Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 26, Hammond, Lake County, 18 July 1908 — Page 1

EVE OTKATH1 Fair and cooler tonight and sarrfay fresh to brisk northwest winds. EDITION VOL. ni. NO. 26. HAMMOND, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1908. ONE CENT PER COPY.

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AKE COUMH

TIL II MILLERS

Remarkable Lawsuit Takes Place During Thunder Storm and Lasts From 6 O'clock at Night Until 5 O'clock This Morning.

ELECTRICAL STORM 15 AJEARFUL ONE Residence of F. C. Deming is Struck by Lightning Shaft and Badly Damaged.

COURTROOM

WAS

PAGKEDWITHWOMEN

HOMEWODD PEOPLE SCARED

I'VE HAD A CORKING TIME!"

Damage to Residence Is Covered By Insurance In the Shape of a Tornado Policy.

Long Winded Legal Arguments Bring Trial to a Close After Which Judge Westergreen's Jury Finds Charles Nelson Not Guilty of the Provoke Charge.

(Special to The Times.) ..Miliar, Ind., July IS. Few people slept here last night. Thone who were wrapped In the nrma of Morphens were babe and old men. The remainder ot the Inhabitants attended a jury trial la Judge Westergreen's court, which was In session from 6 o'clock last night until' 4:20 this morning. Practically the entire populace snt In the courtroom during; the whole proceedings, In which Charles kelson, a teamster, was the defendant, and Mrs. T. II. O'Connor the complaining witness. Never in the history of Miller has anything; like this happened before. A jury trial la rare

raonch, bat that the court should be 1 session throughout the night was something: entirely unheard of. Banes 111 Hear Stories. The' bake iyho were"Tn"tlielr cradles last night a their mothers sat In the courtroom will hear the story by and by with all the facts and embellishments that stories undergo when they are repeated. . The facts in the case are simple. Only this Mrs. O'Connor claims that

Nelson said something mean to her, I and Nelson said he didn't, and then Mrs. O'Connor put the law on him and the jury found him not guilty. That is all that Judge Westergreen's record will show, only the facts will be translated into lawyer English, which calls Mrs. O'Connor plaintiff, and Mr. Nelson defendant and winds up with "and further deponent saith not." Trial Is a Climax. But there is more to the story, and Miller today has not even gone over the first chapter. This is the way one mnn told it to another one: Mrs. O'Connor with her husband, runs " a grocery store and she is very much opposed to saloons. She has a brother-in-law, an invalid, whom she charges with over-indulging. Now this invalid brother-in-law can't even get a business jag much less go on a happy drunk in Miller. Mrs. O'Connor has

The electrical storm last evening was one of the most severe that has ever visited Hammond. The sky was lit Id with HghtnlnK and for a time the flashes were ho continuous that It waa as light ns day outside. The peals of thunder were magificent and war in the skies was so spectacular that the greatest pyrotechic effort of Paine was but

a painwhel as compared to the great battle of the heavens. But the electrical display was not all bluff. " The lightning wrecked Its terrible vengence in a number of cases, the most notable of which was the residence of F. C. Deming, 730 South Hohman street. Here one fork of lightning struck a

large chimney and shattered the topstone which was shaped as a hollow square and descended to the grate below, while another fork ripped off a piece of tile roofing ten feet square. Occupants In Danger. Both Mr. and Mrs. Deming were in the house at the time. "When the storm came up Mr. Iteming went upstairs to close the windows and Mrs. Deming went into the library. In this manner it happened that neither of these well known Hammond people were in the

danger zone when the lightning struck the house. One of the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Deming was In Frankfort, while the other was In bed upstairs. The crash of the lightning was so loud that every one In the vicinity was deafened for the time. Homewood people knew the bolt had struck somewhere around. The room In which the

grate was located was so filled with dust that It was hardly possible to see. Both Mr. and Mrs Deming were badly frightened by., the crash, but they soon got their wits together and started an investigation. The extent of the damage was learned when later on It was discovered that the yard was filled with tile and that the roof had been badly damaged. Had a Tornado Policy. The roof of the Deming house rises in a pyramid and it was found in the morning that the tile had been ripped

off from all four sides. The greatest damage, however, was on the south side of the roof where a patch of tile ten feet square had been ripped off. The damage was all covered by in

surance as Mr. Deming has taken out a tornado policy in a local company and the work of making the repairs was begun the first thing this morning. There were several other reports of slight damage done by the storm. In the Erie yards the wind blew off the roof of a box car. There were several trees struck by lightning and consid

erable damage done by the hail and rain to the crops. Otherwise the storm was welcome and it helped to relieve the humidity in the atmosphere which had been oppressive all evening.

