Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 187, Hammond, Lake County, 26 January 1907 — Page 5

Saturday, Jan. 26, 1907.

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Telegraph News by Direct Wire from All Over Indiana. Indianapolis, Jan. '!. Governor XTauly Las receive! word from Railroad Commissioner McAdanis, who was Eent to tho southern part of the state to investigate tho needs of the flood sufferers, that he has given a check for $1,000 at Rockport to aid the sufferers there. Commissioner McAdam3 reported that he could not get to Tell City by rail or by wagon, and he has chartered a boat to ako him there. Tho governor has authorized tho expenditure of $1,000 to assist eighty-four families at Utica that aro In distress. They Applied First to Congress. Eighty-four homes are reported under at that point. A telegram wa: sent Representative Zenor, of that district, asking if there would be a congressional ppropriation for the sufferers, but a reply was received that tho national government would do nothing uutil the resources of the state had been exhausted. An appeal was then made to Governor Hanly. Wabash Still on the Rampage. Vincennes, Ind., Jan. 20. The Wa-b-n.sh river Is rising at a rapid rate. The current In the river Is terrific, and ropes have been stretched across tho Main street bridge and no one is permitted to cross. Numerous factories flloug the river front have been forced to close down, the water putting out , the tires. Another break lu the Wabash levee has occurred, at Iledden's Landing, above here, and thousands of acres of fertile wheat land are flooded. It Is now feared tho flood stage of 1S9S, the highest ever recorded, will bo passed on this rise. The distress la Oklahoma, a suburb of this city, is Intense. Thirty-five fumilies are surrounded by .water and cannot be r"cued. Itich Wheat L,and Flooded. Evansville, Ind., Jan. 20. The Wabash river has been rising at an alarming rate nil day at New Harmony, Ind., and Mount Carmel, 111., and in many other places the river has spread out over miles of rich wheat land. At Mount Carmel many factories aro closed as the result of the flood. White river has been falling, but when tbo snow melts it will likely bring another rise. The people living in the lowlands see no relief in sight. TIIKEATKXKD WITH THE TOUCH Kern Packing Company Has Had Two Fires and IJeen Given Notice of a Third. Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 2G. After having two disastrous fires, both of them apparently Incendiary, the Kern Tacking company, in this city, has received an anonymous communication stating that as soon as the buildings destroyed by Sunday morning's big lire are replaced they will be burned again. The proprietors of the plant are determined that the "fire bugs" shall not succeed in their nefarious work a third time and four men havo been sworn in as special police and they will guard the factory on all four sides. The first fire was a month ego, when $.'r,"tO0 damage was caused. Sunday the loss was $."0,000. Tho last check for the insurance paid on the first fire was received tho day the second fire occurred. The Kern brothers have had trouble with some of their employee within the last few weeks and have discharged a number. They think it fa the element that Is responsible for the two fires. Four Severely Hurt in a Collision. r.edford, Ind., Jan. LV. In a head-on collision near here on the Southern Indiana i-ailroad between a passenger train and a light engine, the most seriously hurt were: Hoy Bed doe, of Bedford, head and face badly bruised; Mrs. Dennis Fisher, Terre Haute, Ind., bad' ly cut about the face and mouth; J. II. Downard, Louisville, Ky., back Fpralned, badly cut and braised; F. X. Johnson, theatrical man, badly bruised and shaken up. Union Official Missing. Evansville, Ind., Jan. 20. -No news has been received from John Fry, secretary-treasurer of the Iron Moulders' union No. 51, who has been missing from the city for a week. Experts went over Fry's accounts and found he was e-hort $000, and a warrant charging him with embezzlement haj been issued. "Hop Springs Eternal." Etc. Columbus, Ind., Jan. 20. Carl Norman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam Norman, of Hope, and Miss Bertha Crosby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Crosby, were married at the home of the bride at Kent, Jefferson county. They will live in Hope. Artery Breaks While He Sleeps. Columbus, Ind.. Jan. 20. John E. Anderson, a resident of Hartsvllle, came near bleeding to death from an unusual cause. lie was suffering from two small cancers on the back of his neck, and one of them caused an artery to break while he was apiece

RAILROAD. HIES. Fred Collins of tha Erie office, will visit friends In Valparaiso over Sunday.

