The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-24
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Nov. 10

The Loretto academy at Cairo, ILL.,,
burned. Loss, $4,000.
A run on the Berlin national bank at
Berlin, Wis, caused the institution to
close its doors.
Fire in the Arcade department 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
Turkey has ordered 100 new batteries
Of artillery from German, French and
English factories at cost of $4,000, 900.
The malt house of the Frank Jones
Brewing company's immense plant at
Portsmouth, N. H. was ruined by fire,
entailing loss of S150,000.
State Representative Henry Bux-
baum was held for the grand jury by
the municipal court in Boston on a
charge of embezzling $4,000.
A dispatch from Constantinople
says that negotiations have been re-
sumed for raising the American Legal
ton 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 wreath on the
tomb of Washington and planted 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
II. Hillard's store at North TStonington,
Conn, and obtained booty valued at
nearly $4,000, 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
$4,000.
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
$4,000.
Three hundred cottages on the Ur-
bana Chatauqua camp grounds, II miles
north of Springfield, O., were destroyed
by fire. Loss, over 500 900, and no in
surance.
The big freight steamer Mohawk, Of
the Central Vermont railroads fleet,
| Lo
tons Point in Long Island sound. One
| life was lost.
w. c. Rugh was arrested at Musko-
gee, l. T., charged with enlightenment
of $4,000 four years ago from a pub
fishing firm for which he was man
ager at st. Louis.
The monument erected by the state Of
Maine in memory of it soldiers who died
during the civil war in prison at Ander-
sonville, Ga, was unveiled with appro-
pirate 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
horse show. He was badly hurt.
Secretary Shaw has announced a
call upon national banks holding gov
eminent deposits to the amount of %
per cent. of their holdings. This, the
secretary estimates, will bring into the
treasury about $25, 1000 900.
With a capital stock of S25, 00O, 900 a
company has been incorporated for
the purpose of building model ORR
entail 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 $4,000,
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
phrey Praed, assistant general manager
Of the San Jacinto Land company, Of
Riverside, Cal, was instantly killed and
Miss Nina Rudolph, leading lady of the
San Toy" opera company, and &. S..