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JOHNSTON RETURNS

FR0MJB1G MEETING District Manager Attended Annual Session of N. W. Mutual Life Ins. Co.

MEETS MMHONDHES ON TRIP

Local Man Reports His Corporation

to Be in Splendid Condition 50 Years Old.

BRAVE ACT

OF LITTLE NEWSBOY

Macauley in New York World.

PROMISES TO MAKE IMPROVEMENT

P. J. Sherwin Says He Will Do All He Can to Improve Property.

MANAGER SHERWIN IN TOWN

Hammond Bnsines Men's Association

Jubilant Over Success of Their Persuasixe Ability.

(Continued on pace 8.)

ARREST HAMMOND MAN John Case Abandons Wife and is Gathered in in South Chicago.

John Case an awning maker of Hammond, was arrested here yesterday afternoon by Officers Kane and McNamara of South Chicago on the charge of wife abandonment. A charge has been standing against him in South Chicago for more than nine years. Case formerly lived at 8844 Cottage rove avenue, when he left his wife and went to the different parts of the United States. Recently his wife. Mrs. Ada Case, learned that he had set himself up in Hammond and notified the South Chicapo police of this and they using a ruse to get him across the state line, arrested him. He was locked up. and being unable to find a bondsman, spent the night in jail. Case was called up over the telephone from South Chicago and asked to come to the East Side to put up an awning. He walked into the trap and waa arrested by Officers Kane and McNamara. Cane was taken to the Hyde Park station thsl morning where he was put on trial.

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Western Union Operator Lost $300 Diamond Ring But Recovers it Later.

THEY HOLD IMPORTANT GATHERING

THE RE. PICKEREL HIOESJS TALENT Itinerant Preacher Claims to Police That His Secret Hoaard Has Been Stolen

Miss Julia Wallrtch, who is employed

i Western Union Telegraph company in

its office in the Hammond, to work during the vacation of Miss Ethel Meston, had the misfortune to leave a $300 diamond ring in the washroom in the Hammond building yesterday afternoon. When she discovered her loss she was very much frightened. She at once notified the police and began a search for the Jewelry. It was unnecessary for her to go to that trouble, however, for

the ring chaced to fall in the hands of an honest person. Miss May Stevens found the ring and at once turned it over to Miss Wallrtch. The yung lady was delighted at her good fortune in securing the return of the ring and has promised herself again and again that she wil be more careful in the future. The ring was lost about 4:30 and for the brief period of half an hour there was a young lady in Hammond who was s worried as she ever was in her life.

AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT

OCCURS IN NEW YORK. (Special to The Times.) St" York City. July 18. (4 p. m.) Mrs. Lon Flnley, wife of Dr. Charles Finley of South Chlcajgo, and daughter of Dr. J. J. Steadman of South Chicago, was injured this afternoon in a collision between an automobile and a carriage in which she was rading. It ts thought her injuries wil lresult fatally. ' ,

P. P. Sherwin. the general manager

of the Erie railroad, was in the city

today and granted practically every

thing that E. F. Johnston, the secretary of the Hammond Business Men's

association, asked in the way of im

provements.

Sherwin seemed to be greatly concerned over the fact that his road had been given a grilling by The Times for not doing more to beautify the Ham

mond depot and Its surroundings and

manifested a desire to do all that was in his power for the Improvement of the railroad's property. It Is out of the question to build a new depot at the present time, according to Mr. Sherwin, but In a few weeks men will be sent to this city to paint the depot and express office, and this la expected to improve the appearance of the buildings considerably. Will Make Other Improvements. It was also decided to fill In the sink hole In the rear of the depot with cinders; In fact a roadway of cinders will be laid all the way between State street and Sibley street. The rest of the right of way In the center of the city Is to be filled in with dirt and will possibly be sown

with grass seed later on. E. F. Johnstn of the Hammond Business Men's association was very much pleased with Sherwin's trip and believes that a big step has been taken toward the beautifying of the heart of Hammond. It is expected that the cinders will be hauled for the roadway and the dirt for the right of way within the present week. One change which has been positively decided upon is that hereafter the owners of express wagons will have to find another stand. Mr. Sherwin says that they are occupying private property and that they have no business there. He will force them to get out Just as soon as the premises of the depot are Improved.

