The day book. [volume], November 01, 1913, LAST EDITION, Image 7

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DAILY COMMENT ON PEOPLE AND THINGS
A very popular ballad for Saturday
morning was: "When I Got Up This
Morning She Was Gone." "She"
meaning the back yard gate or the
front porch rocker.
But cheer up, Hallowe'en only
Jfc, comes once a year, and "boys will
be boys."
Warden Allen of the Illinois state
prison at Joliet says that most of the
reforms suggested for Auburn, N. Y.,
prison have already been put into
effect at Joliet.
That's a good point to' brag over,
4, as far as it goes. Men who are sent
to prison are human beings and are
entitled to 'be treated as such.
But the question of which state
Illinois or New York is advancing
reforms that will keep men out of
the prisons would furnish a better
topic for argument.
There has been no noticeable de
crease in the number of incendiary
fires in Britain since the landing here
of Mrs. Pankhurst.
A fellow in Washington, D. C, was
. given six months' Imprisonment for
r kissing another man's wife.
, That must have been some whack.
And, anyway, the man's name was
t Broadax.
A West Virginia man who sold his
wife for S4.50 was arrested.
And we suppose some people are
- mean enough to imagine that the
man who had the husband arrested
was the one who bought the wife.
Sixteen-year-old girl thought life
looked brighter when she was arrest-
a ed for vagrancy than when she work
ed in New York department store.
Must have better jails in New York
than here, even though the depart
ment stores are on a par. Would be
a tie here,
A peasant at Moulins, France, is
reported to have killed 400 snakes.
Thought absinthe had been ldboshed
there.
The Brooklyn W. C. T. U. has de
clared for dry Atlantic liners. Why
not? It's easy enough for a liner to
get along on water.
It takes the Irish to whip the Irish.
Observe what Mr. "Hinnessy" is do
ing to Mr. (Murphy down in N. Y.
So Bill Schubert, the Andy Law
rence cop, failed to pass the ser
geants' examination. Or as one po
liceman put it:
We should worry, we should fret;
Bill Hearst Schubert 's out in the wet.
LATE NEWS
Two hundred and fifty strikebreak
ers sent from Chicago to break In
dianapolis car strike.
William Gonger, 70, 2041 Grace sL,
had head blown off by boiler explb
sion. Four hundred new sergeants will
have to wait until chief of police is
appointed.
Mexico City. Catholic party loan
ed Huerta $2,000,000 with which to
pay federal employes.
Indianapolis. Unidentified negro
killed by patrol wagon while making
strike run. Ten injured as result of
street car strike, none seriously.
Militia may be called out
Calgary, Alberta. Large section of
bussiness district of Strome burned
out Loss $250,000.
Kalamazoo, Mich. Three men
crushed to death, girl fatally, two
others seriously injured when tour
ing car skidded and overturned.
Hastings, Minn. F. Raymond Ives,
former New York prominent business
man, killed by train.
Aberdeen, S. D. Jos. Wagner, one
of "wealthiest business men, pres.
Hecla bank, suicided.
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Before a fire brigade can start for
a fire in Berlin the members must all
fall in line, in military fashion and
salute their captain.
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About 8,500 mules were sold in
Kansas City last year at an average
price of $190.
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