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Show A Weman and a Met. h. Jp.rset City, N. J., Jan. 11. At midnight a fire destroved Furst's dry goods establishment, estab-lishment, causing a loss of $160,000. C. W. Clerihew's tailoring establishment was also wiped out. Involving a losa of i0,o00. D. E. Olmstead's notion store was damaged tG tho extent of li,00u. The electric light system In the lower part of the city collapsed col-lapsed during tho fire, aud for some" time the Pennsylvania road was blocked. It Is supposed to have, been started by a scrubwoman scrub-woman dropping a match, V mX mm 1 |