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Show NEWS SUMMARY Emlllo Dubois ot Santlaeo. Child' who Is known to have murdered Jive personB, has been condemned td loath. ( Tho Torrcon branch of the Bank ot Coahulls at Torreon, Mexico, was robbed last week of $30,000 In gold and bills. Tho Japancso Buddhists of Southern California havo decided to raise) $25,000 for tho building of a temple In Los Angoles. Tho French Senate- Iiob ratified the AlgeclraB convention, which ott Doc. 6 was approved by tho cham' bor ot deputies. t American Vlco Consul-General Fair-child Fair-child shot and killed himself at Mukden. Muk-den. It Is believed that tho shooting shoot-ing was accidental. Tho shipment of coffee from the port of Rio do Janeiro Is at a standstill, stand-still, owing to the fact that the stevedores steve-dores havo gono on strike. A merger of the leading woolen mills ot tho 'south, Involving a capitalization cap-italization of ono and a quarter mil lion dollars, has been effected. Ropresentatlvo Hardwlck, ot Georgia, has Introduced a bill requiring requir-ing nil railways to Install tho block system and providing that cvory telegrapher tele-grapher Bhall be licensed. According to a bulletin Issued by tho Census bureau thero had been ginned up to December 13, of this year's cotton crop 11,099,001 bales, against 9,297,819 at this time last year. Secretary Root and Sir Mortimer Durand have signed a supplementary article to tho existing extradition treaty between tho United States and Great Britain, Including bribery in tho list of extradltablo crimes. A dispatch' from Tlcn Tsln describes de-scribes the situation as critical, owing ow-ing to the agitation of the South China opium dealers and owners ot gambling houses, who aro discontented as a result of various recent reforms and the suppression of the opium traffic. A bill empowering an Anglo-French company to construct a tunnel under the British channel has been deposited deposit-ed with parliament. It 1b estimated that this scheme will Involve the expenditure ex-penditure of 80,000,000. It is proposed pro-posed to build two parallel tunnels 24 miles long. John Wllkls, a capitalist ot Albia, Iowa, is dead as the result of drinking drink-ing from a bottlo ot carbolic acid which ho had mistaken for a bottle of whisky. Ho had a bottlo of whisky whis-ky hidden In tho barn, whoro ho alBo kept carbolic acid. Wllklo emptied tho acid bottlo. Joseph Skorns, tho former Chicago dry goods clerk and newspaper man, captured at Great Bend, Kans., recently, re-cently, after holding up a local bank In broad daylight, pleaded guilty and waa sentenced to the state penitentiary peniten-tiary for a term of from ten to twenty-one years. John Elliott Walker, sheriff ot Maricopa county, Arizona, committed eulcldo at Phoenix by shooting himself him-self through tho head, while temporarily tempor-arily deranged. He had been brooding brood-ing over financial reverses and over his defeat for renomlnatlon at tho 'ast democratic convention. Habeas corpus proceedings have been brought In the federal court at Kansas City In behalf of Mrs. Agnes Myers, now confined In Jail at Liber ty, Mo., under sentence to be hanged on January 10 tor tho murder of hor husband. Tho United States supreme court refused to reopen her case. The San Diego chamber of commerce com-merce Is making efforts to secure an appropriation of $2,600,000 tor the purpose of controlling the waters or tho Colorado rlvor and preventing them from overflowing Imperial valley. Eight votes are lacking to placo tho Prohibition party upon the regular regu-lar ballot at the next New Hampshire Hamp-shire state election, as u result of tho conclusion ot thu Inspection ot ballots In the recent gubernatorial contest. About 2,000 Chinese soldiers from Nanking, nrmed with modern weapons, weap-ons, trained by European officers and accompanied by batteries of fluid artillery, ar-tillery, havo proceeded to tho front to meet the rebels In the Ping (Jiang district. An imperial ukase Issued by the Czar fixes Fobruary 19 as the date for the parliamentary elections. Tills does uot apply to thu Caucasus, Trans-Caucasus, Trans-Caucasus, Central Aula and Siberia, tho dates for which have uot been announced. John W. Connor, one of thu earliest earli-est cltizons In Iarumlu, Wyo., and u veteran of tho Civil and Indian wars, died ut his borne in Laramie lust week from a paralytic stroke, following fol-lowing a nervous shock during the San Francisco earthquake. During a heavy fog on the British channel, thu British Hteuuiur Arlington, Arling-ton, 1980 tons, collided with and sank thu Belgian steamer t'u) .liny, C52 tons, Iroiu Antwerp lor Newport, oft Dungou'SB. '1 wo.vo of tl.o crw of the Cup Juhy w r irownu |