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Show FIRE AT MAYOR'S HOME. The home of Mayor J. W. Jones was endangered, last Monday morning morn-ing when fire broke out in the basement. base-ment. When the blaze was first discovered, dis-covered, it was difficult for the volunteers vol-unteers to enter the basement on account ac-count of the dense smoke. After the lire had been located, however, a few buckets of water subdued the flumes. The fire started from a de-ective de-ective flue and was caused by spontaneous spon-taneous combustion which threw the sparks in a pile of paper and kindling kin-dling wood nearby. Some little damage dam-age was done throughout the upper rooms by the dense smoke, but the greatest loss sustained was the devastation devas-tation of the pile of kindling wood which had been prepared for winter use by Mayor Jones. |