Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 191, Hammond, Lake County, 31 January 1907 — Page 5

'Thursday, .Tan. 31, 1907.

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Telegraph News by Direct Wire from All Over Indiana. fT,,na,,nnolis..T;in. SI. The explosion

in mine No, 7, of tlio Poring Coal company, near Clinton, on the morning of Jam H, fh which seven miners wore killed and four injured, was due, in the opinion of James Taylor, a stato mine inspector of Illinois, to powdor, and not jras, lire damp or coal dust. t As an expert witness, Taylor gave testimony before a joint committee of tlio senate and Louse, which is investigating the disaster. "God alone knowa what caused the explosion," tin witness said, "but in my opinion tiro dropped from the lamp of a miner into a keg of powder, which he had opened with a pick, and his body was found J not far from where the explosion origInated." lie Found liittle. Trace of Oas. The Illinois- inspector said that tha explosion originated in what is known us entry No. 10. It was not a terrltio explosion, he said. He found soven (powder kegs, but could not tell hoAV nnuh powder they contained, at the time of the explosion. lie also found other kegs which had also been opened ty miners with picks and these kegs had gone through the explosion without their contents !eing touched off. lie said he tested for gas and flro damp and found little trace of either. Coal Dust Cannot Ilxplode. "There was no evidence of an explosion of coal dust," he said. "In the history of Illinois coal mining there Lever was a coal dust explosion. Coal dust cannot explode of itself, but it can act as a feeder to gases in a mine, but tha dust must first find a flamo which will distill the gas it contain. Then it can explode, or its gas can." The witness1 said that at no time and undfT no conditions should a miner bo allowed to use eight pounds of powder In a blast to bring down tlio coal. Inspectors Have Too Much to Io. No statffl in the Union, he said, which produces as much coal as Indiana has tts few Inspectors, The inspector in Indiana has many more duties- to look after than doe an inspector in any other state. "Under the present in?Pvtion methods in Indiana," tho Illinois man said, "it is a physical impossibili ty for the mines to bo duly Inppected." THAT PRINCETON FAILURE

President of the Elevator Company Cannot Account for the Absence of Assets. Princeton, Ind., Jan. CI. One week ag Henry E. Agar, ex-representative in the legislature and one of the bestknown grain men in southern Indiana, (disappeared from a boat on the Wabash river near Mount Carmcl. 111. Search was made at once for the body on tlio supposition that he had boon drowned, but it could not be found.

Now the president of tho lrlnceton 'ment of street railways in PennsylvaElevator company, of which Agar waa jIlia during the last few years. In his

secretary and treasurer and practically managed tiie business, has appeared in the circuit court and ujskrd for the appointment of a receiver. He paid he could not account, for the complicated condition of the affairs of the company, as there ought to be thousands of bushels of wheat In elevators in which there is none, yet there is nothing to show what became of the wheat if sold or of the money if the grain was- turned into cash. It is now questioned if Agar was really drowned when he disappeared from the boat. Fatal Locomotive Blow Up Foil Wayne, Ind., Jan. VA. Pennsylvania railroad engine pulling n freight train exploded twelve milei west of here, killing two men, seriously injuring another and practically demolishing theentire train of twenty empty stock cars. The engineer of the train W. C. Pender, of Ft. Wayne, had his head and shoulders literally blown off. Fireman Krvin Lowe was terribly bruised and scalded, dying within nn hour. Tho head brakemun, '. J. Ilegan, of Fort Wayne, was seriously injured about tho spino and shoulders. Grand Jury Will Investigate. Kvausville. ind., Jan. .11. Coroner Edward Laval has rendered a verdict that the death of Agnes Sandman, a telephone operator, a week ago Saturday was caused by mercurial poison. Suspicion is cast on no one. The iusuuauou . u.m suM) with UiO COroner's verdict as the ,md jury is exmesses wno appeared before Laval. Hoy of 12 Tries Suicide. Greenfield, Ind.. Jan. 31. Because his mother punished him for going skating after she had forbidden him to do so. Frank Hill, 12 years old. son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Hill, of this city, swallowed carbolic acid, and his life was saved only by prompt medical attention. Accident Still a Mystery. Terre Haute. Ind.. Jan. SI. Tho Indiana railroad commission has con-

