Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 107, Hammond, Lake County, 22 October 1907 — Page 1

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Blaze Replete with Stirring: Incidents Gotten under Control by the Heroic Work of Citizens

POLL DOWN BU1LD1HGS III PATH OF FLIES Several Buildings Destroyed and Loss Will Amount to $5,000 With Little if Any Insurance Gasoline Stove Thought Cause.

Gary. Ind., Oct. 22. Special A fire replete with stirring incidents, threatened for a time to wipe out the business district of Broadway, Just south of the river and but for the timely action and horolc work of the residents of the town who gathered in large numbers to the scene of the fire, a serious conflagration might have resulted. The loss' will total about $3,000 with very Uttle insurance. With two by four timbers and with whatever kind of an implement they could lay their hands on, they tore down the flimsy structure where the fire orignlnated and headed ofr the Haines as they were spreading towards other buildings, and in that way confined the flames to a given area. The fire broke out in the shoe store of Gondolfo Dlmagglo the rear of which la also used as a boarding house. The cause of the fire is not known at the present time but it is thought that it originated from a gasoline stove which was used for heating and cooking. It is thought that one of the boarders was attempting to cook his breakfast .about 6:30 this morning and while at work, tipped over the stove, which exploded. The flames soon spread through the flimsy structure and before anything could be saved, the place was a fiery furnace The boarders rushed out in ecanty attire, not waiting to. save what i 1 t 1 1 e t h e y po s s e used .. . w h i i a t he , p r o -priotor was too excited v to V ttempt to save any of bis stock. The fire spread to the fruit and confectionery store of John A. Colosimoon, one side and the general store of Abe Goldberg, on the other, before the populace had responded to tho general alarm which was carried by messengers about the town. The building which is used by Justice of the Peace A. C. ITuber as a residenco and office was next in the line of the fire, but before it caught the crowd pulled it to pieces and with their bare hands tore down the tent roof and carried away what they could. The desks and furnishings were destroyed however. Tenants in nearby store implored the aid of the people assembled as they suspected that the fire would spread to their buildings, and willing the crowd responded, and brought everything that couUh be reached to the street, where mingled in a hopeless mass of confusion was dishes, household goods, furnishings and what not. While the fire was burning there was many scenes of great excitement about Broadway. In one of the burning stores, secreted somewhere in the furniture, was a revolver, and while the crowd was standing outside watching it go up in smoke, the flames SPORTS ARE STRANDED While Wrangling Over Rules of a Race, Last Train Pulls Out. (Speetnt to Lake County Timet.) Rensselaer, Oct. 22. A number of the sporting fraternity of this city are expressing great indignation over the treatment they claim they received at the hands of tho like body at Uoselawn last Saturday, which will likely have an after effect. They journeyed to that town with Kid Spontsman, the colored runner, and they were placing the bov against a white lad from Chicago for a good sized side bet. Besides the bet ttaey had about $400 U wager on tbe Bide. Roselawn had the selecting of officials for the race and Gen.- Rice was chosen starter. He was to got the boys off with a revolver shot and if the break was not oven, he was to fire once more to call thorn back. After two false starts the boys were off oven, and cfter they had gone twenty-five yards and the colored lad was in the load. Ilice. it is claimed, called them back again. The Rensselaer men then made a protest and a th.-ir runner was tired and unable to start right away they were declared the losers. While they were wrangling over the outcome the last train for Renssel.-u-r pulled out and they were stranded. About 9 o'clock the bets were called off and the money was returned, but as there were no accommodations in the town, the tired sports were compelled to sleep in a hayloft. The outcome win probably be another race. WEATHKR Fair tonight and Wednesday t cooler Wednesday.

