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immmimmKammMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmpMmmMmm HOW .TO. BAFFLE UMBrlLATHIEVES Here is a "combination" umbrella tooted as a device sure to baffle" tfte umprella thief. Perhaps. Perhaps not. Certainly it would peeve him. After having gone to all the risk and mental an guish entailed by stealing an umbrella, anyone would, be peeved to find-the thing locked shut with a combination lock .around its neck as-mysterious as the time "lock on a bank vault.' But baffled altogether? One could still use it for a cane: DOINGS OF THE WORLD BOILED DOWN Washington. William Lori mer lost -his seat in senate this af ternoon by vote of 55 to 28. Lorimer is thereby branded as having been- elected May, 1909, by means of corrupt methods and practices. Sen. Cullom, his Illinois col league, -who was with him at last hearing, voted against him. When vote was read, Lorimer got up from his seat with a smile on his face, and walked from room. Friends gathered around him and "bade him goodbye. Lorimer spoke in own. defence for 11J4" hours. ' - 28 Democrats and 27 Republi cans voted against Illinoisan. Lorimer made direct charge 1 that -Charles A. White had been" bought by Chicago Tribune. Sen. Dixon, Rooseveltfs man ager, .got up and defied that he had madcany attempt to bribe southern delegates ,,to Chicago .convention. , London. Word has been sent 'to -Mr. and Mrs. Geo. J. Gould, New York, that their daughter, Lady Decies, is expecting stork. Will sail for America. Wytheville, W..Va. Jury in case, of Claude- Allen, charged with complicityin Hillsville mur- rders, reported deadlock and were aiscnargea. Portland, Ore. Baptist Young Peopled Union at thdir Pacific coast convention here denounced m fjririyjMmti &&&&$&&&$