Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 274, Hammond, Lake County, 8 May 1908 — Page 1

i 4 WEATHER. ... Shower tonight; Saturday partly cloudy. ' . Jii 5 ? EDITION VOL! H. NO 274. HAMMOND, INDIAN A, FRIDAY,- MAT 8,- 1908. ONE CENT PER COPT. HO! GETS m Hi PRINGIPAL BUSINESS MEN'S CLUB IS Johannes Kopelke Leader in Life and Death Fight for Gary Saloons. Fronk D. McElroy of Crawfordsville is the New Incumbent. Schloer Divides Responsibility for -City's Needs Among Committees. wmm. --. ' -.v?:-x x;:-::x-:-:-:-:-::-:-:-:;::-

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BUDSBERG BOYS I1EIITIFY FATHER Quarters Occupied By Priestess of Crime Will Be Searched and Basexaent Dug Up Many New Victims Are Added to Long List of Dead. LATEST NEWS IN . GUNNESS HORROR. (Special to The Times.) LaPorte, Ind., May 8 The latest developments In the Gunness horror are as follows t 1 The skeleton of another body wan exhumed on the-Gun-ness farm at LaPorte this mornlug. The body had evidently been hurled for some time and quicklime, which wnm thrown Into the grare with It had caused " the rapid decomposition of the flesh. 3 The state's attorney, Ralph M. Smith, made his first public statement today to The Times' correspondent, which Is as followst "Ray Lam pb ere set Are to the , home of Mrs. Gnnnni." T f The state' has plenty of evldence to bear "P this assertion. If he did 'not participate In the $ Helgeleln niurder, be at least bad a guilty knowledge of It. S The state has evidence enough to convict Lamphere and the state's attorney believes that before long a confession will be secured from him which will In a measure at least clear up the mystery of the finding of the many bodies. The two most interesting developments of the day were the identification of the body of Olie O. Budsburg of Jcla. Wis., by Mat and Oscar Budsburg, the sons of the murdered suitor of Mrs. Guinness and the decision of the authorities to employ the best detective service in the country in an effort to Bolve the mystery of the crime. I n nerved by Scene. Mat and Oscar Budsberg of Iola, Wis. whose father, a business man, visited Mrs. Gunness a year ago last April, arrived in company with Edward Cha pus, an Iola friend, and were taken immediately to the farm by Deputy Sheriff Anstess. He unlocked the door and took them into the carriage shed iney looKed at the bones about the flcor of the place and turned pale Oscar said something in the Norwegian tongue. "What is it?" asked the deputy sheriff ot Chapus. Me says, replied Chapus, "that his heart fails him, but I have told him he must look regardless of the consequences." Silently they passed do.wn between the rows of the haggard bodies until they came to the one of the man with the light mustache an adornment of which he had once been proud. The mustache looked exactly as it , must have looked when the man was in me. ine cnaracierjsiic droop was there, the color and shade was un changed. The Budsberg boys glanced at it and moaned, putting their hands to their eyes and turning away, Chapus caid something to them in their mother tongue and the turned to the deputy sheriff: It Is OHe O. Budsberg. Tt Is their father," he said "Anstess demanded a more oareful inspection" of the body and the sons sick and staggering came back to examine the ands, the fleshless feet, and the skuIL "There is no doubt," gasped Oscar, and they ran out of the shed. As soon as the corner will permit it the body of the man with the light mustache will be taken back to Iola, and buried as Oils O. Budsburg. He is the man who used to take the Gunnes children to the Quaker school and kiss them affectionately as he left them at the door. There was real love . in his heart for the woman who gave them birth, who had plighted her troth to him, who he believed would soon be his wife. To Employ Plnkertons. Realizing that the magnitude of the case Is such that the utmost' resources of detective skill are required to cope With It, the local authorities have secured the aid of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency of Chicago. , The employment of the Pinkertons, one of the chief objects of Sheriff (Continued on pace 3.)

