Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 222, Hammond, Lake County, 8 March 1907 — Page 5

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Telegraph News by Direct Wire from All Over Indiana. fcrazll, Ind., March 8. Almost the entire flession of the convention of the United Mine Workers of district 8 was taken up In considering the trouble at tho Progressive Coal company's "Never" mine, in the southeast part of the city. In this mine the individual miners, without consulting the district officials, made a contract with the company to mine and load lire clay at 30 cents a ton, and shalo at 2o cents a ton. "Worked All Right for Awhile. This scale woTked satisfactory ns long as there was a good demand for coal, but when the coal business fell off and the company kept the miners busy for the greater part of the working time In loadingclay and shale, they said they were only 'able to make $1,73 and $2 a day, and they demanded an Increase in the price of loading clay and shale. The company refused to grant the increase, and the officers of district No. 8 were appealed to. Wilson Could Not Help Them. As the miners made the contract on their own authority and -without consulting the district ofllcials, President Wilson told them he could do nothing for them, as there was no district scale for loading clay and shale. He informed the miners that if they did not wish to load clany and shale. He lnthey could load It at the regular day men's wages, which Is $2XG a day. The minors took a vote on this, and a majority of the miners voted to continue work by the ton. Some Miners Had No Stock. As the Progressive Coal company Is a co-operative concern the miners who did not have stock in the company were dissatisfied, asserting that the (stockholders controlled the meeting and voted to continue work by tho ton against tho Interests of the min crs. District Body's Action. An appeal was then taken to the district convention which is In session here and the convention decided that It could not recognize a contract which was made without the sanction or Indorsement of the district officers, and that hereafter the clay and shale at the Progressive mines must be loaded by the day by day men, and that miners who worked on coal could not divide the work with the regular day men, which the company has the right to employ as It sees fit. Worse Oft Than Before. This leaves the miners In a worse condition than before, as they have bt en getting steady work on coal and clay, but now that only day men may load the clay and shale, the coal miners will get only one or two days a week. Both Man and Woman Dead. Indianapolis, March S. Mrs. Fred Sohwomeycr and William (Jill are dead from bullet wounds inflicted by the woman's husband, who returned unexpectedly to his home at Ben Davla and found the two together. Tho two men had been close friends for years. Looking through a window ho. found his wife and Gill together and shot them. Lincoln's Mother's Grave. Indianapolis, March S. Governor nanly has signed the bill under which the state will take charge of the grounds In which is located the gruvo of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother of Abraham Lincoln. The governor will appoint n commission to have charge of the grounds and maintain them. Shortage- Closes the Schools. Decker, Ind., March S. On account of the ?rt,000 shortage alleged to have been found in the books of ex-Trustee Wayne Edwards, the school term in this (Johnson) township has been cut short four weeks. Vetoes the Vincennes University Bill. Indianapolis, March 8. Governor Ilanly has vetoed the bill granting the long-standing claim of Vincennes university. COIIHANDEB BUCK INJURED IIad of the G. A. It. of Illinois In a Railway Accident in Which the Engineer Is Killed. Davenport, la., March 8. A Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul passen ger train collided at Bettendorf, five miles north of here with a Chicago Burlington andQuincy passenger train. The trains met head-on, and killed John McGulro, engineer, Mollne, 111. The injured are E. II. Buck, railway mall agent, Rock Island, 111., leg broken, Internally injured; William Wllear, Delavan, Wis., railway mail clerk, le broken; rhilip Raymond, Savanna, III., baggageman, head hurt. Aent Buck has been connected with the mail service for thirty years, lie Is department commander of the Illinois G. A. R. Raymond was baggageman on the Burlington train. Ills car turned over and Raymond was thrown through the door into tho MisslssJppl river, from which ho crawled in time to escape drowning. Subscribe tor The Lata Cuunty Tim,

