Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 197, Hammond, Lake County, 7 February 1907 — Page 5

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Telegraph News by Direct Wire from All Over Indiana. Kentland, Ind.f Feb. 7. Fred D. Oilman, convicted of embezzling the funds of the defunct bank at (Joodland, -while he was president, in June, VJM, while he was present, in June, court and Judge Hanley committed him to prison at Michigan City under the indeterminate sentence law, ranging from one to three years. The motion for a new rial was overruled, and Le was started for Michigan City In the evening. Virtually at Large Since Saturday. Since Saturday, at which, time Gilmnn was placed in charge of his counsel Judge Darroch, iClman was vlrtaully at lrage. He and his wife were guests at the Hotel Kentland, and no effort was made to restrict his liberty, Many of his former patrons from Goodland calledonhlm and talked over bank affairs, and not a few of his visitors left the hotel convinced that Oilman Avas not alone responsible for the fniiure of the bank. Says lie Was IVrjured Into Prison. TSeforo he started to prison Oilman, said that aside from the stigma a prison sentence Avould cast on his family, he had no dread of serving his time. "I am innocent of wronging any man," said he. "My Avhole life has been spent In trying to help others, and even now I have no malice in my heart for those avIio perjured themselves on the witness stand to further my conviction. I kept a close record of the evidence, and I will say that accounts aggregating $27,000 were filed with the trustee of my estate by men to whom I did not owe a penny. A number of my nearest neighbors perjured themselves on tho witness stand iu this manner." Hare Collection of Coin. During his banking career Oilman tnnde a collection of rare coins and greenbacks that feAV collections in the United States excel. He says that he has a sample of every piece of money ever issued by the government, excepting a very few of the larger denominations. The collection includes a silver dollar of the coinage of 1804, which is valued at $1,500. It also includes a silver dollar coined in 17S3, .valued fit $SOO: a R-cnt script payable in gold and issued in 1702; the first iby the government. He values his entire collection at $0,000. The collection 1 stored in a vault at Goodland. At the time of his marriage he gave It to his Avife as a wedding gift. He Heapeth Up Riches," Ktc. Wabash, Ind., Feb. 7. Leaving a fortune of $30,000, every cent accumulated from a pension of $."0 a mouth, judiciously invested by his guardian, Henry Wensler is dead. Injuries la tho civil war left him simple minded, but he supported himself until recently. Government meu sent here stated this is the only fortune in the United States developed from a pension alone. Several heirs of whom no one knew before have appeared to claim the estate, and there will be a law light. State Inquiry at FoAvler. Fowler, Ind., Feb. 7. Tho Indiana state railroad commission has conducted its official investigation into the cruise of the Avreck at this place on Jan. 19, in which a number of persons were killed and Injured. The investigation so far has brought out the fact that the crew of the freight train violated one of the company's rules In not clearing a "superior class" train five in I antes. Fire in a Hominy Plant. Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 7. In a fire which broke out at 3:"0 a. m., the manufacturing plant of the American hominy mills Avas entirely destroyed. The total loss is estimated at $100,000, which is probhMy covered by insurance, said to be placed In Indianapolis , Tiny Raby in the Family. Jvokomo, Ind.. Feb. 7. A daughter weighing one pound and eight ounces has arrived at the home . Mr. and Ma. Charles McCoy here. I-. "aby is well develoued and hearty. J TRAGEDY OF THE RAIL Train Runs Through Philadelphia at Terrltlo Speed Engineer Dead at the Throttle. Philadelphia, Feb. 7. The Congres sfonal limited train on tho Pennsylvania railroad ran through this city at terrific speed Avith the engineer, Joseph Toms, dead at the throttle. The train, which was made up of seven mulct, dining and parlor cars, should make two stops in this city. Shortly after the train left West Philadelphia the fireman, Harry Michner, noticed that the speed of the train was unusual. The train swayed as it rounded the curves, but the engineer gave no signals, Michner called to Turns, but received no answer, and Avhen the train rushed through Fainnount Park and neared North Philadelphia Jhe fireman climbed over the lug boiler into the engineer's cab to find Toms dead, with Ids hand on the throttle. His head was hanging out of the cab windoAv and had been crushed by striking some ol1ect along the road,

