The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
CONDENSED FROM OUR EXCHANGES OF YES
TERDAY

CONDENSED FROM OUR EXCHANGES OF YES
TERDAY.
An episcopal church is to be built at
Long Branch.
A new million bushel elevator is to be
built at Duluth.
The "Son of Maine" will banquet in Chi
cago June l6.
The greenbackers of Iowa have nomln.
ated full state ticket.
The crops in Algers are hopelessly lost,
and famine is sure to occur.
Engineers will start soon from Duluth to
survey an air line road to Chicago.
Bedford, Ind, ships 10 car loads of stone
per day. Chicago takes one-third oft,
The continued 31ss are now everywhere
known in financial circles as "Windoms."
Pixies opera house, Cincinnati, has been
permanently closed as a place of entertain
ment.
The Mclean county Sunday school con-
vention was being held in Bloomington on
Friday.
The citizens association of Bloomington
is trying to secure large watch factory in
that city
James Gamble has resigned the superin.
tendency of the Pacific division Of the W.
U. 7. company.
The national board OF health confidently
predicts that there will be no yellow fever
in the United State this year.
John Chapman, of Green Valley, Peoria,
county, was killed by lightning on We'd
nesday, while blowing in the field.
Rockford has eleven cases of smallpox
under treatment. Special police are detail
ed at the residences of those affected.
Dean Stanley has endorsed the revised
version OF the New Testament, thinking it
in every way superior to the old one.
A young woman at Cozenovia, N. Y, has
become insane from the use of glycerine to
remove erruptions caused by measles.
The citizens of Eldorado organized an
agricultural society last Thursday, with the
necessary capital stock all subscribed.
VIM. ]. Carter, the assessor of Whining
ton, was brought before Judge DIN, a,
Joliet, found insane, and sent to the Elgir
asylum.
The authorities OF Decatur have caused
the erection of a smallpox hospital nea
the water works, two cases having beer
developed.
Mrs. John Cleafney, Of Alton, while GU
driving Wednesday evening, in company
with Mrs. Crane and child, was struck by
lightning and killed.
Herman Schneider was killed by light
ming, near Streator, while returning from
the field to his house to avoid the storm of
Wednesday evening.
The Wisconsin Central railroad has paid
$4,000 for a central site in Milwaukee and
will at once erect 100000 building for
general headquarters.
A number of the citizens of GRANVILLE
have formed club and purchased one of
Harper's Peoples Libraries, of one hundred
volumes. Mr.. c. II. Spring is librarian.
In the circuit court, at Decatur, Elmer
Houser and Robert Heffernen, of Nation,
pleaded guilty of robbery, and each was
sentenced to two years in the Joliet peni.
tertiary.
Tomorrow occurs the annual town cleo
ton at GRANVILLE, but as yet no tickets are
in the field. 1t seems to be settled fact
that the tickets will be singh license" and
slow license"
Rushville Lodge No. 0, A. F. and A. NJ,
have accepted an invitation to lay the cor
ner stone of the Schuyler county court
house, and have named st. Johns day,
June "a, as the date.
Mr.. John Tear, prominent citizen of
Warren, fell before roller that was being
drawn by two horses on his farm and re-
celved internal injuries from the effects of
which he died few days ago.