J. I'.uff, night operator at the Erie depot, has returned from Marion, O., where he (spent the week with friends. Oscar Wells, a towerman at Gibson, will spend tomorrow with friends here. All early morning: traln3 on the Erie road were on time this morning. Gilbert Forest, conductor on the Lake Shore road, is off duty this week with the grip. L. F. Morton, traveling agent on the Chicago & Northwestern road, transacted business In Hammond yesterday. Several car loads of railroad ties arrived at the Chicago Junction crossing in West Hammond yesterday for th Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville road. J. T. O'Brien, one of the contractors on the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville road, arrived in Hammond yesterday from his home at Seymore, I1L The car shortage that has been in effect in Hammond for the past three months is still on, it being nearly impossible to secure cars. At the Gibson yards the came shortage prevails. The Western Union Telegraph company has a foroe of linemen working today along the Monon tracks south of Hammond. O. L. Enos, traveling passenger agent of the Erie road, with headquarters at Marion, O., transacted business In Hammond yesterday. Wabash road, transacted business in Chicago today. C. E. Beldon, bill clerk at the Chi cago Junction office, leaves tonight for Kankakee, 111., where he will spend Sunday with friends. A report from the Gibson yards yes terday says that nine cars were off the track, tielng up traffic in the east end of the yarda for over two hours. Conductor Martin of the Nickel Plate road, was on the sick list yesterday with the grip. It. II. Crosby of tho Erie yard office, will leave tonight for Huntington, Ind where he will spend Sunday with friends and relatives. Seymour, Ind., Jan. 25. The work of setting poles in this city for the Louisville & Indianapolis traction line has begun. The overhead construction work will soon follow. Despite unfavorable weather, work between Louisville and this city lias progressed steadily, and by the end of another month all of the grading will have been finished. The power house and car barns, at Scottsburg, are well under way, and will be completed by April 1. The steel rails are being distributed along the line of the road. Track laying has begun on the southern end of the road, and it said that cars will be running as far north as Scottsburg by May 1, and into Seymour by July 1. The Indianapolis, Columbus & Southern, which is building from Columbus to Seymour to connect with the Louisville & Indianapolis, is also making satisfactory progress. The grade between this city and Columbus is almost done and good progress is being mads on the bridges. Rails, ties and poles are being distributed along the right-of-way. E. W. TRIPP IMPROVING. Kankakee, 111., Jan. 26. Edward W. Tripp, of Indianapolis, engineer of the Big Four passenger train that was wrecked and burned at Fowler last Saturday morning, is still in the hospital here and though his condition is serious he is improving. Despite reports to tho contrary, there is a chance for his recovery. Miss Hazel Tripp, daughter of tho injured man, said today that her father had improved very much, and she was hopeful he would be able to leave the hospital in a few weeks. Coroner Comity, of Fowler, may visit this city in a few days to take the testimony of Engineer Tripp. THEATRICAL NOTES. The various characters of the successful comedy drama, "My Dixie Girl" during the action of the play form a kaleidoscopio picture of the hospitable, care-free lovable inhabitants of the blue grass region of Kentucky, where tho scenes of the play are laid. Every character is a type and fits into the story with a naturalness and consistency that blends the whole into a clever, interesting play. Its action is swift, its comedy irrsistlble, tha love scenes delightful and the several stage pictures skillfully handled. The company is an excellent one and is composed of a number of favorite players. This play will be given at Towle's opera house Sunday night. Seats now on sale. An innovation and one that is in perfect harmony with the play is the beautiful transformation seane which is Introduced in the production of "East Lynne," coming to the Towla opera house, Thursday, Jan. 31. This magnificent apotheosis is in four scenes and is entitled the "Flight of the Angels." It is the work of that master of tho scenic art, Mr. Eugene Goodrich, who prides himself that this truly magnificent and artistic vork is the finest that ever left his studio. Notwithstanding the expense incurred for this production, it will be presented in this city at popular prices. How's This ? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catftrrh Cure. F. 