cluded Its investiiratioii of the disas- I ady. acting directly upon the blood . . w- i t i I nr''' mucous surfaces of the system, ter at Sandtord on Jan. IP, and left j Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents for Fowler to investigate the accident I Per bottl. Sold by nil Druggists. thuvo ti. i , " ... . , , j Take Hall's Family Pills for constlTaeie. i lie Inquiry here did not derel- pation.

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The trouLIes of lines west of Chicago over passeugur rates have been adjusted, arid the rates and sales of tickets which threatened to makn some trouble have ben so urrant-I that conditions will continue harmoniously, much to the gratification of oonnoctinglinos cast of Chicago. One of the most interesting features of engineering- now t-nguging- tho attention of tho scientific World Is the dig-Ring of the now tunnel through the lluton mountains in New Mexico. The work had Just been started and will tako' several years to complete. Its purpose is to avoid the steep KraJcs on the approach to tho mountain, one beiny the steepest grade on tlio entire Santa Fu system. This improve mont will cost many thousands of dollars, but will be a great relief In moving trains. Tho Itailway Protective bureau, through Commissioner Donald of the Central Passenger association, has appealed to the interstate commerce, commission in earnest to consider tho application in the act to regulate commerce to the elimination of ticket scalpers, and the commission has agreed to hear the argument of the railway men in the near future. The Alonon is pushing tho construction of its Indianapolis & Louisville branch, over thirty miles of the track between Clay City and Wallace Junction, having been laid. And within ninety days tho company expects to have the road completed and in operation in connection with tho Monon. The Baltimore & Ohio road presented Samuel S. Pailey, an operator for the Western Maryland railroad at Junior, O., a handsome check for catching a runaway Baltimore & Ohio engine that had escaped from Bellingtoii, W. Va and was running- past the young- man's station at the rate of fifteen miles an hour with no one on it. Young- Bailey stopped the engine just in time to prevent a serious collision and wreck. Rumors have been circulated among the railroad people especially, regarding changes among the higher officials of the Erie railroad. It is stated that F. D. Underwood, president of the Erie Railroad company, will resign and that in his place will be one of the leading men on the official roll of the company. The man slated for the new president is George F. Brownell, vico president and general solicitor of tho road. Mr. Underwood it Is understood, is considering a higher step in the railroad work and will leave on that account. Although the resignation has not been affirmed and no appointments of successors made, it is thought the change is quite probable. Claim Agents Meet. Cincinnati, O., Jan. 31. Nearly all railroads of any importance in the United States were represented at the convention of freight claim agents which opened in this city yesterday. More than 200,000 miles of road were represented by over 300 claim agents, who were called to order by Robert Kirkland of the Illinois Central, president of the association. Secretary W. B. Taylor explained that this was a special convention to prepare a program foi tho annual session at Denver In Juno. To an address of welcome by Mayor Dempsey a response was made by President Klrland. Many of tho dele gates were accompanied Ly their wives. State Secretary of Internal Affairs Isaac B. Brown lias prepared a statement showing the marvelous developimport to the Bureau of Railways of oars ago the street railway companies of Pennsylvania Avere capitalized at SSo.SSS.Sll. Now they are capitalized at $183,633,441. Then there were sixty seven corporations making reports, now there are 23S. In 1SS7 the cost of the road equipment is represented to have been $12,335,069 ; now it is $140,yi6,4S.". Tho total trackage was then ,19 miles; now it is 3,325 miles. The Monon line earned in tho third week of January $90,SaJ. Since July 1 the lines have earned $3,1 32,921. The Clover Leaf earned in the third week of January $70,933. Since July 1 the earnings have been $325,403. Trainmen Appear in Court. I'eputy Prosecutor Parks received word that the four B. & o. trainmen indicted by a Porter county grand jury wiueu investigated the Woodville wreck would be here this afternoon to give bond for their appearance in court when the cases are called. Val paraiso Messenger. Wasps Step for Sirup. Messrs. Barratt, an English firm, hit upon an ingenious device to keep wasps away from an exhibition of confectionery they are holding. All round the outside of the marquee in which the exhibition is being hold sirup has been placed, and the contrivance has worked so splendidly that scarcely a single wasp has bee"a seen in the tent. 