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PPWff J FULL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE NEWS SERVICE ' OF THEUNITED PRESS THE DAY BOOK m 500 S. PEORIA ST. )l(jr-398 TEL. MONROE 353 Vol. 1, No. 235 Chicago, Thursday, June 27, 1912 One Cent Police club women. Boston,- June 27. Several women were-so seriously clubbed by the police tpday that they were taken to hospitals when the offi cers attempted to disperse a crowd of women in the West Side and Jewish quarter who were sup porting the kosher meat boycott. The -women had adopted the same tactics that were used by Jewish women of Chicago in their successful fight againsT the kosh er butchers. Stores were attacked on Chambers street, chickens were freed from their coops and kerosene was sprinkled overmeat. Similarity of the methods em ployed has led the butchers to be lieve that the fight in Chicago was the beginning of a concerted ef fort on the part of Jews to force down the price of kosher meat throughout th,e country. -z9 o "MACARONI" TO RESCUE. Rome, June 27. Macaroni, fav orite dish of the Italians, is all that has prevented the conquest of Tripoli. According to a statement by the government, the Turks have a' yellow gunpowder wliich they grind, very fine and makeup in the fornttjf-macaroni, : Packed and labeled as maqarqni this powder has been sent to the Arabs, without apparently violat ing the international agreements against contraband of war. . Without this. ruse,, the Italian government says, the Arabs Jong ago would have been out of ammunition. MOTHER SEES SON DROWN Detroit, Mich., June' 27. Ralph Williams, a deck hand on the steamer Bothnia, was drowned when the vessel was rammed and sunk by the steamer Curry in the Detroit river. ' His mother, who was a cook on the Bothnia, jumped to safety on the Curry, but tried to throw het self into the river when she saw her son drown. THE DEMOCRATIC MESS (Reports Direct from Baltimore by United Press Wire.) ' The Democratic candidate for the presidency probably will be, nominated late tonight. And since William Jennings Bryan won't give out any inform ation, it's anybody's race so far as" those on the outside know. !harmr Clark has a paper mi- te0jglMtimatmmsali