Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 70, Hammond, Lake County, 9 September 1908 — Page 4

THE TIMES.

Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1909.

The Lalce County Times OiCLtTDIXa THE SOOTH CHICAGO TIME EDITION AND THE GARY BVK3UO TIMES EDITION, EVENING NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHED BT TE LAKE COUNTY PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANT.

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THE CAMPAIGN WILL

CONGRESSMAN E. D. CRUMPACKER, the veteran republican campaigner of the Tenth district, will start the ball rolling at Whiting on Friday night and -will open the county campaign by addressing the voters there on the political issues of the day. No one, better qualified to do this than Mr. Crumpacker, could have been selected and his exposition of republican principles will commend attention from the people of that section of Lake County. Mr. Crumpacker's address will mark the start of what is destined undoubtedly to be the warmest political campaign in thi3 section of the state in many years- Henceforth the battle will be hotly waged. The republicans will see that no stone is left unturned by which the voters of Lake county can be well-posted on the issues of the day. The people of Whiting and its vicinity are to be congratulated on having Congressman Crumpacker to clarify the political atmosphere for them. He is one of Indiana's leading members of the house of representatives and as an important factor in the Calumet region, Whiting should turn out en massee to hear the congressman who has done so much for this district. THE NEW YORK WORLD ON TAFT. THE NEW YORK WORLD, as has been widely bniited abroad, has decided with seeming great reluctance to support the Bryan and Kern ticket this year. We all remember how very fiercely The World fought Mr. Bryan a, few short years ago. Its vitriolic denounciations of what Mr. Hearst has christened the "Peerless Prestidigitator" were sensational in the extreme. The flop of The World is being very largely paraded up and down the country by democratic papers. But the esteemed World seems to be halting again. The World says editorially: "Judge Taffs election could hardly fail to be accepted as an incidental

Indorsement of the present administration, but it would be much more Im

pressive as an expreBsipn of confidence in an able and experienced member of the cabinet who has not been personally identified with the notorious errors and failures of the Roosevelt regime. The president owes more to Mr. Taft than Mr. Taft owes to the president.

"Harrison made Taft a federal judge, McKinley made him governor of the Philippines, and Roosevelt made him secretary of war. In all of these

positions the candidate acquitted himself

cover him. He had made a distinguished public record before Roosevelt

came into political association with him.' He has represented substance, ac

complishment, and dignity in an administration too much given to declama

tion and fury- If there is to be a sense of obligation on the part of anybody the president should entertain it toward the man whose record in dealing

with great affairs is singularly free from mistakes."

THE DEMOCRATS ARE APPREHENSIVE ABOUT SESSION. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN INDIANA is perhaps fully as much at

sea over the coming special session sibly can be. Not only are the eyes party at present, but they are peering

session is going to give the democrats something to get very busy over and from advices which come from different parts of the state the Bryanites are very much worried over the situation. The stand which the democratic party will take this month may Jeopardize the chances of the state ticket,

far more than the democrats think it party will stand firmly on the state

fact there is nothing else for the republican legislators to do. Let it be a

short session, sticking closely to republican policies; harmonious; firm; doing the right thing at the right time and the state ticket is in no danger,

The more the democrats interfere with out, the harder will be the blow that A E. W. WICKEY, of East Chicago,

publican ticket, has a campaign manager who has invaded the Creek town

ship with a bunch of literature showing the farmers why Mr. Wickey should be sent to represent this locality in the general assembly. Mr. Wickey is

perfectly right in refusing to hide his

ONE THING, THAT gives the majority of people a great deal of relief is the fact that the Teddy bear seems to have been given its conge. A 300pound man and a 3,000-pound horse have quietly slipped into the place of the

once idolized Teddy bear.

