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The weather: continued fair;
moderate temperature Tuesday; light
variable winds
While skating on Lake Michigan in
Chicago yesterday three small boys
broke through the ice and drowned.
Four young murderers of truck
farmer near Chicago have been SEN
fenced by Judge Petit to hang on
December %. - -
The case of J. J. Bren former act
ing treasurer of the University of
Minnesota, who is accused of the en-
! bezzlement of university funds, was
called for trial today in the Henne-
pin county district court at Mime
apo1is. 5,, q
Delegates from every section of the
United States, together with repre-
sentatives of a number of foreign
| countries, arrived in Chicago today to
participate in the nineteenth annual
meeting of the National Irrigation
Congress.
The Milwaukee branch of the Ma
tional Progressive league has COM
p1eted arrangements for it's first
mass meeting to be held in the Au-
ditorium tomorrow night. Professor
Charles L. Merriam of Chicago and
George L. Record of New Jersey will
be the speakers. -
Two teams of Alaskan dogs have
arrived in St. Paul in the care of
several Alaska trappers, who will
snow them during the Land Products
Show. There are four varieties of
the dogs and they will be driven
about the Twin City when not on ex-
hibition at the St. Paul Auditorium
The case of Louis Coffman, at Shor-
man, Texas, which was brought here
on change of venue from Mckinney,
was called for trial today before
Judge Jones of the Fifteenth Dis
trict Court. Coffman is charged with
killing his wife at their home near
Melissa about two years ago. His
first trial was held at Mckinney and
resulted in a verdict of guilty and a
sentence to death. Later the Court
of Appeals reversed the case. D.. :.
Rudolph Blankenburg, :'the war
horse of REFORM was installed as
mayor of Philadelphia today. The
ceremony took place in the Common
Council chamber and was witnessed
by throng as large as the chamber
would hold. Coincidently the other
city officials elected last month as
sumed their duties Curtailment of
the city's expenses by saving in sal
aries and abolition of certain bureaus
is expected to be one of the first
moves by Mayor Blankenburg. 1t is
declared by experts that nearly ST.
100000 a year can be saved.
Miss Lucy Beech Johns OF Union
town, Pa, who is said to be the only
woman deputy sheriff in the United
States, resigned her position today
in anticipation of her early marriage
| to John c. Grier, Pittsburgh trav-
cling salesman. Miss Johns has been
deputy sheriff of Fayette county since
the beginning of the present year
At the time she took the oath of Of
fee she received handsome gold
mounted police revolver and a badge
studded with jewels. Since that time
she has assisted in the capture of
several men, including a murderer
who had escaped from the county
Jail.
Amid a blaze of oratorical pyro-
technics and political rallies, the bit
terest municipal campaign in the
history of Los Angeles came to an
end today. Tomorrow the voters OF
the city, among them $4,000 women
to- whom the right of suffrage has
been given by the recent Amendment
of the State constitution, will elect
mayor, members of the city coun.
Gil and other city officials Public in
terest centers chiefly in the contest
for the mayoralty between George
Alexander, the present mayor and the
choice of the good government forces
for reelection, and Job Hartman
the candidate of the socialists and the
| labor unions. " u
The appeal Of Albert w. Wolte1
from his conviction of murder in the
first degree of Ruth Wheeler in New
York came up for argument before
the Court of Appeals at Albany, N
Y, today. Wolter has been an in
+ mate of the death hOuSe at Sing Sin {