Rock Island Daily Argus

The Fulton Journal, after copying from the Argus the mention of the fact that Wm. McElroy had dismissed the $10,000 damage suit of McMahon vs. Capt. O'Connor at plaintiff's costs, says:

It appears by the above that the $10,000 damage suit brought against Capt. O'Connor by Francis McMahon has been abandoned. There is where the Rock Island Argus is mistaken. The case was dismissed at Clinton by the plaintiff who paid the costs, but his attorneys have brought proceedings against Capt. O'Connor for $10,000 damages in the courts at Morrison, Illinois, and papers were served on Capt. O'Connor on the evening of November 4 on board the Le Claire Belle while laying up for the night at Stony Point by Deputy Sheriff J. M. Fay, of this city, to appear before the circuit court at Morrison during the February session.

The Journal then enters into an abuse of Capt. O'Connor in unmeasured terms, and says quite a number of little spiteful things about him. The Journal is evidently as biased in its ideas of this case as it is in matters pertaining to the order of Modern Woodmen.