Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 183, Hammond, Lake County, 22 January 1907 — Page 8

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EIGHT. HAMMOND MEN BUY TODD BLOCK Eaat Chicago Report Haa It That Hammond Concern la to Start Store There. "When" the announcement was made by the Arm of Gostlin. Meyn and company that the Todd opera house block had been sold for $35,000 to a concern that would start a department store there, the only hint that it might be a local concern was the statement that the building: Would be enlarged and re habilitated with money that has been made in the Calumet region. Mr. Wolf of the Lion store, strenousiy denied that his firm was the purchaser, although everything pointed that way. Today the information leaked out in East Chicago that Kaufman and Wolf are the purchasers and that they are to spend $25,000 in improvements on the building they have purchased. It is said that both the first and second floors are to be used for department store purposes. ELKS TO BUILD SOON. Eat Chicago Organization Plan Fine Structure For w Home. A fecial committee of the Elks of East Chicago, met yesterday to discuss the matter of selecting a site for a building that is to be erected In the spring. It is not yet known just how much the building will cost, but it Is eald that the new home will be one of which the organization In the neighboring city may be proud. TO COOL OFF T0LEST0N. Albert Benson Contracts for One to Five Car Loads of lee Next Summer. A Hammond industry Is to keep Toleaton cool next summer. Albert Benson of the booming back door of Gary, hopes to secure a monopoly of crystal business for he has ordered from one Ave carloads of ice a week from the Hammond Pure Ice company and expects to supply both Toleston and Gary. It was recently announced that the local artificial lco company Intended to treble the capacity of their plant, but It may be necessary to treble it again If the plant Is to supply the neighboring" cities as well a Hammond. HOTEL BUTLER A JOKE. Ramshackle Rooming Building Dignified By a Real Hotel Rame Causes Some Fun. Members of the firm of Gostlin, Meyn & Company had a good laugh about the tory recently published In a local paper that certain of the officials of the Standard Steel Car company were intending to' build a six-story hotel in Columbia avenue in the vicinity of their plant. There are six stories, Indeed, but ach of the six are to be spread out on the ground Instead of being plied one on top of the other. When asked what was the estimated cost of the new hostelry would be, one of the men said it might be as much as $635.47. Where to Spend Your Vacation, Singers at Alto, Ga. Bakers at Cakes, P Jewelers at Gems, IrFs The sleepy at Gap, Poets at Parassus, Vu. Deadheads at Grafts, u. Cranks at Peculiar, Mo. Printers at Agate, Colo. Perfumers at Aroma, 111. Apiarists at Beevllle, Ind. Bankers at Deposit, N. C. Email men at Bigger, Ind. Old maids at "Antiquity, O. Is'ewly weds at Bliss, Mich. . Young ladles at Bangs, Va. Cobblers at Shoe Heel. N. C. Theosophists at Mystic, Conn. -Topers at Brandy Station, Va. Physicians at Doctortown, Ga. Drummers at Moderntown, Va. Puzzle fiends at Riddleville, Ga. Prohibitionists at Drytown, Cal. The gum brigade at Chewton, Pa. Prisoners at Liberty in Anji State. Bridgeport Correspondence. Mose Updyke will warble falsetto in the Newllght choir next Sunday. Tour correspondent is informed that Miss Clorinda Smoot has accepted a position in Sam Gul!ivars family as hired girl. Jim Stivers is getting his six-tree eugar camp ready for sugar making. Jim sold enough pure maple sugar last year to pay hU taxes and buy his wife a new set of 'store teeth. Silas Pettlnglll, our new dentist, plugged four of Amanda Gullett's teeth this week. He dug quite a chunk of pork tenderloin out of one double cavity, and two cherry seeds out of another. Amanda's breath has been quite sour for several months. Cyrenius Hy barge r sneezed his upper false teeth out last Sunday while dining with 'Squire Josyln"s family. Cyrenius was much chagrinned as his teeth flew half way across the table into a bowl of chicken gravy. Joslyn's oldest girl, Samantha, fsirly shrieked with laughter. Bill Huffstetter is going over to Indianapolis next week to get his uncle, John Benz, who is in the legislature, to introduce a bill to compel owners of butting rams to get 'em dehorned. Bill's wife was butted by Kate Gitchrlst's ram last summer as she was climbing over a fence and she couldn't sit down with any comfort' for six weeks. Benz is a Pennsylvania Dutchman but he speaks the English language quite fluldly. By Enos, Indianapolis Independent. Tobacco Test for Novels. The other day in a public library in London an attendant noticed a young girl sniffing suspiciously at the books. When he asked the reason of her etrange conduct she told him frankly. 