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By JOHN J. O'CONNOR. Copyright, 1900, by May McKeon It was October wheu Tim came to school. The family had been visiting relatives iu the west, and he had rejoiced iu tho prolonged vacation. It seemed rather hard to have to go back to school, and it was with laggard feet that ho headed, with the rust of the scholars, toward the little frame building where tho tender mind of district No. 4 was trained. "Tho new teacher's soft," volunteered Tommy English. "The other day Bill Hendricks brought a bean blower and shot the teacher la the back, and all she said was, 'Please don't' I g-uess there's going to be fun." Tim smiled weakly. It was encouraging to know that he could practice his devilments without the risk of a thrashing. The last teacher had been a man, and Tim had had gool reason to remember him, for of tho younger boys Tim was the ringleader, just as Hendricks was tho leader of the older boys. That Bill had eventually thrashed tha teacher and forced him to resign just before the end of the spring term was no great consolation to Tim. The trustees had put In a woman teacher as an experiment, thinking that perhaps feminine appeal might be more potent than the hickory switch. Tim rather expected a gaunt old lady, as a certain Miss Flint had been, and when ho made his appearance in the schoolroom and presented himself before tha teacher he was shocked to find so young a woman. Marion Murtha was only nineteen, and her fresh coloring and the liquid brown eyes made so deep an Impression on him that for the first ten days he was one of the model scholars, and Miss Murtha was beginning to congratGENTLY SHE EXPXiAI?TED THAT SHE HAD BEEN HIKE1 TO TEACII THE SCHOOL. ulate herself that the boy against whom everybody had warned her was not so bad after all. In vain Lis fellows looked for some outbreak, and finally Tommy English twitted him on his susceptibility. "He wants to marry her when he grows up," he jeered. "He'll be brin iui: her apples an' candy next. The ain't afraid; he's just soft, that's all." The gibe struck home, for Tim had a big apple in his desk that he was thinking of giving Miss Murtha if he did not feel tempted to eat It himself during the noon hour. "I ain't a-skeered of her," he said contemptuously. "I was just waitin' till I could think sornethin' up." "Yah." jeered Tommy. "I didn't say you was a-skeered. I said you was stuck on the teacher." The iron entered Tim's soul, and, with a dark "You wait and see," he raced off to the well. He came stamping in when the bell rang and went to bis desk with a swagger that was quite like his old time tearing. The desk next him was emp ty, and with infinite care he twisted two bits of slate pencil into a rubber band and dropped them Into the other desk. The unwinding band rattled the pencils around in the empty box with a crash that stopped the Fourth Reader class and directed the eyes of the whole school on him. Tim tried to look unconcerned, but he could not refrain from casting a glance of triumph at Tommy English, and therein lay his undoing, for the teacher's eyes were quick and her intuition keen. "Tim," she said sharply. "You will stay in after school tonight." "1 ain't done nothin'," he declared stoutly. "I did not say that you had," she said quietly. "I said that I wished you to remain after school this evening." "Aw," cried Tim, "that ain't fair!" She said nothing, but went on quietly with the class work. Tim had expected her to answer, that he might talk back again. He could not understand this quiet ignoring of the matter and sat silent and uncertain. During the noon hour Tommy English sought to persuade him Into defying the teacher, but when 4 o'clock came and he made as though to go out with the others a firm hand was laid upon his 6houlder, and Miss Murtha's quiet voice reminded him that he was to stay in. To stay after school meant to spend a certain time in study. Tim scnSed

