Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 293, Hammond, Lake County, 29 May 1908 — Page 1

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WEATEEB. Shower and thunderttorma this afternoon and tonight probably fair Saturday; cooler Saturday.

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BDITION ;VOL. H. NO. 293. HAMMOND, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 291903. vONE CENT PER ' COPY. STEEET CAES RUN IN GARY. HIGH SGiOblOYS ONffRAMPAGE J- $ Break IntotSouth Hohman it Street Home and Steal . Party Eatables. .

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Fatal Injury And Disaster caused By Terrible Windstorm Which Hits This Neighborhood

Hammond and'Indiana Harbor Get Brunt of Last Night's " Gale. THE CALUMET REGION WAS VISITED LAST SIGHT BY THE MOST VIOLENT WIND ' AND RAIN STORM OF THE YEAR IT LASTED TEN TEN MINUTES AND ATTAINED A VELOCITY OP SIXTY-EIGHT MILES AN HOITR. NOT A CITY IN THE REGION ESCAPED DAMAGE. SOUTH CHICAGO, HAMMOND, INDIANA HARBOR, GARY, EAST CHICAGO, GRASSELLI, WHITING, WERE HIT HARD. THE STORM EXTENDED AS FAR SOUTH AS CROWN POINT AND EAST AS HOBART. IT WAS A CLIMAX TO DAY OF MISERABLE WEATHER AND WAS PRECEDED BY A DEATHLY CALM-

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OF THE TREES "WERE MOTIONLESS. MANY HAD NARROW ESCAPES. Seores of people narrowly, escaped with tbelr Uvea. Results of the storm Included the complete destruction of some bulldlngrs; the breaking of thousands of wlndowsf the nrQt,nr or yjf CTe bnlllliar -s6Ae ; op I ovef ' of seoreifchlmneyr. .In South Cblcago one man was fatally, fanrt, In Hammobd nne lady wan Injured. It was about 8 o'clock whta the storm broke In all Its fury and frightened everybody into shelter. Many people sought safety In their cellars. A complete list of the damages will not be had for several days. Over In Gary tvro people were badly Injured in a bouse that was itruok by lightning. OXE 1XJIRED IX HAMMOND. In Hammond only one Injury wa reported. Mr. 31. Huber, 51C Truman nvrnne, vrbile trying to escape the fnrry of the storm by going; Into a neighboring shelter for the street -was struck by a flying missile and almost rendered unconscious. She sustained a big gash above her right eye. Wind Does Damage. Although Hammond seemed to have been struck by only the edge of the storm the whole fury of which was spent on the cities east of here, yet the wind was strong1 enough to do consid erable damage and before the rain be gan to fall there was a sudden drop in temperature accompanied by a blast of wind of cyclonic which broke off trees and carried away everything that was not securely anchored. The storm resulted in the severe in Jury to one person and damage to prop erty which will probably aggregate several thousands of dollars. On the north side the wind blew the house owned by John Powell, from its foundations. The house was located on Sheffield avenue and the damage resulted will probably be $100. In some cases the damage done by the storm was freakish. Some people who were in a position to observe say that there was. a regular funnel shaped clowd which passed over the city from southwest to northeast. Fortunately as it passed the city it was high up in the air but occasionally the tail of it would drop down on the ground and then the havoc would be wrought. This is proven by following the path of the storm from "West Hammond to Indiana Harbor, where t"he wind spent itself on the lake. In the southern part of West Hamond a barn belonging to a Pole, whose name could not be learned was blown over. A cow was in it at the time but the animal escaped all injury. Narrow Escape to Walnhes. In West Hammond, near the end of Douglas street the home of Walter Walsh was nipped by the tail of the storm and had its roof torn into pieces and strewn over the yard. Part of the brick walls were also torn down and the debris was pilled upon the second floor until it threatened to break through and cause the collapse of the building. . - Mr. and Mrs. Walsh and their two little children were in the house at the time and when the terrible crash of the tearing roof - and the falling bricks was heard they each took one of the children and fled to the rear of the house for safety. The building is owned by Geo. Suckert of Chicago. In another part of West Hammond the roof of the house of John Wolf was partly torn off. No other ramage was done. A Lion store wagon which