IF THE TURK WAS the most world, we do not think the rest of the

No civilized man could visit the Ottoman empire without coming away with

the feeling that the Turk must some and feel glad of it. RANDOM THLNQS AND FLINGS "We wonder, too,, -whether Mr. Taft or Mr. Bryan would look better in tho new sheath trousers. The Homewood tragedy yesterday 1 one o'f the saddest things that has happened in Hammond. In years, and it has its lesson, too. Doe ronr child owe yon as much

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OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT. with credit. Roosevelt did not dis of the general assembly as it pos of the whole state on the republican keenly at the democrats. The special will. The prospect that the republican platform grows brighter every day. In the program Mr. Hanly has mapped falls on their own heads. 0 2 candidate for representative on the re candle ti&der a busheloppressed human being in the whole world would shed any tears for him day, as they say in the west, "eat dust for being: its mother a yon owe your child for being one. "The day has almost passed when it's permissible to risk pneumonia by walking down the street In shirt sleeves," says an exchange. Yes, also the risk of getting a private cell in tho- bastile. If yon hare to die, don't go to heaven with a Ions face. The barbers in convention assemble.! had a lot to say about how they shou'.d

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Talks By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 19GS, by Edwin A. Nye. HIS SACRIFICE. At the town of Paris, 111., Lawrence Friend, a railroad brakeman, died to save his fellow men. It was this way: A heavily loaded passenger train was approaching at high speed. Tho freight train on which the brakeman was employed stood on the track. The engineer of the passeuger train did not know that. In a flash Lawrence Friend saw h!s duty. It might mean death to him. Nevertheless he threw the switch. The train went on to the siding and was saved. But the brave brakeman was caught in the wheels and ground to death. Somebody had blundered. However that may be, when the man was want ed at his post to die he was there. He gave to the supreme moment all he had his life. Of course there was an "investiga tion." Lawrence Friend was dead. He had not stopped to argue. His not to ques tion why, his not to make reply, his but to do and die. And on the instant he made the supreme sacrifice. He died for his fellows. Men do that every day. Sometimes we say that men are no longer moved by noble motives. We say the age 13 commercialized. We say men will do nothing except they be paid in dollars or in position. It is not true. Especially is it untrue of the great host of railroad men who hourly put their lives in Jeopardy and whose Initial instinct it is to save the lives of those who are given over to their care. And in the rank and file of our Indus trial army men are found as brave as any soldier on any battlefield everyday heroes of our common life. Lawrence Friend had no thought of being called heroic. It was his duty to save the train. He did It as he would do any other duty of the day and took the consequences. In the olden days acts of heroism were so rare that monuments and shrines were built to mark them. Places of self sacrifice were holy. All places are holy where man dies to save his fellow man. Measured thus, there is much of holy ground on our American soil. And so, were there shrines to mark the places of self sacrifice, one would needs be built 'by the side of that switch at Paris! The mangled body of Lawrence Friend lying by the side of the track was a holy sacrifice. trim foliage, but not one of them said, a word about cultivating the waste and bare places. THE THIXXEST MAID AT THE AL TAR MAY BE A BULBOUS WIFE AT 40. THE WIFE WHO HAS A FIXE DEVELOPMENT OP BOXE AT 35 MAY HAVE BEEX BEAUTIFULLY UP HOLSTERED AS A BRIDE. The Three Graces Visit Ye Editor. The 'grace and dignity of this office were somewhat strained and taxed to their utmost Thursday evening by the sudden visit of three very popular young ladles. It only took the editor a short minute to gather himself up, make a few circles in his easy chair, pull off his hat, bat his eyes, get com posed, feel perfectly natural and at ease in the presence of these charming young ladle. Piano (Texas) StarCourier. When a man can't be interested la a stock company formed to pnt rainbow gold on the market, that's a sign that he's past the age of romance and youth. We fully expect to sec some on start a correspondence school for Salome dancing before very long. When a grirl goes out of her way to be mtle to a man, It Is a very good sign that she doesn't want him to know how much she really likes him. No, Alexander, there are no more favorite sons. Rare days and lots of them. Don't expect tee mark of anyone. Bnt never let hint snspect that you don't expect it of him. Read This To the End. Editing a newspaper Is a nice thin? If we publish Jokes people say we are rattle brained. If we don't we are fossils. If we publish original mattsr, they say we don't give them enough selections. If we give them selections, they say we are too lay to write. If we don't go to church, we are heathens. If we go, we are hypocrites. If we remain In the office, we ought to get out and hustle. If we go out, then we are not 'tending to business. If we wear old clothes, they laugh at If we Wear good clothes, they say we have a pull. Now, what are e to do? Just as likely as not some one will say wo stole this from an exchange. So we did. Bremen (Ga.) Gateway.

