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NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO
J. H. Waffindin, former cash
ier, Auditorium hotel, who failed
to return home from work Satur
day, is believed to be wandering
the streets insane.
Superintendent of the Dunning
insane asylum says that one-fifth
of the persons committed for in
sanity would have been released
had their cases been treated
scientifically.
Police tried to identify body of
an 11 -year old boy found in drain
age canal at Lockport as that of
Benjamin Chunarnishy, Johnson
st. On reaching his home found
that boy, who had left home Feb.
15, had returned.
In answer to call at 1632 Wells
St., wagon load of policemen
found George A. Schmidt, wife,
son and daughter sitting on Cor
nelius Robertson, negror Wa
bash ave., who had tried to rob
.the house.
Jack Johnson and Middle West
Amusement company were made
defendants in $25,000 damage
suit brought by Miss Ruth Mehl,
young woman who was struck in
the face with a punching bag
which Johnson knocked loose
from its moorings in the Plaza
theater.
The calm work of sisters in St.
Joseph's hospital, 740 Garfield
ave., saved a panic among 130
patients' while smoke from a
basement fire swept through the
house. $1,000 loss.
Duke M. Farson, banker and
dealer in bonds, 236 So. Lasalle
st., has given up his land, house,
jewelry and personal "belongings
to the Holiness association, a 're-1
ligious cult of which he is presi
dent. Nine men playing poker for
the drinks were arrested in the
LaClaire buffet, 100 So. Sanga
monst. Hunger drove Thomas Dona
hue, painter, from Boston to
throw brick through window of
supply house of R. Williamson &
Co.., 609 West Washington blvd.,
in view of policeman. Said he
wanted to go to jail so he could
get something to eat.
Lloyd Moulds, 27, a rural vis
itor to Chicago to whom two men
tried to sell water tower at Lin
coln blvd. and Chicago ave., made
his second appeal at police sta
tion and said he was worried be
cause police made him sign a
paper and he did not know what
it was. He was told that it was
a police complaint slip and went
away happy.
Miss Geraldine Wingate, au
thor, who is in the county jail
for passing worthless checks,
says that everything is so funny
in jail that she will write a book
about it.
Thirteen Chinamen arrested
while celebrating their New
Year by playing poker at 531 and
510 So. Clark.
Frank Schlotsky, Washburn
ave., known by neighbors as "a
miser," was found dead at his,
home. Police investigating.
Two safes in commissary de
paTtment of the Queen City
lunch rooms, 604 N- Clark St.,
were blown open today and rob-
