Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1892 — Zugbaum Has Another Fire. [ARTICLE]

Zugbaum Has Another Fire.

Last Satnrd-iy morning a small building in Camden, owned by Dr. Snyder and occupied by Fred Zugbaum tailor, was discovered on fire. The Cauutui nr«? company were promptly at work and finally subdued the flames but not until the building and most of the stock it contained were di^irov' 1 '! It is supposed the fireorigif iWd firom 8 defective Hue, The building and stock were fully covered by insurance.—Delphi Citizen. The insurance people ought to fully investigate that fire. Zugbaum ■is the fellow that had two “viry mysterious” fires start in his shop while at Rensselaer, and in portions of the town where had the fires not been discovered .early, a large part of the business portion of the town would have been burned. The people of Rensselaer spent seveital hundred dollars having the origin of the fires investigated,by professiondetectives, and while no evidence sufficient to convict was obtained, sufficient was learned to leave little room to doubt but that the fires were simply attempts to “sell out to the insurance tomp<»ui<.b.'’ The sentence in the above from the Citizen: “The building and stock were fully covered by insurance," probably means a great deal. Zugbaum is the fellow who went down to New York, from, Montipel 10, a few months ago, and lost several hundred dollars in an attempt to buy counterfeit money. /