PROF. HILL GETS A NEW JOB

Board of Education Believes It Has Made a Ten Srike in Getting New Man. The Information that Professor W. A. Hill, principal of the Hammond high school, Is to be succeeded by Frank D. McElroy of Crawfordsville, Ind., who will assume the duties of his office in September of next year will come as a- surprise to the people of Hammond and especially the teaching; force which has not yet been apprised of Mr. McElroy's appointment. Professor W.. A. Hill Is to be made supervising principal of the Hammond schools in which capacity he will have charge of the arranging of the work of the teachers under the direction of Superintendent McDaniel. This office was created a year ago and was filled temporarily by Miss Adkins until arrangements could be made for Mr. Hill to take over the office and develope Its full possibilities. Will Add to Efficiency. This change is expected to greatly add to the efficiency of the work in the local schools. Mr. Hill will be able to take from Superintendent McDaniel's hands a great deal of the work with which he has been burdened during the rast year and will enable Mr. McDaniel to spend more of his time, as the executive head In the general supervision of the schools. When Principal McElroy takes up his work his field of activity will be clearly defined and as . he Is known to be a most progressive young man a great deal is expected of .him by the local school board. . Frank D. McElroy is a graduate of Wabash college. -He is-not only a pedagogue but he has been In business long enough to develope the practical side. For the past year: Mr. McElroy has been connected with the real estate firm of Frank C. Evans & company, the largest in CrawTordsville, and previous to that he held the princlpalship'of the Crawfordsville schools.for four years. The Crawfordsville schools, with the exception that they have not taken up the -manual, training Idea, are considered as good as any in the slate arid It is possible that Mr. McElroy may bring many new ideas with him which may be adopted here. The local board of edu cation considers itself fortunate in get ting the services of Prof. McElroy. WILL INVADE HAMMOND One Thousand High School Pupils Expected to Attend Northern Indiana Meet. One thousand high school pupils are expected to invade Hammond May 16, when the Northern Indiana High School Athletic meet and Oratorical contest will be held here. Hammond will give the young tribe the keys of the . city nolens volens, and the local high school is making preparations to give the visitors a rousing welcome in the morn ing and a run for their money In the afternoon. All that is needed in Harrison Park to make the track one of the fastest in Northern Indiana is a little rolling with a heavy roller on the morning of the meet. It is expected that a goodly number of the visitors will remain in town over night owing to the northern Indiana Oratorical contest, which will be held in the evening at Towle's opera house, and while no special arrangements are being made with the hotels there will be no trouble to accommodate all as many of the out-of-town students will find lodging in the private homes of their Hammond friends. The Northern Indiana high school Athletic and Oratorical association has been in existence for five years now, but not until this year, thanks to the strenuous efforts of Professor-W. A. Hill, has It been thoroughly organized. Mr. Hill is the president of the association. STOCKHOLDERS MEET There was a meeting of the stockholders of the Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago street railway company in the offices of Gostlin, Meyn & Co., yesterday afternoon arid the following men were elected directors. B. F. Cameron, D. M. Cummings, O. F. Gaither, H. C. Saltonstall and Irving T. Hartz. Irving T. Hartz was the only new director who was elected. The directors then elected the old officers to succeed themselves during the ensuing year. B. F. Cameron remains president and O. F. Gaither is secretary and treasurer. No action was taken regarding the finances of the company and there was no dividend declared. It Ja expect ed that A. L. Drum & Co. will be re talned as the operators of the road. As soon as the weather moderates there will be several of the officials of the road and its enginerwho will come to Hammond and make a report on the feasabillty of double tracking South Hohman street.

