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H 25? AjMy a f irww''Ar "ar "swk1 if iinnw ?- , . TJal-ATf-jT-TA. -iff! f NEWS OF THE DA Y CONCERNING CHICAGO Clinton A. Davis, 21, 225 E. 30th St., shot self. Love affair. May die. Po lice seeking "Mabel de Salle." Policeman MaggiorSVIelrose Park, tried to stop 8 men from swearing. Hospital. Congregation of St. Mark's Evan gelical Lutheran Church to probe al leged $9,000 fraud of trustees. Eight prizes offered by City Club for best neighborhood center plan. Contest closes Jan. 25. Ministers failed to close the "Ridge," Morgan Park's- Sunday movie show. Church members may boycott place. Police called to 1136 W. 61st st. Pound Morris Levin unconscious. Wife used shoe. Claims he beat her. Henry Coyle, 825 Webster av.f sui cided. Acid. Chas. LundbeYg, 1823 Webster av.f suicided. Gas. Alumni of Forestville public school to unveil broze tablet in honor of Miss Florence Holbrook, 25 years p'rincipal of school. Herman Kretchmeier, Company G, 2d m. Infantry, hit by C. & N. W. train. Dead. Mme. Rosa Olitzka, grand opera singer, to spend $10,000 on education of deserving musical student. Chas. Green and wife, Jennie, 1267 Washington blvd., charged with tak ing $200 "diamond from Rohschild & Co. Joseph HanUf, 60, drowned in south branch Chicago river. Bertha Bodziacka, .9, 1526 W. Huron St., stepped into 18-foot hole at Lincoln Park beach. Rescued. Merrill Gorsuch, 15, 6737 Cham plain av., drowning in lake. Clarence Kersick, 15, 5401 S. LaSalle st, went to aid. Both drowned. Bodies re covered. Scores rescued from wrecked boat on lake. Many Chicago boats miss ing. Lifesavers busy. Score routed by fire at 5339 Kim bark av. Lightning. Lightning hit passenger station, Wabash railroad, 75th and Wood sts. John McKeon, ticket agent, stunned. Buildings 834 N. Monticello av. and 1523 N. Washtenaw av. hit by light ning. No one hurt. Plate glass window Crescent Tea Co., 4335 W. Madison st, blown in by wind. ' 23,000 lights in Morgan Park dis trict extinguishedcby storm. John Murrah, 228' N. Halsted st., hit by auto. Driver fled. Swam Johnson, Oak Park, hit by auto. Injured, Autos belonging to L. R. Ferguson, 1325 Davis st, burned. Loss $5,500. Delegates for International Sunday School Ass'n convention arriving. Presentation of "Peg O My Heart" at Garrick Theater may be enjoined. Violation of contract claimed. Sin result of lack of thought. .Bal anced man does no evil, said woman, speaker at Natural Science lecture. Dr. Boynton assailed bathing beach pests. Would ban, gay-colored bath ing suits. John Joens, janitor Olivet Memorial Church, arrested. Alleged to have robbed contribution boxes. Chicago surgeons leaving for big clinical congress in London. Harry Jewel, 819 N. Fairfield av., quarreled with wife. Threw cup of coffee. Wife and baby scalded. Ar rested. Rumored that Margaret Deering, millionaire heiress, may wed Chaun cey McCormick. 10,000 attended dedication of St. Brendan's Catholic church, Racine av. and 77th st Hans Finstad, president Finstad & Johnson Co., dead.. Edw. Sheridan, 42, 1018 Sedgwick av., shot by Italians. Condition seri ous. Alice Eariing, 4, 336 W. Oak st, found by police. Returned to mother. Montis Butler, 611 S. Dearborn st, arrested, charged with robbed Christ h&j&A&i&&