St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-22
Rail Notes.


Mr.. W. H. Dixon returned yesterday from
short trip to Milwaukee.
Mr.. Thrall, private secretary of Mr.. Cakes,
of the Northern Pacific, is back from trip
to Chicago.
The delegates to Huron county D. T., that
went through st. Paul yesterday, went by the
Royal route.
Forty-sx emigrants went on the St, Paul
and Manitoba road last night to points north
of GAINESVILLE.
Charles Hornic, chief clerk in the traffic
department of the Northern Pacific attPort-
land, was in st. Paul yesterday.
Advices received in st. Paul yesterday
were to the effect that the health of Mr.. S. s.
Merrill was considerably improved.
A party of fifty Italians came up from New
Orleans over the Minneapolis & st. Louis
road yesterday, all bound for the Pacific coast.
OMessrs. Whitman and Winter returned
yesterday afternoon in special train on the
Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha road. They
have been gone nearly week looking over
the road.
A dispatch was received yesterday at one
of the railroad offices in st. Paul stating that
3,700 emigrants arrived yesterday at Castle
Garden. This is the largest number that ever
arrived at that point in any one day.
The gross earnings of the Chicago & Alton
for the second week in April amounted to
s164, 2O5.11, against $163, 1876 for cores
bonding week last year: increase, S769.36'
Increase thus for this year, S45, 439.78.
Mr.. George R. Fitch has been appointed
Pacific, with headquarters in New York. Mr..
Fitch has been contracting agent of the
Northern Pacific in New York for some time
past.
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad com
pany shows large increase for the second
week Of April, the earnings this year being
1868, $50, an increase over the corresponding
period last year Of $40, $50. The total increase
for the tiacal year from July lastis upwards
of 81 100000.
Commissioner Carman gave notice that
agents of lines composing the Northwestern
Traffic association have been instructed not
to permit articles to be loaded or placed for
transportation upon the top Of box or stock
cars, nor will they receive cars so loaded
when coming from connecting lines.
A. D. Edgar, recently appointed assistant
general freight agent in Chicago, of freight
traffic on the Pacific division, with head
quarters at Portland, Oregon, was in the city
yesterday, and left in the evening for Chi
cago, with the expectation of returning in a
few days on his way to Portland to take
charge of his new position.
A meeting between Henry Fink, general
manager of the East Tennessee, Virginia 81
Georgia, George II. Nettleton, of the Kansas
City, Sprinield & Memphis; and j. W. Midg-
ley, commissioner of the Southwestern Rail
way association, will be held at Chattanooga
next Thursday for the purpose of making an
agreement in regard to maintaining rate on
east bound freight business from Kansas
City.
Mr.. George L. Carman has issued circu-
lar announcing that the Northwestern Traffic
association has been advised by the Canadian
customs authorities that here after no ship
ments will be allowed to pass the boundary
line unless marks and numbers of each
separate package are shown on the way-bills.
This rule applies not only to shipments from
Canadian points to Manitoba and British
Northwestern territory, but also to domestic
shipments.
The supreme court of Iowa met at Du-
| buque yesterday. One of the most impor
tant cases to come before it is that of the
Dubuque 81 Southwestern Railroad, which
runs the Cedar Rapids 81 Minnesota Road,
for land grant of 10000 acres. The latter
company secured the grant on condition
| that it build road northwest of Lyons City
| from Marion. The Dubuque & Southwest
ern company contracted to build portion OF
the road for share of the grant and il
brought suit for recovery.