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THE TIMES. Monday, November 9, 1908. A RESTING CONSTRUCTION TO BE BEGMGHT AWAY Work on Gary Pumping Station Wlil Be Carried Forward at Once. FORJIIY'S DEAD Oak Hill Cemetery of Gary Will Be the Name of New Graveyard. ITER SUPPLY INSUFFICIENT THE INCORPORATION IS NEAR
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FEUD TO BE AIRED IN COURT
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Metz Schneider, Toledo, 0., Receives 6,000 Volts of Electricity Through His Body and Dies Soon After Terrible Fall to Ground.
Building to House Plant Will Be
Very Attractive in a Good
Many Ways.
INVESTIGATION IS N0V UNDER WAY
Lineman On South Beid Interurban
Killed at Gary While He Was Re
pairing Wire Through Which Cur
'rent Was Turned On By Arrival of
Car Try to Place the Blame.
Met Schaetder of Toledo, O., a- line
man employed by the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend lnterorban, rram almost lanttatlr killed at Gary Saturday afternoon at 3:80 when 8,600 Tolt of electricity waa shot through hi
body aa ho waa worklnar on the wire
at Broadway. Although he laid on the
grand apparently- llfeleaa after the ter.
rifle shock It waa thought for a time that he could be revfred, bnt the ef-
forta were nnanceeaaful.
Tbat some one is responsible for the
man's death ia an assured fact, and Coroner E. R. Gordon, who was in Gary
Saturday investigating the case, said
that the matter would be investigated to the most minute detail. At the time that the lineman was working in re
pairing the wire there was no elec
tricity on, but suddenly the current
flashed through the line and the man
dropped like a stone twenty feet to
the earth. "Workmen Give Explanation.
The explanation of the affair given
by the fellow-workers who saw the the accident -is that the current was
cauaed by the arrival of a car. which
upon turning onto the switch, east
bound, established the connection which resulted in the man's death. They say
thTe had been a watchman placed on
th(5 road to watch for the cars, but
that his failure to perform his duty
caused the death of the man.
The inquest on the case was held
today at 10 o'clock, and if the fact
warrant it there may be some action
taken by Coroner Gordon against th
parties who are found negligent. In
any event there will be an attempt made to find out who was directly responsible. Coroner Gordon is of the belief that some one's carelessness caused the death of Schneider. As soon as the accident occurred the man was taken in Jones' ambulance to the Mercy hospital, the physician still holding out hope that he could be revived. The victim's face was purple, his eyes and teeth were set, and none of his friends expected him to live an hour. Although he was taken to the hospital it is thought that he was dead before he arrived. Metz Schneider is an experienced lineman, who has been employed for the past few months by the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend railroad. His home is in Maumee, O., on the Maumee river, but a short distance from Toledo. While at home he lived with his parents, and was a single man. He was 27 years old.
The building of the Gary pumping
tation, which has been delayed on ac
count of the failure of the structural
teel to arrive, will be carried forward
without delay in the future.
The necessary materials have arrived
and the work of construction will be-1 gin at once. The station is to be located in the publis park between Fifth
and Sixth avenuea and will be one of the finest in the state.
The water tunnel which extends a
mile or more out into Lake Michigan, is now completed and this means that Gary will have a purer and better wa
ter supply than any of its sister cities aa soon as the big pumps are put in and the supply is secured from this source.
At the present time the water sup
ply of the city of Gary is pumped by a battery of large gasoline engines and is very unsatisfactory, but n the near
future two large pnmps will be put In
to pump the general supply and two other reserve engines will be used in
cue of fire. The pressure Will then be great enough to insure the protec
tion of property and Gary's fire Insurance rate is expected to go down accordingly.
The buildiAg which is to house the
big engines will be constructed of arti
ficial stone, which will be. exceedingly
attractive. It will be similar to that of
which the First National bank is con
struoted and of a better quatiy.
This is in line with the policy of the
city and the steel company to make all
of its municipal buildings attractive in design and in that manner add to the
appearance of the city.
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Donahey in Cleveland Plain Dealer.
One Hundred Acre Waste of Sand in
Vicinity of Glen Park Will Be Turned Into Garden Spot.