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driven by John Listen and was keeled over by the force of the wind. Fort unately the driver escaped injury. The horses were unhitched and the over turned wagon was left by the roadside until morning. Damage at Glue Works. Over at the Hlrsh Stein glue works; one of the walls of the fertilizer plant was blown down and the roof of the water tank was blown off. The damage to this plant will be considerable The storm also showed great fury in some parts of Homewood. The resi dence of Mr. Koch, 129 Detroit street, was struck by the wind and a large lamp which happened to be in the din ing room was blown through the house to the kitchen where rugs were thrown over it to prevent it from setting the house on fire. Horse Blown 100 Feet. Probably one of he most peculiar freaks of the storm occurred when the barn on these same premises was Ut terly blown to pices. There was horse in the building at the time and while the sister of the Koch boys was watching the storm she saw the wind pick up the barn and crush it as though it was made of cardboard. The horse was found 100 feet from original site of the , barn and the roof of the building wascarried all of the way across the Monon tracks where it was finally deposited in a vacent lot in th old Hlnks addition The residence of A. H. Stebbins in his vicinity was thrown off from its foundation by the force of the wind, There .were also two cars on a Monon side track which were hurled off from their trucks ihji the; wind. William W-sfctery who lives - on the same street, 'suiTr-red -a simlla'rvexperl ence and Ms .Lfrus was toppled off f rcitn it, four; . ',' ' ' ' nd thro.wri7.ito t both cases the residences were cottages which were set on cedar posts which probably, had rotted away until they gave way under the force of the storm. Lake Level Rises. One of the peculiar effects of the storm was the remarkable rise in the level of the lake dtte to the difference in atmospheric pressure. Jake Kasper at the pumping station In Robertsdale says that the water of the lake began to rise at about noon. It roBe rapidly until by four of five o'clock it was 18 inches higher than the usual level of the lake. From observation Mr. Kasper has learned that this pheflomen alawys preceeds a severe storm and he looked for it to come from the north. Instead the storm came up from the south and then after it had spent its force the waters of the lake receded as suddenly as they had been piled up. There was no serious damage done by the storm in the vicinity of Robertsdale. In the main portion of Hammond the storm broke without warning and sent the large number of people who were on the streets scrampering to cover in the doorways of the stores. The sudden fall in temperature, the high wind and the "vivid flashes of lightening against the black clowds in the sky made many people fear that the city was about to be hit by a tornado and many people sought as safe places as were available while waiting for the crash. Windows Suffer. In the residence portion of the city trees were broken down and everything that was light and exposed a large surface was carried away. A billboard on South Hohman street, in the vicinity of Douglas street was blown down. A window in Deming's house on South Hohman street, was blown in and H. F. Meikle suffered a similar experience. In Hedrlck's buffet at the intersection of Hohman street and the Nickel Plate tracks the wind blew in through the door and picking up a picture on the wall hurled it against some fancy glass ware on the bar and destroyed a quan- j tfty of it. In West Hammond, just acress the line in the vicinity of Rimbach avenue, there were several cottages which had their roofs torn off and were damaged in other ways. Fortunately there was no one injured. The Lewandowski barn on the north side was blown off its foundation. The South Shore Gas & Electric company suffered by having ita wires damaged. t TWO INJURED IN GARY. In Gary Frank Millard and his wife were severly injured and their residence on Fourth avenue, between Connecticut and Deleware streets, was burned to the grounds as a result of a bolt of lightning which struck the place at about 8:15. It was only due to the assistance of the neighbors who carried out the unconscious man and his family and then assisted the five children in escaping that prevented several fatalities When the bolt struck the house it at once caught on fire and the rof was soon a mass of flames. Frank Hubinger, who lives In the vicinity ran through the storm to the burning house to see if he could be of any assistance. (Continued on page three.)

Xhe Gary street car lines have "qaught on" with the public and are getting good patronage. The above picture, taken for Thb Times on the first day the cars were running, give a glimpse of the passengers Just before boarding the car. ' ?i

