Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-10-12
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
The Kansas City Times tells the fol

| OHcc u prosperous BUSINESS 1Hdtl uuI NOW y
| helpless lunatic in the county Jail, awaiting
an order of the court for home in the
Poor farm: s'For several years Henry's
life was all sunshine. A beautiful wife and
beloved children blessed his home and fire.
side, but this state of happiness was des.
tined to wotul end. 1t Is said on good
authority that a stockman from Colorado
CHANGED to stop at the same hotel for few
weeks, and Mrs. Henry and he formed an
| attachment which grew constantly stronger.
Henry was an unsuspecting victim OF
scheme by which he should lose his wife and
! his happiness, and to his establishment and
| discontinue he awoke one morning to find
| himself wifeless. He threw up his position,
and, wild with misery and excitement, fol-
lowed his other half to Denver. He called
on her, and besought her in the name OF
heaven and for the sake of their child to re-
turn to his darkened home. The woman
slammed the door in his face with heart
less laugh, and from that moment Samuel
Henry has been hopeless maniac. He re-
turned to Kansas City, and for months his
| lean, bowed figure, attired in rags, and his
palIid, expressfonless face were to be seen
| day and night upon the streets. He had but
his child left, and his emaciated form was
I Ag.0A
rage, with slow, listless steps, up and down
certain street Of the city. Passers-by OBJ
served that the child looked thin and worn,
as if afflicted with some blighting disease.
Some kind hearted person took occasion to
investigate the matter, and discovered that
the baby was. starving to death. Its father had
kept it in his room, and in his melancholy
| had forgotten to give it the proper nourish-
| 01enf hlIt Kind friandS UUo found the
little one, and it is now being cared for.
Henry had loved the child even in his insan-
| ity, and now that he was deprived of the
boon of having it with him his life was with
out an object. Having lost his child, also,
he wandered about the city and subsisted
upon what he could find lying about the
| cutters and alleys. Last week an officer
found him in this condition. The pockets in
| his ragged clothes were filled with potatoes
and cigar stumps and all manner of trash he
had picked up on the streets of the city.
| When told that he must go to confinement
his only answer was a meaningless smile.''
| The seventh annual report of the
Railroad Commissioners of Missouri states
that seventeen new companies have been
organized during 1881. The most important
of these are the Kansas City, Springfield &
Memphis road, from Springfield, to point
opposite Memphis, Tenn. the Ozark Iron
Mountain Railway, to run from the St.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern, in Wash
ington or st. Francois County, in a south
westerly direction through Iron, Shannon.
Dent, and Texas Counties to an intersection
with the Kansas City, Springfield & Mem
phis road in Texas County; the Chester, Iron
NJ ountain & Western, from Chester to Sa-
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Salem to the south boundary of the State,
and the Hannibal & Southwestern, from
Hannibal to Brownsville, in Saline County,
and to the western boundary of the State.
The largest number of miles Of road built
in any year was $50 in 1871. The following
statement shows the capital stock and debt
on the 4,077 miles of road in the State.
Amount of stock reported. .......s Il, 1s5, ZOO
An average per mile of road of
nearly. 30,0OU
Total funded debt on same. ........ 1888 O67, 500
Average per mile nearly. ............ $4,000
Total stock and bond liabilities.... 254 9lS, 200
Average per mile nearly ............. $4,000
The number of companies operating
railroads in the State is twenty five, but
over 95 per cent. of the whole number of
miles of road in Missouri is controlled by ten
companies, and over 30 per cent. by three
companies. With regard TO more than one
half of the railroad mileage of the State the
commissioners say there is no competition.
At St. Joseph there are three interests, at
Hannibal four, at Moberly one, and Sedalia
one. There are seven hundred freight sta
lions in the State, at per cent. Of which
there is competition, and 94 there is no COM
petition. The passenger rates for roads of
the first class are 8 cents per mile, and for
roads of the second and third class 4 cents
per mile. The roads of the first class are
given as follows: Chicago & Alton, from
Louisiana to Kansas City; Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific. from Louisville to Leaven-
worth; Hannibal s. st. Joseph; Kansas
City, st. Joseph & Council Bluffs; Missouri,
Kansas 6 Texas; Missouri Pacific; St. Louis,
Iron Mountain & Southern, and the Wabash.
St. Louis & Pacific. - s.
The Kansas City Exposition opened
under the most favorable auspices.
The live stock department showed an unu-
sually large lot of fine cattle, sheep and
hogs, and in the stalls were found many of
the best horses in the country-runners,
trotters and PAGERS. The poultry exhibition
was the finest ever exhibited in this coun-
try, and the thousands of people who en-
tered at the gates never were better enter
tanned. The display OF agricultural imple-
ments, farm machinery, wagons, etc., was
very large, and the magnificent textile and
fine art exhibit claimed the wonder and adj
miration of very large number of specta-
tors. The booths and the dining halls and
the various stands kept for profit and amuse-
ment were all in good taste and we'll pat.
ronized.
Upon the recommendation OF the pris.
on physician and the Board of Inspectors,
the Governor has pardoned James Collins,
alias Holland, who was sent to the Peni-
Tertiary, at the August term, 1880, of the
jackson County Criminal Court, for term
Of ten years for burglary. Being afflicted
with an incurable disease, contracted during
his confinement, and which affected his
reason, he was sent to the Asylum at Full
ton. Under treatment there his mind i'm
proved, and he was sent back to the Peni-
Tertiary. ts5.4 .tt
The Rock Island Division shops at