Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1904 — Another Barn Burned. [ARTICLE]

Another Barn Burned.

Many Cattle and Horses Lost in The Fire. Thursday night, during ohore time, the explosion of a lantern oansed the speedy destruction of good new barn on the S. W. Thayar farm, in Union. Tp., about 8 or 9 miles directly north of Rensselaer, Anthony Trnlly, who is about to move on the Halligan and Pumphrey farms just northeast of town, is the present tenant of the Thayer place, and was the principal loser at the fire, s This loss inoluded five head of horses, and 16 head of oows and heifers, and one other that will probably die. Also all his harness and a considerable quantity of hay, The wagons and agricultural implements were stored in another building. Mr. Trnlly’s loss is fully covered by insvrance in the Continental. The barn was a new one, worth about SSOO, and was not insured.