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vvuumJW 4Mll. WBMHgpppsnp wwfn oughfare. Plan would make terminal district gateway of West Side. Clifford Coff, 11, 5936 S. LaSalle St., runaway, soughtby police. Mrs. Mary Fairweather, 51, 6431 University av., asphyxiated. Three-cornered deal for erection of home for delinquent boys upset. State's Att'y Hoyne ruled that coun ty could not legally participate in plan. Aldermen refused to listen to plea of Louise H. Korth against vacating of Stone st. City fathers patiently waiting on Mrs. Potter Palmer's at torney. City ordinance demanding fire axes and .extinguishers in boiler rooms and janitors' quarters upheld by Judge Windes. Robert Zaleski, attorney for village of Des Plaines, freed of charge of fal sifying village accounts. Lincoln Beachey will loop the loop at Grant Park, four days, beginning Saturday. Exhibitions 12:30 and 4:30. Ida Littleton eloped with hired man, Joseph Humphrey, from Mont morenci? Ind. Pa wired police. Bridegroom swooned when cop stopped marriage. "Handsome Jack" Koetters taken to Joliet to commence life sentence for murder of Mrs. Emma Kraft. Pro tests innocence. Daniel E. Healy, 2700 Lime st., dead. Apoplexy. $6,700 bill for printing first scien tific school board budget meets op position. Members of board demand investigation of items. Public library to open music branch. Best works to be circulated. Will be largest in country. Charles H. Slack, wealthy grocer, sued for divorce. Cruelty and deser tion charged by wife. J. A. Bingham, 77, Evanston, struck by auto belonging to C. E. Biederman, 6429 S. Sangamon st. Skull fractured. Judge Carpenter denied applica tion of Chicago Bar Ass'n to disbar j Samuel Z. Pinous. Attorney was charged with unprofessional conduct in soliciting business. Mrs. Cecelia McGuirk, 1040 N. Lin coln st., suicided. Poison. Unhappy , marriage. Trinity church planning $500,000 endowment fund. Campaign to be started at once. Banks not hit by John H. Garrett's financial manipulations. Brokers and mortgage companies principal losers. Weber's Union Hotel, famous Ger man resort, forced into bankruptcy. Cabarets and cheap lunches cause. Ward leaders next to face prosecu tion, according to John E. Northrup, prosecutor in vote fraud trials. John A. Ulrich wants $50,000 from Mrs. Elizabeth Ogden, mother-in-law, for alienating wife's affections. Patrick Duffy, 4623 Evans av., chauffeur for State's Att'y Hoyne, fined- $200 and costs for contributing to delinquency of Marjorie White, 18. May grand jury sworn in. John C. Ryan, 23 N. Desplaines st., foreman. Albert Smith, 2360 Fulton av., termed meanest man by Judge Pry. Said to have loaned 15-year-oldr daughter to Gustave Prelovas. Is charged with contributing to delin quency of child. Damage suit against Dean Marion Talbot, University of Chicago, to be reheard. Miss Esther Mercy, former student, awarded $2,500 by jury In v-' slander suit. SUFFRAGETS RAISE CAIN London, May 12. Suffragets created a furore during the state per formance of the royal opera in Con vent Garden, which was given in honor of King Christian. X and Queen Alexandra of Denmark. Seated above the royal box, one of the suffragets screamed: "King George, women are being tortured in your dominions." Ushers dragged the woman- away and another suffraget promptly scat tered literature which fell on the royal heads. She, too, was ejected.