Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 143, Hammond, Lake County, 4 December 1906 — Page 1

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ROOSEVELT SPEAKS FORTH He Would Curb Growth of Colossal Fortunes and Give Poor a Chance.

JAPANESE JS CITIZENS Touches on Negro Question and Suggests on Currency Reform and the Trust Regulation. (Special to Lake County Times). Washington, Dec. 3. President Roosevelt's message to the second session of the Fifty-ninth congress deals with a number of new and important subjects, chief of which is the government prosecution of the trusts, the abuse of injunctions in labor troubles, the negro question, the preaching of class hatred between capital and labor, additional legislation for the control of large eorportalons, a federal inheritance and income tax law and currency reform. Tho message opens with a statement of what the last congress left unfinished, and of this he says: "I again recommend a law prohibiting all corporations from , contributing to the campaign expenses of any party. Such a bill has already past one house of congress. Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let is prohibit In effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly. "Another bill which has just past one house of congress and which is urgently necessary should be enacted into law is that conferring upon the government tne right of appeal in criminal cases on questions of law. This right exists in many of the states; it exists in the District of Columbia by act of the congress. It is of course not proposed that in any case a verdict for tho defendant on the merits, should be set aside. Recently in one district where the government had indicted certain persons for conspiracy in connection with rebates, the court sustained tho defendant's demurrer; while in another Jurisdiction an Indictment for conspi racy to obtain rebates has been sustained by the court, convictions obtained under it, and two defendants sentenced to Imprisonment. The two cases referred to may not be in real conflict with each other, but it is unfortunate that there should even be an apparent conflict. At present there Is no way by which the government can cause such a conflict, when it occurs, to be solved by an appeal to a higher court; and the wheels of Justice are blocked without any real decision of tho question. I cannot too strongly urge the passage of the bill in question. A failure to pass will result in seriously hampering the goverrment in Us fffort to obtain justice, especially against wealthy individuals or corporations who do wrong; and may also prevent the government from obtaining Justice for wageworkers who are not themselves able effectively to contest a case where the judgment of an inferior court has been against them. I have specifically in view a recent decision by a district judge leaving railway employees without remedy for violation of a certain so-called labor statute. It seems an absurdity to permit a single district judge, against what may be tho judgment of the immense majority of his colleagues on the bench, to declare a law solemnly enacted by the congress to be "unconstitutional," and then deny to the government the right to have the supreme court definitely decide the question." ICvavlon by TecbulealltlCM. "In connection with this matter, I would like to call attention to the very unsatisfactory state of our criminal law, resulting in large part from the habit of setting aside the judgments of inferior courts on technicalities absolutely unconnected with the merits of tho case, and where there is no attempt to show that there has been any failure of substantial justice. It would be well to enact a law providing something to the effect that: "No Judgment shall bo set aside or new trial granted in any cause, civil or criminal, on tho grounds of misdirection of the Jury or the improper admission or rejection of evidence, or for errors as to any matter of pleading or procedure unless, in the opinion of tho court to which the application Is made, after an examination of the entire cause, it shall affirmatively appear that the error complained of has resulted in a miscarriage of justice." Injunctions. On the subject of the abolition of Injunctions in labor disputes, he says: 'J my last message I suggested the

enactment of a law in connection with the Issuance of Injunctions, attention having been sharply drawn to the matter by the demand that the right of