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'44 '44 '44 44 44 '44 4 4 44 iA .4 "44 4 4 in the yard took fire and threw a yellow glare on the ghastly scene. I saw men get up and fall again to their knees. I was shivering and wet with sweat. The stairway -as crushed into kindling wood. I climbed out a back window, down on the roof of the freight platform and so to the ground. There was a running to and fro, useless and aimless; men were beside themselves. They plunged through wheat up to their knees at every step. All at once, above the frantic hissing of the buried skyscraper and the wild calling of the car tinks, I heard the stentorian tones of Neighbor, mounted on a twisfed truck, organizing the men at hand into a wrecking gang. Soon people began running up the yard to where the skyscraper lay, like another Samson, prostrate in the midst of the destruction it had wrought. Foremost among the excited men, covered with dirt and blood, staggered Dad Hamilton. "Where's McNeal?" cried Neighbor. Hamilton pointed to the wreck. "Why didn't he jump?" yelled Neighbor. Hamilton pointed at the twisted signal tower; the red right still burned In it. "You changed the signals on him," he cried savagely. "What does It mean? We had right against everything. What does it mean?" he raved, In a frenzy. Neighbor answered him never a word; ho only put his hand on Dad's shoulder. "Find him first! Find him!" he repeated, with a strain in his voice I never heard till then, and the two giants hurried away together. When I reached the skyscraper, buried In the thick of the smash, roaring like a volcano, the pair were already Into the jam like a brace of ferrets, hunting for the engine crews. It seemed an hour, though It was much less, before they found any one; then they brought out 55's fireman. Neighbor found him. But his back was broken. Back again they wormed through twisted trucks, under splintered beams In and around and over choked with heat, blinded by steam, shouting as they groped, listening for word or cry or gasp. Soon we heard Dad's voice In a different cry, one that meant everything, and the wreckers, turning like beavers through a dozen blind trails, gathered all close to the big fireman. He Was under a great piece of the cab where none could follow, and he was crying for a bar. They passed him a bar; other men, careless of life and limb, tried to crawl under and in to him, but he warned them back. Who but a man baked twenty years in an engine cab could stand the steam that poured on him where he lay? Neighbor, just outside, flashing a light, heard the labored strain of his breathing, saw him getting half up, bend to the bar, and saw the iron give like lead in his hands as he pried mightily. Neighbor heard and told me long afterward how the old man flung the bar away with an imprecation and cried for one to help him, for a minute meant a life now. The boy lying pinned under the shattered cab was roasting in a jet of live steam. The master mechanic crept In. By signs Dad told him what to do and then, getting on his knees, crawled straight into the dash of the white jet crawled into It and got the cab on his shoulders. Crouching an instant, the giant mus cles of his back set in a tremendous effort. The wreckage snapped and groaned, the knotted legs slowly and painfully straightened, the cab for a passing Instant rose In the air, and In that instant Neighbor dragged Georgie McNeal from out the vise of death and passed him, like a pinch bar, to the men waiting next behind. Then Neigh bor pulled Dad back, blind now and senseless. When they got the old fire man out he made a pitiful struggle to pull himself together. lie tried to stand up, but the sweat broke over him, and he sank In a heap at Neigh bor's feet. That was the saving of Georgie McNeal, and out there they still tell you about that lift of Dad Hamilton's. We put him on the cot at the hospital next to his engineer. Georgie, dreadfully bruised and scalded, came on fast In spite of his hurts, but the doctor said Dad had wrenched a tendon in that frightful effort, and he lay there a very sick and very old man long after the young engineer was up and around telling of his experience. "When we cleared the chutes I saw white signals, I thought," he said to me at Dad's bedside. "I knew we had the right of way ever everything. It was a htfstle anyway on that schedule, Mr. Heed, you know that an awful hustle wJth our load. I never choked her a notch to run the yards. Didn't mean to d3 it with the Junction grade to climb just ahead of us. But I looked out again, and, by hokey, I thought I'd gone crazy, got color blind red signals! Of course I thought I must have been wrong the first time I looked. I choked her. I threw the air. I dumped the gravel. Heavens! She never felt It! I couldn't figure how we were wrong, but there was the red light. I yelled, 'Jump. Dad!' and he yelled, 'Jump, son!' Didn't xou. Dad?

