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Show Vandalism in a Chicago Catholic Church. Chicago, Deoember 28. The police furnish details of an extraordinary piece of vandalism vandal-ism occurring in the St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic Church, corner of State and Thirty-first Thirty-first streets. Unknown persons entered the church several nights ago, .tore down and completely mutilated sixteen oil paintings which were on the wall, tore down all the figures in the niches, went into the sanotu-ary, sanotu-ary, threw the vestments around, and spilled the wine found there over them. Passing into the school-room, desks were overturned, books strewn around, and the walls bespattered bespat-tered with ink. No cause is assigned for the wreckage, and no arrests have been made. |