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Chicago Examiner from Chicago, Illinois • 14

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Chicago Examineri
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I I WEDNESDAY APRIL 5 1911 14 CHICAGO EXAMINER MID-WEEK REAL ESTATE REAL South Side Demand for Loop Office Space Two Lake Forest Residences Are Continues Unabated Purchased for $54000 REAL North Side WHY PAY RENT WHEN YOLR RENT WILL TAt FOR YOi it HOIL' IN MY NKW APOIbON ST NUBDIA ISIOX 30 ft lot sevier water gas electric light r-inent walks pnvod street free! shrubbeiy rnn- 1 vement to Addion st station Ravenwood Lie-' vated and Lmroln av surface $80 and up easii or easy payments 2 blo to public sliooH anj from to 8 blocks to the following churches and schools: Ht Benedict a huib and bool Joce Vj Church (kiman I utharan Church and School and Congregational Church New 2 fat building icadv fur otmpancy at unv time new and Ma 1 5 or 6 mom flat! oak trim and floors upon plumbing cjvfrtr light mosaic floor baihronnu ana hall" funid'e heat 80 lout lot pa ted LnM $j00 ol more cash balarue $30 S3- month! Tvio fat building and 6 room haih hot and old in each flit $4 500 $700 cah M7 rnonthH Six room mtingc modern plumbing $2 500 $500 rmh £15 nmmhL ight mom lioue hot wiler heat $4 000 $1 fnn rah halame to suit rfhrt Addison Thrift Bron coinci Leavitt open every day and Sun-dav Take Rarenswood federated or Lmoia a surface to Addison or Rrnn walk to subdivision Irving Park b)vd ca to LeauM waL south 1 blofk Kivemew Park ear to Letri vialk north 2 hlook CF PAXTON PLACE ON NDRTR SHORE SOLD TO EWING The Biverdale which will he one of the most attractive apartment houses on the South Side is now in construction at the southeast corner of Calumet avenue and Fifty-sixth street John Driver "being the oxoner It will contain twenty-four apartments and will be beautifully finished Straus 6 7o have just made a bond issue loan on the property of $46000 for six years with interest at 6 per cent The tenants will move out May 1 and three shifts of men a day will be put to work putting in a new front and overhauling the interior including changing the entrance from Dearborn to Randolph street The lower pert of the exterior will be constructed of enameled white tile and In the first story there will be three stores on Randolph street and two on Dearborn The work is to he completed and the building ready for occupancy June 15 An elaborate new lodge ball Is being fitted up In tbe Auditorium into which the Blue Lodge will move The lodge has for years occupied quarters in the Masonic Temple Charles Sons publishers have rented the entire twelfth floor of the new Heisen Building at Dearborn and Twelfth For Sale $ioo cash $40 monthly $300 cash $35 monthly $500 cash $30 monthly New Modern 1 and 8 Room Houses Furnace heat cement walks gas and electric GOOD ATTIC LARGE LOTS fine locations Chicago Lawn east of railroad near school and churches THIS IS A CHANCE TO GET A GOOD HOME ON EASY TERMS Jolhn EfoerBiart Sons 3555 63D ST Phone Chicago Lawn 263 (Circular of free) Open Sundays Soreesemi IHotmses FOR SALE 3 new 6-rcom modern brick houses located at Madison av and 69th place If you are looking for a beautiful home at bargain on terms to suit tben hurry up Soreesemi Security Bldg 188 Madison sL $500 CASH WILL BUY THESE BARGAINS- Grove av 8 room residence: gas and toilet furnace heat- $500 cash balance $25 monthly Pri'-e 322S Canal st two-a-tory brick and cottage in rear: gas and toilet four 4-room flats is clear rent $160 Terirs: $500 cash balance on mall monthly payments of $20 each Barium at $2100 LANORIDGE 4746 STATE ST Bargain Bulletin FOR AFJTIIj Offers opportunity for purrhAaes of South Side real estate at price revet before equaled Home buvers investor builders and all seekers for real bargains whether nf large or small means fthouid secure the at once Copies mailed to anr address on request FRFI BARTLETT CO Tel Randolph 3751 88-100 Washington at $500 Lots on 66th Street $500 $10 cash $5 monthly including interest -water gas electricity in they are at CHICAGO LAWN choice residence neighborhood one block from Marquette Park (322 acres) pride $000 after May 1st busy now" John Eberhart Sons Owners 'Bend for plat) 3555 Trd aft 2g WIDE 29 FT Bishop south of 66th 075 cor Bishop and 66th 49Ht125 1460 blvd near