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sillade of bullets drove the crowd terror stricken from the scene. One of the spectaters whose name could not be learned owing to the excitement at the time, was hit in the leg by a flying bullet, which inflicted a serious wound tie was attended by Dr. Walsh and removed to his home. T ' -r r , . .Tiunis. xxuoinger, wno conducts a restaurant on the opposite side of Broadway, thought that his place was in danger and asked the aid of the crowd in carrying out the furnishings. They responded nobly, but with serious results to Ilublnger. Secreted In a bureau drawer, he had a fine roll cf $265. He forgot all about It for n little while, and when one of the volunteer rescuers pulled that bureau draw out as he was carrying the article to the street, he caught sight of the money and that was the last seen of it, and they do not know who he was. Gondolfo Dlmagglo, in whose shoe store and boarding house the fire originated, was nearly frantic when he found that the results of his years of labor were wiped out in an instant. It was really a pathetic case and .the business men of the town may do something for the man. . v Bdmaggio came to this country about five years agx, an.d. was. a-shoemaker by trade. He could .get no lucrative employment at his trade, so he went to work on the railroad as a section hand and laborer. He managed by hard scrimping to save about $400 in that time out of his salary and when Gary started to become a town, he went there and wtmt to work at his trade. Business was good and each month saw a little increase in the receipts. Dlmaggio put everything in the way of profit into the store and boarding house, and only a few weeks ago bought a new supply of boots and shoes, for which he paid $1,300, every cent he had in the world. Then came the fire this morning, and as the poor man saw the results of five years labor vanish in a few moments he cried like a child and later was on the verge of hysterics. Other losers were not insured and it was a gloomy gathering that went over the ruins after the fire was extinguished to see what could be saved. The losses are distributed as follows: Gondolfo Dlmaggio loss $2.000; John A. Coloslmo and partner to whom the former had sold a half interest in the business only a week ago, $1,000; A. C. Huber, $250; Frank Hubir.ger, $265; Abe Goldberg. $1,000. Most of the men whose stores were wiped out wi'l rebuild. TO FIGHT THE SALOONS League Formed at Valpa raiso to Wage War on Intemperance. Valparaiso. Oct. 22. Yesterday even ins representatives from eight different organizations or. the city met and formed a league for the purpose of advancing the cause of temperance in this city. The meeting was held in the M. K. church. The next meeting will be held in the Christian church "Wednesday evening of this week. A temperance lecture course is being- arranged. An attempt will be made to drive out every saloon from the city. Prominent men are at the lu ad of the movement and speakers from all over will address the meetings. Over 200 are on the charter list and the fight against saloons will be waged to the last ditch, the members of the new organization declare. i GIRL ACQUITTED OF V1URDER CHARGE HAS JOB LaPorte, Oct. 22. Miss Florence Gray, acquitted of the charge of murdering Frank Brown, of Three Oaks, Mich., was in the city yesterday. She gathered together her personal possessions in the county jail and left last evening for South Chicago, whero she will be employed as waitress in a restaurant. She is following the advice of her benefactor. Mrs. Vandercamp. who declares she will bring about the woman's reformation.