WILL BEGIN ACTIVE WORK SOON

Meeting of Directors of Hammond's Commercial Organization Takes Place in Johnston's Office. Hammond's most "necessary and ur gent needs came up last night at a meeting of the directors of the Hammond Business Men's club, and were laid on the shoulders of seven able committees which were appointed by President Jacob Schloer and the of directors. The meeting was held in the office of E. F. Johnston in the Hammond buildirg, the entire board of directors be ing present. There is one vacancy on. the- board but it will be filled in the near future by an appointment. The directors who, were present were: Jacob Schloer, ex-offlce president; Adam R. Ebert, Otto Knoerzer, L. L.' Bomberger, S. E. Swaim, Walter Sohl, and John N. Beckman. The Committees. The various . committees appointed and the personel of each are as follows: Civic committee A. M. Turner, I. E. Dickinson F. R. Schaaf, J.' M. Turner, John Dyer, H. C. Millies, W. C. Belman, J. K. Stinson, J.. A. Aubrey, George Iocklin. Reception committee A. M. Turner, acob Schloer, E. C. Minas, P. W. Meyn, Lawrence Becker, .W. B. Conkey. City Public Improvement committee John Glennon, R. H. McHle, John E. Fitzgerald, W. H. Gostlin, Frank S. Betz, and John L. Rohde. , Committee on Manufacturing W. H. Gostlin, Lawrence Becker, Otto Knoerzer, George Locklln, W. G. Paxton. Committee on Transportation John E. Fitzgerald, Carl E. Bauer, Hugh F, Meikle. Committee on Advertisment J. N. Beckman. M. Ruhstadt, A. Hellerman, E. C. Minas, I Li Bomberger. Membership committe Joseph Weis, A. Marks, and J. F. Irish. Report at Each Meeting. These committees are expected to re port every meeting night of the club on the work which has ' been "assigned to them. The meetings have Been so ar ranged that the board of directors meet on the first Thursday of the month, a week In advance of the regular club meeting. The various committees have been selected with great care and each could have been considerably enlarged as there are enough able men connected with the club but it was thought best not' make each committee too large as this would produce unsatisfactory re sults. The committees are all important ones. They will look Into Hammond's needs from all angles. The Civic committe is the largest The men on this committee are known to be in the front ranks for the beau tifying of Hammond and they are able to work up enthusiasm that will spread over the entire city. But the other committees are equally as important and if they will work with their best efforts the results will be obvious in a short time. GEI $8,000 JUGGMEFJT One of the best Judgments which have been secured In local courts recently was that in the case of Mary A. Haverty, administratrix of the estate of John Haverty who was' killed at Blue Island when the locomotive upon which he was engineering ran , into a . derail and then toppled over on him. Marvin E. Barnhardt of Chicago, L. L. Bomberger and John F. Sawyer of Hammond, were the attorneys in the case. Considering the fact that Haverty was killed and that he was 50 years old at the time of his death, verdict of $8,000' is considered a good one. The verdict was secured against the Chicago Junction and the Wabash rail roads. The case was tried before Judge H. B. TuthiU in the Porter Circuit court whether it was venued from Hammond, The defendant's attorneys demured to the evidence and the jury then re turned a provisional verdict of $8,000. The court will hear the argument on the demur Monday. The attorneys for the plaintiff devel- J oped more strength than was expected and the verdict came as a surprise to the defendant railroads. SAD FUNERAL OF - - FORMER PASTOR Rev. William H. Jones, former minis ter of the North Side Congregational, was buried from his home at 828 Towle street this afternoon. The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Donovan the minister of the church who was assisted by Mr. Harris of the Indiana Avenue Gospel Mission. After the services the remains accompanied by many of the congregation were taken to ' Oak Hill cemetry for Interment. The deceased who was 63 years old, leaves a wife and one son and a host of friends who mourn his loss-to the fsmlly and the gongregation,

