Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 173, Hammond, Lake County, 9 January 1907 — Page 5

Wednesday, Jan. 9, 1907.

Telegraph News by Direct Wire from All Over Indiana. Terre Haute, Ind., Jaii. 0. Recent mores on the financial checkerboard make it appear to local capitalists that Hugh J. McUowan, of Indianapolis, and his associates, together with the eastern interests they represent in Indiana, are gradually developing their plans for a consolidation of various traction, properties, which heretofore have been operated by separate syndicates. The deal, ns explained by persons in a position to know- what they are talking about, involves a merger of the syndicate lines out cf Indianapolis end the lines of northern Indiana and of southwestern Indiana. Will CJo Into Kleetrie Lighting. The new lines said to be included nre thoe of the Northern Indiana Railway company and those of the StoneWebster crowd out of this city, together with the lines out of Evansville recently acquired by the Murdocks, of Lafayette, and Henry Marshall. It is asserted, in fact, that the recent activity of the Murdocks in buying up Interurban properties was wholly in the interest of tiio.se planning the big roi'sonaarion. declaration is made that when the big merger is formed the syndicate will engage actively in me electric lighting business. This WM'i be a new field of activity for the jucuowiin crowd. Town To Be Illuminated. The United (las Improvement company, of Philadelphia, which is the moneyed concern back of the M-c-fJowan traction companies, has for some time been considering the feasibility of building up a lighting business in this state. The gas plants in several cities, notably Logansport, Wabash and Lafayette, were acquired and operated, but electric lighting has not been tried. The present plans, however, contemplate, according to Information here, the lighting of Elkhart. South I'.cnd, (Joshen, Mishawaka, La Porte and Michigan City. rroKsusiioiis gave iiim away Charged with Incendiarism and Iraoeii by Kts Kofcinunt's Peculiar Shoes. Connersville, Ind.. Jan. 0. A large barn on the farm of Joseph Mays, in Orange township, burned Saturday, together with five bond of horses, two cows, and much other property, entailing a loss of 2.r., with $275 insurance. The lire is attributed to incendiarism, and Jonas .Mercer, a son-in-law, has been arrested. lie lives in Posep township, fifteen miles distant, but he is said to have made the trip to his father-in-law's home, driving a horse peculiarly shod, find the animal was tracked almost to M':rrer's home. A family feud has existed for some time, growing out of the opposition of Mays to the marriage of his daughter to Mercer, and Mercer s:uu to nave threatened to burn th barn. He is oo years old, and the fa ther of six children. Car of Powder in a Wreck. Petersburg. Ind., a.Tn. 0. Owing to the heavy rain of the Inst few days, the roadbed of the Kvansville and Indianapolis railroad spread beneath a heavy so"th-hound freight train ami two cars left the rails and toppled over a thirty-foot embankment into the ditch below. One of the cars' was loaded with powder, consigned to theMassey mines, and although the car av.is badly broken the powder remained intact. Wild Terror Is Captured. Ivokomo. Ind., Jan. P. After terrorising this community for ten days, during which he broke up the church revival at Sycamore, Henry Jackson, a lunatic, who had escaped from the insane ward at the county infirmary, wns captured here. lie looked like a wild man, his beard and hair having fcrrvwn to great length, and he wore a I'WTa'.o robe as his only garb. He was rettne(i t0 the jnflrmary "rain Hazletiiy, train No. r, n spreading Had a Bad Time. Ind.. Jan. 9. Freight north-bound, encountered T:iu at Decker and the ,!S in bad shnn ner tha engine is Jyi ties No person hnrt T. Bnift train was delayed v,y a brotpn raiI Ht Patoka. State Senator Wry Hi. Plymouth. Ind,, Jan. 9. Senate r John W. Parts, a well-known member of the Indiana legislature. Is sriOUi;jv ill with pneumonia at his home iu ttiU dry. ills condition gives his faruji lUy and friends the gravest concern.

