The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-22

| string 10 renew them, the holders mad re-
quired to pay the increased rate. The point
made was, that the city could not charge
one man $500 for privilege which it per-
mitted Others to enjoy for $3.50. But what
little uneasiness may exist on account of
this report is uncalled for. The licenses
issued before the lst of July were legally
issued and are full protection to the
holders during the period of time for which
they were issued. The Harper bill itself
proves this, for it says expressly, that it APP
plies only to licenses issued after the LIST of
July, the day it went into effect. Replying
to question similar to this the Chicago
Legal Adviser says in its last issue: "a
license issued in June, 1888, for one year
under the law as then existing, would be
good and valid for one year, subject to be
revoked by the authority that issued it..
The license fee for dram-shop belongs to
the treasury of the municipal corporation
in which it is issued. II issued by city
or village no part of it is required to be
paid over to the county or state"
Capt. ]. D. Knight, in charge of the
government works at Plum Point, returned
on,the General B,rnard Monday and has been
busy here since preparing his monthly re-
port to the commission, which is about the
only business that calls him away from the
scene of his operations where he spends near
ly all his time. He will return there in q
day or two. Being questioned concerning
the works at Plum Point he said that the
work was now progressing as finely and as
vigorously as ever. About seven hundred
men are now at work, though the number
was never the same for any length of time,
men coming and going constantly. AT
present the stream of travellers was going
south for warmer weather, while toward
spring it would come back north again, and
the works at Plum Point were made sort
of way-station where many of them would
do a little work to gain ouly enough money
to enable them to continue on their ways.
The Captain has taken special care to pre-
pare for the probable flood this coming
spring; the dykes have been built lower and
stronger; and it is his opinion that, though he
will be again compelled to leave the work
in an incomplete state, the flood will do little
OF no damage, even though 1t be as large
as that of the two previous years. The
fund set aside for the Plum Point work is
nearly exhausted, and Capt. Knight is
driven to exert all his ingenuity to so use
what little he has lett that when the fund
is exhausted, or when the raging waters
shall COMPEL him to stop the work, every
part may be left IN condition to resist
the destructive force of the food. The
captain is somewhat in doubt as to whether
the money on hand will last long enough
to continue the work until the food comes;
he thinks it will be a case Of 'nip-and
tuck" between the food and the money.
If the next congress does not make an ap
preparation the work can not be resumed
next year. and it will take nearly all next
year, the captain thinks, to finish what has
now been begun at Plum Point, if the
work is prosecuted about the same as it
has been.
Our readers will remember q notice in
these columns some time ago, of the re-
ported drowning off the steamer Fowler, on
her way up, Of man named Strchm, liv.
ing near Grand Chain. There were some
circumstances connected with the affair
which looked very suspicious and con-
vinced nearly everybody that there was
something crooked about the drowning.
Strohm's body was rot recovered, but some
days afterwards he "turned up" alive and
well, saying that be swan ashore and van.
dered around in the woods for about
week before going home, in the meantime
permitting the public and his family to be-
leve he had been drowned. His story was
very improbable, and the case attracted
considerable attention. 1t now transplres
that he was party with two young men,
also citizens of Grand Chain, named re-
spectively Yohkum and Ellcnswood, to a
conspiracy to defraud various insurance
companies out of the insurance on Strohm's
life. Strohm was member of the K g.
L. Of H., insured for $4,000, and, it is said,
was insured in other organizations for
about $1,000, making in all about 10000.
He WAS to remain away until the insurance
was paid to his mourning wife. who was
unconscious of the scheme, then return and |
share the money with his pals. But the
X. g. L. of II. hesitated about paying aud
threatened an investigation; Strohm be-
came scared and, impatient at the delay,
returned home telling his lame story in ex-
PLANTATION of his absence. But the investl
CATION was made nevertheless, and last |