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z&szszz&sssgessssssmmmimBmmmm DR. WM. B. CRAIG IS ACQUITTED OF MURDER CHARGE Shelbyville, lnd Dec. 9. Dr. Wm. B. Crang was acquitted of the charge of murdering Dr. Helene Knabe in her apartments in Indianapolis, Oct. 23, 1911. The motion Of the defense to take the case from the jury and dismiss was granted by Judge Blair and the jury brought in a formal ver dict of acquittal. Judge Blair held that the state had introduced no Evidence that Craig had murdered Dr. Knabe; that it had failed to show that a marriage con tract had existed between the defend ant and Dr. Knabe; that their rela tions, so faivas the evidence showed, were pure, and he laid stress upon the fact that both Arnold Moore, who saw a mysterious peeper at Dr. Knabe's bedroom window, and Harry Haskett, who encountered a man running from the slain woman's apartments on the night of the crime, could not positively identify Dr. Craig as the man they saw. The court's action surprised no one who had followed the case closely. o o REAL WARFARE AT CALUMET FOLLOWING MURDERS Calumet, Mich., Dec. 9. It is re ported that real warfare has started in the copper strike zone, and that there has been an almost constant firing in many sections between strik ers, deputies, strikebreakers and citi zens. The outbreak followed the murder at Painesdale of three English non union miners as they were sleeping. Military and civil authorities charged leaders of Western Federation of Miners with the murders, and citizens and non-union men are anxious to "run the federation officials out of the country." Union officials wired Gov. Ferris for aid, but he is declared to have re fused to send additional troops into the copper country, or to declare martial law there. CINCINNATI TIED UP BY WATER SHORTAGE Cincinnati, O., Dec. 9. All public schools, laundries and many factor ies closed, and special precautions are being taken to guard against fire be cause of shortage of water due to bursting of a big main Saturday. Of ficials of fire department admitted that the city would be at the mercy of flames, should they obtain a good start. TO PROBE NEGLIGENCE CHARGE Health Commissioner George B. Young may open investigation into the charge that negligence caused the vaccination of 500 inmates of the Municipal Lodging House, 162 N. Union street, following the discovery of a smallpox victim. Every inmate of the house is sup posed to be given a thorough medical examination before being allowed to enter. In the case of Ed Waters, a drifter from Iowa, the examination must have been exceedingly lax, as shortly after entering he was found suffering from smallpox. o o PENMAN FINALLY TALKS Champaign, III., Dec. 9. Gus Pen man, on trial for the killing of his boyhood chum, Harold Shaw, talked today for the first time since his ar rest and confession last August. "They gave me a powder in a re sort in Danville," he said. "I don't know what it was, but after that my blood seemed to boil and I wanted to kill somebody. I suppose I attack ed Harold, because I had always wanted his autompbile." oo A poor old man had collapsed in the street from hunger. A crowd gathered round, and then, as is al ways the way, three or four began to push back the crowd, shouting, "Give him air! Give him air!" The suf ferer raised his head and smiled bit terly. "Air?" he said. "Give me air? Why, I've had nothing but air for the last three days!"