Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 148, Hammond, Lake County, 6 April 1908 — Page 1

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f t. Fair tonight f increasing cloudiness Tuesday. EDITION YOL. n. NO. 148. Hammond, Indiana; Monday, "april 6, 190a ONE CENT PEK COPY. SAYS CRITICISE OF ANGEL OF PEACE! LOSES EMPLOYMENT GOES RAVING MAD BAD AGCIDENT IS NARROWLY AVERTED Motorman Stops Indiana Harbor Car in Nick of Time. DELEGATION UNJUST Judge Gillett's Defeat Laid Standard Steel Car Employe Found in Water at 'I : P. In Entirely to the Fortunes of Politico Cedar I&ke.

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Sensational Mix-up Takes Place in Front of Maine Restaurant and Chorus Girls Nearly Knock Out Fresh Hammond Man. (MESSES' NOW PUGILISTIC GAME Miss Elsie Williams of Local Vaudeville Stock Company and Her Sister Mix With Young Man on Hohraan Street and Get the Worst of It in Every Way. "The young men around this town seem to think that Just because vre are thorn girls, we are had. I guess one young man has a wholesome respect for us now. V heard that he had heen making improper remarks about us and so when we came out of the Maine restaurant I stepped ep to him and asked him what lie meant by such con- ; duct." "Before I knew what had hap- , pened he made a pass at me. He didn't hit me very hard, and ,1 erave him the neatest' little upper cut with my left you ever sow. 'Then we clinched, and while I was struggling to get away with him, Clara came to wyiwcB and srrre him a sntrlron the chin that knocked " hlni down." "vr; r V "His hat was knocked oft! and he got his clothes all dirty, but Just as soon as he got up, Clara and Blanche and' I went after . him again and gave him a good whipping. He caught Clara by the wrist and started to take her down the street with him. I guess he .thought he would turn her over .to a policeman, but she pulled away and by that time the police arrived and put a stop to the whole affair. Statement of ELSIE WILLIAMS. Three pretty chorus girls, Elsie and Clara Williams and Blanche Tremont, who have been employed at Brookstheater for the past six weeks, resented whot they claim were "certain improper remarks" made by a well known Hammond young man who lives on Doty street and in the fight which ensued, mauled him around considerably. The girls have been pestered to death by the advances of a crowd of Hammond young men ever since they have been in town. After the show there always was a crowd of these fellows standing at the theater door waiting to make dates with them. Every where they go they are followed and annoyed and according to their story they have been insulted until they are tired of it. Last evening t after leaving the show there was a score of these fellows waiting for them. They went over to the Maine restaurant to get lunch and while there a number of these young men waited outside for them. They claim the young man In question beckoned to them and when they finished their lunch and left the restaurant, Elsie Williams stepped up to him and asked him what he meant by circulating stories about them. He resented this question and the girls allege he struck at Elsie. Elsie at once fought back and the young man ai'd the girl then grappied with each other. Clara, Elsie's sister, saw she was getting the worst of the fight and according to her own story she struck him in the face, knocking him down. When he got up. his clothes were disheaveled and his hat battered, all three of the girls went after him and made things interesting for him. -Just then he grabbed one of the girls by the wrist, ostensibly for the purpose of turning her over to a policeman, but she wriggled out of his grasp and the three stood there defying him whhen me ponce arrived. Explanations were asked for on both sides and after the young man told and the gorls had told their story, it was decided not to make any arrests. The girls say the Hammond young men all seem to think that they are bad and on of them exclaimed, "Just because we are on the stage, people don't need to think that we are any different from other girls." The girls were seen at Brooks' theater yesterday afternoon just before the performance. The stage manager took the reporter behind the scenes and raising hi3 voice to one of the upper dressing rooms he called, Elsie! Clara! Branche. The girls all answered in unison. "Are yez dressContinued on page 2.

