The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-02
STREAMS OF BLOOD!
Flowing Down Through the Lower
Corridor of the United States
Treasury Building.
Sanguinary Leave-Taking Of the Chief
Compiler in the Architects
Office.
A Valorous Scotchman's Vindication Of
His Reputation-Master ofthe
Situation.

WASHINGTON, d. c., March while
Secretary Folger was engaged this morn
ing in debating letters to his private Sec
rotary, he was startled by the sound of
feminine shrek in the hall and the wild
clatter of pair of French boot heels.
Then his door was burst open without
any ceremony by a pale-faced woman in
black, clerk in the Treasury, who came
with the announcement that some Of the
clerks were engaged in numbering each
other in the Supervising Architects of
fee. She announced in most tragic man
ner that she had seen with her own start
led eyes one mans throat cut and that a
stream of blood was flowing down through
the lower corridor. After making this an
nouncement she showed signs of fainting
in the private Secretary's arms. The
uproar in the Architects Office was so
none Of the colored aides camp ven
tured nearer than the stairs above it. For
time a wild panic prevailed throughout
the Treasury, and public business was
suspended for ten or fifteen minutes. The
occasion of all the uproar was the formal
leave taking of Mr.. Thompson, the Chief
Compiler In the Architects office.
Thompson Is a very tall, broad
shouldered, hot-headed Scotchman He
was the especial friend of Hill when he
was Architect. Bell the present Archi-
tect, made up his mind a few weeks ago
to remove Thompson. The latter be-
lieyed that
BELLS MIND WAS POISONED
against him by some of the conspirators
who We're anxious to have him out of the
way so they could secure promotion He
was engaged blythe Potomac Red Sandstone
Company, but this soothing business fact
did not appear TO satisfy him. When he
entered the Office this morning he an
nounced that as farewell ceremony he
proposed TO thrash all the clerks in the
Office so as to make sure of furnishing
those who had slandered him. He began
with j. G.. Blackwell and L. j. Fenton.
He accused Blackwell of slandering him,
and in the course of an animated CONVEX
sation which followed he knocked Black
well down under the desk. Fenton then
threw stone paper weight at Thompson,
anticipating by few seconds the thrash
ing that was coming to him by his turn
The throwing of the cube fastened
his punishment. In this last strug-
gle quart bottle of red ink was thrown,
striking Thompson on the head 1t broke,
and the red fluid streamed down the
side of his face and flowed down the cor
ridor. 1t was the sight of this ink which
so frightened the female clerk, who ran
screaming "murder" to the Secretary
After the two clerks had been laid out on
the floor Thompson grabbed pole used
for lowering window shades and charged
in the direction of the other flying clerks,
who took refuge under desks or else STAN
peded down the corridors. Thompson
finding no one willing to confront him,
very soon cooled off. He announced, with
a chuckle, that he hoped this would be a
good lesson to future slanderers and
quietly resumed the duties of his desk.
He was not disturbed again during the
day His farewell appearance in the Ar
chitect's Office is one that will be long re-
membered.