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The Indianapolis News
Tuesday, 4 May, 1880

         Incendiary Fire In Parke County
         
         [Special dispatch to The Indianapolis News.]
         
         Bloomingdale, May 4, - The fine residence of GEORGE B.
       CHAMPMAN, ex-sheriff, the best house in Bloomingdale, was
       burned last night. The fire was incediary, as the family
       had been absent two weeks. Loss some $6,000, with $5,000
       insurance. CHAPMAN is universally esteemed as one of the
       best sheriffs Parke county ever had, and no cause for the
       malicious deed is known. Most of the furniture was saved.
       
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