Loomis st 25x125 600 All improvements in and paid for near Ogden Bark school elevated fine neighborhood T4th near Laflm 29xi25 $250 HALEA CO 1538 69TH ST FOR SALE Owner will sell her fine cut stone residence on Groveland av near 32d pi containing 12 finished rooms 4 unfinished rooms hand carved oak finish throughout hot water heat lot 70x110 mortgage $3500 5 per cent patable any time: price $13000 will consider exchange for North Side stores or would rent on term lease to responsible psrtv LA VERT TAYLOR RFALTY CO 422 Bryn Mawr av Edge-water 7201 $800 rmvv BUYS 4858 WENTWORTH AV 2-IORY tRAWB ON BRICK AND STONE FOl NDATTON WITH STORE AND LIVING ROOMS AND 7-ROmi FT AT ABOVE LOT 27X150 BEST OFFF TAKES IT BANK 4640 STATE ST GREATEST NFAR CITY BARGAIN OLTCL ASSES ALU 3214 Rhodes av pressed bmk heftvy stone tnm 7-room residence all oak floors 1st floor 4 mantels with (gates- china closet porcelain hath open plumbing cement basement laundry room and tubs fnut room furnace with hot water connection deep alley lot asphalt street p-lce $3000 OILN 218 G3d at POM BUYS 5514 5TTT AV 2UBTORY JR AMR WITH 4 AND 5 ROOM FLATS WITHIN TEW FEET OF THE BOULEVARD PRItt $2 400 MLR CH BANK 4649 STATE ST 009 Wr 45TH PLACE PRICK $1 500 TWO STORY FRAME TWO ILVTS- TWO LARGE 4 ROOM FLATS: B1 ILDING IS IN IIRST CLASS SHAFT OWNER MUST SELL WILL ARRANGE TERMS BANK 4649 STATE ST FOR RALE- 6514 Marshfield av 6 room frame dwelling $500 cash required balance easy monthly pay Specially reduced prices to all casn buy- tm nts ra OGDEN SHELDON CO 192 CLARK ST 3J3 ROOT ST $500 DOWN TWO STORY FRAMF TWO 6 ROOM FLATS BUILDING IS IN FIRST CL ASS SHAPE AND MAKES EXCELLENT INVESTMENT PRICE $1800 BANK 4649 STATE ST FOR SALE 6 flats on Calumet av near 43th gt 6 and 7 rooms a very substantial building on 50 foot lot: rents for $2 800 per year mortgage $13 000 onlv $4 500 cash for equity SOUTHARD TRAINER 3905 Cottage Grove av joR A DECIDED SNAP BARGAIN-6740 Center ar new brick 2 flats 5 and 0 laigc rms and bath very fine $5300 $S00 cash Inquire at 2d flat or CARTHV A CO Slate and 30th st FINE NEW-5 ROOM COTTAGE BARGAINS Ease payments lot 29x120 73d pi near Bishop st high ground Oak floors and turn enamel bath HALEY CO 1538 69th pi CHICAGO SlS'lO $250 cn-h balance to suit bus 7-roora house 50-ft lot large bam Me us for other bargains DAVIS LAKE 3444 63d st FOR Frame cottage: 6 light rooms CO foot lot front and side porches near 72d and Oieen sts prtee $3 800 terms to suit Ad-rtress 729 Chicago Examiner BIG CITY LOTS $165 easy payments 1 block to Archer av car lines downtown in 30 minute A M'INTOSH 92 La Salle st DO YOU WANT We wilt sell your property for you In from 10 to 80 day (LIN 218 03d st FOR 6345 Morgan st two flat brick new and 6 oak and mahogany tnm electric light furnace Ownei 1st flat John Carlson A Rargams 2-flat building 7018 Eggleston av also 8 room houe 7335 Center av easy terms 1153 63d st FOR SALE 3 flats 7 and 8 rooms- all modem Prune av near 47th st rent $1600 ptice $13 000 Address 742 Examiner FOR SALE 2 Gats Michigan av near 62d st and 7 room modem brick: puce $7200 Address FR 84 Chicago Ex imlncr FOR SALE 6402 Justine st new 2 story brick modern must sell bargain Owner 1 (r I Arthur Buhl Walter Ross 1 Randolph 2987 CO Central Real Estate 76 WEST MONROE STREET i OLD NUMBER 125 MONROE STREET Jj OFFICE SPICE IN NEW HARRIS BUILDING 75 PER CENT GONE 4 Bankers Bond Dealers Insurance and Industrial Houses Take Rooms The demand for office space In Chicago Is a surprise to many people and Is well Illustrated by the ease with which the new buildings are filling up 75 per cent of the space in the Harris Trust Building in Monroe street between Clark an a La Salle haring been taken The finish of the Interior is well advanced and ample provision is being made for taking care of everybody in a first-class manner The occupancy of the building is devoted chiefly to bankers bond dealers Insurance and large industrial Interests Including the Harris Trust and Savings Bank and McMnllen and the following bond dealers: John Welling Buggies Co Ames Emerich Company Compton Co Seney Rogers ft Co Rutan and Thompson Poole The representatives of the legal profession moving in includes: Harris Williams Strong Meacham William Hither William Utt Thaddens Bunch Truman Miner Henry Hntman A Schaffner John A McKeowen Ingram Hallen ft Masson Tollman ft