Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 249, Hammond, Lake County, 9 April 1907 — Page 1

TUB WEATUEa Light snow flurries and slightly colder tonight) Wrdofidnr generally fatri continued cold. 8703 Yesterday VOL. 1. NO. 249. NIGHT EDITION. HAMMOND, INDIANA, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1907. ONE CENT PER COPY. iSK CHANGE GOVERNOR EXPERT TESTIMONY!1 PARK POOL 000 OF VENUE Ell HOLE BLOWN UP 0'

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Woodville Case May Transferred to Lake County.

be TEXT OF THE One of Four Paragraphs From Document Which Forms Basis of Galnouer's Prosecution. (Special to Lake County Times.) Valparaiso, Ind., April 9. The state has amended the affidavit In the Calriour case. There was nothing done "when the court adjourned for dinner. There is somo talk of a change of venue to Lake county. Attorneys Henry Colerick and Daniel K. Kelly for the defense in the trial of Frank Galnouer, the engineer who Is charged with having been responsible for the great loss of life in the wreck at Woodville, have asked for a change of venue on the ground that the people of Porter county have been prejudiced by the reports of the wreck that have appeared in the newspapers. It is said that the case may be brought to Lake county, in which case the trial might be held in Hammond or in Crown Point. If the trial is held here Hammond or Crown Point will be the scene of one of the greatest legal battles that has been fought in this county in years. The following is one of the four paragraphs, freed of legal verbiage, of the afildavit upon which Galnouer is to be tried and which is to take the place of the indictment by the grand Jury: Text of Affidavit. On the 12th day of November, 1906, Prank Galnouer, a locomotive engineer,' running and controlling and in charge of a certain locomotive engine which was drawing a train of cars upon the Baltimore & Ohio railroad through the county of Porter, was in the service of said railroad; that the said railroad had established for the guidance of its locomotive engineers proper and sufficient rules prescribing the duties of all engineers. That said Frank Galnouer feloniously and wilfully and with gross carelessness and unlawfully disregarding his duty in that behalf, failed, neglected and refused to signal a freight train standing on a sidetrack, known as Babcock siding, that his train was running in two sections, when it was his duty to do the same; and those in charge of the freight train standing on the sidetrack having no notice or knowledge that any other train was coming, ran their train at a high rate of speed, and the engine attached to the last named train was driven into the front on and collided with the passenger train, thereby crushing the cars thereof and igniting them, and one John Doe, whose true name to this affiant is unknown, who was a passenger lawfully on said train, was thereby unlawfully crushed, wounded and burned so that ho immediately died; and the said l-rank Galnouer did involuntarily and without malice, feloniously kill and play him, the aforesaid John Doe, whose true name to this affiant is unknown, contrary to the form of the statute In such cases made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the state of Indiana. BETZ NEW HOME WILL BE COSTLIEST IN HAMMOND. fild nre Hclng Received on $15,000 Structure Which Will te Most Ueautiful in Hammond. V. S. Botz is about to let the plans for a residence which, when completed, will be the finest in the city. Already the excavations have been made on his lot at the corner of Hohman and Warren streets and the work on the new $15,000 structure will begin at once. The house is to be of brick and sawed stone, will be two stories high and will contain fourteen rooms. As an illustration of the substantial mariner in which it is to be built, the windows will all be plate glass, while the woodwork will be of mahogany and quartersawed oak. Ono of the features of the new residence will be the living room, which together with the library, will extend the whole length of the building and will bo IS by 30 feet in dimensions. A hot water heating plant will be installed and there will be two bath rooms in the building. The plumbing Is to be the best than can be bought and the policy of getting the best will be the rule. Mr. Betz expects to be settled in his new home some time next fall. MAE, JR., DIDN'T DO IT EASIER. Michigan City, Ind., April 9. John Fleming, a life prisoner in Howard county Jail, after serving eighteen years, escaped last night. No prisoner ever found It so easy to break Jail as Fleming. Wonder is he did not take the key and lock the door behind him. Fleming was the warden's trusty and for years had done about as he pleased. Part of his duties was to turn out the lights. This he did last night and then he coolly walked into freedom and boarded a freight train. There is little chance that he will be recaptured.