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Promises Never Again to Try To Be "Funny" When Addressing the Senate. ESSAYS ONE HUMOROUS SPEECH Nearly Precipitates a Eiot and Makes Due Apologies. Dignified Members of the Tpper House Portrayed as Minstrels, Much to Their Anger and Indignation. Washington, Jan. 22. Few features of the spectacular were missing from the proceedings of the senate. The Brownsville affair was the subject of controversy, and the day began with the announcement of a compromise resolution which brought Republican and Democratic senators together on the basis of ordering an investigation of the facts of the affray without WILLIAM J. BTONB. Tillman's "Gum Shoe Bill." bringing into question the authority of the president to dismiss the Eegro troops. The resolution was submitted to and approved by the president at a conference Sunday. When the "harmony" testimonials' were all in Tillman took the floor and delivered a speech in reply to the recent criticism of himself by Spooner. Senators Pictured as Minstrels. This speech began with a satirical picture of the senate as a minstrel show. Ho paid his compliments' to senators who had spoken on the Brownsville incident. He said the press had denominated him the"burnt cork artist of the senate," and be added that if he were "entitled to this appellation or that of 'IPteh-Fork Ben at one end of ihe minstrel line, certainly 'Fire Alarm Joe outfit not to be ignored at the other. We both do the Orlando and Furioso act admirably." Senator Cul berson was designated as performing a solo on the "bones" In praise of the president: Daniel was called "the bril liant and courtly senator from Vir ginia, whose specialty is oratory and who works his rhetoric overtime." . ' "Smiling Tom of Colorado." "Next", said Tillman, "we have the dying swan, Smiling Tom of Colorado, the state recently bought at auction by one Guggenheim, and the swan-song is a dirge for the dying Democracy of the north, stabbed in its vitals by Ben's pitchfork. His act Is very pathetic, indeed, and always brings tears to the eyes of the audience, CARMACK AND LODGE Come in for a Whack Also "Gumshoe Bill" and Spooner. , "Next proceeded Tillman, "we have the redoubted Tennesseean who was once a knight, a very Hotspur in the lists, whose spear has rung true and clear upon the visor of the usurper at the White House, and who has made the sparks fly in many an onset; but his spear head is broken off; be has been unhorsed, but before retiring from the lists he seizes a garland of flowers, and placing it on his headless wejipon now, alas! no longer of any use be lays it at the feet of the victorious Roosevelt as a peace offering, and joins the minstrels to sing a last song to the victor of Brownsville, who whistles Democrats to come to the White House and lick the hand which lias so often smote them. His specialty is a song. 'Renominate our idea or give us bark our platform.' "Next, as the negro preacher and telephone artist in the show, who on occasions gets into communication with the White House over the wire and acts as a receiver and repeater a veritable chameleon in his accuracy in reproducing White House colors, we have a senator hailing from Massachusetts, the home of the sacred Cod, where the Adamses vote for Douglas, and Lodge walks with the Almighty. As the middle man we have the pompadour artist from Georgia, "whose speciality Is to never answer any questions, and who depends upon his voice to carry conviction to his audience. "Then comes the star of the troupe, 'Gumshoe Bill' from 'Old Missouri.' He can dance the Highland fling on top of a ten-rail fence and never touch the ground, but his greatest fete is walking on eggs without breaking the shells. Last we have the artist from the Badger State, an acrobat and juggler of international reputation. He is supple, sly and foxy, and having ionce been a lawyer is noted through-

out the land for hi3 ability to get en either side' of any question, and maintain the negative or affirmative in any argument with great force and fervor, lie Bings bass, alto, soprano or tenor, ami is superb in any role."

