Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-30
Railroad Racket.

day.
Captain R. NJ. Cannon, of the Omaha
lire, returned from Gilmore, Ia, yesterday,
and after dinner departed for Omaha.
The ST. Paul Company's earnings for the
third week in April, $456, GOO, were Sl04,O
inexcess of those of the corresponding
week in 1882.
Senator D. NJ. Sabin left Duluth on a
special yesterday afternoon for st. Paul,
via Knife Falls. He will arrive in the city
this morning.
F. W. Cusack, recently appointed agent
of the Omaha line and the Chicago &
Northwestern road for Manitoba, left last
night for Winnipeg.
Three thousand immigrants from Liver
pool, portions of three ship loads recently
landed at Baltimore, are on their way to
the New Northwest.
John Thomas has been appointed
general superintendent of the eastern and
western divisions of the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago railway.
Twelve hundred emigrants disembarked
from the steamer Kouhenstoufen, will ar
rive in the city tomorrow morning, over
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Everything is in readiness for the put
ting in of the Nickel-Plate crossing over
the right of way of the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago road. The work will
be done to morrow afternoon.
Horatio Allen, of Homewood, N. j.; who
is now 81 years of age, and who brought
over from England the first three locemo-
tives that were used in America, will be the
guest of the railway exposition next IN onth.
Tie a,r5Gdy large and increasing bust
ness Of tie Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago railway has determined the man
agement TO double-track the entire western
division.
A young man with ginger whiskers and
tolerably thick speech was lamenting the
loss of a Texas lasso to depot officials
yesterday. Extraordinary efforts will be
made to discover its whereabouts during
the current week.
The Markesan Line, running from Bran
don to Markesan, Northern Division, Chi
cago, Milwaukee il st. Paul Road. will be
ent announces, on and after to-day. @. B..
Hart has been appointed agent at Markesan.
The New York, Chicago and st. Louis
road has sent east during the past eight
days three hundred carloads of stock,
which, according to shipper of cattle,
''have been carried through in less time
than cattle have been carried by any other
route"
Two hundred emigrants arrived from
the east at 3 o'clock yesterday morning,
and left at once for Manitoba. Three
coaches of passengers and twenty-seven
cars of stock for the same destination will
arrive this morning. They come by the
River rad.
j. NJ. Hannaford and j. I. Odell returned
yesterday morning from escorting Vice
President Cakes of the Northern Pacific to
Chicago. The trip did up Mr.. Hannaford,
who is again confined to his residence with
a relapse of fever, from which he had just
recovered.
On Friday G. P. Huntington drew check
in New York payable to the Charles Nor
gan estate for $2,50O,OOO, being the first
payment of the $7,5OO,OOO purchase money
for the Morgan line of steamers, which will
be used in connection with the Southern
Pacific railway.
The piety of railroad men while com
mendable beyond criticism, is death to
Sunday news gathering. The craft was
generally in attendance at church yester
day, and was individually and collectively
as barren of items as the Hebrew vernac-
uiar is of entertainment to a frontier
school-marm.
There is a marked revival of speculation
in Southern railroads: and the impression
is that the cotton states are to be the thea
ter of railway building for the next five
years. The South is developing, and the
field for this class of operations is now the
most inviting one in sight, being to
larger extent than either the North or West
uneccuPied and open to conviction.
The Southeastern branch of the Dakota
Central from Iroquois, Dakota, to Harvard
en-, Iowa, is also to be built this season, and
grading along this line is now in progress.
The bridge to connect Iowa with Dakota
across the Sioux river at Rawarden has Just
been completed and is fine structure, hay
ing IOur HunQreQ anu MY Acct VI COnOI-
nation truss and five hundred feet of pile
bridges.
Active operations are in progress along
the Winona and st. Peter railroad to place
the track and road bed in the best possible
shape to meet its rapidly growing traffic.
New steel rail- Is nov being laid between
Sleepy Eye and Tracy, and the old iron rail
is being taken up and used in laying down
slde tracks. Already twenty miles of new
steel rail has been laid west of Sleepy Eye,
and the werk is progressing at the rate OF
two miles per day.
The tide of emigration from older places
TO the Northwest is tapping banks and bus
mess to an alarming extent in certain
quarters. For instance, at Bloomingt, n,
Ill, it is said that 100000 was recently
taken frorl banks by persons who were
going to I Aola q settle, and in the reg on
of Elmira, i. Y. more than quarter ot a
million of dc laIs mas been withdrawn from
banks for investment in Northwestern
homes. TIE Great Northwest is Ger alnly
the Mecca of all hopes at this time.
Promotion.
ST.. LOUIS, April 29-Oficial announce