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Show NO MORE TICKET SCALPING IN CHICAGO. Illinois comes into line with New York and Pennsylvania in vigorous action against the ticket scalping thieves and forgers, three having boen sentenced on Saturday, in Chicago, Chi-cago, after a fortnight's trial, one of whom, profiting by his experience, pleaded guilty to a second indictment, while the trial of the others will I doubtless proceed to another conviction. convic-tion. Chicago has long been a favorite favor-ite field for ticket speculation, and a blow against the nefarious practice could nowhere have been landed more effectively. The persistent and united unit-ed efforts of the leading railroads of the country to exterminate the business, busi-ness, which is simply one of petty larceny, lar-ceny, robbing the poor and the wage earners, are bringing most satisfactory satisfac-tory results. From the Brooklyn Standard-Union. I |