The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-07-06
General River News.

The stage of the river at p m.
yesterday was 24,4. showing fall Of
ga iii twenty-four hours.
The City of Memphis passed up
from st Louis to Tennessee river
yesterday morning with a light
freight trip. bnt a cabin full Of people.
The Boeckler arrived from below
with one barge OF wood
The j. b. Finley started up to 81
Louis yesterday afternoon with the
last tow of st. Louis coal She got
up to Birds Point when a pump
broke, and she returned for repairs
John Rennie repaired it last night
The combine has had good luck with
this coal. having lost but one barge
The Exporter Harry Brown, Fred
Hardweg and Finley have been en-
gagged in towing ii TO St Louis
A freight ear ran off the track on
the head Of the Morgan yesterday as.
Birds Point, which delayed the Iron
Mountain and Cotton Belt passenger
trains, and they did not get to Cairo
until p m. News of wreck reach
ed Cairo. which caused considerable
aneasiness 10 persons here, who were
expecting friends and relatives on
the Iron Mountain. Mr. Clint Terrell
who expected his wife from Charles
ION. went 10 Birds Point in skin 20
see what the trouble was.
Pilot Waddlington arrived yester
day from St Louis to go on the CHS
ca.
The Sachem arrived yesterday az /
ternoon from Louisville with the |
dredgeboat Delta. She is in com |
mand of Capt. Jack Goodrich, and |
will lay up here until further orders
The steamboat and dredge were dock |
ed and repaired at Louisville having !
the barnacles scraped from their huiis
and painted.
The Rees Lee arrived from 81
Louis yesterday at 6: As p. m. She has
a good freight trip and and passenger
list, twenty OF her passengers beinf
for ST. Louis by the Herold.
]. r. Young. from Clarendon. was
in the city yesterday He is engaged
IN handling logs on White river.
The Paducah Sun states that Mr.
9. J. Davis, a well known pilot and
Mrs. Belle Bethel. OF Willy avenue
we're married Sunday week ago al
H., and the marriage was
yesterday
Capt. Jessie Nichols is enjoying a
ew days rest al home. Capt Mich
lis is a very domestic man and when ,
lie is in port can always be found al 4
Iome.
The Paducah sun of July says.
ohm Cook. a colored rouster on the
Evansville packet John S Hopkins
fas drowned off the Joe Fowler Al r
ILL.,. yesterday. lie haf
cen employed on the Hopkins for y
ONE time, and yesterday the two Ev
nsville packets met at shawneetown \
nd landed alongside one another Il
Then the Hopkins pulled out CoOK
lade run to get aboard. and failed b
make t. Instead of landing ON the
Dat he fell into the river. and quick
sank in sight of his companions
nd drowned before assistance coul-
,ach him. At last accounts the body
nd not been recovered. Cook was
ON Nashville originally. but haC
red in Paducah much Of his time
e was about IS years Old and has
, family SO far as known
The Fowler line Of passengers win !
obably carry on. its plan Of run
ng excursions from Paducah to ST
,uis when the stage of water b..
mes TOO low TO admit OF maintain
2 The line between Paducal and Ev
sviIle The Joe Fowler ami JONI
HOPKINS will be the steamers use
this is finally decided upon. Cap
A. Fowler. general freight and pas
ger agent of the Fowler line. stat
this morning that IL has not been
initely decided as To whether *
.sions viii be run 10 St Louis OF
but that there probably will be
p boats will leave al stated time
will give the passengers ten days
the fair with the privilege Of re
ling their berths aboard. Capt
rier says that he has been request q
by numbers u people both here maj
al Evansville TO. pat his boats in 90
excursion business.-Padueah you
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