3lurderer Confesses by letter. Kvansville. Ind.. Jan. 9. Sheriff W, E. rarnes. of this city, received a letter from a man at Freeport. III., who signed himseif "Twenty-Year-Old Rill" saying that he murdered lAzzle Ruento. ged 0. in this city in ISO"

His Nose Shot Off by a Gun. kvansville, Ind.. Jan. 9. Clvd Ilinman, aged 13 years, shot off his cose while placing with a rifle.

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RAILROAD NOTES. Several officiate of the Erie road passed through Hammond yesterday on their way to Chicago from Huntington. G. T. Minish, terminal trainmaster of the Erie road, was a caller at the local office today. W. F. Yergans, traveling mechanic of the Erie road from Huntington, transacted business in Hammond yester day. Ed. Leverton of the Erie road, made Crown Point this forea short trip to noon. P. J. Sheppon of the Erie road, came up from Crown Point today on business at the yards. Tt. J. Fisher, switchman at the Erie yards, is off duty today with a crushed thumb. Pi ter Courtney, an employe of the Wabash road, lias just returned from Indianapolis where he has been visiting friends. Traffic along the Wabash road was i-d up for over an hour yesterday by two ears being off the track at the local yards. As soon as the cars were aced on the tracks traffic was again resumed. At a meeting of the American Rail way Industrial association yesterday at the Stratford hotel an election of officers for the ensuing year was held and methods for the encouragement of ndustrial enterprises throughout the country were discussed, u . 11. .Manss, industrial agent for the Chicago, Burl ing vt Quincy railway, was elected president of the new association. W. W. Wood of P.altimore, industrial agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railway company, was elected vice presiueni, I). E. King. St. Louis, of the Missouri Pacific railway, treasurer: R. P. Wil son. Ohicaeo. traveling inuustnal acent of the Santa Fe system, secre tary. Charles Peck, chairman of the boar of pensions of the Illinois Central lin and once ereneral manager of that road has completed fifty years of servh with the company and has been retired on a pension. When the C. P. & Q. passed into Mil control sis years ago it was one o the best of the granger roads and wa in the midst of costly improvements Work on these plans ceased almost in stantly and has never been resumed says Wall street bulls and bears, and the once splendidly equipped and main tamed C P. & Q. has been nesrly starved to death and the road has los its transportation monopoly. AUSTIN WISHED TO SEE MONEY mere is much enthusiasm in the southern part of the state over the construction of the Southern Railway from Jasper to French Lick. Much o the grading has been done and a por tion of it is ready for the steel. The steel is all purchased and with two months of favorable weather the road will be in a condition to run trains to French Lick springs, where connection will be made with the Monon as well as giving the southern states a direct line to French Lick springs. Cutting- Out Age Limits. Several railroads that out-Oslerized Osier a few years ago by ruling that no man over 35 years old should be employed are finding the rule so ab surd in many instances that it Is be : . . . , e . . - uig casi asiue xur me ruie or com mon sense. Officers find that some men are old at 35, while others are young at CO; while common sense and ability to serve in the best capacity is not limited by age. A Pittsburg pa per says: Experience goes a long distance in railroading and roads now are often taking a young man who has had experience on another road. Among the roads that have virtually ignored the age limit are the Chicago fc Alton and the St. Paul & Burlington line, while a tendency has even reached Into the Pennsylvania lines. The Pig Four sticks to its old men to a greater extent than any other of the Indianapolis lines and ignores the age limit, thinking a man who is sober and industrious and has experience is worth more to the road than young men of unsteady habits and prone to shirk." GREATEST FLOOD ON RE COED That Is What the People Along ths Ohio May Expect, Say the Experts. Evansville, Ind., Jan. 9. The biggest flood in the history of the Ohio valley is now almost a certainty. With the river here five feet over the danger line, and barely at a standstill, excessive rains have fallen all along the valley and continue to fall. "The flood of 1SS4 will not be a circumstance to the one which now seems Imminent," said Government Observer Brand when he received dispatches telling of tfie general and heavy rains all over the Ohio valley the last twenty-four hours. Added to the steady rainfall, which measured 1.61 incLes here, is the increasedly cold weather. Distress and suffering over the flooded districts is now in an acute stage. Three of the steamboat lines are now cut off from landing at smaller points because the landings are all deep under water. Morgan Has a Slight Cold. New York, Jan. 9. When asked about rumors which were circulated in the financial district to the effect that P. Morgan was seriously 111 his son. T- P. Morgan, Jr., said his father was sHiffermg from a slight cold and remained at home attending to his business, if it had not been for the unfavorable weather it was said Morgan wonld have been at his office Testerday. Th I.nke County Times has the Intet Ssorttss Aevrs,

