Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 269, Hammond, Lake County, 2 May 1907 — Page 2

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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES Thursday, Mar 2, 1907.

VBJ? TB The Hammond Dally Nc, at the brad of tta wool a 1 column, la maklnic the atatement that peraona cunnw(ed with the editorial atafl of THK I-AKI1 COUNTY" TIMES are uhIbk tUe name of thtt wa to "teal" orlety nw, A publication which la ao dead to all aeaae of professional courtesy, not to aay common decency aa to aaaatl the character of a peraon who la mo evidently above auch beaiulrchlntc, to aay nothing of Ita inaulta to persons It doea not even know, la not expected to be auaceptlble to eourteona pemuaaloo. Hut for the consideration of Ita aource, the conalderatlon of the aource the men and women who ore employed In the making of THE LAKE COUXTY TIMES might have been unnoyed by the srratultoua ui tacks of the paper In question, but bavlnic been brought up In a better school have chosen to regard the tnatltutlon on the yonder aide of the railroad track a na beneath contempt. THE LAKE COUXTY TIMES la well content with Ita aocial column itnd never baa atooped nor never will atoop to uae any newa Intended for publication on the yonder aide of the railroad tracka. Miss Elizabeth Scott is visitor In Chicago today. a business Miss Tina Klein was friends In Chicago today. the guest of J. Hill of Englewood visited friends In Hammond last evening. Mrs. R. II. McIIia and Mrs. Meanest spent the day In Chicago. IL II. Wheeler of Crown Point visited yesterday with friends. Mr. and Mrs. James Whitby spent the flay with friends In Chicago. Mrs. George Phillips of Burnhara ehoppea in Hammond yesterday. M13S Aliea Beall of Hyde Park visited with Mrs. Cynthia Sohl yesterday. Miss Lillian Kuhlman will spend the evening with friends in East Chicago, Mrs. S. F. Parker and Miss Miller vislted relatives in Englewood this afternoon, i Miss Jennie uarr, wno is m at a Chicago hospital remains about the aame. Abe Ottenheimer of East Chicagowas here yesterday for the Masonic 'exer cises. ... Mrs. G. Austgen has returned home after a pleasant stay with relatives in St. John. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Finneran will attend the theater in Chicago this evening. Mrs. M. Schear has returned from Dyer where she visited friends for a few days. Miss Eugenia Knotts of Gary visited . her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Knotts . yesterday. Mrs. George Peterson of Eurnham . fpent yesterday in Hammond t'he guest ( of friends. Mrs. E. P. Ames and Mrs. D. C. At klnson were guests of friends in Chi-v . cago today. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Saul went to ! West Baden this morning for a few weeks' visit. Mesdames Hanson and Anderson of Ilegewlsch visited In Hammond yester day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. D. Evans of East Chi cago visited friends in Hammond yes terday afternoon. Misses Louise Stafford and Maud Tannenborg will spend tomorow with friends in Chicago. Miss Grace Webb and Thomas Parks will see The Rich Mr. Hoggenheimer' at the Illinois tonight. J. M. Lautman of Michigan City attended the Maeonlo corner stone laying exercises yesterday. Misa Barbara Facht of Crown Point spent yesterday and last evening the guest of Miss Edith Long. j Miss Anna Marbeck of Englewood is visiting her cousin, Miss Mae Hanson at her home In Sibley etreet. Mrs. M. Shaver of Burnham was the guest of friends in Hammond yesterday for the Masonic exercises. Roy Disbrow of Chicago visited friends in Hammond yesterday for the Masonic exercises and banquet. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Whitton of Ontario, Ind., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. John J. Crulch for several days. J. P. Mclntyre of Chicago Lawn was th gurwt of his daughters, the Misses J;S!e and Sadie Mclntyre yesterday. W. IL B. Meniies of Kalamazoo, Mlnh., is In Hammond for a few days' visit. Mr. Menzies formerly lived here. CoL B. C. Mclntyre of Kankakee, Hi came today to visit bis daughters,

