Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 153, Hammond, Lake County, 13 April 1908 — Page 8

II B. B. FATALITIES III SOUTH CHICAGO Three Are Killed by the Cars Within 36 Hours on South Side. UNKNOWN WOMAN KILLED Pennsylvania and Lake Shore Bailread Tracks Scenes of Fearful Accidents. Three fatalities were recorded in the South Chicago police station within the last thirty-six hours, all due to railroad accidents. The dead are: rKXOVVX WOMAN, about 44 year ' old. Found this morning at Jeffrey avenue and Pennsylvania track. ANTHONY JORDAN, 50 years old; a laborer living at 0518 Manistee avenue; found laat night nt Exchange , avenue and Lake Shore tracks. OTIS HART, .28 yearn old, brakeman on I. C. railroad. Caught between cars and station platform, Saturday night. Taken to Englenood Union hospital, where he died a few hours later. The authorities are making every effort to establish the identity of the unknown woman. She was found this morning when Conductor L. Smith and Engineer M. Stark noticed her body lying in the ditch on Jeffery avenue, fifty fee away from the railroad track. All marks on her body indicate that the woman was struck by a train earlier in the night, but the police are inclined to believe that there is a little .more mystery about her death, than merely an accident. The neighborhood where the ' body wfas found is an open prairie and a woman as well dressed as the deceased dressed, seemingly has no business there. She wore a long coat, underneath which she was dressed with a silk waist and skirt. Her shoes were of fine leather and bore the name of H. C. Stone, Cleveland. Ohio, in them. The body was taken to Lulinski's morgue, where an inquest will be held today. Later The unknown woman was identified by the police as Mrs. Emma Watts, G442 Ellis avenue, Chicago. She was demented and wandered away from home. The death of Anthony Jordan last night near midnight is thought to have been purely accidental. He was evidently walking in a westerly direction when train No. 24S on the Lake Shore, also going in the westerly direction, struck him. Peter Green, the engineer, said that he blew his whistle OO

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WILL BURY HIM? Trouble Over Interment of Victim of Eailroad at Indiana Harbor. Although he had been a member In good standing in the Boilermaker's ence Killoran who was killed last Wednesday night in Indiana Harbor by union in Chicaga, the remains of Lawra Lake Shore train, have not yet found burial, and there seems to be some question Just when they will be laid in their last resting place. The man,, it will be remembered met his death . while walking down the tracks, intent upon finding a berth in a box-car in a freight train bound for the east, having been frozen off the top f a fast freight on which he had beaten his way from Chicago to Indiana Harbor, the first lap in his journey. A card in his pocket identified him as Lawrence Killoran, a boilermaker by trade and a member of a Chicago lodge of the Boilermaker's union. Three brothers in the order came up from East Chicago Thursday and identified him as a fellow member of their lodge, in good standing. They intimated that the union would look after the burial, as nobody seemed to know anything of the dead man's relatives. As nothing has been done in the matter, Undertaker Teal, who laid out the re mains, appealed to Trustee Schaaf with the request that the township bury the man at Hessville in the Potter's field. Trustee Schaaf said no, with emphasis. The Lake Shore road had killed the man, let them bury his remains. This was Trustee Schaaf way of looking into the case. In the meantime, Undertaker Teal has the body at his morgue and is wondering what to do with it. for the man but that he seemingly did not hear it. The inquest will be held today at Finnerty's morgue, 9250" South Chicago avenue. Jordan is married and has a family at 9518 Manistee avenue. Otis Hart, a brakeman for the Illinois Central, was caught between the freight cars on which he was braking and the station platform, last Saturday night, at the Sixtieth street station. Both his legs were cut off and his body otherwise injured. The crippled .body was removed to the Englewood Union hospital, where the young man, who is only 2S years old, died a few hours later. The deceased has a wife and family living at Parkside. TAX BOAED IN SESSION. The Indiana state tax commissioners are in annual session in Indianapolis and will continue for forty days, ending Monday, May 21. The board will assess properties of steam roads, electric lines, telegraph, telephone, express, sleping car, transportation and pipe line companies.

