The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-13
A Suit about Capt. David
sons Steamboat Stock.
How He Beat the Northern
Line Folks.
The Grasshopper Scourge
in the Northwest.
A Committee to Prosecute
Boss Shepcrd and his
Gang of Thieves.
Will the Vice-President
Resign
Forgery, Robbery, Murder,
Fire, Etc, Etc.
A s75O,OOO Fire in New
Jersey.
Forgery. Robbery, Murder,
Fire, Etc, Etc.
A s75O,OO Fire in New
Jersey.

A s75O,OOO Fire in New
Jersey.
ST.. Louis, July IA suit which will
attract the attention OF all steamboatmen,
especially those of the Upper Mississippi
River, was filed in the United States Cir
cult to-day by Richard G. Gray, of Pitts
burgh. The petition recites that a little
over year ago what was known as the
Keokuk Packet Company, Northern Line
Packet Company, and Northwestern Union
Company, consolidated for mutual beneht
under the name of the keokuk-North-,
ern Line, and that the stockholders OF said
consolidation agreed not to dispose OF the
stock of the company. Soon after the
death of John S. McCune, President, and
the largest stakeholder of the company, his
stock. amounting to over 800 shares, was
transferred to William +. Davidson, an
other stockholder, and formerly the head
of the Northwestern Union Company, by
Napoleon Mulliken and Samuel n. Holll-
day, administrators of McCune's estate, IN
alleged violation of the agreement referred
to, This threw the control OF the company
| into the hands of Davidson, and, as plain
| tiff alleges, damaged his interest In the
company $50 900. He therefore sues Null
| Iken for that amount and costs. Similar
suits will probably be entered by other
stockholders.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, July ll.-Grasshop-
pers ON the wing, according to reports
from all directions yesterday, are floating
with the prevailing winds southwesterly.
So far the swarms have done little HARM
but rose again when the wind was IN the
direction their instinct seemed to direct
them. The moving swarms are reinforced
by fresh arrivals from the short grass pral-
ries of North Minnesota and Northern Da-
kota. In Manitoba, in the vicinity OF Fort
Garry, grasshoppers have destroyed all
growing crops. At Bismarck and through,
out Northern Dakota they have destroyed
most of the grain crops and the more ten
der garden products.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE TaXPay-
ers' Association of this District has adopt
ed plan of organization which provides
for the appointment Of a committee OF sew
entv to guard their interests generally, and
to prosecute in the criminal and civil court
such officers of the late District Govern
mept as have acted illegally in the collec-
ton and expenditure of money, and for
other acts performed by them in disregard
of law.
The National Republican learns from a
leading Republican Senator. who has had
a recent conversation with Vice President
Wilson, that his Wilson 81 resignation will
soon be made public, ill-health being the
cause of this extraordinary and uneXpect-
ed step.
BosToN, July 1.-THE report from
Washington of the intended resignation OF
Vice President Wilson has no foundation
in fact The Vice Presidents health is
better than it has ever been since his i'll
ness
RALEIGH, \. C., July 2l.-Goyernor
Caldwell died this evening at EillsDnro, OF
cholera morbus,
FOND Dc LAC Wis. July ll.-Great ex-
element was caused in this city to-day IN
consequence Of the arrest Of leading law
yer named Z. T. Delaney. Three prison
ers in the county jail charge that for the
sum of 800 he promised to supply them
with a saw with which to cut their way out
of iail They also charge that he had Ia
ken two other saws made OF case-knlte
blades into the Jail. Delaneys examina-
tion will take place on Wednesday next.
He was formerly District Attorney OF an
Ohio county, and was at one time editor OF
, a paper in Illinois He is out on bail OF
81 900.
LALLE, ILL.,, July 1l.-William ii;
Frost. who has been the station agent OF
the Illinois Central Railroad in this city fol-
nearly two years, was last evening dlscharg
ed from service for alleged embezzlement
= and ,John VI. Shannon, who for the last
e six months has been statlon-agent at New
Rutland. has taken temporary charge Of
- the station here. The amount Of Frost
defalcation is not reported.
NASHVILLE, July ia special from
Tuilahoma, Tenn, says the body of james
W. Everett, Deputy United States Mar
shal. appointed recently as successor t
Uildreth. lately killed near HillsbOro, wa.
discovered Yesterday half a mile east O
Ivncnburg. Two pistol balls had entered
his skull lust back of the lett ear No clu'
> to the murderer was obtained. The yer
dict of the coroner jury was that he CANT
to his death by pistol fired by an un
: known party. lie left Lynchburg yester
K day in an intoxicated condition
Davis Gintly, colored who was stabbed
y on Cav street, this city, by Frank Jones
! coored, on Thursday night, died yesterda.
morning. The verdict Of the coroner
Jury was murder in the first degree. Jone
: is yet at large.
RICHMOND, Va, July IA man VIII
] has been here for some days and falsel
representing himself as agent for Commo
dore Vanderbilt, was arrested tonight
He had in his possession large numbe
of forged drafts.
McGREGoR, Ia, July ll.-Con. " eici
n the daring burglar who entered j. Il
a Haight's bookstore of this city, last viii
ter, and distracted therefrom good
amounting to $1,000. was yesterday a
rested in Dubuque and brought to this CIT
for trial
FoyD DU LAC, Wis, July ll.-Loftu
7 who murdered his wife at GAINESVILLE, la
Tuesday, pleaded guilty to-day, and wi
sentenced to the State Prison for hfe.
70 SAN Francisco, July IA dispatC