Hannibal

Hannibal, a city of Missouri, on the Mississippi, here crossed by an iron railroad bridge, 111 miles by rail NNW. of St. Louis. The centre of an important network of railways, it has an extensive trade in lumber, flour, and cattle, and manufactories of flour, tobacco, line, and railroad cars. There are coal-mines close by. Hannibal is the seat of a Methodist college. Pop. (1890) 12,857.