Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-29
RAIL AND RIVER.

Mr.. J. C. Boyden returned at noon yesier-
day.
General Manager Haupt, Of the Northern
Pacific, has gone East for few days.
General Manager Marvel, of the Manitoba
road, has gone to New York for fortnight.
Superintendent of Transportation George w.
Cross, of the N. P. r. e., went to Duluth last
night.
Mr.. 7. w. Wadsworth, of the Milwaukee
road, denies the report about his going to
New York.
Mr.. g. K. Barnes, general passenger agent
OF the Northern Pacific, will be back from
Omaha to-day.
Mr.. George w. Cross, B. McHugh, Col.
Lambsom and w. B. Clough go to Lake
Superior shortly.
Mr.. James D. Brown, passenger agent of the
Chicago, Milwaukee s. St. Paul railway, re-
turned yesterday.
Mr.. H. C. Davis, assistant general passen
ger agent of the Manitoba, is back again,
looking splendidly.
Mr.. H. Sherman, Jr., travelling agent of the
Union Pacific railway, left last night for
Grand Forks, Fargo and Winnipeg.
The first car load of new wheat has arrived
In Minneapolis. It was consigned to Pillsbury
& Hobart, and was from the Larimore farm.
Mr.. D. Elwell, president of the Sioux Falls
water power company, was skirmishing
around among The railway offices yesterday.
General Passenger Agent Teasdale, of the
Omaha line, will meet the Illinois Central
railroad excursion at Lemar's today, and will
return to St. Paul about Thursday.
Mr.. Andrew Duke and q party OF five or
six from New Brunswick went through st.
Paul yesterday, en- rosie to Graft, Walsh
county, Dakota, in which vicinity they in
tend to locate.
General Superintendent Stimsop, General
Freight and Passenger Agent Alexander, Capt.
G. q. Wrenshall, and Assistant Superintendent
Wakeman, of the Manitoba road, are absent
on tour of Inspection.
The emigrants department of the Manitoba
road, yesterday received a telegram from Hal
lock, Kittsou county, Minnesota, stating that
harvesting is progressing finely, and promises
large yield. There has not been any rain
since harvesting commenced. II weather con-
tinues favorable the grain will all be cut In
another week.
line S:45 train on the Milwaukee road last
night took the body of the freight engineer,
Kean, who waa killed near Millbank, on last
Saturday, while trying to board his own train
while it was in motion. He had stepped off
the engine to get drink Of water, when the
conductor signaled to start ahead. he called
to his fireman to let her go, and then while
IN cofo IN tho rnOuin0 train waa
thrown beneath the wheels. Both arms were
cut off and death ensued from loss of blood.
The remains were sent to relatives in Mil
waukee.
Recently received London papers contain
accounts of OF the performance of locomo-
tive on the Great Northern railrosd, which
not long ago carried the Duke of Edinburgh
from Leeds to London, distance of 1861
miles, in three hours, or at the rate of 60
miles an hour. This speed has frequently
been equalled and sometimes beaten for short
distances, but is still remarkably high aver
age for the length of the run. The drivers
were eight feet in diameter, two feet taller
than the wheels of American engines. The
wheels of the engine in question must have
made over S9. 600 revolutions in three hours.
AMr. Charles Morris, of Chicago, has just
returned from Manhattan Beach, Coney Island.
which is noted for its splendid displays of fire
works. Thousands OF people go there espec-
tally to witness those brilliant exhibitions.
He came to st. Paul in compliance with tel.
egram requesting him to do SO. Mr.. Morris
made tour Of the lakes on Sunday, and yes
terday closed with the different railroads and
steamboat companies for pyrutevnic display
at Lake Minnetonka, such as was never be-
held in the Northwest, during
the season of the forthcoming fair
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Sept. s, and continuing four nights, giving
the people of St. Paul and Minneapolis, as
well as visitors from Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Dakota, a chance to see pyrotechnic
display such as is not viewed more than once
in lifetime by many persons. Mr.. Morris
designed and managed the pyrotechnic ex-
hibition for the grand Masonic conclave at
the pleasure of helping to swell the crowd of
175, 600 souls who gazed in astonishment at
that spectacle. Mr.. Morris will spare no ex-
pense, and will undoubtedly give the finest
free exhibition that was ever witnessed in this
section. The fire works will be located on q
strip of land that juts into the lake, which
will make their splendors visible to almost all
points of the lake coast.
Judge Chandler, of the Milwaukee road, is
back from his visit to the wheat regions of
the northwest in company with the Wiscon-
sin state officials. Judge Chandler is an old
Wisconsin young man himself, and that is
how he happened to be with that excursion.
He knows something about grain, as does
also the executive officer of the state of Wis
consin. Gov. Rusk used to be a farmer, and
he proved it by driving the four mule team
which pulled the excursion party out into
the harvest field on the Larimore farm. That
was a wonderful sight, even to party of ex-
agriculturist! The golden sheaves lay about
" hot fhn faor hodf hod driv
over them. 1t didn't seem to matter, though.
There was such an abundance the destruction
caused by making one wagon track did not
seem to excite any notice. Judge Chandler
saw fields of oats that would produce 100
bushels to the acre, at low estimate. He
saw wheat that would produce thirty five or
forty bushels to the acre. Mr.. II. G. Davis
brought back some samples of wheat in the
stalk, showing as high as sixty-ive heads
grown from one grain of wheat. Judge
Chandler was especially impressed with the
Larimore farm which has $4,000 acres. Upon
that farm, at distance of eighteen feet from
the surface, a bed of clean gravel has been
struck and aow Of as clear and pure water
as any one ever saw. The farm is owned by
Messrs. Larimore & Booth, two of the bright
| est business intellects in St. Louis.
Vice President Oakes, of the Northern Pa.
cihc Railroad company, has authorized the
genera manager to guarantee all benefits pay.
able by the Northern Pacific Beneficial assO-
citation to its members to the extent of $4,000
per annum. This is practically contribution
| to the funds of the Northern Pacific company
of Sl00, COO, If interest be considered at 6 per
cent, but at the rates of government bonds,
! it would be equivalent to not less than $780,
600 invested in such securities for the
benefit of the association. The COM
| pany also agrees to put in complete
order, and turn over to the association, free
of charge, the large building now used as a
hospital at Brainerd. Also to erect such ad-
ditloDal buildings as may be required from
time to time, without cost to the association.
The local treasurer of the railroad Is author
| lied 10 act as custodian Of the funds without
| obo Tho railroad com ma nv a1eO Urooe IN