People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — HALF A BLOCK BURNED. [ARTICLE]

HALF A BLOCK BURNED.

Incendiary Fire st Elizabeth, N. J.—Store Saturated with OU and Proprietors Ar. rested. Elizabeth, N. J., Nov. 7.—Half a block of business and tenement houses ou Union square was destroyed by fire at 2 o’clock a. m. Monday. Seven families barely escaped with their lives. The goods in the stores of Louis Binkier and Jacob Beloski, Polish Jews, who occupied one of the buildings, were found saturated with oi_ The two men are under arrest, charged with setting the buildings on fire to obtain the insurance. The loss was 520,000.