Weinberg AV Drouilllard Montgomery Hart Smith Charles Haffenberg Fyffe Adcock Atlas Adjustment Company and the following commercial paper dealers: Naumberg McKeand Well Farrell ft Co Bayne Ring Co and the following insurance companies and agents: A Langworthy Greene Enger Barnett Lansing Warner Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company Provident Life Insurance Dr Pingree Curtis Declares for Bubble Fountain to Replace 'Disease bubble fountain must supplant the public drinking cup everywhere within the city said Dr AV Pingree Curtis one of the best known physicians on the South Side last night public drinking cup is a relic of hygienic continued Dr Curtis Along with the open sewer the cesspool and other equally unsanitary and unsavory forms of disease breeders modem municipal life has found the public drinking cup Dr Gilbert Brookes another hygienic enthusiast who has made his offices in the Reliance Building a headquarters for an agitation against the miscellaneous cup at public drinking fountains struck his table with his clenched fist would banish every drinkiog cup from the streets and parks of the city Obviously unhealthy the quick and sure carriers of pollution purveyors of disease the common cup must go Philadelphia and Baltimore where I attended meetings of medical and scientific bodies resolutions were adopted pledging the profession to untiring work against the germladen cup parks playgrounds and busy street corners where now tin cups dangle within reach of the tiniest child must see the Installation of sanitary substitutes of which in my opinion the so-called bubble fountain where the water spurts up from a shallow bowl Is the best famous in front of Willard Hall at the corner of La Salle and Monroe streets is a menace to the health of the city Thousands pause there every day and use those cups Typhoid sore throat and various blood diseases may be scattered broadcast through the use of one of those cups by an Infected person I welcome every agency which stands for the abolition of tbe common FIND WILL AFTER 45 YEARS Long Missing Document of Indiana Official Discovered in a Vault INDIANAPOLIS Ind April Eber-nezer Dumont chairman of the states inking fund commission In 186(5 died without knowing that he had disposed of his will so successfully that It would be lost for forty-flie years To-day the state auditor found the long-missing document in the state house vault carefully tucked away in an envelope and sinking fond papers The estate was settled without the will though It Avas known that Dumont had made one FINED FOR JAWBONE TALE Doctor Says He Found One in Coffee Wants Silence Bought SPRINGFIELD Mo April Dr Callan of Kirbyville Mo was fined $20 and costs In federal court here to-day on a charge of using the mails in an attempt to defraud Callan wrote a letter to the Atbuckle Bros Coffee Company saying he had found a piece of human Jawbone with several teeth in a package of coffee He asked $50 to keep quiet threatening to prosecute the company under the food and drug act unless the money was paid him SALOON OPEN ARRESTED Phillip Goldman a saloonkeeper at 1135 Larrabee street was arrested late yesterday afternoon by Detectives Gard and Loftus of the Chicago Avenue Station when tf-Jy found his place open la violation of the election closing latr ZELOSKY 1005 BKLMOXT AV fe OR SALE On North Shore one line of Mil St Paul and vicinity of th millionaire suburb of Lake roret 5 acre traot convenient to tiansnortation an ideal location for tmk garden or chicken ranch price $1000 bnv now and don be sorry later that you have iruaaed an opportunity Address AR 135 Examiner Ravenswood Highlands Nevr North Side 'jhybdmBion Tnt Opened prop postal for piat sod othe information Biacoe Hindman Ac Co Stok 1 vchange Bldg FOR SALK 2-flat bnck 5-fl rooms open Thumbing each flat pared street $4200 $5X caoh $20 mont-hlv ZFLOSKY 1QQ5 Belmont ar FOR SALE OR Two-flit bnck hot water heat fine location- rent $70 earlv must be sc Id lief ore Apl 15 price $6200 Ad Are sb AZ 50 Examiner FOR HALE Bungalow 6 large room all modem Impiovements a ill below cost on easy tems imist be sold by April 5 4324 Ashland Tel Graceland 88G7 FOR BALE Lots oti Irv ng and Oaklev ay 50x 125 Hose to Rarenawood price $700 JCLIUS A FIPHTER JrHO Lini'Oln ar FOR SALE Itovenswood splendid 7 room brume Inf 371 fumade $4 