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i l • . . GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Charles P.. Munday. former first vice-president I of the La Salle Street Trust and Savings bank of 1 Chicago, of which William Larimer was president, is in jail. He was sentenced to five years in the .loliet penitentiary late Saturday afternoon at r Morris, ill., by Circuit Judge S. c. Stmigh, before whom he was convicted on November 18 of conspiracy " in connection with the wrecking of the bank. • Alter the- passing of sentence he was given into the oustexly of Sheriff" Henry L. Hendriekson. who Immediately - t Vk him to the little county jail, where 5 ho was given the only private evil, one useel for f women or single iedent prisoners. John Jacob Herri, k. senior member of I he long established - law firm of Ilcrriok, Allen and Martin, ami 1 a member of the Chicago and University clubs, . died Saturday at his residence. 4r East Schiller r street, after a short illness from pneumonia. Mr. . Herrick was oats of the oldest and most distinguished membsts of the bar and had taken part in many notable legal cases in Chicago. He was often i heard before the Supivme court in Washington iu j epoch making eases. Twedve pirsims were killed and thirty injured Saturday night in a Zeppedin raiel on Paris. This is the first raid by German airships on the Drench 1 capital Since March. 1916, when two Zeppelins dropped a score of bombs. Warning of the approach of the Zeppelins was lirst given at 9:30 in the evening, " w heii aeroplane scouts reported sighting the L hostile craft. All lights in the city were immediately " ordered extinguished. The Germans, sudde-nly taking the offensive, hav"* • thrown the entire battle front in the west into the e greatest battle since the September drive of the e allies. From the sea to the Yosges there is a i rush of furious attacks and counter attacks. The residential section of Vilna. a Russian city . of 200.000 now held by the Germans, is being swept t by a great tire that has raged for several days, according to Information received at leirogrnd, Saturday.
