Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1907 — In His Eighty-Sixth Year. [ARTICLE]

In His Eighty-Sixth Year.

Joseph Qsborn, who has |been visiting his daughter, Mrs. W. S. Parks, tor the past two days, left for his home at Remington Wednesday morning. Mr. Osborn is in his 86th year and is an unusually spYy old gentleman and is just recovering with no bad effects from a close call for his life. He was visiting his son, Alex. Osborn, in Laiayette, and on the early morning of July 2nd the apartments where they lived on the third floor of a basi ness block were set on fire by a gasoline stove. Both father and' son were in bed when- the alarm oL fire was given and both rushed into the room where the fire was the worst, to endeavor to save whatever they could, the father being especially conceaned about his satchel and its contents. This he saved, but he was terribly burned about the left arm and across the back. The son was also badly burned, his torhead being blistered and his hair singed oft. Both have been under the care of a Lafayette doctor since then, until Mr. Osborn’s visit here. He will probably be all right tiow in a short time, but it was a very narrow escape for him.