applying1 injunctions in lobor cases should be wholly abolished. It Is at least doubtful whether a law abolish ing altogether the use of injunctions in Buch cases would stand the test of the courts; in which case of course, the legislation would be ineffective. Moreover, I believe it would be wrong t altogether to prohibit the use of in-. Junctions, it is criminal to permit (Continued on page six.) OLD RESIDENT LOWELL Dr. Bacon, Leader in Lodge, Church and Educational Life Succumbs. A ITlJtf BFEIGHTS Honored Career As Soldier and Respected as Ideal Citizen Practitioner 40 Years. (Special to Lake County Times.) Lowell, Ind., Dec. 3. Dr. E. R, Bacon, after suffering from bright's disease for several years, died at his home in Lowell Monday, Dec. 3. Dr.aeon was born In Orleans county. X Y.. la 1840. When 21 years of age he responded to the general call for troops, enlisting April 25, 1861, as a member of company G., Second Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Ha was a private and with that command served for three months. In 1863 ha re-en-llsted in the One Hundredth Illinois Volunteer Regiment and served for three years. In 1864 ha was transferred to tho regular army as hospital steward, and thus continued his connection with the Union troops until the fall of 1S65, when he was discharged on a general war order. At tho battle of Chickamauga, his clothing was pierced by five bullets but he sustained no serious injury. During the years of his active army service he was in many important battles and never faltered in the performance of duty or in his allegiance to the flag and cause it represented. In the spring of 1S65 Mr. Bacon first began his career as a practicing phy sician and surgeon. He had his office over Andrew Moore's furniture store on the present site of the postoffice in Lowell, then a small village of 300 population. In the spring of 1S67 he opened a drug store on the site of Q. V. Water's block and moved his office into it. In 1S74 he build his present residence and established his office there. He was a graduate of the Chicago Medical college and has been In constant practice in Lowell forty years. On June 3, 1S6S, Dr. Bacon married Miss Martha B. Sanger, daughter of James II. and Martha (Cleveland) Sanger of Lowell. This union was blessed with two daughters, Sylvia L, who is the wife of Hon. S. C. Dwyer of Lowell, and Grace M., the wife of Dr. L. A. Spindler, a dentist of Chicago Heights, 111. A widow and these daughters survive him. Dr. Bacon was a Knight of Pythias, a Mason and belonged to the I. O. O. F. and G. A. R. fraternities. He was active and influential in community affairs, was a school director for eleven years, and when he died was a member of the pension board which position he filled for thirteen years. (His first presidential vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln and he has supported every republican presidential candidate ever since. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, serving as one of its trustee for thirteen years. The doctor had the reputation of being a charitable, progressive, public spirited citizen. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, Dec. 5. WILL GIVE DICKENS IMPERSONATION. William Battls Sterling will next Thursday evening in the number that is to be given arpear second in the Hammond lecture course. Battis is an impersonator of the works of Dickens and by many is considered to be one of the best in his line now appearing before the public. In these "Life Portrayals" Battis reproduces some of the more widely known creations of the great novelists with all their . peculiarities of speech and dress, with an appropriate monologue arranged from the book la which the character appears.

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OBSERVATIONS OF ARTIE. They not n great Joke on the police department. Some feller told one of the cops that a woman Jumped off the Monon bridge and moaned "In here" when she Jumped. He said her faithful dog bad been drowned trying; to save bis mistress. Charley See said he didn't believe It, cause the water In front of the old slaughter-house nut so thick that the lady could wnlk on It If she fell In. Enny how the police drug the river nil day and all they could And was another dog like the first. Then one of the cops got a bright Idea and after putting finger to his forehead and burying himself In thought for a while, he said he bet the woman went down Just to drown those dogs. Of course he may be wrong and a woman may have drownod If she did Its a pity, but I sometimes think the world would be better off If they'd save some of the good dogs and drown a few of the bad people. And the weather, Artief o Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight. Wednesday rnln followed by colder weather Wednesday night. "WHITING STILL "KICKING Prominent men of Whiting, who will allow their names to be used in connection with the matter if necessary, are of the opinion that the public should know once and for all time that Whiting has no intention whatever of annexing its self to Hammond. The proposition is a ridiculous one, according to popular sentiment, from 4 every standpoint. hltlng Sua

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GANINE HOMANCE TUr. PAIII EI MIL UHLUI1 Dragnet Brings Two Dogs to the Surface of the Murky Stream. NO SUICIDE IN THE AFFAIR Startling Cry Proves To Be Woman's Wail Over the Doomed Pet Terrier. A second dog scooped from the bottom of the Calumet river yesterday afternoon by the police after a hard day's work in dragging the river for the body of a supposedly drowned woman, who was thought to have committed suicide by jumping from the Monon railroad bridge last Sunday evening, gave a plausible solution of the mystery that has been stirring Hammond for the past forty-eight hours. Investigation now centers on the person who committed the "dog gone murder." and the possibilities are that he has been hiding in Hammond somewhere yesterday and enjoying the excitement that he has created. As Mr. Watklns is hired by the Erie Railroad company to guard the bridge and give warning to approaching trains, it cannot be expected of him that he be a professional in things peTtaining to suicide matters. But he may TBtill Toe correct when