MATTERS GROW VERY HOSTILE But It All Blows Over and Peace Is Preserved. Tillman devoted the remainder of his speech to a reply to the criticisms of him made by Spooner, complaining that thev were uncalled for and based on a false interpretation of what he (Tillman) had said. He reiterated his well-known views on lynching, declaring that law or no law he would lynch any man, black or white, for rape of any woman, black or white, and believed he would be doing right. Spooner replied, declaring that what he had said of Tillman was justified by Tillman's own words, and that he withdrew not one word. He denounced Tillman's avowed position as to lynch ing declaring that government with out law was tvranny, and to lapse into such government was to lapse into barbarism. Such doctrines, he s-aid, were peculiarly wrong when held by persons in high places. Carmack then replied to Tillman and was very acrimonious in his remarks, intimating that Tillman was of low order of intelligence, and that there would be no regret when the South Carolinian's term ended for good in the senate. The atmosphere of the senate grew so warm that Teller Insisted In closing the doors and having the galleries cleared, the senator seem ing to fear that a riot would result if the flow of language was not checked. The doors were closed and a secret session was held, which was devoted entirely to an effort to secure the'expuuging from the congressional record of the portion of Tillman's remarks referring to other senators as mln Strels Some of the senators alluded to at first refused to agree until they had an opportunity to reply, but Tillman declared that part of his remarks only a bit of humor and pleasantry, and agreed to withdraw it and apologize to the offended senators, and do it in open session. The secret session was followed by a brief open one, in which Tillman made a profuse apology to Carmack, to all senators whom he had brought into his "first essay in the line of humor," and finally to the entire senate. "I .very much regret that ever undertook to be funny, and I wll never do so any more," said he. This apology was at once accepted by Carmack, who regretted that he bad questioned the motives of his friend, and he too withdrew words he had uttered in protest. And that ended the incident. Senate and House in Brief. Washington, Jan. 22. The senate spent the entire day discussing the race question, Tillman replying to Spooner and others who had criticised him, and before it was all over things looked belligerent Everything was smoothed over, however, apologies were made and caustic remarks expunged from the record. No business was done. The house pronounced unanimously in favor of enlarging and making more efficient the field and coast artillery. A bill was passed authorizing the secretary of commerce and labor to investigate and report upon' the' "industrial, social, moral, educational and physical condition of women and child workers in the United States." The measure has already passed the senate. The District of Columbia appropriation was also passed. JOSIAH FLINT IS DEAD Tramp Sociologist, Nephew of Frances Willard, Dies at the Age of 37 at Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 22. Josiah Flynt Willard, whose experiences as a tramp, author, and sociologist under the name of "Josiah Flynt," have given him a wide reputation, is dead at a local hotel. Willard had been suffering with pneumonia for several days, but it was not until he became utterly helpless that he permitted a nurse or a doctor to enter his room. Willard had tramped in every' civil" ized country on the globe, wearing the costume of the working class of each particular nation he wandered through. He was a friend of Ibsen and of Tolstoi. He was born in Appleton, Wis., Jan. 23, 1SC.0. his father being Oliver Appleton Willard and his mother. Mary Willard. nee Bannister. Frances E. Willard, the noted temperance advocate, was- his aunt Willard was a graduate of the University of Berlin. Medal for Dr. Anita McGee. Washington. Jan. 22. Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee, of this city, who held the rank of lieutenant in charge of army nurses in the war with Spain, and who has long been prominent in Red Cross work, has received a handsome medal from the Japanese government in recognition of the services she and her corps of nurses rendered' in the war between Russia and Japan. Nothing in the Charges, rierre, S. D., Jan. 22. The report of the legislative committee finding nothing in the charges against Senator Gamble which reflects upon his personal or official Integrity was adopted by a large majority In both houses of the legislature. This insures the senator's re-election. Size of the Tension Bill. Washington, Jan. 22.,. The house committee on appropriations reported; the pension bill, carrving an appro priation of ?13S.13S,500 for IOCS. The impropriations forpensions in 1007 was $140,245,200.

