The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-01-05

rates: In less than car loads per hundred
pounds, list class, $4.86; I'd class, 90. so; Sd
class, $242 In car loads, class A, SALT;
B, $192; G, $16S, and class D, $1.42.
These rates apply to all points in Califor.
MIA from any of the foregoing stations.
Through freight for Ell Paso, New Mexico
and Arizona has been changed to the APP
pended rates on the basis of Deming, N.
M: LIST class, $495; Cd class, $3.50; 3D.
$685.; 4th class, 1926; 9th class, $2S5,
class A, $3.50; class B, $1.95, and for any
quality of dressed or manufactured lumber,
$l03H.
The bad state of the crossings in sew
eral parts of the city is exciting some COM
ment in this rainy weather and is also
causing little accidents to pedestrians,
which may, in some instance, develope into
damage suits for the city. Some time ago
The BULLETIN called attention to the fact
that lady, while crossing over Fourteenth
street to the postofice, slipped and fell be-
cause of the bad condition of that cross
ing; but the announcement has not yet had
the effect of inducing the proper men to
repair the crossing. Yesterday afternoon a
young man who was hurrying through the
rain, slipped and fell while attempting to
cross on the fragments of planks laid over
Thirteenth street, on the westerly side of
Washington avenue. He seemed to have
injured lis foot seriously as be limped to
railing close by aud sat there until friend
came along, who assisted him to his desti-
nation. Such cases are of too frequent &C.
currence and should not be allowed to oc.
cur because of any failure on the part of
the city to provide safe sidewalks.
Mention was made IN The BULLETIN
some time ago that on the morning of De-
cember "a, just before daylight, the little
frame cottage of Mrs. j. W. Gibbon, in the
village of Geigersville, suburb of Ashland,
KY, was discovered by neighbor 10 be
burning. Mrs. Gibbon was living there
alone, having been abandoned by her hus-
band in last October. On that night she
had gone on a visit to daughter IN Iron
ton, a few miles up the river and had left
at home her daughter, Fannie Gibbon, IA
years old, and Robert Gibbon, a lad 10 years
old, but had procured for their company
Emma Thomas, neighbours girl, 10
years old. Emma Thomas went reluctant
ly, only after being commanded to go by
her mother 1t was the little frame cot
tage in which these children were that was
burning. The alarm was given and people
rushed to save the building. Their first ef-
forts were to save the inmates, and they
soon discovered that the girls had persisted.
Fighting the flames were neglected for a
time in vain effort to find and save the
boy 1t was some time after the bodies
were recovered before the suspicion of muir
der was excited, 1t first rested upon the
absent father, but he came to Ashland and
proved an abb in West Virginia. A re-
ward Of 81, 900 was offered for the arrest of
the murderer, and the aid of detectives
was summoned. The detectives lost all
trace, but Monday local constable, James
Hevlin, who had observed peculiarly in
the conduct of three young men, arrested
them. They are William Neal, Ellis Craft
and George Ellis, all white. All were ar
rested Monday night, and kept quietly in a
hotel in custody of Constable Holm.
George Ellis confessed to the constable,
and says that Craft and Neal awakened
him on the night of the murder and urged
him to 90 with them to Gibbons house
He went reluctantly. They entered by a
window. Robert the boy, was about to
give the alarm, when Craft struck him with
an AK, killing him instantly. Craft then
told Fannie that her time to die had come
and amid the piteous cries of the child for
mercy he struck her on the head, killing
her instantly. Neal then killed Emma
Thomas in the same way. Craft and Neal
at first denied Ellis story, but Nes! con-
fessed Tuesday afternoon. Ellis and Neal
are married; Craft is single. A dispatch
from Catettsburg, the county seat where
the prisoners are kept, says: "Just as soon
as their guilt is established the Ashland
populace will resort to lynch law. The
nail mill men of Ashland are determined
to not wait for the uncertain course of the
law, and they will meet with little resist
ance from the officers, and will have the
backing Of all Kentucky, West Virginia
and Ohio in this region. Old man Gibbons,
the husband, is here insane. Judge Saw
age has ten good, well armed men guard.
ing the Jail here, and there will be no