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Show 00 DAMAGE They Set Fire to a Church in Reading, Read-ing, Mass. Heading, Mass., Nov, 13. The much perpecuted English sparrows havo a now charge laid at their doors. Chief Frank Nichols, of tho Reading fire department, bollcves they' arc responsible for many fires. His Investigation of the burning of tho Old South Methodist church yesterday, yes-terday, shows that the blaze started In birds' nests under the eaves. His thoory Is that the blrdB picked up matches on tho streets and carried them to their ncBts, where they became be-came ignited and sot flro to the structure. |