The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-27

August Sehr was killed near Sib
ley by the explosion of the boiler Of
his steam thresher as he was running
Ire machine on the highway.
Joseph Arnheim OF Kansas City,
prominently known as heavy dealer
in horses and mules, was arrested at
Random Lake, Wis, upon the charge
OF having defrauded Kansas City and
Iowa horse commission firms of about
$S5, 900. The losses in Kansas City
will aggregate at least $4,000, it is
said. Commission firms in Clarinda
and Shenandoah are said to have been
victimized. Arnheim had maintained
Offices at Red Oak for the past year.
Arnheim's method, as stated by Mr..
Wolcott, was to obtain standing with
q firm with whom he had done large
business in buying stock, and then
make a draft for shipment which
never came to hand.
John Anderson, prominent stock
buyer of Atlantic, was instantly killed
at railway crossing a mile east of
town. His body was terribly man
gled and thrown a hundred feet. Wal
ter Roberts, another buyer, who was
in the carriage with him, miraculously
escaped with some bad injuries,
though no bones were broken. He
was thrown to the side of the track
with great force. The train stopped
and brought the body of Anderson
and Mr.. Roberts into town. An in
quest was held. The statement of
Mr.. Roberts was that the train did
not whistle for the crossing. Three
witnesses to the accident also gave
the same testimony.
Colonel Harry v. Horton, who pro-
noted the giving of horse shows at
Davenport and Waterloo, in addition
+ to other cities in Iowa, disappeared
from South Bend, Ind, a few days
ago, where he succeeded in victimizing
numerous creditors. The same day
the police authorities at Davenport
and Waterloo furnished the Indiana
officials with a detailed story of Hor-
tons REGULATIONS in those cities, where
his methods of operation were SINH
lar to those practiced in South Bend,
which he left with a large sum of
money in his possession. The men
who were swindled will unite in offer
ing reward for Horton, alias Hatch,
who is also wanted in the Iowa cities
named.
The fall festival at the Iowa State
college at Ames was success. Ex-
cursion trains from all parts of the
state came heavily loaded, and by
noon over 5000 people were in at
tendance, which equals the first festi-
val held two years ago. The weather,
though threatening for three days
previous, was perfect and the entire
program was carried through. A
large tent was erected on the campus
in which the following prominent
men spoke to the crowds: Senator
Hartman of Hampton, C. G. McCar-
thy of Des Moines and Judge Stevens
of Boone. After the speaking the
crowd was entertained by drills by
the college battalion and foot ball
game between the varsity team and
a picked eleven from the alumni.
This story comes from Fort Dodge:
Local physicians are puzzled over the
case of Martin Swanson, car repairer
on the Illinois Central railroad, whose
body passed unscratched under the
wheels of half train here. Swanson
was at work under caboose when
a switch engine backed long train
of cars upon him. He tried to escape
but was caught under the wheels of
half dozen cars before he was res
cued. Car wheels passed over his
right hip and diagonally across his
body, but not single bone was brok-
en- nor did he sustain any internal in
,juries that can be ascertained. The
only evidence of this remarkable acct
dent on Swanson's body are few
skin abrasions and dark line where
the wheels passed across this seem
ingly rubber man. <
An incendiary fire was discovered
burning fiercely in the Ed Nugent
building at Oskaloosa about o'clock
a few night ago. Hoseman Sam Jones
of the fire department entered the
building with chemical tanks and con
trolled the fire. He found that the
fire had been started from box of
hndling, shavings and excelsior that
had been saturated with oil. The
flaming box was carried to the street
where it continued to burn. AS the
fire company was leaving the building
it was discovered fire was also burn
ing in another part of the building
and had been started in a large roll
of paper. Mr.. Nugent, owner of the
builing, was quite badly burned in
getting the paper out of the corner
where it was blazing. The building
was occupied as a grocery store by
J: s. Farr. He left the store about
10 o'clock that night and had gone
to his fathers home in the country.
He returned to find the money drawer
had been rified and that money to
the amount of spool was missing.
Amateur bank robbers created
great excitement in the village of
Clare, fourteen miles northwest of
Fort Dodge, by an attempt to rob
the State bank of Clare. They Sc
cured entrAnce to the bank and
sought to blow open the vault by
punching out the riyets in the dial
on the valut door. These crevices
were filled with a powerful explosive
and touched off. The result surprised
thesrobbers as much as the people of
Clare. The dial and portion Of the
vault door were blown through the
front window of the bank, across the
seventy foot street and through a
window of a hotel The noise awak-
ened every one in town and fright
ened the robbers, who made good
their escape, but without penny
of the expected booty. The thieves
overlooked a small safe outside that
might have been easily entered and
which contained $4,000 in gold. The
vault and building were badly dam
aged. No clew