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What J. F. Cochrane Alleges of a ; Railway in a Suit Against j the Road. RAKEOFF ON MILEAGE OF CARS Plaintiff to Make It and the Road Get the Bulk. I So lie Says, and Adds That the Road Failed to Carry Out Its AgreementFor Which Reason He Sues. Milwaukee, Feb. 7. P. J. Buckley, of Waukesha, has been bound over by Judge Tullar for trial for perjury in the Cochrane case, in which J. F. Cochrane sued the Chicago, Milwaukee end St. Paul railroad for a large sum of money alleged to be due him for his silence in cases involving the alleged defrauding of thirty-three railroads of money alleged to be due them for mileage on the St. Paul road tracks. Cochrane sued on the ground that he Avas to be given $1H0 a mnoth by the St. Taid road to refrain from telling other roads of the sums they had been defrauded out of, but he says the St. Paul road failed to f nihil Its part of the contract. Buckley, testifying for the railroad, told different stories at different hearings of the case, it is alleged. Racked by a "High Official." The original proceeding from which this is an outgroAVth was oue Instituted by J. II. Cochrane against several officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad for a large sum of money alleged to be due him for violation of a contract and conspiracy to deprive him of sums due him. Cochrane was a car accountant employed by the St. Paul road, and Is said to have deducted from the car mileage of other roads many thousands of dollars under the specific direction of a high official. Subsequently two roads the Chicago and Alton and the Chicago and Eastern Illinois made a demand upon the road for the sums they alleged they had been defrauded out of by reason of the cuts in car mileage referred to. The money was paid back. Alleged Arrangement with Earling. Cochrane alleges that President A. J. Earling, of the St. Paul road, sent for him and inquired about the deductions, and that Earling made an arrangement to pay him 20 per cent, of the amount of the claims of thirtythree other roads as Avell. and to give him a position for life at $1T0 a month. Subsequently the road failed to carry out the agreement. HAS NO JURISDICTION Congress Cannot Regulate Woman and Child Labor in the States, Says a House Committee. Washington, Feb. 7. Chairman Jenkins, of the houe committee on judiciary, has submitted a report in which it is stated emphatically that the committee is of the opinion that "congress has no jurisdiction or authority over the subject of Avoman and child labor, and has no authority to suppress any abuses of such labor or Ameliorate conditions surrounding the employment of such laborers." The committee holds that the regulation of woman and child labor is within the police power of the various states. This report Avas made in compliance with the resolution from tho house committee on appropriations asking for an opinion on the subject before the appropriations committee included an item in an appropriation bill to cover the expense of the investigation of woman and child labor in the United States. McKinley Memorial Association. Washington. Feb. 7. Arrangements for the dedication ceremonies Incident to the unveiling of the monument of the late President McKinley at Canton. O., next September, and plans for caring for the throngs expected to be present on that occasion, were among the matters considered at a meeting of the McKinley Memorial association at the Arlington hotel. Caught in a Cave-In. Steubenville, O., Feb. 7. Four workmen engaged in dynamiting frozen ore 100 feet high at the docks of an iron manufactory here were caught in a cave-in. Nicholas Dragovich, 2"J years old, was suffocated and Michael Oswan, John E. Wan and Michael Dragovich were probably fatally crushed. Wants to Know Hoav Much It Costs. Washington, Feb. 7. Senator C!ay presented a resolution In the senate directing the secretary of war to send to the senate a statement of the amount expended by the United States in the Philippines from July 1, KH2, to date for the equipment, supplies and military operations. Speaker Cannon ILis a Cold. Washington. Feb. 7. Representative Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, called the house to order, the indisposition of Speaker Cannon making it necessary to designate a speaker pro tern, for tho day. Speaker Cannon has a bad cold, but Is not confined to his home. Frozp to Death in a Sleigh. Moose .IaAA Sask.. Feb. 7. lierorts hare been received from Waldeck. a j station on th.j main line of the Cana- ! dian racific, te'.linir of the freezing j to death of a man. wife and four chil4 dxen wiule drlvum la & sJeiidi.