JURIST TALKS IN INTERVIEW

Would Not Have Done Any Good If Lake County Had Got in Watson's Bandwagon, Members of the Lake county dele gation to the state republican conven tion feel that a good deal of unjust criticism has been heaped on their shoulders because they did not get Into iho watson- band-wagon. It Is declared by those in a position to know that If the Lake county delegation had flopped to Watson it would not have done Judge Gillett any good. It is declared that Mr. Watson was barely able to push over the line himself and that he would have been in no better position to help Judge Gillett had the Lake county delegation swung to him. His force was not organized to nominate Mr. Gillett and with 9-10 of the dele gates gone, it is doubtful whether he coma nave helped Mr. Gillett nine hours after he was nominated himself Even Taylor and Miller men would have supported Mr. Gillett and Watsnn wouldn't have given Lake countv anv credit for getting into the band-wag on wnen ne could forsee the result na well as Gillett could. Judge Gillett himself made th snfs. ment to The Times thi morning that he had no criticism of anv mmhr of the Lake county delegation or any one outsiae or it. "The program was outlined in n. vance" declared Mr. Gillett "and it was loiiowed out to the letter bv Judtr tu. Mahon, chairman of the Lake county delegation. x My instructions were fol lowed minutely and it ia itninc jUuv V W hold the Lake county delegation in any way responsible for the defeat." Indeed Judge Gilletfs personal friends say that his defeat fortunes rof war and that ahnv nii others the Lake county republicans are Diameiess.'. - UEW;,TESH. BEINGS. .OUT - r : ' -V GRIST CF CASES. Pros. D. E. Boone In Turned Loose On Bunch of Alleged Evil Doers. In addition to trying the McGrath, Lof tus, Enright cases in the Superior court today several other cases were disposed of by the court and D. E. Boone, who has his inning now as prosecutor for the March term of court. James Dailey of Gary was dismissed without further punishment, he having spent some time in jail to await his trial. Dailey was charged stealing an overcoat from a fellow employe. He was admonished by Judge Reiter, who said that hereafter he would be shown no leniency by the court even if he should plead drunkenness as he did this morning. Frank Williams, Jos. Weis and John Riley, three Garyites, who stole a barrel of wine, were each sent to the penitentiary, Williams and Weis going to Michigan City while Riley was sent to Jeffersonville. The trio pleaded guilty. Their sentence is from 1 to 14 years I'.i addition to which they are disfranchised for five years. The grand larceny case of Joseph Wohszrwski of Gary was put on trial this afternoon and will be followed hv the assault and battery case against Nellie Williams of Garv. a vmin? r.egress who stabbed a white man. INTERESTING BASKET BALL GAME IN EAST CHICAGO. Vat Men's and Hammond Hih Engage In Close and Exciting Contest. East Chicago, April 6. fSneelan One of the most interesting basket ball games that has been pulled off here in many aday was the one played in McKinley school last Friday night. The contending teams were Hammond's h?gh school first team and the Psi Men's of East Chicago. At the end of the last half the score was sixteen to sixteen which necessitated a longer play. Early In the ex'tra inning Pat McShane, for East Chicago, made a basket but it only served to spur Hammond to greater efforts and before the play closed Elliott, for the visitors, threw from the center of the hall making a clean basket for his side and winning the game eighteen to seventeen. The stars of the game were: McShane and Hascall for East Chicago, and Elliott and Murray for Hammond. MAY STRAIGHTEN OUT TANGLE, Bishop Ortinski, Greek Catholic Bishop, was in Whiting yesterdav In at tempt to straighten out the tangle in the congregation which is brought about on part of a set of trustees who would oust the pastor, Rev. John Parscouta. A meeting was held by the congregation from 6 o'clock until 1:10 during which time the bishop heard bth sides of the question. He deferred his ruling until a later date and went to Chicago, where urgent business awaits him. Bishop Ortinski came from Philadelphia. Next Wednesday will tell you all about the New club. Now don't be stingy and take a membership in it. You can't afford not to when veu underetand it thoroughly.

