Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1919 — GLEANED from the EXCHANCES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GLEANED from the EXCHANCES

Former Congressman Ralph W. Moss died in a hospital at Brazil Saturday afternoon from injuries sustained a couple ot days previous, when he was gored by a bull which he was leading at his farm. Miss Mary Brown, aged 4 2 years, a daughter of John Brown, a prominent citizen of Lake county, committed suicide at her home in Crown Point last Wednesday (morning by shoootlng hereelf through the head with a 38-caliber revolver. 11l health is given as the cause of the rash deed. Wallace W. Evans, the Bentou county wealthy land owner and gravel road contractor, tried at Fowler last week on the charge of presenting a false claim in connection with the construction of the Fleming gravel road in Benton county, was acquitted Monday after a deliberation of only 17 iminutes by the jury. The trial proper ended Saturday and eight hours /were taken for argument by the attorneys.

A, J. Mosier, tenant of the Herman E. Sasse (farm, north of this city, recently sold the largest hog that has ever been shipped to the Chicago market. The animal after arriving in Chicago on an auto truck tipped the scales at l®Bo pounds and netted the owner 1161.60, after all expenses and commission had been paid., Mr. Mosier, who has made a specialty of raising the Poland China type says that he has raised many large ones, but this one went beyond his fondest hope in weight and is satisfied in. a short time that the porker would have passed the 1100 pound mark. —Lake County Star. Grover Potts was in Morocco Monday with eight young wolves, which he had captured the night before a short distance west of his home. He was on his way to Kentland to claim the bounty of $2.50 each. The wolves were but a few days old and in appearance were very much like a Shepard pup, but it is said that no amount of domestic life will eliminate their inborn desire to kill poultry and smaller farm aniimals. Mr. Potts discovered the nest containing the young wolves just about dusk on Monday evening and caught one glimpse of the mother. He set several traps for ■her but was unable to capture her. Hfed he not taken the young ones with him then she would have removed them before morning according to those who are versed in wolf habits. —Morocco Courier. „