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Fisher estate, N. Y. Alleged to have failed to pay for building contract work. Joe Clark's saloon, 171 W. Wash ington St., closed. Blames bank fail ure. Chas. Heppka, 3303 N. Leavitt St., and Edw. Perry, 5700 S. Wabash av., prostrated by heat. Marvin Hahn, 8, 950 Edgecomb av., bitten by dog. Mrs. Fred Bysell, 846 Sheridan rd thought' baby asleep. Died in her arms. Hannah Bernhard, 827 Lakeside pi., swallowed bichloride. May re cover. Adolph Reese, ass't auditor Pull man Co., took bichloride by mistake. Serious. Frank Manaca, 6, 5423 Honore st., fell from wagon. May die. Wm. F. Hilliard, 245 Greenwood av., fell from B. 64th st. pier. Drowned. Miner Olson, acrobat, died from in juries received in fail June 8. Recount of ballots ordered by coun cil judiciary committee in 12th, 20th and 28th wards in aldermanic con tests. Three other contests deferred one week. John M. Vale, 3722 Wilton av., hit by street car. Condition serious. Patrons of Olympic Theater, Clark and Randolph sts., panic stricken. Small blaze in basement. Little damage. Body of man taken from drainage canal near Summit. Body of 1 -year-old baby taken from river. SUNDAY CONVERTS 288 Colorado Springs, Col., June 23. Billy Sunday converted 288 men, women .and children Sunday. He said: "Some of you Christians act like you had a through ticket to heaven and a Pullman reservation, and had gone to bed with orders to the porter not to wake you up until you reach the New Jerusalem. But you'll head in ori a. siding-with a hot box before you get there. "If your servant is good enough to cook your grub and wash your dirty dishes, she's good enough to rub el bows with you. You don't step down from the parlor t6 the kitchen, from the piano to the dishpan. "We've been treating sin too long as if it were a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake." TWO KILLED, SCORES HURT IN NORTHWEST TORNADO St Paul, Minn., June 24. Two persons are known to be dead, several missing, and at least three fatally in jured and scores more suffering from lesser injuries today, the result of a severe windstorm that took the form of tornadoes in several sections and swept across South Dakota, South ern Minnesota and Wisconsin last night. Several towns in the path of the storm are still cut off from communi cation with the outside world. Only meager reports have been received here and it is possible that the death list may be increased. The damage in wrecked homes and levelled crops will reach hundredsof thousands of dollars. The two fatalities occurred in Min neapolis and its suburbs. Three per sons were fatally injured and many more hurt at Watertown, S. D., where the wind formed a twister. Sweeping across Southern Minne sota at midnight, the storm" leveled buildings at Albert Lea, St. Cloud, Rochester and Red Wing, and passed on into Wisconsin, striking Eflroy and other small towns. At Albert Lea three persons were injured by falling trees. o o WOMAN OUT FOR JUDGE Miss Florence King, the patent at torney, wants to be a judge of the Municipal Court. She is coming qut for the fall campaign as an inde pendent candidate. She believes wo men should have a representative oa the bench. aWJMttfrjMtfw TfefAE3M 1