The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-08-17
GENERAL LOCAL NEWS

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; Brief Mention OF Events concernin!
the People of Cairo and
Vicinity.
An eight-pound baby boy arrived
Yesterday morning at the home o
Mr.. and Mrs. n c. Haner OF Eleventh
street.
Marriage licenses were issued yes
terday TO Albert II. Humphreys OF
Charleston, Mo. and Miss Aneiiza
Watts of Mexico, Ky.
A flue burning out AT a house on
/ Fourteenth street near Walnut. called
ont both departments yesterday after
noon at $50. No damage was done,
Mr.. William Etheridge has seed
ling freestone peach which weighs
onehalf pound and which grew on a
small tree in his yard ON Thirty-fourth
| street.
1 The fair and races ak Paducah are
in progress and will last until Satur-
day, About leo horses are in the
stables there and will participate in
the races A wild west show and 9th
er attractions are on the grounds,
WIN. J. Dugan, who has been run
ming a blacksmith shop in this city
for some time. will move his house.
hold goods TO Cairo tomorrow where
he will set up another shop Burleigh
Campbell takes the proprietorship Of
the shop mere -DuQuoin Call,
Mr.. Peter Lind brought to The Bull
letin office yesterday some peaches
from trees growing in his and Mayor
Winters yard The fruit was large
and fine looking and the trees from
which they were taken are loaded
with more of the same kind
The double tracking of the Illinois
Central from Cairo to Memphis has
been completed. giving the Central a
double track system from that city 10
Chicago, a distance OF Ats miles. 1t
is all laid with IS pound steel rails
and on stone ballast.-Centralia Sen
tinel.
The Johnson county teachers insti-
tute Is in session at Vienna. The in
structors are County Superintendent
William NJ Grissom, Professor George
w. Smith, Carbondale: Professor w
A. Farr, Ottawa, and Miss Margaret
Brooks. Springfield. The enrolment
has reached ninety-one.
from Charlottesville yesterday where
he went to identify a man supposed to
be the negro Ben Tally. alias Texas.
The fellow under arrest was a white
man and bore no resemblance what
ever to the negro wanted here. Sher
III Roche is confined to his bed with
Illness as result of recent expos
IRE and long hours.
Rev Sanford Gee of Chillicothe.
Mo-, arrived in this city Friday even
ing and visited Saturday with friends.
Saturday night he departed for Car
bondale where he preached al the
First Baptist church yesterday. From
Carbonate Rev. Gee will go 10 Cairo
where he will visit with former
parshioners. He will return to con
tinue his visit in DuQuoin toward
the last of the week.-DuQuoin Call.
Work of laying a new concrete side
walk in front Of John Grimes saloon
and the Tri-State cafe was begun yes
terday Mrs. Catherine Reisser has
also decided to extend the walk along
Eighth street on the north side of the
former building, the contract having
been let to Alderman A. s Fraser.
Bids will be opened today for placing
a concrete walk on Eighth street
north OF the new Grinstead building.
Nose Rooney and John Grissner
were arrested by the police in a box
car in the Chicago and Alton yards
in Springfield yesterday. Both had
the uniform Of the state reformatory
at Pontiac, under their citizens
clothes. and an officer from the re
formatory identified them as the men
who escaped Saturday. Rooney was
sentenced from Cairo in 1896 for burg
larry and larceny
Rev. DR. w Sanford Gee Of Chilli
Gothic. Mo. occupied the pulpit Of the
Baptist church IN the morning service
yesterday. In the evening Rev. w T.
Hopkins. a returned missionary from
the Tellago Indians of South Africa.
preached Rev. Hopkins was return
ing from the Cleac Greek Baptist as