Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 227, Hammond, Lake County, 14 March 1907 — Page 5
Thursday, March 14, 1007. PAGE FIVE
THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES
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RAILROAD SWITCHMEN TALK TOGETHER.
Telegraph News by Direct Wire from All Over Indiana.
Indianapolis, March 14. There 13 .1 well-defined rumor around the stata house that the governor was considering placing his executive disapproval on the appropriation bill, house bill 713. If this shall be done, an extra fession of the legislature would have to be called on or before Sept 30, 1007, In order to make appropriations for the next two fiscal years. Items "Which He Disapproves. The story is that the governor strongly disapproves of several items in the appropriation bill, including the 525,000 appropriation for the Jamestown exposition commission; the provision for three new employes in the Insurance department of the auditor's office, and the increase in the salary of Miss Mary A. Stubbs, present chief of the bureau of statistics, from $2,000 to $3,000 a year. It is stated that other items are not in line with the governor's sense of the fitness of things, too. Ilanly "Won't Say NothinV Asked about the story the governor would neither affirm nor deny it. He refused to dlscus3 it one way or another, other than to say that in all probability no action, would be taken immediately. Couldn't Bobs the Extra. If he does veto this measure the extra session may be called immediately
or not, Just as the governor may dec-
cide. If an extra session be convened,
It will be as much its own master as
any regular session, and. may hold for v.ny period of time no more than forty days. Might Have to Work on Faith, If the bill should be vetoed and an extra session not be called all of the ofLcers and employes of the state, except those officers whose salaries are fixed in the law creating the offices in the 6tate house and out, in all of the state benevolent charitable and correctional Institutions, every one who gets n salary or wages from the state, either would have to work on faith or quit TIM11 WOULDN'T FAVOR HIM
Languags Consists of Motions of the Hands and Arms Easily Understood and Mistakes Are cf Rare Occurrence.
They epeak a various language, these switchmen do. And much of it Is spoken with the hands and arms, eayg the Kansas City Star. Down in the Union depot yard3 they have signs which look odd, yet which tell things as plainly as words, and more quickly. A Frisco transfer approached a signal tower a few days ago from the east The pilot riding the front of the engine held up two hand3, his fingers spread apart; then he stuck both thumbs to his ears ; he gripped hi3 left thumb with his right hand and jerked it away, then pointed to the lower
THAW CRISIS AT 11
Jerome Fights Vigorously for Evidence That Will Impeach the Wife's Story.
DELMAS PEEPAELS FOE BATTLE
Duel of tha Lawyers the Feature cf the Case Now.
Man Who Wanted Shade on His Grave Will Have to Kest in the Sunshine Now. Columbus, Ind., March 14. A locust tree, standing near the entrance of the city cemetery, and shading the grave of the late Isbani Keith, of this city, is to be cut down because it has rotted and it is feared it may blow over. Twenty-seven years ago Isham Keith went before the city council and nsked that this tree be allowed to remain standing. He said he expected to be burled under that tree and he desired its shade to shelter his grave. He had a silver tablet made containing the inscription "Spare this tree so that its shade may shelter me," and the tablet was fastened on the tree. The tree has grown a great deal since that time, and the silver tablet is now covered by the bark. When the tree is cut down the tablet will bo taken out and. presented to Mrs. T. B. Trather, a daughter of Keith.
Gone to Utter a Protest. Evansville, Ind., March 14. Judge W. J. Wood, of this city, and member of the Indiana railroad commission, has gone to. Washington to appear before the Interstate commerce commission to protest against a new differential rato against Indiana proposed by the Big Four railroad. He tvill be accompanied by several coal operators of this state, and by John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers. The party will have an interview with Presides Tloosevelt some time tomorrow afternt
Havoo by a llain torrent. Terre Haute, Ind.. March 14. A toprent of rain that dropped fifteen inches within less than an hour's time broke over (Greene county and did thousands of dollars' damage. Reports from Linton state that six families in tha Goose Pond bottom? had to flee for their lives. The Indianapolis Southern and Southern Indiaua railxoad9 sustained heavy damage by the washing out of embankments.
More Trouble for Them. Washington, Ind., March 14. An affidavit charging Charles S.White and Thoinas J. Mason with complicity in the wholesale forgery of Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern shop pay checks has! been filed with Mayor Russell. White is in jail at Chicago and Mason is in prison at Joliet Extradition papers will be served when the two men are released.
Closed Shop Organized. Terre Haute. Ind.. March 14. The three carpenters' unions here have consolidated, and have decided not to work with non-union bricklayers. An effort will be made this spring to bring oil the carpenters into the union. Died Suddenly in a Cemetery. Evansville,' Ind., March 14. Charles Bauer died suddenly in a cemetery at Toseyville, Ind., while seated at the foot of the grave of a relative. It la thought death was due to grief. fi stacrlbe fr Tbe Lake County Timea-
Hands.