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Friendship For Railroads Blamed for Delay in Proclaiming New Laws,

HANLY STILL IS WEAK May Take Vacation Dr. Hurty Issues Circular Containing Facts About Tuberculosis. (Special to lake County Times). Indianapolis, Ind., April 9. Governor Hanly in the guise of the friend, and protector of the railroads is a situation that would ordinarily bring a smile to the face of the average Indianian, and yet from a story that developed around the state house today, it appears that he is to be given the credit or whatever it is, for appearing in that role. It is understood that the 1907 acts might have been published and proclaimed as laws as early as yesterday, had it not been for the determination of the governor to give the railroads a little more time in which to prepare their tariff sheets under the new two cent fare law. As a matter of fact all of the receipts were not in the secretary of state's office yesterday, hence the laws could not have been proclaimed. But the point is made that the receipts could have been obtained by yesterday, inasmuch as the last of the acts were sent out Friday night ex cept those for Marion county, and they I were delivered by Saturday noon. A little extra telephoning Saturday afternoon would have brought in all of the receipts by yesterday, and the laws could have been proclaimed. Ilnilroads ot Prepared. But the matter was not rushed, and the understanding around the state house is that the governor was importuned by the railroad men to give them a few days more time. They presented to him the fact that they had not yet been able to get their rrew passenger tariffs printed and distributed. Only one company, the Lake Erie & Western, had its tariffs ready by Monday evening, it is-understood,- and the gov- ; ernor, in order to accommodate the railroad men to this extent, agreed tacitly that there would be no undue haste in the publication of the acts. This is set now for tomorrow some time, probably in the morning. Following that tariff sheets or no tariff sheets, two cents a mile will be the legal fare In Indiana. The governor still makes the attempt to come to the office. Yesterday again he came down, made several appointments, spent the morning in intervieving job seekers and their friends and then at noon, went home, absolutely exhausted. He is turning around again on the question of a vacation, and his friends say that he will just have to be "shown" before he can be convinced of the absolute necessity of a real rest. He is pale, very thin, weak and trembly, and his voice, usually so strong and penetrating is weak and pitched in a high key. And it Is on a par with his general physical condition. Dr. Hurty's Bulletin. Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, has issued the following circular called "Facts About Tuberculosis:" "Long experience lias proven that strict observance of the following rules will hasten the cure and prevent the spread of tuberculosis: "1. Avoid patent consumption cures, so-called medical institutes, and advertising quacks they are more interested in your money than your health. "2. Spend as much of your time as possible In the open air, protected in winter by suitable clothing. "3. If possible, sleep out of doors, in a tent or on a porch. If this is im possible, sleep in a room with all of the windows open, I t with enough cover to keep you wa . Sun and air the room well during ? day. "4. Sleep alone. I. possible, let no one else sleep in the same room. "5. Avoid all unnecessary exertion and excitement. "6. Drink from one to three quarts of milk and eat from three to six eggs daily, unless otherwise ordered by your physician. "7. Do not spit upon the floor, side walk or streets. Spit into a pice of I toilet paper or paper napkin and de stroy immediately by burning. The germ of tuberculosis is in the spitum and the disease is spread by the nasty habit of spitting. "9. Hold a handkerchief or napkin before the mouth when coughing or sneezing. "10. Brush your teeth regularly, at least twice a day. "11. Do not kiss anyone on the mouth or allow anyone to do so to you. "12. Do not allow anyone else to use any article that has been in your mouth, such as tooth brush, pencil, tooth pick, pipe, cigar, etc. "13. It is illegal for consumptives to marry in Indiana." SUPERIOR COURT IN SESSION. In the superior court which was reconvened yesterday morning by Judge H. B. Tuthill, work on the docket in this term progressed steadily today. Mrs. Anna B. Geib was awarded the custody of Bella Rosenbough and was legally permitted to adopt her as her daughter. The March, term of court closes this .week,

