Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1914 — MITCH SALOON AT CEDAR LAKE BURNED [ARTICLE]

MITCH SALOON AT CEDAR LAKE BURNED

Barroom Run Jjy Man Murdered Recently and Also a Storeroom Went Up in Smoke. . Persons returning to Rensselaer from Chicago on the 12:13 train Wednesday night reported that the saloon and store adjoining it on the w r est side of the Monon track at Cedar Lake were destroyed by fire that night. The buildings were burning as the train went through. The saloon is the one which John Mitch, who was recently murdered by Lowell toughs, had long conducted. No information could be procured as to how the buildings had become ignited. Their destruction was complete.