Abe Hummel the Man Upon Whom the District Attorney Depends to Send the Defendant to the "Chair."
Talks to Towerman With His
button of his vest. The four motions were these: Thi3 is what they meant: 1. I hava a string of cars for the Burlington yards. 2. I want in on track 19. 3. I want to cut off cars on 19. 4. I have also cars for 17. M. A. Sheeley, the signal board operator, went to the telephone, called up another tower, got a favorable reply and swung the arm of a signel. The switch engine "wheezed" its way forward.
After the cars had been switched the
pilot again faced the signal operator.
He crossed and recrossed his fore
arms.
In a moment the semaphore swung for him and his train backed out on a main track. His crossed arms meant he wanted to cross state line with cars for the Union Pacific yards. The swinging semaphore gave him the track. When the string of cars stood safely In the Union Pacific yards the
pilot held up two thumbs to another
tower operator. This signal meant,
"I'm on the spot."
A switch train stood on a siding in the West bottoms freight yard for half an hour a few days ago. The conductor stepped from the caboose, glanced along the line of box cars to where the brakeman stood "sunning" himself. He raised his left elbow and struck it several times with his right hand. The brakeman nodded and the
two walked away.
A sidetrack in one freight yard leads to a brewery. When a string of
cars is to be stored in on this trad
the conductor extends his left elbow and strikes it with his right hand. When these same train crews are
thirsty they don't ask "Have a drink?" They give the elbow signal, which means "to the brewery." A switchman made several futile attempts to couple a flat car onto the end of a freight train in the Santa Fe yards last evening. Time and again the train rammed back against the
car, but the couplers would not clasp
New York, March 14. After a forenoon session occupied almost entirely by District Attorney Jerome in a bitter denunciation of the defendant and his wife the trial of Harry K. Thaw
was adjourned shortly after 12 o'clock
for the day. The prosecuting attorney found his opportunity to attack Thaw
and Evelyn N eg bit in arguing on the question of the admissibility of the
testimony which Abraham Hummel,
the lawyer who is under indictment for subornation of perjury in the
Dodge-Morse divorce case, has to offer,
It was to enable Delmas to consult authorities and frame a reply to Jer
ome, aud also to allow tne latter an
opportunity of completing a hypotheti
cal question which he is to put to his
experts that the early adjournment
was ordered. Jerome said he hopes to close the rebuttal for the people this
afternoon. What Hummel Is to Testify.
During his argument the district attorney took ou for the first time the
case began a sustained oratorical tone
He asserted that Hummel would
swear Evelyn Xesbit told him three
days after her return from Europe in 1903 that Thaw had beaten her cruelly
because she would not sign papers he had prepared falsely accusing Stan
ford White of having drugged and be
trayed her. Jerome contended that she
had told much more; that Thaw seemed bent upon putting Stanford
White In the penitentiary; that the
statement that White had betrayed her
was not true; that Stanford White had
never harmed him, and that Thaw was
consumed with rage when she refused
to sign and swear to the papers con
taining "lies against Stanford White.' Jerome's Accusation Is Red Hot.
"These things were put in the form
of an afhdavit," declared Jerome, "and that affidavit was subscribed to by Evelyn Xesbit when she knew what
sne was aomg ana wnat tne paper contained. We want to show that the
girl who told this remarkable story
here on the witness stand swore at an
other time, under the solemnity of an
oath that naked stripped absolutely
naked she had endured the lashings
and beatings of this defendant rather
than swear to his false statements that Stanford White had drugged and
ruined her."
CLOSE QUESTION TO DECIDE
to a man and put in lots about Harry Thaw which wasn't true at all."
She denied signing any paper in
nummel's office, but admitted having signed some papers later In White'a
studio. She alleged that she did not
know what the papers were. Some time afterwards she says she demand
ed that White show her the papers.
She was taken to nummel's office and
there a paper bearing her sisruature
was shown her and burned. She wa3 not allowed to see it, she declared. Al
most since the beginning of the trial District Attorney Jerome has been trv-
ng to put In evidence a photographic
copy of the affidavit
GOES PAST THE LIMIT
Request of an Illinois Good Roads Of
ficial Is Denied by the Posto2ice Department.
Washington, March 14. Fourth As
sistant Postmaster General de Graw
s in receipt of a letter from A. N.
Johnson, state engineer and member
of the Illinois highway commission,
urging that rural carriers In the sec
tions of the state where there are mud
roads be authorized to display signs
notifying patrons whenever report lu received from the weather bureau that a freeze la expected to follow a thaw,
that "roads should be dragged imme
diately, as a freeze is expected tomor
row."