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K1HGST0H HUH Official and Private Citizens There Join in Disapproval of Gov. Swettenham. TTLUTK HE SHOULD BE TLRED" British Government Thev Hold. Should Also Apologize. Mayor Appeals to Davis to Disregard Swettenham's Request Admiral Declines to Stay Under the Clrcumstailces. Kingston, Jamaica, Jan. 22. The indignation of the residents of Jamaica, both official and private citizens, at the action of Governor Swettenham in demanding the withdrawal by Admiral Davis of the relief forces is spreading and intensifying. The governor's response to Admiral Davis's letter is bitterly denounced, and it is BEE KDWAED OBEY. generally declared that the only possible reparation is for the government to apologize and recall Governor Swettenham. Jamaicans say that the indignation which doubtless is felt in the United States and England is fully shared by the residents of the island. Comparison That Is Odious. They contrast the apathy of the home government, -which has not tenflejred any relief, and the loyal gen erosity of the United States, which instantly rushed warships, surgeons, medicines and food to the stricken city. The deepest regret and mortification is expressed lest the action of Gov. Swettenham may disturb the affectionate entente between the United States and Great Britain.Mayor Tait upon the departure of Admiral Davis, voiced the sentiments of citizens in a letter to the admiral saying: Mayor Disapproves Swettenham. "In behalf of the mayor, the council and all citizens of the stricken city I desire to express deep regret that any unpleasantness should have occurred causing you to withdraw the valuable assistance generously rendered to this country and my unfortunate fellow citizens. Whatever has been the cause to induce yon to decide to withdraw we do not approve, nor take part We ask you not to withdraw, and not to take offense at theconduct of one man. If overwrought by the responsibility of the calamity he acted in a manner which be will regret on reflection, in particular I ask you not to let the sick cali vainly for the comforts which until now they have been' receiving at your bands, and for which I and they thank and bless you." Duty Compels Withdrawal. Admiral Davis replied, thanking the mayor for his expression of approval of the services of his officers and men, saying: "As a foreign naval officer I am bound to respect the wishes and requirements of the supreme authority of the island." He knew that there would be an abundance of work for him if he was able to remain Indefinitely, but having accomplished his mission, which was to render the first immediate aid, his duty compelled his withdrawal. MAKING AN INVESTIGATION British Government Tracing Swettenham's Letter Nothing Official Yet. Washington, Jan. 22. Esme Howard, charge d'affaires at the British embas sy, called on Acting Secretary of State Bacon and presented a letter from Sir Edward Grey, principal secretary of state for Great Britain, regarding the Davls-Swettenham incident In his message Sir Edward Grey says that he is causing an official inquiry to be made to determine the authenticity of the letter purporting to have been written by Governor Swettenham to Rear Admiral Davis. The British foreign office, he says. is entirely witnout othcial advices, and their only lnformaticrahas been through the press dispatches. "If these advices prove to "be correct," he says. 'C.reat Britain Mill deeply regret that I any British official should have writIten such a letter to the gallant ad miral vrho had rendered such valuable assistance to British subjects at a time of great suffering and distress." Secretary Bacon assured Howard that President Roosevelt and the officials of the state department are much graunea to receive tnese messages frr.m the British government, and especially so in view of the fa-et that Great Britain has not even waited to receive official advices concerning the unfortnnate event before communicating with this government. No official ad-

j vices have been received at the stats three women and ore gtil. The loss I j?r cavy. derartments, i"ut tie TeEaUlnDrTOerty is nowjyit at 1,000,000.