DOWN STABBED MAX IS DYING. At Garvins park, Evansville, today, where the main Labor day celebration was held, W. J. Watson, an employe of the government marine hospital here, was stabbed by an unknown man. He is said to be dying tonight. FIXD GREWSOME SIGHT. A scene of death greeted neighbors who forced open the door of the Jesse Woodruff home at Brookville today and fo-und Mrs. WooJruff murdered and her husband lying close to her body unconscious. The tragedy is believed to have been the result of domestic trouble. GIRL HAS LOVER ARRESTED. Fearing an attack from a jealous rival. Matthew Harlan of Evansville. aged IS, went to a local park today with his sweetheart, Miss May Bolin, agea it), tie was armed with a re volver, and when Miss Bolin learned of this she DroniDtlv had TTnri.-jn ar rested and he was locked up. MISSING MAN FOUND. Charles II. Williams. who disanpcared Saturday, was found in an adjoining woods near Carmet yesterday. Mr. Williams left home to haul gravel and did not return. His team was found near the pit. Neighbors searched all afternoon. Bloodhounds at IN POLITICS Princeton Republicans of Gibson county will formally open the campaign here on Saturday, Sept. 19, when Congressman James Francis Burke of Pennsylvania is scheduled for a speech. Shelbyville Thomas II. Kuhn, who U a candidate for congress from this congressional district, will speak at Lewis Creek tonight and Fairland tomorrow night. On Sept. d.9 Marshall and Kuhn will both speak at Waldron, and a democratic pole will be raised. Delphi The Carroll county demo crats nominated the following ticket: Commissioners, Fred H. Engle and Perry Johnson; coroner, Dr. Kennedy; recorder, Thcmas W. Colvin; surveyor, S. S. Doty; sheriff, U. W. Blue; clerk, Harry F. Reed; treasurer, F. S. San derson. Clinton A committee of Clinton wo men will hqld a reception in the Clin ton hotel tonight, in honor of Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, who will ac company tho democratic nominee when he comes to deliver an address. Mrs. Claude Matthews, widow of Indiana's last democratic governor, Is chairman of the receptidn committee. Columbus A branch of the Lincol-i League has been organized here with M. H. McHenry, a mechanic employed by Reeves ' & Co., as president. City Clerk Lawrence F. Orr Is secretary. and banker William G. Irwin treas urer. A committee has been appoint ed to name a vice president from each precinct in the county. The club start. out with more than 300 members. Terre Haute The Debs movement got a boost yesterday from speakers who came to Terre Haute for Labor day. M. J. Thornton of New Albany, said: "Terre Haute should be congratulated on giving such a distinguished son to the. world as Eugene V. Debs." Frank Hayes, secretary of tho Illinois miners, another speaker, said in an interview that Debs is popular with the Illinois miners and will bet a big vote from them. x LEAGUE OF ONE-LEGGED MEN WILL ASSIST CRIPPLED BOY. Novel rialn to Give Education to Whit Lad Maimed for Life by Accident on Railroad Track. Whiting, Ind., Sept. 9. John J. Ryan possesses an indomitable desire to ac quire a college education as a compensation for the loss of his legs. Dr. W. E. Putnam and other friends of Ttyan haVe started the formation of an or ganization of one-legged men of Lake county, to assist him In the pursuit of learning, as stated in The Times some time ago. Ryan lost both legs several months ago while bating his way on a railroad from Buffalo to Chicago In search of work. The plan is to band the one legged men of the county together and to ask from each a slight contribution to carry him through his schooling. Dr. Putnam, surgeon of the Lake Shore railroad at Whiting, amputated the mangled legs and gave Ryan a tern porary domicile in his family. Ryan's cheerfulness and determination to make up for his loss by obtaining an educa tion gained for him a host of friends, and their interest led to the idea of making the 16 year old lad the beneficiary of an organization of one-legged men. BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CATARRH THAT CONTAIN MERCURY as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be usexl except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken Internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials frte. Sold by Druggists. Price 75c per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti-

