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the committee on streets and alleys and will come before the council next Monday, along with the garbage dis ' posal contract. BITSOFNEWS Hammond, Ind. Beatrice Ward, Pittsburgh, saved from drowning in Kankakee River for third time within week. Walthill, .Neb. Mrs. Wm. Hensass and daughter, Ethel, 25, instantly killed when Burlington train struck their auto at crossing. Paris. Prof. Arsene d'Arsonval of College of France has perfected long distance wireless telephone. Los Angeles. R. J. Mulroney, Chi cago, who suffers from a dent in his head that makes him crooked, again in jail. Collecting money on- bad check. Salt Lake City. Harriman merger is at an end. Dissolution plan hand , ed down in U. S. court at St. Paul filed in circuit court here and is now effective. Pittsburgh. Bankers and busi ness men unite in declaring Pitts burgh banking interests sound de spite crash of Kuhn interests. New York. Queen Sophia of Greece has cabled Solon G. Vlasto, editor of the Atlantis, asking for a shipment of chewing gum for Greek soldiers at the front. Boston. Mary. Johnson, 7-year-old daughter of Jacob Johnson, play ed with matches. Her two sisters and herself burned to death. Dougias Schroder, 4, 2242 W. 50th st., died from burns received while playing with matches. OUR CELEBRATED GARBAGE Here are some plain statements made to the council committee on health on the interesting subject of garbage: Mary McDowell: "You have had a report that the present reduction plant is a good one. I visited it yes terday and I saw millions upon mil lions of flies swarming on garbage lying exposed and rotting in the sun and sending its foul stench through the neighborhood to poison little babies." Alderman Merriam: "We have found some power, behind the throne that has blocked every move that might take the contract away from the Chicago Reduction Company. Step by step we have been crowded back. The city administration, the law department and the department of public works have .in turn blocked every effort to get action. That delay was marked from, the day that Rep resentative Sabath appeared as counsel for the phicago Reduction Company." C. J. Brown, former head electri cian of the company, said garbage was allowed to .stand exposed from 24 to 60 hours when it could be clean ed up in 24 hours. Also said the rev enue of the reduction company was $2,400 a day for by-products, such as grease, fertilizer, etc., aside from the 47,500 a year paid by the city. Frank Burney, former time-keeper for the reduction company, said 300 to 400 barrels of condemned catsjip was dumped into Bubbly Creek and that condemned calves, hogs and other animal matter are allowed to stand for days until there is enough to fill a tank. o o J Y'LlE-JHDNOT-j 1 SHUT UP.1? J ATENNl3"RCKlT