The state capital., 1892-08-20
ILLINOIS STATE NEWS.
Illinois weather-Crop Bulletin.

Illinois Weather-Crop Bulletin.
. The weekly weather-crop bulletin O
the Illinois weather ser!ice, issued o,
the 10th, says of the crop condition.
Corn is in need Of rain, especially in th.
northern and central Counties. In countia
where rain fell it is reported as being preatl,
improved, but in some sections drought Is AT
fectlng IT injuriousiy. The crop has done fairli
wen under the existing conditions but vii
| probably be short
Mheat threshing is still progressing, owing
70 Tue favorable weather of tn past week. A
Ie" counties report threshing about finished
Monroe county reports an average of % bu nar
acre, ana Saline county II to % per acre Some
counties report wheat of good quality. but a
light yield.
Inc oats harvest has been completed and
threshlng well under way. Most of the corre-
sponoents reporting in regard to oats saw the
Up is neIow AN average, both in quality and
| yield. Mclean county reports an average of a,
uusneiS per acre. In Morgan and Piatt couu-
tles IL VIII make about one half a crop
| a great deal OF plowing for fall planting has
peen commenced. but is retarded somewhat by
the dry condition of the ground
haln is badly needed for pastures meadows
| STOCK water and fall powIng
Fruits of MI kinds will bo unusually light.
Called to Illinois University.
One more vacancy in the university
OF illinois faculty has been filled.
Dr VIM. 0. Krohn of New London. Conn
mas Deen elected to the chair OF psychology and
pedagogy. Prof Krohn graduated at Western
coiiege' Toledo. Ia, in 1887. The next two
years were spent in post graduate work at Yale
university, where he received the degree of Ph
D. In 1889 Then he was called to the chair op
PniiosopEy In the Western Reserve university
d. M Eleveland. o.. where he remained two years
ne loilowlng nine months he spent in Europe
oolng sp cal work in psychological research
IN eIeven different institutions in Germany.
Switzerland AMI Austria Since March he has
been carrying on his PSYCHOLOGICAL work ~
CLARK university. Prof. Krohn is contributor
10 several psychological journals an is copsid-
ereo one OF the bright aud promising research.
ers In psychological work
The Husband Goes Scot Free.
The following event recently occurred
in Chicago:
Leopold Besser WIS arrested on charge Of |
larceny preferred by his wife Fannie Mrs |
Besser testified that one night she nlaced 50 on |
uhoer her pillow and the next morning il was |
gone besser went to Little Rock. Ark. the |
next day, and was returned and held to tho |
criminal court. He entered pc tition for habeas
corpus, basfng his petition on the ground that
the testimony of his wife was incompetent and |
clent. The court held that under the law. the
"le could not testify against her husband and
granted the petition
Died In Chair Car.
dispatch sent from Decatur a few
days ago said:
A sensation was caused at the union depot
MS city, when the conductor announced that
ady passenger had died in the chair car Of a
" abash train just as the train drew ND to the
platform. The lady was Mrs. Cathrine Groves
! no was on her way from Iowa to relatives in
)anville. Ill. Brain fever was given as the
ause OF death. Mrs. Groves had hoped that
ne might live until she arrived at Danyille | ,
me was accompanied by Perry Lenavo and |
71fe. of Pike county, H. Mrs. Groves had her
title girl with her. The body was taken |
trough to Danville without coffin
Is Her Own Grandmother
George Peacock, a well-to-do farmer
4 10 Davless county, and Miss Julia |
DEEMS were recently married.
The romantic featuro cf this marriag, is that : :
le newly welded woman has in sense be- L
'me grandmother to herself, her own mother Y
eing ep-daugh.er to the bridegroom \
hose first wife die1 last March, leaving be-
das her husband, who was more than twanty
9ars her senior, twenty three children. Mrs. c
ndrew Deems, Of Nora. mother OF the bride. a
'lnG one of her children by a form er marriage. n
Harvest Home at CuIIor, b
IL.