Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 220, Hammond, Lake County, 6 March 1907 — Page 5
PAGE FIVE Wednesday, March 6, 1907. S I t i i I I f Railroad Notes COURT HUNTIHG HUEF
THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES
MURPHY BILL PASSES SENATE Local Telegraph Operators
Alleged 'Frisco Grafter Gets Writ of Error and Cannot Be Found.
Telegraph News by Direct iWire from All Over Indiana.
Are Jubilant Over Its Passage.
Indianapolis, March C The railroad commission bill has passed the house. Being a senate bill it is now ready for the signature of the governor. The bill greatly increases the power of the railroad commission to enforce Its own rules and orders, and enlarges its discretionary powers. It Is the Hepburn rate bill of the federal congress applied to state commerce. Among other things it prohibits the giving and accepting of railroad passes for state travel. Haw kin's Anti-Trust Hill.
When the senate Hawkins anti-trust
bill came up in the house Representative McCullough led the Democrats in a successful campaign for amendments. The bill as finally advanced to engrossment, however, retains its most Import
ant feature, that providing funds
whereby the attorney general's depart ment may investigate unlawful com
blnations, collect the evidence and
prosecute. Other Work In the legislature.
The senate has passed the bill giving
the Juvenile court jurisdiction in cases
of adults who contribute to the de
linquency of children. Hawkins Intro
duced concurrent resolution, directing
the state board of tax commissioners
to make a report to the general assembly explaining the large amount of
delinquent taxes due from different counties in the state. The house on
reconsideration passed the tax com
inlssioners' bill providing uniform
method of taxing banks. Vice President Is at Home. Indianapolis, March G. Vice President Fairbanks, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. TImmens, has arrived home from Washington. The vice president will give a reception to the members of the Indiana legislature at his home this evening. Mrs. Fairbanks will remain in Washington for a diort time before coming to Indianapolis. TACKLED THE WKONO MAN
One of the hardest blows which has
been dealt to the railroad corporations
n years and one which was the siir-
nai ior every force available to he brought forward to combat aerainst its
passing, was the Murphy bill limiting
the hours of employment for railro:ul
telegraphers, which passed the senate the other day. The following message was sent to everv teleeranh operator
n the country that could be reached
by wire:
"Nine-hour bill passed by congress
and signed by the president. Will be
come effective one year from date.
Greatest victory ever accomplished.
Notify the boys."
The message was signed by Ij. D.
Quick, of Ht. Louis, national secretary and treasurer of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Telegraphers. Several days ago, as the session of congress was drawing to a close, the bill threatened
to hang fire until the next session.
This was prevented, however, by the
thousands of messages sent to congress by the operators.
Although the railroads have a year's
time to adapt their systems to the conditions which will be prevalent when the bill becomes effective, it will mean that they will require thousands
of additional operators when the men are placed on the nine-hour shift. This of course will mean that there will be
an additional expense of thousands of dollars in the form of wages for the
additional men required.
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Counsel Intimates That Judge Dtums Is Hunting Trouble Also.
Hints at Contempt of the United States Supreme Court, but Dunne Is Cool and Firm.
MRS. WILLIAM THAW.
Mother of Harry Thaw, Who Will Likely Appear on the
Stand Today in Her Son's Behalf.
SAFETY APPLIANCE LAW GOES
Lobbyist Tells a State Senator That He Might as Well "Have Something" Out of legislation. Indianapolis, March G. "You might ea well have something out of this .thing. There is a bunch around you over there getting their' s and you ought to fare as well as they." State Senator John W. Parks, of Kosciusko and Marshall, was the man to whom this remark was made by a lobbyist Interested in a bill which he Avanted Introduced or added as an amendment to a bill which the senator had already offered. Other senators say that Senator Parks grew very indignant and that the lobbyist left the room with a very distinct impression that he had made a mistake and had better not repeat it.
Found the Woman Dead. Shelbyvllle, Ind., March G. Isaac Iliggins, noticing that Mrs. Matilda Cherry had not been about her home since Thursday last, after calling attention to the neighbors thereto, forced
his way into the house through a rear
window, and he found the dead body
of the aged woman, partly reclining on her bed, with her feet resting on
the floor, as if she had died while in the act of getting up. The body was rapidly decomposing. Mrs. Cherry had lived alone since the death of her husband, fifteen years ago. She was 81 years old.
