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WOMEN ROUGHLY HANDLED. THE CROWD USE EGGS AND BAGS OF FLOUR. [Bt Electric Telegraph—Ooptbight} {Unitid Pbebs Amooiation.] (Received 8.50 a.in.) Loudon, June 14. Arthur Barnitt, for conveying letters and drugs to Grace Roe in Holloway Prison, was fined £lO. He pleaded that he did not know the contents of the package. The firm will not act for the suffragettes in future. Suffragettes attempted to march to Olympia. Extraordinary precautions were taken to protect horses. „ The police broke up the procession near Albert Hall. >. Suffragettes burnt Reigate cricket pavililon. A crowd on Palmer’s Green pelted suffragettes with eggs and bags of flour. Those pelted included Gouldeu, and Mrs Pankhurst’s brother. A crowd at Leicester, < including women with firelighters, attacked and demolished the market place stall where suffragettes were selling confectionery during self-denial week. The police rescued the suffragettes. A VICTORY IN ILLINOIS. j (Received 8.30 a.m.) New York, June 13. A conference of women’s clubs at Chicago carried a resolution by a large majority, after 20 years’ battle, in favor of women’s suffrage. An announcement was simultaneous-

ly made that the courts had upheld the constitutionality of the suffrage laws in Illinois.