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! " -"-"-'""i"imim(KwiMijtji jHn-r, jj.ijiijiiiWji ."LU,VMp3SRrtiJlipiJlim! fr v r NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO . 17-story building to be erected for use of state offices at Randolph st. and 5th av. To cost $484,000. Further payments on municipal pier to Greatjjakes Dredge and Dock Co. to be stopped-until charges of ir regularities' are dropped. Wallace Popkins, 608 W. Madison, cut wrist with tin cup in Desplaines st police station. Had been arrested for intoxication. Bridewell hospital. Will get better. Belgian Food Relief Committee ap pealed to people of Chicago to re member relief given by Europe at time of fire. Urgent plea for food. $1,800 bathroom in Raymond school closed because $60 month at tendant is lacking. To be protested to school board. James Meneno, 850 S. State, found dead in bed. Supposed heart dis ease. Mrs. Mary Klima, suicided with gas in home 2351 S. Turner av. Reason unknown. E. C. Walker, negro janitor of apartment building at N. Kedzie av. and Franklin blvd., pinched after re volver duel with police. Found in sane. Murder case of Mrs. Pasqualina Forte, daughter Anna and son Pas quale, charged with killing Antonio Morasco, given to jury today. Sec ond trial. Jury disagreed at first. Judge Walker refused to grant di vorce to Richard A. Hale. Said, "It is hard to believe testimony on either side." Leroy Peterson, actor, pinched for nonsupport. Says his company was stranded in North Dakota and he worked way back as painter. Prom ised to support family. Released. Charles Houstpn, who fled Chicago when alleged confederate, Roy Fow ler, was pinched for counterfeiting, captured at Ludlow, Ky. Perry Smith, sup't registry division of Chicago postofflce for 20 years, died on farm near Milwaukee. James Bruce defended "Big Busi ness" in address before Rotary Club. Says without it U. 8. would never have attained commercial import ance. Case of Ernest Catewood, negro watchman for DeLuxe Theater, who was arrested after Mrs. Eva Stein haus complained she had been robbed, continued again. Woman not in court. Ross Wrath, 1527 Schilling, killed, and 2 other men in serious condition. Result of trying to clean out acid vat thought empty, in Victor Chemical Works, Chicago Heights, yesterday. Nursemaid at 3152 Prairie av. called police on phone to make little boy be good. Police came. Said she didn't know operator heard her. John Garrett, circus promoter, dis charged from court on charge of lar ceny. Att'y Ranson Walker fined $25 for contempt of court for asking Ass't State's Att'y McKay if he had been reached. Emil Oschman, baker, 452 W. 26th, robbed of $5 by 3 men. Fred Eklund, Evanston policeman for more than 20 years, retiring from force. Gets pension. Andrew Nelson, in will made 20 years ago, bequeaths property worth $26,000 to -widow living at 5225 N. Ashland av. Walter Fischer, former sec'of In terior, In talk before Nat'l Industrial Traffic League convention, advocates union freight yard to stop waste of millions annually. Saloon of Michael Duggan, 1686 Austin av., robbed by 5 men. $300 total of loot, James Smith, floor manager of Hanan & Sons, 3ued for separate maintenance by wife who cnarges desertion. Water pipes dug up and cut near home of Mrs. Hattie Sattler, 9104 Green Bay av., yesterday. Miss Satt ler foe to South' Chicago vice inter- . AaflBfe-ytJh, . jgfeijfetii! jtrymmmwt t i i iirtir iajh