The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-22
The Great American Trav.
eler going to Long Branch.
Johnny Logan and v. P.
Wilson in Colorado.
Fred Grant going to Settle
the Indian Business.
The Centennial Commission G
Mechlenberg Patriotism in
Memphis,
Our American Cardinal
gets a Nice Present.
More Black Hills Idiots
Captured.
Bob Ingerso1l Don't Want
to Pay his Bond.
No Danger from Grasshop-
pers in Minnesota.
Murders, Robberies, Acct
dents, Fire. Etc.


about the Sd or 4th of June, having at
present abandoned the idea of visiting his
farm near St. Louis. The servants from
Branch next week to arrange the cottage
preparatory to the President and family oc-
cupying it.
DENVER, Col, May 2l.-General Logan
arrived last night.
Vice-President Wilson comes tonight,
and will be officially received.
ST. PAUL, MIMI, May 2l.-Colonel Fred
Grant, is here, on bis way to the Big Horn
country, via Bismarck and the Missouri
and Yellowstone rivers. This is not the
Custer expedition which is preparing to
leave here soon.
PHILADELPHIA, May 2l.-The United
States Centennial Commissioners met this
morning. The election of officers was held
and the following officers were chosen
President, Gen. JOS r. Hawley, of Con-
necticut; Vice President, Orestes Cleve-
land, of New Jersey Third Vice President,
Robert Lowry, of Iowa,
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 2l.-Notwith-
standing the rain last nj ght, the celebra-
ton of the Mecklenberg centennial at the
being comfortably filed. The stag was
national flags, and the inscription ''l775-
ris presided. Capt J. Harvey Mathews,
the editor of the Ledger, was chosen Sec
retary. After prayer by Rev. DR.. CASTOR,
and the Star Spangled Banner" by the
band, NJ. D. Menken read Mecklenberg de-
claration, which was followed by addresses
from T. B. Edgington, J.D. Adams and T.
w. Brown; after which the band played
''Dixie" and Yankee Doodle" and the
meeting adjourned.
New YORK, May 2l.-Cardinal McClos-
ky was yesterday presented with dia-
mond cross worth $40, 900 by the young la
dy pupils of ST. Vincent Institute, this
city.
Sioux CITY. Iowa, May ola courier
lust arrived here reports that Gorton's
train, consisting of four mule teams and
ITO men, were captured on the 18th inst.
. by detachment of 81 soldiers from For
l Randall, ID. T., and are now en- route t.
that post in charge of the troops. The
point where the party were captured was il
, Nebraska, some $50 miles west Of this, ,anG
40 miles south of the Indian reservation
The party had given up the idea of goine
to the Black Hills and concluded to move
J, on to the Big Horn country until the Hill
we're opened,
Boston. May 81. Further develop
: meuts of frauds are being made in tn
e case of Abraham Jackson, the lawyer
+ The loss will probably reach 100000
G 1t is not generally believed that he commit
:, ted suicide, as nothing indicated such
i course, but to the contrary, his proceeding
being suspicious for some time previous t
his disappearance.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, May 2l.-As a mat
:, ter of interest connected with the affairs 0
;. ;. w. III. Harper, late chief inspector o
- y grain in Chicago, Colonel r. G. Ingelsoll
:, one of the bondsmen of Harper, ha
;. written letter to the railroad commission
a sioners, in reply to their demand upo
y him to come forward and pay over tn
!. amount of Harper's defct, in which b
IS makes the point that the bondsmen, in hi
.e opinion, are not liable for failure of Har
,f per to pay over to the railroad commits
d sioners. or any other officer of the state
Of moneys which may have come into hi
y hands. The bond was not given for an
c. such purpose, but its sole and only objee
" was to indemnify persons who might b
damaged by reason of fraudulent inspet
: ton. He adds that if the commissioner
desire to test the question in the courts, b
will make up an agreed case and submi
it for decision at once.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, May 21.-The Pit
neer Press publishes dispatches from
considerable number of localities in a
. parts of the state relative to the grass
hoppers. The purport of these report
, is that there are no grasshoppers in til
,. district devastated by them last year, nc
i" in any part of Minnesota, north, soutl
: east or west, except in very small are;
! and in comparatively small numbers, col
II fined to the group of counties on or nes
! the great bend Of the Minnesota rive
! consisting of the small district of Bit
| Earth county, some townships of Brow
Vicallett and La Sueur, with some vel
small and feeble detachments of skirmisl
n ers in Meeker and Mcleod counties The
u seems to be no danger of any serious dan
+ age from locusts this season, but that Il
, raid of the pests, if any remain long, VI
+ be limited to spots in the small districts.
= DEs MONIES. Ia, May 2l.-In the ca
. of Nelson Smith VS. the Chicago & Mort
! western Railway Company, in the Unite
States circuit court, an action to recov
$1,000 damages ior being elected from
n. passenger train by conductor, the ju
re- returned verdict of $l35 against the col
Ct. pany.
u.s. LAKE CITY, Fla, May 21.-Gray Bear
the most troublesome of the Indian priso
lers, while en- route fer St.Augustine, jun