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back to his desk end sat thero swinging his feet idly, lie was determined

that he would not study and wondered : vaguely If the teacher would try to! thrash him for his disobedience. j Presently the others were gone, and ! Miss Murtha went back to her desk.! Another scholar had been kept in to re- j write the spelling lesson, and Miss j Murtha waited quietly until the taskj was done. At btst they two were alone, i and she called to him.' Not ouxo had ! she noticed him before, and Tim went j forward wondering'y. j "They toid me that you were a bad boy," she said, "but -I did not think j that you would act so toward a worn- j au." j "What's the difference?" he demand-! ed. "You get paid to teach us, don't; you, just like a man'"' Gently she explained that she had been hired to teach the school, but that she could not remain if she could not handle the pupils. If he and some of the other boys persisted iu being dis obedient, she would have to give up the school and they would have deprived her of a chance to earn a living. When she had finished, Tim looked up. "Say," he said penitently, "111 let you lick me if you want to. I won't fight back." "I dou't want to whip you," she said aa she stooped and kissed him. "I want you to be a good boy; that's all." Tommy English was waiting for him as the subdued Tim went out. "Did she lick you?" he demanded eagerly. "I didn't hear you holler." With a howl Tim sprang at him and thrashed him as a relief for his overwrought feelings. 'Aoi' I'll do it again if you say any thing about Miss Murtha," he promised as he released his victim, "an' I'll lick any of you fellers what makes trouble for her." It took but a week to make that fact apparent, and those who had taken advantage of the fact that Miss Murtha did not believe in physical punishment learned to behave. Then came Een Hanway upon the scclie, and it soon became apparent that Marion had fallen in love. The proposition was almost too much for Tim to grasp, but in a vague way he realized that the teacher cared a great deal for Hen. He was not jealous, though he resented the lost walks home with Miss Murtha, because now Ben called for her with his buggy, and Tim was left behind. But the course of true love never did run smooth, and one afternoon Tim came back to the schoolroom to find Miss Murtha, with her head bowed on her arms, her slight form shaken by sobs. Softly he stole out of the room and made for the village. Ren would probably be in the office of the lumber yard, and thither he bent his steps. Hanway was working at his desk when the door burst open and Tim was upon him like a young catamount, pummeling and kicking indiscriminately. The attack was so sudden that it was several minutes before Hanway could grasp the youngster. Tear3 of rage stood in Tim's eyes as he struggled to get free. "You let me alone!" he shouted. "I've got to lick you. I said I was goin' to lick any feller that made Miss Murtha cry, an' I licked 'em all except Billy Ilendricks, an' I threw stones at him." "I didn't make her cry," laughed Hanway, though his face went very white. "What makes you think so?" "You used to drive her home," cried Tim, "an' now you don't come any more, an' I went Into the schoolroom this afternoon, an' she was cryin', with her head on the desk, an' I knew it was your fault, an' I want to lick you." Hanway's face glowed with pleasure. There had been a small quarrel, but so successfully had she hidden her feelings that he did not think she cared. "I'll hitch up and go right over to tell her I'm sorry," he said. "Will that do?" "If she says yes," agreed Tim. Hanway went out. That evening Tim was at the Fresbytevian social when Miss Murtha and Hanway came in. Miss Murtha bent over and kissed him. "My little champion," she whispered. "You have made, me so happy." "Then I won't lick Ren again," promised the pleased Tim. "I thought you'd want me to." The Star and Her Public. Of course materially the star is extremely well off. She can, if she has any business instinct whatever, easily become a rich woman. She earns, we will say, $500 a week and a percentage of the box office receipts. At that rate she need not be miserly to accumulate a tidy fortune in the course of a few successful years. A few successful years I Ah, there's the rub! The public Is dear, kind, sympathetic, flattering and fickle. Its regard is immediate and perhaps ephemeral. It adores you this year, flocks to see you, bursts Its gloves applauding you, warms the cockles of your heart with its ready smiles, its ready sighs, tosses you flowers, sends you notes, makes you walk upon air with gladness. And next year it doesn't care for your play or there is some one new, some one bewitching, enthralling, l'our personal popularity has evaporated. And you see yourself going the inevitable way the way that greater actresses and greater favorites than you have gone before you, to their neglected, half contemptuously pitied old ageto the drummed up benefits and the condescendingly bestowed charity. Ethel Barrymore in Harper's Bazar. Danjeroni, Kind Lady My poor man, will you never keep away from booze? Rummy Rob!n?on Well, mum, dere is one boose I keep away from. Kind Lady And what boore is that? Rummy Robinson Why, de caboope. Dafs where de brakemen ride. Chicasro New

