Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 194, Hammond, Lake County, 4 February 1907 — Page 5

Monday. Feb. 4, 1907.

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES PAGE FIVE

Telegraph News by Direct Vire from All Over Indiana. Indianapolis, Feb. 4. That they tooz money from the treasury and epent it for lobbying a bill through the legislature in 1899 was admitted by officers of the State life Insuranco company in the investigation which, the auditor of state 13 conducting Into tho affaira of the company. President Andrew M. Sweeney, Secretary Wynn and- Cashier Howe were witnesses before the auditor. Howe was the first witness. He was asked about certain items in hi books charged to "cash." He said bo had drawn the money from bank, $1,600 at one time and $1,200 at another, find had delivered it to members o;! the executive committee of the company, lie did not know for what purpose it had been used. Neither Knew How It Went. President Sweeney was then called and said that the $1,500 had been delivered to him and he had given it to Charles Kahlo. lie stated that a bill was pending before the legislature; that eastern insuranco companies wereflghtlng it and the State Life was anxious that It be passed. Kahlo was lobbying for the bill and tho money was given to him for legal expenses. Sweeney said he did not take a receipt nor was any Itemized statement of how the money was spent submitted. Wynn eaid he received the money from the cashier and paid it over to Kahlo, but did not know bow it was used. Hernly Also Wad Given Money. It developed further that $225 was paid to Charles S. Hernly, then chair man of the Republican state central committee. President Sweeney was aksed: "Do you know whether other funds were given to other members Df the executive committee of the com pany?" "But I understand you yourself rerelved no funds, except tho $1,500 and the $225 thatyoupaid Hernly?" "Those are the only two items of cash I han dled." Ileqnired No Accounting. "So that if the other was used by the executive committee, it was used by some other members of the committee".'' . "Yes." "What was Mr. Kahlo authorized to do with tho funds you gave him?" "He was authorized to see that tho bill was passed to work for the passage of the bill." "Did he state to you how it was to bo expended?" "No. Ho said it was necessary to receive legal assistance" "So you state that you, as an officer of the company, put up $1,500 for legislative purposes, without requiring nn accounting from any one as to tho manner of expending the money?" "Yes." TELLS HOW UK BECAME A CAIN Young Farmer Owed His Brother and Was Taken with the Idea of Murder. Pdoomlngton, Ind., Feb. 4. Elmer Alltop, of Drown county, who was arrested after the body of his brother, badly mutilated, was found near this city, has confessed to the murder. He said he owed his brother $C00, secured by n mortgage on his farm. Harvey Insisted on payment, and Elmer asked him to come to P.loomington, saying he would get the money. He said he had only $70 and no way of raising the remainder. "The idea of killing him," be said, "entered my head, and I could not drive it away. I stepped behind Harvey and hit him on the head with a club. He fell like a log, and I hit him again and then jumped up and down on his face." His Diagnosis Was Wrong. Marion, Ind., Feb. 4. The board of health, prosecuting attorney and police of Marion are searching for one Dr. I.acy, who is wanted for practicing medicine without a license. He is charged with being responsible for a smallpox epidemic which has reached considerable proportions before the board of health learned of it. The vic- , tlms, it seems, were nearly all patients of Dr. Lacy. It is charged that Dr. Lacy was unable to diagnose the case-? and was treating the victim:? forchickenpox. Jury Wasted a Whole Night Kentland, Ind.. Feb. 4. The jury In the Fred D. Gllman bank wrecking case rendered n sealed verdict at 5 a m., finding the defendant guilty of em bezzling the funds of the Home bank. at Coodland. June 11. 1904. The jury within five minutes reached a verdict holding Oilman guilty. Under the im 'vs-:ion that the jury was expected to determine the penalty, they battled for ten hours, only to find that they had nothing to do with that part of th case. Triplets for Win. AUday. Shelbyville, Ind.. Feb. 4. Mrs. William AUday, wife of a coal team pier, has given birth to triplets two boys and a girl each weighing sin pounds. All are nlivp and doing wellautre are five other ehidren Jn the family.

RAILROAD NOTESF. E. Barber, a fireman on the Erie road, has been transferred from a local to a passenger run between Huntington and Chicago.

