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More of Them.Seven fires inside of three days iscer* tainly spreading it on pretty thick for a city the size of Jacksonville, and the well established fact that some of them are incendiarv would seem to call for he-roic measures on the part of the authorities. As was mentioned in Saturday’sCourier the barn at the residence of Lu-)ther Gillham, on East College avenue, was burned at about 3:30 that afternoon, but all the contents were saved even unto the curry comb, and then on Sunday evening at about 5:30 the barn of Mr. Gillham’s next door neighbor was discovered to be in flames. It was a large double building, half of it being on the lot owned and occupied by \V. M. Phillips and the other half being owned by Phillip Schulz. A little boy of Mr. Phillips was in the chicken yard near the barn when he noticed flames starting up in the part of the struture owned by Mr. Schulz. He gave the alarm and neighbors rushed to Mr. Phillips’s assistance and helped get the horse, harness and other articles out.Several pigs in a pen at the end of thebuilding were also liberated, but not before one of them, a pet, was pretty badly roasted. By the time the fire department had arrived the building was a mats of flames. There were no contents in Mr. Schulz’s part of the barn, hence he loses nothing except the building. There were several tons of hard coal in Mr. Phillips’s department, but the fire probably did it no damage to speak of. The building was probably worth $600. There is scarcely any doubt but that the building, as well as that of Luther Gillham on Saturday, was fired by small boys who had nothing in view hut pure meanness. On Saturday a gentleman claims to have seen two little rascals running away from the Gillham barn just about the time the fire was discovered, and he has no doubt they were the ones responsible for the fire. The gentleman uoes not know who they were, and it is doubt ful whether he could recognize them again were he called on to do so.
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Jacksonville Illinois Weekly Courier
Jacksonville, Illinois, US
Wed, Nov 05, 1890
Page 7
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