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ILLINOIS HOUSE FINALLY GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS -Springfield, March 3. Two months after convening the Illinois house of representatives got down to business yesterday, seating its--last member, ,adopting rules and receiving hun dreds of bills. Immediately after adoption of the rjjles the house expected tp receive anywhere from 200 to 400 bills. Un der the rules each member is per mitted to introduce three bills at the ficst session. JThe woman suffrage lobby made its first apeparance yesterday. Mrs. Qrace Wilbur Troiit of Chicago, pres ident, and Mrs. J. W. McGraw of Qlencoe, chairman of the legislative board of the Illinois Equal Suffrage as'fl, arrived, announcing their in tention to work both for a constitu tional convention and for an amend ment to the amending clause. Mrs. Trout expressed the belief that a con stitutional convention would give women of the state equal suffrage. JITNEY MEN TO GATHER -Kansas City. Mo., March 3. Hear ye! Jitney owners, jitney drivers, jitney manufacturers and jitney as sociation officers from all parts of the country. The local association tya-invited all of you to gather here in national assembly within two months for an interchange of views bearing upon all phases of the serv- to--WAS IT FERMENTING? -n,New York, March 3. An excited woman rushed breathlessly into the Belph av. police station, shoved a hex at the desk sergeant and said "bomb!" It was a glass of straw berry jelly. jy o o u STILL ON WAR PATH! n Washington, March 3. -Telegram received from U. S. Marshal Neb eker in field against hostile Piutes in mjih;fsays, no arrests have been made and no truce is in sight. BRIDEWELL PREPARED TO GET MANY DOPE FIENDS With the new 'Harrison law for bidding the sale of dope without regis tration and prescription in operation, Sup't Whitman of the Bridewell is making ready to receive dope fiends in great numbers. When the unfortunates find they cannot obtain their drug they will appeal to the police to be taken be fore a judge and sentenced to the Bridewell, is the prediction. Here a treatment will be given. Judge Sullivan at Maxwell st. court committed Julia Murphy at her own request, because she wanted to break a morphine habit of 15 years' standing. o o TELEGRAPH BRIEFS Denver, Colo. Engineer Alshire killed, Engineer Armstrong and Fire man Moore slightly injured, when Rio Grande passenger train was wrecked. Mehdota, III. Mendota's 16-cents-per-day-mayor has had salary boost ed to $300 a year. Salary was reduc ed to 16 cents a day two years ago. Washington. Major Langhorne, American military attache at Berlin embassy, has been relieved. Will re turn home. The Hague. Zeppelin airship fly ing over Cologne blown down in storm. Crew saved. Airship wrecked. Welland, Ont Police officers and 3 Canadian soldiers who fired on 2 American duck hunters last fall, kill ing Walter Smith and wounding his companion, dismissed by grand jury. Canadian government paid Smith's relatives $10,000. o o SIGN UP WITH UNIONS The Chicago Cooks and Pastry Cooks' union announced today that three more restaurants have been or ganized. They are Ried's lunch room, 158 W. Van Buren St., and two be longing to Martin Burke, located at 9 S. Halsted st and 2346 W. Madison. E. W. Rieck received his union cards today. o mmssssamtmjm