Fred Collins of the Erie yard office returned this morning from Valparaiso where he spent Sunday wtlh friends. Lawrence Ford, conductor on the AVabash road, ia on the sick list thU week with pneumonia. Fred Pryuns, conductor on the Lake Shore road between Hammond and Chi cago, rraturned this morning afto spending Sunday with friends hero, i The following men have been added to the Nickel Pate pay roll in the capacity of brakemen: John O'Hara, C. H. Moore, J. II. Poff and Vv'. H. Hymonas. E. A. Denbough, traveling passenger agent for the Pennsylvania road with headquarters at Fort Wayne, has been transferred to Mansfield, O. Thao. Stone of the Wabash road made a short business trip to Chicago Heights, 111., yesterday. Carl Walte, who has been working as car record clerk at the taiumei Park yards, has been promoted to yard clerk. Emil Gllman, brakeman on the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern road, had the misfortune to sprain his ankle, which will keep him from his work this week. Three new engines for tho Chicago & Northwestern road passed through Hammond yesterday over the Monon road, going to Chicago. Ralph J. Green, traveling: machinist of the Chicago Junction road, was in Hammond on business Saturday. C. II. Reed of the Indiana Harbor road returned today from Danville, 111., where he spent Sunday with friends and relatives. An immigrant train passed through Hammond this morning over the Erie road enroute from New York City to western points. The train consisted of twelve coaches. Fined for Rebating. Toledo, O., Feb. 4. The Ann Arbor railroad was fined $15,000 Friday. The road was recently indicted for rebating by the grand Jury on 153 counts following an examination by the inter state commerce commission. Indiana Coal Unsatisfactory. Locomotives on Indiana divisions of the Pennsylvania are burning southern Indiana coal this winter. Until last June tho fuel used was Pittsburg, brought here from the east, but a short age in coal cars combined with the cheapness of transportion of the In diana lump, resulted in the change from eastern to Indiana fuel. That now used is transported over the Vandalia lines from Terre Haute in the heart of the Indiana coal field, and is trans ferred at Logansport from the Van division to the other Pennsylvania lines diverging, in large quantities. A3 a result of the change In fuel firemen are complaining that firing en gines is a harder task than it has been other winters. Climatic conditions, un til recently, have been favorable for firemen as it has been neither too cold nor stormy ror easy nring, out tne quality of coal, they say, is not so good as the Quality of that used in other winters. Makes Annual Report. Captain Henry O. Stroll, of the Penn sylvania police department of the west ern division, has filed his annual re port with Superintendent J. B. McKim It thoroughly covers the operations of the entire force that is under his jurisdiction ror eacn uay in tne year ending Dec. 31, 1906. It shows that there was very few casese of vandalism to report as well as train climbing. One of the largest Items which the force has to contend with is the amateur train climbers but judging from tho report, they fared very' badly on this division during 1906 as a large number were apprehended Besides looking after the police duties of the Pennsylvania the force gave valuable assistance to the authorities in many of the smaller cities and towns along the route in apprehending criminals who vainly tried to escape the of ficers, by riding the trains. THE "JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION. The Jamestown exposition, which is to be held to commemorate the three hundredth anniversay of the first Eng llah settlement in America, made In Jamestown, May 2, 1607, Isn't to be held in Jamestown. There Is no James town. Jamestown Island is almost wiped off the face of the earth by the re lentless action of the James river; and the federal government is trying to save the remnant of the historic place by building breakwaters around it Nothing of the original settlement re mains, except the ruins of the founda tion tower of the oid steeple of th first church erected there. The exposition Is to be held on th shore line of Hampton Roads, la fron of Newport News, where battleship are built Detroit News. How's This? e ofter One Hunored Dollars Re ward tor any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him perfectly honorable ia all business transactions and flnan ciauy atie 10 carry out any obligations made oy his firm. Walding. Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken intern ally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system Testimonials sent tree. Price 5 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pilis tor constl-

