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; who make it a business to pass upon the films before Ihey. are shown. If there are objectionable features they must be cut out before the picture is O. K.'d. This is seldom the case with the speaking play." , o o TRAFFIC COMPLETELY TIED UP BY THE STRIKE Indianapolis, Nov. 3. Union leadV ers point to the strike of the car men as one of the most successful in the international union's history. Traffic is completely tied up and not a local or interurban car has moved in the city for over 24 hours. It is declared that politicians of all parties have taken labor's side in the trouble and. that tremendous pressure has been brought to bear on' the au thorities to remain neutral until after the election tomorrow, when it is ex pected 'that the, cars will start under heavy police protection and the first real effort made to break the strike. An autopsy on the body of Isaac Fleisher, the young strikebreaker killed in yesterday's rioting at the car barns, showed that he had been shot from behind. Except that his home is supposed to be in Philadel phia, nothing is known about Fleisher. Three men have been wounded by glancing bullets fired at the ground by policemen, and a score have been slightly injured by flying bricks. o o TRAIN WRECKED ONE WILL DIE LaCrosse, Wis., Nov. 3. Engineer T. J. Pratt is in the hospital, dying from injuries received in -wreck of a Burlington train, which was hurled from the tracks while traveling at a high rate of speed. That more per sons were not injured or killed is considered marvelous. The wreck was the result of a land slide on an overhanging bluff at Genoa, Wis. One huge boulder lodged between the double tracks and the engine of the train was thrown bodily off the track, while the four coaches followed. DENY MONOPOLY CHARGE, St Paul, tyov. 3V In answer, to the governor's briefs which denounce the InternationaTHarvester Company as a trust that could use its Jmmense wealth to drive competitors Dut of' the field,' the company declared that it has benefitted the public by giving farmers better machines at the same price, and in no instance has a com petitor been forced to the wall. The Harvester Company intends to offer the testimony of 228 farm ers, 823 local implement dealers and more than 100 competitors to disap prove the monopoly charge. PICKING UP SOME LUCK ' "How did your Cpusin Jack get his hand hurt?,r "Got run into Ty an- automobile." "How was that,.thfen?" "Picking upj a horseshoe for luck!" weatherIforecast Partly cloudy, cooler weather to night and Tuesday; lowest tempera ture tonight, about 38' degrees; mode rate westerly winds tonight .becoming northwesterly Tuesday. Temperature Sunday Highest, 53; lowest, 47. UMaiMtttfBMiJMiafliiii&Httii