ANOTHER CONTEST

SCHEDULED BY HILL Purple and White Will Meet Valpo Saturday at Harrison Park. HAMMOND HAS GOOD CHANCE Championship of Northern Indiana Is Narrowing Locals Somewhat Crippled, But Still Game. Professor W. A. Hill, manager of the local high school football team, has announced that he has scheduled an other game for the Purple and White which should attract a great deal of Interest. Next Saturday at Harrison field the locals will meet the strong aggregation from Valparaiso university and hope to show that the Hammond boys are of college class. Mr. Hill feels that the boys have more than an even chance to down the visitors and will feel disappointed if they do not come out victorious. The race for the championship of Northern Indiana is narrowing down to but a few schools, Hammond, Goshen and Laporte being the only teams left in the race. Up to date there has been no satisfactory way to judge the strength of the three remaining con tenders by relative scores but from the best information at hand it does not appear that there is much to choose between any of them. When Hammond meets Laporte on November 2, there wfll be another contender out of the race and should Hammond win, a post season game will have to be arranged for between Goshen and Hammond in case the former still keeps its head above the water. Laporte does not look like a serious proposition to Ham mond at the present time unless hard luck overtakes the team which is eer iously lacking in substitutes. It looks at the present time as if Summers, the fast quarter of the Hammond team woald be out of the game for the remainder of the season and his loss will be keenly fe.lt although that in Itself should pot prove a stumbling block in tbeTway of securing the championship, His knee is in tad shape from Satur 3ay's same- ,w. .... : j f - .. . It is also reported on good autnonty that Elliot may quit the game as far as out-of-town contests are concerned as he has a position it is said which he cannot leave. It is to be hoped that some loyal H. H. S. fan can be secured who can hold down the Job until Elliot returns to the games Just for the soke of seeing the locals land on top. PQLIGEMANJSARRESTED Whiting Officer Charged With Maltreating a Colored Clergyman. Whiting. Oct. 22. (Special.) John Backus, a Whiting police officer, was arrested last night on a charge of assault and battery preferred by a negro preacher who was soliciting fpr the sale of a book in a saloon on Front street in which Backus was hanging out at the time. It is said that the pious gentleman entered the buffet and on offering the book for sale, that Backus grabbed it and threw it on the floor at the feet of the astonished and mortified preacher, lie then hit him several blows in the face and kicked the preacher most unmercifully. The latter made haste to depart fro mthe place and the matter was soon reported to the police. Then officer Backus, who has made many a man miserable by enforcing the law, felt the sting himself of its impartial grasp. The complainant stated that he hailed from Chicago where he formerly presided over a congregation. The case will be tried today. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION TO HOLD A MEETING The Lake County Medical association including about a dozen Hammond practitioners, are holding a meeting this afternoon in East Chicago, preliminary to the big lecture to be given this evening in Towle's opera house, by Dr. McCormack. At this gathering there will be an address by Dr. E. G. Blinks of Michigan City. The meeting will be held in the Elk's club rooms. A large crowd is expected to be in attendance at the meeting in East Chicago and a big gathering of the medical profession and citizens of the town at the public lecture at the opera house. Everyone Is invited to attend. STEIN SENTENCED. Fred W. Stein, the young Chicago salesman who 'was indicted by the grand jury on the charge of larceny in Hammond, was sentenced yesterday morning by Judge Reiter to ten days in Jail and a fine cf $10. The man's pas 1 having been very good and his sincere promise to make amende In the futurjs saved him frora a severer ; sentence.

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TO BE KEPT "inance Committee Meets and Decides on Its Report Fire and Police Department Given a Very Severe Jolt. REQUISITIONS OF EACH ABE SCALED $5,000 Four New Officers Will Be Added In stead of Ten as Asked, There Will Be no Automobile Patrol and no New Fire Engine East Side May Get Park. Hammond's tax levy for the 1907-1907 will not go over $2.70. year The police department gets four additional men and a fund of $500 on which to draw for patrol and automobile ser vice In case of emergency, while the fire departments miscellaneous fund of $11,350 which the department asked for has been reduced by $5,000. Such is the outlook from a glance at the report of the finance committee of the city council which met last Saturday afternoon to go over the requirements of the various city departments, which they had submitted to the city controller. The finance committee's report will be submitted to the city council at Its regular session this evening and while there may be minor changes made in the various departments, J. D. Smalley, the city controller, on whom falls the task of fixing the tax levy, feels confident that It will not be over $2.70 for the ensuing year. : . RtmbachV Salary 3it Rained. Th -police --Wmmfssloners - In - submitting their estimates tor the depart ment, asked for ten additional policemen and a fund of $5,000 of which between three and four thousand would be invested in an automobile. It is also suggested that the chiefs salary be raised above $1,200 a year. The best compromise that the. finance committee could make however, was the allowance of four men and $500 for an emergency fund. The $3,000 that was cut off the firedepartment's fund was Intended for a new engine in one of the two new stations. The city attorney's suggestion that an assistant city attorney be appointed did not receive consideration by the committee. The board of public works" figures suggesting $10,000 for city street, alley, sewer and sidewalk improvements, remained unchanged, it being thought that all of this sum and probably more would be needed during the next year. Unless there is a hitch on account of a protracted session this evening, it is very probable that the question of a park for the east siders will come up for discussion. The agitation in the east part of town is growing and the council sees itself in a position where it will have to face the situation In the near future. The site for this park has not been decided upon but will in all probability be in the neighborhood of Columbia avenue and have a river frontage. $18,000 FOR A PARK Whiting Council Offers This For Twelve Acres Fronting on Lake. (Special to Lake County Times.) Whiting, Oct. 22. Tired of litigation, with little hopes of condemning the Lake Shore property on the lake front which the city desires for a park at a much lower price, the council last evening at its regular meeting passed a resolution In which the city offers the Lake Shore Railroad company $18,000 for the twelve coveted acres. The resolution was ordered to be sent to the Lake Shore officials for consideration, and an answer is expected for the next council meeting. The council also approved the ap pointment of Hugh g. Musn, as President of the library board and that oi Henry Trowe ss member of the board in the place of Thomas G. Boil, who is now a non-resident. Mr. Trowe is employed in the pumping station of the Standard Oil company. WEDDED AT CE0WN POINT. Crown Point, Oct, 22. Special Miss Clara E. Lembke of Valparaiso, and Ira Air.sworth of this city were united In marriage yesterday at the home of Rev. Horton, pastor of the Presbyterian church. The bride who Is the daughter of a prominent contractor of Valparaiso Is a highly esteemed young woman and has a host of friends In her home town and Is also well and favorably known in Crown Point. Mr. Air.sworth also has many friends who are Interested In his marriage.

