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jgSggjBffi. 'fmSfmSSSs'tif19 : WHAT HAPPENED IN CHICAGO TODAY W Mrs. Theresa Malloy probably fatally injured when she leaped from second-story window ,in rooming house fire, 1815 Wabash ave. Two women slightly burn ed. Score of people escaped to street. ' Cars are expected to be run through new LaSalle street tun nel beginning. May 1, relieving present congestion on Clark and Wells street bridges. Bones of three young women found in basket in basement of negro tenement, 3155 Groveland ave. Police are digging up cel lar, suspecting wholesale murder mystery. Building Avas formerly occupied by white people. Traces of quicklime were found on bones. Charles K. Miller' fell out of fifth story window of Hudson hotel, 44J S. Clark, early Wday, and was instantly killed. - Michael Kirch, 1712 S. Jeffer son street, probably fatally hurt, and John Kurl, 1422 S. Jefferson, cut and bruised, when wagon on which they were riding was struck by streetcSr at W. 12th street and S. 5st court. All carpenters who went on strike two weeks ago will return to work tomorrow, having voted to accept concessions made by contractors Leo Grinsrzewicz, . 1629 S. Throop, shot and probably fatal ly wounded by James Rebiski in front of 1610 W. 17th street The quarrel arose over Rebiski's at tentions to his victim's sister. "Hungry" Jack Hogan, Chica go's veteran hackman, today aa- Itiiiiir nii''-V J- ----- - -j mitted his defeat for demoratic nomination for congressman at large. He was joke candidate, but carried Cook county by 6,000. Because he refused "to pay a second five-cent car fare, Joseph Bush is today carting around a bullet in his anatomy. He was shot when the conductor sought to eject him. Bernard Goldberg, 11, 1527 W. 12th street, struck and severely injured by a motorcycle at 12th and Ashland. Eldridge Moore, negro, 3810 Wentworth ave., shot and in stantly killed yesterday by a ne gro known as Jim. The latter escaped. George E. Moss, proprietor, of a barher shop at 933 W. Madison, attacked by a colored porter as he was counting the . day's re ceipts Saturday night, and beat en and robbed of $40 and a dia mond valued at $200. The negro escaped. David M. Roberts, inmate of Dunning, former attorney of ' Oshkosh, Wis., committed suicide by hanging yesterday. Body of an unidentified man found floating in the south branch of the river near S. Paulina street. Money, a watch, and two trans fers dated March 13 were found in the clothing. C. W. Hart, arrested yesterday in a hotel at 1859 W. Madison, accused of collecting money onJ bogus orders for goods made by John Baumgarth Co., calendar manufacturers. Thirty passengers slightly hurt t