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WHITING CLUB

imiiCli nn rnnjiTr MU1I1CN ULLLUIIHIL Fortnightly Members See Play and Enjoy Banquet in Chicago. COMMEMORATE ANNIVERSARY Fine Program of Toasts Enjoyed Fol lowing Sumptuous Repast at Palmer House. Whiting, Ind., April 13. (Special.) The Fortnightly club celebrated the anniversary of another year of its existence Saturday by going to Chicago instead of giving the usual home banquet which has heretofore been a feature. In the afternoon the party saw "The Man of the Hour." at McVickers theater. After the matinee the ladies repaired to the Palmer house where the banquet was held, the dinner being served at 5:30. The menu was excellent and everything was made very pleasant for the happy crowd. Several toasts hed been prepared which were given between the courses. Miss Sarah M. Keife, who is well known for her wit acted as toastmistress, opening the program with a few well chosel and spicy remarks, introducing the president, Mrs. Robera Humphreys, who gave an excellent address. The other speakers who responded to toasts were as follows: "Bargains" Mrs. W. A. Tipton "Grit" Miss Nelle E. Wycoff "What the Sphnix Says" Mrs. Sam Campbell "The Strenuous Life".. Miss C. B. Rorer "The Rest Cure..... Mrs. Lewis. The members returned home on the 9:11 train all feeling that they had spent the day to good advantage. DONT BOIL THE WATER. Boiling and distilling water removes the oxygen and makes it fiat, indigestible, and unhealthful. Filtering only takes out a very small part of the filth and disease germs. If you want to drink absolutely pure water, fresh, sparkling, life-giving, nature's best remedy, you can have it for 7 cents per gallon delivered at your door from Knotts' mineral and pure water springs. Porter, Ind. Send card with name and address to W. F. Cox, Porter, Ind., or call up phone 135 Hammond, and we will do the rest.

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THE TIMES.

EAST CHICAGO'S LATEST Traveling Blaze Lends Color to Local Street Scene. A traveling conflagration is East Chicago's latest. The spectacle of a grocery wagon with the top ablaze, dashing down the alley between Barring and Magoun avenue, East Chicago, for several blocks before the frenzied horse was stopped, brought many heads to kitchen windows along the route on Saturday. The rig was the property of N. Cooper, who recently bought out the Jacobson grocery on Forsyth avenue. D. O. Mow was delivering groceries and stopped at the house of L. Day, between One Hundred and Forty-fourth and One Hundred and Forty-fifth streets. Baring avenue, and went inside with a basket of goods. While inside a little girl came to the back door and informed the driver that his wagon was on fire. Mow reached the alley in time to see his horse start down the alley at a brisk trot. It was finally stopped at One Hundred and Forty-first street. The loss of groceries, together with the damage done to the wagon was estimated by Cooper to be about $100. Cooper has offered $10 reward to anyone who can furnish information as to the person who set fire to the wagon. The driver declares he was not smoking before he alighted at the Day home. An interesting question for the insurance adjusters is presented incidentally. Cooper carried insurance on his "barn and contents" and the question now arises whether the wagon, while out in the street, could be regarded as "contents" under the -owner's policy. GARY MAN IS VERY SERIOUSLY HURT Frank Friedberg, a carpenter at Gary, fell from a scaffold on which he was working and sustained a fracture of three ribs and several bruises about the head. The accident occurred on the building at the corner of Van Buren street and Seventh avenue and was witnessed by several other workmen. He was putting on rafters at the time and in stepping onto the scaffold slipped and fell. He was taken to his home in Chicago, where he was cared for by physicians there. He has been married but a short time and his wife was greatly shocked to hear of his misfortune. Take THE TIMES for Its political news until after the election. Not for Its republican news, not for Its democratic news, but for both sides.

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HOTEL LOCATION So. Chicago Business Men's Ass'n. Appoints Committee For That Purpose. SECTION NEEDS BIG HOSTELRY Dispute as to Whether Commercial and Ninety-second or Ninetyfirst St. is Logical Point. There have been so many hotels constructed (on paper) at the southwest corner of Ninety-second street- and Commercial avenue in the past ten years without results that President Kestermeir of the Business Men's association will, in the near future, appoint a committee which will later advise as to a suitable location for a first class hostelry. Years ago this corner was considered the only one available for such a building, and even today many still maintain the same Idea. However, there are a number of leading business men and citizens who do not agree that at the present time Ninety-second street and Commercial avenue is the ideal place for an up-to-date hotel. The business center of South Chicago, they maintain, has had ja. tendency to move northward, but whether it is logical to construct a hostelry in the busiest section of a city the size of South Chicago, is a question open for discussion. Ninety-first Favored Point. There are many who believe that the above corner is losing its prestige as a active trading center, and that Ninety-first street and Commercial avenue is taking its place. This, too, is more food for thought. But there is no question that since the construction of the Lincoln building the latter locality has become and is fast becoming an important center. Two of the largest buildings in South Chicago are located at this point and the transportation facilities are even for in advance of the competitive corner, for the one reason that street cars running both north and south and east and west lead direct to all the important territory adjacent to South Chicago. Years ago the main business center of South Chicago was on South Chicago avenue from Commercial avenue to Ninety-first street. Then later on it moved north to Ninety-second street and Commercial avenue. At any rate, whatever happens to discourage those who believe the center of business activity is moving northward they will probably followe the crowd and become located in the thickest of the fight, as was the case years ago

