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Show SLEEPY CHICKEN STARTS A FIRE Montclair. N. J.. JnU" 21. lt: cost just ?2.5O0 to awaken a sleepy rooster in the chicken coop of Charles G. Child of this city last night . 1 . Child's hired man passed through the coop carrying a Ifghted lamp and accidentally Jarred a board on which, the rooster was sleeping. - The roost, er Hew at hira and knocked the Jnmp from his band. The lamp smashed on tho floor, the oil blazed up and 'tho coop caught firo. Tbe fire spreod to the barn and other buildings and IC was two hours before the- blaze -wa under control. Tbe firemen place tbv Ions at 2,500. |