OLD OFFENDER AGA1H IN TOILS Alex Poleski, Who Threatened to Kill Sheriff Carter, Arrested Today. CHARGED WITH BRASS THEFT Man Who Caused Arrest of County Officer Is in the Hammond ' Jail.' Through a tip which was furnished them from a source which they refuse to reveal the Hammond police today boafded a suburban train-on the Lake Shore railroad at .Hammond nd- arrested John Paske, Joe Lipke and Alex Poleski, who were known to ' ' have stolen brass from thay Indiana Harbor Belt railway- at Gibn,??d. were on Jh war to 'Chicago to dispose of it. . brnes v.-fl.s fastened aljout their r..j s f-.'i v means of strong i 4t ja,ncteA'eTai 'hundfea -ijouDds or It, marked New York Central Lines, was recovered. . Poleski Caught Red-Handed. One of the good things about the ar rest of the men is the fact that Alex Poleski was one of the men caught red-handed in the raid and he is the man who had Sheriff F. S. Carter arrested by the federal authorities for opening his mail and then complained of the food which was served to him when all of the other prisoners were satisfied with their fare. The arrest was made by P. J. Burke, chief of the secret service of the Indiana Harbor railroad, Captain Austgen and Nick Einsle of the Hammond police force and James Trost, deputy sheriff of Lake county. When the word was sent to j Hammond police that the men with the brass had boarded the Lake Shore suburban train and would go through Hammond on the way to Chicago, the officers were at the station to meot them. They went through the train and esyplng their men they proceeded to search them. It did not take long to reveal the fact that each of them had a quantity of brass about their waists and they were brought to the police station. The men got on the train at rasselll and arrived on the train gets here at 1:12 p. m. At the station the men were relieved of the stolen brass and were incarcerated. Regarded as a Dangerous Man. The police are very glad to have arrested Poleski, for he has long been regarded as a dangerous character At Crown Point he threatened to kill Sheriff F. S. Carter and one time when he was tending bar in a saloon near ibson, and the police made a raid on the place, he Is allaged to have been exceedingly Insulting to them. The officers on that occasion made up their minds that Poleski is a crook and they are glad today that they have caught him with the goods on his person. . GARY- IS JBONSIDERATE Expect to Wipe Up With the Hammond Team on Sunday. The Gary baseball club will be in Hammond next Sunday afternoon for a game with the Hammond big team. Final arrangements between the two teams were completed this afternoon. Herman and Jordan will form the battery for the Gary team, while Humpfer and Eder will be Hammond's battery. The game will be played in Harrison park. Gary's baseball club is organized with a full list of officers. The team is managed by Pen Goldman, Phillip Casner being the president of the organization. Manager Goldman promised Hammond' a return game for some time in June when the Gary baseball park will have been completed. The Garyites are confident of victory.

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it f IS if. if American Maize ' Products , . ' (" uompany at itooy uiiutes Lake Michigan Water no Longer Withv Impurities; no Sewage" Enters Lake. EW SYSTEM MC?tft',l inLi,u State Health OSteer Barnard Visits Plant and Stamps It With 0. K Local Health Commissioner Weis Says Adjacent Hammond Pumping Station Is in No Danger. Sewage conditions at the American Maize Products company at Roby, about which there has been much complaint, owing to theewer outlet of the plant being only a few hundred feet away from the intake of the Hammond pumping station, have at last been relieved. The new system went into operation last Monday, and the company now defies all the inspectors and chemists that Indiana has to find fault with the sewage or to blame the company with contaminating the drinking water in Lake Michigan. The system that is being used now is a system of distillation and the water ; tilat flows into the lake, through the big sewer from the plant, is practically ' dlstilied water. Like all big plants, the American Maize Products company has no waste, and consequently there can be no sewage. Even the floor cleanings, which consist mainly of grain and water, are utilized. Everything Is put into huge vats and there boiled down so that bacteria and germs, if they really did exist in the floor cleanings, would be killed by the distilling process. The complaint about the plant was, however, not entirely unfounded. Sewage" which in Itself was not very harmful, but which gave off a rather strong smell, was drained Into the lake. IVew System Profitable. The company, however, working on the princple that any water having an odor to its contains, a decaying substance decided, that this substance must be saved before it is In a decaying state and for this reason installed the stills for filtering an distilling" the sewage. The company realized that It was practically losing 1 per cent of its profits, and while this is nominal for a day, it amounts to much in a year, enough to maintain the distilling system and leave a profit. The company . would have installed the system sooner, but owing to its inability of getting the machinery the work was delayed and the expensive plant, being otherwise completed, had to be but Into operation even at the risk of losing the 1 per cent. ,. H. E. Barnard, state pure food Inspector, on his recent visit to Hammond, when he addressed the milk dealers, visited the plant in company with Dr. W. D. Weis, secretary of the Hammond board of health, and expressed himself as highry pleased with the Improvement. Dr. Weis, who was about to begin an investigation, found everything to be in perfect condition as far as sewage conditions were concerned and says there is no furthei need to worry. ! WITEN- YOU WAXT SOMETHING OR WAN'T TO GET RID OF SOMETHING TRY OUR "WANT COLUMN." IT'S A i WINNER EVERY TIME.

