Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1912 — Sparrow Sets House Ablaze. [ARTICLE]

Sparrow Sets House Ablaze.

An English sparrow was the cause of three houses catching fire at Lawrenceburg, Ind., recently, and had It not been for the prompt work of the neighbors and friendß all would have been destroyed. The sparrow was building a nest under the eaves of the home of< Mrs. Mary Webber, and It picked up a long cotton string from a pile of rubbish that had just been burned. With the burning string in Its beak, the sparrow flew to the roof of Mrs. Sophia Shatter’s house, then to Otto McCright’s house and then to the roof of Emanuel Wuest’s home, where dropped the burning string. A fire Btarted in the shingles at each building. Each was extinguished by neighbors before much damage was done.