Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1888 — Spontaneous Combustion. [ARTICLE]

Spontaneous Combustion.

A peculiar case of spontaneous combustion happened recently in this city. A merchant named Gordon was in his office one night when a flame broke out in another part of the premises. He rushed over to the place and found that an ordinary vulcanized rubber ring, which had been brought up irom the cellar during the day and placed on an empty cracker-box, had taken fire. It was quite alone, and the only tenable theory of the combustion was that it was spontaneous.— Victoria Colonist.