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RIVAL SALOON KEEPERS "PEACH" Fracture Law in Some Manner and Each Tells On Other.

NOW BOTH WILL BE FINED Result Will Be Richer Town, Poorer Salcon Proprietors, and Keener Rivalry. (Special to Lake County Time.) Gary, Oct. 22. Rivals in business, two saloonkeepers played a neat little trick on each other within the last few. days and as a result the town j will be a little richer, the men a little' poorer and the rivalry a bit raor.i heated. The men are Henry Nitshe. white, and Davie Johnson, colored, and both are in business in the Patch. Nitshe was paid a call by the police the other night and was afterwards arrested, charged with keeping his saloon open after 11 o'clock. He strongly suspected that his rival, Johnson, was responsible for the police raiu Wd he planned to get even. After closing time last night he went over to Johnson's saloon and found that it was running after the prescribed hour. He waited until about 2 o'clock in the morning, and there wasr tt goodly bunch lined tip against the -bar. Going outside the door he fired his revolver several times in the air to attract th1 attention of the officers and when they came running to the place looktni: for a murder, he quietly told them of the manner in which his rival was breaking the laws. The police at once got busy and Johnson was arrested. NItshe has a hearing coming tomorrow morning before Justice Fitzgerald, and Johnson will be heard later. Nitshe says he will be the principal witness against the latter when he comes to trial. ATTACK THEIR FOREM Italian Laborers Assault Section Boss Bite and Slug Him. (Special to Lake County Tlmri.) Dyer, Ind., Oct. 22. Yesterday afternoon at about 5 o'clock two Italian workmen on the Michigan Central section attacked Foreman Jacob Smith, evidently with murderous intent. Smith told an Italian to do some work. The laborer, evidently resenting the order, picked up some tieplates, some of which he flung at Smith, striking him on the head. In the mixup that followed the Italian got hold of Smith's finger with his teeth, severely lacerating It. While Smith was trying to free his finger the other Italian hit him with an iron bar across the groin. felling him. Had it not been for the nearness of a freight crew the fight might have ended seriously. Smith swore out warrants for the arrest of his assailants. Deputy Sheriff James E. Trost of Hammond, came over in the evening but the Italians could not be found. The Michigan Central detectives will be here today to try to locate them. TO 'iTtuke GO. Crusader Hicks Will Invade Porter and Lake to Fight Saloons. (Special to Lake County Times.) LaPorte, Ind.. Oct. 22. "Indiana will be a dry state two years from now. I mean by this that even Lake county, where I am told there are more than 300 saloons, will be made wholly dry," said Mr. Hicks, who now has charge of the work of putting saloons in northern Indiana out of business. He has opened offices in South Bend, where he will drect the crusade. Mr. Hicks operates by the remonstrance plan, and he will direct the crusade. Mr. Hicks Porter counties within the next sixty days. HE SUES THE WESTERN UNION. Greenfield. Ind., Oct. 22. Horace G. Becker of this city, has filed suit for $100 damages against the Western Union Telegraph company alleging undue delay in the transmisson of a message to Palaskala, O. The delay was caused by the telegraph strike. AGREE CfJ A COMPROMISE. LaPorte. Ind., Oct. 22. The county commissioners yesterday filled the vacancy in the board by the election of Charles C. Baumgarten to succeed Henry Kruyer, deceased. There were a number of candidates and the election of Baumgarten was a compromise. An advertisement of an miction male should Interest yonIf yon re Interested la militant affairs.

