Liquor Is Tested in Court. – That whisky which Harry Kleppert, bartender in a saloon at Fifth street and Eggleston avenue, is alleged to have possessed in violation of law was high proof, was demonstrated to W. Meredith Yeatman, Municipal judge, yesterday by Joseph H. Woeste, Prosecutor.  Woeste applied a flame to some of the liquor.  Instantly a bluish flame shot upward.  “Must contain alcohol,” was the comment of Judge Yeatman as he fined Kleppert $500 and costs.  Detectives Alex Genter and Robert Gernhardt and Police Sergeant John Reichert said the liquor was concealed in a teapot.
     Woman Injured By Elevator. – When her foot became wedged yesterday between an elevator floor and shaft wall in the Trevarren Building, 961 East McMillan street, where she is janitress, Mrs. Edward Dent, 40 years old, screamed for help.  City firemen rescued her with difficulty.  Mrs. Dent’s foot was lacerated.  Police were told she was operating the elevator at the time of the accident.
     Actress Robbed When In Auto. – After riding in a strange man’s automobile yesterday, to escape the rain, she missed her purse containing $27, a $75 gold watch and fob, five rosaries and two bank checks, Mrs. Marie R. Moore, Munro Hotel, actress, reported to police.  She said that she and her daughter, with whom she performs accepted an invitation to ride in the machine from Fifth and Walnut streets to their hotel.
     Taxi Drivers in Round-Up. – The periodical drive on down-town taxicab drivers was made last night by District No. 1 police, the result being that ten chauffeurs are to be arranged in Municipal Court this morning on charges of violation of the soliciting ordinance.  Instead of remaining in their machines, as the ordinance requires, the defendants lingered on the sidewalks in front of the Hotel Gibson and Hotel Sinton, police allege.  Complaint prompted the round-up.
     Fined for Blow in Ball Game.  – William Malley, 301 State avenue, who was alleged to have hit Floyd Jordan, Cummins School teacher, during a ball game between the Cummins and Oyler Schools, was fined $5 and costs on a charge of disorderly conduct yesterday by Municipal Judge W. Meredith Yeatman.  Malloy was a substitute umpire in the game and the trouble arose when Jordan protested a decision, it was said.
    One Fined:  One Freed. – On a charge of having possessed liquor in violation of law William Schroeder, bartender in Abraham Wise’s café at Twelth and Elm streets, was fined $100 and costs yesterday by Municipal Judge W. Meredith Yeatman.  Wise was freed on a similar charge, it being proved that he was not responsible for the presence of the liquor in the saloon.
     Judge Commends Wife’s Stand. – For having declined to believe that her husband was paying attentions to another woman, Mrs. C. F. Brawley, 3134 Linwood avenue, wife of a grocer, was commended yesterday by Municipal Judge W. Meredith Yeatman.  Omer Lacey, 3434 Cardiff avenue, Oakley, was fined 450 and costs on a charge of disorderly conduct.  Mrs. Brawley having testified that it was he who telephoned stories to her concerning Mr. Brawley.  Lacey denied the allegations.
     Held for Grand Jury Action. – Charged with having cut Mrs. Lillian Woods, 1314 Main street, two weeks ago, Abraham Becker, 3442 Harvey avenue, auto radiator repairman at 913 Race street was ordered held for grand jury action yesterday by Municipal Judge William D. Alexander.  Becker’s wife declared she had pleaded with Mrs. Wood to cease accepting Becker’s attentions.  Becker testified that Mrs. Wood became incensed when he quit giving her money.  Mrs. denied having accepted anything.  Her brother John Berning, who lives in her home, was dismissed on a charge of assault and batter which had been filed by Becker.
     Woman Swallows Poison. – “Tired of living” was the faint answer of Mrs. Agnes Inskeep, 32 years old, 1024 Linn street, early yesterday when a neighbor woman asked her why she had swallowed poison.  Mrs. Inskeep is in a serious condition at the General Hospital.  The effects of the poison caused the victim to scream, which awoke her two children, Edwin, 12 and Mary, 6 years old.  Police said they were told that Mrs. Inskeep’s husband, Albert Inskeep, had not been living with his family.
     “Stranded Southerner” Fined. – Leonard Chenault, 38 years old, Fifth and Pike streets, who is alleged to have obtained small sums of money from business men by saying he was a stranded Southerner who needed train fare to Detroit, Mich., where he would get a job, was fined $50 and costs on a charge of having received money by false pretenses yesterday by Municipal Judge W. Meredith Yeatman.  Detectives Robert Gernhardt and Alex. Genter arrested Chenault after several complaints had been made.
     On Way to Federal Prison. – Deputy United States Marshal C. M. Wright, Columbus, Ohio, yesterday brought to Cincinnati Edward E. Fox, Columbus former assistant cashier of the Commercial National Bank, Columbus, who was sentenced recently by United States District Judge John E. Sater to serve five years at Atlanta (Ga.) Federal Penitentiary upon his plea of guilty to an indictment charging him with having appropriated approximately $125,000 of the bank’s funds.  Four other federal prisoners under sentence also were brought here.  All will be confined in Hamilton County Jail pending assignment by United States Marshal Davanney of deputies to take them to Atlanta and Anamosa (Iowa) Federal Reformatory.

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EDUCATING EUROPE.
Foreigners Need to Learn Dollar Also Has Work at Home.
[Chicago News.]

     From Rome comes the announcement of an impressive meeting under the auspices of the Italo-American Society in honor of President Harding and Secretary Hughes.  The American branch of the same society announces a tour of Italy for the coming summer.  A small army of American college students and instructors will invade Italy with the approval and support of the Italian Government.
     If one my trust the literary Klondikers who rush lecturing to these shores America can teach Europe only one thing – America.  Foreign visitors admit a vagueness in regard to American geography and customs.  But the real point of ignorance on which they do not touch is the home status of the American dollar.  Europeans are generally worried that the American dollar is breeding too fast, that it overflows American pockets, and that the only help for this desperate situation is to settle a large number of dollars on the European territory.
     Europe needs to be taught that the American dollar, though it travels a good deal on errands of mercy, can find willing hosts and congenial occupation at home.  No one can better teach this to Europe than the college professors.  By all means, then, let them tour abroad.  Let them talk in Europe about their salaries exactly as they talk at home and spend with the same frugality.  Europe will soon tumble to the fact that the American dollar has an abundance of work in America.