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Mrs. Mary Hendricks has gone to Shelby, Ind., to be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tabbot for a few days. Mrs. T. "W. Spencer of East Chicago, spent the day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rohrman In East State street. Miss Pearl Barg-et Informally enter tained a few friends at cards last evening at her home In Indiana ave nue. Mrs. Earl Miller of Clark Station is visiting: her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bostwlck at their home in Sib ley street. A number of young people will hold a dancing party this evening at Long's hall. About eighteen couples will be guests. Miss Grace Moss visited In Ham mond before leaving for IndianaDOlls where she will ba entertained until Sunday. Mrs. Charles Wells of Michigan City is hero the truest of Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Smith in Calumet avenue for the weekend. Miss Lager returned to her homo in Chicago this morning after a few day's visit with the Misses Foley at their homo in Douglas street. Miss Ida Johnson was the guest of "friends at a theater party in Chlcasro last night to see "The Time, the Place and the Girl" at the LaSalle. Miss Mayme Malett of Crown Point is the guest of Miss Emma Champaign today at her home in Sibley street for 'The Chimes of Normandy." Mrs. L. E. Hayden of Tekia, Ind., "visited In Hammond today on her way to Lowell where she will be the guest of her parents for a few weeks. Miss Teck returned to her homo in Rogers Park, Chicago, after visiting the. Misses Brown at their home in South Hohman street for a few days. The wedding of Miss Alice Adams to Mr. Walter Coffman has been announced for next week. Mr. Coffman holds a position with the Standard Steel Car company. Mrs. E. II. Crook of West Pullman was the guest of friends here today before going to her former homo, in Lowell where she will spend the week end with relatives. Mrs. Ray Hatch will entertain the members of the Embroidery club Mon day afternoon at her home, 503 South Hohman street In honor of her guest, Miss Enyart, who is visiting here from Goshen, Ind. Mrs. Frank A. Parker and children of Champaign, 111., are the guests of Misses Flora and Mayme Mashlno. Mr. Parker will come Saturday to visit friends over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Parker formerly lived here. All members of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the First M. E. church are urged to be present at the meeting tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mrs. Henry Burke, No. 3 Kimbach avenue. Mrs. Burk will entertain the ladies at a Japanese meeting. The Epworth League of the First M. E. church will hold a May social tomorrow evening at the home of Rev. and Mrs. L. S. Smith, 134 Ogden street. An Invitation is extended to all who desire to come and a very pleasant party is being arranged by the young people. Light refreshments will be served. A number of young people from here will go to Chicago tomorrow evening to attend a dance given by the employes of the G. H. Hammond office. The party will be given at the Forum and promises to be a very pleasant affair. A number of former Hammond people will act on the reception committees. The Martha society of the Christian church met this afternoon at the home of Mrs. Batteiger in East State street to arrange for the sale of home bakery goods Saturday afternoon at Summer's pharmacy in Hohman street. The ladles mean to make the affair a success In every detail. For special orders call up Mrs. William Lasch, phone 2614. The members of the Tribe of BenHur report one of the most pleasant meetings of the year last evening In the lodge rooms in Weis hall. The meeting was unusually well attended and following the regular business session an enjoyable social hour was spent. An informal musical program was given uy memoers present and a luncheon was served by the men of the order. Mrs. James Campbell, jr., formerly Miss Bertha Kunzman of Hammond, delightfully entertained a number of her friends last evening at her home in East Chicago. The evening was pleasantly spent with games and con tests after which the hostess served her guests with a pleasing luncheon. The friends present were: Misses Daisy and Kate Emery, Dora and Frie da Otto, Eva McFail. Hazel Fox, Mar garet Dellart, Elizabeth and Mae Swanton, Dorothy Eschenbach and Sylvia Stickler of Hammond and the Misses Campbell of East Chicago. Dogmatism Defined. It was Douglas Jerrold who defined dogmatism aa "puppyism come to ma turity, a happy piece of wise wit Have Vowels In Order. "Abstemious" and "facetious" the only words in English bavins vowels. a the;! jr order. are the

BEN LYNCH STRICKEN IN HAMMOND DISTILLERY.

