Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1920 — MONTICELLO CRIPPLE LOSES LIFE IN BLAZE [ARTICLE]

MONTICELLO CRIPPLE LOSES LIFE IN BLAZE

A Are which cost the life of John H. Ferguson, a helpless cripple, occurred early Tuesday morning when his home in Monticello was destroyed by fire. Death was due .to suffocation. Ferguson had moved into the house last Friday without notifying the owner of the property. The house was in flames when the fire company arrived and the firemen vere unable to rescue Ferguson, who was tfhable to leave his bed. Ferguson was seventy-four years of age and wealthy. He had been a lifelong cripple.

Big Flour Sale commencing Thursday, November 11, at the Iroquois Roller Mills. Watch for the hand bills.