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NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO Joseph Piocyske, 73, 2708 Kolin av., dead in bed. Gas. Manner unknown. Police investigating death of Peter Fidler, 65, 1214 W. 15th. Samuel Flack held-;to grand jury for con game. Wanted in Pittsburgh also. Lillian Barb, 15, attacked by tramp while picking berries at Bryn Mawr av. and river. Assailant escaped. Cus Lorico, rear 1109 Milton av., ambushed by man with shotgun. 23 slugs in leg. Mrs. Elizabeth Butler, Wisconsin, tried twice to hang self in Desplaines street station cell. Lee Smith and Lloyd Erwin, Waxa hachie, Tex., walking to Chicago, dis appeared. Five boys arrested after attempted raid of Chas. E. MacCauley's drug store, Oak Park. Bryant Hammond and Miss Wilhel mina Burton wanted to wed. Didn't have price. Justice J. P. Boyer, Evanston, married them on credit Four-legged chicken hatched by hen belonging to Mrs. M. A. McGurn, Oak Park. Katie Jendrzaki, 4837 S. Winchest er av., killed by Grand Trunk train. J. T. Clark, 6932 S. Michigan av., complained to anti-noise council committee. Bullfrogs keep him awake. "Will live with my husband in a hovel, but not in his mother's apart mene," Mrs. Julia Hartz, 8752 Mar quette av., told Judge Gemmill. Hus band, J. Hartz, 10752 Mackinaw av., ordered to pay her $23 a week. Death of Mrs. Gertrude Conley, Lyons, June 24, caused by arsenical poisoning, says coroner's chemist. Suit of Miss Isabella Patton, 7359 Kenwood av., against P. Schleuter, 6220 Kenwood, for Angora cat, dis missed. Kasimir Kumingo, 1850 W. 45th, recommended held for murder of John Winiarski. Pleads unwritten law. I David Hull, Marshalltown, la., fell for shell game. $90. Blames Ed Hall, "Eddie the Immune." Dr. W. H. Taggart, 538 S. Clark, sues 400 dentists for using his teeth filling process. "English suffragists are doing their share in war," said Miss Virginia Lee Postlewaite, England, visiting here. Wm. Schafer, 700 S. California av., lather, fell off scaffold. Legs broken. Eugene Flitcraft, 12, Oak Park, missing since Sunday. Former Pres. Taft declined invita tion to address Security club. Final action postponed on proposi tion to erect $3,000,000 Chicago Ath letic club home. John Zebroski, wife and four chil dren, evicted from 8927 Muskegon av., given shelter last night in South Chicago police station. Daniel Wagner, saloonkeeper, 540 W. Madison, bankrupt John Pasconellos, 17, Chicago, drowned in Mississippi at Davenport. Jas. O'Dea Storen, Michael Weis baum and Frederick Roth, policemen convicted of graft, discharged from force. Two women told Mrs. Josephine Lawrence, county social service head, they were married to Jesse Gibbs. Po lice seeking Jesse. Albert Johnson, negro, fell five floors in elevator shaft at 170 W. Ran dolph. Seriously injured. Rob't Boyd. 1060 W. Washington blvd., arrested as pickpocket on "L" station at Adams and Wabash. Police have Michael and Harry Morris, young Denver runaways. Say parents beat them. Detectives leave today for St. Louis to get Mrs. Lillian Davis, wanted here as aid to husband, under arrest as burglar. Mrs. Constance Piper, 67, 402 S. Karlov av., dead. Bonfire. Richard Jackson, 1931 W. Lake, killed. Joseph Martin, 1904 W. Lake, arrested for shooting. Both negroes. Uw