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Show Made Costly Bonfire. Mrs. Christian Kabb of Hartland Hollow, Conn., a farming village, told her children to take their father's old felt boots outdoors and burn them up. She was doing her spring house-cleaning, and could not bear the sight of them. The children did as directed and the high wind blew a spark from the bonfire into a dry meadow nearby, near-by, igniting the grass. A calf grazing in the lot caught fire, ran Into the barn and set some hay ablaze. In a jiffy the building was in flames. The barn, with six head of stock, was destroyed, de-stroyed, also a tobacco warehouse. The fire, spread to woodland and burned over 50 acres betore villagers conquered It. |