Show LAYTON LINES last friday morning while harris brothers machine was threshing tit at christopher laymons Lay tons it il suddenly and mysteriously took fire aud and burned to the ground as also dirt did two stacks of grain robert harris the manager of the company was feeding 42 who when lie he heard en explosion in the machine near the cylinder and almost instantaneously large flames came out of 0 the lite front and the rear of the machine tile the feeder attempted to loosen tile the separator 0 r tongue thinking to hitch a team cam on aud and pull tile the machine out from between the two stacks between which it was standing but everything was enveloped with flames before this could be acion accomplished shed it II is climatee cli mated about bushels 0 threshed anti and ed grain was destroyed some peo |