Young Men's Republican Club is Addressed by Congressman Crumpacker in Court House Last NightMuch Enthusiasm.

R. E.

WOODS

CHOSEN

PRESIDE!!

Election of Officers Productive of Spirited Rivalry Congressman Opens Political Campaign In Hammond and Flags Gompers Because of Attitude.

POLICE FIND HIM A BEGGING

Lives In Tent Near Ice House and Complains That Soys Robbed Him of His All.

Have you seen Alexander Pickerel, D. D.? He is a character. About three days ago he blew Into town and started preaching on the street. He declared he was a minister of the gospel and a Christian by faith and he came to redeem Hammond. You. can't appreciate Reverend Pickerel until you see him. He is a little weasand voiced, stoop shouldered, feeble

E. F. Johnston, district manager of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company, returned home last evening from Milwaukee, where he has been attending the annual meeting of the company. This meeting was of particular interest not only to the agents but the policy holders as well, from the fact that it marked the 50th anniversary of the company's existence. Firty years ago this company started in the business of Insuring lives and has met with incomparable success. It now being the largest company In the world doing an exclusive United States business. This

company now has over $9,000,000,000 of Insurance in force and over $230,000,000 of assets. Officers Elected Wednesday. On Wednesday of the week the board of trustees met for the election of officers and accepted the resignation of

Henry I,. Palmer, president. Mr. Palmer is nearly 89 years of age and has been connected with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company for almost

fifty years and has been its president

for 34 years. His successor, Mr. Geo

C. Markman has been connected with

the company for a number of years

and as first vice president Is thorough ly conversant with ex-President Pal

mer s Ideas ana metnoas ana assures all concerned that there will be no

change in the company's conservative

methods and that it will be hjs pleasure to carry forward to still greater achievement the work as planned by the retiring and honored H. L. Palmer. First Policy Through Johnston. It will be of Interest to the readers of The Times to know that the first policy signed by the new president, Mr. Markham, comes in the district presided over by Mr. Johnston and is policy

No. 751908 issued on the life of F. L

Webber of Rensselaer, Ind., whose application was taken by Agent Fred L. Phillips of that place. All gt these things concerning the meeting are of interest to the readers of this paper from the fact that so many people of this city and vicinity are policy holders in and members of this company Meets Hammond People. Mr. Johnston also reports having seen Mr. Meyn of the Lake County Sav

ings & Trust company in Milwaukee, and Miss Mae Nelson at Waukesha Beach. Mr. Meyn and family are touring the state of Wisconsin in their splendid touring car and Mr. L. Cox

Arthur Schwenke, Carrier

For Times, Jumps in Calumet River and Saves Life of One Person and Perhaps of Two Older Men.

SGHW

ENKE HATES

THE LIMELIGHT

Friends of Lad Will Try and Get Him

a Carnegie Medal and He Is Made a Hero of By His Friends an Neighbors in the Vicinity WherejHe Resides.

old man with gray chin whiskers. He

wears a wrinkled blue suit which hangs iand family are sojourning at Waukesha

GEORGE BARDELL PLEADS GUILTY TO ASSAULT.

ARCHITECT HUTT0N COMPLETES HIS PLANS.

A'illatce of Burnham to Have a $5,000 Building One of Pntton's Promised Improvements. Architect J. T. Hutton has Just completed the plans for the new town hall which is to be built in Burnham. The building will cost in the neighborhood of $5,000 and will be a very attractive little building. The people of Burnham are very much elated over the prospect of having a new city hall. This is the first of the promised improvements which Johnny Patton has promised and which he is arranging to make.