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Noblesville were sent for, but men and hounds were unsuccessful, although they searched all night. Sunday morning 150 men gathered and dividing into parties, began a more thorough search. FIRE THREATENS TOWN". As the result of a fire of unknown origin, which started at Coalmont, a small mining town about three miles north of Jasonville, the Rinehart ho tel. Ed Jeffries' meat market, John Reniis's drug store and a residence oc cupicd by Perry Crias. are in ushes and damage of $10,000 has been clone. Ill' NT LOSES :."0. Union B. Hunt, chairman of the In diana railroad commission, was robbed of $2j0 yesterday forenoon while en route to Indianapolis from Winches ter, where he resides. Mr. Hunt's pocket was picked on the oar plat form while people were boarding and leaving the train at Muncte. REV. WILFLEY LEAVES CHARGE. The Rev. Earle Wilfley preached his farewell sermon to the congregation of the Christian church in Crawfordsville yesterday, after having been pastor there for the last five years. During the Rev. Mr. Wtlfley's ministry the church has cleared away a $7,000 debt and has gained 565 members. THE CREAM OF THE Morning News William II. Taft arouses crowds in Ohio towns to enthusiasm, and announcement is made that the candidate will make a campaign tour of the country. Forty-two Iowa standpatters bolt the nominee of the republican legislative caucus and prevent the election of Governor Cummins to the senate. In the inquest over Dr. F. II. Rustin of Omaha a woman tells a strange story of a suicide agreement in which she was to kill the man and then kill herself, but her courage failed and she says a man was secured to take her place. Authorities in Des Moines, Iowa, start move to abolish the "red light" district, but will offer unfortunate women a chance to earn a living honestly. Penned in by forest fires, 1,000 settlers at Grand Marais, Minn., on the shore of Lake Michigan, are engaged In a desperate battle for their lives. Second annual congress of the Playground Association of America opens in New York with many Chicagoans in attendance. First day's recount of ballots in the Healy-Wayman contest give. Wayman a gain of 142 votes. Eucharist conference which opens in London today will be the largest ever held and seven cardinals will be in attendance. Grain and provision values are higlier; government report has bullish ef fect on cereal list; cattle strong; hogs higher and sheep lower. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad company reports fair earnings for the year. Most of the leading stocks on the New York exchange make important advances in prices, but reading and American Locomotive are lower. Joe Gans and Battling Nelson meet today at San Francisco for the light weight championship of the world. HE THREATENED SUICIDE Mike Ryan is Terribly Up set By the Death of His Wife. Whiting, Ind., Sept. 9. Mike Ryan was taken up by the local police Monday night at 11:30, after he had Informed the Lake Shore operator that he intended committing suicide by Jumping into Lake Michigan. When taken to the station, Ryan showed signs of dementia and told the officers continually of his wife, whom he said he had buried only three weeks before. When questioned as to relatives, he said he had an aunt, Mrs, Ida Jones who kept a grocery store in Ham mond. The telephone directory gave Mrs. Jones' address as 543 Indiana avenue, but as she could not be reached by phone that night, Ryan was kept in the station and In the morning he seemed much better, so he was ro leased. NEW NAME PROPOSED Son of Gary Man is Proini nently Mentioned as a Candidate. According to news from Porter coun ty, a strong effort will be made by the friends of Attorney George A. Meeklson of Whiting, Ind., to nominate him as the democratic candidate for prosecuting attorney in the thirty-first Ju dicial district. Mr. Meekison was resident of Valparaiso several years graduating with class distinction In the law class of 1908. He is the son of David Meekison of Gary, Ind., an old property owner of that city, and has a wide acquaintance In Lake and Porter counties. He Is a young man of worth, and democratic friends have selected him because he has never sought office and believe a new element would be acceptable to the party and add general strength to the ticket.

Kermit Roscvelt, Who Goes To Minnesota For Hunting Trip

f.-y i 7 j. Kermit Roosevelt, with half a dozen

photographic supplies and camping paraphernalia, has gone to the Lower Mesaba range, In northern Minnesota, where he is to prepare himself !n the work of hunting big game prior to his trip to Africa next spring with his father. He will be under the tutelage of Jack Greeenway, the president's close friend. The horse shown In the picture is one Kermit was riding recently when he stopped a runaway team at Oyster Bay.