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fconie of Them Likely to Die Other Are Less Injured by Jumping from Windows. New York, Feb. 4. A rag shop on the first floor of a two-story and base ment house on Cherry street 'a3 bnrned out early today and in the lira half a dozen persons were burned, some perhaps fatally, while others were injured by jumping from windows. All were asleep in the house when the fire was discovered by a patrolman. The following were taken to hospitals: Mrs. Maggie Cahill, burned, condition criti cal; Daniel Cahill, fracture of skull nd horribly burned; Mary Hemlock, burned about face, hands and legs; Maggie Siith, Injured in jumping from window. In addition to these Mrs. Annie Hesdon, who jumped from a win dow, August Spnngleman, William Hartigan, and Margaret Kelley were badly injured. The rousing of the occupants of the house by the police and the arrival of the firemen threw those living about the rag shop into a panic, and in the mad scramble for the exits that folowed many bones were broken and everal persons rendered helpless amid the flames. HOW THEY FEEL IN JAPAN Ths y Want Their Treaty Bights and Nothing Else Will Make Them Happy. Tokio, Feb. 4. After a careful sur vey or public reeling tiere regarding the prospect of a satisfactory solution of the San Francisco school contro versy It may be stated that while the approach of the termination of the dis agreeable affair is welcomed, yet the report from Washington that a solution may be effected by a mutual treatyexcluding the immigration of la borers is generally disbelieved as un reasonable. According to the prevailing feeling a solution must be effected on Japan's treaty rights pure and simple. How ever, confidence continues that a solution of the question will be reached without the least sacrifice of Japanese honor and prestige. NOT GUILTY OF MURDER By Reason of Insanity Says the Jury in the Case of Chester Thompson at Tacoma. Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 4. Chester Thompson, on trial for rnurderingjudge George Meade Emery in Seattle on July 7, 100 was found "not guilty bv reason of insanity" by the Jury. The boy was remanded to await the court's orders. Chester Thompson is a member of a well-known Indiana family, being a nephewr of the late Maurice Thomp son, tne novelist, ana a son or win li. Thompson, author of the celebrated poem "The High 'Fide at Gettysburg." who made n most eloquent and affect ing plea before the jury for bis son. Washington's Pass Shut Off. Minneapolis, Feb. 4. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, and General Booth, head of the Salvation Army, will pay their fare or walk this year, so rar as tne Chicago Great w estern railway is concerned. In the same mail President A. B. Stickney received the expired 1000 annuals of these men. With each came thanks and a polite request for renewal. President Stickney dictated polite letters to them, stat ing that under the new rate law it would be impossible to comply with their requests. Dixie's Time for One Knot. Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 4. An off! cial statementdeclares that the world's record forthe motor boat nautical mile (about one and one-fifth miles) was broken by the Dixie in the competition here. The best previous tame recorded for the distance was 2 minutes, 22 sec onds. The Dixie's mean corrected time for the distance is given at 2 minutes, 21.31 seconds. Earned the Wages of Sin.; Auburn, N. Y., Feb. 4. Asa Kenyon, of Oneonta, and Mrs, Marie Dedrick, of Syracuse, in compliance according to the police with a suicide pact, each drank the contents of an ounce vial of laudanum In a room at the Exchange hotel. Mrs. Dedrick is dead, but it is believed Kenyon will recover. The couple had been In Auburn for a week Mint Coining Mexican Money. New Orleans, Feb. 4. For the first time in the history of the local United Rtntes mint Mexican money is being coined here. Work was started Jan 12 on the coining of $1,000,000 In pese tas (Mexican 20-cent pieces), and it i3 exoected that by March 30 all of the 5.000.000 silver pieces will be ready for shipment. Child's Bite Causes Blood Poisoning Chicago, Feb. 4. Infection caused by the bite of her 5-year-old son, whom she was nursing, has already resulted in the loss by Mrs. 1 B. Green, of Oak Park, of a finger, and physicians fear amputation of the hand may become necessary. The child was ill with scarlet fever and died later. New Counterfeit a Poor One. Washington, Feb. 4. Chief Wilkie, of the secret service, has announced the appearance of a new counterfeit $20 national bank note on the Marietta National bank, of Marietta, I. T. In speaking of it Chief Wilkia says the counterfeit is a poor one. Cases Decrease, but Not Deaths. Chicago, Feb. 4. Fewer cases of scarlet fever and of other contagious diseases were reported to the health department yesterday than on any day since the epidemic began. No decrease,

