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Show EFFECT OF THE BAD WEATHER. Murder, Suicide and All Kinds or Crime Rampant In Chicago. Chicago. Chicago's sulcldo record was broken In Mny when flfty-flvo; persons endod their lives. Tho cor-1 oner's office and Forecaster Cox say tho weather Is responsible for tho Increase. In-crease. The coroner's books show that all records In tho history of Cook coun- i ty wero broken In May. Thero wero . 199 cases of seir-dostructlon so far this year when tho office closed Saturday, Satur-day, and tho effect of tho weather Is to bo seen In tho Increasing scale. January led with twcnty-flvo cases. February had twenty-nine, March thirty-seven, April forty-six, May flfty-flvo. Soven caBes wero reported In tho first soven doys of Juno. Tho effect on all sorts of crlmo also was moulfcBL In tho first live months of Iho yenr thero woro soventy-flvo murders, mur-ders, twenty-two of which woro committed com-mitted in May. |