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The Big Four has contracted for twenty-five large cabooses to be built at the Collinwood shops of the Lake Shore road, making fifty purchased in the last few weeks. An impression prevails among railroad men in this territory that the Hepburn law as now construed will help Illinois and Indiana road3 in the matter of moving live stock, as arrangements will now be made to move the live stock of central and southern Illinois to Indianapolis without trans fer. So much comment has been indulged In by Erie railroad commuters over the reduction in the number of trains operated on suburban lines that the management has resumed the regular schedule. About thirty-nine trains were affected by the change. Railroad clerks are now in session at Chicago figuring on rates to apply on summer tourist business, that be gins June 1 and continues until the fall. It is believed that very slight modifications are to be made on round trip rates owing to the volume of business that is annually handled. Arthur Hale, chairman of the car efficlecy committee of the American Railway association, Is authority for the statement that the present car shortage is more general and severe than that of 1901, and worse than any other the railroads have ever experienced. Railroad officials are now admitting all over the country that the reports sent out recently regarding the car sohrtago were false and that the situation is really becoming worse instead of better. Frank Joulde, formerly night operator for the C. I. & S., at Osborne, has been transferred to the offices at Argos. Orrin Erringer of Arcadia, is his success at Osborne. O. C. Samkee, night operator for the Michigan Central, returned yesterday from a short visit with friends in St. Joe, Mich. G. T. Minish, terminal trainmaster for the Erie and James T. Sherwin, general agent for the Erie, were here from Chicago this morning. Messrs. E. H. Miller, A. F. Brady, E. E. McMahan and R. B. Jones of the C. I. & S. offices, composed a theatre party to see "The Shepard King" at McVickers in Chicago last evening. C. W. McCriff, operator at the Fiftyfirst street in Chicago, was the guest of the operators at the local Erie sta tion yesterday. Max Bull of the Erie police, is ill at his home. F. IT. Kitchen, resident engineer, was called to Chicago this morning to be in council with the cold storage plant of this city. W. II." "Wensely with his full force of car repairers arrived in Hammond this morning, from Chicago to assist Foreman J. Cervin in repairing crippled cars which were accumlatlng here, The new Interlocking tower at Kouts was put into operation yesterday at noon. This will be a great relief to both the trainmen and operators as with the hand signals formerly in use, the trains all had to come to a full stop before passing over it. Richard Holland, general foreman of the interlocking tower of the Erie, was in Hammond yesterday looking over the tower at II. Y. Tower, preparatory to moving it about one-half mile farther east where It will be connected with the C. C. & L, Ry. p. G. Mason, claim agent for the Erie with headquarters at Hunting ton, called at the local offices yester day. New England Sheep Ranches. A new use has been discovered for the abandoned farms of New Eng land, so that even if the free alcohol visions do not materialize, the farm ers of this section may still have the possibility of fortune making before them. In 1905 a corporation was organized for the promoting of sheep growing through this section, and in two years about 6,000 animals have been imported and leased to the farmers of the state. An educational campaign as to the rearing of sheep has also been conducted through the state and three headquarters ranches have been in operation for tho dem onstration of tho possibility of this braneh of tho farming industry. Tho results are said to have been successful. There has been a consider able distribution of sheep, and profits have been earned by the company If it provides a new means of income from some of the deserted bush-over grown hillsides and pastures of abandoned farms in New England, it de serves to be enoourajed. Haverhill Gazette. A Daily Thought. We ought to call in reason, like a good physician, as a help in misfortune. $100 REWARD, $100. The readers of this paper will he pleased to learn that thlre is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its staees and that is Catarrh. Hairs Catarfh Cure s the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment iin i A tarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous s.UU4"a "l system, thereby de stroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and as sisting nature in doing its work. 