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commission. Says Young is too thin skinned. Home of Mrs. J. I. Harbor, 3508 Pine Grove av., entered. Jewelry, furs and silverware gone. Mrs. Mary McAiHster, 65, 733 N. Kenilworth av., dropped dead at the funeral service of her son at St. Ed mund's church. Woman may head Gary police. Mayor Knotts considering appoint ment of Mrs. Kate Wood Ray as safety commissioner. Bankers want special rates on city bonds. Comptroller Traeger wants them to pay par. Ceo. F. LaMar arrested. Supposed to be member of clairvoyant trust. Alleged to have obtained $700 for worthless mining stock. o o MANY DIE WHEN CHEAP FLOP HOUSE BURNS DOWN Boston, Mass., Dec. 3. 27 men are believed to have burned to death when fire destroyed the Arcadia Hotel, a 15-cent lodging house. 25 are reported injured, some seriously. 170 men were trapped in the 5 story building that had fire escapes only at the rear. The sleeping rooms were tiny cells and in the dormitory on the top floor there were rows of lunks, more Closely packed than coast steamers, according to the police. One of the men who escaped naked and with legs torn from sliding down a ladder said he was awakened when a man jumped on his stomach. The fire started in the lower hall and shot upwards, cutting off escape by the stairways. When the firemen arrived 30 men were silhouetted against the burning flames of the roof. Most of them were saved by the use of scaling ladders. Three of the bodies toppled into the flames be fore the firemen reached the roof. Of the 170 men less than 100 have been accounted for. 25 bodies have already been removed from the "hotel" and 3 of the injured have died in the hospital. STRIKEBREAKERS CLEARING . HOUSE RUN HERE Chicago is now in possession of a clearing house for strikebreakers, operated by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company of Michigan, whose 4 mines are strikebound. For several weeks representatives of the mine owners have been pick ing men up on the streets and by mis representing conditions have hired them and sent them into turbulent districts of Northern Michigan. Reports of this reached Richard J. Knight, chief inspector of employ ment agencies, and he immediately got busy. He found that they were operating without a license. Knight threatened action and Ed ward M. Phelps, who is in charge of the work of collecting strikebreak ers, took out a license to run an em ployment agency under the name of the Northern Labor Exchange. It is located at 12 W. Van Buren street. The Northern Labor Exchange is only for strikebreakers. But it does not tell this when hiring men. The men who come there for work axe told they will receive $2.50 for their work. The story told by.the two men who escaped from Michigan after hiring out to work in the mines tell a dif ferent story. One of them received' 61 cents for eleven days, the balance going for supplies which he was fore-' ed to buy. The other man received nothing. The day before yesterday 119 men brought here from other states were shipped to Northern Michigan. :-o o In a little village a woman com mitted suicide by hanging herself to an apple tree. At the funeral a neigh bor, noticing the sad appearance of the husband, consoled him by saying he had met with a terrible loss. "Yes," said the husband, heaving a sigh. "She must have kicked like thunder in nhnlro nff aW huaVipla nf trraan on pies that would have been worth a sfl dollar a bushel when they got npei