The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-11
TELEGRAPHlC.
Meeting of the State Board
of Equa1iz stion.
1he Feeble-Minded Tnsti-
tute Commissioners at
Springfield.
The $4,000 Treasury
Robbery.
Brown to have a hearing to-
morrow--Ha1leck and
Cttman in Jail.
Crop Reports in Wisconsin.
Grasshoppers flying South
from Wyoming.
Destruction of Crops in
Tennessee.
Accidents. Forgeries. Mur.
ders, Etc, Etc.
Crop Reports in Wisconsin
Grasshoppers flying South
from Wyoming.
Destruction of Crops il
Tennessee.
Accidents. Forgeries. Mur.
ders, Etc., Etc.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.,, Aug, l0,-The State
Board Of Equalization met at 10 o'clock to-
day. There IS no change in the officers or
as they hold over from last
year. General Lippincott, the State Au-
ditor, is the chairman, aud Harry Ives,
secretary.
General Lippincott, on taking the chair,
congratulated the board on the good health
OF the members, all of whom are permitted
to once more return here to the discharge
of trust confided to them by their con-
stituents. He further said that he was
happy to notice that it was the purpose of
the board to make the session an indus
trious and short one. and that their work
should de done, having one object in view
"a just and equal taxation SO far as they
could make it,
He then laid before the board the assess
ment of the counties, together with the re-
ports of railroad property, when the board
adjourned until o'clock this afternoon.
The Feeble Minded Institute Com mis-
sioners are here, and have set apart this
day to hearing speeches from one repre-
sentatives of each place bidding for the To-
cation of the asylum. There are sixteen
of these, and the entire day will be used
up, so that an examination of the bids
will not be made before to- morrow. They
have asked the opinion of the attorney
general as to the extent 10 which they can
use the appropriation of $lS5.000 in pur-
chasing farm. The attorney general is
of the opinion that the clause limiting the
purchase aud expense of securing site tC
$4,000 does not include within it a farm
and that what shall be paid for farm is
this discretion should not lead them to pay
for a farm so much as to leave an insuffici
ent sum with which to erect the buildings
etc. The point of location is yet in doubt
though if located hele, it will be on the
property of Hon, j. X, Dubois.
WASHINGTON, Aug, 1O.-Brown, thu
first one arrested on the charge of com
plicity in the Treasury robbery, has EN-
ployed counsel and will have a hearing
before the police court tomorrow. Hal
| leck remains at the police headquarters
He has not employed counsel yet. 1t i
said he will waive examination and b,
committed to Jail in default of $1,000,
bail.
All Ottman's property has been at
tached at Alexandria and elsewhere.
i Ottmans bail has been reduced to 81,
900, but he was unable to furnish tn
amount and was remanded to Jail,
i MILWAUKEE, Aug. 10.-The Sentine
publishes crop reports from thirty Of tn
most important counties in the state
! Winter wheat, now nearly all harvested
shows splendid crop, In many portions {
the state the best ever known. The acre
/ age sown, taken as a whole, is fully up
the average, while more bushels to tn
: acre are realized than anticipated. Sprin
{ wheat will be more than usual in man
: places. The chinch bug has destrOye
whole fields, but this is compensated ft
e in the excessive growth in other localitie
y Rye will be fair crop. 1t is noticed
= the reports that in some places the chine
e bug has attacked this crop. Oats yiel
e an abundant harvest. Owing to the hig
= price of feed last year an unusual acreag
} was sown, Oats grew so rank that it h;
e lodged ibadly. Barley will be about IL
d usal crop. In some places it suffere
= greatly from bugs. The hay crop all ov
: the state is very heavy-nearly doub
y last year. Corn is generally late and ST
g fered greatly from drouth. Still vii
y y proper weather for a few weeks the vie
!. !. will be falr Potatoes suffered somewh
= from bugs and drouths, but taking Il
!: state as whole the crop will be We
n large.
"a OMAHA, Neb. Aug l0.-Reports fro
,e the west still show vast clouds of gras
,s hoppers flying southwark. They ha
r. appeared at Laramie City, Wyoming.
!, some localities where they have been thi
a for several days past none are to be Sc
re to-day and the damage is reported
40 light.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 10.-For sixty mii
east of Memphis the crops have suffer
very much for want of rain. South frC
Birmingham to Montgomery, a distan
Of 900 miles, and thence east throu
. the cotton country, crops are an emit
failure. There are thousands of acI
= which will not make FIVE bushels of co
to the acre, In the Memphis district
cotton already in water there are 30
}. acres. The danger to the FIVE plantatio
rt in Walnut Bend, sixty miles below he
- is from the back water in the st. Franc
which last week extended up to VIII
u bury. distance of eighty miles.
5 DEs MONIES, Iowa, August 10. G.
\ Cummings. Upton insurance agent
I missing. Forgeries Of over 50, 600 hs
been traced to him.
New YORK, August To- The lifel
n body of Catherine Maxwell, aged IS yea
= was found yesterday on the floor of
= apartments in the tenement No 299 New
= street, near Union street. Brooklyn, VIII
r she lived with her husband, James B NJ
D we'll. aged SO. and her two children, q.
years and 81 months respectively. I
eyes were blackened, the face was brui
and swollen, and one of her arms. wh
was several bruised, was bandaged.
: to husband has been arrested, but denies
gS re. he murdered his wife.