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S INTERESTEP Jamestown Exposition Will Come Nearest Being an International Affair. BDILDIIGSNSE FAST Historical and Nautical Are Two Words Which Best Describe Big Project. All over this country and even with an interest penetrating every nook and corner of the world, the Jamestown Tercentennial exposition, which opens April 26, is attracting the attention of historian, farmer, scientist, educator, mechanic, lover of pleasure, In fact ail classes of people, because the scope of the celebration is so broad that all tastes and inclinations will be interested and satisfied. The unusual interest is natural considering that the approaching event is to commemorate a no less momentous occurrence than the founding of the colony of Jamestowns, the first permanent English settlement in America. This was effected as every school boy knows, three hundred years ago, on a peninsula, now an island, in the James river of Virginia, a spot where deserted ruins now constitute all that remains of the once pompous and nourishing village. An old church tower, overgrown with English ivy, stands as a solitary reminder of the immutable law of change and slowly crumbling to dust mingle, in the churchyard at its base, with that other dust which once housed the souls of men and women famous In the history of our country; a few scattered weather beaten and moss-covered tombs inscribed with the names of the Blairs, the Amblers, the Harrisons, the Sherwoods and the Berkleys; an old grassgrown fort, and a few foundation walls, constitute the Jamestown of today. Even the island has much of it been washed away by the rushing current of the mighty James, and only very recently did the general government take the matter in hand and construct protecting bulwarks about the island to prevent the further encroachment of the tide. The Immense Anchorage. Some miles down the James river from these ruins, where the stream broadens into the harbor of Hampton Roads, there is an immense expanse of water which offers the largest safe anchorage for ships on the Atlantic coast. Around this harbor are grouped within a radius of ten miles the cities of Norfolk, the commercial metropolis of Virginia and the seaport of a vast inland section of several states; Portsmouth, with the great government navy yard; Newport News, with its famous shipbuilding plants and dry docks, the largest In the world; Hampton, where is located one of the na1 tional soldiers' homes, and Hampton

Industrial institute; Old Point Comfort, with its historical associations, and Fortress Monroe, the most impregnable and commanding fortress in America. In the center of this cluster of cities and towns, overlooking Hampton Roads famous historically as the scene of the Merrimac-Monitor engagement in 1S62, is located the Jamestown exposition, on which millions of dollars have already been expanded witS view" to. providing entertainment, instruction, and accommodation for the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who will wend their ways thither during the coming summer and autumn. The cities and towns located on Hampton Roads constitute practically one large city community with a population of over two hundred thousand people, so that it will be seen they afford extensive accommodations to visitors. While the land show will be more Interesting in a historical way than that of any previous exposition, it is on the salt water adjacent to the exposition grounds that the most spectacular part of the celebration will occur. Here the yachts of all nations, the war vessels of many countries, and the world's finest nautical craft of every sort and kind will assemble. By day and by night on these waters there will be a show of a kind and magni

tude never before witnessed, and with the myriad of monster searchlights on ships and shore and on the great gov ernment piers a scene never to be forgotten will be presented. Opening Day April 2G. There is no longer any doubt about the opening of the exposition on April 26, and the program for that occasion has been almost completed. The president of the United States will deliver an address at the opening and there will be in attendance the members of the president's cabinet, the members of the diplomatic corps, senators and representatives, and the governors of at least twenty states. There yet remains much to be accomplished, however, ere the exposition can be styled "complete," but the magnificent structures which a month ago were mere skeletons of bare timbers or steel, are now taking on an air of completion, while there are springing up others almost in a day and many are now ready for the installation of the exhibits. The colonial style of architecture prevails in all the building and the effect Is pleasing to the beholder. The buildings of the exposition proper comprise auditorium and administration, manufactures and liberal arts, machinery and transportation, history and historic art, education, marine appliances, mines and metals, states' exhibit palaces, palaces of commerce, art3 and crafts, agriculture and horticulture, aeronautic building, graphic arts, building for historic relics, and many other special buildings. DRY ON THE KANKAKEE. Lack of gasoline caused George Lawrence and his guests, W. Black and Bert Escher, the two assessors, serious inconvenience in Lawrence's launch in the Kankakee river Sunday evening. At the time the prospects were that they would have to spend the night in the launch, when Escher expressed his determination to row to the shore. They landed safely and were given a new supply of gasoline by H. W. Friel, thus enabling them to continue their Journey homeward, where the trip was being anxiously awaited by their respective wives at Lawrence's home in Jerry's island. If you look for It In the LAKE COUNTY TWES 70a cannot be disappointed.