Humor end Philosophy Ly DUNCAN M. SMITH

PERT PARAGRAPHS. Au innocent trade. look is food stock in Feeling bad for other people on account of their bad children is a pleasant exhilaration. The small boy who says he likes to go to school is striving to be a hero for his country's good. When approach! g a millionaire it 13 mighty hard to find the blind side. Joy doesn't go around calling attention to Itself with half tho persistency that sorrow does. Sometimes it looks as if only the wise people are the fools. Your conscience is like your watchnot to be depended upon unless you keep it always in running order. Some people never have anything to give, not even a friendly greeting, unless thev can collect a toll for it. Ignorance is superstition. rich in assurance end The natural bent of some men is the crook of the elbow. Trying to have a good time comes for choice just before trying not to have toothache. The Naughty Pilgrims. It i3 a great comfort to the rest of us who lind it rather trying at times to be a perpetual example to the young to learn that the pilgrim fathers were ouly human and that some of them worked quite industriously at it. Secretary Long has been digging down into the records with a deodorized muck rake and he finds that some of those whom we were taught to regard as model citizens were only so in spots. And while as suspicious characters they didn't approach to the heights attained hy the present Massachusetts legislature, they did the best they could in that direction, according to their limited opportunities. However, if we will look closely into the lives of most any people, no matter what pretentions they make, we will usually find that they can prove relationship to Adam without much of an effort, so we may throw the mantle of charity over the pilgrims, meanwhile keeping up an industrious search for the beam in our own eye. A Simpler Way. "She caught her husband makm; love to the hired girl." "I suppose she discharged the girl at ence." "Oh, no, she discharged her husband. Girls are much harder to get than, husbands these days." Discovering Pike's Feak, They have been making quite a fuss in Colorado this summer over the discovery of Pike's peak, as though it had been a hard thing to do. While It is true that it would have remained undiscovered as yet in its grandeur and loneliness if some one hadn't happened around, still the enthusiasts would hardly claim that discovering it was as difficult a task as finding a needle in a haystack. The mountain hadn't crawled In a hole, nor was it hiding behind a sagebush when Pike happened along. As we understand it, it was standing around on Its base waiting to be discovered. Great credit is doubtless due to the intrepid explorers who brushed past the Indians and took this grand old mountain in out of the cold, but still a man would have to be short sighted who could pass it without noticing something, it is so very, very obvious. Backward. Ee good bvA let who wi'.l be cleve' This ancient saw is understood, I fear, today to read this way: Ee clever. Let who will be good. A New Kind. "Do you mean to say that you are a real live cowboy?" "That Is the profession I follow for a living." "Is it possible? I have been with you for half a day and you haven't spoken a line of magazine dialect." With the Crowd'It Is disreputable to go Into politic! for what there is in it." "Still a fellow doesn't feel 60 loaolj J then."

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