Judge Is Lenient With Man Who Re

cently Attacked Officer Peter Illlbrich All Satisfied. George Bardwell. the man who assaulted Officer Peter Hilbrich when he ordered him to move on, appeared in Judge McMahon's court this morning and pleaded guilty to the charge of assault. He placed himself at the mercy of the court, informed the Judge that he had a wife to support and was sorry for what he had done to the officer. Under the circumstances it was thought advisable to give the defendant the fine he deserved for such an offense and he was merely called up to pay $1 and costs, amounting to 111. He did that cheerfully and that closed the first of the two cases involving assaults on policemen.

Representative E. D. Crumpacker last night addressed one ot the largest and most enthulaastlc gatherings of young republicans which has ever assembled in Hammond. The facts and irgvmeuti he handed out as weapons for the future use of the young republican war

riors made them sanguine as to the outcome In the fall. Mr. Crumpacker's speech was preceded by the election of officers In which Roacoe E. Woods was selected for president of the new organtatlon, John W. Mortland was selected for vice president, George Stevens waa made second vice president, Peter Ripley was selected secretary, Harvey Godfrey, assistant secretary and Will Hastings, treasurer. Constlutlon Aadopted. The constitution and by-laws were adopted and contained a provision

which requires the president to appoint an executive committee consisting of

fifteen members upon which will de

volve the responsibility of doing most of the active work of the organiaztlon. That this work is to be important and that the organization of a Young Men's Republican club is an important

political move, is shown by the fact

that County Chairman Richard Schaaf declares that he will throw the responsibility for the management of the complng campaign in Hammond on this organization. Over lOO Present. In spite of the threatening storm there were over a hundred young men crowded into the superior court room last night. Politics had been sizzling all day as the candidates for the various offices were engaged In lining up their strength. By the time the meeting was called to order there was an air of uncertainty about the situation which made the meeting exceedingly interesting. John W. Mortland. as temporary chairman, called the meeting to order and called for the reading of the

limply on drooping shoulders and a dress, shirt with its bulging and badly soiled boosom protruding from the

front of his coat. The. police picked him up on the

streets this morning where he was

found begging and his examination revealed a pathetic case. Rev. Alexander Campbell Pickerel has been living In a small tent in the vicinity of the Hammond Pure Ice plant. That arraignment saves hotel bills and seems to suit Rev. Pickerel's purposes. During his stay in Hammond this peculiar minister of the gospel succeeded in getting together about $12 in cash. He placed the money in a tomato can for safe-keeping and then hid the can In a pile or brick near his tent. He claims that some boys who live in the vicinity saw him hide the money and after he had gone down town went to the spot and got it. At any rate it is pretty evident that Rev. Pickerel hid

his talent In the ground with the result that thieves discovered his hiding place and took the money. He complained to the police this morning and they are inclined to think that the old man either hid the money and has been unable to flnt it. or that some one did see it and stole it from him. Crowd Hears Story. Quite a crowd gathered in the police station to hear the old man tell his story. Among them was a man who had been ordained as an exhorter in the Christian church. He asked the old

each for a few days from were they expect to go to Fon du Iac for a longer stay with Dr. and Mrs. T. E. Bell, on

the banks of Lake Winnebago.

ilGTED FOR SWINDLE

Hobart Woman Prefers Charges Against a Former Boarder.

Hobart, Ind.. July 18. Word was received here last night of the indictment of John E. Morton, by the Cook

county (111), grand jury on the charge of swindling Mrs. Margaret Watson of this place. Morton formerly boarded at the home of Mrs. Watson, and while there Is alleged to have proposed marriage. Mrs. Watson' declared that she refused his matrimonal offers and that for a time he desired. "He remained at the house for some weeks later." Mrs. Watson said. "Then he told me that life was insured for $25,000, but later I learned that this was not true. Then he asked me for $1,000, for which he gave me a worthless note." Mrs. Watson also tried to have Morton indicted on a charge of perjury. She declared that In a hearing of the

case before a justice rf the peace M"r-

One of the bravest deeds ever dona In this part of the state may be placed to the credit of Arthur Schwenke, a) Hammond lad who was responsible yesterday for savins the life of one lad and perhaps the lives of two others. The young hero is Arthur Schwenke, the thirteen-year-old aon of Wm. Schwenke, night foreman at the Gras

sell! Chemical works.

