Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 60, Hammond, Lake County, 27 August 1908 — Page 4
THE TRIES.
Thursday, 'August 27, 1908.
The Lalce County Times CNCLUDINa THE SOUTH CHICAGO TUOXM EDITION AND THE GABT EVKS-UQ-TDIES EDITION. EVENING NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHED BT THE LAKE COUNTY PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY.
-Enters aa cond elaa. matter Jan. 28. WO. at the po.tofflc at HamBond. Indiana, under the Act of Congress. March I. 187."
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UP AMD DOWN IN INDIANA
Woman Leader Of Springfield Mob Commits Suicide After Being Indicted
TO SUCCEED E. A. SCHELL Bishop Berry of Laporte, who will preside at the Northwest Conference, to be held at Attica beginning Monday and continuing for one week, will be petitioned to assign the Rev. D. A.
HOW THET GET THE BUNS. Hoagland of Rockvllle, Ind., as the suc-
Morrls Brown, crippled urchin of lessor of Dr. Edwin A. Schell, who has
New York city, smashed the window
accepted the presidency of Wesleyan
college at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. OLD TIMERS TO FIDDLE. An old-time "fiddlers" contest will be held at Mounds park, Anderson. Sept. 6. The entries will be open o any old ''fiddler in th stntp nrwi nrld cr-
that the other boy got one more bun gTeg&Ung 100 have been offered. Adfor his money, whereupon he protest- mission to the grounds is to be free ed. There was a debate with the and all old tiddlers will be entertained, baker, and Morris was thrown out. Each player must furnish his own fidpursued by the baker's dog. die, play old-time tunes and compete
The smashed window was the se for but one prize.
of a baker's shop and was arrested.
Morris, who is fourteen years old. was sent by his mother to buy buns. At the shop he met another boy who was on a like errand. Morris saw
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"De udder kid, he got more buns n
me and got more sugar on his buns, was the plea Morris made to the Judge. Which was a good plea.
The newspaper account does not give
the outcome of the matter, but the incident and the boy's plea are suggestive.
The boy voiced the American plea of a "square deal." It is not fair that one boy or one citizen should get more
FARMERS SEED RAIN. The continued drought in the vicinity of Anderson is causing farmers and stock men much concern. The need of rain is evident all over the county and fruit and late crops are suffering. The meadows have grown prematurely brown and barren and corn is showing the effect of the dry weather. PLAN BIG LABOR DAY. The Central Labor unions of South Bend and Elkhart have completed all
arrangements for a big labor day cele-
bjeeta 1 general Internet
to the people, wh-m Buck communications are
igned by the miter,
but will
. . . . This ore
reject .11 communication, not signed, no matter wan i- tn avoid misrepresentation.
.. -m.h , the best intereat of the neonle ntteranoe.
alway- Intended to promote the general welfare of the public nt lre.
. -. niiM-rv timcs will oav carrier
Subscribers for THE lanl wuur.n boy. only on presentation cf THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES' regular subscription bills, which are made out at the office monthly, and our rate Is 25 cents per month or $3.00 per year.
Duns ana more sugar on nis duds uiua ration which will be held In South another. Bend. With all the organized labor of One of the pressing problems is the South Bend and Elkhart participating equitable distribution of wealth. in the sports and exercises it is ex-
We say the American idea is that of I pected that over 10,000 persons will be
"equal rights for all, special privileges on the grounds during the day. to none," and yet we know that cer- girl's body in river,
tain special interests nave ueen given The body of Miss Lula utterback an
undue advantages. These interests I Evansviile stenographer, 19, was found have had more buns and more sugar I floating in the Ohio river here today
on their buns than they are entitled to. and was recovered by a fisherman. A Therefore the righteous protests of note was found pinned to the silk
the Morris Browns. waist tnat tne lrl wore
When the ntue cripples case was governor has narrow escape. Called in the police court the baker Governor Folk of Missouri, while Was represented by a paid attorney, but traveling from Merom to Sullivan In an
Morris had to depend on the mercy ol automobile, had a narrow escape from the court. injury today, when, in order to escape And here also the analogy holds. a crash wlth a heavy farm waon. the ..tni .rto fVot- . driver was forced to run his machine
.a ii orviai luicicoia tuab djc
dttwtcw vmT.ATF.RS OF THE PURE FOOD LAWS
cial privileges extra buns are repre-
Tpr TTtrT P of EVERY MAN, woman and child in Lake county should be sented in the courts by high priced i TthJ .with officers and pure food inspectors who are visiting the dif- lawyers. The people elect young at-; given to the health officers ana pure ioou invpstieatine the condi- torneys who are Just beginning toprac ferent towns and cities in the county, with a Mew to nvestigating the oonm & g tions regarding the output of food products. If there is anything that merits projjecte tfae rJch crlmlnala. the strictest examination and is absolutely vital, it is the food-stuffs tnat we Tfaat h if & an teala fl loaf of eat and drink. From all parts of the county, where the inspectors have carry- bread to keep the woman he loves ine on their work the same disheartening stories come, regarding the way from starving he goes to the penltenfood is sent out particularly milk. Criminal prosecutions would be perfectly tlary, while the banker who steals a justifiable in these cases and would be welcomed by the people at large. Per- million .and robs widows and orphans 3USUU.UJ1B m .,!(, cnnditinns rets off scot free. Eminent attorneys
sons who are putting out loou-stuus, prouuu uuu - -
be hard for the Uetsaway with the sugar buns.