Body of Nude Man is Found

by Town Marshal Klopf and Strange Circumstance Surrounding Case . Are Unsolved. IIHOUIG -" iMN0F- THIRIY Clothes Indicate That Owner Was Refined and Enjoyed the Necessities of Life Coroner Shanklin of Hammond left Today to Hold Inquest Over Remains. With the finding of the nude body of an unidentified man In the Calumet river, near Miller, through the discov ery of his clothes on the bank of the stream, the sheriff of Lake county is faced with the task of unraveling: a most unusual murder mystery involving: the death of what appears to be a prosperous business man. The body was found by Town Mar shal Edward Klopf of Miller, who had been Informed by William Kletzman, a milkman, that there were some good clothes on the bank of the river, and decided that he would drag: the stream in an effort to find the owner of the garments. Klopf secured a boat arid some grap pling hooks and after crossing the river three times he succeeded in get ting hold of the body and brought.lt to the surface. From all appearances the drowning had not taken place more than five or 'six hours- before the. body was recovered- - ' -' V. .'" The body was examined in an effort to discover evidences of foul play, but none were to be found. It was left in the stream to await the coming of Coroner E. M. Shanklin of Hammond. who was notified at once. The drowned man was about 30 years old and weighed 150 pounds. His body was well preserved and his appearance was such that he would readily be taken for a man of refinment and culture, and the fact that he was so well groomed would Indicate that he enjoyed the luxuries as well as the necessities of life. Marshal Klopf would have put the case down as one of plain suicide if it were not for the fact that it is most unusual for suicides to undress before taking a final plunge. It seems ridiculous that a man would have ventured in bathing at this time of the year when it is so cold and wet, and so the natural conclusion is that the man was murdered, then undressed so that it would appear that he had gone in bathing and finally thrown into the river to carry out the idea. So far there seems to be positively no clew as to the identity of the man. No one in Miller remembers having seen a man of that description about and everyone thinks it peculiar that the victim of a murder conspiracy should have been lured to their village and then killed. DEMOCRATS HOLD WELL ATTENDED MEETING The Hammond Democratic club held a regular meeting last night and adopted an amendment to the bylaws creating tho offices of trustees. The following three well known democrats were selected for this office: John L. Rohde, ex-president of the board of public works; Councilman J. M. Turner and Attorney " George B. Sheerer. While no action was taken last night at the meeting it was the concensus of opinion that the club would incorporate and thus make it a-permanent organi zation. 1 - - "-- ---" myd

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Hammond. '. Spontaneous . combustion In the dry still of the American , Maize Products company at Roby caused an explosion this noon which was followed by. a fire, destroying: the six story starch building within an hour. About twenty people were at work fn the building: at the time and six of these In their hurry to get from the burning; building: were more or less Injured, three of these, quite severely. One man 'died later on being taken to the hospital. THE DEAD. ALFRED SWANSOX aged 35; home In Waukegan, 111.) crushed by falling brick. THE INJURED. JOHX SELAXD aged 2d; home, Whiting, Ind.; bruised about head and body. JAMES KILPATRICK aged, home West Pullman, 111.) body bruised and torn. The accident Is the most serious that ever happened to a plant In the vicinity of Roby for years. BUILDING IS RUINED. At 1 o'clock this noon, the big brick building was a complete ruin, even the walls having tumbled down. The company's fire department turned out immediately when the fire whistle . began to blow, but all it could do was to check the flames from spreading onto the other buildings, the nearest of which was connected with an aerial gangway one hundred feet long. The Robertsdale fire department was on the scene in a very few minutes and owing to the good water pressure that is there, was able to throw a good stream. The Hammond fire engine from Central station made a record run to the fire and remained there several hours pumping water. It was the explosion that wrecked J5 v 1 .A -4 Cm