Supreme Court Reverses a State Su
preme Court on a Point Involving That I aw.
Wnshihgton, March C. The decision of the supreme court of the United
States in the case of Catherine Schlem
mer against the Buffalo, Rochester and
Tittsburg Railway company, is regard
ed as a very important ruling concern
ing the construction and application of certain sections of the so-called federal safety appliance laws, which laws, among other things, make it unlawful
for railroads engaged in interstate
commerce to haul or use on their lines
cars which cannot be coupled or un
coupled without the necessity of men
going between their ends.
Mrs. Schlemmer is the widow of a brakeman who was killed on the road.
and she brought the suit to recover damages. Both the trial court and
the Pennsylvania supreme court decid
ed against the plaintiff on the ground
that the safety appliance laws did not apply, and that Schlemmer was guilty of contributory negligence. The su
preme court of the United State?, by a majority vote of 5 to 4, reversed the Judgment of the supreme court of
Pennsylvania, and remanded the case
for a., new trial.
JEROME DEFIES JUDGE
Refuses to Give His Authority for
Action and Reflects on the Jurist.
THAW TRIAL DECIDEDLY DULL
San Francisco, March 6. Abraham Ruef, the local political leader who is charged with graft, secured a writ of error from Superior Judge llebbard, against a decision of Superior Judge Dunne, as a basis of an appeal to the United States court, and did not appear before Judge Dunne for trial on the indictments for alleged felony returned by the grand jury. Ruet and
his attorneys considered that the action of Judge Hebbard acted as a bar to further proceedings before Judge Dunne, on the ground that following the granting of the writ steps had been taken to carry the case to Jhe United States supreme court, the federal appeal being based on- the plea that Ruef had been deprived of his
constitutional rights. Kuef Absent; Arrest Ordered. When court opened Assistant Efistrlct Attorney Honey announced thai the prosecution was prepared to proceed with the trial of Ruef. It was the day pet for the trial, but the defendant was not present. The court directed the bailiff to call Ruef at the
door. One of the defendant's attcr11 the attention of the
the defense when Jerome interrupted . . ti f Ju(3 e nebbard,
with the remark "that the argument but jieney objected to any action in did not "call for a stump speech." the absence of the defendant. The Df-lmas protested aeainst this "offen- vn? thnn rennrterf that Ruef had
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Livened Up, However, by the Clash of
Bench and Counsel
sive language" by the district attorney.
Justice Fitzgerald interposed in the discussion and Delmas was soon lost to view because of the turn affairs took. During the course of his argument the district attorney placed himself on record by saying that the legal as-
failed to respond. The court witnour comment directed the clerk to issue a warrant to take thedefendant into custody. Counsel Protests in Vain. Ruef's counsel protested vigorously, sajlng: "I think, your honor, that
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Fitzgerald Limits the Time of Thaw's
Insanity So Far as It Is on Trial Wagner Still Testifying.
sumption before the court is that liar- tpmnt of the supreme court of the
ry K. Thaw is insane. He declared Tjmted States." The court quieUy rethe alienists for the defense have rj!od tliat be not need instrucBhown Thaw to have been insane as tj0n3 ani was not concerned with late as Sept. 22 last, and in the ab- what' otl)er tribunals might do. The sence of proof to the contrary the as- attorney, however, persisted In outlineumption is that he remains insane. In;; tue' transactions elsewhere in Justice Fitzgerald declared that the iiuefs behalf, and Judge Dunne said: present jury only has to do with the 4l am golng to proceed with this trial
question or maw s sanity or insanity uutll tbe BUpreme court of this state on the night that he shot and killed fh iTnlted States court of appeals
Meeting of the U. M. V. Brazil, Ind., March C. The tenth annual convention of he United Mine Workers of district No. 8 met in the miners hall and elected A. R. Towers, of Rrazil, national board member; Hugh Kirkiand, of Diamond, district president; Patrick Golden, of Brazil, vice president; John Fogg, of Perth, secretary-treasurer; James Schiele. of Perth, and Homer France, of Ashervllle, district board members.
Indiana "Rafflea" at Chieo. Kokomo, Ind., March G. Richard O. noopes, who has been arrested for wholesale Jewel stealing at Chicago, is a son of Ira C. Hoopes, an attorney and capitalist of this town. Before going to Lake Forest university young Hoopes was a reporter on Kokomo papers, and also did newspaper work at Waukegan, Wis. He is said at Chicago to have been a "Raffles" in real life.
