Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-20
RAIL AND RIVER.

A AsAAAA 4t4ND LII LII.
The regular Sunday excursion train to
Lake Elmo, over the Omaha route, will
leave at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
The Omaha line is out with its posters
for the fair, announcing unprecedentedly
low rates during. fair week, and other
matters of interest to the general public.
The board of directors of the Manitoba
Railway company will meet in the office
of Vice President Hill tomorrow after
noon and elect officers for the ensuing
year.
Mr. e. V. Holcombe, formerly general
manager of the Winnipeg Transportation
company, at Winnipeg, has been ap-
pointed assistant to the president of the
Northwestern Fuel company. He Will be
located in st. Paul.
The Chippewa Falls & Northern rail-
way, operated by the Omaha line. is
being constructed both ways from Lake
Superior. 1t will strike North Wiscon-
sin near Veazie. Both passenger
and freight trains are now run
ming between Chippewa Falls and Chetek.
stretch of thirty two miles.
The roadmasters and sw1tchmen of St.
Paul are going to have grand picnic at
Lake Elmo, on Sunday, Aug. 27. There
Will be tub racing, creased pole climb
ing, creased pig chasing and, possibly.
creased lightning unbottling. There
Will be sports to suit the most refined
taste and all will be made welcome. re-
gardless of expense.
superintendent Stimson, of the Mani
toba, went out on the road yesterday
afternoon. Before taking his departure
he was made the recipient of handsome
testimonial in the shape of a gold chain
and locket from his friends of the road.
which he recently left. The following
was engraved upon the locket: sS. Pl
Stimson, from the general office employ
es st. Paul Sc Duluth road, 1882"
W. G. Lynn, travelling freight agent of
the Milwaukee s. st. Paul Railway.
writes to J. G. Boyden, G. N. W.T.. A..
at st. Paul, that the weather around
Sheldon, Iowa, keeps excessively warm
and dry for harvesting; one could not
ask for better. The wheat has mostly
been cut and the yield will average
twenty bushels per acre. The wheat
will weigh sixty pounds to the bushel.
1t was reported in Union depot yester-
day that John L. Sullivan, the pugilist,
has passed through en- route for Mime
apolls. The man who started the report
Is new employe hailing from Boston.
who averred that he had slept with Sulii
van in the same bed, and could not be
mistaken. He alleged that Sullivan was
very large man with red moustache.
and man out-weighing Paddy RYAN.
He said he would win some White Bear
round trip money on it, but when a by-
stander called him he slid his wealth
back into his clothes. The man who had
passed through was Sullivan, the Mime
apolis sport.
Mr.. Robert Gronberger, special CORE
spondent of the Minneapolis Soenska
Folkets ztdnjng, is back from a trip into
the Red River valley. He owns a nice
farm IN Washington county. He. re-
ports everything lovely. At Halleck,
Klttson county, he saw oatssthat would
yield eighty bushels to the acre. On
both sides of the Red river he found
that the crops had not suffered
any damage whatsoever from either rain
or grasshoppers, Wheat near the won
derful railroad town of Warren, Mar
shall county, was superb, both in quality
and quantity. 1t would average thirty
bushels to the acre. In Marshall county
the barley crop will average twenty
eight bushels to the acre. The Swedish
settlement was visited, down on the bot
tom lands that were overf1owed last
spring. The farmers in that neighbor-
hood did not get crop in until the latter
part of May, but they will realize twenty
bushels Of wheat to the acre. The pro-
ductiveness of the soil is also shown in
the gardens which abound with fine cab
bages, beets, turnips, onions and
every variety of ''garden truck"
On the Donaldson & Ryan farm
were seen four turnips, of the rutabaga
class, which weighed twenty-fiv pounds
each. They will be exhibited at the Min
neapolis fair, or, as they We're pulled
early, some larger ones may take their
place. The hay crop is fine, and has but
one fault, which is, there is such an
abundance that there is no way to take
care of it. There is more hay than can
be consumed before another crop is
ready to cut. There is too much of it.