TAGGABT ENTERS RACE
Indiana's Leading Democrat
Will Be Senatorial Candidate. ,
Higher Courts' Record,
THEY DIDN'T GET
ANY NAUGHTY BOOKS
East Chicagoans Who Ex
pected Boccaccio Got Holmes Instead.
Tudge Who Will Try Gunness Case
Supreme Court Action.
The supreme court today handed down the following opinions and rul
ings:
21194. Ftate of Indiana vs. Ed
days granted..
681. Modern v oodmen of America
vs. Caroline Craiger. Vanderburg S. C Appellee granted extension to Jan. 12 tt Appellate C'onrt Snlt.
7061. George T. Orr vs. the Davton
& Muncie Traction company. Randolph C. C. Record. Assignment of errors. Notices (2) below. Char'es. Orange C. C. Reversed. Jordan, J. 21C84. Benton Kelly vs. "William Augsperger. White C. C. Reversed. Montgomery, J. 2i::55. Caroline P. Tousey vs. city of Irdiarmpolis et al. Marlon S. C. Application to remand to appellate court denied. Appellate Court Action. The appellate court today announced the following opinions and rulings: 6245. Mary Opperman vs. Citizens' Bank of Michigan City. Laporte C. C. Reversed. Watson. J.
6973. Tacey B. Relk et al vs. Charles
I'osiiler et al. Cass C. C. Appellee's motion to dismiss overruled. Hadley, J.
6S51. Town of Monticello vs. Cath
erine Condo. White C. C. Appellee's petition for leave to file brief. Leave gVnted and briefs filed. Supreme Conrt Minutes. 21355. Caroline P. Tousey vs. City of Indianapolis et al. Marion S. C. Appellant' petition to remand to appellate court and brief in support. Appellate Conrt Mlnntes. 6219. National Surety "company vs. Foster .Lumber company. Marion S. C. Appellant's application to transfer to supreme court aad brief. 6207. Richmond Street and Interurban Railway company vs. Reba G. Beverley. Hancock C. C. Appellant's petition to transfer to supreme court and brief.
Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 9. The senatorial question is consuming the at
tention of the state capitol now. Aside from Mr. Slack's formal an nouncement there was another Inter
esting development in the senatorial
race. That was Thomas Taggart's first
appearance as a candidate for senator
Mr. Taggart did not introduce himsel
in a formal manner, and it is not prob
able he will make an announcement on the subject, but he is a candidate, and
his Italian hand is busy beckoning
members of the legislature into hi
corral.
His friends, who have long been as
sociated with him in politics, are jus
as busy as he is. They are quoting
fifty-seven varieties of reasons why he should be elected senator, but the prin. cipal point made by them is that he would do more toward rehabilitating the democratic party than any other many mentioned. They think that as senator he would get all that is coming to the Indiana democracy and perhaps a little more. The news that Mr. Taggart is a candidate, coming so closely after the authorized announcement of John W. Kern's candidacy, created surprise and comment. Mr. Taggart and Mr. Kern
have long been friends, politically as well as personally, and few persons had believed that both would be candidates for senator. It is probable that the entries in the senatorial race are now complete. The candidates are John W. Kern, John E. Lamb. Thomas Taggart, L. Ert Slack and B. F. Shively. Those mentioned as "dark horses" are Henry Warrum, Daniel W. Simms, Samuel Ralston and Major G. "V. Menzies.
(Special to The Times.) East Chicago, Ind., Nov. 9. A num
ber of East Chicagoans were made vic
tims of a suave trick on Saturday and,
Incidentally, gave 25 cents each to the
Holiness society, a band of religious workers who are operating extensively in this state. About noon there ap
peared In the city an old man, very shabbily dressed and absolutely un-
couth in appearance. Over his shoulder
was flung a sack, containing several suspicious looking bundles.