20 Phone Grace 46S4 FOR KALK 8 100m houe furnace heat aphHt street Irving 3600 $5X oaHi Imng Pk 4727 REAL West Side New Brick Homes on big lots 125 ft Noble av bet California Francisco avs Kolfl on payment of only $200 asli balance monthly same ns rent these bouses contain Luge rooms and bath (some with 5 rooms) large attic will? space for additional rooms high cement basement oak trim and floors gas and electric lights shades ete in fact everything complete and ready for occupancy open for inspection every day including Sunday Take Californla-Kedzie Belmont or Elston av electric car direct to intersection of Belmont Elston and California avs and walk one block south WARD HUSTON New No 115 La Salle st 8300 REQUIRED to purchase 3-storr bruk modern improvements good neighborhood fin repau asphalt street neai boulevard: 2 block from elevated station balancp $2 700 on long time if desired possession May 1 MlItPOOK JAMUS A CO Phones Mam 2414 and 1349 125 La Salle st FOR SALE New high elaas modern 2 flat corner hot water and furnace heat $MO jenh Tent 44 59 Monhne at- Kedne 4459 FOR RALE 5301 a Buren at 10 rooms and bath oak finish inlaid floors furnace heat $3 QOQ easy payments FOR SALE Cottage 2950 2 flat $3 750 Lex ington st and 52nd av MURRAY WOLBACH 175 Dearborn st i FOR RALE Prirtlv modern brick residence 7 rooms 4211 Park av Phone Kedzie 24b2 REAL Northwest Side DOWN $10 MONTHLY AM Jf INTEREST WILL BLY A NEW FIVE ROOM COTT4GE OAK FLOORS CONCRETE BASEMENT DOWN $12 MONTHLY An iNTFursT roil nfw no COll AGL CONCRETE B3HT DOWN $15 MONTHLY AND I NTLRUSrr MILD BUY NEW AND MODERN TWO FLAT ZUETEDL 4043 FULLERTON AY raw GAsm 8i CTKLS A UOMIL The balance eai month taken rare nf wbh vour rent monry ft room ent tapes $2 ky te $2H50 pay 10 mnnlhU 4o room two flat frame and brick 5 room two flats buck fl he rent from one flat will pa for your home the bwt houses tor the least moiuy City of Chicago ROR HP TOTTING CO Tel Irving Park 113 OOntf ELSTON AV WEST Homes for S4 200 and up Lots from $800 and tip All improvements in and paid for On tba Raveusvood branch of the estertt station COCHRAN A CLCER 4622 Weslem a Main office 35 1 ten born sf feOR SALE Stop )aing rent look at this fm residence1 in Imng Park that can be bought on easv ierms 7 rooms lot 50x155 ft situated at 8046 52d rt near Grace st only $2 050 if sold vuGim ten dnv A (TMMIVGft A CO New No 40 Iteaiborn st Old No 108 le-u born st BEST 2 FIAT FOR THE MONEY AT lwn Square stone front 5 and 6 rooms rents per mouth $750 oah balance nionth- price $000 CHARLES JOHNSON 2518 Kedne blvd Logan Square BOR SALE cGtt all on 1 floor good eoud rue vd cement hamt 3 blocks a North a caia 4 to for $700 eqmi 3521 Beaohi av Phone Belmont 1751 Nr Humboldt Piuk SEE our 5 loom biuk cottages on 33M xl25 lots only $2 850 2K down $20 month HIM) NAl 84 La 8alle st FOR RALE Before bimng see new brick cottau and flats Harding and 40th near Pivimq $200 cash open Sund $2300 BUYS 6 room modern cottage terms tm suit Ownar 1728 Tnpp av near North av REAL Oak Park TEN NOLI) THIS WLlvK BICG't HUOS Austin 180 5625 South blvd Chicago phon OAlv PARK HOMES $3000 and up Get buv see them to-da Terms Hennksen Bros lxmv-baid and Jackson Oak Park Phone 307 REAL Argo mil or our new free circulars A KUO AN (I IT 'll 1130 Flint National Bank Bldg Chicago REAL ESTATE Warren Park FOR SALE Flat terms Phone Cicero 121 and cottages cash or 3 BAKER 0820 12th REAL ESTATE- Morton Park FOB FINE COZY HOMES OARLNON Builder 4Mh Douglas Park see me firt av mid 23d at right to office A Cblci(i First Mortfaies ini Bills fir Sill Paying (3? to 6 to tb purchMers UM soNS BANKERS COR CLARK AND RANDOLPH HI Bowman Buys Eight Acres in Durand Estate and Will Build Two interesting deals in high giade residence property in Lake Torest have Just been closed by John Griffith including the sale of the Charles Faxton place on Telegraph road to Charles II Ewing the consideration not being given out but the asking price was $30000 This place which is Just across the road from Arthur Meeker's is two miles west of Lake Tor-est and half a mile south of Miss Helen The bolding comprises a tract of about ten acres and has been landscaped within two years by Jens Jensen The house is a frame structure nearly newand contains fourteen rooms MrEwing will occupy the house as his residence Bowman president of the Bowman Dairy Company