r.at C5 toe tite The beleaguered passengers on No. 1, sidetracked in the yards, watched the preparations Sankey was making to clear the line. Every amateur on the train had hi? camera snapping at the ram. The town, gathered In a single mob, looked silently on and listened to the froety notes of the skyscrapers as they went through their 'preliminary maneuvers. Just as the final word was given by Sankey. in charge, the sun burst through the fleecy clouds, and a wild cheer followed the ram out '-5""''- 'J: --- . The cabs uere burled iji white. of the western yard. It was good luck to see the sun again. j Little Neeta up on the bill must have ! bo b ,t r or xue poo. mat was never fors-nttwi whether th wrvl wo I C7 I ; ular. Besides. iiie iitjuu uau or tne i lTJ,rtJtS U UOt P-Orgiei 1 mT 7, w an-s "a"ulc u uur us wcu as; , ,7 u eusme' where, if anywhere, the big chances ! v,,cl. ,ii.u Ve wns not capame or in the train service we never knew, be- j cause ne was stronger than any emer- j KL-iicy iuai ever conrronted him. : Bucking snow is principally brut j force. There is little coaxing. Jusf j west of the bluffs, like code signals! between a fleet of cruisers, there was j a volley of sharp tooting, and in a min i ute the four ponderous engines, two ct j them in the back motion, fires white 1 and throats bursting, steamed wildlj j into the canyon Six hundred feet from the first cut Sinclair's whistle signaled again. Burns and Cameron and Kennedy answered, j anu men, literauy turning the monster ram loose against the dazzling moun-i tain, the crews settled themselves for! the shock. i At such a moment there is nothing to I be done. If anything goes wrong, eter-' nity is too close to consider. There; come a mufiied drumming on the' steam chests, a stagger and a terrific; Impact and then the recoil, like the! stroke of a trip hammer. The snow shoots into the air fifty feet, and the; wind carries a cloud of fleecy confu sion over the ram and out of the cut j The cabs were buried in white, and the 1 great steel frames of the engines I sprung like knitting needles under the! frightful blow. ! Pausing for hardly a breath, the sig-i naling again began, then the backing ! up and up and up the line, and again ! the massive machines were ImHo.i screaming into the cut. ! "You're getting there, Georgie:" ex-1 claimed Sankey when the rolling and' lurching had stopped. No one elsei could tell a thing about It, for it was f snow and snow and snow, above and ! behind and ahead and beneath. Sin-j clair coughed the flakes out of his eyes and nose and mouth, like a baffled 1 collie. He looked doubtful of the claim I until the mist had blown clear and the ' quivering monsters were again recalled for a dash. Then It was plain that' Sankey's instinct was right. They j were gaining. J Again they went in, lifting a verv! avalanche over the stacks, packing the ! banks of the cut with walls hard as! ice. Again as the drivers stuck they! raced in a frenzy, and into the shriek! of the wind went the unearthly scrape ' of the overloaded safeties. j Slowly and sullenly the machines were backed again. J "She's doing the work, Georgie.'"! cried Sankey. "For that kind of a' cut she's as good as a rotary. Look i everything over now while I go back! and see how the boys are standing it. I Then we'll give her one more and give! it the hardest kind." j And they did give her one more, and ! another. Men at Santiago put up jao1 Uo u iuu mey made that Sun-! iL1 lut. canvon or me Blackwood Once and twice more they: bL A J? uusiiea, rented and.&ia-

