The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-28

t tackled Phillips with it. But PHILLIP
-. clinched the old man and was thrown t
. the ground, and while the old man wa
using his teeth and his fists as best he could
Phillip used his knife, cutting several dceI
gashes in his antagonists chest and aldo
men, from the effects of which he died
Phillips gave himself up to Constable
Schutter and Officer Mahanny and had biz
wounds dressed, These facts indicate tina
Phillips was justified in doing what he did
but the coroner's jury did not state this in
its verdict Phillips ought therefore to have
been examined with regard 10 this matter
and either sent to the county Jail under
q bond, or discharged But instead of thus
he was yesterday brought before Magis.
trate Comings, simply charged with disJr-
DERBY conduct in that he quarelled with his
wife, and fined $40 and costs. Phillips
may be entirely innocent; we believe that
he is and so does everybody that knows the
| circumstances of the trouble in which he
was one Of the principal actors But the
! killing of man is matter of which some
! judicial uotlce ought to be taken; is q mat
Ter that ought not to be buried out Of sight
IN charge of "disorderly conduct AMI
the probable guilt or innocence" Of a man
who inhicts fatal wound upon a fellow
being is always a subject Of sufficient I'M
portance to require judicial declaration OF
some kind, There must not be any loose
ness in matter Of such gravity as this is.
Deputy Sheriff Morse yesterday arrest.
ell the young negro Jno. McFadieo, who
escaped about three weeks ago from the
county jail, where he had been confined under
a bond for stealing pistol from Mr. Selig
Mann and Threatening to shoot another ne
gro with it. He was employed about the
Jail yard at the time he escaped, he went
from here to Du Quiop, then to Paducsh
aud from there he came back to Cairo for
some reason unknown. Deputy Morse
traced him to the several points named and
caught him here, in box car in the Hi
nois Central yards, into which he had crawl !
ed with the intention Of stealing ride out
Of town again. McFadden saw the officer |
when about a block away and at once sus-
Decting his purpose, jumped from the car
and made break for liberty, picking his
'erpentine way between rows Of cars and |
reight sheds, always closely followed by
he officer, and finally reached Railroad
treet, back Of the Egyptian mills, where
he officer caught up with him and collared
lin. Ne IS now safely confined in cell
rom which he will probably 60 to the Re
orm school before many days.
A sharp fight is going on IN st. Louis
between the Iron Mountain and the Texas
md St. Louis railroad companies. The
light Is over the business Of Texas and. |
Arkansas via Cairo to ST. Louis, and is
brought about by the tact that contrary to |
expectations, the Texas and st. Louis road |
las made fearful nroads upon the freight |
aud passenger business of the Iron Noun
ain at this point. The little narrow guage |
5 succeeding even beyond the expectations
If its projectors. 1t is popular, not only |
l2re and st. Louis, but in every little town |
long its iine, Before it was opened, the
ron Mountain had been one of the best |
laying lines in the Gould system, made so
~ stiff charges for everything it carried,
which charges it was enabled to maintain
because it had no competition. But the
title narrow gauge broke up this state Of
hlngs by char ging only three cents per
nile for passenger fare and putting trelghts |
Town to a reasonable figure, The result is
IS might have been expected The little
Dad is rushed with business of every kind |
Although it has been open but few days,
t Ues with some OF the Oldest roads in !
bis city IN the amount Of its traffic. 1t
brings from twenty-five to thirty car loads |
81 freight into the city every day and re-
,elves on an average Of thirty cars from the |
illinois Central for points along its line.
Agent DE Pue, feared at first that freight |
IN the little road would pretty much all
)ne way for while, but he finds that he
IAN give 1t as much as it brings and often
more, SO that there is a very fair exchange |
u traffic. 1t is said that the Iron Noun
hn has put down the freig ht rates to gets,
Der mile to all way points along its line,
with a view to holding its business and re
aiming what it has lost. This is an IN
easonabIy low rate and cannot be main
aimed In short it is probably matter
-bout which there is littl c dispute, that the
ron Mountain, being broad image, can |