Doesn't Poj to Produce Coal. Terre Haute, Ind., March G. A merger of companies owning a number of coal mines in Indiana Is closing some of them because the market demand Is light. The winter season is closing with a smaller output by the Indiana mines than for a number of years and the mines have not worked over half time. I ft His Estate to His Wife Franklin, Ind., March G. Tho late G. M. Overstreet, Sr., bequeathed his estate, real and personal, to his wife.
Subscribe twr Tbe Lake Conaty Tlmea.
BANDITS WERE DISAPPOINTED
They Kxpected to Hold Up a Train
Iioad of Ilailway Magnates and Their AVives.
Fort Smith, Ark., March G. That the bandits who held up the Missouri
Tacific train Monday night at Pitts-
burg, Knn., had planned to raid the
private train of the heads of the Kan
sas City Southern, is the belief expressed by Li. F. Loree, chairman ot the executive board of the Kansas
City Southern.
"Our special train of four coaches,
carrying President A. J. Edson, VicJ President R. J. McCarthy, General Manager William Koughlin, Engineer A. F. Rust. Superintendent of the northern division J. C. Wittenberg, and their wives, was sidetracked." said the official, "at Pittsburg when the passenger train arrived. I believe the robbers got the trains mixed and, having missed us took what they could get." The trail of the robbers, who fled toward the Missouri line, has been lost CORONER GIVES IT UP, TOO
Cannot Explain What It Was That Blew Up the Hg Four Train at Sandford. Terre Haute, Ind., March 6. Coroner Leavitt has rendered a verdict on the Sandford, Ind., train explosion which occurred near here on the night of Jan. 19. He found that Inasmuch as the majority of the evidence as to the cause of the explosion had been destroyed he could not fix the responsibility. The coroner said: "I do not hold the railroad responsible in this wreck, neither do I wish to say the road Is not guilty, as the evidence in hand will neither convict nor acquit" There were fifteen pa?engers killed in the explosion. Gone to Visit Fort Monroe. Washington. March G. A. party of congressmen and army officers left here on the army transport Sumner for the purposeof inspecting the fortification at Fort Monroe. Brigadier General Murray, chief of artillery, is In charge of the party. The congressional party includes Senators Warren, Scott, Pettus and Overman, and Representatives Hill. Fletcher, Dawes, Ml'ler, Burke. Hay, Slayden, Tnlbott, Wiley, Babcock. Sherley, Gillette, Gardiner, DeArmond and others.
New York, March 6. Interest aroused in the session of the trial of
Harry K. Thaw by the announcement that Mrs. William Thaw, the mother of the defendant, would take the witness stand, was quickly dulled by the continued cross-examination of Dr. Chas. G. Wagner, who was on the stand the entire day, and when adjournment was announced the district attorney seemed to have much ground yet to cover with the expert. Judge and Lawyer Clash. While decidedly dull in the matter of testimony elicited from the witness the session was made notable by a clash between District Attorney Jerome and Justice Fitzgerald, at the climax of whic h "the prosecuting attorney refused point blank to cite to the court the authorities upon which he was
t & ..... nrosecntor requested by the presiding judge to Jp, V.
submit to him whatever authorities he had upon the subject. "I have such a high respect for the courts of this jurisdiction." retorted Jerome, "that I will not submit au
thorities on a question of law which
is so elemental in character, and upon which the authorities are so abundant that I must presume the learned court knows of them." Rules for the Defense. With flushed face and sharp rap of his gavel Justice Fitzgerald said that If the district attorney did not submit the authorities the court would assume that he did not know of any. Jerome did not submit the authorities, and Justice Fitzgerald ruled In favor of the defense on the point at Issue, which, briefly stated, was the question as to whether the state on cross-examination should be allowed to go further with an expert witness than counsel for the defense was allowed to go upon direct examination. Defiant in Tone and Words. Jerome was defiant In his tone as he was in the words he uttered. Justice Fitzgerald rapped several times- with his gavel, twisted about impatiently In his chair, and It was plainly with much effort that he retained his judicial composure. The storm broke in tbe midst of an extremely dull morning session, when some of the spectators in tbe court room actually were nodding in their chairs.
