From Cairo

(Special to the Hawk-Eye.)

CAIRO, May 20.

According to Gen. Halleck’s order, all newspaper reporters are leaving Pittsburg Landing.  Two arrived to-day and report twenty more coming, they being representatives of nearly all our leading journals.

The city of Memphis has just passed en route for Pittsburgh Landing with nurses and Sanitary stores.

One of our provost guards named Wright, shot a Mr. Keith, a citizen this evening, Keith was intercepted, and an officer finding some difficulty in arresting him, drew his revolver.  An officer standing near, said, “don’t shoot him” – he paid no attention, but shot the poor fellow through the head, killing him instantly.  He leaves three children.

STREET

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 4