TEACHERS WILL CONGREGATE HERE Hammond Prepares for Annual Reception of Lake County Pedagogues.

SESSION TO LAST 10 DAYS 250 Educators Are Expected to At tend Program Is Extensive And Varied. Hammond Is preparing for the an nual reception of Lake county school teachers next Friday when the Lake County Teachers' association will meet here The meeting of the county's moulders of the child mind is an event to which both the city and the teachers look for ward to with a great deal of pleasure. and the meeting this year promises to be of more than ordinary interest owing to the good program that has been prepared. The session lasts from Friday morning until Saturday afternoon and the program for the occasion has been divided Into three parts, for general sessions, section sessions and high school sessions. All teachers of the county are expected to attend these meetings and consequently about 250 pedagogues are due to arrive In Hammond Friday morning. That the teachers might not be the losers of the meeting in a financial way, the executive committee allows them the full day's salary for Friday and for the Friday after Thanksgiving. Change Date. In holding the association meeting at this time, the committee is following the plan adopted two years ago in deviating from the formerly established date, which was always on the day after Thanksgiving, but which proved rather unsatisfactory owing to the holiday on the day before. One of the biggest drawing cards for the association and one which the general public of Hammond enjoys. Is the address on Friday evening by Dr. Ed win Hughes, president of DePauw university.. ...A- geirsral session will' be held In the high school auditorium. The program for the two days is as follows: General elons. Friday, 10 o'clock a. m. Piano Duet Selected Vocal Solo Selected Address Dr. Edwin Hughes Appointment of Committees.: Friday evening, 8 o'clock: Piano Solo Selected Song Glee Club Address Dr. Edwin Hughes Saturday, 9:30 a. m.: Selection Orchestra Piano Solo ...Selected "Motive in School Work" Miss Bertha Payne "The Artist ami tho Artisan" Dr. George L. Mcintosh Reports of Committees Section Selni. Friday, 2 o'clock p. m. Kindergarten-Primary in the assembly ropm: "Work and Play".. Miss Bertha Payne General discussion upon the above and kindred subjects. Grade Section in the auditorium: "School and Community Life" Miss Caroline M. Keife. Whiting. Discussion Miss Xola Culkins, Lowell. "Some School Problems" Miss Gertrude Stamp. Hammond. Discussion Miss Agnes Schreiber, Hammond. "Teaching of Physiology in the Grades" Miss Ella Showers. Crown Point. Discussion James II. Goad, Griffith. General discussion of each subject. High school section, Friday, 2 o'clock p. m. In room eight: "The need of More Study of the Home Life of the Hoys and Girls" Principal W. A. Hill. Hammond. Discussion Superintendent W. A. Wirt, Gary. "Adiustment of Work to the Slow Pupil and the Quick Pupil" Principal W. W. Hoiliday, w nmng. Discussion Superintendent E. N. Canine, East Chicago. "Literary Societies in the High School" Miss MarA H. Curtis. Discussion B. K. Gish. Hobart. Teachers who attend the association both days will receive pay for Friday, Oct. 25, and also ror Jt riaay Thanksgiving day. after BAD ACCIDENT ON SOUTH BEND URBAN The Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Railroad company, which is constructing an electric railway from South Bend to Kensington, which will also pass through Hammond, has met with its first serious mishap since the construction work was undertaken a year ago. Three men were fatally injured and fourteen others seriously hurt yesterday near South Bend In a collision of work trains on the new line. FOOTBALL PLAYER FRACTURES SHOULDER (Special to Lake County Time.) Valparaiso, Ind., Oct. 22. J. Bolby member of the Gary football team while practicing at the fair grounds Sunday afternoon, suffered a fracture of the collar bone while engaged in scrimmage practice work.. He will probably be out of the game for three weeks.