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Arthur Morrison, bachelor and clubman and, what Is more, reputed to bo always in funds, had heard his friend Johnson speak of his shore property a score of times without taking any particular Interest In the matter. In a dim way he knew that it was down on Long Island; that it was on the shore of a body of water, presumably the sound; that Johnson was always kicking about the taxes and always abusing some one named Copeland, who owned property next to his domain, and that he himself hadn't the remotest idea of buying either shore or mountain property. This was all before the great game o:! poker that will be talked about in tho club for many years to come. There were but few members who didn't take a hand occasionally, but the play had seldom become exciting. On the occasion in question, when Morrison, John son and three others sat down, no one had any Idea of what was coming. And what did eome was all because of the extraordinary hands which the even ing's play brought out. The deck seem ed to be bewitched. Pat straights, flushes and full houses were as plenti ful as pairs had been on other occa sions. By and by, when every player had a hand he could back for any reasonable sum, there was raising all along the line, and before three of them grudgingly dropped out and left Morrison and Johnson to fight it out between them there was a record pot on the table. When that had been raised to $2,000 Johnson put in his shore property and made It $10,oT0. He was raised $1,000 more. With that he put down four aces only to be beaten by a straight flush. Within three days the deeds of the property were in Morrison's hands. In speaking of Dreamland, as John son had named his shore property, he had forgotten to mention one thing. Tho Copeland he had inveighed against was Colonel Copeland, a retired army ofllcer, sixty years old, and a man very jealous of his rights. Having bought to the edge of the water, he fenced to the edge of the water. This raised a quarrel with the property owners oa either side, and the fences had been re peatedly torn down and rebuilt, whilo the colonel bad gone so far as to sit up nights with a shotgun to protect hiu vested rights. This summer, owing to the colonel's wife being in Europe, Dreamland was in the hands of a caretaker. It was a month before Morrison went down to see his new property. He woukl not have gone then but for the letters he received from the caretaker. The latter stated that he had become afraid of his life and that be would flee the place if something was not done to protect him. Mr. Arthur Morrison was not a belligerent man. but he refused to be bulldozed. If Colonel Copeland, his neighbor, was carrying things with too high a hand he would drop down and let him understand that other Long Islanders had a few rights too. Morrison had heard of irascible old men with shotguns, and. his belief was that all they needed was some one to talk right up to them. He reached Dreamland one day just in time to prevent the caretaker from carrying out his project of hurried flight. And all this because in accordance with a standing order from Johnsou, he had torn down the division fence, and Colonel Copeland had actually fired at blm before proceeding to rebuild it. The injured man went on to give the old military hero such a reputation that Morrison was minded at first to return to New York and put the place In the hands of a real estate agent. But the caretaker urged that he assert his rights as a property owner, and, though It was with many misgivings, he started out to see about that shore fence. The offending obstacle was nothing more or less than a rail fence that ran down through the scrub brush and over the sand to the edge of the water. It was all on the colonel's own prop erty, and just why this old man should not have a dozen fences there if he wanted them was a puzzle to the newcomer. In fact, he thought it might be a good idea to fence his own shore and would have stopped at this but for the caretaker, who insisted that he climb the mooted fence and walk about on the colonel's land Just to show him that he did not own the earth. A man will do foolish things against his better judgment. Mr. Morrison did one on this occasion. He proceeded to climb the fence. As soon as his back was turned the caretaker made a re treat. If there was to be any shooting he did not want to be counted in. When Mr. Morrison had hoisted him self to the top of the fence he sat there for a few minutes and surveyed the landscape. There was the same old Long Island sound; there were the same sand and brushes; there were the trees, and beyond the trees he knew was the site of the colonel's house. If the colonel had not told the caretaker that he would aim to kill at the next trespasser on his land Mr. Morrison would have continued to sit on the top rail of that fence until his back ached and then dropped back on his own side. His spirit of defiance had been aroused, however, and he meant to walk at He

