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CHICAGO NEWS IN BRIEF Lincoln's birthday. "Trilby" Thompson and "Ted dy" Webb were "seen" today at Ohio and State sts. Just seen that's all. Burglars entered saloon of Thos. Loonon, 1100 W. Adams st. Neighbor shot. Got nix. Fred Seitz, 55, 1633 N. Park wnen leg Decame wedged in steam exhaust pit in bldg. at 616 S. Clark st. B. Goldberg, saloonkeeper, 676 W. Madison st., fined $200 and costs. Larceny. S. Lynden, 5201 S. 5th avM and A. France, 6606 S. Seeley av., crushed by falling wall. May die. Mrs. Rose Glick, 531 E. 36th st., died at hospital from effects of poison taken with suicidal at tempt. G. T. Ireland, 20, S. Chicago, got divorce from Millicent Dor rans Ireland, 18. J. Antkowiak, 4109 N. Drake av., dropped dead on car. Heart failure. A. Ponger, 426 E. 43rd st., ar rested for speeding. Hurrying home to twins. Discharged. F. Osborne and Arthur Smith charged with mistreating 9-year-old girl. Found guilty. 450 acres of lake bottom at Gary, Ind., from lake shore to government dock line, staked in to 5 acre lots. Land now under from 1 to 25 feet of water will be reclaimed by Ind. Steel Co. Because 3 slayers cannot be brought here from Joliet at this time, suit by T. W. Burke to col lect $3,000 reward offered for ar rest of slayers of Mrs. E. Kauf man, shot by bandits Dec. 2, 1911, has been continued to Feb. 26. Rev. E. L. Williams, pastor Grace Methodist church and leader in anti-vice crusade, will shortly make public names of some of men higher up who have av., engineer, severely burned been lining their pockets with proceeds of disreputable resorts. Health Dept. will make no ef fort to enforce new ordinance for cold storage inspection until more money is forthcoming. F. M. Bunch, ex-pres. Board of Trade, and M. Bates, pres. W. G. Press & Co., pleaded not guilty to charges of "bucket shopping and skinning trades," preferred against them bv J. frill, Jr. Elmer Dunne, 1308 W. Madi son st., arretted because he had a polkadot handkerchief. Sus pect of Stockyards special rob bery. Another man with a polka dot handkerchief was arrested. Refused to give name. '-Extravagance is no longer fashionable among womankind." Madame M. T. Hosac, Pres. local Dressmakers' club. J. W. Boren, county hospital interne, arrested in charge of one of Ry. Co.'s kidnaping ambu lances, has been suspended by county civil service commission. Mrs. B. N. Kent, 3141 Michi gan av., wife of Dr. J. A. Kent, pres. Kent College of Chiroprac tice, arrested accused of operat ing confidence game. Mrs. Albert Carstens, 4319 Kenmore av., shot and severely