Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-17
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
St. Louis tobacco market Nov. 81 ::
Dark Tugs, common to good, $3.50 to So. %;
bright smoking, common to good, 5000 to
$500; dark red leaf, $3.50 to $500; half
bright wrappers, common to medium, $40
to $1S.
The Union Avenue Bank of Kansas
City, not very heavy financial institution,
apparently, has gone into bankruptcy on
account of the Presidents son having pock-
eted the proceeds of 5000 draft and run
away with variety actress. 1t is now
stated that the entire capital of the bank
(S5, 000) was borrowed from a Michigan
capitalist, the law of Missouri requiring
that amount in cash in order to obtain a
charter. 1t is also alleged that, after re-
ceiving their charter, the President and
Cashier drew out of the bank the IS, 900
borrowed money and replaced it with their
individual notes, which were utterly worth
less, leaving the institution in a bankrupt
condition from the start.
The St. Louis authorities complain
because Kansas City is shipping its sick
paupers TO the former city to be taken care
of. They are promptly returned, with the
explanation that st. Louis has all it can do
to take care Of its own incapables. Railroad
fares are cheap now, and it costs less to
transport paupers than it does to furnish
them with subsistence. The paupers get
free ride twice across the State under this
arrangement.
The Ozark Iron Mountain Railway
Company has filed articles of association in
the office of the Secretary of State. The cap
ital stock is 81, 100, 900, divided into II 900
shares of 800 each. This road is to COM
mence at a point on the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern Railroad in the Coun-
ty of st. Francois or the County ofsWash-
may hereafter be determined to be the most
practicable point, and extend thence in
southerly direction through one or both OF
St. Francois and Washington Counties, and
the counties of Iron, Reynolds, Dent, Texas
and Wright in said State, to point in said
counties of Texas or Wright, as may here
after be determined, a distance of about 40
miles. The corporation has board of seven
Directors, consisting Of the following per-
sons: John w. Harrison, A. w. Soper,
John c. Brown, II. NJ. Hoxie, Thomas j.
Ports, Stephen d. Barlow, r. S. Hayes, all
of st. Louis.
Articles of association of the Chilli
cothe & Kansas City Railway Company have
been filed i'm the office Of the Secretary OF
State. The capital stock of the corporation
is $7S0,00O. The stockholders and Directors
are g. G. Henry, ID. w. c. Edgerton, A.
McVey, E. j. Broaddus and w. B. Leach,
all of Chillicothe, who subscribe one share
each, and Henry Hatch, trustee, who sub
scribes ia shares. The length of the road
is about seventy eight miles, and it is to run
from Chilicothe, through the Counties of
Livingston, Caldwell, Clinton or Ray, Clay
and Jackson, to Kansas City.
Engineer Joseph T. Wager, who went
down to his death with his locomotive at
Usage bridge, on the Pacific Road, was a
veteran of thirty five years. service. When
his engine struck the obstruction that threw
it from the track he promptly set his air.
brakes and thus probably saved the train
from destruction. His little son and the
fireman jumped from the engine and saved
their lives, although both were badly bruised.
Engineer Wager leaves a wife and family at
Sedalia in INDECENT circumstances, and it is
proposed to raise fund for their benefit.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad has purchased the old Parkville
road bed from Kansas City to Lathrop, in
Clinton County, paying $4,000 therefor.
They will have to grade about sixty miles,
and then a good road-bed will be had from
Kansas City to the terminus in Linn County,
where they will connect with the main line.
This road will pass through splendid ter
ritory, almost centering Jackson, Clay,
Clinton, Caldwell, Livingston and Linn, and
through section Of country long in need Of
a road.
John Rings lard and oil refining fac
tory at 936 North Main Street, and the Pho
nix Planning. mill, Spruce and Twelfth
Streets, ST. Louis, were both destroyed by
fire on the night of the Cd. The loss in the
former is about $4,000, with insurance of
SD 900, and in the latter about $50, 900, with
$26, 900 insurance.
St. Louis's freight blockade is ended.
Alfred Hertz, confidential bookkeeper
denly disappeared the other day. he had
made a disastrous deal in November wheat,
and his employers suffered for it. Later in
the day he was arrested for embezzlement.
He asserts his innocence.
The wife of Col. w. H. Plum, of
Kansas City, was badly burned while kind
ling The fire with kerosene.
The old Kansas City Fair Association
has been dissolved by agreement Of the
and a new association will be
formed at once.
A st. Louis dealer in oleomargariMe
has been arrested for violation Of the law.