Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1911 — Newton County Farm Barn Destroyed by Fire Tuesday.. [ARTICLE]

Newton County Farm Barn Destroyed by Fire Tuesday..

Another fire caused by lightning and not reported in the general storm article in Wednesday’s Evening Republican, occurred Tuesday afternoon. Lightning struck a barn on the Lou Bowers* farm, 9 miles southwest of Rensselaer, in Iroquois township, Newton county, and the flames thus started consumed the barn along with his newly harvested crop of hay and several articles of horse equipment. Three horses were rescued. The barn was valued at 1500. The name of the tenant on the farm was not learned. The farm now belongs to Jack