Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1901 — No Tramp Cremated. [ARTICLE]

No Tramp Cremated.

Warren Robinson has saved about 250 bushels of damaged oats from his fire, and some 30 or 40 bushels of damaged corn. The last good only for hog feed. No new light has been thrown on the origin of the fire, further than that soon after it started two or three tough looking bums boarded a freight car and got out of town. It is surmised that they were lodging in the hay mow and accidently started the fire. The report sent out from here to- the city papers, by some lyiug local idiot that a tramp had been cremated in the fire, was, of course, a lie out of whole cloth. Nothing df the kind oceured and no one even thought such a thing had occured.