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Court Refuses Him Relief His Counsel Is Kept Mighty Busy. and NEW MAN TO GO ON HI3 TRAIL Sheriff and Coroner Seem Unable to Run Him Down. Judge Dunne Baffled So Far, but Seems Determined to Proceed Schmitz Arraigned Pleads Not Guilty. fan Francisco, March 8. Mayor Eugene Schmitz appeared before Su perior Judge Dunne and pleaded not guilty to four indictments charging him with extortion. By agreement of counsel next Monday was designated as the time when a date for his trial will be set It "Was Prosecution's Day. Success was with the prosecution at almost every turn in the developments in the Iiuef extortion case. The most notable instance was in the district court of appeals, where Justices Cooper, Hall and Kerrigan denied Ruef's application for a writ of prohibition to restrain Judge Dunne from any of the proceedings against Ruef in the superior court, pending the determination of the accused man's appeal to the supreme court of the United States for a permanent writ of error, the ef fect of which, If granted, would to be summarily postpone the entire prose cution. Ruef's Counsel Is Resourceful. While the attorneys for Ruef, who Is still in hiding supposedly at or near San Francisco, were hopefully await ing the decision of the appeal court Judge Dunne proceeded with the two cases of perjury and conspiracy against Ruef and Chief of Tolice Dinan. lie was obdurate to the endeavors of At torney Shortridge to win delay for Ruef. Motions to strike the case from the files and to set aside the indict ments were denied; and to escape the Imminent necessity of pleading at once Ruef's counsel entered a demurrer which had been previously prepared to meet this emergency, should it arise. CORONER "CAN'T FIND" RUEF Judge Will Try to Get a Man Who Can Find Him. Coroner Walsh, delegated in Sheriff O'Neill's stead to apprehend Ruef aft er the court had declared the sheriff incompetent, reported his failure and was given until . this morning to make good. Failing then Judge Dunne wil probably appoint an elisor to bring tho fugitive into court Shortly before p. m. counsel for Ruef made applica tion to the state supreme court for identically the sainewrit of prohibition refused earlier in the day by the dis trict court of appeals. Pending the determination of this move it is the purpose of Judge Dunne to go right ahead with the case, and it is not the intention of counsel for the defense to produce Ruef in Judge Dunne's court while the matter thus stands. The district court of appeals handed down no written opinion in refusing Ruef's application for a writ of prohibition, but after the denial had been entered Justices Cooper, Hall and Kerrigan made the following state ment to the Associated Press: "We have denied the application be cause the writ of error did not He in Judge Ilibbard's court and because there was no ground for debate." Assistant District Attorney Ileney, In terpretlng this statement, said: "We are not greatly exercised about tho dis appearance of Ruef, he is not far awav. And if the coroner does not bring him into court at 10 o'clock to morrow morning I shall request the court to appoint an elisor not Mr, Burns, but some citizen who is not a partisan and yet a man who will do his dutv. We shall get Ruef into court" Owns a Unique Note. Ocheyedan, la., Marcli s. A rare piece of currency is in possession of D. II. Boyd, of this place, being an $S bill of the colonial period. It was issued by "the united colonies," bears date of May 9, ana is in a good state of preservation. The bill bears the imprint of "Hall & Sellers," and is believed to be very rare. It has been in the possession of Boyd for seventy five years. Women Defeats M. O. Pella. Ia., March 8. The women in a special election defeated the plan for municipal ownership by a margin of 7 votes. The proposition was to is sue bonds to buy the waterworks sys tem. The women opposed the idea because it would put the city too heavily in debt They worked hard and used everv influence to poll votes favorable to their cause. Keeping Up with the Procession. Bismarck, N. D., March S. The legislature has passed a state-wide primary election law; adopted a 2 -cent passenger rate bill; adopted a provision for 1-000-mile tickets good for any mem ber of the family at a flat 2-cent a mile rate, and an anti-pass bill. Dynamite Saves the Town. Delhi. La., March S. Five of the principal buildings in Delhi wer burned to the ground and three oth ors wore completely demolished with dynamite during a fire. The dynamite was used to save the entire town from fiestr,ugtIon. Loss, &4Q0O.