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5 By FRANK H. SPEARMAN Copyright, lOitf. by Frank II. Spearman 4V3 44 '44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 ed against the white wall, neaved and stumbled ahead, and. with a yell frora Sinclair and Sankey and the fireman! the double header shot her nose into the clear over the Blackwood gorge. As engine after engine flew rwst the divided walls each cab took up the cry. it was the wildest shout ever crowned victory that Through they went and halfway across the bridge before they could check their monster catapult." Then at a half full they shot it back at the cut. It worked as well one way as the other. "The thing is done," declared Sankey. Then they got Into position up the line for a final shoot to clean the eastern cut and to get the head for a dash across the bridge into the west end of the canyon, where lay another mountain of snow to split. "Look the machines over close, boys," said Sankey to the engineers! full west h ing all night. But it's done snowing. he added, looking into the leaden sky. lie naa everytning figured out for the master mechanic the shrewd, -: . . 1 1 , 1 1 m.i tviLiuij' oiu iuau. j uere . s no man on earth like a good Indian and, for that matter, none like a bad one. Sankey knew by a military instinct just wha nad to be done and how to do it. If he had lived he was to have been assist ant superintendent. That was the word which leaked from headquarters after he got killed And, with a volley of jokes between the cabs and a laughing and a yelling between toots, down went Sankey's double header again into the Black wood gorge. At the same moment, by an awful mis uiiunbiauuiug or. oruers, aown came the big rotary from the West End with a dozen cars of coal behind it. Mile after mile it had wormed east to Sank'8 ram- b-owed through western cut of the Blackwood s uixxl ouut.t-y was i uiuiiu i. i hi tt iii i ia. r i i rial l nnr into o ? in -P.-v il A 1 i - x a j t ,a s ,A - . mi,es an hour. Eah train, in order to make the grade and the blockade, was straining the cylinders. J-nrougn the swirling snow which half hid the bridge and swept between me rushing plows Sinclair saw them coming. He yelled. Sankey saw them a fraction of a second later, and, while Sinclair struggled with the throttle and the air, Sankey gave the alarm through the whistle to the poor fellows in the blind pockets behind. But the track was at the worst. Where there was no snow there were whiskers. Oil it self couldn't havo been worse to stop on. It was the old and dendiv nrti t fighting blockades from both ends on a single track. The great rams cf steel and fire had done their work, and, with their common enemy overcome, thev dashed at eacu otner, rrenzled, across the Black v,0d gorge. Tlle fireman at the firsfc cry shot' out the side. Sankey yelled at Sinclair to lumV but Georgie shook his head. He never ould jump. Without hesitat ing an Instant, Sankey taught him in his arms, tore him from the levers, planted a mighty foot and hurled Sin clair like a block of coal through the gangway out into the gorge. The oth er cabs were already emptied, but the instant's delay in front cost Sankey's life. Before he could turn the rotary crashed into the oGd. They reared like mountain lions and pitched headlong into the gorge. Sankey went under them. ne couia nave saved himself. He chose to save Georgie. There wasn't time to do both. He had to choose, yi r.xu Sankey hurltd Sinclair throuah fJie gangway out into the gorge. and he chose instinctively Did he tblBk in that o?NeeS and of whom she needed most, of a xojm and jJ&lwiurt .Protectpj:. pgjtst