Approaching a business man anj holding out the bundles, he solicited the purchase of a set of stories that have been condemned by the police for
several years. "The Tale of an Actress," was one of tne 1 titles, and of course, the purchasers were easily found. "The regular price is 50 cents each, but I will sell them today at two for a quarter," was the agent's explanation of his sales. , Holding out a second envelope, it was said to contain other pernicious literature. Expecting something from the pen of a Boccaccio, or stories from the life of Du Barry, the eager purchasers slipped the fellow a quarter, grabbed the books and started for some secluded place in which to persue their contents. And right at this point is where the fun commenced. With looks of chag
rin appearing in every possible facewrinkle, the "easy mark" pulled from his envelopes, not the original stories of high life, but real, quiet, legitimate Sunday school literature. A copy of the laws of the Holiness church was also Included in the bargain, and with
unusual wrath, the purchasers sought
the agent. Little satisfaction was to be ob
tained from this source, however, the agent declaring that he had not advertised the stories as the original
doubtful literature. No one could deny
this and all decided to take the "swindle, as they termed it, in good faith. Great and many are the ways of working charity from the. pocket-
books of the masses!
Man the Driver. No man will ever admit that any
woman can drive better than he can.
Even the woman who dances on the
back cf a horse at the circu3 doesn't know as much about horses as he does. The only reason he can't dance on the back of a horse Is that he can't dance; It Isn't the back of the -horse that cuts any figure. The man who drives with a woman, and lets the woman drive, should have one of these two signs tacked to him If he wants to keep the respect of other men: "I am in love," or "I have rheumatism in my fingers." Atchison Globe.
The Land.
"We are at last working round to some conception .of what the land is
or ought to be in the scheme of national well-being. We are at last be
ginning to see that there is hardly any
great social question, however urban
it may seem at first, that is not ulti
mately to be traced back to this prob
lem or that of the open country.-
London World.
To Melt Iron In a Moment. Heat a piece of iron (a poker will do, to white heat, then apply to it a roll of sulphur. The iron will immediately melt and run into drops. This experiment Is best performed over a
wash bash of water, allowing the
melted iron (really sulphide of Jron), to drop into the water.
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MILK SHIPPERS IN MASS MEETING " w "
Big Gathering of Dairymen
and Farmers at Crown
Point Saturday.
Judge Rfchter will preside at the
trial, of Ray Lamphere for the murder of Mrs. Belle Gunness and her three children. The verdict in the case is expected to Bettle the question of
whether the archmurderess set Are to her house and fled, or was murdered by Lamphere, her hired man.
(Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Nov. 9. Central Music hall was nearly filled to its capacity on Saturday by the milk shippers of the county, who had assembled there to confer with some of the leading experts connected with their industry in Illinois and Indiana. Dr. Bittings was the principal speaker of the session and he outlined the method of procedure in the recent agitation for clean and sanitary conditions of the milk houses, and the wiping out of all the cattle affected with tubereulosis. The farmers and and milk shippers as a rule seemed to be in favor of a thorough inspection
of Lake county cattle in a search for
the dreaded disease, and an earnest ac
tive and immediate campaign (Will be instituted in an effort to stamp out all
.traces of this disease in cattle. The farmers realize that a better condition of their stock will nelp their business ! materially, and it is now thought that
the oft mentioned objection against the
present actions and measures used in
the carrying out of their business will be eliminated and that nearly every
farmer will receive the inspection of Lake county cattle with pleasure, as
it is a steptoward the betterment of
their business.
Dr. V. D. Weis, secretary of the
board of health also attended the meet ing and made an address.
Gary's first cemetery will be located
at Glen Park.
It has been known for some time past that a number of Gary and Crown
Point men have been looking for
suitable location for a cemetery for
Gary, but they have worked quietly and little was known of their movements untrT yesterday, when a Times
man learned the story.
An option has been secured on two
pieces of land near Glen Park, contain
ing about 100 acres in all. It is said
by one. of the promoters that a legal
question has arlseu over the title to one of thetracts of land and the pro
moters are loath to give their names
until this matter has been decided in the courts. The cemetery, when laid out, will be one of the finest in the state. No pains or expenses will be spared to convert the now barren sand hills into a garden and spot of green. It will be arranged
with wide walks and driveways and will be dotted with trees and shrubs. A big lagoon will be constructed in the center and miniature canals will wind about the hillsides. The new cemetery will be named the Oak Hill Cemetery of Gary. It will be owned by the Oak Hill Cemetery Association of Gary, and it is said there is no limit to the finances at the back of the promoters. They consist of one Gary man, one Crown Point man and two Chicago capitalists. At this time they are unwilling to have their names
published but say that it is only a mat
ter of a short time until the articles of incorporation for the company will be filed at Indianapolis.
