Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1878 — Incendiariam at Kentland. [ARTICLE]

Incendiariam at Kentland.

H is reported lbs* an attempt wot 01 vie to ftio Waltons s ore. Taylo l a hotel and Kmle’s *rnin «» einniso and eiovntor at Kenilano', Tuesday night. kindling wood snd kerosene were niiej against ihe buildings on t>e ou.side and fgw.odf but i’,ie fires were d*«coveied re season to' iprevent damage A young man, named ' Arthur Boswell, w:is a*' es.rd on su-.picioti of being ihe 'nceatl'i.i-y. He imd 1 ved in ,the town when a bid, but moved w|. >i his' paten.s io l'exa* a few yea;a ago. It is su arsed that boss an emis-fy of the no*olious Mrs. Hicks, wbo stiofand killed a man' of that town, and nanowly escaped the’ nenitenilaiy, the grounds of ihe Suspicion' being the threats of Mre Hicks be/ce sTiri left the (own and Ihe fact that she had joined Boswell's tam’ly in Texas, and Icttei-s found on the person of young Bos we'* whied hinied at cHraes committed by hint in Texas nnd elsewhere. The authorities at Kentlund .nlegrupliod to Texas for fir ilier reformation respec.ing Ihe young man in custody, hut bad noi been answered when our iu/oiataat .me trom that town.