Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-19
road AND RIVERW AVS.
Items of Interest Gathered Along the
Track and by the River Yesterday-A
Meeting of Manageable Mississippi
Booming-NOtes of Value to the Public.

Wabash railroad for 100000, on account
of damage to his show by an accident.
The Northern Pacific earnings for the
first week in April increased $69,36O; the
Manitoba $4,000, and the Omaha $4,000.
Fully 500 emigrants arrived from the
east yesterday afternoon by the Omaha
line and River road, and left for the west
last night.
&C. Anderson, of Michigan, went to
Dakota yesterday by the Northern Pacific,
and E. J. Wurst, of Ashland, O., returned
from there by the same route.
Superintendent WestIake, of the North
ern Pacific dining car service, is in the
city. A consignment of dining cars for
that road will reach here this morning.
All the absent railway men domiciled
and doing business in st. Paul, including
Odell, Hannaford and Barnes, of the
Northern Pacific, will return home to-day.
Dispatches from Red river valley to En-
igrant Agent johnson, of the Manitoba
line indicate the water is falling rapidly,
and that seeding will commence next Mon
day.
There were 160 washouts during the
recent break on the Pen d'Oreille division
of the Northern Pacific, most of which were
IN the first ffty-ive miles west of Ritzville,
w. T.
The earnings of the st. Paul & Duluth
road for the second week in April are
stated at $16,349.75, being an increase of
$992.75 over those of a corresponding
period last year.
A large party of Scandinavian emil
grants are now daily expected over the st.
Paul road. They sailed from Liverpool
on the Sd and 9th inst. by White Star
steamers and are ticketed to Northwestern
points.
On an average, for the past three weeks,
seventy-fiye car loads of stock and house
hold goods have been taken out on the
Hastings & Dakota division of the st. Paul
road, so great has been the rush Of immi-
grants.
Helena people think the Northern Pa
cific railroad will reach there in about sixty
days. On Saturday the end of track was
about twenty miles beyond Bozeman, with
iron being laid at the rate of a mile and
half day.
One of the sleeping car porters on the
st. Paul q Duluth found a pocketbook in
his car the other night containing cur
rency and papers to the amount of $500.
He returned it to the owner and received
$50 for his honesty.
Wizards private car decorated with the
"Oregon Steamship & Navigation COM
pany's" sign manual, arrived over the
Sioux City division of the st. Paul &
Omaha line yesterday and awaits the requi-
s1t1on of the owner in the yards of the
Northern Pacific road.
The fierce, untamable Bloodhound that
lacerated sthe epidermis of the man who
appears as Marks in the Boston Ideal
branch of Uncle Toms Cabin com pany,
passed through st. Paul yesterday after
noon bound for Hudson. The victim of
the brute and the Boston Ideals were on
the same train, but at a remote distance
from the car in which the former tray
eled.
The rate on lumber from Chicago to
Missouri river points in the Southwestern
and the Iowa Trunk Lines associations
(Omaha to Kansas City inclusive) has been
reduced from 1917 to Is cents per 100
pounds. The rate from Minneapolis, st.
Paul and Saltwater to Kansas City is the
same; to Menomonie and Eau Claire II
cents, and to Chippewa Falls 1917 cents
per 100 pounds.
The following summer tariff rate has
been established by the ST. Paul & Duluth
road to take effect next Monday: Mer-
chandise per cwt., So, 80, 25, 90 and Is
cents; class CA 20 cents; class 3D." III:
I al CT OF T..
Is cents; lumber, 9 cents per cwt.; -four.
30 cents, and cement, % cents per Dbl.
Horses and mules, $44; cattle and hogs,
$40, and sheep $50 per car. These are
governed by joint westward classification.
and subject to rules taking effect Novem-
Der 90 1882.
The Belt railway of Chicago is now in
operation from South Chicago to the Bur
lington crossing, and connects with the
Lake Shore, Fort Wayne, Chicago. st.
Louis and Pittsburg, Michigan Central.
Baltimore and Ohio, Nickel Plate. CHICAGO
and Grand Trunk, Chicago, Atlantic, Wa
bash, Illinois Central, Rock Island. East
ern Illinois, Louisville, New ALBANY and
Chicago, Alton, Burlington, Union Stock
Yards, and Pullman tracks. When the nm
finished portion is complete, it will also
connect with the Northwestern and Mil
waukee and st. Paul system.
A meeting Of railroad managers. at
tended by Messrs. Haupt, of the Northern
Pacific, Marvel, of the Manitoba, Prior. of
the st. Paul system and Winter and Whit
man, of the Omaha line, was held at the
Minnesota transfer yesterday. The OBJ
1ect of the meeting was to consider i'm
provements proposed at the transfer. in
Gliding additional tracks, water supplies
and drainage facilities. After a confer
ence it was. decid ed to authorize the prem
aration of plans for the purposes men
toned, together with the cost of same. to
be submitted at meeting to be hereafter
convened. 1t is understood that the plans
and specifications will be prepared bv
Engineer Wilson, of the Manitoba line. at
once, and as soon as the same are ready con-
tracts will be let and the work Prosecuted
to completion.
By the special summer freight tariff of
the Northern Pacific, the rates of freight
between st. Paul and Billings are as fol-
lows: Merchandise, frst-class, 1925; sec
ond-class, 50; third-class, SLIGO: fourtS-
class, $3.50. Special carload rates DER