down a steep embankment. Luckily
the machine did not topple over. Gov
ernor Folk was badly frightened and
tonight he declined to make a speech
at the courthouse. WHITE PLAGl'E PREVALENT. Tuberculosis of the lungs has distanced all other diseases in Indianapolis since Jan. 1. The disease began at the close of last winter and continued active until the strength of the summer sun temporarily broke its grasp. Since Jan. 1. nearly 300 deaths are attributed by the city board o( health to tuberculosis. TO AUAXDOX OFFICE.
Postmaster John W. Baker of Co
lumbia City has been notified that th
postofflce at Collins would be aban
doned Sept. 15 and the business trans
ferred to the Columbia City office. Collins is a village of 150 population on the Vandalia railroad, six miles east of this city, and the postofflce at one time enjoyed a large patronage.
flofTLE CO. RESUMES. It was announced today that the
Hoosier Bottle company of Petersburg.
whose plant has been shut down for several months, would resume operations on Sept. 15. The resumption wil. affect nearly 300 people.
SOUTH nEXD PROSPEROUS. All factories in South Bend are run- ,
nlng up to their usual capacity for this season of the year and it is not anticipated that there will be any decrease
in the forces during the rest of the year. LEWIS TO SETTLE TROUBLE. Terre Haute, Ind., Ang. 25. All eyes in the bituminous coal fileds of Indiana are focused on Thomas L. Lewis, national president of the United Min Workers of America. Mr. Lewis has set out to settle at any cost the difficulties that have led to a suspension of work at the Hudson mine, in Sullivan county. MURDERER IS SHOT. Jesse Coe, the negro murderer of Patrolman C. J. Russell of the Indianapolis police force two years ago, was shot and killed in the hilla of Kentucky, twenty miles from Tompkinsville, yesterday morning, according to a telephone message received by the Star last night from Sheriff Bryant of Monroe county, Kentucky.
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IN POLITICS
F . . . . , find tpchnlcnlftlps and the rich man
-,M.Mn hnm.11 life. brineinK disease in their train, deserve tne nirnt u-. u. -
law. It is quite probable that, as in the past, convictions will be Hard for the of bakef flgalnst ,ttnm tn nhtain. in srjite of the fact that penalties are provided un- . Rrnicn ia tvniral on If von
Dlaic a w-w ' - V I - 1 der due process of law for these violations. At the same time, however, the x thln. OTer the lncident3 and the congress by the democrats of the Terri . . , . .- .1 i rst In ir-ioa anil hakershOTOS Can-I vl.o Trrnini, ulrttun vnn H11 fla. I .
lessons will be vainaoie ana 1 lgiu iusyw,uuu ' 1 j 1 j
not helD but have a salutary effect. There is doubtless no city in Lane county cover one cause or tne "social un-
where penecx samutry tuuuinuuo is not too large an estimate, according to the inspectors, to say that there are , f,ra and dftalera in milk who every day violate the pure food
laws. The number of deaths, due to this, cannot of course be estimated, Many of the pleasure seekers were on tion lf he does not keep hls promise
. a, n .1 Sc. Hr4io mwet nn tnar inpv are ail 100 iw.uui nmc
either directly or mairecuy, uui iucic 10 m-w many. The inspectors sent by the state and federal government are doing good work in Lake county and every help should be accorded them..
It is because of the buns.
"suds" to wash
the dust out of their throats, but they
struck the right town on the wrong
day. Spencerport Star.
