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BITS OF NEWS
Rev. Frederick Hopkins, pastor
Manor Congregational Church, re
signed to become Chautauqua lec
turer. '
Two men arrested and 1 in custody
for all-night joy ride which ended in
seriously injuring South Chicago po
liceman. 20,000 witness unveiling of Colonel
John Pinerty memorial monument in
Garfield Park.
Frank Miller, saloonkeeper, 437 S.
Hoyne av., and 4 customers were
robbed of money and jewelry totaling
3300 by 5 armed robbers this morn
ing. , Mrs. Alice Jenks Chaffee, widow of
Woodlawn physician, died at her
home this morning. Coroner investi
gating. Supposed morphine poison
ing. John Kawula, 2159 W. 19th St., held
up by 3 men. $18.
Frank Wenches, in saving the chil
dren of Marks Nathan Newish Home,
picked up mad dog and was bitten
twice. Two children bitten.
Charles Hines, 3648 Forest av.,
died In Provident Hospital this morn
ing from bullet wounds inflicted, he
claimed, by R. Ridgely. Latter es
caped. German-Austrian Hungarian Red
Cross of Chicago raised $5,000 at an
entertainment yesterday in the Me
dinah Temple.
Christopher Qelanopoulos, harness
manufacturer, 821 S. aHlsted St., rob
bed of $357 on Halsted st. car by
pickpockets. On way to bank.
Fire-brick vault in office of Pru
dential Insurance Co., Marquette
building, broken open by robbers
with fire ax. $500 in cash and $350
in checks.
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Films which show kissing are
barred in the Orient. This cuts down
a large part of the importations on
which American . manufacturers
migbi wtherwise reap added profits
on. Alas, the modest Jap!
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS
Washington. Ass't Surgeon L. W.
Jenkins of Public Health Service and
four members of crew of revenue
cutter Manning drowned Saturday
off Alaskan coast, according to re
port. Wheeling, W. Va. Fire destroyed
two entire business blocks and half
dozen dwellings at Spencer, W. Va.;
loss $250,000.
Newark, N. J. Fall from sleeping
car berth resulted in death of Gus
tave Lacey, 29, of Baltimore at Man
hattan transfer last night.
Atlantic City, N. J. In speech de
fending Democratic administration,
Speaker Champ Clark said of presi
dent: "That great domestic meas
ures of his administration such as
tariff revision and currency reform
would perhaps be passed over by
historians and his efforts to keep U.
S. out of war would constitute his
clearest title to gratitude of his coun
try." Washington. Solicitor Cone John
son of state department held that
cottonseed oil is not subject to seiz
ure or detention when carried in neu
tral bottoms even if ultimately des
tined to German territory, providing
it is first consigned to neutral port.
Washington. Peace will be estab
lished firmly between Pres. Wilson
and Col. "Marse Henry" Watterson,
veteran Louisville editor, within the
next two weeks.
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AWFUL SIGHTS CAUSE SUICIDE
Bayonne, N. J., Oct. 12. Melan
choly caused by the fearful sights of
the dead at the Triangle Shirtwaist
fire in 1911 where 141 lives were lost,
is Tsaid today to have caused the sui
cide here of Miss Clara Shor, a milli
nery designer.
She went to her room, turned on
the gas and wrote farewell letters to
her friends. Death Came to her as
sh,e was writing the word "corpse."'