Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 126, Hammond, Lake County, 13 March 1907 — Page 5

Wednesday, March 13, 1907. PAGE FIVE

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES

Telegraph News by Direct Wire from All Over Indiana. Indianapolis, March 13. On or DeTore April 10, 1007, the acts passed by the general assembly Just closed will be published and will Iaws- At least this 13 the date set by Frank I. Grubbs, deputy secretary of state, who has bandied the copy for enough legislatures to be able to tell pretty well Just about when the acts will be published. Two years ago the record was (broken by ft publication of the acta April 13. Size of the New Law Book. Grubbs estimates that the 1907 acta will be a volume of about 500 pages. In all, the book will contain about 2S0 chapters, each of which is an act. Grubbs has about 250 acts In tho hands of the sate printer now. The final proof has been read on 183 pages of the acts, which Includes 155 chapters. The first proof has been read on 1G3 chapters. This Is a showing about four days better than the showing made at the corresponding time two years ago. Indianapolis Is Liberal. Indianapolis, March 13, Indian apolis citizens have within the past thirty days contributed $415,000 for new buildings for the Young Men's Christian association and the Young Women's Christian association. Of this sum $275,000 was raised for the former organization In twenty days by subscription and $140,000 in seven days for the latter institution, the sub6criptions for which have just closed. Kick. Against a Freight liaise. Indianapolis, March 13. Tomorrow cne of the members of the railroad commission will accompany a member of the Illinois railroad commission and John Mitchell, together with the big coal operators of the state, to Washington, to consult with the presidents of the western roads in connection with a proposed 10 per cent, advance on the coal rate affecting the Indiana territory. Chairman Hunt ?aid that the party from Indiana and Illinois would call to see the president, and then meet the interstate commerce commission Friday. CASE OF BRIBERY ALLEGED Heading Cleric in the Indiana Legislature la the Man Accused, hut Twice Inic. Indianapolis, March 13. Repretertatlve J. t M. Fitch, of Delaware county, has made the charge that Garrett O. Driscoll, reading clerk in the Iiousp, had tried to collect $1,000 from n brewery agent and lobbying on the ground that he (Driscoll) had deliv erod the votes of Fitch and Voites, of this county, both of whom voted against the high license bill. Fitch was very Indignant when he was in formed of the demand by one of the brewery lobbyists and at once sought Driscoll. who denied the charge, and promised to square the matter. Dris coll left a day or two later for his home in Muncle and has not returned, Three of the men who lobbied against the high license bill have signed affidavits that Driscoll approached them with the demand. Driscoll again denied tho charge at Muncle. It was reported that Senator Beveridge had recommended DriseoL for postmaster at Muncie, but a dis patch from Washington announces tha appointment to that position at F.evevidge's recommendation of Robert Carl White, a Muncie attorney. Fatal Collapse of a Trestle. Terre Haute, Ind., March 13. Geo. Layne, a member of a Monon construction crew, died in the hospital here as the result of injuries received by the collapse of a ternporury trestle erected over a "cut" near Cataract, Ind. Four men were caught In the collapse. John Kelly was probably fatally huTt, but he Is still alive. The two other workmen were badly bruised. Did as His Brother Did. Terre Haute, Ind., March 13. Ouby Hutehlngs, 45 years old, employed as a railway crossing switchman, comitted suicide by taking strychnine, while despondent, following excessive dissipation. A year ago almost to a day his brother committed suicide with the same drug. Found Guilty of Blackmail. Terre Ilaute, Ind., March 13. Kotef end Gradtus, Bulgarians, charged with levying blackkmail on a Macedonian here in the interest of the revolutionary . commmlttee at Sofia, Bulgaria, were found guilty and sentenced to prison for an Indeterminate term. " Indiana to Have a Building. Indianapolis, March 13. The Indiana senate as one of its last acts added to the general appropriations bill a clause giving $23,000 for an Indiana building at the Jamestown (V-) exposition. Kicked in the Face by a Horse. Alexandria, Ind., March 13. Clyda Vinson while hitching up the family horse, was kicked In the face, breaking his jaw andknocklng out several teetii lie was also hurt internally. f ubacrlbe (a7 The Lake County Time.