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Radical Changes in Massachusetts Are Recommended by a Committee. FEEER USE OF SUNDAY FAVORED Legal Work Primarily a Local Issue Games and Other Pastimes on Sunday Are Approved. Boston, Feb. 7. Radical changes in the statutory laws relating to the observance of Sunday are recommended by the special committee appointed by the last legislature to revise the Sunday statutes, Avhich has submitted its report at the state house. The Sunday laws recently formed the subject of a bitter controversy between District Attorney John P.. Moran and Police Commissioner Stephen O'Mara, of the city of Boston. In a general way the report favors a freer use of Sunday by the people. with more liberties Avith reference to outdoor games and pastimes. One Law Is Condemned. The committee is unanimous that the hnv permitting religious and charitable associations to present amusements on Sunday for religious and charitable purposes, uuder which 75 per cent, of the proceeds passes to the charity, is inoperative and inefficient, and often leads to hypocrisy and fraud, and recommendation is made that this part of the statutes be repealed. As to What Is Legal Work. On the broad question of what works may be legal on Sunday the committee agrees that local authorities should be authorized to issue certificates that in their opinion the work is necessary, the supreme court to decide upon the legality of the Avork in the event that complaint against it is made. The committee did not submit a draft of a bill, but it strongly recommended that every citizen shall have a legal right to one day's rest In seven, and it maintains that the enjoyment of this right should in no Avay jeopardize his employment. Sunday Games and Pastimes. On the subject of Sunday games and other pastimes the committee was unanimous in its conclusion that innocent pastime on field or lawn is no more dangerous to public morals than boating, sailing, driving or automobiling, to which no objection is now raised, and is much more to be desired than lounging or loitering during the leisure hours of the day. In connection with the decision on Sunday games, howeA'er. the committee reported adversely upon a bill intended to authorize athletic events by United States seamen at Provincetown on Sundays. TOO IIUCH MILITARY Episcopal Church Protests Against the Warlike Features of the JamestOAvn Exposition. Boston, Feb. 7. In view of the fact that the triennial meeting of the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church is to be held this year at Jamestown, Va., a number of Episcopal bishops has joined in formulating a protest against the alleged Intention of the management of the Jamestown exposition to make that exposition "the greatest military spectacle the Avorld has ever seen.' This protest Is signed by the bishops of New Hampshire, Rhode Island. Colorado, Michigan, Oklahoma. South Carolina. North Carolina, Avestern Michigan and Asheville. and the bishop coadjutor of Nebraska. It says in part: "We are confident that such a plan as that noAV announced is calculated to stir up the fever of military excitement and emulation in our people at a time when that is precisely what Ave should all most earnestly co-operate to discourage, and cannot command the approval of the serious and thoughtful citizens of the republic." " Texas Welcomes tho Japs. Los Angeles. Cal., Feb. 7. With an Imitation to all Japanese on this coast to find homes in Texas, O. Takayama, who claims to have been sent on his mission by Governor Campbell, of Texas, is urging the Japanese residents of Venice and other seaside towns to colonize a section near Houston, where he is said to own a rice farm of 2,000 acre:. Two Women May Re Shot St. Petersburg. Feb. 7. The two women Mdlle. Klimova and Terentieva who participated in the attempt! to blow up Premier Stolypin with bombs at his country residence Aug. 2.". 1000. have been identified. Mdlle. Klimova is the daughter of a councillor of tne empire, and Mdlle. Terentleva belongs also to a good family. Two Steamers in the Ice. Milwaukee. Fob. 7. Advices received at the Milwaukee offices of the Goodrich Transportation company are to the effect that the steamers Iowa and City of Racine, which, re spectively, left Grand Havtn and MilAvaukee for Chicago Monday ni-ht, are stuck in tli ice off ETanston, 111. Costly Iilast of Itot Metal. Chicago. Feb. 7. An explosion of molten metal Avhkh Avas accidentally overturned into a pool of cold Avrer at the plant of the Illinois Steel Co. Injured Ave workmen, two of them fatally; wrecked two of the smelters, and partly demolished four others, causing a loss of $100,000.

