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TYPE STORY SAYS DAUGHTER'S PLIGHT CAUSED HIS DEATH v Havana, III., Jan. 6. Investigating suicide Sunday of Charles W. Hale of Kilbourne, editor of the Sangamon Sawyer, Coroner Neiderer discovered in Hale's little printship type forms which Hale had prepared telling of the tragiv circumstances which led him to take his life and revealed a most remarkable case of ingratitude on the part of Hale's nephew. The nephew, Louis Hale, whom teh editor recently had paroled from the Pontiac repormatory, is now in jail here charged with wronging Hale's daughter. Discovery of his daugh ter's condition affected Hale's heart and caused him to end his life. o o TROUBLE GETTING SPEAKERS Springfield, III., Jan. 6. Homer J. Tice of Greenview stood as high man in the Republican caucus here this morning to choose a party candidate for speaker of the Illinois lower house, but the continued refusal of seventeen "wet" representatives to join the caucus blocked all efforts to center on one man and the election was thrown onto the floor of the house when the assembly met at' noon. Neal groggy from the beating given by the girls. SLOWLY CRUSHED TO DEATH Residents in a fashionable apart ment building at 1130 Lake Shore drive were terrorized this morning by the screams of Walter Marubio,.17, who was crushed to death in a freight elevator while delivery gro ceries to one of the families living there. Marubio lived at 305 E. Beethoven pi. He was caught between the ele vator and the second floor and slow ly crushed to death. o o - WOW! THEY CALLED IT A SLAP Indianapolis, Jan. 6. Misses Anna Lee and Bertha Martins told police that James McNeal, 49, of Marion, had followed them and that they had slapped him. The police found Mc- J sSl 'SAYS "How is it that th' old time women could T make such fine- jelly, before science showed them all about bac teria and pectin? And what did they do when they had no Baum hy-. drometer?" - o o CHICAGO GRAIN. Wheat, com and oats lower. Provisions higher. o o NEW YORK STOCKS. Market dull and heavy because of subway wreck. Prices firm. o o j TODAY'S HEALTHOGRAM The following "health and happi ness" rules have been prescribed by a world-famous physician: Work for the pleasure of working. Seek for, the pleasure of seeking. Be social for the joy that society gives you.. Do right for the love of right. Revel in the charms of beauty and luxury which surround you. Live for the higher life, because that is your real tf e. Donjfcforget how to play. J WEATHERFORECAST Rain or snow this afternoon and possibly tonight, followed 'by fair Thursday; colder; lowest tempera ture tonight about 25; winds shift ing to fresh northwest. Tempera ture Tuesday: Highest, 39; lowest, 38". Entered as second-class matter April 21, 1914, at the postoffice at Chicago, III., under the Act of March 3, 1379. By Mail, Except in Chicago, $3 a Year