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OFFICERS FINDS BOMB

South Chicago is Stirred by Discovery of Explosive. A bomb with a fuse attached was found by Officers Gainer and Gormley this morning at 3:30 o'clock on the B. & O. railroad tracks at Eighty-fifth street. The fuse had never been lighted, still it did not look to the officers as though the explosive came into the place by accident. It was taken to the police station by the officers, from .where it was taken to. the downtown office by Officer Kelley. The B. & O. Railroad company has considerable trouble with its laborers in South Chicago and it is thought that one of the foreigners laid the bomb, with the intention of touch it off with a spirit of revenge, but that later his courage failed him. GARY MASONS JUBILANT OVER NEW TEMPLE. The Gary Masons are jubilant over the prospects of having a fine new Masonic Temple in their city jn the near future. Word was received this morning that Clyde Hunter had received notice from Indianapolis that the articles of incorporation had been granted. A meeting will be held in a few days at which officers will be elected and ways and means of raising the $100,000 necessary to build the temple will be discussed. WIND ROUTS THE WOMEN WITH LARGE SPRING HATS. "Merry Widows" Are Poor "Sailors on the Streets Yesterday. "Whew." said the wind on Hohman street yesterday, and the Merry Widow sailors answered. Palm Sunday is the beginning of the open season for spring millinery, though Easter Sunday has always been regarded as the official inauguration. Scores of women tacked up and down the street, trying to gauge the wicked, shifting breeze that swept in, and most of them retired, defeated, with their plumes askew and the two-foot hats aslant and turning westward at the nearest crossing. Other women who wore small hats had all the fun. They nugged each other as the monster hats went whizzing by, carrying struggling women with them, and muttered something about "rushing the season." FIRE IN SOUTH CHICAGO. Fire from a unknown origin broke out Saturday night in the storeroom of the saloon at 9232 Commercial avenue owned by P. H. Connely. The damage caused by the fire amounts to $40 and Is covered by Insurance.

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Monday. 'April 13, 1908.

H. W. 8 E. C. WILL LAYNEW TRACKS Eails Results in Some Newwpapers' War on Bad Improvements. FROM BRIDGE TO GQNKEY AVE' Matter of "Doubling" on Hohman Street Now Being Considered By President aCmeron. As a result of the agitation that has been carried on through the newspapers regarding the poor tracks of the Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago electric railway company the officials announced to The Time3 this morning that the work of relaying the track from the Hohman street bridge to Conkey avenue, will begin today. This will be glad news to the hundreds of people who have been riding on parabolic curves and roller coast. ers during all these years. It is un derstood that the new and heavy rails are to be laid and the old rotten ties are to be replaced by new ones. The matter of double tracking Hohman street is now being considered by President Cameron and the directors of the company and it is expected that some action in this matter will ba taken in the next few days. Chance for Double Track Is Small.. It is understood that the chances- of having the street car company act favorably in this matter are very remote and despite the fact that the traffic on this line is now so great that It is necessary to have switches put in every few blocks, the company doe not feel that it can afford to put in the double track now. ? Mr. Cameron has been fully Informed that if he does not put in the double track within the next few weeks the city will never consent to the tearing up of the street within the life of the pavement to permit him to make ha change and yet it is said he hesitates to make the improvement. ; If the city officials do not hear from President Cameron within the next few days, in the matter, it said they will go ahead with the street Improvement. The fact is generally recognized that action must be taken at once If the street is to be paved this year and the Homewood residents rebel at the idea of letting the street go as it is another year. DID PAT WANT A LICENSE? ? Crown Point, Ind., April 13. Special.) It is rumored that Pat Crowe, the famous kidnaper, was In Crown Point yesterday to get a marriage license, but not having the lady witlx him he failed to get it.