Iron County register., 1882-01-12
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

bright smoking, common to good, 800 to
$500; dark red leaf, 5000 to S7.75; half
bright wrappers, common to medium, SIC
to $40.
The St. Louis Republican has gathered
from o4ficicial sources the following statis-
ties regarding Missouri railroads:
Jan /, 1881. .......................... 4.O07
Dec. 81. ISL. ...................e... ,.. 1880
No. OF miles OF railroad in Missouri
Cash cost of same built in lss:..-..s 5000. 900
Dec, 81, 1881 $1,000, 900
Total capital in same rs represent
ed by stock and debt accounts,
about NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 200 ooo, 900
(estimated}. ....................... 100000
a little under ................. 5000
roads at close of wear 1879 p; 1880. o. 1881 IL;
All OF thes IL counties are in the southern
part of the State.
The leading states in number of miles of
railroad rank as follows: Illinois, /; Pennsyl-
vania, 9; New York, 3; Ohio 4; Iowa, 5; Indi-
ana, 8; Missouri, Z.
The State Bar Association, in session
at ST. Louis. adopted resolution indorsing
the bill of Senator David Davis for the relief
of the United States Supreme Court, now
pending in the United States Senate. The
opinion Of the association is that no plan of
relieving the Supreme Court, of which an
essential feature shall be the establishment
ut Washington City of another Appellate
Court, whether inferior to or CO. ordinate
with the Supreme Court, will be either eff
cient for that purpose or satisfactory to the
people at large, nor, in the opinion Of the
association, would an adequate or satisfac-
tory relief be afforded to the Supreme Court
by the number of Judges thereof being in
creased, such plan being open to grave con-
stitutional objections.
Arrangements are about completed
for the establishment of signal-service sys-
tenn on the part of the Government through
out South Missouri. Springfield is selected
as the central, or distributing, station for
the system, which will comprise an area OF
nearly two hundred miles. All the railroad
stations on the Frisco line from Rolla and
St. James to Fredonia and Augusta, Hans,
will be bulletined at every prospective
change of weather, and when the Fort Scott
& Gulf Railroad is completed extensions
will be made to the southeast as far as the
Iron Mountain Railroad, and on the north
west as far as Sedalia, thus placing the
larger portion of Southwest Missouri in con-
nection with the Weather Bureau at Wash
ington City.
James McHenry, alias DIR. Simly, was
arrested and lodged in Jail at St. Joe the
other day, charged with having secured
money on a forged check. He went to the
President of the ST. Joseph Female College
and waited to place two daughters in the
school. The terms We're offered, and Nc
Henry, after handling number Of checks,
4 I,,a lie oto Gpallv satpofpd
one from Jefferson City firm, which he
gave to the President and took the differ.
ence, some $6O, and left. He got drunk, or
probably would have gotten away. He claims
to be an editor, is rather smart and well
posted, but certainly is slick-tongued vii.
lain.
Alexander Mitchell, of Joplin, a miner
in the Wells Mine. on the Lone Elm Com
pany's land, recently met with an accident
which resulted in his death. Mitchell was
acting as backer, his duties consisting in
taking the wash dirt from the head Of the
drift to the shaft, where it is hoisted to the
surface. While passing along the drift
vast deal Of earth and stone caved in from
the side, pressing Mitchell to the other side,
crushing four of his ribs into his lungs and
breaking his collar bone. He was rescued
! aS Soon ds pOsSlOlt, duu LlSOlCdi assfs1SHec
summoned, but of no avail. He soon ex-
pired. He was young man, unmarried.
| Gov. Crittenden denies explicitly the
assertion of Mr.. Dowd, President of the
| Han uibal & St. Joseph Railroad, that the
State paid the last July interest on the
| bonds issued by the State to that road, as
! telegraphed from New York some days ago.
He says the railroad company paid that in
terest, and repeats his former statement that
| if the railroad makes default in the January
| interest on these bonds the State will adver-
! tise the road for sale under the law covering
the case.
The year 1881 has been a remarkable
! one for fires in st. Louis. There have been
more fires than in any previous year, and
also more large fires, and the aggregate OF
losses amount to more than the total loss
| for any previous year since 1S49. Estimating
the losses for December at 100000, the ag-
gregate for 1881 is 81, ,S19, 500, with insur-
ance Of 81, 717,s1s.
A Washington dispatch says: The
Federal offices in Missouri that are to be
/ filled by appointment or reappointment will
| be attended to and the matter disposed OF
about the second we * in January; also the
| Marshalship for the Western District Of Ar
kansas.
The number of scholars enrolled in
the st. Louis public schools is: boys, 81,
s41; girls, 23,s62; total, 45,7o3. Average
daily attendance, 36,592, or about SO per
cent.
A firm in Indianapolis, engaged in
manufacturing a patent hub for buggies
and wagons and possessed Of about $500, 900,
is talking of establishing a branch some
where in Southeast Missouri.
Two teachers in the st. Joseph High
School bantered each other for walk the
other day, and both of them nearly died at.
ter walking eight miles.
Cock-fghting is favorite holiday
amusement among the st. Louis sporting.
| men.
Wah Gee, Chinese laundryman
was buried in St. Louis the other day will
! Christian ceremonies.
A little St. Louis boy swallowed hi: