Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 248, Hammond, Lake County, 8 April 1907 — Page 1

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"VOL. 1, NO. 248. IS II TROUBLE n Youth of Nineteen Shoots Young Girl in Face While "Hunting." HE ESCSPEROM JUL Hakes Mysterious Get-Away Who Aided Him? And Was Shooting Crime or Accident ? Anna Labuda, a fifteen-year-old Polish girl, is lying at her home in West .Hammond, her face disfigured by birdehot discharged from the gun of Peter Mak. jr.. Bon of President Peter Mak, of the West Hammond board. Peter Mak, jr., is at large, having mysteriously escaped from the West Hammond jail where he had been locked up shortly after the shooting. No one can be found who will admit having any knowledge of young Mak's whereabouts, and as all the police officers ijny having had a hand in the liberating of the president's son, it is generally believed that Mak attended to this himself. Mak, be it understood, as president of the village board, as chief of police exofflcio, and as such, has access to the keys of tho village bastile. In the meantime the shooting, which was at first reported to have been accidental, assumes a new significance. Snys It Accident. It occurred at 153rd street and Ingraham avenue and immediately following It Mak fled across the state line, going to the homo of his sister, 523 Sibley street where he was arrested shortly after the accident by Officers Einsele and IJimdo of the Hammond force. At the station the prisoner protested that the shooting had been accidental. He said he was out shooting snipe Saturday afternoon and that he did not see Miss Labuda, who at the time was on her way home from her work. What Mak was doing shooting birds in the village of West Hammond and how he chanced to overlook the girl's presence when ft -was1 broad day light and she was in a direct line wlthJ his gun, has not been explained. In themselves the circumstances looked peculiar when coupled with the evident fright of tho young man at what he had done, whicli was sufficiently great to cause him to flee the state. The subscquetn fact of his disappearance from the jail during the night has added to the implication that there was a motive for the shooting. - (Jlrl Crlcn "Don't Shoot!" Joseph Iaetzen, twelve years of age, was a witness to the accident, if accident it was. He says that the young girl when Mak raised his gun, cried "Don't shoot:" putting up both hands. The girl had scarcely uttered the words before the shot rang out and she fell forward half fainting and crying, "I'm shot'." She was tak-en to St. Margaret's hospital where a number of shot were extracted from her forehead just between her eyes. At first It was thought the girl had been dangerously injured but on examination it was found that the wounds were flesh wounds and she has since been removed to her home. It seems improbable that there was any love affair between the two as the injured girl is little more than a child and appears younger than her age. It is generally reported, however, that the families to. which the two parties to the narrowly averted tragedy belonged were on bad terms. May be Accident but Looks Queer. Friends of both are Inclined to the theory that the shooting was probably accidental, as young Mak is known to be of the sinarty Alec class of youths who like to show off. On the other hand there la the peculiar circumstance of young Mak's mysterious escape from jail, vhieh looks as though he must have had a guilty conscience and whoever aided him must have believed he had committed a crime. Tho way that young Mak was captured In Hammond is a little story in itself. OJcer Einsele lives near where Mak's sister dwells and after hearing of tho shooting, he supposed that young Mak would try to get to his sister's house so he cautioned his wife to watch the house and if she saw anyone enter that looked like Mak, to call up the station. She did this, and, as the officer said, the rest was easy. FIRST STEEL CAR OLD. Was Manufactured In 1SSJ and Was Hun Over the Monon. In a recent issue of a Chicago paper it stated that tho first steel postal car ever constructed was run between Jersey City and Washington, March 6, 1907. This is not so. In the year 1SS6 the American Fireproof Steel Car company of Chicago built a steel postal car, which was sold to the Monon Railroad company and put into service Feb. 22, 1SS7, and was run on that road for fifteen years, making daily trips between Chicago and Louisville, not missing a trip ittiring that time. The car was built of steel and lined with asbestos; when finished it weighed 4,000 pounds less than the wood car of same dimensions. The car was fifty feet long and constructed according to government specifications. If yon look for It In the LIKE COIXTY TIMES you cannot fee dlfajN

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EAST END DRY NEVERJAYSDIE Will Fight it Out on Adopted Line if it Takes all Summer. HAtlLY THELAST RESORT If All Else Fails Against Power -of Saloon Element Recourse Will Be Had to Governor. The east end "drys" are up in arms. They are in for a finish fight to keep the saloons out of the district lying between Calumet and Columbia avenues and State street and the Nickel Plate railroad. If the council will not establish the dry district by passing the required ordinance, they will remonstrate against any more saloons in the third ward. This, according to the Indiana statutes, requires a majority of the voters in the ward. As an indication of the fact that they mean business the "drys" say that if the Saloonkeepers association defeats them in their remonstrances they will form a citizens committee and enforce the Nicholson law to the letter. They say that if they cannot secure convictions in Hammond they will go where they can, and as a last resort say they will appeal to the governor if they cannot accomplish their purpose any other way. This Explains All. The following communication is selfexplanatory: To the rublic: Several articles have recently appeared in the daily papers of this city relative to the so-called "Fast end dry district." Some of these articles made reference to the fact that certain property had been discriminated against and that fairness had not been shown in the method of bounding the proposed district. These articles as well as the results of the present attempt to create a ;."dry district" will no doubt make the matter a subject of general interest to the people of Hammond, therefore I consider that it is only fair that the public should be informed of what has een clone and what the "drys" intend to do to protect their homes from the invasion of saloons. Origin of Petition. In May, 1905, a petition to our city council was circulated and signed by sixty-nine residents, asking that a district in which intoxicating liquors could not be sold, be established by ordinance. The district was bounded on the north by the center line of what was then Plummer avenue between Calumet and Columbia avenues, on the east by the center line of Columbia avenue, on the south by the Nickel Plate right of way to a point in line with the alley south of May street, on the west by Calumet avenue. The line on the west was drawn around so that the district did not include the southeast corner of Summer street and Calumet avenue and the northeast corner of State and Calumet avenue, both of which corners were then occupied by saloons. The district as described did not then and has not until the past month, contained any saloons. The above mentioned petition was presented to the city council and was referred to the license committee. The license committee to date has failed to make a report back to the council on the subject, although every possible effort has- been made by the residents of the district to get action of some kind. Postponed Indefinitely. On the 12th of March a number of the residents of the proposed district attended the council meeting and Inquired when they could expect action on their petition and were instructed to meet the license committee at the city hall March 25 at 7 p. m. This the citizens did, only to find that the meeting had been postponed indefinitely on account of the sickness of one of the members. The next evening a delegation of citizens waited on the council and were informed by one of the committee that it would be necessary to secure the signatures of two-thirds of the property owners of the district to gain the approval of the committee. When this proposition was accepted the committeeman stated that it would be necessary to meet the license committee to have tho terms ratified. This was also agreed to by the citizens and a meeting was promised by the committee within the week. The time and place was to be set by the license committee. No meeting has taken place on account of the non-action of the license committee. Considerable noise is being made in opposition to the "dry district" and each objector has been found to be either interested or connected with the saloon business, brewery business, a prospective saloonkeeper or one who has Invested in a corner lot which he hopes to dispose of for the location of a saloon. Two Aldermen Show Prejudice. Two of the council committee have shown by their actions that they are opposed to the "dry district." Four days after the petition was referred to the committee, I asked one of them when we could expect a report. His answer- was, "NYer The - tiling, is dead.

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TIME Another member of the committee said that fifty people came into his store the next day after the petition was published and objected to the "dry district." Another remark was that half of the petitioners were dead and that the other half had moved away. In answer to the above I wish to state that two petitions were circulated In the district in the last month. One being for and the other against the "dry district." The one for the district has over 140 signatures and the last we heard of the one against the "dry district" it had six resident signatures. IteHldents are Determined. The residents of the proposed district have determined that they will not have saloons in it at any cost and have about come to the conclusion that no action by the city council can be looked for. Just as soon as this opinion is verified by a littha'rnore' ihaction, a remonstrance petition to the county commissioners asking them to refuse to grant a license to sell intoxicating liquors in the third ward will be circulated. The law requires that such a petition must bear the signatures of a majority of the voters of the ward. The number of voters being determined by the number of votes cast at the last election. The services of eighteen men are at present pledged to circulate these petitions if it is found necessary to do so, and considering that there are five churches in this ward, not less than fifty workers could be procured for the asking. The procuring of 500 signatures would be less than two days work, providing the "dry district" fever is 25 per cent as high in the balance of the ward as it is in the proposed district. Should it develop that the Saloonkeepers association, backed by the brewers' money, is able to prevent the third ward from going "dry," which is practically impossible, it is then planned that Governor Hanly's aid will be invoked and with the assistance of an organized citizens committee, steps will be taken to make every saloonkeeper In the city live up to every requirement of the law or go out of business. Should conditions become Impossible in this section, the cases will be taken for trial where Jury decisions will be rendered according to the evidence produced. The citizens of the east and are In for a finish fight and will not acknowledge that the saloonkeepers and brewers rule Hammond until the fact has been proven to them. Should tho city council set aside a "dry district" as above described except all of the lots as now platted which border on Calumet avenue be excepted, it is my opinion that the "east enders" would be satisfied to let their petition drop. However, the elimination of State street frontage from the district would not be considered at all. L. H. SNYDER. S14 State street. MAN WHO CAUSED W00DVILLE WRECK HIMSELF A WRECK, Cnjtlneer Held Responsible for Loss of 67 Lives a Shadow of Former Self Hnlr Streaked AVith Gray and Frame Bent and Emaciated. Frank Oalnouer, the B. & O. engineer who is held mostly responsible for the Woodvllle wreck last fall, and whose trial was set for today in the his friends to be a physical wreck Valparaiso circuit court. Is said by on account of the charges that are laid against him for the loss of 67 lives in the wreck. His condition is arousing the sympathy of his friends. Galnouer, at the time of the wreck, was a fine specimen of manhood, weighing nearly ISO pounds, with coal black hair and an erect figure. Todayhe is said to be only a shadow of his former self, bent In frame and with streaks of gray in his hair. Whether the fact that his engine was in bad shape on the night of the wreck and the fact that the night was a stormy one will prove to be ameliorating circumstances in the eyes of the jury, will be seen, at the close of the trial.

INDIANA, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1907.

TO CLEAN UP THAT BACK GARY SAYS "GOOD TIES" Does Not Believe With August Belmont That There Are Rocks Ahead. HPED WITH ORDERS Steel, the Barometer of Trade, Never In Greater Demand Than Now, He Declares. At Andrew Carnegie's unlquie "peace evening," held last week in the parlors of the palatial Fifth avenue mansion of August Belmont, who is more familiar with financial than industrial affairs, struck a low note in his forecast of conditions that will exist In the more or less near future. Mr. Belmont, in the recent financial upheaval saw a harbinger of hard times. He predicted a shrinkage of values in all marketable commodities, including labor. Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board of directors of the United States Steel corporation and for whom the steel city now building on the south shore of Lake Michigan was named, evidently sees nothing in Mr. Belmont's doleful forecast. Judge Gary being at the head of an institution which should be accepted as an accurate barometer of the country's prosperity, his remarks coming in the form of an interview are in striking contrast to those of Mr. Belmont. In fact his vlewrs as expressed, as directly opposite. "What is your opinion of business conditions and their prospect?" was asked. Judge Gary answered: "From the standpoint of the iron and steel industry, business conditions are good. For the month of March orders received by our companies were about 8,000 tons a day in excess of March, 1906, notwithstanding we have on our books unfilled orders which will fully employ on an average our full capac ity for about nine months. "As to the future one can guess as well as another. Probably It depends largely upon conditions which arlsecrops, politics, finances, but more than anything else, sentiment. This may result from existing conditions as they are seen, or it may be manufactured. "If capital becomes frightened by the prophecies of disaster or gloomy foreboding on the part of financiers, it may be withdrawn from circulation, temporarly at least, and this would affect business adversely, and perhaps bring about business stagnation. "I have great hopes for the future. The necessities of the people of this country are not diminishing. They are Increasing, and the ability to pay for them is improving. Y. M. C. A. HAS TO WAIT. The Gibson T. M. C. A. building and the Indiana Harbor office building, which were to have been completed by the last of this month, will not be ready for occupancy until the middle of May. The employes of the road all seem anxious to move to their new headquarters as they will then have access to the T. M. C. A. gymnasium. It Is understood that the present office, which is used by the Chicago, Indiana & Southern road, will be converted into some kind of a factory, but whether this is true or not,, cannot be ascer tained.