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DAY ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Murderer of Daisy Phillips at Rensselaer Eats Glass. Rensselaer, Ind., April 6. (Special). Dan Day, the murderer of seventeen-year-old. Daisy Phillips of this place, tried to commit suicide last Saturday globe in his cell and eating the glass. Ills throat vra badly cut and he bled quite a good deal, but vriil recover. He has been placed in a padded cell to prevent any further injury to himself and is watched constantly. Young Day has refused to eat anything since he was arrested on Thursday and smokes his pipe constantly, howecer. M 9 FOB PRIMARIES Democrats Decide Date at Meeting of Candidates and Committeemen. Saturday, May 9, was agreed upon by the democratic township candidates for office, on which to hold the primaries for nomination. This was decided at a joint meetineof the candidates and the precinct committeemen last Saturday evening. Thirteen polls wl" be opened on that day, seven of which will be In Hammond, including Robertsdale. two in East Chicago, one in Indiana Harbor, one in Whiting, one in Hessville and one in Highlands. Candidates must designate their In tention to make the race for nomination by April 25. The following trustee candidates were present: Patrick Reillev. Jams Trost, John Prohl, Bruno Schreiber and John Ebert. Fred Krost of Hammond was present too and signified his intention of making the race for the assessorship. E. F. Johnston of this city was also present and while his an nouncement for the candidacy for the asessorship was not formal he nevertheless Intimated that he might have his name placed on the ticket. P. A. Parks of East Chicago of the township precinct committeemen acted as chairman of the meeting and was assisted by Otto Duelke, city clerk, as secretary for the meeting. SWITCHBOARD IS NOW COMPLETELY INSTALLED. Toiver Bell at Fire Station Will IVot Be I."sed Any Longer. The Gamewell fire alarm people who have Installed the new switchboard in the fire station completed their work today. The board is in perfect running order. A telephone switchboard has also been installed, of which Z. D. Green, one of the veteran firemen, will be operator. The tower bell in the station will be abandoned for giving alarms. "Tower bells are being done away with all over the country," said Chief Dilschneider this morning. "They are useful only in calling volunteer departments. Otherwise they are a nuisance as they call ou the people on the street and cause them to be in the way of the department." When the curfew ordinance Is passed for this city, this bell will be put into operation again for that purpose.

NEW KEY STRIKE

S PLANNED TODAY Commercial Telegraphers to Go Out Unless Demands Are Granted. SAY WAGES HAVE BEEN GUT Efforts Made to Line Up Forces Prior to Republican National Convention. Chicago, April 6. Commercial telegraphers are preparing for another strike against the telegraph companies. Kesolutions were adopted at yesterday's meeting of the Chicago local fa voring a strike against the Western Lnion Telegraph company in all parts of the United States and Mexico, to go into effect June 1, unless the demands presented prior to the. strike of last August are met by that time. The resolutions provide that the Postal Telegraph company be given until July 1 to accede, and in the event of both companies refusing the men em ployed by the Associated Press, the brokers and individual corporations also will be called out. Since the men returned to work last November they charge that the Western Union company has reduced wages 10 per cent and more in some Instances, and that while the Postal company has made no general reduction it has im posed many other conditions which the employes resent. Officials of the two telegraph com panies last night did not regard the strike threat as serious, declaring that it would be impossible tn ne-nin rot the men to walk out. The officers of the union assert, however, that conditions are such that they ha'e nothing to lose by risking another fight with the companies. They are demanding the same conditions as they did last summer, an eight-hour day, equal wages for equal work, regardless of sex, and the companies to furnish type writers. Copies of the resolutions adoDted hv the local are to be sent to President Roosevelt, Samuel Gomtiers. nrpsHpnt of the American Federation of Labor, and officials of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. They are also to be sub mitted to other local unions, in the hope that if a strike is ordered It will take effect just before the republican national convention. OTTO DUELKE APPOINTED AS PAVING INSPECTOR. Question of Indemnification for Gas Company for Cutting Wires for House Movers Goes By Default of Precedent. The board of public works held its regular meeting in the city hall this morning and appointed Otto Duelke as inspector for the Bauer street macadam improvement and cement sidewalk. The board went Into the records to ascertain whether the South Shore Gas and Electric company has any right to demand indemnification at the hands of house movers where the company has to cut its wires in order to permit a house to pass. Nothing could be found in the records justifiying the company to make the demand. The question was raised by Frank Shine who is moving a twostory house from Clinton street to Doty street. The company decided to grant the request to cut the wire without any further opposition on their part.

