Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1910 — BARN AND STOCK BUURNED IN GILLAM. [ARTICLE]

BARN AND STOCK BUURNED IN GILLAM.

The barn on the Wethreck farm in Gillam tp.,' occupied by Frank Lowry, about four miles west of Francesville, was totally destroyed by fire about 3 p. m., Tuesday, together witb nine head of horses, four 6teers and other contents. Mr. Lowry had taken a lighted lantern to the J*arn In the morning and hung it up while doing the ohores, and forgot it, going to one of the neighbors later to assist him in butchering and leaving word with one of his children to get the lantern from the barn. The child also forgot it. and it is presumed that it got knocked down in some way and set fire to the barn. ✓ The loss is in the neighborhood of $2,000, no insurance, the insurance having run out last May. Mr. Lowry' is a widower, with several children, and the loss is a most severe one 1o him.