Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters < of Minor Mention From Many Places. Lafayette Orphans’ Home Barn Destroyed by Fire. Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 21. Fire supposed to have been started from a passing Monon railroad locomotive yesterday did about $1,500 damage at 4he St. Joseph Orphans’ Asylum and manual school farm, five miles north of this city. The blaze started in a strawstack at the side of a new barn and in a few seconds had spread until there was no chance of saving even the farm implements which were standing near th© structure. The barn, two corn cribs, a new silo, 1,100 bushels of oats, fifty tons of hay, two stacks of straw, two calves and a hog were destroyed in the blaze. The loss is a great blow to the Institution as practically everything that was produced on the farm this summer was destroyed in the blaze.