The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-04-01
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.

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Robert Baird, Jr, who is engaged in the
W. U. Telegraph office. 1t was believed
that he had accidentally fallen into the
river and drowned, as he had left the Office
to go down to the wharf; but "turned up"
finally alive and we'll, having been invol-
untarly carried some distance down the
river by one of the tugs.
"A negro named Ed. Smith rushed into
the clothing store Of Messrs. Mann & Bro,
just after the front doors had been opened
early Sunday morning, and while Mr.. s.
Mann was attending to another negro who
may have been a pal of the first, snatching
up coat from one of the piles near the
door, dashed out and up the street. Mr..
Mann followed and after lively chase of
several squares, captured the young rascal
and turned him over to Acting Tailor Mar.
tin. He was examined yesterday by Mag.
istrate Comings, held to bail in the sum of
5000 and sent TO the County Jail for safe
keeping until the Circuit Court shall meet
in May.
The District Anniversary Association
of Southern Illinois Odd Fellows, will
hold its fourth annual celebration of the
Introduction of Odd Fellowship into
America, at Murphysboro, on the Goth in.
slant. 1t will be the sixty.ffth anniversary
Of Odd Fellowship in this country. AID.
dresses will be delivered by Mayor An
drews and Mr.. Hon. Geo. w. Hill, of Muir
physboro; Hon. j. o. Humphrey, of Spring
field, and others. There will also be pa.
rsde Of the uniformed Patriarchs in the
forenoon and banquet. Hon. Geo. w.
Young, Of Marion, is President Of the asso,
citation, and County Judge Robinson, Of
this city, Vice President.
Conductor Kiefe, Of the St. Louis &
Cairo road, came near drowning in the
back water above the city on the Misss
sipp river about o'clock yesterday morn
ing. lie and his baggage man started in q
canoe, for want Of u better craft, to 90 to
Hodges Park from the Cross levee, to get
to their train, and when they had gone
short distance slight movement caused
the thing to turn over. The baggageman
held on to the canoe and fioated down
stream, but Mr.. Kefe was left padding in
the water Fortunately he reached big
tree, which he caught and managed to
hold himself up unit a couple of negroes
came to his rescue with skiff, and picked
him up just in time to save him, for he was
getting very weak and benumbsd with
cold. The other man was also picked up.
Alderman Harry Walker has been at
home for several days, called here to con-
slider a proposition made him for the pur-
chase of his Theatre Comique. The propo-
sition was made by Shelton & Catlet, of
the Senate Saloon, corner Thirteenth and
Commercial, and after due consideration
was accepted by Mr.. Walker yesterday.
The new firm takes charge of the place i'm
mediatey and will run them under the
and direction of Mr.. Walker
until the first of May, on which day he will
take final and full possession of the estao-
lishment aud conduct it in his own name.
The business will be run as heretofore,
and probably before long some material
Improvements will be made in the theatre,
although it is even now very attractive
little institution internally. The new man.
agement may rest assured of success if
they will conduct the institution with as
much care and regard for order as was
observed by the old, which, we are satifed,
they will.
"A white man named Charles Totten
came near drowning In Lake Edwards Sun
day afternoon. He was not entirely sober
and was sitting in the stern of skIf steer.
ing it. He fell overheard backwards, and
at once sank like a rock out of sight.
About 600 people who had been attracted
there by the races, saw the accident and
waited in breathess suspense for the reap
pearance of the man; but they waited in
vain for minute or two, and then the
widest alarm pervaded the multitude and
cries of imam drowning were heard from
hundreds of throats. Not less than two
dozen skffs were in the water, all manned,
but everybody there seemed to be para
lyzed-wOndering why somebody didn't do
something to rescue the man-except one,
a young man named George Adson, who
was one of two others in a skitf about
hundred yards away from where the man
went down. Adson ordered the rowers to
row the sklff toward the spot, while he d.
vested himself of coat, hat and boots; and
when the boat arrived within a few yards
of where TOtten went down about fOur