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Donaheu in Cleveland Plain Dealer. TEACHERS BACK FROM SOUTH BEND CONVENTION. Lake County's 150 Instructors Return After Three Days of Pleasure and Profit All Praise Hospitality Shown Them. Lake County's 150 teachers who atended the Northern Indiana TV r convention at South Bend last week, reLuinea nome last Saturday and resumed their work in the schools today. The general verdict upon their return was nat the three days spent in and nm, South Bend were days of pleasure and profit. They are full of praise for ooutn uends hospitality and for many a one the time of departure had come all' too soon. 'The nominating committee, hv ?t chairman, reported the nominations of tne year 190S as follows: Prodn. t A. Wood, LaPorte; treasurer. w. ' a Millis, Crawfordsville; secretary. Miss l- ueson, JLafayette. The report was adopted without opposition and the nominees were declared elected. The president than announced that th tntai enrollment was 2,915, 400 better than that of last year's meeting at Lafayette and just a trifle less than that of the gathering held in this city five years ago. General satisfaction -was pressed by the large number attehding. me association adjourned to meet next year at Indianapolis. WILL S00N BE INSTALLED IN THEIR NEW OFFICES, Hammond & Scnaaf' Quarters In ssh. ley Street Are Xeartng Completion WHI Re One of the Rest Equipped In the City. What promises to be one of the best equipped real estate offices in the city is now under construction for the new firm of Hammond & Schaaf. The of flee is being built by Anton II. Tapper in Sibley street, between the Monon hotel and Emmerling's undertaking es tablishment. The probabilities are that the building will be completed in a few weeks. Its dimensions are 20x30 feet and it will be one story high. As a firm, that of Hammond & Schaaf, is a new one, but as individuals each member is well known far beyond the limits of Hammond and North town ship. Their combined interest In one busi ness makes them one of the foremost firms in their line: Mr. Hammond is the deputy internal revenue collector and Mr. Schaaf is the trustee of North township ,two positions that have brought them a wide acquaintanceship Their offices at present are located in the Tapper building. NEW ROAD A SUCCESS. C. C. & L. Runs First Train From Cincinnati to Chicago Everybody Pleased. The Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville road ran their first trains over the new route yesterday and the trip to and from Chicago was made without a hitch. All of the main officials of the road left Cincinnati yesterday morning and arrived in Chicago at 10 o'clock. No obstacles were presented at any place along the road and taking everything into consideration they were well pleased with the work as it stands. Material arrived in Hammond this morning to be used for the construction of the temporary depot, and work will be started at once. The schedule of trains for Hammond has not been made, but will be done so some time this week. CONSTANTLNE COMING WEST. Frank J. Constantino is about to leave the Brooklyn police station for Chicago in charge of Assistant Chief of Police Schuettler. He will go as a common criminal -without any extra precautions being taken to prevent his escape. The story of a plot to rescue him is discredited.

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"PROSECUTION RESTS' - JEROME Famous Thaw Trial Wants Only Arguments of Counsel, Charge of the Judge and Verdict of the Jury.

(Special to Lake County Time). New York, April S. The closing drama In the great Thaw murder trial opened today. Justice Fitzgerald confirmed the report of the lunacy commission declaring the famous prisoner now sane, and then, in a swift-moving tableau, the presentation of testimony was closed and the celebrated case reached its final hearing. Attorney Delmas will start winding up the defense this afternoon with his great summing up speech. District Attorney Jerome fought to the last against the lunacy commission. He was promptly overruled, and then Dr. Allen MacLane Hamilton, the last witness in the case, went upon the stand. Jerome succeeded in excluding his testimony. Then came a dramatic moment when Pelmas rested the defense. It was a fast-moving scene and (Speelal to Lake County Times). LaPorte, Ind., April 8. In the case of the wreck Judge McMahon took up the case of Engineer Galnour at 2:30 this afternoon. Galnour was rearrested on affidavit filed by the state at noon in The board of public works met this morning and put into execution their plan for the extension of Lyman street from Douglas street south, when they accepted a plat of the South Homewood addition, formerly the Betz addition, upon- the recommendation of the property owners in the vicinity. John W. Dyer, who owns the property south of TO GIVE MINSTREL SHOW Will be Most Pretentious Entertainment of its Kind Ever Held Here. A committee of Elks, headed by Roy G. Conde, have about completed arrangements for one of the biggest minstrel shows that was ever given in Hammond by home talent. The date set for the show will be May 30 and it will be given in Towle's opera house. There will be a chorus of forty male voices and the Elks' club male quartette will sing. The first rehearsal will be held a week from tomorrow. Mr. Conde plans in addition to the minstrel show to have several specialties introduced which will be strictly first class and will add variety to the entertainment. Virgil S. Relter has been selected as the Interlocutor and will be an Ideal one for the place. Four of the six men have been selected and will be Jamei Carr, Percy Perry, Dr. II. E. Sharrer and Claud Potter. It is the purpose of the Elks to give the best amateur production of the kind that was ever witnessed in this city and neither time nor expense will be spared to make it a success. From a week from next Thursday until the date of the show the rehearsals will be held at short intervals and the blackfaced artists will have plenty of time to practice on the bones before they finally look over the footlights at the crowd that will surely be there to greet them. "BLIND TIGER" LAW DECLARED INVALID. Terre Haute, Ind., April 8. Judge Fortune of the city court today held the new "hlind tiger" law to be unconstitutional, because It provides for seizure and destruction of liquor and beer, which are legally recognized as property, without right of replevin; because it provides a penalty of $500 and Jail sentences for having possession of Intoxicants, while the present law has a less penalty for selling illegally. The law was advocated by saloonkeepers to prevent traffic by druggists and others, but it was applied here to saloonkeepers who sold In back rooms at illegal hours. EAST CHICAGO COUNCIL

