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and going 40 miles an hour, auto of Fire Marshal Chas. F. Seyfer lich skidded when rear wheel broke. Driver managed to, stop the car before -it .tipped. No one hurt. Two burglars entered offices of Guggenheim Bros., 2202 S. State St., paint dealers. "Beat" it, leav ing loot, when they heard police. While washing his face, Wm. Bliss, 19, 7140 S. Aberdeen St., was stabbed and robbed of .$8 by unknown man. Severe wounds. , Coroner's jury unable to fix blame for death of Mrs. Olava Ayes, 62, 1812 Ellen st, who was killed when beam from "L" struc ture fell on her. Geo. H. Dickens, 5357 W. Mad ison st, bldg. contractor, fell 30 feet from scaffold at 5555 W.i Van Buren St. Seriously injured. It was announced today in New York that after next week Sen. Joseph M. Dixon, chairman of the Nat'l Progressive commit tee, will make his headquarters here. ) "CHEER UP!" One night, as a reporter from the office of an evening paper was passing along the banks of the jiver, he heard the sound of someone struggling in the water. Are you drowning? he shout ed. "I am" replied a feeble voice from the water. "What a pity!" said the lad, consolingly. "You are just too late for the last edi tion tonight. But cheer up ; you'll have a nice little paragraph all to yourself in the morning," WANTS THE WILD WEST Nellie Gardner. Cincinnati, O., Oct. 18. A girl registering as Nellie-Gardner, 16, who says her home is in Chicago, and that she started out for tne "wild and woolly West" Tuesday noon, woke up in a cell at the Place of Detention Wednesday. She is being held until her par ents can be notified. The police say her real name is Ammeja Zanerovska and that she lives at 17 S. Market st, Chicago. "This place, is not Montana," she cried. "I do not see any cow-1 boys gr Indians, This is just like. 4 - ---m&f-. -J- .. j.-jt ijLJ&S&&Km. tti