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I .-r'jlJk,-.-.,.,'w .'.. 4 BOLDLY STEALS WIFE- ; OF 10MB f jfii Abductor is Slin in Had " Auto' Plight ;n ;"Torth- - - era Indiana. ' , v IJgonler, IndMay 20. .William Patterson is dead and Ernest Franks, his v brother-in-law. 4 Is, , tfangerouoly wounded k tie., result of desperate running battle In automobiles, which was fought yesterday near Millersrg, id4itVtt two men. Pnter4t bad sg prisoner In his motor .car Mrs. A. 'Sargent, - a young woman, whom, It is alleged, he had' abduetedvln . an. exceedingly daring manner under the supposition that she was a-counterfeiter fleeing from Franks. Mr. Patterson lately bad separated f r;m her husband, It Is said, la consef nee of his , rough treatment. He blamed Mrs. Sargent for - much of hi domestic trouble and It Is supposed that he harbored a grude, against ber. ilSIIELLJUE i r WILL FOUND Mabel " McNamara is Denounced as "Blood v Sucking Vampire." Clinton, . 11... May 20 Col. ; Tom Snell's will is void. After six hours deliberation the jury early this morning decided unanimously that the eccentric millionaire veas lusane when he made the famous will, cutting off his son, Richard Snell, and bequeathing a large part of his fortune to Mabel Snell MeAfnninra, his alleged grand niece and chief alllnlty. By breaking the will Richard Snell, the contestant, becomes heir to onehalf of the estate, the other half going to the children of Thomas Snell. The estate is valued at $1,00,000. The will . which Is broken left $1,200 a year to Mabelle Snell 31c IV a in ur a, $50 a year to Richard Snell and the remainder of the estate was tied up in a trust to he divided among the children of Col. Snell's ' deceased Mtn, Thornton, and of bis son, Richard, if the latter have any. STATE OFFGIERS HERE r . Hammond Saloonmen Hold an Important Meeting . in Roth's Hall: The Hammond Saloonkeepers' asso- ; ciation held an Important meeting this afternoon in Roth's hall. The meeting was held for the purpose of entertaining representatives from the independent -Order Kriights of Fidelity, an organization which is striving, to be a state organization of saloonkeepers. The question that will come up before the saloonkeepers', association is that of whether it wants to affiliate itself !wlth the Independent Order Knights of -Fidelity or whether the Hammond Saloonkeepers' asociation wishes to remain an independent local organization. The question will in all probability not be decided today, as the members wish to take it under consideration. The representatives of the state organization were in Michigan City yesterday with a similar mission as they present to the Hammond saloonkeepers today and were highly pleased with the results attained there. The following men compose the grand officers of the order: Fred Heineman, Indianapolis, grand valiant commander. Phillip Meek, Seymour, grand lieutenant commander. Julius Miller, New Albany, grand past commander. Carl Schultz, Evansville, grand treasurer. Charles Hayden, Evansville, grand recorder. . Al Harston, Indianapolis, grand orator. ,

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HOUSEHOLDERS ARE INDIGNANT

Class Party . Harrassed by Persistent Youn Midnight Marauders ,- I "vho Are Denounced, -gu y 'The young, people "who attended a club party given by. Miss Alice Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs., C. G. Miller, 3X4 South Hohman street last nl.sQt, are loud in their 'denunciation of v a crctwd of high school boys who are accuTjcnl of breaking Into the kitchen of the. 'J.Til.j.jr- residence and g-etting away with a II : t;he ea tables .consisting of ice cc- caC fr t and other refreahmente which, ttit-.hostess was to serve to h? . -tj ,'ists fater in the even, "i'.epeated Effort 5Tde.' J6i ory "once, but twictf, and thrice did tne mtamgnt marauders seeK to break into the Miller domicile,. iMiss Miller's guests were members of her class in (tie: jriimond high school and it partoofargely of the nature of a class party." It- has- been - the ambi tion of members Gf.the various classes in, the ' high schooC to break' up these parties If possible and on "several ocV -cations in the past tb steal the luxu ties provldedX f or v fef reshments. ' ,. Hovr Tbyt- Got - In.1 , The.J members ; of the f'hungry bri -p.de'V- hai, been' heard by Mrs. Miller tIS "Aa'rifret' in . at- the rear door of t.hV house, but she fastened the door so that they could not do so. Another attempt to pry it open was made with no , more" success and Mrs.. Miller . was congratulating herself that -the worst was over. - '' "; . 'When ' the ladles went , out to serve the refreshments, however, they : found that j they- were all wne. Entrance .had. been . effected, through a' -window The screen was torn', away and broken out.-6f the window.' The 'Millers' bave not J'H' decided "what action they .will take""tn4;regard to' theV theft i-v-MOVE THEIR STORE Will Move Ladies Store to First Floor of Hammond Building. Ortt & Towle, who have been so successful in the shoe business in Hammond, both in their establishment in the "Flatiron building" and in their store where women's shoes are sold on the second floor of the Hammond building, that . they have decided to branch out and will tomorrow move the store for ladles shoes into the room on the main floor of the Hammond building at, the' corner of Horman and Fayette streets. Messrs. Ortt &' Towle have discov ered as a result of the liberal patronage they have received, that the public approves of their-plan to specialize in men's shoes in t one store ond in women's fine shoes in another. The ; clerks In each place, by dealing in a special line . of i goods are enabled to, better satisfy the particular trade which comes to them and this has has been the secret to their success. - The fixtures which have been placed in the room on the second floor of the Hammond building will be removed to the quarters .which were formerly- occupied by Madam McNeil with her millinery establishment and later on as the business Increases the stock will be enlarged. When Ortt & Towle are finally lo cated in their new quarters, there will not be a store for women's fine shoes in Northern Indiana which will equal It and the splendid location will doubtless attract a large trade which this firm has not had before. The store on Hohman street where men's fine shoes are now sold, will be operated as before and the only change will be improvement of the store In the Hammond building. CANDIDATE 10 SPEA Frank J. Hall of Rushville Will Address Hobart Veterans. Frank J. Hall of Rushville, democratic candidate for lieutenant gov ernor, will be in Hobart tomorrow to address the veterans of that town In a Decoration Day speech. The candidate is a veteran himself and has been asked by the old soldiers for an address. His appearance tomorrow Is absolutely devoid of political significance, it being merely a matter of sentiment with the old soldier and his Hobart friends. Mr. Hall .will come to Hammond tonight from Rushville and will be the guest of Hon. Ed. Simon until tomorrow morning.