has purchased through Mr Griffith from Mrs Martha Den-niston of the Charles Durand estate eight acres on Winona avenue one block east of Sheridan road for about $24000 or $3000 an acre The land comprises a beautiful timber lot on a deep ravine and it is Mr Intention to build a fine resl dence at that place Another interesting transaction bas been closed in tbe new business district al Michigan avenue and Thirty-first street Henry Packard has leased from Harry A Strickland the four-story building at 3139 Michigan avenue for ten years at a net annual rental of $1500 The building will be remodeled to euit the requirements of the lessee and will be used as a high-class dressmaking establishment to employ 100 seamstresses This lease following so closely the recent sale of the southwest corner of Michigan avenue and Thirty-first fctieet shows the general trend of business southward The lease was negotiated by William Trainer of Southard Trainer ATTORNEYS FAIL TO i rtwr Exponent of Object of Double Search Sheriff in Charge Is Evelyn Arthur See the self-acclaimed prophet and exponent of who was recently released from jail in bonds of $1000 signed by Mrs Stephen Bridges 1130 Wrightwood avenue finally a fugitive from justice? Since last Saturday when an additional indictment against tbe leader was returned on the charges of abduction and delinquency deputies from tbe office have searched In vain for See A thorough search of the at 2541 Racine avenue has been made but no ttsee of the was found None of the neighbors in tbe vicinity of tbe See home yesterday could throw any light on the mystery See has not been seen by them since early last week Even his attorneys worried by his disappearance expressed themselves as unable to locate him Mona Rees Noncommittal Mona Rees of the cult and designated by See as the of was noncommittal when questioned as to the whereabouts of the leader have nothing to she replied to all questions It Is the opinion of the neighbors that See weighed down by his recent trouble bas left the vicinity for an indefinite stay In addition to the recent expose of tbe cult See has been sued for divorce by Mrs Agnes Chester See 1247 La Salle avenue herself founder of a on the charge of desertion Almost immediately after the suit was filed tbe flat at 2541 Racine avenue in which See ana Mona Rees lived was raided Sheriff in Charge of Hunt do Dot know where Mr See Is at the present time if he fcnot at bis said Mrs Bridges last night "It is certain that he has no reason to attempt to evade the Assistant State's Attorney Burnham in charge of the prosecution of See stated yesterday that the task of locating the missing man is in the hands of the Sheriff should never have been said Attorney Burnham Judge Tuthill consented to reduce his bonds from $10000 to $1000 I do not POISON IN CANDY 4 DEAD Detectives Suspect Ten-Yeald Rival In Ray Children Tragedy ELAINE Ark April That the four small cbaildren of Mr and Mrs Ray were poisoned by a ten-year-old boy the rival of Willie Ray for distinction of being boy in is the theory of detectives working in an effort to solve the strange death of the four Ray children The postmortem showed unmistakable signs of poison and a quarrel between Willie and his rival is believed to have been followed by an aletmpt to poison Willie the poison being given in candy which was distributed to the whole Ray family The feud between the children had lasted all Winter I I I streets This Is an important step and it is believed that it will be followed by other large concerns in the publishing business The construction of the building is progressing favorably Mark Levy ft Bro have sold for Julius Oppenheimer the property at 4731 and 4733 South Ashland avenue to Mauns for $28000 including a lot 48x125 feet improved with a two-story brick building an doccupied by the New York Cloak ft Suit Company The Pittsburg Screw Bolt Company has selected a twenty-acre tract east of the first subdivision at Gary as a site for Its new plant It is proposed to construct two factory buildings and a warehouse with office buildinc the aggregate cost being about $1000000 Nephew of Prosecutor Who Convicted Him Locked in Freight Van 8 Days Ago PHILADELPHIA Pa April 4 keep a vow of vengeance which he made against Assistant District Attorney Rogers a former convict enticed twelve year-old Bernard