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plpriryff WWPIWBIWPgl Charge confidence game. Denies charge. Postmaster D. A. Campbell has or dered 71,630,000 stamps, valued at $1,808,000. Largest requisition ever Bent to Washington. Marshall Boynton, 2122-S. Michi gan av., wanted by police. Stabbed and probably fatally wounded Chas. Bartemus, manager Blue Ribbon Cafe. Democrats on County Board block pay boosts. Evidently believe that department heads get enough. 300 county employes may lose jobs if sal aries of other employes are not cut. Miss Luella Gibbons, 1607 Irving Park blvd., found dead on wedding eve. Gas. Friends say accidental. Wm. E. Booth, 381 E. 22d st., sui cide. Poison. Slag ladles exploded at Illinois Steel Co mils. New concrete pier at E 104th st. and Lake Michigan dam aged. Loss $5,000. Shock felt 2 miles away. Rabbi Abraham Shechter, 60, 1065 Maxwell st., struck by auto. Slightly hurt Seven women and nine men ar rested in raid. Alleged "buffet flat," 4050 Indiana av. C. & W. I. suburban train crashed into Belt Line locomotive. Six people slightly injured. F. O Robbins, ticket agent, East Side station, L. S. & M. S. R. R., robbed by hold-up man. Between $600 and $800 missing. - Michael Korlzaski and Joe Vakan ski arrested. Five people have identi fied them as hold-up men. Frank H. Holmes, 6826 S. Morgan st, dead. Fell from scaffold. Judge Richard E. Burke chosen chief justice of Superior Court to succeed Ben M. Smith, retired. Claudia Wheeler, apearing at Pal ace theater, claims fake expressman stole her stage outfit. Value $2,000. Miss Adelina Reents, Monticello, la., and 14-month baby, with "Teddy Bear," found huddled in corner of W, Randolph st bridge. Police gave her $10. Seit to Florence Crittenton Anchorage. A negress with male companion robhed Frank Riis near 29th st. and Cottage Grove' av. $20 and gold watch. Mayor Harrison favors municipal dance halls-. Says we ought to have them 'in Chicago. West Chicago city council failed to depose Police Chief Frederick Lemon. Will try later." Horns, confetti and "ticklers'" to be prohibited on streets New Year's eve. Ministers plan religious invasion and wifittry to combat orgies with prayerT ' ?r ' p o WHAT'S" YOUR HURRY, MISS? During a lecture a well-known authority on economics mentioned the fact that in one country the num ber of men was larger than that of women, and he added, humorously: "I can, therefore, recommend the ladies' to emigrate to that part of the world." A young lady seated in one of the front tows got up in great" indigna tion, and was leaving the room rath er noisily, whereupon the lecturer re marked: "I did not mean that it need be done in such a hurry as thaU" i mmmmmmtaBmmamm