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By FRANK U. SPEARMAN Copyright, 1900, by Frank II. Spearman jr. 44 '44 '44 '44 44 '44 '44 44 44 '44 SJ 44 k4 'lie jumped, but I wasn't ever going to jump, and my engine going full against a red lamp. Not much. "I kind of dodged down behind the head; when she struck it was biff, and she jumped about twenty feet up straight. She didn't? Well, it seemed like It. Then it was biff, biff, biff, one after another. With that train behind her she'd have gone through Beverly hill. Did you ever buck snow with a rotary, Mr. Reed? Well, that was about It, even to the rolling and heaving. Dad, want to lie down? Le' me get another pillow behind you. Isn't that better? Poor Musgrave!" he added, speaking of the engineer of 55, who was instantly killed. "He and the tireman both. Hard lines, but I'd rather have it that way, I guess, if I was wrong. Eh, Dad?" Even after Georgie went to work Dad lay in the hospital. We knew he would never shovel coal again. It cost him his good back to lift Georgie loose, so the surgeon told us, and I could believe It, for when they got the jacks under the cab next morning, and Neighbor told the wrecking gang that Hamilton alone had lifted it six inches the night before on his back the wrecking boss fairly snorted at the statement, but Hamilton did just the same. "Son," muttered Dad one night to Georgie, sitting with him, "I want you to write a letter for me." "Sure." "I've been sending money to my boy back east," explained Dad feebly. "I told you he's In school." "I know, Dad." "I haven't been able to send any since I've been by, but I'm going to send some when I get my relief. Not bo much as I used to send. I want you to kind of explain why." "What's his first name, Dad, and where does he live?" "It's a lawyer that looks after him a man that tends to my business back there." "Well, what's his name?" "Scaylor Ephralm Scaylor." "Scaylor?" echoed Georgie in amaze ment, "Yes. Why, do you know him?" "Why, that's the man mother and I had so much trouble with. I wouldn't write to that man. He's a rascal, Dad." "What did he ever do to you and your mother?" "I'll tell you, Dad, though it's a matter I don't talk about much. My fa"Son," he gasped to the astonished boy, "don't you know vict" ther had trouble back there fifteen or sixteen years ago. He was running an engine and had a wreck. There were some passengers killed. The dispatcher managed to throw the blame on father, and they Indicted him for manslaughter. He pretty near went crazy, and all of a sudden he disappeared, and we never heard of him from that day to this. But this man Scaylor, mother stuck to It, knew something about where father was, only he always denied it." Trembling like a leaf, Dad raised up on his elbow. "Wrhat's your mother's name, son? What's your name?" Georgie looked confused. "I'll tell you, Dad. There's nothing to be ashamed of. I was foolish enough, I told you once, to go out on a strike with the engineers down there. I was only a kid, and we were all blacklisted. So I used my middle name, McNeal. My full name 13 George McNeal Sinclair." Th old fireman made a painful effort to sit up, to speak, but he choked, nis face contracted, and Georgie rose frightened. With a herculean effort the old man raised himself up and grasped Georgie's hands. "Son," he gasped to the astonished boy, "don't you know me?" "Of course I know you, Dad. What's the matter with yon? Lie down." "Boy, I'm your own father. My name Is David Hamilton Sinclair. I had the trouble, rorgie." He choked

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up tike a child, and Georgie McNeal went white and scared; then he grasped the gray haired man in his arms. When I dropped In an hour later they were talking hysterically. Dad was explaining how he had been sending money to Scaylor every mouth, and Georgie was contending that neither he nor his mother ha ever seen a cent of it. But one great fact overshadowed all the villainy that night father and son were united and happy and a message had already gone back to the old home from Georgie to his mother, telling her the good news. "And that Indictment was wiped out long ago against father." said Georgie to me. "but that rascal Scaylor kept writing him for money to fight it with and to pay for my schooling and this was the kind of schooling I was getting all the time. Wouldn't that kill you ?" I couldn't sleep till I had hunted up Neighbor and told him about It, and next morning we wired transportation back for Mrs. Sinclair to come out on. Less than a week afterward a gentle little old woman stepped off the filer at Zanesville and Into the arms of Georgie Sinclair. A smart rig was in wait