Rogers a nephew of the lawjer and an orphan to the Baltimore Ohio Railroad yards on March 27 and locked him in an empty box car This is tbe statement on a postcard which presumably -was written bv the forcer convict and wbicli was received to-day bv Mr Rogers with whom the lad lived The boy bas been missing since a week ago Mondav The card is signed with tbe prison numbers and was dated April 3 It read as follows Dear Sir: Your nepbew yon will find in an emptv box car I ft No 59496 winch I put him in The uncle of the said boy convicted me four years and sent me io prjnon I swore vengeance but 1 take greater pleasure in making bis people miserable like he made my sisters If this does not work I will see him again This is no phony letter and I hope he is dead YOURS FROM THE PEN The railroad officials are endeavoring to locate the car described If the story is true the Rogers hoy must have died as he would have been without anything to eat or drink for more than eight days Henry Becker an ex-convict who is believed to be Insane wax arrested to-nigbt He was convicted by Prosecutor Rogers in October 1907 and was given the number while in prison COUSIN OF AN EARL IN RENO FOR DECREE RENO Nev April 4 A prepossessing young woman of quiet demeanor and fearful that any newspaper should know of her presence here with her mother after living quietly in an apartment house since last Fall filed a divorce action to-day She Is Mrs Dalrymple whose husband she bas stated is in line of Scottish nobility be being a cousin of the Earl of Stair and grandson of Lord Napier Her husband is now in London from which city she came She has given out that she was formerly Miss Murrlel Alger daughter of Edward Alger a large furniture man of New York City ana related to ex-Secretary Alger of President McKinley's Cabinet Neither she her mother nor her attorney will disclose anything respecting the nature of her allegations In her complaint which was sealed when filed Every effort is being made to keep the details of the suit from publicity so eager Is she to have the decree granted and nothing known about it It is understood tbe husband will not contest it SWITCHMAN CRUSHED DIES Ernest Hart fifty-four years old 1550 South Sawyer avenue a switchman employed by the Chicago Burlington ft Quincy Railroad was crushed between two cars while at work in the yards near South Kedsie avenue and he died yesterday in Hospital Company Aetna Life Insurance Company Dalmar ft Co and the following Rufus Dawes Stevenson copper Godso Banghart advertising Cudahy Refining Company Cudahy Packing Company Haskins A Sells Raymond Concrete Pile Company Jackson William Hoskins Audit Company of Illinois Underfeed Stoker Company American Colortype Company A Rosing United Food Products Company and the German-Ameriean Car Company The Real Estate Board Building at the northeast corner of Randolph and Dearborn streets which Edward Landsberg and William Scown purchased from the heirs of the late Percy Morgan recently for $375000 is to be converted into a modern office building at a cost of $100000 the name of the building changed the property to be in charge of White ft Tabor ASSASSIN TRIES TO KILL PRIESTSAT MASS Four Shots Fired in St by Supposed Anarchist but All Miss Special Cable to the Examiner ROME April An unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate the priests at St to-day During the celebration of the midday mass an Austrian workman named Pesantl fired four shots at the three officiating priests All of them missed hut the vast congregation was thrown into a panic Fesanti was arrested after a struggle He is believed to be an anarchist Tbe famous choir was chanting the responses to the priests when the would-be assassin arose from bis place In tbe congregation and fired At the time the great majority were kneeling and only those attracted to the magnificent cathedral through curiosity saw him rise to his feet At the first shot however the choir ceased chanting and a scene of confusion followed The congregation included many American tourists who are present In Rome for the ceremonies connected with the celebration of union These Joined with the terrified Italians In an effort to escape and many were crushed and bruised Three of the members of the congregation retained their presence of mind how-ver and thew themselves upon Pesanti He