Stanford White. Dr. Wagner was allowed to give his conversations with Thaw during the
period that he believed the defendant to be of unsound mind. He said Thaw remembered having approached and having Ehot White. He protested, howover, that he had not intended at any time to kill the man, but wanted to have him legally punished. Much of tho day was given over to technical questions concerning the mental and physical examinations to which Thaw was subjected in the Tombs by Drs. Wagner and Evans. During Rome of the long explanations offered by the alienist Jerome walked restlessly to and fro and once sat down near the newspaper men and entered Into con versation ?vith them.
In answering some of the questions propounded by the district attorney Dr. Wagner said he was compelled to
i use long names. "Go ahead," said the
The expert proceeded.
The official stenographer squirmed,
and most of the jurors laughed heartily. "I can't help it." explained Dr. Wagner, as if in apology for the longest name he uttered. "I know you can't." said Jerome. "You go right ahead whenever you feel like it."
commands me to desist." Heney'a Offer Is Decline": A recess of an hour was ordered t permit the sheriff to apprehend the defendant. Upon reconvening the deputy
reported that his search had been fruitless. This brought Heney to his feet with the declaration: "If your honor will appoint Mr. Burns a detective as an elisor I will guarantee to have the defendant in court at 2 o'clock; in fact, I will have him here in half an hour." The court responded that he would give the sheriff until 2 p. m. to find Ruef. At 2 p. m. Sheriff O'Neil reported that he and his deputies had gone to the defendant's office, but were unable to find any trace of him. Judge Dunne then ordered an adjournment for the day.
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Rockefeller Does Not Confirm the Report of Another Big Gift Thai Was Coming. Augusta. Ga., March G. "I guess the article about the tremendous gift I am to make was considerably expanded," said John D. Rockefeller, as he alighted from a train here. "I guess I had ter be like the village schoolmaster, and not know much; I ana too hungry to talk, anyway. There Is nothing ia the report that I came back to
Augusta because of the illness of my
daughter. Mrs. MoCormick ia
Pittsburg Gets a Blizzard Out of a Cloudless Sky Mercury Drops Fifteen Degress. Pittsburg, March 6. From out of an apparently cloudless sky and without an Instant's warning this city was suddenly enveloped in a snow storm
that resembled a blizzard juet before darkness fell at night, and for an hour all street car service was crippled. Within half an hour the mercury dropped fifteen degrees. Miss Sarah Stewart, whose heart was weak, was caught In the storm, which exhausted her and she died later. Professor John A. Brashear, of the Allegheny observatory, said the marvelous disturbance was caused by the huge sun spots which he recently discovered.
Both Feet Cut Off.
St. Louis, March 6. Section men on the Clover Leaf railroad found Joseph
nooper, aged 31, of Akron, O., Bitting beside the tracks near Granite City
much trylDS to DandaSe UP tne etumps of
JEROME IS "OFFENSIVE" AGAIN
Tells Delmas the Matter Needs No "Stump Speech." The Incident began with an objection interposed by Deimas to a question asked Dr. Wagner by Jerome. The district attorney wanted the witness to repeat certain conversations he had had with Thaw in the Tombs. Delmas protested that he had not been allowed to go in.ro these conversations on direct examination. He was proceeding flf snrne lpncHh in stntA ihe nniHnn rf
better than she was when I left. I was tired and like the climate. I am going to stay till the weather gets warm." rw "R i ortor vsa Tint with PAl-ofc11oi'
coming to attend Mrs. McCormick, it
both feet. He had been riding th
bumperss o fa freight train, he stated,
both feet having been severed. Hooper
was hurriedly taken to the county hos
Akron relatives.
is said.
Dayton Is in a Bad AYay
Dayton, O., March 6. Two thousand
business men spent the day In an old-
That S17S.OOO Still Missing
??i!?t,S""";,?' foBbloned town meeting Investigating
municipal corruption. Charges of in
competency and graft were made
that the missing $173,000 from the lo
cal sub-treasury might have been
tucked away in the currency on band! nnfllmffl Bn(1 dOTT1Bm1a
was eliminated when the four experts I ft made- for the eipul3loa of seTen
from the United States treasury at
Washington counted the last of the pa-
of them. Several of the city council
man wura rnnlv charsrert "with trearh-
per money in the vaults. "It came out a oT, th., nfTM WPTA thrown im.
c.i. -r i "-" - in
correct to the dollar," eaid Sub-Treas
urer Boldenweck.
on a screen by a stereopticon.
President Butler Married.
Jury to Try Will J. Davi. New York, March 6. N'lcholas Mur-
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