Mark Smith, the blind delegate from
Arizona., has been renominated for
Obadiah Gardner, the democratic
candidate for governor of Maine, of
fers to retire In six months after elec
to enforce all the laws.
ABSURDITIES OF LEGAL PHRASEOLOGY.
Let worn a a make op her
The presidential campaign of the people's party is to be conducted from
general headquarters soon to be opened
by the national committee in St. Louis.
"If an automobile dida't have any amell, If a rose didn't have any thorn, If a woman could boofc her ourn waist In the back, What Joy for a man to be born!n
THEY ARE HAVING A GREAT ado In France over the reformation of the , wants to, as country's legal phraseology, and it would be welcome reform in America, ion a. ahe doesn't tamper
.. 1 t ,n it- in thp nast hut. wnfin me lime came I wn nrr urn.
Many leading lawyers uaio ttuiuvou " f for a RPrlous discussion of the proposition, it was generally agreed that we
. rr the traditions, customs and forms of older countries, Just think of Peary away up north
CUU1U liUb ouui y.yj uwv, , I nartlCTilarly when nearly all our law is based on English law. It would be having to wait until next summer be
better if it were otherwise. The mind of a man today has to work too fast to fore he finds out whether Mr. Hlsgen, dally with the useless complexities of legal verbiage. Too many words are Mr. Chafln, Mr. Taft, or Mr. Bryan was
tioaH Pmress a legal point. The mere saving or tne cost or navmg legai eiectea.
documents typewritten, under a reformed vocabulary and phraseology, would mean the saving of an immense amount of time and thousands of dollars in typewriting bills every year. It should also be possible for the average man to read his will or any legal point in which he was interested, after his lawyer has completed it and to understand it. "REAPED A HARVEST IN OLD CROWN POINT.
I Only $500,000 is required for the re-
CROWN POINT MERCHANTS, LIKU tnose or otner cities, are ever yruuw publIcan campaign fund, we are told.
and ready to enlist In some grafting advertising scheme, and almost anyone J Whatr dolnK business on a bargain
who is glib of tongue and ready of wit can extract three or four nunarea counter basis?
dollars out of them for space in some pamphlet that eventually finds its way
into the gutter or wastebasket belore it is even reaa. &ucn a oue uiu a iauu qxly a pessimist thinks
office business during tne iair. snouia a iocai or cuumiy ue81iii iutCi- THEaE Is NOthixg sew uxder tising solicitor approach them with a proposition in the interest of his paper, THE slJS; TOE OPXImiSt knows
his prices are as a rule "exorbitant" and the "results will not justify the ex- xiiere'S a lot new
penditure." Therefore his home and country newspaper, wnicn boosts nis . s 1 A-
town, his business, and his Come on every conceivaDie occasion, sets m nimis showers of toads are reported from
by seeing some outsider come in and talk Mr. Merchant i . o some advertising the southern part of the state. wn, scheme that really isn't worth the little paper it is printed on. You don't some good knd polltlcal soothsayer
often see your daily or weemy newspaper m uie 6uuu, w ".uCOO tel, ug what lf anythlnK( this portends?
Men?. Think it over.
.Turlson Harmon, the nominee for
governor, and ex-uovernor James i.
Campbell will be the chief speakers at
the formal opening of the Ohio demo
cratic campaign, which is to take place
at Mansfield late In September.
Springfield, 111., Aug. 26. Mrs. Kate Howard, leader of the mob in the
recent race war in Springfield, tonight killed herse'f by swallowing poison while
eing taken to the jail following the return of an indictment against her
charging murder. The woman had made threats to commit suicide if indicted for the lyinching of Scott Burton and William Donnegan, two of the victims
of the mob. Mrs. Howard was arrested following the destruction of Loper's restaurant and was released on $1,000 bail. Then came four indictments
charging her with the destruction of property and malicious mischief. A sa
loonkeeper furnished bond on the Indictments while the grand jury prepared . - . . , . . TT .. J 1. 1 . 1. . t . . V. O :
to mulct ner lor murutr. Airs, nuwaru, wuu ikeyi cv iiuici ai axots -j.-wli.ii 01 a. l li street, knew she was likely to be brought to trial for her life, together with Abraham Raymer and Ernest Humphrey, who were indicted with her.
THE CREAM OF THE Morning News
Friends of Congressman Gilbert N.
Haughen of the fourth Iowa district
have started a campaign for him as a
the other eastern states safe for Taft.
' Brvan's only hone is to be elected
compromise candidate for United States wjthout the assistance of New York,"
senator to succeed the late William B.
