The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-05-24
GENERAL LOCAL NEWS
Brief Mention Of Events Concerning
the People of Cairo and
Vicinity.

Brick work on Charles Mccarthy S
new house on Fifteenth street is pro.
crossing rapidly
An interesting story concerning
Fort Jefferson is told in the river col,
umn this morning.
The Gilbert block IS receiving a
coat of paint which adds TO the an,
pearance of the building
A meeting of the board Of directors
of the Children's Home viii be held
/ this afternoon az 2.3o O'Clock at the
Home
Brick work on the third story OF
the new Grinstead building has been
completed and work has commenced
on the fourth story,
+ One of the sights in a down town
saloon last night was a Cairo Young
man who. in drunkcd frenzy
i tore five ami ten dollar bills into
shreds with his teeth and hands.
/ In the county court yesterday Char
j ley Smith was sentenced TO fifteen
] days in the county Jail for larceny.
Tie stole a suit OF clothes from John
berry M the Buo Front restaurant
! Marriage licenses have been issued
/ 10 Thomas j. Wolf, aged 81 and Miss
/ Willie May Price. aged 20, of Barlow,
. Ky. ana Charles II Ingraham, aged
50 and Mrs. Nora Tope, aged 3G, Of
Cairo.
Judge w. n. Butler and Or. J. r.
NJ. Knox viii attend the commence,
ment exercises ia Anna next Thurs.
day, where the former will deliver an
address.
The entire time of the circuit court
Yesterday was taken up with the case
Of Thomas Ferguson VS. the Andrew
Lohr Boiling company The hearing
of the case will probably require
another day or two.
AT Springfield today the matter Of
confirming the trustees OF the Cairo
Trust Property win come up for final
decision in the United States court,
ana Judge Dewey has gone there to
look after it for the trustees.
Ground has been broken for the
new I.ansdeu building on Eighth
street. between the Alexander club
ana the Argus office Some trouble
is being experienced by water siepng
into the excavations from adjoining
lots.
Sheriff Roche and Deputy H. H.
Hancock left for Chester yesterday to
place the following prisoners in the
penitentiary; Samuel r. Shields
win Jones, Charles Parker, Charley
Smith, viii Moore alias Ed Fisher.
All of the prisoners were sent up for
burglary.
Mr. Edward Mint0n, engineer for
the Mobile ana Ohio, and Miss Ger.
trude Williams. Of Murphysbor1
were married last week at st
Charles, Mo, where the bride was
visiting. They will reside in Nun.
physboro.
Yesterday was a day of grief
grief among the Cairo police officers
Mayor Winter refused to allow the
gambling devices with the circus to
be operated and the circus manage.
ment refused admittance TO Cairo pc.
lieemen TO the show.
A meeting Of the Board of Public
improvements was to be held LAST
night ~ consider propositions for the
Improvement Of Twenty-eightn street /
Thirty-second street and Commercial
avenue. Citizens interested in the
improvement were present bit owing
10 the absence of three members OF
the board because Of illness. the +
meeting was adiouruey over tin to-I
night An official call for tonights t
meeting by Comptroller G. +. Powell +
appears elsewhere in this paper
The through freight cabooses that
we're taken off the Cairo division IF
ihe Big Four the past week on ae
count Of the small amount Of busi
ness being done by the road, were il
charge of the following conductors
Clint Woods Charles barrow. Henry
Gongs and Ed Kelsey. Some of the
above viii pat on local runs So far
there have been none of the recently
appointed engineers set back. but
some of them will likely be If bnsi