Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-10
RAIL AND RIVER


ern Pacific, has returned.
Mr.. A. Anderson, chief engineer of the
Northern Pacific, with headquarters at
Brainerd, is in the city.
The u o'clock train ON the Omaha line
was two hours late owing to extremely
heavy passenger travel.
Assistant president Winter, of the Oma-
ha road, has returned with fiattering crop
reports from the southwest.
Hereafter trains leaving st. Paul on the
Milwaukee road at $40 a. NJ, u noon, and
2:45 and p. NJ, stop at Union Park.
The special train of the Milwaukee road
that has been running between Wabashaw
and the Minneapolis fair was discontinued
last night.
Mr.. j. H. Whitman, general western pas
senger agent of the Grand Trunk railway,
is in the city completing arrangements for
the Winnipeg excursion.
Sir Richard Kean, the wealthiest COM
moner in Ireland, is enroute to St. Paul
from Chicago. He is going to look after
landed interest in Southwestern Minnesota.
General Superintendent H. T. Simpson,
of the Duluth road, is entertaining as a
guest Mr.. Homer C. Hartman. a leading
legal practitioner of Fort Wayne, Indiana,
who arrived in the city yesterday.
Commander Gorringe of the Pender
party, telegraphs from Billings that Pen
der and Hewitt are not going through the
National park, bat viii return via Northern
Pacific, while he will proceed without
them.
Mr.. 4. n. Welles, recently the railway
editor of the Minneapolis Tribune, but now
principal of the public schools at St. Cloud,
was circulating among his multitudinous
St. Paul friends yetoerday. He is looking
fat and saucy.
S. Weslpon, wrote letter in Hebrew
characters to Brown & Knebel, Union de-
pot ticket agents. The clerk who under
stands all the dead languages was absent,
and the letter was referred to Mr.. Brown
of the Milwaukee road, corner Third and
jackson.
The emigration department of the Mani
toba road yesterday received box OF Irish
| potatoes from Peter Daly's farm at North
| cote, Kittson county, in the Red river val
ley. They were raised in black soil and
| are of unusual size, considering that they
| were planted so late as May 10. They are
clean and spotless, and cook dry and
| mealy.
4 pretty eight-year-old boy. named Fred
| Heymer, came in with Conductor Sibley
| on the Milwaukee road at 12:45, Friday
! Attached to the urchin's coat was a tag
| with the name of A. J. Heymer, Darwin
| Minnesota, inscribed upon it by the con
| signor, Henry Kissner, of Terre Haute
Indiana. The precious freight left at
! o'clock p. m. for Darwin, where his father
will meet him. The child said all the trai1
men had been kind to him, and that b,
had had a pleasant trip.
The Northern Pacific railroad company
! have been for the last week engaged il
fitting up an exhibition agricultural car
| which they propose to send out through III,
! Eastern and Middle states, The exhibition
|! will be of the most elaborate description
| in fact, perfect facsimile of the celebrated
car sent out by Mr. James B. Power, tn
former land commissioner of the road
| two years since. The idea, as conceivet
and carried out by Mr.Power, was the mos
| novel aad sagacious advertising schen
ever thought of, and the progress of th
car, under the direction of Mr.. J. Fl. Han
son. in its 4,800-mile journey, was q mos
remarkable success. It is hoped that th
present car will perform educational wor
equal to that of its predecessor.
Next weeks issue Of the Folkebyode
published at Minneapolis, the official orga
of the Norwegian Lutheran church i
America. viii contain an exhaustive articl
Oh the Red River Valley, written by Re-
D. Paulson. vice president of the confer
ence, who has recently made an extensiy
trip through the valley as far as Pembin;
on the Dakota side. and st. Vincent on th
Minnesota side, the object of his trip ha7
ing been to visit, organize and inspect tn
churches in the Red river valley, under hi
immediate charge. The article in que:
ticn is Mr.. Paulson's official report OF til
conference, and shows gratifying spiri
ual condition OF his peopl
and a general and universal prosperity i
their temporal affairs. Several he
churches are being built this season in Vi
rious parts of the valley, some Of whic
will cost several thousand dollars whe
completed, showing that the settlers a.
prOspering in every way.