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MEETS THIS EVENING, j s known that there, are two or three 'warrants out for his rest, and this The East Chicago council will meet ! is the probable reason why he did not again this evening for the purpose of j show up at the trial for prosecution, advancing the water and light ordi-!lf he had he would have been arrested nance to its second and final reading, j and would have taken a trip over tba It was thought that the measure would !. road. be passed at the last meeting of thai The West Hammond police sent a council, but Councilman Lewis voted ! letter to his Chicago address notifying against it. and this made it necessary him of the trial, but he came not. to send it on to its second reading.) As the village is at present cusOther business of minor importance todian of his pocketbook. containing will be transacted. ! $55. it does not make much difference

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ONE CENT PER COPY. - DEL1 a thrill shot through the court room when "Jerome an instant later announced that the prosecution also rested. A recess was then taken until 2 o'clock, when Delmas will begin his great plea for Thaw. Justice Fitzgerald took his seat at 10:30 a. m. and Jerome began a brief argument against the confirmation of the report of the lunacy board. 'Because of knowledge I have on account of the position 1 am in I beT the court not to confirm the report" said the district attorney. The Jury men had entered the room and taken their seats as Jerome finished. They were ordered to retire and Justice Fitzgerald in four words confirmed the report. "I confirm the report, said the court. The Jury then returned. Thaw was brought in looking bright and fresh. which he was charged with willful neglect of duty. The affidavit la In four counts. The attorneys are now talking of taking change of venue. Several state's witnesses arrived. Indictments against Galnour had been dismissed. the South Homewood ad 2 '.on, hat agreed to plat his property accordingly and arrangements will probably be made with Mr. Webb, the owner of the remaining subdivision, that will insure an open street all the way through. There is now nothing in the way of the plans to make South Hohman street a boulevard. RIMBAGH AFTER -STREET BLQGKADERS Contractors Must Not Impede Traffic With Building Material. Chief Rlmbach threatens to begin a crusade against contractors and builders who blockade the streets with building material and then omit to place a danger signal on them. He Is looking toward John Kuhlman, the street commissioner, for help in keeping the alleys clean. Henry Schau, living near Hartsdale. was painfully injured last night when his horse stumbled into a pile of concrete on Fayette etreet where W. A. Jordan's new place is being erected. The rig was upset and Schau thrown out. Although there was a lantern on the material still there was no oil in it. In making only a superficial report of similar conditions it was found that building material is placed In Warren, Webb, Sibley, Russell and Condit streets and Morton court. Street Commissioner Kuhlman finds that it Is necessary to give more attention to the cleaning of the alleys. He say that it is useless to rely on the sense of decency in some people to keep the alleys clean, and thinks that a number of arrests might have a wholesome effect upon the culprits. VICTIM FAILS JJ DP Fear of Prosecution on Another Charge Keeps Liezer Away. John Kolyeczski and Charles SIma vowski, the two Hegewisch thugs who held up N. Liezer, a Chicago traveling man and after beating him up threw him into a ditch to drown, had their trial before Judge Fiynn Friday and as Liezer was not present to prosecute, both men were dismissed on those grounds. It developed later that Liezer had been selling whisky around Hegewisch and Burnham without a license and it whether he shows up or not, accord- ) lng lQ West IIammond philosophy.

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