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LGEHSUS Enumerators Will Begin Their Yearly Task Tomorrow. DON'T Oil A! NAMES Some Parents Wrongly Imagine More Children They Confess to, Greater Their Tax. Beginning tomorrow R. Elster and his assistant, P. Weil, will begin taking the school census for 'the year 1907. Their work is expected to be completed by the last of this month. When the census taker starts out he meets with obstacles that seem to be born in the tax dogding spirit and he has learned from former experiences that many people refuse to give him the complete number of children in one family between the ages of 6 and 21. There seems to be a fear that when a large number of children are enumerated that taxes will be accordingly large. This opposite, however, is true, for according to the enumeration will the state school funds be divided, and of course, it is in every citizen's interest to present a complete enumeration in order to procure the county's full amount of money from the state funds. The census taker will ask for the enumeration of all the children in one family ranging from the ages of 6 to 21, irrespective of whether the children are attending school or working. Oother questions that will be asked, are the parents' or guardians' name; the date of the children's birth; their sex and their street number. As a matter of statistical Interest, Superintendent McDaniel will instruct census takers to request the nativity of parents incidentally while asking the necessary questions. 200 Extra Scholars This Year. The total number of children last year vas 5,361. Had the enumeration been more complete the number would have been considerably larger. The school board knows that this year the actual attendance at school will be larger by 200 than last year. Although the attendance is larger still the schools are les3 crowded than last year because of the opening of the Irving school building and four extra rooms added elsewhere. PLANS FOR ORATORICAL. The time for the Lake county oratorical contest has been set for next Saturday night, to be held in Towle's opera house and to begin at 7:30 o'clock sharp. The entire program for the evening has not yet been arranged. The disposal of seats in the opera house will be carried out along the same plans as in , former years, each competing high school receiving a number of reserved seats for distribution among its patrons. The gallery seats will be put on sale the night of the contest.

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Missile Hurled From Train Almost Demolishes Chicago Betting Stockade.

Neraly a score of men were injured and 1.000 others were driven in panic from the new poolroom stockade at Dearborn Park, Ind., when a bomb was thrown against the high board fence from the rear platform of a moving passenger train and half the structure was wrecked. Police today were called upon to search for the perpetrator of the deed, but so far they have been unable to get a clew. The bomb was thrown at a time when the poolroom was crowded with bettors who had been token to the place from Chicago. More than 1,000 men were gathered in the big room, most of them Intently watching the board. One of the races at New Orleans was being run at the time and the progress of the race was being called by the operator. Structure Lifted by Illast. Suddenly and without warning a loud explosion was heard, followed almost immediately by the lifting of one end of the structure and the fall ing of debris and torn and broken timbers. A score of the bettors were GOVERNOR'S CASE

PHYSICIANS COMMAND REST State Executive's Stomach in Such a Serious Condition That Slight Blow Would Cause Death.

(Special to Lake County Time). Indianapolis, April 9. Governor J. Frank Hanly's physicians hare ordered him to so to bed and stay there for at least three weeks. His condition la bow serious. Dr. S. I. Scherer, the well-known stomach specialist of Indianapolis, and Dr. C. S. Goar, the Hanly family physician, held a consultation yesterday and concluded that the symptoms Indicated a condition which called for the greatest care. The governor was ordered to suspend all official business for at least three weeks, and his nurses are instructed to exercise discretion at the door of the sick "room. , '. ' , After the examination, Dr. Goar saidt "We found no indication of vlcera tlon of the stomach, but the organ was so extremely sensitive that I firmly believe that a slight blow on one of the most sensitive spots would cause death. a "I consider the governor's condition serious and that three weeks complete rest is absolutely necessary." . :j Governor Hanly, although suffering Intensely, chafes under the restraint Imposed upon him by his medical advisers and It Is hard to art his mind off the affairs of state. There are several matters of grave Importance awaiting; his attention.. The recent session of the legislature was a heavy tax on his nervous system and general constitution and It left him almost a wreck. Ills condition was considered so serious this morning that hourly bulletins were looked for from the executive mansion.