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VAUDEVILLEJAR IDS Walter Jones Weds Blanche Pixley at Crown Point Saturday. Crown Point, April 6. (Special.) The county seat was the scene of another stage marriage last Saturday afternoon, which will keep It in the limelight for some time. Late in the, afternoon- Judge Harry B: Nlcholsorr-ftian ied" Walter H. "Jones and Blanche Lillian Pixley, the latter of Chicago. Mr. Jones has been doing a tramp specialty act at the Olvmnlc r ently and Is well known among the vauaevuie iraiermty. Tftls Is rns 3ecand venture in the matrimonial line. He hails from New York City. Jones, it will be remembered, married Norma Whalley, the famous Australian beauty, and the matrimonial career was a stormy one. WHITING WOMAN SUES HUSBAND FOR DIVORCE Charging non-support, cruel treatment and a craving for drink,. Catherine Rabe of Whiting today filed a suit for divorce in the superior court. The couple were married in 1886 and lived together until last March. They have three children, for which the wife Is asking custody. 4 527 Phillip C. Schutz vs. R. E. Colson. Civil. Attachment. 4529 E. Greenbaum vs. N. Sobrln. Civil. 781 State vs. Andrew Yaczo. From city court. 4530 Thomas Adler vs. Joka Adler. Petition for administrator. SHERIFF CARTER BRINGS UP BIG BUNCH FOR TRIAL. "Little Brit" Is n Dusky Wench Who Will Have Her Trial Here Today. Crown Point, Ind.. April 6. (SDeel.an Crime seems to be rampant in Lake ccunty if the string of hand-cuffed prisoners that Sheriff Carter and his deputies left Crown Point with this morning for Hammond. Eight men in the procession that marched from the county Jail to the Superior court at Hammond charged with the following crimes: Joseph Wokszrwski, larceny. Mike Oswalda, grand larceny. James Daily, petty larceny. Henry Williams, grand larceny. J. Reilley, grand larceny. Henry Wise, grand larceny. Nellie Williams alias "Little Bit." the colored woman who stabbed the for eigner at Gary, will be arraigned for trial today. Nellie Isn't a bit worried over her fste and takes life as "one glad sweet song." To quiet her words "Lahfe is ahl right, but ahm not a-goin to let any pooah white trash arun orah meh." UNKNOWN MAN DROPS UNCONSCIOUS IN DYER. Local Physician Hurries to His Side and Succeeds in Partially Reviving Him. Dyer, Ind., April 6. (Special.) On Sunday noon an aged, unknown man, while walking through town here, dropped down unconscious, In the street near the Catholic church. Dr. Chevigny, who saw the man fall, hurried to his side, and succeeded in partially reviving him, after which Trustee H. C. Batterman took care of him. Nothing could be learned to lead to the man's identity.

CAPTURED BY SHERIFFS POSSE

Steel Worker Alarms Farmers and Is Nabbed After Great Difficulty, Crown Point, Ind., April 6. (Special) Yesterday afternoon Sheriff Carter and deputies received a "hurry-up" call for Cedar Lake, Ind., to help In the capture of a supposed wild man who had been running around in the garb of original Adam. On ariving there they found the story had not been exaggerated in the in the least. The man violently Insane was laying with his head partly in the water yelling and kicking like a mad man. After a desperate struggle they succeeded In getting the handcuffs on him but being a big stalwart foreigner, he broke away from them and ; gave them a chase for half a mile before he was finally recaptured. Here he put up an awful scrap and his ankles had tc be manacled and he was roped to the bottom of the wagon and brought to town, Shere Carter took him from here to the padded cell at the "Crazy House at the County Poor farm." From what could be learned his name is Sam Coppo, formerly employed at the Standard Steel works at Hammond and boarded with a foreigner by the name of Mike Dubish. Worry over being thrown out of work is said to be responsible for his insanity. It is said that he left the Standard district Saturday, night and walked all the way to Cedar Lake. An effort will be made to find his relatives to ascertain what disposition will be made with him. FIND THAT IT WAS NO APRIL FOOL JOKE. , George McGrath and Frank Enright, who were arrested on the first of April for conspiracy to rob--Nathan Cohen, this morning pleaded i guilty -to the charge and will later be sentenced by the court. William Loftis decided to plead not guilty and will" be held under $1,000 bonds. The bond was provided by local business men and the surety was approved. The robbery, the arrest and the sentence of these two men all occurred within a week and this Is regarded as exceptionally quick work. In the case of Enright, there are a number of extenuating circumstances which will probably result in his being held on parole. The courthouse has been crowded with young men all day long who were anxious about the fate of the prisoners.

Sixty Hammond Pedagogues Return From State MeetMeeting at Indianapolis and All Report . Report Profitable Trip.

