Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 89, Hammond, Lake County, 1 October 1908 — Page 8

THE TIMES. Thursday, October!. 1908. ill GARY "POLICE! IKE AHiESI UHLICEIiSED PEDDLER BIG DITCH 111 DOJEH GOOD Work on East Chicago Co.'s Drainage Scheme Is Under Way Now. Mil IfC IMTfl CTATin HLIVU IllIU uiniiuii John Adams, Indiana Harbor Man, Gathered in By Steel City Officers. . Fails to See Curtains on the Gary Bastile and Thinks It Private Residence. OF TROUBLE on FIND MAN SEEMINGLY CBKY HE TALKS WEATHER TO SERGT ROUTE OF NEW CHANNEL

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Supply of Beer Runs Short at a Birthday Celebration in Gary Foreign Quarter and Three Casualties Resuit One Man Arrested.

WOMAN SUFFERS A :h ifiii IE Missiles Are Hurled in All Directions and Terrified Women Were Kept Busy Dodging Hail of Brick Bats Police Make House-to-House Search for Leaders. What promised to be a revival of the oldtime Gary riots occurred yesterday afterntton when four of the policemen hurried to "Hungary Row," where it was reported that the foreigners were clashing in a deadly fight. Although not as bad as the report indicated, there were three casualties before the disturbance was quelled. One arrest was made, Sam Hollopk, a Pole, 32 years of age. This man was brought to the station with blood streaming down his face from a cut behind the ear. He was charged with assault. No other arrests were made. the two women who were injured in the fracas, but report that one of them had her jaw broken and the other was conBiderably damaged about the face. Celebrate a Birthday. The trouble began when a party of Polish people, who were celebrating a birthday party, had licked up all the beer and went to the Servian section, where they demanded more of some of the women tenants. The latter either djd not have the "fire water" or refused "pense with it. Various missiles, bricks were then hurled at them " with profusion, and the terrified women were kept busy dogging the continual hail. Two of them, however, managed to stop an equal number of bricks with their faces, and resulted in several se rious indentations. As soon as the police arrived a house-to-house search was made for the pariiiaiiLs, uul iut? umy man inai cuulu De round was tne one wno suffered a wound himself in the bombardment of the Servian settlement. This victim was Mr. Hollock, whose breath as well as actions plainly indicated that was at the bottom of the row. Nearly all of the Polish women in the settlement and many of the men who have remained away from work, par ticipated in the riot yesterday afternoon. The birthday party was one of the finest social functions in Hungary Itow until the guests ran short on beer. DEMENTED I'M! All IS ORDERED TO ASYLUM Judge Reiland Sends Mrs. Metropa to County Farm Pending Her Removal. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE 3 TIMES Neighbors of Destitute Family Take Pity On Children Who Await Their Disposition. (Special to The Times.) East Chicago, Ind., Oct. 1. Judg William A. Pweiland last evening pro nounced Mrs. John Metropa of Northcote avenue insane and ordered her removal to either the county jail tr the county farm prior to her accept ance by the insane hospital at Logans port. '- Mrs. Metropa is the foreigner, who, while suffering from a dread of hunger, suddenly became demented. She attempted in three instances to throw herself under the N. W. & E. C. street cars and finally, while under police care, almost succeeded in jumping from a second-story window. Family Is Destitute. The family are in destitute circumstances, the husband and father of the woman's two small children having had little work for the past three months. Neighbors of the unfortunate family have arisen to a sense of the ir duty and are caring for the children until some arrangements are made for their disposition by the state board of charities. City Would Buy Coal Mine. The city of Vienna is now trying to secure control of mines In Moravia. The reasons given for the purchase are the high price of coal and the difficulty of securing a steady supply for the municipal gas and electric plants.

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Prisoner Wanted to Carve Saloonkeeper Because He Couldn't Get Free Drinks,