J 1 Cough-Up" Costs Him Something Like $54,000 for Doing a Business Favor. THAT NEW YORK LIIE DONATION Court Said It Was Not for rroper Corporate Purposes. So Perkins "Digs Up" th Sum Out of His Own Wad and Reimburses the Company with Interest. New York, March 8. George W. Perkins, ex-first vice president of the New York Life Insurance company, a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., has sent to the New York Life his personal check for $54,019.10 to remburse the company for the Republic an campaign contribution made from s funds In 1904 in connection with which Perkins recently was made de fendant on a charge of larceny. An nouncement of the restitution of the principal of $48,500 and Interest to date was made by President Alexander E. Orr, of the New York Life, to whom Perkins, before leaving on a trip to the south, addressed a letter inclosing the check. Did Not Act for Himself. President Orr also gave out the let ter. In It Perkins declares that lu dismissing the criminal proceedings against him the court intimated that the campaign contribution was not of proper corporate purpose. He again as serts that he was acting upon a re quest of the then president of the New York Life when he advanced the money for the campaign contribution In 1004, and pays that when the then president of the company reimbursed him there was no thought on the part of either of any personal advantage, but a belief that they were "acting for the best and broadest Interests of the policyholders both at home and abroad." No Thought of Personal Benefit. The letter follows: "In 1004, at the reauest of the then president of the company, I advanced $48,500 as a pay ment on behalf of the New York Life Insurance company to the Republican national campaign committee. I did this with the understanding with the president that I should be reimbursed by the company. Subsequently I was so reimbursed. The payment was made without any thought on the part of the president or myself of personal advan tage, but solely In the belief that it was for the best, and broadest inter ests of the policyholders both at home and abroad. He'll Never Do It Again. "In dismissing the criminal proceed ings instituted against me for accept ing reimbursement the courts have Intimated that the payment and, there fore, the reimbursement, was not for a proper corporate purpose. I therefore return to the company the amount of money paid by it to me, inclosing herewith my check for $54,019.19 to cover principal and interest." DOWAGER IS AT LONDON Russian Ex-Empress Well Guarded on Her Visit to Her Sister, Queen Alexandra. London, March 8. The dowager em press of Russia has arrived here and was greeted at the railroad station by her sister, Queen Alexandra; the Prince and Princess of Wales and the staff of the Russian embassy. The empress reached London half an hour earlier than the time publicly announced, and several foreign ministers who had not been informed of the change came to the station after the departure of the royal party. The hastening of the empress' arriv al was planned by the police, it Is understood, as one of the precautions for her protection. While the officials of Scotland Yard have little fear that anarchists In London will jeopardize their chances of obtaining an asylum in England by an attempt on the life of the empress, they are taking no chances and every possible chance of attack will be guarded. Delaware and Hudson Pays Up. Utica, N. Y., March 8. The Dela ware and nudson Railroad company has sent a check for $3,314 to the United States district court in this city in payment for penalties Imposed for violation of the federal law that requires the use of air-brakes on freight trains. Grand Army to Meet at Saratogo. Zanesville, O., March 8. Saratoga, N. Y., has been definitely decided upon for the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic this year. The executive committee to which -was referred the question of changing the place of meeting, has decided in favor of Saratoga. Declares Against a Strike, Omaha, March 8. Organized labor in Omaha has officially declared against a strike of the street railway. union and recommended to the street car unions that no strike be declared. The proposed strike was for "recogni tion of the union" the closed shop. Masonic Trowel at Omaha. Omaha, March 8. The famous Ma sonic silver trowel which is on Its way around the world has reached Omaha from Sioux Falls, S. D., in charge of five past grand masters of the Mason lc order.