Allison.
Goshen. Ind.. Aug. 26. A conferencs
of republicans was held here today
which was attended by A. G.
of South Bend, thirteenth dis
man; State Treasurer Osca
Elmer Leonard and L. G. Rothschild
iof Indianapolis; W. A. Foster of Knox,
Judge Virgil S. Relter of HammonJ
George A. H. Shideler of Marion and
Charles W. Miller, congressional nomi
nee in this district.
was the remark frequently heard. Both
republicans and democrats were dis
posed to regard the Empire state as not fighting ground.
G. Graham TZ. LABOR NEWS RnthRchlld '
Mrs. Kate Howard, accused of lead
ing a mob in the Springfield riots, commits suicide when Indicted and arrest
ed on a charge of murder.
Committee is named and formal In
vestigation is begun in New York of
the alleged "matched" sales made on
the stock exchange Saturday.
John J. Greenough, inventor, scien
tist and philosopher, dies In Brookline, Mass., In his 97th year.
Tony Pastor, theatrical manager and
formerly famous as a singer on the variety stage, dies at Elmhurst, L. I-
Nearly thirty miners are believed
dead in a mine near McAlester, Ok la., when a fire cuts off escape.
Big diamond haul made by treasury
officials on liner from Europe turns out to consist of glass articles.
Superintendent Cooley of Chicago re
turns to his desk and talks of his visit in foreign countries. Finds Chicago schools compare well even with those of Germany.
New York reports from the west are
that guarantee of bank deposits Is rap
idly becoming one of the chief issues
of the campaign.
Guaranty plan of democrats is de
clared by W. 11. Taft sure to put a pre
mium on reckless banking, with the
Famous Writer Critically III At Eighty-Six.
LABOR NOTES
The bureau of labor has made public loss ultimately upon the depositors.
THIS DATE IS HISTORY. August 27. 1733 Brandt made the first accurate experiments on the chemical nature of arsenic. 1741 Joseph Reed, president of Pennsylvania from 1778 to 1781, born in Trenton, N. J. Died In Philadelphia, March ', 1783. 177$ British defeated the Americans in battle of Long Island. 1819 -Tho duke of Richmond, governorgeneral of Canada, died of hydrophobia. 1865 Thomas Chandler Haliburton, noted Canadian writer, died. Born, 1796. j869 First confederate soldiers' monument unveiled at Griffin, Ga.
1J04 Battleship Louisiana launched at
Newport News.
THIS IS MY 57TH BIRTHDAY. Cbarlea X. Gregory.
Charles Noble Gregory, prominent as a lawyer and educator, was born in Unadilla, N. Y., August 27, 1851. He
was graduated from the classical department of the "University of Wisconsin in 1871, and from the law school Of that Instiution in 1872. In the lat
ter year he was acquitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of law
fi Madison. Wis. In latter years he
filled several public offices in the city
government of Madison. From 1894 to
1901 he was associate dean of the col
lege of law of the University of Wisconsin. In 1904 he became dean of the
college of law of the State University
of Iowa. Prof. Gregory was one of the
organizers of the American Associa
tion of Law Schools, and presided at
the meeting at Saratoga at which it
was formed, and was vice president of
the Antwerp conference of the International Law association.
A hand-abake may denote anything, but the wagging of a dog's tail denote only one thing.
We have all heard of the expression, "Out-Heroding Herod," and it is time for the expression, "Out-Saloming Salome." In fact, it has already reached there.
RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS
The newspaper continues to show the trend of the popular mind. Here the campaign is on and the metropolitan papers are printing two pages of sports. Sluggish 'campaign, eh?
Life as n game Is not very ranch exciting ivhen the other fellow holds all the tramps.
looking For Sods. A large number of pleasure boats were up from Rochester on Sunday.
Some people In Hammond remind n of the man, who said to a friend: Well, vrhat are yon doing to beautify
this town'" "Well," the other answered, "I alnt living here."
Jerome Herff of Peru and Lawrence
Becker, mayor of Hammond, found a place in a corner to themselves, and
there exchanged notes. Herff predicts democratic success, basing his opinion on the statements he says have been made to him by travelers in the state.
"The state will be carried by Mar
shall," said he
tv. ft will sro democratic by 300. We
gave Bryan only twenty-five in 1896.
