Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1912 — WOMAN FAINTS OVER STOVE [ARTICLE]

WOMAN FAINTS OVER STOVE

Venerable Widow, a Pillar of Fire, Is Soon Roasted Alive—Rescuer Is Burned. .Ashland, Pa—Seised with a spelt of weakness while banking down the kltehen fire to ■ retire for the night, Mrs. Mary Bechtel, a widow, fell across the stpve here. W In a moment her clothing was aflame from bead to foot, and she ran smeamlng to the home of her son, two doors away. Screaming with agony, the aged woman had to be overpowered before any assistance could be given her, by which time