People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — ORIGIM OF A BIG BOSTON FIRE. [ARTICLE]

ORIGIM OF A BIG BOSTON FIRE.

Xouthful Incendiary in Jail Confessea to Having Set It. Boston, Nov. 7.—Louis A. Wright, an 18-year-old lad of Newton, Mass., now tin jail as an incendiary, has confessed 'to hairing set the big fires in Boston 'last spring which so startled Boston and -caused a wholesale jump in insurance crate*. His fires included the Hecht building, the Ames, Lincoln, Brown, Durrell and other buildings burned in the so-called Lincoln street fire, besides ■sundry other buildings. His work Cawed a loss nt pcopurtyr of <3,000,000