
sofa, are moving their offices from LeMars TO
Sibley, Iowa, and have purchased Bigelow
town site, in Mobiles county, Minnesota. They
have the management of about $50, 600 acres
of land in the two states and are constantly
buying more. n -l 3.
Emigration Commissioner johnson, of the
Manitoba railway company, received a tele-
gram from W. E. Lawrence, general western
agent of the American line of steamers, stat
Ing that seventy emigraEts for the northwest,
part of them for the Red River valley, passed
landed at Philadelphia last Monday by the
steamer British Crown. They are mostly
Scandinavians.
Wall re IND thoe he
Spirit Lake & Western railroad will be built
| by the Close Bros, the large English colonists
of Iowa, who are the managers OF the Iowa
Land company llimited) of London, power:
| full moDied institution backed BY the Duke of
| Sutherland and party who visited this country
last summer. They have bought an
enormous area of land in North
western Iowa, and their right of way
will cost them very little, if anything. The
course of the road will be from Spirit Lake,
in Dickinson comfy, to Sbley, Osceola coun-
pany); thence to Rock Rapids, in Lyon county;
| thence through what is known as the Larch-
wood Tract to Sioux Falls, Dakota.
John Drummond, passenger engine driver
on the northern division of tae Omaha line,
| came in at 315 yesterday afternoon, and then
| proceeded, as is the custom, to back his en-
SihO Oub " tuC IOuHu uOuSt, lcdNluR TIC
fireman to run The machine, he went toward
| the rear, walking On the outside OF the tender.
Later in the afternoon he was found lying at
! the side of the track in an insenslb,e condi-
ton with blood oozing from his right ear.
He was taken to DR.. Murphy's Office and his
injuries pronounced not necessarily fatal,
though the brain may nave received serious
sock. he was sent home to his wife on
MInnehaha street, East st. Paul. The suppo.
sition is that in passing under one OF the
badges which stand close to the track, he
c me in contact with the side and was scraped
off the tender.
Mr.. d. Elwell, president of the Sioux Falls
water power com 2any, arrived in St.
Paul from Eagland, where he has
| been on short business trip in
| the interests of the corn o.ny. He says
the English people baye been buying good
deal OF American wheat, on account of the
damage to the English crops, but he uncer-
stands that, since he sailed from England, the
weather has improved aud their wants may
not be as great as their fears at one
| time. The encouragement to English
agriculturists on account of the shortage of
| the past few years, has reduced the wheat
acreage so much that, with the most favor
able harvest weather, England must OF neces-
sity import largely to meet her consumptive
| demand. 1t remains to be seen whether the
cheap transportation and good crops in Amer.
lea will enable us to compete with the rival
| pr oducing countries of the world in the Eng
| lish markets.