The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-14
TELEGRAPHIC.
Bold Bank Robbery.
The First National Bank at
Quincy, Illinois.
One Hundred Thousand
Dollars, Valuable Pa
pers and Bonds
Stolen.
How it was Done.
Massachusetts, Eats Hum
BILE Pie.
Estimate ofWheat in hands
Of Producers.
Close of the National
Grange Meeting.
Dave Gage still in hot water
Autopsy of the Siamese
Twins.
Accidents, Fire, Etc.
Dave Gage stillin hot water
Autopsy of the Siamese
Twins.
Accidents, Fire, Etc.

CHICAGO, Feb. 13.-Great excitement
was created at Quincy, ILL.,, this morning,
by the discovery that the first National
Bank had been entered and the vault
robbed of about one hundred thousand
dollars in currency belonging to the bank,
besides quantity of bonds and valuable
papers, and, it is said, quite an amount of
special deposits The bank was entered
by cutting through the hall floor of the
second story, Immediately over the vault
The burglars then made a breach through
three feet of masonry of about four feet
square They then cut the rivets of a
twenty foot inch-thick sheet of boiler iron
with which the vault is lined, and, remov-
ing it, descended into the vault, they then
charged both of the money safes, contain
ing bonds and valuable papers, with pow
der, and, by means of small rubber hose,
carried train to the top of the safe when
small pistol screwed to the top of an old
ledger was arranged to set it off. A string
was attached to the pistol and passed out
of window Of second story to the street
below, and by this means the operators
were enabled to discharge their blasts
when the streets were clear of people. The
clock in the bank was stopped at ] I min
utes past two o'clock, as it is supposed by
the explosion, which must have occurred
about that time The door of the safe,
which was a Dodd's burglar proof, was
completely wrenched from its hinges
There is no clue whatever to the perpetra-
tors, but one Mccoy, recently connected
with variety show, has been arrested and
is held on suspicion.
Boston Feb. 13.-The House this at
ternoon rescinded the resolution of 1872,
censuring Sumner, by vote of lis to 40.
JACKSONVILLE, ILL.,, Feb. 13-The Ma
tional Crop Reporter from returns received
| from Illinois Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Ohio
and Wisconsin, estimates the amount of
wheat remaining in the hands of producers
on February lst at nearly 59,O00,000
| bushels, or about 403 per cent.of the entire
! crop; of oats in the states named, the es-
| timated amount now in the hands Of pro-
| ducers is nearly 81 900, 900 bushels, or ABB
per cent Of the entire crop. The estimate
of damage to the growing wheat is increas
ing somewhat, although the prospects are
yet in favor of a much larger yield than
| last year.
| New YORK, Feb ia Philadelphia
dispatch of yesterday says that in the Sia-
mese twins autopsy the day was taken up
by taking photographs of the corpses in q
number of positions and from different
points of view so as TO put on permanent
record their external appearance. The
first cut, looking toward the autopsy, which
begins formal to-day, was made in the alb.
domen of Eng. The hand was passed in
at the opening and the fingers carried near
ly to the centre of the fleshy band of the
union This shows that the lining mem
braDce Of the general abdominal cavity
lines the opening into this heshy band
Casts have been taken with highly sue
cessful results A well known artist, con
versant with the subject from practice il
army hospitals has been engaged to make
drawings of the internal parts as they arr
developed.
ST. LOUIS, Feb 13.-In the National
Grange to day the Committee on the Bos
ton Grange submitted a report repudiatins
the Boston Grange as not composed of tn,
class declared by the order of Patrons 0
Husbandry eligible to membership, ant
that they have as q Grange violated th,
laws of the order in refusing obedience q
the order of the State Grange, and hav,
adopted course calculated to demoralizt
: and injure the order throughout the coun
try. The Secretary of the National Grang
is instructed to notify all State Grange
within its jurisdiction that the Bostol
Grange is no longer connected with tn
Patrons of Husbandry, and henceforth n
fraternal recognition can be extended to
by any Grange, State or subordinate, AM
the Master of the Massachusetts, Stat
Grange is required to make formal de
mand for the surrender of the dispensa
ton and ritual of the Boston Grange, ant
when received to return to the Stat
Grange the money paid for said dispense
ton and ritual and return them withou
delay to the Secretary of the Nationa
Grange at Washington The report wa
adopted. The report of the Committee Of
Transportation was submitted, but afte
some debate was withdrawn as not gener
al enough in its character and the matte
lies over until the next annual meeting
The Grange then adjourned to meet a
Charleston, S. C., on the first Wednesda
of February next.
CHICAGO, Feb. 13.-Judge Rogers, il
: the Criminal Court this morning, gave
decision on the application of the counse
: of David Gage. ex- City Treasurer, to quas
the indictment for defaication and perjury
The court refused in the case of the form
er, but granted the application in the cas-
of perjury. This is not considered favors
BILE by the friends of Gage as new in
dictment has been found by another gran
jury
The grounds upon which Judge Roger
quashed the indictment for perjury agains
ex City Treasurer Gage were purely teef
nical and, as new indictment for perjur
| in which the technical errors which defea
, "A Aho Grst are omitted has haan refnrne