ing, to which her son hurried her, and they were driven rapidly to the hospital. When they entered the old fire man's room together the nurse softly closed the door behind them. But when they sent for Neighbor and me, I suppose we were the two biggest fools in the hospital, trying to look unconscious of all we saw In the faces of the group at Dad's bed. He never got his old strength back, yet Neighbor fixed him out, for all that. The skyscraper, once our pride, was so badly stove that we gave up hope of restoring her for a passenger run. So Neighbor built her over Into a sort of dub engine for short runs, stubs, and so on; and though Dad had vowed long ago when unjustly condemned, that he would never more touch a throttle, we got him to take the skyscraper and the Acton run. And when Georgie, who takes the flier every other day, Is off duty he climbs Into Dad's cab, shoves the old gentleman aside and shoots around the yard in the rejuvenated skyscraper at a hair raising rate of speed. After awhile the old engine got so full of alkali that Georgie gave her a new name Soda Water Sal and it hangs to her yet. WTe thought the best of her had gone in the Harvard wreck. but there came a time when Dad and Soda Water Sal showed us we were very much mistaken. Two Doctors. Almost every one has made his jest about the proneness of doctors to dis agree, the one prescribing exactly an opposite course from that ordered by another, but not every one has had an opportunity to conduct such an experiment as was made by the late Baron Lutz, formerly prime minister of Ba varia. The baron was once severely wounded In battle in both legs. The wound In one leg was much like that in the other. It struck him that there was a chance to study the ways of the surgical profession and beguile the long hours of his convalescence. He accordingly called in one doctor and gave him charge of his right leg, but told him nothing about the wound In the other, and then called in another doctor for his left leg, keeping him similarly in ignorance about the wounded right leg. The doctors adopted a very different method of treatment, but both wounds healed at about the same time. When the baron's legs were quite well he derived a great deal of amusement from getting the doetors together and mystifying them with questions about the way each, had treated "his leg." Some Tbongrbt For Food. If people were as particular to have their food fit their Insldes as they are to have their clothes fit their outsldes, they would be better satisfied with the world and themselves. When good digestion waits on appe tite a man may either dare to love or fight The food that fits the stomach is the food that rules the world. If you forgot what you have to eat then you may bet you won't forget what yon have eaten and will continue to eat it unless your judgment is as weak as your digestion. Indigestion is the devil's workshop. Dyspepsia uncovers a multitude of sins. If s easy going when your stomach works all right. No food is sometimes good food. A meal of victuals on the table Is worth two In the stomach. An overloaded stomach la bound to break down. Food that won't set on the stomach shouldn't have a chance to. An overful stomach Is a pasture for nightmares. Wr. J. Lampton In New York nerald. A Cynic. In the "Cynic's Word Book" Am brose Bierce, himself a cynic, gives the following definition of a cynic: "A blackguard whose faulty vision sees i things as they are, not as they ought to De; neace xne custom among the Scythians or plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision." Safe to Love Them Then. "I like dear little babies before they have learned to talk, don't you, Mr, Smythe?" "Indeed I do! Before they have learned to talk there is no danger of their parents telling you the remarkable things they have said." Stray Stories. If some people did more hard work perhaps they would have le3s hard rack. Illinois tate Journal.

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