Waukegan Daily Sun
Published: January 1, 1899
Mrs. Peter Minetti of Belleville owns a monkey and confines it in a wire cage. The other day Mrs. Minetti put some fresh coal in the grate fire, locked up the house and went to visit some friends. A lump of burning coal fell to the floor and set fire to the carpet. The monket broke out of the cage and hurried into an adjoining room, secured some articles of wearing apparel and threw them over the flames. When Mrs. Minetti returned home the monkey was sitting beside its cage carefully nursing two badly burned paws. The timely action of the monkey averted a conflagration.
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