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THE NEWS IN BRIEF. For the Week Ending Nov. 19. The Loretto academy at Cairo, III., burned. Loss, $20,000. A run on the Berlin national bank at Berlin, Wis., caused the institution to close its doors. Fire in the Arcade deportment store and the Decatur hotel at Decatur, Ill., caused a total loss of $125,000. James Cooney, ex-congressman of the Seventh Missouri district, died at his home in Marshall. Mo., of pneumonia. Turkey has ordered 100 new batteries of artillery from German, French and English factories at a cost of $10,000,000. The malt house of the Frank Jones Brewing company's immense plant at Portsmouth, N. H., was ruined by fire, entailing a loss of $150,000. State Representative Henry Buxbaum was held for the grand jury by the municipal court in Boston on a charge of embezzling $2,000. A dispatch from Constantinople says that negotiations have been resumed for raising the American legation to the rank of an embassy. A note just issued thanks those in America, Great Britain and India whose good wishes have helped Lady Curzon much during her terrible illness. Prince Fushimi, of Japan, visited Mount Vernon. placed a wreath on the tomb of Washington and planted a tree on the old estate of the first president. A Santa Fe passenger train jumped the track in the yards at Ardmore, Tex. Engineer H. E. Bemis, of Clerburne, was caught under the engine and scalded to death. Burglars wrecked the safe in William H. Hillard's store at North Stonington, Conn., and obtained booty valued at nearly $6,000. principally in bonds and stocks. The Hotel Olympia, at Olympia. Wash., one of the largest frame hotel buildings in the state, has been burned to the ground. The loss will aggregate $160,000. The entire business district of the town of Dublin, Miss.. with the exception of one building. was wiped out by fire Wednesday. The loss is estimated at $50,000. Three hundred cottages on the Urbana Chatauqua camp grounds, 12 miles north of Springfield, O., were destroyed by fire. Loss, over $100,000, and no insurance. The big freight steamer Mohawk, of the Central Vermont railroad's fleet, burned to the water's edge off Horton's Point in Long Island sound. One life was lost. W. C. Rugh was arrested at Muskogee, I. T., charged with embezzlement of $3,000 four years ago from a publishing firm for which he was manager at St. Louis. The monument erected by the state of Maine in memory of its soldiers who died during the civil war in prison at Andersonville, Ga., was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies. Taylor Delk, a white convict sent up for life as a result of one of the most famous murder trials in the state, is dead at the state prison farm at Milledgeville, Ga. John G. Hecksher, father-in-law of Mayor McClellan, of New York, was knocked down and trampled upon by a team of horses during the New York norse show. He was badly hurt. Secretary Shaw has announced a call upon national banks holding government deposits to the amount of 25 per cent. of their holdings. This, the secretary estimates, will bring into the treasury about $25,000,000. With a capital stock of $25,000,000 a company has been incorporated for the purpose of building a model oriental city on the bay shore at South San Francisco, Cal., and moving the Chinese quarters to that place. John A. Fagg, former clerk in the registry division of the post office at Kansas City, Mo., found guilty of stealing a package containing $8,000, was sentenced to four years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. An automobile plunged over a high bank at Los Angeles Cal and Hum-
