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SfrRBBSSBiSBHBpl mmmmmmmmmm, SEARCH ON FOR MAN .WHO ATTACKED YOUNG GIRL Police of the Englewood station are searching for a man who bound, gagged and attempted to burn to death Gertrude Hanson, 17, a domes tic in the home of Otto"Johnson, 9950 LoWe avenue, today. The girl was found tied to a beam in the basement after Mrs. Johnson had noticed smoke coming up the stairway. She rushed down and re leased tne girl and then called the fire department. A number of rage, soaked in oil, were burning near the girl's feet. Capt. Joel Smith believes the girl was assaulted by a man, who then beat her and tried to set fire to her and the house in order to hide his crime. Miss Hanson is suffering from con cussion of the brain. ANOTHER ACT IN THE FARCE. TRAGEDY "GARBAGE" The final curtain hasn't been rung down on the garbage farce, now be ing played by a star cast composed of our best municipal comedians. There is in the city of Chicago a body called the City Waste Commis sion. It now proposes to waste money. The function of this committee is to find some way to solve all ques tions pertaining to waste, garbage, etc. The members hold sessions regu larly. They talk much. They think little. They have much fun. Yester day they invited representatives of three corporations to talk to them about the ways of disposing of gar bage. Then Aid. W. 0. Nance sprang a great surprise. He got up and said the waste commission should study the European methods of disposing of their .garbage. The members sat up and smiled. Europe is a beautiful country. Ev eryone feels a longing to go there for a visit. But it is so expensive. But now thfr members of the City Waste Commission see a chance to go over there at the city's expense. Meanwhile the city is still the joke town of the country when it comes to handUng garbage. o o- TO WORK NEW "HUMANIZING" PLAN ON CONVICTS Joliet, III., Nov. 7. A new policy of "humanizing" the Illinois state peni tentiary, through which nearly every convict will be furnished work-out in the sunshine, was outlined by Warden Allen, who says it will shortly be announced by Gov. Dunne. "Part of tbe men," said the war den, "will be put to work on the roads, part on the prison farm and the remainder in the state quarry. Only the vicious and dangerous m.en should be refused the chance to work in the open air." Each of the "honor" convicts now workirig on the roads near Dixon, 111.,, and .who signed his name to the "honor" pledge, wilT'be given a but ton, allowing him more freedom in side the walls. Violation of the pledge will deprive him of the buttafn. COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO. WINS IN RATE WAR The Commonwealth Edison Com pany won the victory in the rate war when the gas, oil and electric light committee of the city council agreed to the cut of $604,000 a year offered by the company. This creates a third rate in addi tion to the present primary-charge of 10 cents a kilowatt hour for the first thirty hours' use and the secondary charge of 5 cents, ior the next thirty hours. On Dec. 1 this will be made 4 cents and on March 1 will be made 3 cents. Aid. Merriam put up a fight to have the primary charge reduced to 9" cents. o o She I always think of motoring as the poetry of motion. He Yes until the machine breaks down; then it be comes blank verse!