The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-11

misstep and fell headlong down 10 the 100
of the stairs, where Mr.. Meehan found him
lying in an insensible condition and bleed
ing from wound in the head. DR.. Parker
was Immediately summoned and Mr.. Bartt
was conveyed back up stairs. Examination
proved that Mr.. Barth was bleeding from
bad cut in his scalp just over the left ear
and was otherwise bruised about the head
His injuries were not serious, but it is by
the meerest accident that they we're not
He soon recovered sufficiently from the
shock to walk home.
Jack Frost yesterday sued Walter Cum
diff, in Justice J. Fl. Robinsons court, for
800 claimed to be due him from the said
Cundlff. Plaintiff had been in the employ
of defendant for about a year, and it ap.
pears that there has arisen difference of
opinion between the two az to
what the former was to receive per
day for his services. One claims it was
$1.25 per day, the other that it was 500.
The plaintiff was represented by Mr.. Geo.
W. Hendricks, and the defendant by Mr..
W. c. Mulkey. The case was concluded,
and the courn took it under Amusement.
The very intelligent readers of THE Bull
LETIN will, of course, understand that the
| vla IN tina nntt ha NIanr
Frost" who has, for ten days past, com.
milted such murderous assaults upon the
Thermometers of this section of the coun-
try.
The Abe Lincoln Mutual Life and
Accident society, which takes the place Of
the Widows and Orphans Mutual Aid
society, is now firmly established, with J..
H. Robinson as president and Mr.. Thomas
Lewis as secretary. The latter has been
actively engaged in bringing about the re-
organization and has succeeded in getting
nearly all the members of the old society
to join the new organisation, besides many
who were not members Of the old society.
A very attractive feature of the new society
is the accident insurance, which entities the
holder of policy to $25 per week in case be
or she is disabled in an accident not result.
ing from the voluntary act Of the insured.
Secretary Lewis says that new members
have been added at the rate of about seven.
ty.fvs per day, since the new organization
has been thoroughly under way.
A negro named Edward billiard, alias
-, sliss-, alias, created q disturbance
in SCOTS Congress about 1 80 o'clock yes
terday morning and was shot in the left
breast by the bar-keeper, Charles Jones, the
ball glsnclng of and creating only flesh
wound Both were arrested by Officers
Cain and Boughner Immediately after the
occurrence and yesterday brough before
Magistrate Comings for examination CT
trial. billiard, etc, ETC., exhonorated Jones
from all blame in the matter; saying that
he himself was the aggressor and that Jones
only did what he ought to have done.
Jones was, of course, discharged upon this
testimony. But charges of disorderly con-
duct were preferred by the officers against
each OF the prisoners and each was fined
$40 and costs. billiard was given stay of
execution on condition that be would leave
town.
The fire of early yesterday morning
broke out in the roof of the house occupied
by Mr.. John Koeher, after the house had
been closed for the day, and all but boy,
who sleeps there and "opens up" in the
morning, left. The origin was presumably
defective fue. The house was occupied
down stairs as saloon and up stairs was
unoccupled, though fur aished. Mr.. Koehler
was insured for $500 on his personal pos.
sessions 10 the house. The house was own
ned by Mrs. Lennahan and was not insured.
The house next below which was also de-
stroyed, was occupied as butcher shop and
residence by Mr.. A. hummer, who saved
nearly all stock, fixtures and furnitures, and
holds insurance for what Is lost. The house
was owned by Mr.. Thomas O'Callahan, and
was insured for $500 in the Wells & Kerth
agency. Mr.. Richard Welsh, who occupied
the building next below as grocery store
and had large stock, probably lost con-
siderable by having his goods removed and
all heaped up promscuously in the street.
One Of the great eastern Protection
ist" dailies says, 1883 has not been re-
garded as good year. From the outset
it has had bad reputation. 1t has been
year of universal distrust and apprehen.
sion. Business men in the United States
have ploddei or staggered along from
month to month, oppressed with the haunt.
ing thought that 4 panic was impending.
They have been over cautious and unduly
suspicious, and havo passed the wear fipht.