Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1908 — Fire Again, But Just Outside Hanging Grove Township. [ARTICLE]

Fire Again, But Just Outside Hanging Grove Township.

Mrs. M. A. Rishling’s farm was visited by a fir's about 3 p. m. Sunday. A buggy shed ;#id crib combined and a hen house were totally destroyed, together with 1,000 feet of oak lumber that had been stored away Mrs. Rishling has insurance on all of the buildings except the ones that burned, so her loss is complete. J The exact origin of the fire is ! unknown, but it is quite certain it j started by sparks from the cook stove, aB Mrs. Rishling recalls the fact that ! just a few minutes before she noticed a smoke in the barn yard, that she had stirred the fire quite vigorously. 1 She was alone at the time but called her son Hoy, who was on the scene in just 5 minutes after he got the message. Fire was also set out on the Thompson ranch Sunday, west of McCoysburg, supposedly by a Monon train, and burned over a large area of pasture land. Unless we have a. drenching rain soon fires will occur quite often.