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WHAT. HAPPENED IN CHICAlb TODAY Miss Agnes E.'-Yell, 537 N. Albany av., wants police 'to 'find purse con taining, small amount of money and trinkets which she left on counter at Hillman's Dept. store Saturday. j Pbnane HakonerisKi, 1218 Has tings "st.,. killed hy Pennsylvania Ry. freight train. Samuel Costell.o, 822; W. Polk st., stabbed- in neck during fight with. 2 men in. saloon at 22 S. Halsted st. Hospital. Refused to talk. Robbers in cigarstore of G. R. Gifford,x34 N. Clark st. Got $100 worth of cigars and pipes. v Adqlph Anderson, 42, 430 N. Drake st, bitten by dog of J. King, 723 Drake st Dog arrested. Ander son in hospital. ' Mrs". Doreita Plowmann, 36, 'found dead, in bathroom of her apartment in Eastwood hotel, 4644 1 .Sheridan road: Heart disease. Grocery store of Pecfro Silvestri, 1342 Larrabee st, made target for bomb thrown by "black hand"' gang. Six persona injured. Windows shat tered, front of building wrecked and occupants5- of rooms above store thrown from bed. No arjests. Police asked to search for Louise Griesman, 12, 2005 Washburne av., who has been -missing froih hlr Jiome since Monday morning. . .- . Thief in .Desplajnes street police station, courtroom .got package of bills amounting, to $100 from the desk of John Henry, chief clerk. Wm. McCullough, 3534 Lexington st, arrestedVfor- driving auto, while - drunk.i'Discharged. Lack ,,of evi dence. . . Harry Bowers, assistant .ambu lance physician" at South Clark.street station, fell asleep in the hospital. ' there. Woke up and found -watch gone. Typhoid fever broke. out in Evans ton.. Investigation l&ad to dairy of ' MattBrpsius. His .four children hadf disease., He hid. the cows at brother's, tome, BrpiheriTsted for. peddling , milk without license. Not decided' what to do'with lie cows. Paul Selby, 88,. veteran Illinois edi tor, seriously ill at River Forest with" heart trouble. Joseph Peterson, 3214 S. HalsteU st, arrested. Charged with being pickpocket James Conway, pickpocket, arrest ed. Walked into trap police had set for him. Capt. M. Kane appointed to suc ceed Henry Sims deputy warden of state penitentiary at Jdliet Two masked robbers entered Home of Mrs. Elizabeth- Sabellesser, 2037 Archer av., an aged crippled widow. Beat and, tortured her almost to death in attempt to get her money. They got nothing. She's in serious condition. One million women, members of General Federation of Women's Clubs, to start a nation-wide cam paign today to secure the retention of Miss" Julia O. Lathrop of this city as chief of Children's Bureau in Washington. ' Carl Schultz, 80, janitor, 2202 Lar abee. St., suicide. Despondent over, death qf wife six month's ago. Two cases 'of diphtheria placed un der quarantine at Elgin State Hos-. pital. Both women. " Ed Mckinley, 14, 468 W. 28th st, missing since Friday, has been found in .Denver. Said he was kidnapped by a negro and taken to Denver, where, he escaped while 1n a res taurant J George Hall, -insurance agent, ar-i rested, charged with stealing a. suit case from E. N. Getzler, New York. Wm. Becker, 80 and wife Freder icka, 72, 3723 Armour av., found un conscious in their home. Gas. Re vived. Accidental. - Man grabbed bank containing $4 rrom A. .Jones,, 13, b424 Grove av. Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, wife of Northwestern University "prof," arid chaperon, of a fraternity dnce, cnji 4 - , , v