Railroad Notes

Fire Proof Car. The first all-steel mall car ever buT.t went into commission several nights ago on the Pennsylvania lines east of Pittsburg. Although a number of socalled steel cars have been built In the past, all had a considerable amount of wood in framing, equipment, finish and trucks. This new car, which is 70 feet long and 10 feet longer than the usual mail car, Is tho nearest approach to the Ideal all-steel car, as It contains but 870 pounds of wood, 2,840 pounda of nre-proot composite and asbettoa board, 3,200 pounda of cement flooring and a very small amount of rubber. Everything else, Including paper cases, letter casee, paper boxes and doors, is metal. Isone but these new type cars will be allowed to run through the new north and east tunnels in New York and it is roported that they will eventually be placed on all the fast mall runs operated by the Pennsylvania system. First Wabash Engineer. Word has reached this city of the death of Robert M. Kingrsley, which occurred at Waterloo, la., last Sunday. Tho deceased was one of the first engineers on tho Wabash railroad, making: a freight run through this city Just after the completion of the road. 116 acted as a freight engineer for several years until he received a promotion which gave him one of the fastest passenger runB on the road at that time. This he held until the early seventies, when he was made general foreman of tho company's shops at Toledo. A few years later he decided to retire from railroad life and bought a hotel at Waterloo, In which business he was engaged at the time of his demise. O. L. Enos, traveling passenger agent for the Erie, was here from Marion, O., transacting business at the local offices. Smith Daly, traveling passenger agent for the Chicago Great Western, was in Hammond calling on friends yesterday. Miss Katherine Shaw has taken a po sition as stenographer in the superin tendent's office at the C. I. & S. general offices. Two emigrant tralna of eighteen coaches went through Hammond this morning on the way to Chicago from New York City. The employees of the C. I. & S. are making great preparations for their dancing party which will be given March 6, and are planning to make it the greatest event of the after lenten season. NOW THE BRACELET COCKTAIL. Another Fascinating Vision of Metropolitan Life. The cocktail bracelet is the latest for women. There are fashionable women of this city who wear circlets on their wrists which sometimes contain a Martini dry or a Manhattan, says a New York correspondent. The bracelets have one drawback, it is said, and that la they will not accommodate the cherry that goes with the fairy cocktail. Tho other night a Pittsburg attorney observed a woman of fashion place her lips to her bracelet. He thought that she was paying tribute to her own loveliness, but learned later ehe was merely refreshing her; inner celf with a raixture of cordials. Tho nip contained in, a bracelet cocktail la bo small that it cannot be called a drink, but a cocktail it is, nevertheless. Of course, the bracelet is hollow. If large enough It holda three thimblefuls of redymade cocktail, and pressure on an almost invisible spring permits the fluid to trickle through a tiny hole in the gold shell, which ia almost too small to be seen. With one of those graceful movements which appear to be natural with a woman the drink may be Imbibed without fear of detection. A Broadway goldsmith sells numbers of the bracelets every week, and as most of the purchasers prefer secrecy in connection with the transaction they pay a pretty penny for the dubiously useful trinkets. REMEDY DID NOT WORK. Youngster Evidently Would Years Gatting to Sleep. Taka Some ten or a dozen years ago my brother next older than myself, thon about seven years old, waa finding some difficulty la getting to sleep, says a writer in the Eoston Herald. My father, noticing his apparent restlessness, went up to his room and asked him what wa3 the trouble, and upon learning the dimculty prescribed my father Is a physician foi him as follows: , "So you can't sleep. Well, now I'll tell yon something that will Just put you to sleep in no time, and that is counting. You begin now and count slowly up to, say, 100, and thgn, if necessary, count another hundred, and then, possibly another, and before you know it you'll be sleeping jui like a top." "All right replied my brother, "I'll try it." Everything remained quiet until shortly after 10 o'clock, when my father started upstairs to retire. As ha passed the door of my brother's room a little, high-pitched voica piped out of the darkness: "Fapa," "Yes, my boy." "What comes after trillions?' In a Bad Way. Love," remarks an urban philosopher, "is blind, frequently dumb, and, so far as advice is concerned, invariably deaf." Washington Herald.