The location of the cemetery is
thought to be the best of any that
could be secured in or around Gary, on
account of- it being centrally located. Besides being in close proximity to Gary it is also near many other neigh
boring towns and on account of the
beauty of the cemetery there will be many people who will bury their dead at this place.
The cemetery will be a combination
Catholic and Protestant buying ground.
It will be divided into two distinct sections.
Tred Kappelman of Crown
Point, Formerly of East Chicago, Files Suit in Which He Asks for $5,000 Damages.
SOES LAKE STATION T010FFIGIALS Charges Persecution and Conspiracy
Was Otensibly Arrested for Carrying Concealed Weapons, But Deeper Motives Is Said to Have Been Responsible.
' Have Faith In Yourself. Without a robust belief in your
ability to accomplish you never will accomplish. You must believe in yourself and not depend on others to drag
you up the heights to success.
Big Boy Blue Gome Blow Your Own Horn.
"Chance" and St. Anthony. Who knows what is chance? A golf
er told me lately that he was playing
in Spain with a young Catholic stu
dent of divinity, who hit his ball into a forest of thistles. He sought for it
sorrowfully, ior golf bans are expensive in Spain. At last the player
bethought him of St. Anthony of
Padua, that great finder of things lost On his' watch chain the young man Wore a bronze cross dedicated to St. Anthony, or mixed up with him somehow. Detaching the cross he threw it high into tbe jungle of thistles; while my friend marked where it fell, went up to it, and found the lost ball lying within a few inches of the bronze cross.
A Day with Dollars In It. "It was such clear, bright, beautiful weather yesterday," says a Georgia editor, "that you could see a silver dollar half a mile, with a bill collector ten steps behind it and, of course, he had a better chance to get it than you had. Heaven send us more beautiful weather, and more silver dollars!" Atlanta Constitution,
Delicate Instruments. The amount of work done by the wink of an eye equals 100,000,000,000 of the winks marked on the scale of a delicate instrument; but even this performance is surpassed by the "coherers'' of Branley of Paris, by which the Hertz waves- of wireless telegraphy are caught in their pulsings through space.
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A rather queer incident happened last evening which may be a prelude to
something serious. Three little boys were going down Oliver street when they were stopped by a rather rough
looking character wearing a short
stubby beard, and a sweater, who asked
them to show him where Banker Bader lived. The boys took him down to the Bader house in Oliver street, but as
no one was at home they thought per
haps he was at the residence of his sister, Mrs. John Schaub. Going over
to Sheridan avenue they found Mr. Bader at Schaub's, where he requested the boys to call Mr. Bader out.
Clalma Under' Acquaintance. When Mr. Bader appeared he tried
to make blieve he was well acquainted
with him. Mr. Bader promptly Informed him that he thought he was mistaken, for he did not know his strange caller. When the man seemed so persistent he said: "What is my
name?" The man said "Frank Bader."
Mr. Bader sald "I guess your in wrong,"
and walked away.
After leaving the Schaub residence.
the man went north on Sheridan ave
nue to the lake, and he being followed by the boys, they saw him meet a "pal"
and it was then they reported the af
fair to the police. N The officers made a hurry up trip to the lake front, but were unable to find" the man answering this decriptlon. but intend keeping on the alert for suspicious characters.
Incurable. From Alabama comes the story of a hand-shaking ghost. Even death, It seems, cannot break some men of the habit of running for office.
Costly Tomb of Prophet. It is said that the tomb of Mohammed Is the costliest in existence, and that $10,000,000 worth of diamonds and rubies were used in fts decoration
IP YOU ART! BUSY, TRY TO FORGET A LOT OF THIGS AXD REBEMBEH THE WANT ADS.
TOLESTON. Mr. S. T. Stebbins of Windsor Park spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J.