Becker says that in Hammond the
definition for republican is prohibition
and will result in Hammond going
democratic. 'It has always been demo
cratic," said Becker. "We gave Bryan 300 in 1S96, and, unless the shops in
Hammond open up shortly, will givu
him 1,000 this year." Indianapolis
Star.
figures gathered by an investigation of the principal wage working occupations in 4,169 establishments, repre
senting the principal manufacturing and mechanical industries of the coun
try. The data collected, it is asserted,
demonstrates that the average wages an hour in 1907 were 3.7 per cent higher
than in 1906; the regular hours of labor a week were .4 per cent lower
Efforts of Hopkins men to get large ,
crop or inaorsements ior me junior senator prove fiasco.
American battleship fleet leaves Syd
ney for Aieioourne anu us nan 10 (
praised by Australian press as of vast
political significance.
Grain list is dull but firm; provision
list again higher; cattle and nogs
than in 1906. and the number of em- higher, with sheep lower.
ployes in the establishment were 1 per Business on the New York stock excent greater than in 1906. change falls to less than 300,000 shares The eight hour demonstration in and prices score a fair advance. Bristol Australia, recently was marked Receivership of the Southern Indiana
As for Miami coun- by the participation for the first time railway extended to the Chicago South-
in the history of the day of organized ern railway company, women workers. The new recruits Governor Hughes' presence at Sararepresented the Clothing Trade Female toga county fair resented by horsemen Employes union. wno refuse to race while executive Is A resolution was adopted at the Uni- on the groundh.
Another Notification Meeting. The editor's wife and daughter, Rosa
lie, went to Atlanta Wednesday for a
visit with the Thompson kin. Other members of the family will go later.
Conyers (Ga.) Free Press.
A HAMMOSD LADY WENT INTO A BUTCHER SHOP THE OTHER DAY
Chicago, Aug. 26. Some of the keenest men in national politics have reached the conclusion that interest will center In Indiana and New York during the last two or three weeks of the campaign. "As New York and Indiana go so will the Union go," they say, reviving a trusism that has been
FOR A PIECE OF MEAT. SHE SAIDi heard in every national campaign for SOW, I WANT A NICE PIECE, WITH- the last forty years. As late as two OUT AXY FAT, BOXE OR GRISTLE." weeks ago the political wiseacres did "WHAT YOU WANT, LADY," SAID not consider New York in the reckon THE BUTCHER, "IS AX EGG." lng. They counted that state and all
Versal Peace congress in London, Eng
land, to invite representatives of trade organizations to attend future peace conferences, on the ground that the inur of neaee lay largely in the
hands of the laboring men.
The. movement for perfecting an
amalgamation of the various branches
of the lithographers unions Into one central body will mean the merging of
HEGEWISCH-BURNHAH
Mrs. Patton and daughter, Minnie,
were Hammond shoppers yesterday.
Mrs. M. E. Shaver and -son, Ray, are
out-of-town visitors.
Miss Mary Frank was a Hammond
visitor yesterday.
Donald G. Mitchell, who as Ike Marvel charged the world with "Dream Life" and "Reveries of a Bachelor," Is ill at his home In Connecticut. Mr. Mitchell is 86 years of age.
United States.
Mr. Thatcher was in Chicago today
over 100,000 members of the lithograph on business.
trades into one organization, which Mr and Mrs. Hunter entertained will have great strength throughout the cornpany Tuesday evening.
Miss Azilla Matchaze was a Hege-
wisch caller Wednesday.
T j Cullman was a business caller
in Hammond Wednesday.
Mrs. Fannie Davis was in the city
today.
F. G. Mayfarth is on the sick list.
WILL OPEN SCHOOL.
Valparaiso University, Valparaiso.
Indiana, will open its thirty-sixth year Sept. 8, 1908. This school is one of Tn mmt oooular in the state. The
Instruction is thorough and the ex
A.K- ghnut nno-half that Of
other schools. Equipments very com- TIMES WANT ADS AXD HAVE WOT
plete. Adv.
JOIN THE ARMY WHO HAVE TRIED
IrOCXD THEM WANTING
WHEELER. The teachers for the term of school opening August 31, 1908, will be as follows: Superintendent, high school, J. W. Hutchison; principal, high school. Miss G. M. Brlckwood; music, Grace Unruh; primary, Allie Lantz; Intermediate, Florence Leopold; grammar grades, Jennie Weddle. Mrs. J. M. Conrlck and son. Master John, were Chicago visitors Wednesday. John Barnes and son Ross were shoppers in Chicago Wednesday. Several from Wheeler attended the fair at Valparaiso yesterday. Mrs. L. K. Johnston was a Hobart ylsltor today.