struggled like a madman but was overcome and held until the papal guards could reach him He was turned over to the authorities lEuliliRy: SAYS MISS HERELEY The course of true love 3s not running at all smoothly in the affairs of Miss Kathleen nereley daughter of Millard Hereley city traction expert and Ira Leet Iiawn nephew of the late Ira Ilawn The renewing of Miss Hereley's engagement to young Mr iiawn an engagement that had once been broken off announced privately on the young return from the East a few days ago and denied by Mrs Hereley was yesterday denied also by Miss Hereley who seemed considerably annoyed that the fact of the renewed engagement bad become public property of my friends have been spreading the rumor that Mr Rawn and I are she said "The report is quite untrue We are not engaged now and we never will be In view of the fact that friends of Miss Hereley declare positively that she personally and privately announced the coming marriage and seemed to be quite happy over it these same friends cannot reconcile Miss Hereley's present attitude The engagement when first announced last Summer was denied by all the members of the Hereley family then it was formally announced by Miss Hereley and then again It was 7roken at the eleventh hour after the wedding invitations were out Mrs Hereley has been much opposed to her daughter's choice and has not (been backward about saying so Now the friends of the North Side young woman are wondering what the next turn or twist in this strange tangle eC sweet-hearta will he Taft's Plan to Tax Magazines Assailed Railway Mail May Get No More Leaves of Absence With Pay WASHINGTON April President pet scheme for increasing postal revenues by taxing the magazines got a body blow to-day from Chairman Fitzgerald of the Committee on Appropriations who introduced a bill repealing the law appropriating $50000 for a special commission to Investigate the cost of transportation of second-class mail matter Mr Fitzgerald will be able to get a favorable report on the repealing act in bis committee and it will pass tbe House Indications are that sentiment against Increase of postal charges on magazines has grown much since the question was submitted to the Senate that opponents of the Increase will be able to push the Fitzgerald bill through the Senate The repealing act is carried neatly in a Joint resolution the first measure introduced In the House correct errors in appropriation bills passed March 4 This is included in the appropriation bill for the postoffice Other corrections desired to be made In this law Include repeal of the thirty leave of absence with pay for railway mall clerks and a reduction from $1750000 to $769-000 for traveling expenses of railway mall clerks Other changes In the appropriations law for 1911 are Cut out $30000 for enlarged powerhouse at Battle Mountain Sanitarium Hot Springs Reduce amount for analyzing and testing coals and lignites from $135000 to $100000 reduce Mount Rainier National Park appropriation from $5400 to $5000 cut off bond indemnity of $500 from State Board of Regents of University of Idaho take from Secretary of Navy authority to make advance payments on contract work up to 60 per cent of value of work done HYPNOTIST AVERTS PANIC Woman Holds 1000 Under Spell In Theater With Roof Aflame KENOSHA Wis April 4 is nothing hysterical about Kenosha any more and even a fire on the roof of a theater in which a thousands persons were watching a hypnotic exhibition failed to alarm the crowds People on the outside thought that the spectators would be panic-stricken when the fire engines arrived In front of the theater but Mrs Herbert Flint the hypnotist waved her hands over the crowcL declared that there was no danger and that the show Inside was a lot better than the one ontside Not a person left the theater The flames were speedily quenched RECTORS ARE RECONCILED and Son End Restaurant Warfare YORK April Charlea Rector eell known hotel keeper and rtauran- and his son George who ed any a year and a half ago whan tne bought restaurant and ed It In opposition to his tether have ne reconciled toRctor t1 et met to-day and burled the hatchet er Rector said afterwards that his would probably help him In the man-aat the Hotel Rector without reflag Mrm the safe bought from 7 1 i.

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