Also that after a wet spell, when
roads are in a soft, muddy condition
(the best time to drag roads), a sign
be displayed to "drag roads immediate
ly do not put off until too dry." Post
master General Meyer concluded that national co-operation in the good roads matter has its limits, and that John-
son s request was oeyonu taose limits.
DEAD UUMBEE ABOUT 120
URS. SAGE'S LATEST GIFT Ten Millions for the Betterment of Social and Livinjr Conditions in the United State. New York, March 14. It is announced that Mrs. Russell Sage's gift of $10,000,000 for the betterment of social and living conditions iu the Unit-
v- kt Ait;
That Is the Total of Those Who Are
Missing from the Roll Call After the Jena Disaster. Toulon, March 14 The efforts to recover the bodies of those killed by the
explosion on board the French battle
ship Jena here, which have been carried on with energy, have not yet resulted in definitely fixing the number of casualties. After the last roll call there were still unaccounted for eight officers and 110 men. Unfortunately there is little doubt that all these missing men perished. The roll call was applied only to the crew of the Jena, but as It is believed that some twelve or fifteen arsenal hands were engaged on board the battleship a the time of the explosion, it is feared that the total number of dead will reacn 120. In this belief tne naval hospital here was instructed to prepare mortuary space for that number.
1LR3. ErsSEXIi SAGH. ed States will be available at once. Henry W. de Forest said: "Surely there will Ik? no delay In passing the bill to Incorporate the Sage Foundation. As soon as the bill is a law tho final steps in the organization will bo taken and work begun at once. "We shall use, of course, only the income of the $10,0O0.O0t). The form of Incorporation and handling of the fund will be similar to the Carnegie Foundation. Work will Ikj begun in New York first. There will be no individual work or any peBonal cases cf distress relieved."
PRESENTS A BIG QUESTION
Riddance of Boni Comes High. New Yorh, March 14. Madame Anna Gould, rid of her French count, now has a bill of $175,000 to settle. This is the charge made by Edmond Kelly, the former New Yorker, now a Parisian advocate, for getting the countess a divorce from Boni de Castellane. The countess turned the bill over to her brother, George J. Gould, who Is trustee of her estate, and the latter declared In forcible English that he wouldn't pay such an excessive 3um.
Trial of a Woman for Uxoricide Defense Is a Charge Against Society and Religion. Coshocton, O., March 14. To what extent society and the ban of the churches at this city are responsible for a crime will bo considered in the trial of Ida Bordenkircher, whose trial for the murder of her husband Christmas day has begun. It is said that the defense will allege that Mrs. Bordenkircher endeavored to live a pure life, but that she was refused admittance to the church and barred from any recognition by the better elements on account of her previous life. She gave up in despair and resximed her evil ways, and the murder was committed during a drunken brawl. Attempt to Wreck a Train. Burlington, la., March 14. Officers of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad report that an atttempt was made to wreck a fast mail by placing a steel rail across the bridge over Pia
no river, near Sandwich, 111. The engine was derailed.
Shall Jerome lie Permitted to Impeach
Mrs. Thaw's Story.
Jerome argued that the material point of the case is whether or not
Evelyn told Thaw the story of her al leged ruin by Stanford White. With
out that story In evidence, he declared,
the reason for the defendant's a
leged insanity disappears. The prosecutor plainly admitted the importance
of young Mrs. Thaw's testimony, and
said he wished by Hummel's testi
mony to show her own repudiation of the charges which on the witness
stand she renewed against White
"Thus," he concluded, "the jury may
infer from her own statements after
her return from Europe in 1003 wheth
er or not she had within two mouths
The switchman stepped out where the ! of . that time told m.a defenaant the
miugs sue sum uc urn. Delmas objected to Hummel as a witness ou the ground that his testimony had to do with the truth or falsity of Mrs. Thaw's narration, and was not permissible under the rules of evidence. Jerome's conteution is that while he may not attack the truth or falsity of Mrs. Thaw's statement that she was betrayed by White he can attack the truth of her assertion that she told the story to Thaw at the time she says she did. Delmas first sought to interrupt Hummel's testimony by showing that he was acting as Evelyn Nesbifs legal adviser and counsel when she made certain statements to him. Hummel evaded this, however, by saying ha was acting solely as White's counsel, and no legal action had been contemplated in behalf of Miss Nesbit. He said he was paid a yearly retainer by Stanford White, and could not say exactly what he charged the architect for drawing up the affidavit Asked if it was $1,000 he burst into laughter, and said absolutely it was not. He finally placed the charge at "one hundred dollars about." When Mrs. Harry Thaw was on the witness stand she said Stanford White came to see her one evening in 1903 and asked her what she had told Hummel about him, adding that "Abe Hummel has just squeezed $1,000 out of me, and the Lord only knows how soon he will squeeze another." Young Mrs. Thaw's testimony regarding the affidavit was to the effect that Stanford White had taken her to Hummel's office after telling her "lots of horrid things about Harry," and that she had told Hummel about her trip through Europe with Thaw. She said: "Mr. Hummel then dictated a lot of thina
Sale of a Great Ranch. Torreon, Mex., March 14. The consummation of one of the largest land deals ever made in therepnblic of Mexico was reached when the Continental Mexican Rnbber company took over the famous Cedros hacienda, which i3 located in the states of Coahuila, Zacatecas and Durango. This property consists of 1,755,000 acres. Tire purphase price Is reported at $8,000,000-
mi t.y
Tells the Brakeman: "We'll Have a Drink." engineer could see aad slapped his stomach with his hand. The engineer understood. They left the car. The signal meant "to the rip track. "Rip track" is the repair track. "The signs in ail yards are not the same," Mr. Sheeley said. "Necessity caused them to be invented. A pilot may ride up to my tower and without uttering a word tell how many cars he has; where he got them and what he wants to do with them. Perhaps they go to two or three different lines. It would take some time in talking to tell me what he wants to do. The signs may look odd but they do the Fork."