Sixty Hammond teachers and many from Gary, East Chicago, Whiting, Crown Point and Dyer attended the state convention and Superintendent McDanlel speaks for them all when he says the convention this year was one of the best that has ever been held by the Northern Indiana teachers. The county teachers took a prom inent part in the proceedings and were at all times a factor in the convention. Professor W. A. Wirt of Gary was made one of the members of the board of directors of the association and several of the Hammond teachers were recog nized by bein gelected to office. Miss Marie Stout was elected a mem ber of the executive committee of the kindergarten section, M. E. Snyder of Gary was elected vice president of the manual training department. The announcement was made at Tomlinson hall by Mrs. O. P. Kinsey of Valparaiso that the school teachers of the state could have advantage of the course of study offered last winter to the woman's clubs by the faculty of the Indiana university. Considerable Interest was aroused among the Lake county teachers In the remarks of President Charles S. Chapln of the Rhode Island State Normal school. He said: "What we teachers need more than the best book on pedagogy ever written is a good gamo of bridge, a dance, a game of golf or some gossip with men or women as far out our sphere as possible." Superintendent McDanlel was asked his opinion of the liberal stand this professor has taken and he said he agreed with him except that these things

COLLISION BARELY AVOIDED Conductor Fails to See Train Backing Down Tracks and Trolley" Car Is Damaged.

A frightful accident was narrowly, averted this morning at Indiana Harbor when a Chicago. Lake Shore and South .Bend trolley car by the fraction of a second missed being struck squarely by an Indiana Harbor train which was backing up at a fairly rapid rate of speed. As it was, the front end of the car was somewhat damaged, though no one was hurt There were twenty-two passengers aboard the car which left Indiana Harbor at 7:40 o'clock.. When it reached the Indiana Harbor railroad crossing the conductor, as is his usual custom, alighted from the back platform and ran ahead to see that the crossing was clear. He looked up and down the tracks but the tower partially obscured his view in one direction and he failed to see an engine with three cars that was backing down the tracks. He signaled the motorman to come on and the latter applied the power, the car starting swiftly forward. As it reached the tracks the motorman noticed the train and turned his controller, stopping the car in the very nick of time. Had he been' a second later a serious accident would have been unavoidable. The caboose grazed the front of the car, damaging the vestibule in which the driver stands, but the force was riot sufficient to derail either caboose or the trolley coach. Many of the passengers were not aware of their danger until it"llad passed and there was no panic. J ' ' WILL DELIVER LECTURE AT TOWLE'S ON THURSDAY. Rev. F C. Kelley, Interesting Orator, Will Speak In Hammond. Rev. F. C. Kelley, president , of the Catholic Church Extension society, will deliver a lecture at Towle's opera house Thursday, April 9 at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be free and everybody is Invited to attend. Father Kelley Is said to be an interesting lecturer and will undoubtedly draw a large audience. should be kept In control and should not be permitted to monopolize the attention the teacher. He thought that attitude was all right providing it did not interfere with the work of the teacher. The matter of amalgamating the Northern Indiana and Southern Indiana Teachers' association was taken up and discussed and the proposition was favorably considered except that there were not halls large enough or hotel accommodations sufficient in Indianaplois to accommodate 7,000 teachers. The following were the officers elected by the association for the ensuing year: President J. T. Giles, Marlon. Vice President E. II. Drake, Elkhart. Secretary Miss Zella WIgent, 9uburn. Board of Directors R. A. Ogg, Kokomo; J. N. Study. Ft. Wayne; B. F. Moore, Marlon; W. A. Wirt, Gary; J. F. Haines, Nohlesville; . E. II. Drake, Elkhirt: and J. F. Giles, Marion. Executive Committee. E. II. Drake, Elkhart, ekairmon; X. C. Hieronomus, Richmond; W. II. K. McComb. Indianapolis; G. L. Roberts, Muncie; H. L. Brown, Lebanon; Er. T. F. Moran, Purdue University; J. F. Giles, Marion; T. F. Kerby, Ft. Wayne; A. E. Wickizer, North Judson. Presidents of Sections G. H. Tapy, South Bend, county and village section; E. B. BIrge, Indianapolis, musio section; Pearl Clark, Muncie, kindergarten section; S. B. Plascott, Kokomo, ward principals section; J.. J. Ritter, Ft. Wayne, manual training and art section; R. S. Brown, Leba non, grade section. .

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