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INTERESTING BITS OF LOCAL NEWS Midwinter floral exhibition is being held in the Garfield Park conservatory daily from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Mrs. Katherine Bowers, .pro prietor of alleged disreputable ho tel at 853 E. 63rd street, fined $200 and costs. Her case had been continued on her promise to move. Rose-Herringer, chorus girl in Chicago Opera Company T-allet. reported missing, has returned to her home. She had been detain ed at a rehearsal, and her mother became alarmed. Grace Hanley, 212 Hill street, held to grand jury. Paul "Molly, 56, 309 Hill, said woman- asked him to help her move a trunk, and the "she put her arms around me nd said I was a 'grand old man.' After I left the house I found my pocketbook, containing $4, was gone." The woman denied the charge. Mrs. Adele Bentine, 18. whose husband had her arrested, alleg ing"that she ran away with anoth er man, charges hat she was forced to enter a dive by her hus band, Chester Bentine, a fireman. Federal authorities will investi gate. Mrs. Helen Harrison, 642 La Salle ave.; charged by the police .with conducting-a disreputable .house, and who has been be sieged fof three days, yesterday surrendered. Judge Petit yesterday threw suit between Bernard Neuberger and Jacques Rousse, partners in ihe "tig trust," out of court. Said tip evil was in same class with hold up and begging While on a North State street car, Arthur S. Miller, Wihthrop ave., was robbed of purse contain ing $120.50. Pickpockets. The Cook county commission ers hive ordered padded automo biles to take the place of tbe old police patrols to carry insane from court to the institutions, with uniformed attendants in charge. John Burman, North Clark St., was severely cut with a razor by Edward Cunningham during a quarrel over some Christmas gifts. Cunningham arrested. John Kodlack, North Leavitt st.,'maae an unsuccessful attempt at suicide today at his home, by stabbing himself with a butcher knife, Kodlack told police he had been unable to work steadily. Hospital. After a quarrel with his wife, Henry Newmann, 72, retired civil engineer, locked himself in the bathroom and turned on the gas. Undertaker. The Hospital Aid society will give a free entertainment New Year's day for the inmates of the Cook County hospital. Mrs. Mary Bring, Sholto St., tried to end her life by inhaling illuminating gas through a -rubber hose. Despondent on ac count of illness. "Did you see any sights on the bowery today? "Yes. I hadn't gone a block befpr$ I met your wife." fHMfiduyfifliMaaMMfBaHflfl