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Show NEWS SUMMARY IH Five merchants ot Alton, III,, wore fined $5 and costs each for vlolntlni tho child Inbor law. The Iowa i.tnto teachers' convention has adopted resolutions favoring nhn- . pllllcatlon ot English spelling. jH Tho naval authorities nt Toulon, ' France, received urgent orders to pro-pare pro-pare tho transjnirt Lanlvc to procrml for Moivcco. The French chamber ot deputies turn decided that the latest election of Count llotil de Castellnuo to the cham- jH her was valid. Rov. 11. L. liol(ler,.u Presbyterian minister, wns nssasslnitted nt Tioy, jH Tenii. His body was found near the railroad trncks. Tho Spanish fishing steamer Prl-mcro Prl-mcro has foundered in a storm off Corunnns. All her crew were lost with tho exception of ono. One negro was killed, ono fatally wounded and two others iiovercly wounded In a drunken brawl nt Topo-ka, Topo-ka, Kansas, on Christmas day. The Oudahy Packing company ot Chicago, certified to the secretary nl' state last week to an increase ot cap-ttnl cap-ttnl stock from $7,000,000 to 112,000 . Tho Moroccan war minister has ci tabllshed several small forts, each ra-rlsoncd ra-rlsoncd by 160 men, around Tangjcr, and has sent orders to ilnlmill to oeajw ,. a governing. Thirty-seven thousand of, Now "Jock City's poor shared In tho dlhtrlbu-tlon dlhtrlbu-tlon ot Chrlstmnn dinners by the ttel-vatlou ttel-vatlou Army, Timothy D. Hultlynu ,i and tho Bowery mission. Sailors from the United titatcu crnl-tier crnl-tier Cleveland caused a panic in n pub- ( t Ho park at Cicnfuegoos, whci-o a win-cert win-cert was going on, by engaging tn u light and firing many shots. A quarrel betven Al Davidson uutl his landlady, Mrs. F.icda Wclgcl, .of St, IuIb, terrulnuted In Davidson shooting Mrs. Welgol In tho head uskI , killing himself by n bullet through Ma Governor-General Kiiulbnrs han been removed from Odessa to another dfn trlct because of his close connection with the union of Russian peoplo ntM his failure to prevent tho recent doclr strike. Carson Stnley and EUrl Melrose, aged 7 and 15 years, respectively, wore drowned In a xnd near Gray-vllle, Gray-vllle, Illinois. Both boys were skat- Ing on tho pond, when tlioy tlrofco through the Ico. Three children of Stanley HIuhIo- lH ton, aged 13, 11 and 8 years respeo-lively, respeo-lively, wero cremated in n Are at Heater station, W. Va that destroyed tho Singleton home. Tho tiro started from an explosion of natural gus. Following a quarrel David Ann-strong, Ann-strong, formerly ot Downgiuc, Mich., stabbed and killed MIkh Carrlo Vln-cont Vln-cont ot Lawton, Mich., nt South llcud, Ind. He then pluugcd tho knife Into Al his own breast and is not expected .to , The Vienna newspapers aro dhrcus-sing dhrcus-sing a report that Archduke Leopold of Austria, who abandoned his tltlo and became Hcrr Woe 111 ng tn ordor to marry an actress, Intends to socuro a divorce on account of his wife's eo-centrlcltlcs. eo-centrlcltlcs. KIIbb Jobc, a well-known fanner living near Maple Grove, Minn., was IH shot and killed Chiistmns day nnd lilt brother-in-law, Clyde King, 1s uccusoil of having slain Jobo after tho, two hail quarreled for most of the afternoon.' King wns captured. The forty-eight hours preceding Christmas were unusuully fruitful of tragedies In Birmingham, Ala., aud vl clnity. The list includes seven nuir dcrs, two suicides, ono assault which' may result fatally, one drntn by train and ono nccldeutnl shooting. According to the best Information obtainable RnlBiill has refused to re-sign re-sign his governorship and hus sent his men to tho mountains under the pio tcctlon of n detachment -of Knbylo, nnd Is preparing to meet tho forces ot Wnr Minister Gabbns at 'Inut. Tho New York Centrul & Hudson Rlvor Railroad company hnu pur jH chased tho Chicago, Kalamazoo k. Saginaw railroad. The consideration fl is in tho neighborhood of u million rfifl dollars. The railroad extends from u Hastings to Woodbury, 100 miles. UJ0 Three men wero drowned in tho VifVl Missouri rlvor, north of Norfolk, Nob., IraSf on tho stuto line. Herbert Cushinun, rw5 ngod 60; lOd Slato, aged 28, and Dan- Kfjfc lei Slate, aged 22. Thoy wow driving- across tho river nnd dropped into an ; alrholo. Their team was also lost. Taking ndvuntago of tho incrcaulni-; ""W jj fnmlno in Russia, tho government' s , trying to stlmulnto Immigration to 'ij Siberia on a t,cale hlthorto nover nt- ''eM" talneil. Minister ot Fiunnco Kokov- fli soff hns decided to placo $3,000,000 at M?Z the disposal of tho colonization olllcc. ftK, I The wife nnd child ot Samuel Pyuor . tSrJ aud the wife and child or William U Orl instead were burned U death- am 'it tho GrlmutoRd uouho ut Mor-lis Mor-lis Neck, Vn. Pynur und (IrimnienU, who slept In another part oUvth'o H house, awoke barely in time to esriipo. |