Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1911 — Barn In Newton County Struck By Lightning and Burned. [ARTICLE]

Barn In Newton County Struck By Lightning and Burned.

The barn on the Charles Battleday farm in Newton county was destroyed by fire Monday night or early this Tuesday morning. It was struck by lightning and the barn and contents, including two good horses, several tons of hay and considerable farm machinery, burned. The barn was worth about SI,OOO and was insured in the R. D. Thompson agency for SSOO. The contents of the barn belonged to the tenant, Franz Elijah and he had them insured in a Morocco agency.

Casting only four wet rotes in a total of eighty-eight, Lafayette township, Allen county, is believed to have established an Indiana record in its local option election Thursday. The township is an exclusively farming community and has been dry four years under remonstrance. ■ 1 r" St. Joseph county’s voting machine contest, which will precede the awarding of a contract for fifty machines, estimated to cost $40,060, will open at South Bend August 3 and continue to August 8. The county commissioners examine each of the machines exhibited, besides .receiving the testimony of expert mechanics, t