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mmmmmimmim WHAT HAPPENED IN CHICAGO Battalion Chief Edw. F. Mc Gurn, hook and ladder company No. 19, saved four motorcyclists from injury at 909 N. Ashland av. Water main had burst. Fire men were superintending remov alof manhole. Street was open 'and motorcyclists did not see it. McGurn caught their machines, stopped them and threw riders. Riders uninjured. Scores of clergymen joined in the fight for pure milk ordinance from pulpit yesterday. Club women also have joined crusade. Fred Besseaff, N. Chicago, jumped from "L" tracks into drainage canal at Evanston to avoid being run- down by "L" train. 'Besseaff was carried past his station on Northwestern "L." Started to walk back along tracks. Saw' train coming. Jumped. Un hurt, but highly indignant and very wet. .Julius Rosenwalf of Sears, -Roebuck & Co. celebrated his 50th birthday today by giving away$687,500. :Univ. of Chicago and Assoc. Jewish Charities got boggest Roenwald plum with. $250,000 each. Rev. C. H. Swingle told Bible Students' Ass'n that "the theory of hell fire is the illegitimate child of the terrible doctrine of immor tality." Nevertheless, we'll stick to the doctrine of immortality. Dr. Swingle may think it's terrible, but .we think it's comforting. Italian fete in honor of St. Francesco di Paoli closed with celebration of high mass at 1 a. m. in All Saints' church, W 26th pi. and Wallace st. Herman JDeihm, wanted for Chicago's first 1912 murder, un der arrest at Sandusky, O. Will be brought back. Deihni'was identified through his sweetheart, Kitty Short. He was arrested at Sandusky on safeblowing charge. The woman, who was watched by detectives, visited him. Deihm shot and killed Ray mond Corbett at 12:02 a. m., Jan. 1, in saloon of Pat Hughes, $22 E. 34th St., when Corbett kicked helpless dog. Fulton Hicks, 3711 S. Dear born st., stabbed Neil Hatcher in face during quarrel over baseball game at Schorling's park, 39th and Wentworth ave. Arrested. 30 arrested in raid on building at 615 LaSalle ave Crap game. Poker game raided in rear of cigar store of J. Loftus, 1221 N. Clark st. Four arrested. Harry Dickinson, 876 Wells st., employe of freight depart ment, Chicago- & Northwestern, dropped dead while -visiting Mrs. E. C. Kellogg, 620 N. Clark st. Prusumably heart disease. Andrew G. Ohs, 507 N. 51st st, run down and killed at Southport and Belmont aves. by auto driven by Charles McNichols, foreman for Washington Construction Co. Michael Vlahos, 119 W. Illi nois stv xua down.aad injured a mi -frluHrt.i' V-jSajy -iA-&!i-g-z-- samMMtmmmmmmm