Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1887 — Almest a Big Fire. [ARTICLE]

Almest a Big Fire.

The alarm of fire which occur- ’ ‘ red in the Opera House, last Wednesday evening, just as the people were gathering for the Presbyterian Carnival, was followed by another the same evening, just as the same people were going home, and though not in the same building. this second fire was connected , witjj the entertainment. A. F. Long, clerk for E. B. Meyer, had prepared a package of chemicals to make red fire, to illuminate the tableaux at the entertainment, and ajsmall portion of it not being used, he carried it back to tfie drug store and laid it on a shelf, back of- the counter. I'he store was then locked up, and left entire- < ■y alone. -In a very short time thereafter the chemicals above mentioned took fire spontaneously, •and for a short time burned tiersly, and illuminated the whole street vith its ruddy blaze. The streets were full of people and some of them soon broke in the*front door nrnL-extinguish+'d- -the- tires—None'too soon, however jis sulphur and other very inflmmable substance s were near the spot where the file was, and had they became ignited the chances sos saving the building ami contents, as well as others ’ adjoining, would have been von i slight. This spontaneous ignition re mixture is as much foie.

The railroad has ,lately bedKrnyciet irg with and developing for burning crude petroleum on us locomotives, for fuel. It is said that the experiments are a success and that locomotives are now running on that road using <jb)y the petroleum for ftyW This process, if it comes inwil] be a great ado: to travelers from the greatest annoyance of railroad travel, dust and cinders from tholeeomotives* *. _ No medicine is mure conscientiously prepared, mure powerful, or more high* . iy concentrated, than Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Its standard of eceilence ts the result of careful study. -This preparation is acknowledged by the medical profession to be the best blood purifier.