Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-02-10
MISSOURI NEWS.

Gallatin is to have new Union
depot.
Hog cholera is complained of in Grun-
dy county.
Rich Hill has been incorporated as Il
city of the fourth class.
Joplin has Limberger cheese fac
tory-a scent-sible enterprise.
A great deal of improved stock is
being imported into the state.
The saloon licenses Of Hamilton have
been raised from $500 to 800.
\ spring containing medicinal quail
ties has been discovered near Platts-
burgh.
Mr. Geo. Shut, near Cameron, sold
his farm of POO acres for SlO,OOO-SjO
an acre.
The question of Il $4,000 court
house is still unsettled in Saline county.
1t will he settled March ..
&. b. Boutwell,, of Breckenridge, has
5000 acres of good land, and Me-
rinO sheep enough to cover it.
William Eldridge fell from Il ladder
at Atwcll's ice house, Kansas City, re-
ceiving injuries from which he died.
Huntsville has three large tobacco
factories. One Of them has already
bought 100000 pounds of tobacco.
The small poX is said to be raging so
bad in Clinton that all the neighborng
towns have quarantined against that
city.
The appointment of J. w. Dunlap
and II. II. Craig, as Police Commits
sioners in Kansas City, has been con-
lirmcd.
4 man named Green, Il travelling
dentist, fell on the sidewalk in Salem,
the other day, and fractured his skull,
from which he died.
The question of restoring the Hca
roce method of voting in place Of the
ballot, is fayorably discussed by many
Of the papers in the state.
W. II. Turner, of st. Joseph, who
had been resident of Missouri for lif
ty years, died Sunday evening. He
was prominent contractor.
There are in Kansas City seventeen
wholesale liquor houses whose average
yearly business amounts to $lj0OOO,
making Il grand total of $2,jO0,OOO.
Grain elevators arerapidly increasing
in st. Louis. One is now being erected
in the southern part of the city with
capacity of 100000 bushels. 1t is for
wheat only.
The State Deaf and Dumb Asylum
has POI attendants. The expenses for
two years have been $4,000. The
value of present property, located in
Fulton, $l62,7SS.
All of the real estate dealers Of Kan
sas City report more or less sales. The
largest the past week was that of 5. +.
Scott IL Co., whose Transactions
amounted TO 100000.
4 little son of Mr.. Longwell, near
Hannibal, pointed u pistol, which he
supposed was empty, at Il lad named
Harvey The weapon was dischagcd
and killed Harvey almost instantly.
During the year 1880 there were
shipped from Mexico, over the Wabash
road alone; l3S cars of corn, Is of
sheep, 2l2 of hogs, % of mules and 90
of cattle; also. 3,iSOOSO pounds of
flour.
The receipts of all kinds of grain at
the elevators of Kansas City during the
past year were 7,S39,697 bushels; the
number of bushels of wheat was 3,6lO,-
j32, and the number Of bushels of corn
2,92S,329.
Butler, the capital of Bates county,
is considerably excited over the discov-
cry of Il fine bed Of coal there. At
depth of fifty feet, vein varying in
thickness from six and Il half to seven
feet was discovered.
Kansas City has packed $4,000 tons
of ice this season, and contracts are be-
ing made at twenty-five cents per hun
dred weight. At this low price the
crop is worth $1,635,000. st. Louis
has stored 2l2,100 tons, Il difference of
1l4,900 tons in favor of Kansas City.