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Show CHICAGO MAN JUMPS FROM FIFTEENTH STORY CHICAGO, July 3. 0. A. Wwjjht, clerk, committed suicide today by jumping jump-ing from the fifteenth atory of the Ma-i sonic temple building to the court be low. He was iastnntly killed. NOTED TURFMAN DIES. FIMLADKLPHIA. July 3. William J. Thompson, familiarly known as the " Duke of Gloucester," who owned the Gloucester race track when racing was permitted in south Jersey, and was the most influential lemocratic politician in that section of Ihe state, die. I Sunday Sun-day in Belfast, Ireland. He waa ttt years old. Thompson, who had made and sient many fortunes, was recently compelled ro go into bankruptcy. When he departed for Ireland, less thaa two weeks ago, he said the only money of his own he waa taking with him was 2. cents, the aiwiunt he possessed wheu he first came to thia country. Friends, he said, were paying the expenses of hit trip. DBY" IN WEST VIRGINIA ' MARTISKCRO. W. Va.. July 3. For the first time in the history of Ber keley and Jefferson counties, covering a period of more than !!tn yeara. both eonntiea today. are dry and will remain so for at leai a year. Jefferson county was swung into the dry column hy the refusal of the county rnurt to grant license to any one, although al-though Charleston. Hhepardstown and llarper'a Ferry voted wet at the municipal mu-nicipal electioa. At present there it not n "wet spot in West Virginia east of Grafton. BOY KILLED IN GRAIN ELEVATOR MALA I), Ida., July 3. Paul Pouat. the thirteen vear old son of Mr. Poust. the Oregon rtbort Line station agent at Malad. was smothered to death nader KVK) bushels of grain in the grain ele tator at the railroad station here hat unlav afternoon. The boy waa watching watch-ing some ea at work in the elevator, when approaching too near one of the pipe, the Miction caught and drew him in. An hour and thirty ntiautea later, after parts of the machinery had been tahea apart, and n portion of the ateel pipe cut away, the boy's lifelees bod v waa extricated front ueder the grain. |