fell forward. The next thing he knew

i his foot was caught between the rails. and he was hanging head downward, with a broken leg. In firing oa the caretaker, getting into a redhot temper and rebuilding the fence the colonel had taken a chill and j was laid up in bed. He could no longer ; j prowl along the shore to guard hi3 I vested rights. But he had a substitute, ! and he gave that substitute stern orj ders, commanding her to take the shot gun along and fire at any moving thing. The substitute was his daughter Agnes. She was ruler of the colonel's house and the idol of his heart, and she had taken a more than ordinary Interest in that shore fence question. She had announced, too, she was ready to perish in defense of her inalienable rights as heir to the property. This feeling was strong upon her as she donned her jaunty hat and walking skirt and headed for the beach that afternoon. If the fence was still erect, well and good. If It had been torn down again "Help, help, help!" were the word3 that reached the girl's ears as she made her way through the bushes, and the sounds startled her. Some one in tearing down that fence had come to grief. Should she play the good Samaritan? flashed through her mind. No, but sho would take advantage of tho occasion to give the offender a piece of her mind. Hastening forward, she soon came upon the spectacle of a well dressed stranger hanging head downward from the fence. He could touch the ground with his hands, but he had no power to release his leg. While she was twenty feet away Miss Copeland made up her mind that the victim must be the new owner of Dreamland and that he had come down to make her father more trouble. She was almost sorry to observe that he was well dressed and in appearance a gentleman and that, though the blood had reddened his face until It had the color of a boiled lobster, he was nevertheless eood looking. Mr. Morrison had ceased calling for help when he heard and caught sight of her, and as she approached nearer he politely observed: "I Lave, as you see, met with an accident, and I hope it may not be asking too much of you to render me a little aid." "What were you doing there?" demanded the girl, seeing only that his fo)t was caught. "Well I er I think I was admiring the landscape." "I don't believe it. You were here to tear our fence down." "I can hardly agree with you there. I should have merely-' taken a few steps on your land and then gone away." "You wanted to defy us, did you? You wanted to show my father that you were not afraid of him?". "If Colonel Copeland is your father, then you must be Miss Copeland," re plied Mr. Morrison. "Lxcuse me, please, but if you will pick up my cardcase I will introduce myself. The posi tion is er somewhat embarrassing." "I'm srlad of it. You came to tear down the fence and make more trouble for poor old dad. You are caught in your own trap, and you can stay there for all of me. I'm going home. "Perfectly natural feeling oa your part, my dear young lady, and I must bow to the inevitable. I had no business here. If I am suffering it's all my fault." "But I don't think you are suffering," she said as she turned back. "You've only caught your foot between the rails. If you call loud enough that man of yours will come and release you." "Exactly. Don't let me detain you." "But are you really suffering? If you are, why why" "I am sure that I have broken my leg, and as for that man of mine, the coward seems to have deserted me. However" "Oh, that's different, of course. I thought, you know I thought you were some one not a gentleman and that it served you right and that if you hung there for two hours it might do you good." A panel of the fence was soon taken down and the foot released. Then Miss Copeland hurried home and returned with two men servants and a mattress. Mr. Morrison was removed to the Copeland bouse and a doctor sent for, the doughty colonel vowing and declaring that the patient should not be admitted. But he was, and his stay was prolonged for weeks. After a few days the colonel could manage to bear with the situation. After a few more he asked after the patient. In a couple of weeks he spent at least two hours a day getting acquainted with the man who intended to trespass on his land. By and by there came a day when he was seized with a sudden Idea, and he marched away to find his daughter Agnes. "These things generally come out one way," was his. blunt remark. "Yes," she replied, with a blush. "Well, don't let this come out that way," was his terse and only comment However, there are reasons for thinking that it did. Short on Scripturt Colonel John Cosgrove, afterward congressman, defending a client accused of some crime, In an eloquent climax shouted: "What does the state's attorney expect? Does he expect my client, like Daniel, to command the sun to stand still and hare It obey?" Judge James W. Draffen, lavrypr for the opposition, interrupted, "May It please your honor," he said, addressing the bench, "I object to Colonel Cosgrove'g misquoting Scripture." "I beg pardon," blandly replied Colonel Cosgrove, "I forgot for the moment that it was not Daniel, but Solomon, vrho commanded the sun to stand still."

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