ne says mat lie neara a woman s cry last Sunday evening which ended with

tne words, "in here. The woman may have taken the little fox terrier in her arms and cried over him like one would over somebody that is dear to one and when she thought she had cried enough over him, she may have wound up her wail with the words "in here," as she tossed him into the Calu met. Mr. Watkins says that for a time he heard no more, which, by applying the Sherlock Holmes principle, is also very plausible, as the dog was too surprised when he first struck the dirty waters of the Calumet river to make another sound for a time. As for the woman she evidently walked away in order not to be a witness to the "crime that she had committed. She could not have gone very far when the dog began to bark. He barked for two reasons. First of all he wanted to get out of the Calumet river as it, in that particular place is very, very dirty, the slaughter house having for years emptied its filth into this very spot. He couldn't sink very easily as the water was too thick and occasionally he found a place where he could walk on the water, but soon he would again be stuck, While he was struggling hard to follow his cruel 'mistress she drew farther away from him and his bark became more desperate, until, in hi3 exhaustion, it finally died down and the dog in his hopelessness, gulp ed down several mouthfuls of th Calumet water, closed his eyes and resigned himself to the inevitable. He was after all a lucky dog. His body was found soon after his death. The fate of the one that was found late yesterday afternoon, and which evidently was drowned some time ago, was probably just as cruel as that of his brother. A few desirable lots in Mcnie and Woodlawn subdivisions unsold. Low prices. Easy terms. Inquire of agent on ground, or at Hammond Realty Co. fleet Hammond building. d v.

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Repentance in Fastness of the Ozarks. TO filfflUL ' MARRIAGE tamuj questions Validity of Wed ding and Sends Scouts to Ascertain the Truth. Fred Memhard, tailor's modet and thoughtless kid, is strictly in the hands of his relatives and they are trying to rescue him from the clutches of Lucille McLeod. Miss McLeod's clutch is not so particularly secure at that and It is not on record that she cares much. Fred Memhard is a good looking. well-bred boy, who had more of the romantic turn than agreed with him. In his sober senses he might not have thought of acting as a "fall guy" for Miss Lucille McLeod on the eve of her trial for the murder of a man whom she knew not wisely but too well. Memhard did not consult his friends before he espoused Lucille McLeod. He recently had been divorced from Miss Blackman with whom he had lived happily until a disagreement grew out of childish pique. Whether Miss Blackman divorced him or wheth er he divorced Miss Blackman or what the grounds were had little to do with his meeting the girl whose trial was pending. Went the Pace. His life from the time he was sep arated from his first wife until he hook ed up with Miss McLeod was a series of drinking bouts. He was careless of his companionship and was Inclined to be a "real devil.". -Hof - road - many. street car visits to Hammond during the summer previous to the fatal Oct. 27. lie had a few friends here who besought him to behave. He came sometimes with men of careless mood and sometimes with young women out on a lark. Introduced Miss McLeod. The last of the latter he introduced in Hammond was Miss McLeod. None of his friends here recognized in Miss McLeod the young woman who was about to stand trial for the murder of Nieman. Farther away from that was the idea that he contemplated marrying her. When Memhard came out to Hammond to marry Miss McLeod, which he did with license and judge, he kept aloof from his friends, whether by accident or design. If he was in the same condition at the time the ceremony was performed as he was on occasions of his previous visit to Hammond with Miss McLeod, it is possible that he did not realize what he was doing. In any event the marriage appears to have fulfilled the prophesy of the old adage which concerns itself with hasty weddings and the leisurely repentance, which is alleged to invariably follow such escapades. The latest phase in the case has developed in the spiriting away of the hero of the romance to the fastnesses of the Ozark moutains, far from the maddening crowds, ignoble strife, and what is more to the point, twenty-five miles from the nearest railroad station. This fact was brought out by a visit to Hammond yesterday of two persons, who claimed to be a sister and uncle of the bridegroom, and whose mission in this city was to ascertain the validity of the marriage, of Memhard with the McLeod woman. They said Memhard's actions had cast some doubt in their minds as to whether he had really married the girl. He would not deny the union, they declared, but on the other hand, he had refused to confirm it. Claim He "Was Drugged. When shown the records in the case which attested to the marriage having been performed, they explained that it was their belief that the bride had drugged Memhard and while he was under, the Influence of these agencies, she succeeded in getting him to stand for his part in the ceremony. Memhard's absence in Missouri they explained was for . the sole purpose of avoiding a meeting with his wife. The uncle said Memhard had come home a few days before his marriage dazed, and had escaped while still in that condition, and was married. On these grounds they will seek to have the union annulled. The question of the validity of the couple's marriage was raised once before In a query to The Lake Cocntt Times over the long distance 'phone. On that occasion The Times satisfied Itself that the ceremony had been performed by recourse to. the records. A significant fact pointing to a possible mistake in that line seemed to have been the absence of Memhard from the court room during the trial of tho McLeod woman. The dramatic effect upon the jury was thereby lost to some extent, but there is no doubt the report of her marriage had helped some in. gaining Miss McLeod'a acquit