TO COMPEL PURE WATER li CITIES

State Chemist H. E. Barnard Is After the Water Works, Private and Publie, Which Furnish Polluted Drinking Supplies. PUTS NEW CONSTRUCTION ON THE PURE FOOD LI Says Latter Should Control the Most Important of All Impurity Evils, and the One Which is Most Universally Taken Into the Human System Samples Eeing Tested. Indianapolis, Oct. "2. H. E. Barnard, state chemist, is pulling ct hi lighting togs ugaln. This tlnio he Is going to wage warfare on the water works, private and public, of the state. He has found that the poor food law enacted by the last general assembly contemplating pure drink as well as puro articles of food-stuff. He is determined to enforce this phase of the measure. fuuipivK oi water being sent to tha state laboratory all th? time for analyses and many of those samples show a polluted water supply. Itecords have been kept of the sources of the impure samples, and many of these point to water corporations. Parnard Is satisfied that ho can punish the managers of plants producing adulterated or Impure foods. Data are now on hand and action will begin Immediately. : Typhoid on Inrrense. Typhoid fever has been on the Increase latterly and state officials aro of the opinion that bad water is largely, responsible. For this reason the state chemist is anxious to lose no time in seeking relief. In discussing his proposed crusade, Mr. Barnard said: "While state and federal legislation Is doing much to suppress the grosser iorms or rood adu'teration, one class of foods and the one most frequently Injuriously adulterated, Is not as yet commonly considered as comipg within the scope of food legislation that food Is water, the liuid which makes up &8 per cent of our body weight and nearly. 90 per cent of tho blood. No other article of diet enters so largely and completely into tho construction and support of life. . "If the sale of injurious food is pro-, hibited and if the courts stand ready to punish offenders why cannot tho greatest of all food adulterations bo controlled to the immense saving to the community at large of wealth, and" more than that, of the lives of thousands of the young, vigorous 'and worthy citizens, who yearly fall victims to typhoid fevr and all the con comitant evjls of Impure water?" UNION SECJIBRESIED: John Kabitski, cf Gary Carp enters, Charged With Taking Fimd3. (Special to bake County Time.) Gary. Oct. 22. John Kabitski, former secretary of the Gary Carpenters' union was arrested this morning by Deputy Sheriff James Trost on a chargg of embezzlement. It is said that wfcilo acting as secretary for the union, Kabitski was unable to account for funds amounting to about $600. He is said to have promised to make restitution but did not do so. He was hefrl in $2,000 bonds to the Superior court. He is a German and well known In Gary and Hammond. FRED W. BUCKLEY BURIED. Funeral of Young Man Who Died In Ilrnill, Intl., Held Today at I.ovelI. Lowell. Oct. 22. Special The remains of Fred W. Buckley, who died at Brazil, Ind., last Saturday night arrived In Lowell Monday and were taken to the home of his parents in Ii irnham street. The funeral occurred from St. Edwards church today at 10 o'clock. For three years ho lias b.-en aflet-.j with consumption, everything br-Ug done for him that could hn to efTect a cure, but of no avail. Tlie d-cased, was twenty-nine years of ago. For sixteen years he lived on the homo farm. He then began work for the Lowell Lumber company, later the Wilbur Lumber company, continuing there until February. 13"!. He then r turned to his old employer, Mr. Lurns who was running a lumber yard la Chicago. Soon after he was offered the management of the Wilbur Lumber company at Lowe:;. ror u r ymrs re inu-a this position resigning to ac-tpt a better on with the Sheridan Brick works at Brazil, Ind.. where he died. On July 19, 100 ' married Miss Lotus Metcalf, who In November, laOL He had many trlenJLs.