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OUTSIDE NEWS FROM WIRE AND CABLE St Louis. St Louis voters cast their ballots today in special negro segregation election. First election under initiative clause: of new city charter. Washington. Interstate commerce commission granted slight increase in anthracite coal rates to Erie, Lack , awanna, Lehigh "Valley, New Jersey r Central and Delaware & Hudson rail roads. Cleveland. Harry Lauder missed free $2 dinner when he failed to ap pear as honor guest at banquet by 300 Scots. They drank water toast to his health to show how mad they were. Columbus, Ind, Harry Sims, 20, who whipped his mother-in-law be cause she would not go to church with him, serving 30-day jail, sen tence. New York. On the ground that his "twilight sleep" hospital Is obnoxious business, neighbors have ousted Dr. Wellington Knipe's sanitarium from fashionable Riverside drive. Hartford, Conn. Mrs, Annie Dietz had Michael Arenewich arrested for "attempting theft from the person," alleging he drew off her stocking at night as she slept The thief got away with stocking, but $400 dropped in the bed. St Paul. Surgeons saved life of twin boy after Mary Curran, 24, had fired bullet into her abdomen and killed one of unborn babies. Mother may recover. Fort Worth, Tex. Grand jury in vestigating alleged confession of Mrs. Katherine Harrison, 15, that she shot and killed W. R. Warren, hotel pro . prietor. Milwaukee. Seven deaths and 30 t new cases reported in typhoid epi demic New York. Dr. J. Grant Lyman, alleged mining stock swindler, on way back to New York from Tampa to face a charge of using mails to defraud. Washington. Clarence E. Magoun, ex-city official, Dallas, Tex, and John Morgan, Dallas, both charged with absconding with city funds, arrested at Montevideo. London. Sixty-five per cent of sin gle men unaccounted for when Lard Derby made his report Have volun tary enlisted since report was made. New York. Skirts will be long this spring, according to fashion experts here. Woburn, Mass. The Trinitortoluol building of New England Mnfg. Co., where gases used in bombs for allied armies are manufactured, blew up early today. Only one workman in jured. San Francisco. More than forty guests, all Methodist ministers and their wives, made ill by food alleged to, have been poisoned at banquet Boston. Helen M. Orane, 60, sister of Win. H. Crane, actor, beaten un conscious by two negro bandits when jthey failed to obtain loot INSANE IDEAS If watermelons grew on trees would shoehorns grow on cows? If flies were as big as elephants, could you catch a hippopotamus on fly paper. If fire were cold would an ice man get burned? o o Mr. Schwab says he gave a bonus to one of his employes amounting to $600,000 as a reward for faithful and efficient service. The question is, would not a gift of $1,000 to 600 les ser employes have produced better re sults in the long run? o o Last season was the greatest in the history of the Yellowstone park, as 45,000 visitors passed through the place. -o o Rnmra A Smith Cn.. nrintaro V9 1 S. Wabash av.. bankrupt ' M t&& mmt ht.jkQ 4jtr: wawv. ilMIMiMMl MMMHBMBMBMB