Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1918 — NEWTON TOWNSHIP RESIDENCE BURNS [ARTICLE]

NEWTON TOWNSHIP RESIDENCE BURNS

■ - .a The two-story residence on toe noy Lowman farm near the Halstead homestead in Newton township, was burned to the ground Tuesday evening about 4" o’clock. The tenant, William McKinney, had taken ms wife and children to the Blue(Grass school, where they attended the Christmas program. He had come on to Rensselaer and returned about the time the school closed. On account of the very bad condition of the roads between has home and the school the car became stalled and Mr. McKinney went on to the house to get a team to pull the car home. When he arrived at the barn he noticed quite a smoke coating from the house. When he reached the house and attempted to enter it he found that it was all ablaze inside and as soon as the door was opened the flames swept toward him. I|e then went to another side of the house and attempted to enter through a window, but the flames again drove him away. '/J Not a thing was saved and the building and contents were soon reduced to ashes. Besides all of iris household goods and clothing and everything of that nature, some $65 in money was destroyed. Mr. McKinney had iris goods insured for $500.00, which will not begin to replace his loss. It is understood that the policy on the bouse had expired about a week before the firs occurred.