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than an oid and a failing one? I do Lvery one who jumped got clear. Sinclair lit in twenty feet of snow, and they pulled him out with a rope. He wasn't scratched. Even the bridge was not badly strained. No. 1 pulled over it next day. Sankey was rightthere was no more snow, not enough to hide the dead engines on the rocks. who jumped The line was open. There never was a funeral in McCloud like Sankey's. (Jeorge Sinclair ' and Neeta followed together, and of 1 mourners there were as many as there were people. Every engine on the di-: vision carried black for thirty days. ; His contrivance for fighting snow has ; never yet been beaten on the high line. It is perilous to go against a drift behind it. Something has to give. But it gets there, as Sankey got ; there, always, and in time of blockade i and desperation on the West End they I still send out Sankey's double header, : though Sankey sj the conductors tell : the children, traveling east or traveling west Sankey isn't running any more. Bmiy Man Versus li-.isy Ian. Those who tell you they "always are rushed to death" usually aconiplish the least, and largely because thoy are imaginative. The really busy man, who turns off an immense amount cf work with the quiet and precision of a per fect machine, must have the imagina tion to look ahead a day or a mouth or a year. At the least, his thought is always a few seconds ahead of his ac tion; his head saves his heels; he 1 not continually tripping over bis own feet. But the buzzy man can never understand the busy man. Having no imagination himself, he saves his own face by saying that the man who never fusses over his work has little to do. Let us hear no more about imagina tion being impracticable. It is one of the most practical things in the world A due proportion of It used with judg ment "will from many a blunder free us and foolish notion." The only con dition under which it may seem su perfluous is that of one who lnis some monotonous task to perform automatic any day after day. Doubtless if one is to be In an automatic job forever the less imagination the better, but if h is ever to get out of it the quicker he cultivates some imagination the sooner will he get outChicago Tribune. HI Lack of Modfuty. "That man has absolutely no sense of shame." "I know It. When he was In college he allowed himself to be photographed in his sprinting suit" Lipplncott's Magazine. His Stories. Yeast Who is your wife's favorite author? Cri m sonbeak I am. She 6ays I make up some of the most wonderful stories she ever heard. Yonkers Statesman. Ancient Philosophy. "The man," said Epicurus solemnly, "who utilized the nutmeg had a grate mind." Baltimore American, Rule for Hospitality. In Washington, Ga., the first town In America named cfter the father of his country, lived General Robert Toombs, one of the brilliant lights of hospitality in a country where so cial instinct is second nature, the Youth's Companion. says A committee once waited on. General Toombs to consult him about erecting a hotel In the town. "We have no need of one," said General Toombs, simply. "When respectable people come here they can stay at my house. If they are not respectable we do not want tkem at all." Punch Cracks a Joke. A discussion has been taking place In the columns of a contemporary a3 to who is the oldest odd fellow. It would, we fancy, be still more difficult to decide who is the oddest old fellow. Punch. Thfre ts more catarrh In thti ihIm f tvconptry than all other tfteeanes put toother an1 ontl! Ihe last fevr .vears was simnrtiwxi tn v . i tearable. Porajrreat many yearn drwnr. nooncen ft a local ai?3e and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be ciM,titr,tinni disease and therefore reonires eonttnnnai tretinent. Haira Catarrh Cure, manufactured I t F. .T. Cheney & Co.. Toledo Cthin I. constitutional enre on the market. It is taken mteraany in coses rrom ten dfops to a tearoontnX. It acts directly on tbe.hlnAd uil surfaces of the system. Ther offer nn Vih, dwllara for any case It fails to ewe. Send for Circulars ana leaumnmals. Address: V J. CHENEY C.. lo!eda. niU Sold by Drujrsista, 760. T Hull's tVmily Pills ter oosttMtia. v v am -m -ran. w w-v.J . s. itNATl O NJkL NEEDED in every HOME, SCHOOL end OFFICE. EeKabla, Useful, Attractive. I .ajitincf. TTr i to Date and Authoritative. 2360 Pa gee. BOOU lunstrauons. RscerLtly added 25.000 Kew Words, Iew Gazetteer and New Biographic Dictionary. Editor W. 1. KarriR, Ph-D., LL.D.. Uiuted States Com. of td'n. Highest A wrd at St. Louis and Portland. our iwiapiwiiu. Kcfor md Iain Ptpr Write for "The Story of a Book" Free. Q. & C. araPJUAai CO., Sprjigteld, Mass. GET THE BEST.

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