Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1916 — Pipe Starts Fire. [ARTICLE]

Pipe Starts Fire.

Monticello, Ind—A pipe partly extinguished, which he left in a pocket of his coat, started a fire which almost suffocated Neal Johnson when he was asleep. Johnson awoke at midnight one night and found his room full of smoke. Unable to get downstairs because of the smoke, and almost overcome, he jumped from a second-story window. He suffered a broken rib In the fall. Furniture In two-rooms wata damaged. %