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The instant you laid your eyes on her 1 you felt quite sure that her grandmother had selected her clothes. That is not just the Avay the girls at the Empire lunch room. No. r, expressed it. Kitty Behman, Avho had al- ! ways queened it over the force of black froeked, white aproned wait- ; resse3, patted her ma reeled locks plac- ; idly and remarked: ; "Well, his nibs sure picked a lemon I in that." "That," otherwise Sally Loftus, sat in ! the cashier's booth near the entrance j arranging small change in neat piles, j Her head, crowned by brown locks, j parted demurely and almost severely j m me miuaie, Avas oeuc a Dove her work, but her quiet glance traveled to the group of gossiping girls. Incidentally they took in other things. At one table the ice had melted iu tho butter dish and water trickled over the mahogany surface. On another table the glass sugar bowl was nearly empty. A soiled napkin and butter plate had been left at a third table. The girl who looked as if her grandmother bought her clothes fingered the round buttons on her queer cashmere basque, and then her avcII manicured nails tapped gently against the old fashioned brooch at her throat. Inside the chased circle of gold reposed braided strands of hair the exact shade of tho girl's. Her glance finally rested on the sloping shoulders of the young man who stood by the big plate glass window, where a white aproned youth poured a stream of white dough on hot griddles. The young man, who Avas Ralph Putnam, son of the oAvner of the Empire circuit of lunch rooms, started back to the kitchen, and as he passed the new cashier he flung her a glance that was almost appealing. She met him with one oddly reassuring and fully understanding. lie brightened perceptibly, but aa he passed the group of girls near the coffee counter the light died out of his eyes once more. Kitty Behman smiled up at him familiarly. "Where'd you get the Christmas tree ornament, Ralph? There's one thing sure. You needn't worry about any of the boys copping her out. She's had her fortune read 'old maid' by every clairvoyant in town, or I miss my guess." "Her father went to school with mine. She comes of very good family," he said apologetically. "Gee, but it's fine to haA'e a pull!" was Kitty's contemptuous reply. Ralph Avandered into the kitchen. More than ever he hated the lunch room and everything connected with it. And in truth he Avas not entirely to blame. His father had sent him from private school to college, Avhere he had taken the classical courses, and then his somewhat unreasonable parent could not understand Avhy his bookish son could not walk, diploma in hand, into an Empire lunch room and manage it as Avell as the other young men iu the same position of responsibility who had served their apprenticeship, even to cooking griddle cakes in the window. Ralph had trouble auditing his accounts, settling quarrels in the kitchen and preserving some semblance of discipline among the pert waitresses. All this and more Sally Loftua learned before the breakfast rush set in. It was a soggy day, and gradually discontent seemed to permeate the room. A tired looking stenographer in bedraggled skirts was arguing with u waitress because her toast had been burned. The Avaltress replied tartly that some folks expected a lot for 10 cents. Ralph stood helplessly at the table, afraid to take a hand in the argument, but when the waitress finally flounced to the coffee counter he stepped iu awkwardly and told the patron he would bring her some fresh toast. After he had done this he paused wearily at Sally's elbow. She crossed her hands demurely on the marble ledge and said quietly: "I was so glad to see you reprimand that waitress. She was A-ery impertinent, and we ought to make every customer feel that she wants to breakfast here regularly. Don't you think so?" Ralph started. He had not called down the saucy waitress. He had merely tried to undo the mischief she had Avrought. Now he wished he had scolded her before the customer. "We have a lot of regulars," he said in the same apologetic tone he had employed to Kitty Behman. "But Ave want a lot more. We ought to have every place at these tables taken between 7:30 and 9 o'clock." Suddenly Ralph started down the narrow aisle. For the first time he noticed the water dribbing from the butter plates. He approached the saucy waitress and said with a funny at tempt at sternness which w quite lost on the astonished girl: "Clean up those butter plates, and don't you ever again tell a customer she wants too mucn for her money, j We want them t0 get aM that-s cominff to them." "What do you think of that?" demanded the girl, with an injured expression, as she turned to a helper. "What's come over him?" Something had come over Ralph Tutnam, a curious sense of panic. Ho hurried Kick to the cashier's desk and leaned against it as if for support. lie almost expected to see the reprimanded jrirl dash out because never befor

