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MAY HAVE BEEN OF
INCENDIARY ORIGIN
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Fire Badly Damages Home
of William Householder
at Bluffton.
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(Special to The Sentinel.)

Bluffton, Ind., July 20. -- Fire believed to be of incendiry origin damaged the residence of William Householder yesterday. Mr. Householder was awakened by the dense smoke and was nearly overcome before he reached the outer air and gave the alarm. The fire department made a quick run and confined the blaze to a bed room. Fire Chief Lem Stout made an investigation as to the cause of the blaze and he says the fire started on the outside of a window sill and from appearances some one poured coal oil on the wood. Mr. Householder was at home alone at the time of the blaze, his wife being away visiting friends.

Bluffton Short Notes.

Harry Duff, well known Rockcreek township farmer, was operated on for hernia at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne.

Grandma Reeves, 80 years old, wandered away from her home with her son-in-law, Louis Nusbaumer, in Petroleum, yesterday afternoon and was found last night at the home of Phillip Ogden, near Phoenix, four miles away. The aged lady had walked the entire distance and seemed to suffer no ill effects from the long tramp.

F. P. Adams has traded his beautiful residence property on West Market street to Isaac Wolfcale, living north of Uniondale, for a farm of 100 acres in Manistee count (sic), Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Adams will move to Chicago in the near future. The machinery saved when Mr. Adams' heading factory burned several months ago, was shipped out yesterday afternoon.

Mrs. Abram Simmons has been appointed a member of the county board of defense by Judge Eichhorn to take the place of Mrs. E. B. Williamson, who resigned.

The total value of Wells county property, not including public service corporations, is $16,584,420, according to the abstract of the assessments completed by County Auditor Clem T. Kain. Personal property is valued at $4,730,810; lands, $9,933,285, and lots, $1,920,325.