Expelled for Hazing a Cadet. Mexico, Mo., March 14. Twentythroe cadets of the Missouri Military academy, many of them members of prominent families, have been expelled from the academy for hazing Cadet Czane, of Peoria, 111. Czane, who is 16 years old, was seized by his fellow
students and thrown into the icy water of the lake on the caippus, and he
rarrowly escaped drowning.
Looking for a Hot Fight. Washington, March 14. A decisivo engagement between the forces of Nicaragua and Honduras may be expected at any time, according to a dispatch the state department has received from rhillip Brown, secretary to the United States mission to Guatemala and Honduras, who has just arrived in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital.
Iron Men ant a Readjustment. Chicago, March 14. A memorial ssking for a readjustment of rates on shipments of iron and other ores was adopted and forwarded to President
Roosevelt and the interstate commerce commission at a meeting of the executive committee of the National Malleable Iron association held here.
"Enforce the Eight-Hour-Ijaw." Washington, March 14. Secretary Taft has given orders to the engineering officers of the war department to enforce to tha letter the language of the eight-hour law as applied to public works under their direction.
License vs. No License. St. Paul, March 14. In most of the village elections held throughout Minnesota the question at issue was "license" or "no license." License carried in a majority of the towns which have reported to this writing.
They Have Him at Last, El Paso, Tex., March 14. The noted Mexican outlaw and bandit, Gerardo Nunez, who with his band has long defied the civil and military authorities of Mexico, has been captured and hi3 band exterminated.
Meningitis Hits Italy. Milan, March 14. The village of Afforl has been visited by an outbreak
of cerebro spinal meningitis. Thl3
is the first time the fever has made its appearance in Italy.
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Charles E. Burr Disappears. Columbus, O., March 14. The sensational disappearance of Charles E. I'.urr. cne of the members of the board of public service, indicted for bribery Ly the special grand jury, has led to fears that he has committed suicide. All efforts to find him have thus far proved unavailing.
Enjrineer and Fireman Killed. Waterloo, la., March 14. Engineer Kellogg and his fireman were killed in a wreck on the Chicago Great Western railroad near Dubuque. A car on a west-bound train jumped the track while passing an east-bound train.
Eight-Hour Day for Miners. Charleroi, Belgian, March 14. The miners of this district in a referendum vote decided by 25.978 ayes against 100 noes to adopt the eight hours' work a day fop U miners.
The annual spring dampness is raging in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and
elsewhere, and rivers and creeks are
doing the usual damage.
An attempt is in progress to end the
Louisville street car strike by arbitra tion.
Archie Roosevelt is reported to be
about convalescent.
The Pennsylvania senate railroad
committees has reported favorably a 2-cent railroad fare bill which ha3
passed the house.
Earl Grey, governor general of Canada, has accepted an invitation to
speak at the national peace congress
April 17.
The boilermakers and helpers In the
yards of theChicago Shipbuilding com
pany have struck, closing the plant.
Joshua Wallace Voohies, a negro, 13
a candidate for mayor of Kansas City,
Trinity college, a school for negroes at Athens, Ala., and owned by the
Congregational society, of New York
has been, destroyed by fire.
The Inspiration mine at Globe, A,
T., has been sold to the Lewissohn in
terests for approximately $3,000,000.
Edwin D. Morgan's stable on hia estate at Wheatley Hills, L. I., was destroyed by fire and many horses per
ished In the flames. Loss, $100,000.
Mrs. S. N. Castle, an early mission
ary in the Ilawaiian islands, is dead.
at Honolulu, aged 00 years.
Count Vladmir Lamsdorff, who waj formerly Russian minister of foreign
affairs, is seriously ill at St R?mo,
Italy.
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