LAD SHtJiS THE LIMELIGHT. The heroic act of the lad has mada him the observed of all observers in Hammond and East Chicago and In the vicinity of his home, between the two places. But he didn't like the fame and notoriety of little bit Younff Schwenke was fishing from the bank of the Calumet river yesterday afternoon near the chemical works when a boat containing three occupants, two men and a boy, rowed between the midstream and the bank on which the young fisherman sat. ALL FALL IN STREAM. The lad in the boat while bending

over the side of the cockleshell vessel

leaned over too far and suddenly fell overboard and before Schwenke could

realize what had happened, the boat

and all its occupants capsized and the

three were struggling in the stream. In endeavoring to reach for the lad who fell overboard, the two men had rocked the boat so violently that they fell out of it. NONE OF PARTY COULD SWIM. The men did not appear able to swim and young Schwenke saw that the boy floundering in the water was going to lose his life if something was not done and done in a hurry. So he waded into the river and swam out to where the boy had gone down for the last time. He reached , the spot in the nick of time and as the little fellow came up, he seized him by his hair and told him to keep quiet. HELPS MEN AFTERWARD. Schwenke then told the men to turn the boat over and get in it and he would swim ashore with the boy which he bravely did. None of the party was any the worse off for his dangerous bath in the river with the exception of the lad who was nearly drowned. Young Schwenke did not ask the names of the boat's occupants and they were foreigners, according to

ibis description.

WANT CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR HIM. They rowed to the bank, bailed out their boat, took the boy with them and rowed away. Schwenke, the hero, went home and never said a word about rescuing the lives of three. He said he had fallen in the river, ut there were others who had seen the brave act and told Schwenke's father of the deed. Some of the young man's friends will get in touch with the Carnegie Medal commission and see if the young man cannot be awarded a medal. The boy is a carrier for The Times' sporting edition in East Chicago and Grassell.

(Continued on pege B.)

gentleman If he had his card which

showed that he was connected with the j ton testified that lie held insurance church. Rev. Pickerel said, solemly, $25,000 on his life. "God ordained me," and pointing to his j '

head, he said: "My card is in there." Rev. Pickerel said that he had been a preached for sixteen years and during that time had held a great many important charges. He said he was born and raised in Ohio and that he had not been home, for years. As the old man sat in a comfortable chair In the police station It was noticeable that he. had a habit of holding his old derby hat with opening up and some distance from his body. How he contracted that habit can only be guessed. Has Seen Better Days. The old man has an eastern dialect and fairly good English, but he presented a pitiful sight as he sat there in the station. It is apparent that some time in his life he had been used to better things. There is an indication from his manner that perhaps he may have been the pastor of a little flock of his own and a factor In the community. i Now he Is alone In the world. His

GETNEWJA1L CONTRACT

Crown Point, Ind., July IS. (Spcrlal)

mind apparently is failing him. He Reed nnd Hump of Hammond having still sticks to his religious ideas and been the lowest bidders here this aftoccasionally attempts to impress his ernoon on the oontract foP thp arvr hearers with them, little realizing that j . . . . . - .. i county Jul! contract for the building of he is more an object of pity than the ; " preacher he thinks he is. It is not! this institution was awarded to tbem.

likely that the police will interfere j Reed and Bump's figures were S43.040.

with him. ATTORNEY A. BIXBY INTERESTED IN LAND DEAL. Harllng A. Bixhy, a local attorney, left for Dowagiac, Mich., this noon with the intention of eloping up a big land deal there, in which he has interested the authorities of Dowagiac and a number of Hammond men. Mr. Bixhy expects to complete the preliminary arrangements after which the other Hammond men will also go to Dowagiac. Dowagiac Is looking for a factory site and Mr. Bixby things he has Just what they are looking for.

The other bidders were! Kric Lund, Hammond, .'4,30O. W. J. Turnes, East Chicago, 4J),837. F. O. Johnson, Chicago, $4.".13fl. Nelson Constructing company, ChU cago, 4,"7.

Do you ever stop to think, Mr. Business Man, that the newspaper which boosts your city, which seeks to improve the town you live in, which helps to fight battles ; which is a reflex of the progress of the community is entitled to advertising patronage in return? '

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