Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — TWO BARNS GO UP IN SMOKE. [ARTICLE]

TWO BARNS GO UP IN SMOKE.

As the supposed result of children smoking or playing with matches, August Rosebaum’s barn at tbe rear of his lot on North Cullen street, and the barn on the Mrs. Perkins property, adjoining, were destroyed by tire Wednesday noon, while some other outbuildings on adjacent property received a severe scorching. In the Rosenbaum fire a double carriage and a rubber tired buggy, harness, feed and some other property was consumed. The loss was probably SSOO, with $l5O insurance in Irwin & Irwin’s agency. The Perkins barn was empty, and the loss was probably about SIOO, with no inserance, we understand. The bam on the Chipman property, quite u distance north from these tires, also caught from the burning feathers of a pigeon flying from the Rosenbaum fire, it is alleged, but it was extinguished with practically no loss.