JUST OtIE WEEK MORE

Then the Fate of Harry Thaw Will Bo in the Hands of the Jury. JEBOME'S WITNESS IS HEAED Gains a Point by Getting in What o;v n,j m.n Smith Could TelL Abandons for Good the Lunacy Conn mission Idea and "Will Demand the Electric Chair for the Defendant. Pew York, March 13. The end of the Thaw trial at last seems to be In sight, and the twelve men who have been in the jury box for nearly eight weeks are to be Harry Thaw's judges. Tentative plans for the final stages of the trial were agreed upon by oppos ing counsel, even to the detail of allot ting the time for the summing up. District Attorney Jerome has at last uuiucu ut.uinu.iiim an urmges leaaing -. Hit wf 1 4 w nil .1 1 1 I to a lunacy commission, and has lire vocably pointed his course to proving that Thaw was sane when he shot Stanford White, and that being sane his crime constituted murder in the first degree. Plays Ills Strongest Card. Jerome played probably the strongest card he holds . evidence which came to his knowledge but a few days ago and which undoubtedly caused him to abandon 'the idea of trying to send White's slayer to a mad house and to try for a straight-out conviction under the criminal statutes. Tho evidence came from Mrs. Stanford's brother, James Clinch Smith, who told a remarkably clear, succinct story of the events in Madison Square garden the night White was killed, and of a long conversation he had with Thaw just prior to tho shooting. Declares Thaw's Talk Was Sane. it seems tnat anaw sat ior 6ome time with Smith during the fateful first performance of "Mam'selle Cham pagne," and aiscusseawnn nun a vari ety of topics In a manner, Smith de clared, such as any sane man would talk. Smith gave the conversation ia detail, omitting nothing, he asserted. With the hrotuer-ln-law of the man who was so soon to be a victim of his pistol Thaw discussed the play, Wall street, common acquaintances, plana for the summer and many other things, including a "buxom brunette whom Thaw declared he was anxious to have Smith meet. DELMAS CAN'T KEEP IT OCT Judge Rules Against Him in an Im portant Matter. Smith said, however, that Thaw, not having a reserved seat, roamed about the garden and continually looked in the direction of the spot where he subsequently killed Stanford White. He also said that Thaw's questions seemed to him pecullarand caused him to ask Thaw what he meant more than once. Attorney- Delmas, for the defense, bitterly fought the introduc tion of this testimony for nearly two hours. He declared that Smith was properly a witness-in-chlef, and should not be allowed to testify in rebuttal Jerome replied that he had known only for a few days the real value of Smith's testimony the conversations with Thaw and he appealed to the discretion of the court to allow the testimony to go in. Justice Fitzgerald held that in the interest of justice the jury was en titled to all the facts. It was one of the most serious blows the judge has dealt the defense since the trial began Jerome also summoned to the stand Dr. Carlton Flint, the physician to whom Evelyn Nesbit is said to have gone with "Jack" Barrymore, the act or. Delmas objected and Dr. Flint was not allowed to testify. As the last witness of the day the district attorney called Rudolph Eck myer, the photographer who took the pictures of Evelyn Nesbit which have bppn introduced in evidence. The photographer was employed by Stanford White. He had no sooner been sworn than it developed that Eckmyer had also been employed by White to make the photographic copy of the af fidavit Evelyn Nesbit is said to havo made in Abraham Hummel s office. Eckmyer identified the negatives made from the affidavits, but they were not offered in evidence. Jerome next tried to get the photographer to fix the dates of certain pictures for which Evelyn Nesbit posed, hoping thus to establish the day the Nesbit girl says she had tne experience with Stanford White in the Twentyfourth street house. JJelmas object ed on the ground that the evidence tended to contradict Mrs. Thaw s story, and was not permissible. Jerome said he desired to take advantage of the waiver Delmas had made at the beginning of the trial In regard to re butting Mrs. Thaw's story. "If you will let me fix the date of these pictures," he said heatedly, "I will show that on the night following the day they were taken, when Mrs. Thaw savs she was ruined, Stan ford White was not in the Twentyfourth street house at all." Jerome fairly shouted the last words, and pounded the table before him. Delmas said he must stand upon his objection end it was sustained. Before adjournment Jerome said he had only five more witnesses to pro duce. It looks as if the jury would ret tha case a week from today-

