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THE NEWS IN BRIEF. For the Week Ending September 12. Two severe earthquake shocks were felt in Portland, Ore. France has ordered a squadron to prepare to sail for Turkish waters. All but 14 buildings in the village of Eustis, Me., were destroyed by fire. A carload of powder exploded near Beaumont, Kan., killing three men. The McKinley memorial statue at Adams, Mass., will be unveiled October 3. Mr. and Mrs.J. C. Bennett, prominent people, were killed by the cars at Cleveland, O. Earthquake shocks were felt in Bowlder, Loveland, Longmont and Fort Collins, Col. Weekly reviews of trade say there is increasing activity in nearly all lines of business. A special train on the Baltimore & Ohio road made a run of 128 miles in 125 minutes. Rear Admiral Casey has been retired on account of age, after nearly 47 years active service. The bank of Willoughby, 0., failed with estimated liabilities of $200,000 and assets of $250,000. A cyclone wrecked several houses at Quincy, III., and Mrs. John Schnelzle was fatally injured. Tolstoi celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday with his family at Tula, Russia, in good health. Representatives of 100,000 organized railway employes have begun movement for increase in wages. Maj. Delmar, king of geldings, broke his own record at Syracuse, N. Y., trotting a mile in 2:0041/4. Secretary Shaw is having prepared a "blacklist" of national banks that are reducing their circulation. Olin Knight, pugilist, died from injuries received in a six-round bout with Grif Jones at Philadelphia. The fifty-third anniversary of the admission of California in the union was observed throughout the state. Arthur Amioson, a Pittsburg (Pa.) private banker, is missing, and depositors claim they are out $40,000. At Lincoln, Neb., Cresceus, the trota ting stallion, broke all records for half-mile track, going a mile in 2:081/4. A United States gunboat seized three islands off the coast of British North Borneo and England raises objection. New York athletes captured the national championship of American Amateur Athletic union at the Milwaukee meet. A ten-inch wire gun in a trial at Sandy Hook fired shots at a velocity of 2,500 feet a second, practically the world's record. Ohio democrats opened the state campaign at Akron, Tom L. Johnson, candidate for governor, being the principal speaker. Fire which originated in the large stable of the Allegheny (Pa.) Transfer company caused a loss of $263,000. Sixty horses were cremated. Mayor Seth Low has been selected to leaad the fusion fight against Tammany Hall in New York, and the old fusion ticket was nominated. "Uncle" Finney, an ex-slave, over 90 years old, who lived on a farm near Richmond, Va., was charged with being 1 sorcerer and shot to death. The government crop report for September 1 indicates an increased yield of corn and a decline in the percentage of condition of wheat and oats. It is proposed to elevate the American legation at Constantinople to an embassy, in order to avoid delays in treating with the sultan of Turkey. The schooner Fielding rescued seven men and one woman from the bottom of an overturned ship near Port au Prince. Nine of their companions were drowned. Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the president, went down in the submarine boat Moccasin at Newport, being the only woman 80 far known to do so. Forty-five New Jersey corporations, with a total capitalization of over $80,000,000, are reported to have passed into the hands of receivers during the last year. The home of Fred Roher, editor of the Berne (Ind.) Witness, was almost entirely demolished by dynamite. Roher's paper has been leading the opposition to licensed saloons. THE MARKETS