bad he dared assert his authority. But Instead the girl really cleaned up tha butter dishes, and the girl whose grandmother bought her clothes watched her do it from the tail of an observing eye. Sally Loftus had a busy day, but when she was relieved at 7 o'clock she was not ready for home. She entered Ralph's tiny private otEce. some slips in hand. "Will you please help me with the accounts?" she asked in friendly tones. "Why. you don't have to the other cashier" "I know, hut I Avant to learn everything about the business, and I know you can teach me." Ralph fairly gasped, but he spread the troublesome slips and bills before her. In fifteen minutes she had the matter straightened out, and with a quiet "Thank you, I can do it after this." left, her employer with a sense that somehow an angel had suddenly illumined his miserable existence. From that day on affairs at the Empire lunch room. No. 5. ran differently. The quiet young woman in the cashier's Avindow was forever telling Ralph Putnam hoAt sensible he Avas to do this or that things which he had wanted to do, but Avas afraid to undertake and straightway he Avent off and did them. The cashier Avas constantly investing him with business virtues he did not possess, and as constantly he tried to assume them. The climax came when an elderly man tipped Kit

ty Behman with a nickel, and as tne girl dropped the coin into the pocket of her white apron she said to Ralph, Avho Avas almost at her elbow: "Gee! I thought I read in the papers that Russell Sage was dead." The old gentleman told Sally Loftus about the insult as he paid his check. Sally glanced up quickly. Ralph, red of face, was folding and unfolding a napkin, and Kitty, with dancing eyes and impertinent tilt of head, was telling the other girls what a smart answer she had given her stingy customer. Ralph strolled over to Sally's Ride. She made change for a little typeAvriter. Then she turned to Ralph. "There is one thing I admire in Kitty Behman. She is gritty. Not many girls would smile like that when they had just been dismissed for impertinence." Ralph threAV back his shoulders. "Then you think it would be all right to fire her?" he asked. "The only thing you could have done," replied Kitty firmly. "I felt sure you would see it that way." Ralph had not thought of firing Kitty. She had ruled the entire floor so long but now That night Kitty was summoned to the tiny office. Ralph was a trifle pale around the lips, and his voice was husky, but his intention had not wavered. It was well for him, however, that dismissal came so suddenly to Kitty that she actually lost the power of speech. Three months later Tim, who checked umbrellas and ran errands at No. 5, met Kitty on her way home, from work. "How's the little old maid?" she inquired flippantly. "Wot's eatin' you?" he inquired savagely. "She's goin' to beat you to the altar by a mile. She's trottln' in the class with his nibs, tooan' the old man'3 tickled to death. Says she's made a man of his boy, an' he don't care Avho knows it." "Weil, Avhat do you think of that?" exclaimed Kitty, smoothing her marcel waves reflectively. "That some of you wise ones ain't one, two, three with the old fashioned sort Avith the right kind of wheels In her think pot. So long." The Sleeping Baby's "Smile." It is interesting to see hoAV old is the on maternal delusion about the smiling babies iu their sleep. All children asleep are taken with a catching of the corners of the mouth, which is as unlike as possible to the real smile the humorous and delightful little silent sketch of a laugh, appearing first at any age between a fortnight and a month. Yet human sentimentality has insisted on calling the sleeping grimace, due to flatulence, a smile, and even a smile caused by dreams of angels. And St. Monica must have been as unintelligent on this point as any other matron, for St. Augustine, reviewing in his "Confessions" the growth of his own mind, mentions that he had been told of the coming of Infantile smiles, "having appeared previously In sleep." Thackeray echoes St. Monica, for he shows us Amelia sitting by her child, "who was smiling in his sleep." No baby ever smiled in his sleep yet or is ever likely to do so. London Chronicle. Origin of the Ckristma3 Stocking. From Italy comes the legend from which we are supposed to get the time honored custom of hanging up the Christmas stocking. Good old St. Nicholas of Padua used to throw long knitted purses tied at both ends into the open windows of the very poor people, and these purses were of yarn and not i unlike a footless stocking. Finally it ! became the custom of the people to hang these empty receptacles out of their windows on the night before Christmas so that St Nicholas would put a gift Into them as he passed by. By and by, when the coin of the realm i became scarce, toys were put In for the I children and useful presents for grown j people. In the north country, where It j was rather ch!lly at Christmas time, the purses were hung on the mantel piece, and it ayes oeiievea mat tho good old saint would come down tho chimney and fill them. When these purses went out of fashion, stockings were substituted and Lave been used erer since.

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