Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-12
RAILROAD NOTES.


Il. C. Davis assistant general passenger
agent is still at Chicago.
The Winnipeg train was six or eight hours
late at o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Barnes, general passenger agent OF the
Northern Pacific road, has gone to Chicago.
The Minnesota river is at q stand at Shako-
pee, while at st. peter and Mankato it Is ris-
ing quite rapidly.
Messrs. Winter, Humbird and spooner, Of
the Chicago, St. Paul & Omaha line, were at
Superior City yesterday.
The Northern Pacific Company on Monday
forwarded 65 carloads of emigrants, nova
bles and IS carloads OF miscellaneous freight
and stock.
Mr.. Slayton, of the land department OF the
st. Paul & Sioux City road went up the road
yesterday with the English people that came
over with him.
The land sales of the Northern Pacific
during the past ten days, amounted to
$l2O, 600, while the whole month of March
showed only 100000.
The Norfolk extension OF the Chicago, st,
Paul q Omaha line from Emerson to Norfolk,
Neb, distance of about forty miles, will be
open for business next Monday.
s. D. Caldwell, general manager of the Red
line, with headquarters at Buffalo, and w. B.
Williams, the agent of the sams line, with
headquarters at Chicago, are in town. c4
Upwards of seventy-fve land hunters OBJ.
tanned tickets yesterday at the land depart
ment of the st. Paul & Manitoba road and
started last night for the Red River valley.
John Begen, general western manager of thu
State line of steamships, with headquarters al
Chicago, telegraphs that John Ninquist, &
| Red River valley farmer, had just left Chicago
with thirty people for the Red River valley
They were passengers by the State Line steam
er Florida, which landed at New York on Sat
urday.
| An accident occurred at the Union depo
yesterday that might have been serious. A
stranger while passing around in the dspo'
| with his overcoat on his arm accidentally
dropped it and suddenly an explosion wa.
heard. An examination into the cause Of tn
exlosion developed the fact that the strange
had big Smith & Wesson revolver in hi
overcoat pocket, and that when the overcOa
struck the marble thing of the depot the re
volser was discharged. The ball was,after
wards found pretty well fattenet
could not be found. 1t was supposed, how
| ever, that it must have struck the granite
somewhere as it had that appearances. The
depot was filled with people going and com
ing, none of whom felt very comfortable
over the accident.
A. w. Faugner, the business manager o.
the ScandinaUem, paper published in Chicago
arrived yesterday in st. Paul, on his way t.
the Red River country. When asked wha
caused him to come up here into the
northwest, he replied that he had been pub
fishing that paper for over twenty years; thai
the subscription list had been limited general.
to Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa ant
some other states, but this year orders wer,
coming in from all parts of those states from
people directing that their papers b
changed from the place where it ha,
have sent to Grand Forks, or some othe
point in the Northwest. Hundreds of sucl
orders were received, and he was curious t
come up here and see for himself what kline
of country this Northwest IS. He salt
further, that Polk county, Mimi, was tn
banner county so far as his paper was con
cerned, he had more subscribers in that count.
than in any other comfy in any of the states
named. He was anxious to see where al
ScandinaVianS was going to.