Special to Thb Times Indiana Harbor, Ind., Oct. 1. Of fleers Newman and Miller of Gary made an arrest In Indiana Harbor yesterday afternoon by placing; John Adadm, a lo cal millman, behind tbe bars of the city bastlle. . The Gary policemen had just arrived In .the city on a Lake Shore train, intruding to appear at the trial of K. Benjamin Kline, a Gary saloonkeeper, whose case was venned to Judge Retland's court in this city. Busy with a Raior, As they neared the corner of Michi gan avenue and Guthrie streets they saw a crowd of men surrounding an apparently crazy man and in the ab sence of any local officers took charge of the belligerent Addams. It was then learned that Addams, who was un der the Influence of liquor, had entered the Fox buffet on Michigan avenue a few minutes before and asked for a drink, free gratis. Fox refused to donate the freshments and Addams, indignant and vowing vengeance, left the saloon. Was Coins to Carve Fox. He evidently went to his room and secured a razor with which he declared, it is alleged, he would "carve that peaky Fox." The blade was taken away from him and he will now have to answer a charge of intoxication before Judge Reiland. Officer Ford of the local department took charge of the man on his arrival in the local jail. PREVENTS TRAIN WRECK Griffith Heroe's Deeds Re main Unrecognized by Railroad. Company. (Special to The Timen.) Griffith, Ind., Oct. 1. Dan Walters has again become a hero, if stODDinsr the second Erie milk train in the nick of time and thus preventing a disastrous wreck, is the kind of performance that makes a hero. Dan doesn't know he is a hero, and perhaps doesn't care. He discovered the broken "frog" and saw the danger to the oncoming train. With his old hat as a flag he succeeded in bringing the train to a standstill just before it reached the dangerous place, thus sav ing the lives of the passengers and a big loss to the Erie railroad. This makes the second time Mr. Walters has prevented a wreck in a similar case on the same road, yet the companyhas made no recognition of the valu able service he has rendered them. Dan, himself, doesn't care, feeling repaid by the knowledge that he did his duty, but his friends are indignant, feeling that the company should in some way show its appreciation of his efforts in their behalf. ATTORNEY IBACH ON STUMP FOR DEMOCRATS. Hammond Man Addresses Crown Point I.axt Meeting; AlKht. at Crown Point, Ind., Oct. 1. The democrats of Center township held their weekly meeting at their headquarters over Houk's shoe store last evening. Attorney J. G. Ibach of Hammond addressed a good-sized audience upon the leading questions of the day from a democratic standpoint. v The meeting adjourned at an early hour. ATTY. CLARENCE BRETSCH WILL TAKE STAMP ON OCT. 9. Republican Speaker Is After the Sealp of M. II. Stanton, Democratic Candidate For Joint Repreaentntl ve. On Oct. 9, Attorney Clarence Bretsch will start on his speaking tour of Lake and New ton counties, in the interest of the Republican party. Attorney Bretsch expects to be gone about three weeks, during which time he will cover nearly every town and villagon both counties. For the strenuosity of the trip laid out, it will make Bryan and Taft look like novices. Mr. Bretsch will attempt to give Taft and Watson a big majority. He also wants to help the county ticket, but the one big object of the tour is to pull Gary candidate, William II. Kliver, under the wire ahead of Attorney M. H. Stanton. BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CATARRH THAT CONTAIN MERCURY as mercury will aurely destroy the sense of smell en1 completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used 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 & rn Toledo. O.. contains no mercury. nn'A is taken internally, acting directly upon

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Notices His Mistake Immediately and Switches Subject Officer Gives Him Hint.

Because the Gary police station Is in an ordinary frame cottage it cost a peddler $2 yesterday afternoon when his trained eye detected the fact that no curtain adorned the windows. This was just the article in which he was dealing, so the barren-looking cottage looked like soft picking. Stepping up to the police station door he rapped and was-asked by the desk sergeant to come in. After entering he stepped up to a stranger who was standing at the desk and bid him good morning. "I have something here, my dear sir, which I would like to show you," he began. "I noticed as I was coming into yourNcozy little residence office I should say (just then he caught sight of the desk sergeant), "Ahem!" I was just going to remark that your police station looks so much like a residence that it is difficult to tell the difference. Rather chilly today. Sergeant?" Officer Juric looked at the man with a whimsical smile and informed him that a peddler's' license in this city costs about two bucks. The peddler caught onto the joke immediately, but proceeded to change the subject to the wonders of the steel city, how many men the mills expected to employ this year, and wound up with a prophecy that Taft would be the next president of the United States. Juric replied in brief and as the man backed out -4f the door dropped the reminder that there was nothing doing in the lace curtain line' in Gary without the necessary permit. GO OUT OF BUSINESS 30 Saloon Licenses Expire in Gary as Resutl of Remonstrance. The licenses of thirty Gary saloonkeepers expired yesterday and they all went out of business. This is the largest number of licenses which have ever expired in one day. In every case it was thought that it would be inadvisable for the proprietors of the places to continue in business and so they closed up" without a word. There are a large number of saloons which have only a month or two more to run. In these cases- a special ordinance, which was passed by the city council, makes it possible for them to secure a city license for the unexpired term of" their cojunty license. Through the operation of the remonstrance many saloonkeepers with good reputations were forced out of business, but there are several whom everybody in Gary is glad to see out of the business. One of these is J. Benjamin Kline, who conducted a place which was frequented by a low class of negroes a-nd was a menace to the community. Kline at the present time will have to answer to the pure food officers for conducting an unsanitary place. FOR GARY -BREAKWATER The million-dollar breakwater of the United States Steel Corporation at Gary will be built with stone taken from the sanitary district canal. At a special meeting of the sanitary board yesterday iloyt King, manager of the real estate department of the board, reported that 350,000 tons of stone from the canal had been sold for the. erection of the Gary break water at 15 cents a cubic yard, amount ing to $30,000. This is the first large sale of stone made to a single firm by the drainage board. The stone is sold on the banks and must be removed by the steel corpora tion within two years. Several barges are on the way to Chicago from Sandusky, O., to begin the work of transporting the stone to Gary. tne contract tor ounaing tne new eight track bridge at Campbell ave nue was awarded to the Chicago Bridge and Iron works for $413,000. Colonel W. H. Bixby's last day's work as chief engineer of the department of the lakes has terminated and he is about to leave to take up his new duties at St. Louis. He said that canal, will prove inadequate for drainage, but will be useful for navigation. REPUBLICAN POLES OF GARY HELD A MEETING YESTERDAY Seventy-Five Voters Gathered For Regular SenMlon. Time Devoted to Prepare Foreigners For Naturalization. About seventy-five Polish people met isst nltrht in the Republican hall at

