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wmmwm tion of Black Hand letter and put' $500 in hallway. Arrested Tony Ma doli, 1156 Sedgwick, who entered the halL Fashionable Hyde Park may cease to worry. Mrs. Birdie Witt says she has decided not to give her bunga low, 5407 Hyde Park blvd., rent free to a negro family, but will use it as home for crippled children. Dr. A. L Blunt, Harrison st. physi cian, will take stand in own defense today. -Charged with violating Har rison law by granting dope prescrip tions in great number. Cook County Real Estate board gave "Torrens dinner" at which the Torrens system of land transfers was lauded as being best ever enacted. County Recorder Connery's work for the system praised. Frame barn, Wm. Osons, 639 W. 47th, burned. $700. 'Frank Matson, in Joliet almost con tinuously last 30 of his 58 years, re leased Saturday. Arrested yester day, charged with stealing. "Boys'll be glad to see me back," he said. r Despondent over illness, Chas. Clugston, 63, retired broker, 723 Oakr wood blvd., killed self with favorite shotgun. Petition backed by United Societies filed in Judge Windes' court asks in junction which would close every thing but churches on Sunday. Louis M. Erb, real estate broker, 2922 Michigan av., arrested, charged with forging name of J. P. Reade to check. Bond issue $3,250,000 for Cook and Lake county roads will be voted on at Nov., 1916, election. JUDGES SPEAK AGAINST BAKER Judges Prindiville and Cooper tes tified before the grand jury yesterday regarding the actions of Hadrian Baker, author of the "Letters of Ju nius,"" which have caused so many of the judges to worry recently. Ba ker is being held on libel charge pre ferred by Judge Rooney. Baker charges the judges with inefficiency. NINETEEN BODIES- RECOVERED FROM BURNED SCHOOL PeabodyJ Mass., Oct. 29. The dim light of a gloomy morgue today shone down upon a ghastly sight the half-burned, twisted corpses of nineteen little victims of yesterday's fire disaster at St. John's parochial school. Bodies of two other children lay in St. Thomas' hospital, where they died from burns and the shock of the mad fight for safety in the smoke-filled halls. The ashes of an other little victim were believed to be mingled with debris inside the fire swept walls. Though firemen report ed late yesterday that 27 bodies had been found, a careful checking to day put the death total at 22. o o MEXICANS SHOOT CATTLEMAN El Paso, Tex., Oct 29. Charles Boone, American cattleman, El Paso, was taken from Mexico Northwest ern train at Guzman, Chihuahua, ,Mexico, and shot to death. Boone's partner, James Welch, witnessed the murder and arrived here with the story early today. Welch stated that CoL Hernandez, head of Villa garrison at Guzman, had Boone executed by firing squad without trial and presumably in re taliation for Carranza's recognition by U. S. government o o KING GEORGE BRUISED IN FALL' London, Oct. 29. King George is suffering from severe bruises due to a fall from his horse. The king is con fined to his bed. His majesty's acci dent occurred Thursday morning. He was inspecting the army in the field in Northern Prance when his mount, excited by the troops cheers, fell o o Talk about diving in over your" head ! Geo. Henry, of Hurf ville, N. J., marries a widow and gets 18 step children and 13 grand-step-childreu, pretty near a corner of the step- 1 father and step-grandfather business XammmmmmmmMmMMMtM