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Unions in That Business Go to Se the President About Enforcement of the Law. Washington, March S. President Roosevelt had a call from a committee appointed at a -ecent convention of tug and dredging labor nnions at De troit consisting of Thomas O'Connor. of Buffalo, the president of the Li censed Tugmen's Irotective association; Daniel J. Keefe, of the Longshoremen's association; Thomas D. Dolan, of the International Brother hood of Shovelcrs and Dredgemen, and W, B. Jones, of Detroit of the Brotherhood of Dredge Workers. They were accompanied by Labor Commis sioner Neill. The committee is anxious to obtain a more thorough enforcement of the eight-hour law as applied to work on government dredging contracts. A number of indictments and convictions has been obtained of persons charged, with a violation of the law, and some of these have been taken to the supreme court of the United States on appeal. MORGAN'S ARTISTIC GIFT Presents Some Rare and Historical Tapestries to the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, March 8. J. IMerpont Morgan has just presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art what the officials consider one of the most valu able and interesting gifts from a his torical standpoint they have had for some time. It consists of five largo early Gothic tapestries, representing the seven sacraments. Originally these fourteenth century works probably hung In the chapel of some Burgundian castle. The interest of the tapestries is en hanced by their rarity, specimens antedating the year 1500 being very scarce. rhe figures are life size against a con ventional background of fleur-de-liis with a frame work of slender columns. HILL SEEMS DISCOURAGED Will Build No More Ships Under tho United States Flag Japs May Have His Ocean Trade. New York, March 8. If the Great Northern steamship JDakota is lost, as now seems almost certain, James J. Hill will not replace the vessel. He said that he did not expect to build any more ships under the United States flag, and that so far ns the traf fic which the Great Northern Steam. ship company would lose because of the loss of the Dakota was concerned the Japanese lines would be allowed to care for it. It was to give impetus to the trade with the Orient that Hill built the Dakota and her sister ship the Minneso ta. Topeka Stays in th Western. Kansas City, March 8. By a vote of 7 to 1 the Western Base Ball asso elation magnates voted to reject the proposition of the Western League re garding the Topeka franchise. This means that Topeka will remain in the W estern association the coming sea son. Legislatoor In Trouble. Boston, March 8. S. John La moureaux, of North Adams, Republican representative in the legislature from the Second Berkshire district has been arrested on an indictment charg ing him with corruptly requesting and accepting a gratuity. Because of That 2 -Cent Bill? Chicago, March 8. Tho coal-carry ing roads of Illinois have decided to increase the rates 10 cents a ton on all coal mined in this state and in Indiana and brought to Chicago for con sumption. The increased rates win go into effect April 1. NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE Railways that run through Nebras ka have accepted the new 2-cent fare to the limit; no one Is allowed to ride for less. By a decision of the United States circuit court at St Louis all Standard Oil men wanted in Missouri are compelled to go there, regardless of where they live. The death of an Indian woman who was reputed to be 140 years old has occurred at Osorno, Chile. The new Persian national bank has been formally opened at Teheran. A society has been formed at Teher an, Persia, to boycott European lm ports, particularly tea and sugar. Between 8"t0 and 400 men have gone on a strike at the yards of the Ameri can Shipbuilding company, Lorain, O Ex-President Cleveland, Commo dore E. C. Benedict and Admiral Lamberton are duck shooting near George town, S. C. Lloyd C. Gnscom, who succeeds Henry White as ambassador of the United States to Italy, has arrived at Rome. Mrs. Nathalie Dole Latham, who was a Miss Lockwood. committed suicide at Paris by shooting. Mrs. Latham was from the United States, and was a portrait painter. The opinion of Attorney General Bonaparte to the effect that assisted Immigration is illegal has caused "the greatest consternation at Honolulu. It can be stated positively that there is no thought of intervention in the Central American war on the part of the United States. Governor Bnchtel, of Colorado, has signed the state pure food bill. Because of an adverse vote on a question of internal affairs the members of the Belgian cabinet have virtually decided to resign.

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