James and family. Mrs. W. C. Kunert and daughter. Ruth, were shopping in Chicago Saturday. Miss Grace Fisher of Chicago was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Fisher here over Sunday. Krvin Elser visited in Hobart Saturday. Miss Ida Frank was shopping in
Hammond Saturday. Miss Henrietta Gibson of Valparaiso visited her parents here over Sunday. Fred Waldron returned from an extended business trip in Steubenville, O., Miss Iah Kline visited friends in Indiana Harbor Sunday. Miss Ella Buse visited relatives in Hammond Saturday. Miss Leah Kline and Mr. E. H. Mundell were the guests of Hammond friends Friday evening.
Fred Kappleman, of Crown Point, formerly of East Gary, is the most abused man in the county, according to the five paragraphs of a complaint which was recently filed in the Lake superior court at Hammond and which win shortly come up for trial. Conspiracy is the charge which he makes against seven of the most promising residents of the town formerly known as Lake Station.
The alleged persecutors wno will now be prosecuted by Mr. Kappleman are: Sam Blaemire.'city clerk of East Gary; Thomas Stearns, township assessor; Jo-
sepn rerry, now living in Gary: Darious Blake, a justice of the peaee; Sylvester A. Smith, town marshal. and
John Burt a well known citizen of the place. The amount of damage caused by the mental and physical anguish is placed at $5,000. The defendants are
sued jointly.
Grows From Old Time Fend. The case was evolved directly from
the arrest of Kappleman on the charge of carrying concealed weapons. Back of this, however, there lies the history of a neighborhood feud which lasted
for a number of years, and durinir ;
which time a number of arrests were made for minor offenses, such as assult and battery. According to the-
version of the affair as related by the
five prominent citizens interested in the V
case, Kappleman has ben, a continuous source of trouble since he has lived at
Lake Station, and Kappleman says that he was the most abused man that ever breathed. A few months ago Blaemire alleges that Kappleman threatened to shoot tiim and that .he was Known to ha3 carried concealed, a dangerous looking gun. Marshal Smith was asked to relieve him of tirts weapon as Blaemire said that he feared for .his life. As soon as Smith saw Kappleman he asked the, latter to deliver up the weapon, but instead of doing so he reached for his hip pocket and told the marshal to stand back.. Smith at once placed him under arrest.
Hun Detained In Jail. At the police tsation the prisoner was unable to furnish bond so Mr.
Stearns, whose residence wd nearby, was sent for and he was asked to
furnisli the bond. As Mr. Stearns had not been on friendly terms with Kappleman lie refused to do this, and the
defendant was detained in jail until the
his case came up for trial. Here he
pleaded guilty and was fined, the fine and costs amounting to $45. This h
was unable to pay, so he arranged to be taken to Crown Point, where he lived at that time and before he was put in tha county jail, secured the money with which to pay the-fine. He was then released. During the trial of tie case It is expected that the whole history of th small sized feud will be related by the participants. Among other things which will be brought out is the rynamitlng of Kappleman nouse which occured some time ago and the cause of which is unknown. Both sides charge, however, that the others know something about it. In the complaint filed by Bruce & Bruce, the attorneys, there are five
paragraphs in which the charges of
false imprisonment, threatening to hang, treat to extort money, and two of assult and battery are made. The
five men are being defended by At
torneys r etterer and nail oi oary.
British Pride. British hypocrisy is gradually disappearing. Until a few years ago most Englishmen fancied that to be born
in the Tiited Kinedcm was to be a
paragon of all the virtues. Brussels picked it up and found that is amounte
DOWNFALL OF NEGRO
An old Clark .street trick tried on a Gary foreigner yesterday, proved the down fall of a negro, who. was arrested by Officer Marquart on the charge of high way robbery. Milan Hart, the nxro who was arrested, and John Kreuczawoski, were both In a saloon south f the Wabash tracks and were drinking freely. L'pon the advances of the negro they two engaged in frlpndly sniffle and wrestling match during which the wily negro searched the pockets of his adversary. When he had about completed the job. Officer Marquart stepped into the place and the negro seeing the officer appear on the scene so suddently, dropped th money that he had taken from the pockets of the foreigner. The offWr
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Id
er arrest.
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