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Illinois State News Highlights Local Crime and Education
Clarence Fry killed himself while deputies tried to arrest him in Bloomington on bad checks. Kane county jail inmate Harry Baldridge sabotaged bars to aid a break. Illinois Central engineer John Holly died in Chicago. Urbana hosts Life Work conference March 10 to 12.
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Clarence A. Fry
Bloomington
Kane County
Geneva
Harry Baldridge
John Holly
Ilinois Central Railroad
Chicago
Illinois Central
University of Illinois
Urbana
John Torti, Jr
John Torti
John Fasseler
Chicago and Northwestern
Nachusa
Dixon
Peoria
E. N. Woodruff
Woodruff
Louis Mueller
James Betson
Walter Williams
David
Eugenia van Ormand
Jasper
Ind
Clarence P. McClelland
Winifred Wackerle
Frederick William van Oven
Tlllnois Nurserysman's Association
Naperville
von Owen
North Central College
Fort Fill
F. W. Umbrell
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