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Blast on a Battleship Wrecks tha Vessel and Kills Eighty or More. TORPEDO STARTS THE HAVOU None Knows, Nor Ever Will Enow ! TTrtTtT Tf Tin j ' How It Happened. Scores of Men Are Frightfully Wound ed and Burned Some of Those Dead Are Blown to Shreds. Toulon, March 13. A terriblo disas ter occurred here. The powder mae-a-zlnes on board tho French battleship Iena blew up and as a result Captain Adlgard, the commander of the battle ship; Captain Yertier, clMef of staff of the Mediterranean squadron, and from seventy to eighty bluejackets are dead, while Hear Admiral Manceron and hundreds of other men are suffering t j l 1 . I rrom injuries, some or mem nomble m tueir extent. iNuvai circles ars ttieir extent, is aval circles aghast, and the public is stunned by tne appaumg catasiropne coming so . A A 1 soon after the loss of the French sub marine boat Lutin, in which sixteen men met death. Torpedo Somehow Explodes. The entire after part of the Iena was blown to pieces. The bodies of the victims were tiurled through the air by a succession of explosions, and panic-stricken workmen at the arsenal fled from the vicinity of the dry dock for their lives, scores or tDose on the Iena Jumped overboard, or to the stone quays and sustained serious injuries. The primary cause of the acci dent was the explosion of a torpedo. What caused the explosion is not known, but the powder magazines of the Iena were set on fire and their contents in exploding practically de stroyed what was considered one of the best vessels in the French navy. First Shock Causes a Panic. The crew of the Iena had finished its midday meal only a short time be fore the explosion, and had dispersed to various parts of the vessel. Most of t 5 men were engaged in work Con ner -d with the approaching departure of the warship, but quite a large par ty had been detailed to attend a lecture that wasbelnggiven forward. The first shock of the explosion was ex tremely violent, and shook the vessel fore and aft. It was followed instant ly by other shocks, lhe crew was thrown into a condition of panic. They rushed wildly hltner and thither about the deck. The hundreds of men below deck were in a fearful position. They were enshrouded in smoke, and while they groped their way toward the ex its they became the prey of suffocat ing fumes which caused many of them to fall unconscious. BLAST RAPIDLY FOLLOWS BLAST Showers of Metal Fall All Around Capt. Vertier's Death. In the meantime the detonations had become more frequent, and the entire after part of the Iena, which was virtually blown to pieces, caught fire. Shells and charges of explosives In the magazines continued to explode ana masses of metal were hurled into the air to fall everywhere about the desks and the arsenal. These flying missiles demolished thetorpedo shed, the engine works and the pump house nearby, and constituted a most serious menace to the lives of those who made their way toward the battleship to begin work of rescue. In spite of the danger many heroic efforts were made to render as sistance, but for the most part in vain. The Iena was aflame from burst ing projectiles, and rne fire prevented approach. To extinguish the flames the dry dock was flooded and the ship sub merged. Then amidst masses of dense smoke the search for the dead and wounded was commenced. The lower decks of the Iena were littered with the fragments of shattered and torn bodies, while the surrounding water wa3 dotted with human fragments. It will be impossible to ascertain the ex act number of killed and wounded un til a roll call can be held, as many of the men were completely blown to pieces, whie others were incinerated. Many of those who escaped with their lives suffered most severe injuries and becoming temporarily insane rushed frantically around the vicinity of the dry dock until they fell exhausted. Captain Yertier occupied a cabin near the after turret over the magazine. Immediately after the explosion he tried to get out, but the door of his cabin was blocked with debris and the only other means of exit was impassable. The flames then broke out and Captain Vertler died a horrible death. After the fire had been extinguished the rescuers found his incinerated body as well as the terribly burnt bodies of several other officers who had been caught in the after cabin. THERE WERE HEROES THERE One Incident Proves It How tha Dock Was Flooded. The maritime prefect has drawn attention to an act of conspicuous heroIsm performed by five sailors of various ships who responded to his call for volunteers to open the 6luices of the dry dock. These men continued their vain efforts, undeterred by tha death of their leader. Midshipman Rousse. who was decapitated, amid a

