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Show j The law of the last Illinois legisla-. legisla-. ture making option contracts for J commodities illegal aud void will j probably have the t fleet to prohibit the gambling grain "corners" of the j Chicago Board of Trade. Tho parties i who were fleeced by Jack Sturgis last July, alleged swindling on his part and refused to settle. Lait mouth Sturgis sold short to a new corner, and then refused to deliver, alleging that he had got even. So the vocation voca-tion of the grain gamblers has been killed by a simple enactment of a few lines. Perhaps, however, a method ! may be discovered of evading the law. |