Ex-Athlete Suddenly Falls Unconscious and Itemalna in That Condition for Several Minutea Stomach Trouble the Cause. Ben Lynch, ex-Wisconsin university athlete, now connected with the South Bend Life Insurance company in company with James Collier, went to the Hammond distillery yesterday to see a party. When on the third floor, Lynch became ill and before his friend could catch him he fell to the floor, not regaining consciousness for about ten minutes. Doctors Willlts and Groman were summoned and Lynch was taken to their offices in the Hammond building where he was soon restored. At first It was thought the attack was caused by heart disease, but the physicians found it to be the result of stomach trouble. HAS NARROW ESCAPE. Bullet From Exploding: Cartridge Pasties Through Clothing Hits Stone a Few Feet Away. James Martin had a narrow escape from death yesterday afternoon Just before the Masonic parade passed Hohman street. Some youngster had thrown a 3Scartrldge out in the street and a passing wagon ran over it causing the explosion of the shell. The bullet coming straight for Martin went through his coat within two inches of his body. A large crowd was attracted by the explosion of the bullet and it was first thought that some one had discharged a revolver. Later the bullet was found lying in the middle of the street flattened out by striking the stone. WENT HOME TO DIE. Miss Cora Sargent formerly a school teacher in this city died of consumption at her home in Lowell, Ind., yesterday. Her sister Miss Ora Sargent, it will be remembered also died of the dreaded disease and it is this fact that makes the death of the other sister the more pathetic. Miss Sargent lived for a time in a tent colony In Illinois but she did not seem to get any better and finally after her physicians had given up hope of saving her life she went back home to die. Tho many friends that Miss Sargent had in this city will regret to hear of her demise and will extend their sym pathy to the survivers in the family. Those who care to know further particulars regarding the death and the funeral will place themselves in com munication with Miss Nina Pettit of this city. COUItSING JUDGE DISQUALIFIED. As a result of the death of two valuable dogs at the meeting of the Chicago Coursing club on the course east of Mt. Ollvett cemetery, last Sunday, Timekeeper McNally, a well known sporting man of Chicago, was dls qualified by the American Coursing league at a meeting held at the resi dence of James Allen, 4455 Halsted street. It was alleged that McNally allowed the wrong time, that Instead of the two minutes as stated in the rules, he allowed some one minute and a half and others two minutes and a half. It was also stated that because of his judging of the time, that the death of Mascott, owned by Joseph Donegan of Whiting, and Limerick Lass, owned by Mr. Kaoch of Chicago, resulted from exhaustion. LAFAYETTE BUNCH LIVELY. The Lafayette delegation of Masons was one of the most enthusiastic which attended the ceremonies of the cor ner stone laying yesterday. Iney were in the midst of things everywhere. They were all a lot of good fellows but among the more conspicuous of the visitors from this old university town were R. C. Elsenbach and Fred Bryant. Mr. Terry of the Lafayette Journal was also one of the happy Lafayette crowd and was much impressed with the enterprise of the local Masons. TEAMSTERS ON STRIKE. Three hundred teamsters in Kensing ton went on strike yesterday when they failed through a conference to secure an increase of 90 per cent a week. The teamsters are asking for a scale of $15 a week. Later In the day some of tho teamsters decided to return to work. The trouble will probably bo adjusted today, it is said. The strike halted the preparations of many suburban resi dents to move their household effects. TRY OUT NEW SMOKE STACKS. The new smoke stacks at the Stan dard Stael Car company s plant wsre given a try-out this afternoon. Fires were built in the furnaces and the smoke poured out of the monster stacks. Not one of them was found de fective. ANOTHER SHAKE. Governor Hanly was able to sit up yesterday. About next week he'll be able to totter out in the back yard and give that old plum tree another shake. -Fort Wayne News. George J. Knott of the Chlcag-o Pally News mechanical staff, who is running for president of Typographical union No. 16, visited his brothers on The Lake County Time3 yesterday. Wiser Than We Are. The beavers are wis little anlmal3. They are building dams and flooding hundreds of acres of timber land in Maine. That is their method of forest preservation, which is cf the ut most importance to their own. Rallroed Building In China. Hardly a province of China has es caped the recent mania for railways? and if all the lines projected are car ried out some of the remotest parts of the empire will be rendered easy of access.

