Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1904 — TWO FIRES IN UNION TOWNSHIP. [ARTICLE]

TWO FIRES IN UNION TOWNSHIP.

The farmhouse of the widow of the late F. J. Gant, in Union tp., was totally destroyed by fire between eight and nine o’clock Thursday morning, together with all of Mre. Gant’s household goods. We understand that tfalbre was no one in the house when the fire started and therefore its origin is unknown. The children had gone to school and Mrs. Gant was at a neighbor’s. It is a very severe loss indeed to Mrs. Gant, as there was no insurance whatever. Her loss is about SSOO. The farmhouse of Zebodee Swain at Aix, also burned Thursday about 1:30 o’clock, together with practically all the contents. Loss S7OO to SBOO with no insurance. Origin of fire unknown.