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: charge that they have no reason to ; doubt the authenticity of the press disj patches. j In addition to the foregoing ar-.d com plicating the situation some is a dispatch from the British foreign otSce to our state department conveying from Sir Alexander Swettenham the thanks of Jamaica for that which the press dispatches say he refused to receive the aid of Admiral Davis and his squadron. Replying to a telegram from the British charge d'affaires at Washington reporting that the state department had inquired whether Great Britain desired or was willing to accept further assistance in money or other forms of aid for the Kingston earthquake sufferers, the British foreign office replied as follows: "The offer of the American government to giye further aid is gratefully appreciated by his majesty's government. The vera or of Jamaica has not yet reported his requirements fully, but now that the first few days are over it appears likely that there will be no justification for further calls on the generosity of the United State. In the meantime his majesty's government has been requested by Sir Alexander Swettenham to convey to the government of the United States cordial thanks for the prompt and powerful assistance which the United States navy under Bear Admiral Davis rendered to the inhabitants of Kingston in their suffering." POIST OF LAW IS RAISED Counsel for the Standard Oil Wants to Ward Off Millions in Pines. Chicago, Jan. 22. The trial of the Standard Oil company of Indiana on the charge of receiving concessions upon shipments of oil from Whiting, Ind., as set forth in one of the eight indictments recently sustained by Judge Bandis in the United States district court, has been set by the judge for March 4, 1007. The indictment contains a total of 1003 counts, and Attorney Miller, for the company, attempted to have quashed all but the first count of each of the eight Indictments against the company, thus reducing from $3S,000,000 to $20,000 the possible maximum fine against his1 client upon conviction. His motion to have these cotmts quashed was overruled by Judge Landis and Attorney Miller then declined to enter any plea upon the counts in question. Attorney Miller contended that the Elkins law did not provide for an offense upon each shipment of oil made under the alleged unlawful concession, holding that the arrangement for the concession questioned and the acceptance of it constituted the violation, no matter how many shipments were made upon the concession. RUSHED IN WITH A ROAR Levee on the Wabash Breaks and Lets the Water in on Taylorville. Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 22. With a roar which could be heard for miles, tho Wabash river levee opposite the southern part of the city gave way at a late hour at night. The water tore away 400 feet of the embankment and a torrent poured into Tavlorville, a suburb on the west side of the river. Thousands of dollars' worth of prop erty will be damaged and about 350 residents of Taylorville were forced to abandon their homes. Many of the houses "will be swept away, it is believed. The sufferers are being cared for by their more fortunate neighbors Judge Gray a Regent. Washington, Jan. 22. The senate has concurred in the house resolution renppointing Judge George Gray, of Delaware, a member of the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Michigan Man Nominated. Washington, Jan. 22. The president has sent to the senate the nomination as marshal of the United States court for China of M. Hubert O'Brien, of Michigan. NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE Emperor William has conferred the Red Eagle order of the first class on Baron Speck von Sternburg, ambassador of Germany at Washington. United States Senator Dolliver was unanimously renominated by a caucus of Republican members of the Iowa legislature. There is practically no change in the illness of ex-Governor Frank W. Higgins, who is slowly dying at Olean, N. Y. The people of Madrid are greatly excited over the raising of the price of bread. Major nenry A. Huntington, secretary of the American club, at Taris, has been nominated to be a chevalier of the Legion of honor. Rev. Dr. W. II. McGlauflin, of Minneapolis, of the Unlversalist church, hag befn eiected general superintend, pnt nf thnt i,,.-,.. William C. McMillan, son of the late Senator James McMillan, is critically ill at Detroit. Violent blizzard prevails at Constantinople, and It 13 very cold there. Tariff experts in congress scout the rumor that the president may call congress in extra session to take some action on a maximum and minimum tariff, or any tariff. Tercy Smith, a bartender, vras shot and almost instantlv killed at Denver, b? James Ryan. Jealousy. Intense cold prevails over eastern Europe, even rs far south as Greece, Four deaths have been reported as the result of the stcmi at Buffalo,

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