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U. S. Steel Corporation Or ders Valuable Machinery. For Gary Plant. The United States Steel Corporation has ordered for its Gary plant seven teen cranes from the Alliance Machine Company. They range from five to sev enty-five tons' capacity. The Pittsburg and Conneaut Dock Company has ordered four ore unloading machines of fifteen tons' capacity, to be erected at the Ashtabula docks. The Republic Iron and Steel Com pany will probably start another furnace n the South within the next few days, and it is likely that an additional furnace will be put in blast in the North. The Republic Company is operating about 70 per cent of its capacity at the present time. As a mat ter of fact, the Republic has been turning out more steel over the last several weeks than In any similar period since the depression began. Earnings are on the Increase. It is estimated that the United States Steel Corporation will bring down from its mines this season, slightly over 13,000,000 tons of ore, compared with near ly 22,500,000 tons in the preceding year. Shipments this year will represent about 60 per cent of what they were in 1907. The United States Steel Corporation, and other companies for that matter, shipped very little ore up to the latter part of June. Over the last two months however, shipments have been large, and the steel corporation ia shipping all the iron ore It possib.y can. TRAIL A REAL ROBBER Says He Walked From Ham mond Is On His Way to Valparaiso. Wheeler, Ind., Sept, S.(Special.) Wheeler had its proportion of excitement yesterday. A young .fellow drifted Into town about 3:30 J,n the afternoon, made himself at home isbout town, drifted into Robert Anders saloon and set up the cigars foiir or five times and gave it out that h had hat hj hi i, and J w io to tsti walked from near Hammond, going as far as Valparaiso over night. A few moments after he left tywn Mr. M. L. Crull, who lives a mile nrth of Wheeler came to town saying jhls nouse nad oeen roooea and some mon ey, watches and other valuables had been taken and they tracked him In he road dust from Mr. Crull's house to Wheeler and the description of fhe fellow given by people who saw h'im coming down the road, tallied with the one who was In the saloon during ttie afternoon. Mr. Crull and Mr. A. T. Lathro'tie started after him .and overtook him vu the C & G. T. crossing near Loux cros ing on the P. & W. A C railroad Mr. Lathrop having a rifle, pointed in the proper direction and request the fellow "hands up" which did very reluctantly. Mr. Crull ai Mr. Lathrop took his gun, the watch and other things away from him a took him on to Valparaiso and turn' hime over to the authorities for futi consideration. The same fellow is said to have g through Mr. Reed's house a mile of Hobart and it is said he comple turned everything upside down In hunt for valuables. During his talk at the saloon he g his name as Gray, and his trade as electrotyper. He Is said to have pu the stolen watch out of his pocket the naJoon and when Mr. H. Thune

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large trunks full of guns, ammunition. West Virginia Senator Who Was Injured In Fight. Friends of Senator N. B. Scott ol West Virginia fear he will suffer permanent injury from his first fight with S. G. Smith, a republican leader. The senator is confined to his apartment and under the care of a physician. ticed it. is being a ladies' watch, he was quick to tell him that it was a watch his mother gave him before she died. REPUBLICANS MEET. The republican committeemen met last night in the Gary hotel for a busienss session. They elected committees for each precinct for the purpose of getting out the poll. SURPRISES HIS FRIENDS. Louis Weketinskl stole the march oh his Gary friends yesterday by getting harried. Miss Bertha Schneider, 4717 Lafiin street is the bride. The wedding was a double ceremony, taking place first before Judge Maxwell, who performed the civil ceremony. I,ater the couple were married by Rabbi Anixter in a religious ceremony in Englewood. Mr. jnd Mrs. Weketinski came home today to receive the congratulations of a host of fr iends and will reside at Twenty-third street and Madison avenue. SIDING IS A GREAT NUISANCE. The Wabash railroad siding In Gary, which has long been laid in the middle of one of the principle streets of tha city Washington street, is becoming a greater nuisance every day and it is time that the company had the obstruction removed. In the past It haa been used for the purpose of bringing construction material for buildings on Broadway to save the hauling by teams, but as a great part of that work has been completed, there Is no longer a necessity for the rails to ba blocking the street. The city several weeks ago ordered the track torn up but as yet the company has not complied with the order. The Wabash has also proved an obstacle to the heavy traffic on Broadway where the street cars as well as the teams are continually blocked with the switching, most of which Is done across the main street lot tha town.

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