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Candidate For Governor on Eepublican Ticket Will Fire the Opening Gun at Hammond -iNext Month and Big Time is Expected. nniiccn uuiircn : . HERE WITH IE A D E R S Northern Indiana Leaders Will Be

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June :o and 30, wlif n James Wation, :' the candidate for governor will arrive" , In Hammond.' for a conference iw itb.' the leaders of the party. '; The profram for Mr. Watgom haa not yet been araned but It in understood that thin matter will be . taken up by Ricvhard Schaaf the county chairman. who will ndvlie With the leader ot the pnrty on matters, of importance pertaining to the conduct of the campaign. ' ' , May Make City Headquarter. . It' is" expected that "Mr. Watson , will make Hammonclt his Lake county headquarters and from this place will erTange trips to all of the "other " Lake cuaniy cmes. wnere ne win conterrwitu

tfrs- leaders and make specher..- - ' : It is . understood,' howev? r, .... th purpbse"bf Mr. Tfatson V trljto'. Lake . cou'fiTy'WITr' be rather in. preparation

actual campaigning and it is possible that the s'pechmaking tvIJI be omitted and that the congressman will simply get things -lined up, in preparation f?r the more strenuous work later on. The arrival of Watson will be a signal for the leaders all over the northern ' part of Idiana to assemble for a conference with the leader of the party end on the date of his presence here. It is possible that Richard Schaaf may call a meeting of his executive -committee on this occasion In vrder that its members may become Informed of the 'situation over the entire , state as seen by Mr. Watson himself. tive committee held at the beginning: of the county campaign was a great success and it is thought that if - representatives from all over the country could be present for a conference with Mr. Watson his enthusiasm would fee infectuous and a great deal of good would result. Come After Bi Convention. ' - By the time Mr. Watson visits Hammond the republican national convention will have been held and the nominee of the party for president will be positively known. This will help to clarify the situation and- will make the beginning of the state campaigns over the country the next logical step. MEETING DID NOT TAKE PLACE. Dental Doctor - Forced to - Give Clinic On . Account of Bad -Weather. . .. . - Owing to the Inclement weather last night the meeting of the Lake County Dental society did not take place.. Whiting, East Chicago and Indiana Harbor physicians were unable to attend and there being no Quorum the meeting was called off.. The meeting of last night should have been the last, of the season and will probably take place later.The meeting was to have been held in Hammond. . PROSECUTING ATTORNEY D. E. BOONE IS HURT. Lawyer Thrown from Automobile and la Cnt Ahont Face. Prosecuting Attorney D. E. Boone met with an accident this morning while riding in an automobile driven by J. W. McMullen. s In turning a shap corner the machine swered and - the lawyer was pitched out on the pavement. He sustained several bad cuts about the face and head, but declares that it makes no difference as long as the carbureter and sparker escaped. xoncn. Because of the ahpnifleance of Memorial day and the eneral obervanee, there will be no lane of The Lake County Tlmea tomorrow, unless aome nnforneen exigency ceura, in accordance with Its uraal ens-