Character of Erie Crossing of C, C & L. Will Determine Completion.

COMMISSI DECIDES Body Meets Today at SpringfieldOther Obstacles Overcome and - Work Progresses. For the past some time the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville road has been in hot water, not knowing how It would cross the Pennsylvania tracks in West Hammond. About three weeks ago the matter was referred to the rail road commissioners who met today at Springfield, 111. 1 The Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville road wanted to put in nn lnterlocker at the Pennsylvania crossing but thla, when taken up with the Pennsylvania oftlcials resulted in a flat refusal. They said that if the C, C. & L. wanted to cross its tracks they would have to cross overhead which would mean an expenditure of thousands of dolars and would also delay the completion of tho road over a year. On the other hand, if the railroad commissioners decide to let the C, C. & L. put in an lnterlocker. they will have their road completed to Chicago by the first of the year. In speaking to a Times reporter thla morning, one of the officials of the road seeking permission to cross, said he thought the commissioners would decide In favor of the C, C. & L., when they realized the enormous expenss and losa of time to which the latter would be subjected. The new road has made satisfactory arrangements with the Monon and Chicago Junction roads for crossing their tracks'and now the only' thingr that bars their progress Is the question ol the Pennsylvania crossing. -Last Saturday tho Monon. tracks were crossed and by this evening tha tracks to tho state line will be completed. Should the railroad commissioners refuse the C..C. & L. permission to put in an lnterlocker, it will probably run its trains over the Erie tracks until the overhead crossing is completed. In speaking of the up to date depot that the new road was to give Hammond, the official sail that as soon as the road is completed so that the C, C. & L. can bring material over its own road the depot will be built, and that the reports to the effect that they will not build an up to date depot here, ara false. De France Fights Hard to Purge His Name of Blood Stigm? Crown Point, Ind., Dec 4. The trlat of Duffy De France on a charge of having caused the death of George Young of Ainsworth, is the center of attraction in the circuit court today. Yesterday was consumed in hearing the state's evidence, much of which Is of a technical nature. The trial is a. very difficult one, as it bristles with; medical terms. The defense is making a strong fight on the contention thai any injuries received by Young in th fight between him and De France did. not cause his death, and is endeavoring to show that Young's physical condition brought about his untimely end. The two eye-witnesses of the "scrap who testified at the preliminary hear ing, have left the state and their tes tlmony will not be received. The following is the list of Jurors who will render a verdict in the cae: Elwin T. Dickinson, Low Merritt Kelsey, Lowell. Albert Foster, Lowell. Frank Prcst, Hammond. Dan Calnon, Cedar Lake. Wm. Hayden, Lowell. C. Kraus, Hammond. Jos. A. F.eattle, Crown Point. Jos. Sutter, Schererville. W. L. Funkhouser, East Chicago. Herbert M. Esty, Creston. Frank Parks, Whiting. A motion to quash the Indictment was sustained In the early stages of the trial, owing to a technical erro in the wording of the Indictment as returned by the grand Jury. An affidavit charging De France with manslaughter was substituted by the prosecution rather than wait until tha grand Jury could be called and a nev indictment returned. The trial was begun immediately. States Attorney Boone is assisted' in the prosecution by Attorney J. Frank Meeker, and th defense is being locked after by At tornvs Conroy and McAleer.

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