Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1904 — Still Two More Horses Kilied. [ARTICLE]

Still Two More Horses Kilied.

And still other returns from the big midnight thunder storm continue to come in. The latest reported was two young horses belonging to James Burling, whioh were struck and killed while out in the pasture, on his farm about four miles southeast of town; the farm being managed by Reub Dickinson. The horses were insured in the Farmers* Mutual and hhve been appraised at $l5O, whioh will give the owner SIOO insurance money. Up to this time the stock known to have been kilied by lightning or the fire resulting from it, by that one qtorm, consists of eleven horses, four hogs and one cow. Not to speak of the loss from the burned barn, in Jordan Tp.