S BLUEBEARD PETTICOATS Miss Pittman, According to Stories, Has the Marrying Habit. 3 HOT THE ONLY OflE Spouse Similarly Afflicted If Report Be True Indications Point to Double Bigamy. Miss Ethel Pittman of Kankakee, 111., is "a modern Bluebeard in petticoats" if the statement of her husband, Howard E. Palmer, a "bell hop" in the Saragota hotel, whom she deserted two weeks after she was married in Hammond by Rev. Charles A. Smith, is to be credited. The story is one of the most complicated serio-comic affairs that has ever been brought to light in this region and involves the charge of contemplated bigamy. In order to understand the affair it will necessary to give the following cast of characters. The Cast. Miss Ethel Pittman of Kankakee, 111., divorced from her former husband, William Smith, visits the William Arnolds in Chicago and marries a "bell hop" by the name of Howard E. Palmer, although engaged to James Hayes of Kankakaee at the time. Howard E. Palmer Is the "bell hop" in the Saratoga hotel. William Arnold and wife Werer married by Rev. Smith previous to the Palmer-Pittman marriage. Were Witnesses of the Palmer marriage. Discover the fact that Miss Pittman and Mr. Palmer have come to an understanding by which their marriage is to be denied and Miss Pittman is to commit bigamy by marrying a former sweetheart. James Hayes, foreman of the Kankakee Knitting factory, the former sweetheart.

struck by flying pieces of board, but none of them were seriously injured. Those who were not injured, including the markers at the blackboard, the telegraph operators, cashiers and the sheet writers, ran from the building In panic. The calling of the race was stopped and a portion of the blackboard was wrecked. The telegraph wires were cut for a time, and it was nearly half an hour before the betting could be resumed and the news of the races received. rtulldngs Guard Stockade. Steps to prevent a recurrence of such an attempt were taken. A strong guard was thrown around the stockade and will be maintained day and night. It is understood, too, that bull dogs will be placod around the stockade, in an Inner promenade, after the fashion of the O'Leary stockade near Wheaton two years ago. The train from which the bomb la believed to have been thrown was a Chicago-bound bettor's train on the Wabash railroad, which skirts one side of the stockade.

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Rev. Charles A. Smith Innocently brought into the case because ho happened to marry Mr. and Mra. Arnold who in turn brought their friends. Miss Pittman and Mr. Palmer to be married by the same minister. Xow for the Story. With the cast complete the story is as follows: About a year ago Miss Ethel Pittman, a fair Kankakee divorcee, wrote a letter to Mr. and Mrs. Arnold, who were then living at 2358 Indiana avenue in Chicago, asking if she could come to live with them. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold agreed and Misa Pittman came on to Chicago. The young Kankakee girl soon secured a position as waitress in one of tha Ferris lunch rooms. It was not long before she met Howard Palmer, the "bell hop" in the Saratoga, and tha two were married. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold, it is claimed, knew that both the young man and the young woman were rather "wild" and thought that if they were married they might settle down and bo they were brought out to Hammond where Rev. Smith married them and where they thought the wedding would have as little publicity as possible. Two weeks after the marriage Mrs. Palmer packed her baggage and left her husband without a word of explanation. After a short search he discovered that Bhe had gone back to Kankakee and made known-th 'act that he had married, issr atement which he sent to .kakeo newspaper in which he tola all and ended up with the assertion that "for one so young she (his wife) Is certainly a modern Bluebeard in petticoats." Palmer enclosed a photograph of his wife so that there might be no question of her Identity as the Ethel Pittman of Kankakee. Was There an Agreement? Developments since, however, point to the fact that the couple entered into an agreement whereby both decided to deny the fact of their marriage. It is not known what Palmer wanted to do, but it is known that Miss Pittman was desirous of marrying Jim Hayes and she thought by denying the former marriage witli Palmer aha would be free to marry Hayes. Later Palmer denied that he had ever married Miss Pittman and wroto friends that h had been married in Grand Rapids, Mich., on the 31st o last March and was about to leave for Boston with his wife. If his statement is true, Howard Palmer has committed bigamy and Misa Pittman is about to commit biaramv. and it was for the purpose of preventing this that Mr. and Mrs. Arnold came to Hammond yesterday. There are likely to he interesting developmenta.