shower of projectiles from the exploding 12-inch shells, until orders were finally given to the battleship Fatrie, moored opposite the dry dock, to fire a shell into the gate. This was done and the water rushed in just in time to prevent the flames reaching the central and forward magazines of the Iena. In these magazines werestored the greater portion of the inellinite torpedoes, the explosion of which would have had a terrible consequence on the arsenal and town. After the shell from the Fatrie

haJ bllTSt tte ?ate lt richocetted, went through the arsenal wall, and buried itself Into a talus of the fortifications, just missing a sentry. The Iena will be a complete loss. Her entire after section has been damaged beyond repair. Farly today the dry dock will be emptied, the wreck shored up, and the bottom of the dock searched for bodies. Six of the wound ed men In the hospital have died. A telegram of sympathy on the Tou lon disaster has been received from KIn3 Edward, who is at Biarritz. OHIO BRIBERY SENSATION Columbus Grand Jury Indicts Mno Men for Unrighteousness in the Letting of a Contract. Columbus. O.. March 13. Three members of the board of public serv ttvr r-u-r pmnimM thi nrpsldent of the Cleveland Trinidad Paving com pany, and -two of its employes and the Columbus manager of the American Sewer Pipe company have been Indicted by the grand Jury as the result of an Investigation of charges of bribery in connection with the contract for paving East Broad street. The disclosures in the paving scandal were precipitated by a confession made by Nelson Cannon, ex-superintendent at Columbus of the Cleveland Trinidad Paving company, to which the paving contract was awarded. According to Cannon's story Fred J. Immel, president of the Columbus board of public Kervice, and Fred Lied, vice president of the board, were each promised $3,000 for voting to give tho contract to the Cleveland-Trinidad company, and Charles E. Burr, the third member of the board, was prom ised $2,OuO for his vote. It was also alleged by Cannon that the full $3,000 was paid to Immel, and that $2,300 was paid to Lied at different times by President Bramley, of uie .ievelandTrinidad company; U. C. Lang, Columbus representative of the com pany, and himself. , WIRELESS WANDERERS Some of the Messages Wander Clear Across the Continent from Pensacola to Sau Diego. Vallejo, Cal., March 13. Commander II. C. Gearing, chief of the equipment department of the Mare Island navy yard, has received a wireless message from San Diego stating that the wireless station at Point Loma, near San Diego, on Sunday night caught the navy yard at Pensacola, Fla. At that moment Fensacola was taking a wireless message from Washington. The operator at Point Loma caught Washington, and also a wireless message from the battleship Connecticut, now on the Atlantic ocean, which was communicating with Washington from New York harbor. Fortress on Heligoland. Berlin, March 13. The Rheinische Westfaelisch Zeitung, of Essen, says BrKDSETB Vllltf OP TTBT.TQOIiAJSD. the navy department intends to ac quire the entire table land of the isl and of Heligoland and build a strong fortress there. Wisconsin Legislation. Madison, Wis., March 13. The state assembly has voted down a reso lution introduced by Palmer, a colored member from Milwaukee, memorializing congress to investigate the Browns ville affair. The assembly also voted down a proposition to permit inde pendent voting at primary elections. A joint resolution to amend the constitu tion and give the governor sixty days for considering bills was adopted. Wants Illinois to Co-Operate. Washington, March 13. Secretary Metcalfe will endeavor to secure the co-operation of the governor and state authorities of Illinois in preventing the establishment of drinking saloons and disorderly houses within a certain, lim it about three miles of the new nav al station now in process of establish ment at Lake Bluff, near Chicago. Hotel and Contents Burned. Brainerd, Minn., March 13. The new Itansford hotel of this city with its annex, valued at ?GO,000 and contain ing property which Is valued In the neighborhood of $200,000, has burned to the grouad. Fish Elected a Director. St. Louis, March 13. At the an nual meeting of the stockholders of the Missouri Pacific Railroad com pany Stuyvesant Fish was elected a member of the board ot directors.

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