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& i ,- ji-t., y iyn. iiiiii iTfci iy . . i ri,';,- i ". ,-!", ' T iti " . i M w m i priate for an investigation of the city nan. "Save the babies" crusade started in Chicago. Nora McAcfoo, daughter of W. G. McAdoOj secretary of treasury, is in Chicago. Dr. J. Cheston King, Atlanta alien ist, says only chance Chicago has of not going completely mad is by hav ing more pigeons. A very indignant cow, attached to back of wagon owned by Abe Klea & Co., created sensation on LaSalle st, near Jackson, by breaking loose. Finally caught. The county board meeting called to appropriate for special grand jury failed to meet yesterday. Six hundred liquor delegates, rep resenting 8,000 members of District of Cook County liquor Dealers' Pro tective Ass'n, now in convention in South Chicago, voted unanimously against public utilities bill. Appointed committee to urge Dunne to veto bill. o o W. VIRGINIA IN DANGER OF NEW INDUSTRIAL WAR Charleston, W. Va., .June 28. West Virginia must go through an other industrial war, which win be worse than the Kanawha coal field war, which cost one hundred lives and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Fifteen thousand miners in the New River fields today received a strike call, fixing July 1 as the day for a general lockout. With these fifteen thousand will walk out the 10,000 men of the Paint and Cabin Creek district. The strike can, which was held up for two days at the request of Gov. Hatfield, was sent out last night when the mine owners broke off all nego tiations. Union leaders have been importing tents and food supplies into the New River coal fields for months. One thousand men already are out in the Paint and Cabin Creek dis tricts. The mine owners there are! not living up to the terms of tho strike settlement contract, and are persecuting men they know to have been active in the union. LATE NEWS Petersburg, Ind. Mrs. Ann Good rid, 72, member of Painters' Union, shot and fatally wounded as she was sitting on porch. Geo. Woods, engi neer at near-by mill, under arrest. Newcastle, Ind. Burns Detective Agency gave up case of Catherine Winters, 9, after two months of work. All hope of finding the child given up by all but her sorrowing father. Springfield, III. Coroner Rhodes conducted inquest into deaths of Leta and Lawrence Neher, 11 and 7 years old, found drowned near their home. Adrian, Mich Will of Daniel Ketchum, railroad conductor, dis poses of property worth $100,000. Muncie, Ind. Rowlett Department Store destroyed by fire at noon today. No one hurt; loss $75,000. Springficfld, III. Gov. Dunna to day signed the Chicago municipal court bill. Washington. Attorney General McReynolds today sent House Ju-di-ciary Committee all papers in West ern Fuel and Diggs-Caminetti cases, thus forestalling the Kahn resolu tion, which would have forced him to do so. Springfield, III. Gov. Dunne put crimp in toy pistol today. Signed bill making it misdemeanor to sell, trade or give away any toy pistol made to shoot blank cartridges. $25 fine for each offense. oo The use of an iron bedstead with wire mattress as antennae in wireless telegraphy has been announced to Nature by A. A. Campbell Swinton. Connecting his receiving apparatus to bedstead on the top or fourth floor and to the water-pipe, he received signals from various stations easily though faintly.