Eihteenth and Broadway. This was the regular meeting of their club and is ?T r 17? had. Last night most of their time was devoted to the naturalization of their n' election day.

Cost of Improvement Is in the Neighborhood of $5,000 and Company Gets a Lot of Praise.

Special to This Times . Indiana Harbor, Ind., Oct. 1. Probably no improvement within the past four years has done more actual good for the city of Indiana Harbor than the ditach. now being eonstruetcd by the East Chicago company for the drainage of the entire eastern end of the city.. The work will be completed by Nov. 15 and the city supplied with a drainage system second to none. .w Mains Would Be Reeded. For years and years the city of EaBt Chicago and its immediate vicinity has been the catching point of the waters from the Dune Park hills, flowing westward to this city. Had the East Chirairo comDanv not decided to assist the city in its effonts to secure proper drainage the water would have been taken up by the East Chicago and Indiana Harbor sewers, necessitating additional pumping and new mains. Path of the Ditch. The new ditch now runs from the Pennsylvania main line at Buffington to the intersection of Cline avenue, with the Little Calumet river. It will be about one and a three-quarters of a mile in length and of a depth of fifteen feetin place. According to statements made by Secretary Westegren, of the East Chicago company,, yesterday, the approximate cost of the improvement is about $5,000, and Harborites should be justly proud of the corporation, who, by putting its hand into its own coffers, gives the city an improvement such as the Cline avenue ditch. GOES 1HT0EFFEGT TODAY Foreign Postal Rate to the United Kingdom OnlyTwo Cents. The new foreign postal rates goes into effect today. The o-cent stamp. long necessary to a letter desnnea to England, Ireland. Scotland and Wales, has been relegated to the background. The 2-cent stamp takes its place now. A big increase in the foreign business of the Calumet region postof flees 'is ex pected as a result of the new rate. There will not only ne more letters written but many of the business houses, which have an extensive for eign correspondence, have been holding back their mail In anticipation of the reduction in postage. The new rate af fects only the countries named. To all other foreign countries the rate of 5 cents is still in rorce. WON'T HEED SURPLUS U. S. Steel Corporation Will Be Able to Complete Its Work at Gary O. K. New York, Sept. 30. If the earnings of the United States Steel corporation continue to improve, the management would experience no difficulty in car rying on its construction work on a large scale.. In other words, the surplus, after dividends, will be sufficient to enable the company to go ahead with the completion of the Gary and Uuluth plants and other work without disturbing the total surplus of the corporation. It is estimated that the steel corporation has expended something between $30,000,000 and $35,000,000 so far this year for' new construction which would bring total expenditures for this purpose since organization close to $240,000,000, a figure equivalent to nearly $50 a share on the common stock. Utah has organized a State Federation of. Labor. St. Louis, Mo., has a man named John Samuel, who is 92 years of age. and still takes an interest in organized labor and writes articles for publication, his favorite topic being cooperation. The Trade Union congress of England passed a resolution asking parliament to enact a measure under which the organizers of strike breaking movements, as well as the men themselves could be prosecuted. Until 1901 the United States and Great Britain had more trade unionists than all the rest of the world put together, but since 1901 the Tate of growth of the unions in France and Germany has been very marked. ARE TOUR STOIUXG A LOT OF UNUSED THINGS ABOUT TOUR HOUSE OR OFFICE THINGS THAT A FOR SALE" AD IX THE TIMES WOUJuD CONVERT INTO MONETt

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