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. i "BOSS" CR0KER STARTS A SUIT FOR LIBEL. N-w Ve.rk. February 12.--Oable dispatches from London today say Hichard Croki-r. the ex-Tammany leader. h.:s instructe-d his F.nglish solicitors to institute a elainage suit against the Manchester Sporting Chronicle for libel in the sum of S.rei.ooo. The banriste-rs are now pn-paiing the bill of e-oin-plaint setting Earth the articles coniplaineel of which attacked Croker iu a se-verc c-riticisni of his political and turf affairs. It is unelerstood that the paper will make ■ strong elefe-iise ami witnesses from Ne-w York will probably be called to testify in the
