Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-21

/ QenU OF the lass county Bank, was IN
| Jail at Atlantic under sentence for
wrecking the bank and swindling the
depositors. She went to Oskaloosa to
secure the signature of James Baxter
to her husbands bond, and after secur-
ing the signature of Thomas Meredith,
| of DeS Moines, she returned home.
| Later Yetzer was released during APP
peal.
Elmer E. Sellers, bridgeman on the
c. & N. w. railway, was killed at Day
ton by passenger engine. He at
tempted to cross the track in front Of
the engine, but must have miscalculated
the distance, as he was struck and in
stantly killed. He had been working
on the bridge gang at Dayton for tn
past two years. and the company says
he was one of the best men on the
road. His parents live at Colo, in
Story county. He was 80 years of age
and unmarried.
The motion of Harry n. Spencer for
change of venue from Webster
county in the case of Spencer VS.. Des
Moines Insurance Company, was ar
gued before Judge Birdsall and taken
under advisement. 1t is the most in
teresting case of the kind ever tried in
Webster county. Last year Spencer's
barn burned and with it large
amount of stock. The insurance com
pany defended a suit against it on the
ground that he burned the building
and had masqueraded lot of cheap
plugs as race horses to get heavy in
for the insurance company. The at
tempt to carry the case out of the
county is stoutly opposed.
Ben Swede, who lived on a farm in
Grundy county, disappeared on the
l1th Later he was found dead in a
hay stack on the farm, with one empty
alcohol bottle and another with con-
tents partly drained lying near the
body. Deceased was about % years of
age, of Norwegian parentage, and had
been in this country number of years.
1t is not definitely known whether
death was produced by exposure or
suicide. Some are inclined to the be-
lief that there was foul play. He was
not known, however, to have had an
enemy. The coroner of Grundy Center
was notified and the body was taken
to Grundy Center, where an inquest
was held, the developments of which
rnCCihl,r ;,rL 10
ject.
Just after the pupils of the public
schools at Lamont had been dismissed
for dinner few days ago, smoke was
seen issuing from the roof of the school
house near the chimney. The alarm
of fire was raised, and crowd soon
gathered, but as there were no ladders
that would reach the roof the fire had
its own way and the building was soon
consumed. Luckily there was but lit
tie wind blowing, and by energetic
work the adjoining buildings were
saved. The most of the chimney.
which was built from the ground, re-
NAMED standing rntil the lower floor
was burned, when it fell. Alfred
Brown, compOsltor in the Reporter
office, was struck on the head by a
brick and seriously injured. Clarence
Lake. school boy, had leg broken.
The building was insured for 1000.
The farmers in Grant township,
Franklin county, are greatly excited
over peculiar phenomenon that no
one has yet been able to explain. On
| dark nights pail or cloud of fire is
seen to rise out of the prairie and
travel along at frightful speed until
it is lost in the distance. The more
timid and superstitious declare that it
is an evil spirit warning the community
of some awful calamity that threatens
| them. and others declare it is an i'll
omen foretelling the disaster that is to
visit the country. The light is vouched
for by some of the leading residents of
the township and is no apparition
emanating from some diseased brain.
A similar light was witnessed in the
the same place several years ago, but
nothing has been seen of it since until
within the last few weeks.
Considerable interest is being taken
in the experiment by c. A. and III. Nj.
Wherry, at Oxford Junction, of feeding
hogs with -four. They have eighty
five head under this feed, sixtv-five of
which they weighed when they began
feeding the flour. After ten days on
the new feed the hogs wero again
weighed and it was found that they
had gained one and one-fifth pounds
each per day. The -four was also
weighed and it was ascertained that it
takes six pounds of flour to make one
of pork. Previous experiments on the
same hogs with corn feeding showed
that it takes eight pounds of corn to
make one of pork, and the hogs gained
but one pound day during the ten
days trial. The hogs will now average
in weight about $50 pounds. The
original way of feeding the -four dry is
being continued. 1t is put into self,
feeding troughs or bins, and the ami,
mails are allowed to eat all they will OF
it and it is kept constantly before