On Thursday night of last week Greenfield’s magnificent $18,000 training school building was reduced to ashes, the fire, which is considered beyond a doubt to have been incendiary origin, was discovered about 11:30 by members of Mr. Daniel Brock’s family. Mr. Brock had company until a late hour, the party engaging in XXXX for several hours. At about 11:30 a pistol shot caused Mr. Brock to go to the door, when he discovered the blaze, then a very small one, in the school building. Giving the alarm as he went, he made for the school building, finding the fire on the stage in the second story. The building was filled with a dense smoke, indicating that the blaze had been smoldering for some time. Some one possessed the forethought to close all entrances to the upper floor, this confining the smoke to that part of the building and enabling those who had responded to the alarm to save nearlyall the contents of the lower floor, including the piano and desks, but nothing was saved from the second floor.

 
The building cost about $18,000, and the ground on which situated about $2000. The building and contents were insured for $10,500.
 
That the fire was the result of an incendiary the citizens of Greenfield have not the slightest doubt. There had been no fire nor occasion for a fire in the room nor about the stage during the day. It is reported to us that some ten days before the building burned a scorched place somewhere about the building was discovered, and while it was thought by some to have been the result of a piece lighted paper being carelessly dropped there, others held to the belief that it was an attempt to fire the building.
 
On Saturday the board of trustees got together and it was the unanimous verdict that a new and more modern and complete building take the place of the one burned, and as soon as the insurance is adjusted building operations will commence, demonstrating the character of those loyal gentlemen who have put their money into the Greenfield Training School.
 
Mr. Harris informs us that school opened last Monday morning with practically every student in his or her place, the Edmonson residence, a large two story structure situated near the public school, being used for temporary quarters.
 
Citizens throughout the entire county are in sympathy with Greenfield I all her recent fire losses, but more in this last loss than in previous ones. This school, since its foundation several years ago, has been doing a great work, the thoroughness of which is recognized throughout this entire section. Under the able administration of Messrs. Harris the school has been especially prosperous, and the friends of these gentlemen regret their loss.