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All cf Them Dead, Is the Belief, Victims cf a Terrible Explosion. TOO HEAVY A BLAST 1THE CAUSE Names of the Dead Who Have So Fai Eeen Identified. Xnmber Can't Be Greater Than Elev en, However Fire Panio at Chicago Speeding Train Derailed Many Hurt. Charleston, W. Va., May 2. Three men' were killed, four were severely burned and four others are entombed ana probably dead as a result of a mine disaster at the Whipple mines In the Lean Creek district The three dead men, whose bodies have been re covered, are: Hudson Bergess, motorman; Erastus Wiley, sprinkler; Ira Kelley, driver. The men missing, who are supposed to be dead, are: Robert Armstrong, Raleigh, Tucker, Charle3 Beigess and William Wilton (negro). Four injured men who were taken to the state miner's hospital at McKendree were: Henry Milton, white, a stable boss, and three unknown white men. Heavy Shot the Supposed Cause. The mine where the explosion oc curred Is a shaft 450 feet deep. It has two openings, and belongs to the Dlxson interests, who also own the Stuart mine. The explosion occurred in the main return heading, about 1,200 feet from the foot of the shaft. It is sup posed to have been caused by an ex traordinarily heavy shot. Ninety-four men are employed in the mine, but thirty left the mine just before the explosion occurred. Of the sixty-four men left inside fifty-three escaped through the second shaft of the mine. Other Eleven on the Casualty List. The other eleven men are account ed for as either dead, wounded or miss ing, and the mine officials think the casualties cannot amount to more than eleven at the most The Whipple mine, lies about four miles frm the Parrel mine, where the great explosion oc curred about a year ago. and is nearer the Stewart mine in which about eighty-six miners perished in a mine accident in February. An attempt was being made to tunnel from the Whippie shaft to the Stewart mine, and in this tunnel tho explosion occurred. SERIOUS FIRE AT CHICAGO More Than Forty Persons Injured fa Escaping from the Flames. Chicago, May 2. More than two score men and women were injured in a fire which attacked, a five-story building at 233 Wabash avenue. The Story & Clark Piano company occu pies the first floor of the building. The upper floors are used by the Lotus Lunch club, which caters almost ex clusively to woman patrons, and it was there the fire found most of its vic tims. Women were assembling for their luncheon, and when the alarm of fire was sounded they became pan ic-stricken. The flames spread so rardly that they reached the lunch room before the patrons had recovered from their first fright Then the women rushed to the fire escapes and to the stairways, and many of them fell down the steps or dropped to the pavement, so great waa their excitement. The most seriously injured were the following: Mrs. B. Sullivan, cut and brul?ed; Jennie Malone, right leg broken, internal in juries; William C. Larson, left leg broken; C. W. O'llair, head and face burned; Catherine Sullivan, face and hands burned; Mrs. A. Cromme, nose broken; T. O. O'Hara, barber, bruised on head and body; Violet Rouski, 2o years old, face and hands burned; Kate Komakowskl, burned about the face; Mrs. McNamee, bruised and cut by glass; Alice Bennison, overcome by smoke, cut about hands and face. FAST FLYER IN THE DITCH Twenty Persons Hurt, Two of Whom Will Probably Die. Tarkersburg. W. Va., May 2. A passenger train on the Ohio river di vision of the Baltimore and Ohio, the 'Fast Flyer" between Kenova and rittsburg, was wrecked at Pleasantview, forty-five miles below here, while running at sixty miles an hour. Tht baggage coach jumped the track, caus ing the engine, tank and all of the five coaches to leave the track, the two rear cars turning over the embankment Twenty persons were Injured, two fa tally. The cause of the wreck Is ascribed to the bad condition of the track. Those most seriously Injured were Judge William A. Ohley, of CharlesIon, . a., internally, considered fatal; Captain T. It. Cowell, of Tarkersburg, injured In the back and abdomen, and probably Internally; William Stanley, Pittsburg, traveling

salesman, injured internally; F. E. Gettler, head cut and back injured; J. P. McNelly, rittsburg, traveling salesman, injured in back and rib broken; Elbert Ilager, Bnrlocksville, W. Va right leg injured; Mathias Stiles, of Lincoln, W. Va., cut about bead and face; It. L. Stowers, Hager, W. Va., arm and hip injured; E. M. Hager, of Hager, W. Va., left arm and shoulder injured; Anthela Hamer, Hager, W. Va., left arm injured; Ithoda Stowers. Griffersville, right hani broken.-- - -

