Show p NEWS SUMMARY Five merchants of Alton 111 wero fined 5 nnd coats each for violating ho child labor law The Iowa state teachers convention has adopted 1 resolution favoring slra iltdcntton of English r pel ling The naval authorIties at Toulon France received urgent orders to prepare pre-pare the transport Lnulvo to proceed for Morocco Tho French chamber of deputies has lecldod that tho latest election of Count Donl do Castcllnno to the chain her was valid Rev D L Holder a Presbyterian nlnlster was assassinated at Troy Tcnn His body was louiul near the railroad tiacUs The Spanish fishing steamer Prl mero has foundered In a storm oft Corunnas All her crow were lost with time exception of one One negro was killed one fatally wounded and two others severely wounded in a diunUen brawl at Tope ka Kansas on Christmas day Tho Cudahy Packing company of Chicago certified to tho secretary of state last week to an increase of cap Ital stock from 7000000 to 12000 000 The Moroccan war minister has established es-tablished several small forts cacti garrisoned gar-risoned by 150 men around Tangier and has sent orders to Jtalsull to cease governing Thirtyseven thousand of Now York Citys poor shared In the distribution distribu-tion of Christmas dinners by the Salvation Sal-vation Army Timothy D Sullivan and the Bowery mission Sailors from the United States cruiser I crui-ser Cleveland caused a panic In a public pub-lic park at CIcnfuegods where a eon cert was going on by engaging In alight a-light and tiring many shots A quarrel botwcn Al Davidson and his landlady Mrs Irlcda Woigel of St Louis terminated In Davidson shooting Mrs WeIgel In the head and killing himself by a bullet through his I brain CiovernorCJoneial Kaulbars has been removed loom Odessa to another district dis-trict because of his close connection with the union of Russian people and his failure to prevent tho recent clock strike Carson Staley and Earl Melrose aged 7 and 1G years respectively wore drowned In a pond near Gray ville Illinois Both boys were skatIng skat-Ing on the pond when they broke through the ice Three children of Stanley Singleton Single-ton aged 13 11 and S years respectively respec-tively were cremated in a fire at Heater station W Va that destroyed the Singleton home The tire started from an explosion of natural gas Following a quarrel David Armstrong Arm-strong formerly of Dowaglac Mich stabbed and killed Miss Carrie Vincent Vin-cent of Lawton Mich at South Bend Irid lIe then plunged the knife Into his own breast and Is not expected to live The Vienna newspapers are discussing discus-sing report that Archduke Leopold of Austria who abandoned his title and became Herr Woefling In order to marry an actress Intends to secure i < divorce on account of his wifes eccentricities ec-centricities Elias Jobe a wellknown farmer living near Maple Grove Minn was shot and killed Christmas day and hie brotherinlaw Clyde King Is accused of having slain lobe after the two hail quarreled for most Of the afternoon King was captured The forty eigilt hours preceding Christmas wero unusually fruitful of tragedies In Birmingham Ala and vi I cinlty The list Includes seven imir liars two suicides one assault which may result fatally one deatu by tralu and one accidental shooting According to tho best Informntior obtainable Ilalsuli has refused to ro sign his governorship and has sent hit men to tho mountains under the protection pro-tection of a detachment of Knbyles and Is preparing to meet the forces of War Minister Gabbas at Zinat The Now York Central Hudson RIver Railroad company has purchased pur-chased the Chicago Kalamazoo Saginaw railroad The consideration Is In the neighborhood of a million dollars The railroad extends from Hastings to Woodbury 100 miles Three men were drowned In the Missouri river north of Norfolk Neb on the state line Herbert Cushmnn aged CO Ed Slate aged 28 and Daniel Dan-iel Slate aged 22 They wero driving aoress the river and dropped Into an airhole Their team was also lost Taking advantage of the Increasing famine In Russia the government is trying to stimulate Immigration to Siberia on a scale hitherto never attained at-tained Minister of Finance Kokov soft has decided to place 3000000 at the disposal of the colonization office The wife and child of Samuel Pyner and the wife nnd child of William tSrlnibtead were burned to death at the Grlmstead house at Morris Mor-ris Neck Va Pynor and Grlmstead who Blppt In another part of the house auoUo barely In time to escape |