. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 226 ©ije gveebev tmfc *§pctvt9tnix*C [ j98. FIRE AT AGNEW STOCK FARM. Several Valuable Trotters an-i Much Other Property Destroyed. Harry J. Agaew ha« suffered another severe lose. The bare at his place at Hillsdale caught fire last Monday, and not only was the splendid building destroyed, but seven head of trotters, sixty tons of choice wheat hay and $2,000 worth of harness, blankets, boots, etc , were burned up. By almost superhumrn effrrt Mr. Agnew was able lo save the stallion Boswell Jr. 16,055, by Bosweil, out of Maude, by Bertrand. Mr. Agaew hi
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 226 ©ije gveebev tmfc *§pctvt9tnix*C [ j98. FIRE AT AGNEW STOCK FARM. Several Valuable Trotters an-i Much Other Property Destroyed. Harry J. Agaew ha« suffered another severe lose. The bare at his place at Hillsdale caught fire last Monday, and not only was the splendid building destroyed, but seven head of trotters, sixty tons of choice wheat hay and $2,000 worth of harness, blankets, boots, etc , were burned up. By almost superhumrn effrrt Mr. Agnew was able lo save the stallion Boswell Jr. 16,055, by Bosweil, out of Maude, by Bertrand. Mr. Agaew himself became suffjeated by the smoke, fell down on the barn fbor and crawled on his hands and knees from the burning buildiog. The fire was discov- ered by his little daughter as she went out to mount her pony to ride to school. The following letter from Mr. Agnew was received at this office Wedaesday : Hillsdale, October 4, 1898. Editor Breeder and Sportsman :—Yesterday morn- ing my barn caught fire from the road at back end of barn. It was but a short time before that fine, large barn was in ashes. The wind was blowing strong from the south, and in a few minates the cottage and twelve box stalls on the other side of the court were also in flimes. Had the wind been from the north, nothing could have saved the other large barn, which was nearly full of hay. Oyer $2 000 in harness, boots, blankets and such things as will naturally accumulate in ten or twelve years, all of which were valuable except the hopples, sixty tons of choicest wheat hay three years old, worth $20 per ton to replace where it was. I 1 >st seven head of horses—Lucille, 3; Aloha, 5; Btud, 2—all by Dawn, out of Arjgie Wilkes, by Guy Wilkes, out of Maude, 2:20; Gen. Barnes, 5, bv Dawn, out of Nettie Nutwood, dam of Hills- dale, -'14 ,: chestnut gelding, 4, and sister, 5, by Dawn, dam Maude Woodnut, by Woodnut, from Maude, 2:20. Also a weanling by Boswell Jr., 2:19, dam sister to the dam of Hazel Wil
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