LOOKS VERY WANTOH

That Attack by Cuban Police on Our Jackies on Leave at Santiago. ONE VICTIM IS LIKELY TO DIE Unarmed Sailors Assailed with the Revolver and Machete. Men Declared Not to Have Keen Hunt ing Trouble, or in Any Way Disorderly Police Suspended. Santiago, Cuba, May 2. The con flict here Monday between sailors and police followed an orderly banquet which was given at the Cafe Leon de Oro by a party of first-class seamen of the cruiser Tacoma. At 1 in the morning themen separated, and twelve of them went to the Cafe Union. They were not intoxicated. A police captain named Lay, who was In citizen's clothes, had been watching this cafe all the evening, with seven or eight policemen to support him. At about 2 o'clock in the morning the seamen started for the wharf with the intention of boarding the Tacoma. Captain Lay Should Be Laid Away. Captain Lay alleges that the sea men started the trouble, and the sailors allege that Captain Lay, without any provocation, caused the disturbance. As tue ennsiea men oi iue coma had been hindered by the police on their way to the wharf Ensign Hrisbin decided to walk slightly ahead of the party. Suddenly he nearu a revolver shot, and immediately after wards the police charged with revolv ers and machetes. Brisbln received an ugly cut on tho arm and was felled to the ground three times. As the crowd cf seamen came up the policemen emp tied their revolvers at them, at the same time attaching me suuois wiu machetes. One Sailor Is Murdered. A fierce fight ensued, with the result that Henry L. Lee, a fireman or tne Tacoma, will probably die of a com pound fracture of the skull caused by a machete, and a gunshot wound in the right breast Ten other members of the crew of the Tacoma were taken to the ship's hospital suffering from machete wounds and clubbing, isot one of the policemen was badly hurt, though several of them suffered 1'rom fist contusions. Civil Governor Acts Promptly. The captain and all the policemen who participated In the affair hav been suspended by order of the civil governor or Santiago upon ine reprt confotlAno f Prmml'np T.irsnnn. of the Tacoma. and the United States consul, Holaday, -svho affirm that the lives of the United States officers and men who go ashore are not safe while such men are acting as- agents of the law. Holaday is making a thorough investigation of the Incident. NO MORE PARTY RATES Base Ban clubs. Theater Companies, Ktc, Must Hereafter Pay Full Hallway l ares Washington. May 2. follow ing the action of the interstate com merce commission in declaring that where transportation lines afford reduped rates on nftrtv tickets, as for example, to theatrical, base bail, foot hnll flTlri ftthPr Amusement ors-aniza-ball and other amusement organiza tions, these reduced rates must also be open to the general public, rail way lines soutn or tne rotomac ana Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers have filed with the commission notice, effective June 1, of withdrawal of all such reduced party rates. After that date theatrical, base ball. foot ball and all other amusement companies will be referred to the regular prevailing tariffs of individual fares. Pardon Sure fop January. Guthrie, O. T., May 2. District Judge Embry, in whose court here John William January alias Anderson, the Kansas City business man, was convicted twelve years ago, has forwarded to Washington a recommen dation that January be pardoned. This recommendation is said to be all that stands in the way of the pardon beiDg granted. Hughes Surprises the the Solons. Albany N. Y., May 2. Governor Hughes gave the legislature a distinct surprise by a message formally advising both houses of the recent decision of the court of appeals which declared unconstitutional the reapportionment act of 1900, and declariug it to be the duty of this legislature to enact an apportionment law to take its place. Alleged Labor lUoter Paroted. Trenton, N. J.. May 2. The board of pardons has paroled William Mc Queen, who had served three years of a five-year sentence in state prison on a charge of Inciting the 'aterson lab' riot in 1002. McQueen was parole! with the understanding that he return to his old home In England. Kuroki Arrives, Wtariu3 Khaki, Victoria. B. ., May 2. General Baron Kuroki, wearing a khaki uniform and the star of the Order of Pawlonla, accompanied by a representative party of Japanese military men, has arrived here on his way fc the Jamestown exposition.

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