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f"-jww"fy"' WHAT HAPPENED IN CHICAGO TODAY Because their employers in creased the price of milk since the present wage scale was made, 2, 000 Chicago r milkmen who are now getting $18 a week voted to ask an increase of $3 a week. , Rose Mitchell, 15, W. Taylor st., gypsy fortune teller, caused arrest of Samuel Nardecci, 1017 So. Center ave., J. Schwartz and Tonny Ross, Archer ave. and So. Dearborn sts. The girl was found in a dazed condition in front of the rooming house where the two men live. Another "Leap Year" stunt. Mahel Lane, Maiden, Mass., has left Chicago on the last lap of a trip to the hitching post She will be married -to Ernest C. Wil lard, civil engineer, Seattle, .Wash., on February 27. The weather man says it will be warmer tomorrow. Well, guess we're all willing. Women's Trade Union League of Chicago is planning for a home for unions in the loop, with large roof garden for girls. Chief McWeeny has Issued or der saying card games in reput able places are safe and police have orders not to interfere with -them. Order is endorsed by mayor. Through a pension system es tablished by the Rock Island road, 132 employes who were placed on the pension tolL bene fited to the extent of $65,000 in 1911. While attempting to break in a residence, four youths, ranging from 15 to 17, were arrested. Con fessed they had committed twenty-one burglaries in the past three months. Mrs. Eugenie Devas, 73, fell down stairs in Humboldt theater, Fractured skull. Herbert Alfred Landholm, vil lain in a theatrical company, is under arrest for trying to gain entrance into the chorus girls' rooms at 28 W. Ontario st. Pat Crow is in the cooler again. Disorderly conduct. o o ABOUT PEOPLE The senior brigadier general at tached to the adjutant general's office, is William P. Hall. He stands a good chance of ad vancing soon to the post made vacant by the official de capitation of Gen. Ainsworth, Gen. Hall "bangs" his hair, cultivates the fiercest mustache in the army, and pays excess bagsrasre on his stock of medals. Mrs. James Pigg, 77, of Linton Ind., has never been in a restaur rant or postoffice; In the last 28 years she has been "to the store once. Wmk Now one Wm. Taft can under stand how a South African hip popotamus felt when Teddy; went gunning for him.