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Show THIEF, PASTOR GETS BEATING DETROIT. Dec. 2 7. Mistaken for a thief as he was hurrying hurry-ing to bis mu ch with communion up:, untie! rws a: m. liev ti III I-axtor of St. 1 :iui a English Evangelical Evan-gelical church, was badly beaten by a crowd Sunday. rie was knocked down twice and kicked before he could make his Identity known Ke walked to the church I and received first aid after be- lug liberated. fHTCAGO Dae 21 Mrs. Sarah Qulnn, 113 yeam old. was rs-Vived rs-Vived and leellng "as well as Ubual" today after nearly being I asphyxiated In her home yesier-; yesier-; day. It Is believed she absent-mindedly absent-mindedly blew out the ga-s stove I flame She was found unconscious unconsci-ous and an hour later, when nho recovered In a hospital. Insisted upon returning home and 'doing the dishes." Mrs Qulnn came to Chicago In a covered wagon in 1840. -She said sh expected to live to be 150. She does her own housework. house-work. NEW VURK. Dec. 27. Beef stew, bread and cocoa will comprise the menu of a jio.uou hotel "banquet" here on Wednesday Wednes-day evening to raise funds for the Curope.in relief council. Every guest will thereby be the means of feeding 100 hungry European Children this winter who will be ' lnlslble guests" at the dinner. The meats will cost 22 cents and Will be twice ils elaborate as those served In the council's relief kltche ns. Herbert Hoover, Cen-oral Cen-oral John J Pershing and Franklin Frank-lin K Dane will be hosts : IWTEW YoUK Dec. 27. N. H ' Tork, which today was removing re-moving from Its streets the first Snowfall of the V-ar. discovered shortage of laborers. notwlth-s. notwlth-s. and wig leports of unemployment unemploy-ment in the city. A call for fcOOO snow shovclers. with $6.20 for an j elghi-hour day at noon had brought comparatively little response. re-sponse. ' HAVKE, Muni. Dec. SI With his leg broken when hla automobile auto-mobile was wrecked north of 1 rlavre, Friday and unable, from Iosh of blood, to go farther after he had crawled a mile in ten below be-low zero weather, ' Dong-' George Francis, who lost hln appeal from a horse-stealing conviction and wa3 to report tomorrow to atari serving a prison term, cut his throat and died. oo |