AMERICAN MAIZE PUODUFTJl PT.at WRECKED BY FIRE. XSJ3 EXPLOSION THIS AFTERNOON,

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S 5 fi. it' , N ? v ?4 s Point, Who Is Leading: the Forces ." - tho entire building. About 12 o'clock the wind being from the north, Hammond people were startled by a muffled boom, which portended . some accident and within two minutes It was reported in The Times office, that the Glucose factory was a wreck.. After two minutes . the flames shot into the air enveloping the entire plant in smoke. - The fire whistle began blowing and the emergency fire departments-were organized. ' It was seen immediately that nothing could be saved from the building In which the explosion occurred and all efforts were made to save the surrounding buildings. The starch house Btood farthest south of the five large buildings and was more isolated than any of the others. It was a brick structure and was used largely for' storings starch. The estimate loss . is about $75,000 as this building contained very little of the expensive ; machinery. At the superintendent's office the statement was given out to The Trans this noon that the accident and loss of today would not interfere with the working of the ' plant and that the building destroyed this noon would be replaced immediately. THE PLANT TOD AT. The plant today employed 600 men, having been in operation since March. The entire cost of the factory is in the neighborhood of $3,000,000 and shortly after operation was begun, the name of the company was changed - from the Western Glucose company to the American Maize Products company. This is the first accident that has occurred to the new plant despite the extra precautions that have . taken to avoid accidents of this kind. LATER THE NAMES OF TWO MORE MEN WHO WERE INJURED y mi V " -s0 sr A.

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Official Tally Sheet of Last Election for Calumet Township Said to Have Been Stolen and Saloonmen See Victory Ahead. DEGISIOK EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOOH assBBBs ' Commissioners Are Weary of Eoi Pight and Contestants Hope -That Sensational Case Will Soon Ba Settled Both Sides Befnse to Let Up on Fight at Crown Point, . ; (Special to Trass), thrown " Point, IncL, May 8. What promises to develop Into a scandal o gigantic proportions leaked out In tho Lake county courthouse today when tt developed that the official tally sheet of Calumet township's last election ha disappeared from the archives. WHERE IS TALLY SHEET? The sensational story emanated front the auditor's office last night, where the county commissioners were in session. The demand was made for the missing tally sheet and when search was made for It in the archives In the courthouse where the' election papers' are kept, it could not be found. MAY BE STOLEN. The story sot: out. that; the precious document .was 1 displaced, v but. It was , today said that the tally sheet had been stolen. - . , , It has been learned that the precinct sheets are Intact -frith their jBuornrtg--natures -attached, but they cannot' accepted as election returns, , At tori neys for the saloonkeepers of Calumet township are "jubilant. They demand the election return tally sheet on which the Hick's remonstrance was based and it cannot be had. MUCH SPECULATION RIFE. What this means remains to bo seen. It is said here on good authority the loss of the tally sheet will mean that the remonstrance is Invalid and that the saloonkeepers will be victorious In their fight, for without the official electoral tally sheet, it will be impossible for the anti-saloon element to legally prove their case. Battle Over. Question. The county commissioners ended their fourth day of their session without reaching any definite conclusion: regarding the Calumet township saloon question. Yesterday arguments were heard all day pro and con and it Is thought they will dispose of the matter today. Much Interest is being centered on the question locally as It is said the decision will establish a precedent which will be authority on likeactions should they happen to arise La the future. Officials Up Against It. Thus, the commissioners are tip against the proposition of their lives; the easiest way out being: a decision against the saloon element, and being protected in their decision by the arm of the law, or else, waiting for the; attorneys for the saloon interests to find a loophole whereby they can annul the power of the remonstrance and decide In favor of the saloons. Today will probably see a settlement of tho much mooted question anxiously; awaited by "wets' and "drys" alike.. But it is said whichever way it goes both, sides will wage their campaign with increased vigor. WERE SECURED LATE THIS AFTERNOON i STANLEY MAGARRA. GUST SAGER. SAGER. IS FROM HAMMOND AND LIVES ON THE NORTH SIDE. HIS INJURIES ARE NOT FATAL. . t K i'Afl M set y-i t itilt fit U ?I at. ' ', ,'S, s-

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