Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 154, Hammond, Lake County, 17 December 1908 — Page 1
WEATHER. Raia or mow and cooler today and Friday; fresh northeast winds.
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VOL. m., NO. 154.
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EDITION
HAMMOND, INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17,1908.
DIVORCE
SINGING SOCIETIES WILL SURPRISE COMPLETES
mm ALL HIS EVIDENCE
F. C. Miller Chosen as Head Commissioners Cannot Com
DNE CENT PER COPX
IIIIBI I 1 i
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of Amalgamation of
Singing Societies.
pel Federal. Clerk to Bring His Books.
JHEMBERS BOOST CLUB IDEA DEMOCRATS HAVEN'T GIVEN UP
Judge H. B. Tuthill at Val
paraiso Tries One of the Z YUktide FCStiVal 13 Many Hammond Democrats Go Down
Singular Divorce Cases
Ever Heard in Northern
Indiana Yesterday.
and Will Be Held on Jan-
nary the Third.
to
Crown Point Witnesses.
GALLED DEFENDANT
LOVE'S PEON IN EFFECT
Sensational Hobart Divorce Proceed
ings and Weil-Known Hobart
Woman Must Live With Husband
Whom She Wanted to Sell Accord- f,10"0" was a fi"ln tribute to his un ocu, decora- tiring efforts, first, in behalf of the Fi
If there was any doubt In the minds of some of the most conservative that the amalgamation of the Hammond Saengerbund and the Fidelia Singing societies would be a failure, that doubt was dispelled last evening when the united body of the Hammond Saenger-bund-Fidelia, as a single consolidated
body, chose its officers for the ensuing
year. Harmony and the best of good
reeling prevailed, as can be seen from
the list of elected officers, which repre
sent Doin tne idelia and the Hammond
baengerbund.
F. C. Miller, former president of Fi
delia, was elected to the presidency of
me amalgamated society, and the re
ing to His Talk.
J - aac maue her bed and ahe will have to sleep In It. John Krowlege Is a simple Austrian. He came to this country from a quiet farming community In his "a country and became a part our complex American clvllication. "t'pon his arrival here he was
picked up, bag and baggage, by I Z Mr- Emma Shearer-A dams-
rtrowiege and taken to her farm near Hobart. There he was : made a peon, enslaved by her wiles and her winsome ways. He ' was compelled to work hard each J day, and his return was her caresses. J . "Finally, when he refused long. er to accept her advances in return for bis day's work and rebelled against working for mercJ. ly love, she suggested that they Ke married. , " '"SowVaae refuses "tV share her
A property with him. As she has
: grown tired of him she Is seek
" - " -" securing a t divorce. It may be that he was cruel to her. It may be that he J struck her and abused her, but she was not deceived by him. She deliberately deceived him in order that she might secure the services of a strong farm hand. I refuse to sustain her complaint
lor a divorce." GIST OK JUDGE'S VERDICT.
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, (Special to The Times.) Valparaiso, nld., Dec. 17. "Love's peon." That is practically what Judge Harry B. Tuthill of the Laporte and Porter superior court called John
Krowlege, the defendant in one of the nfost remarkable divorce suits that has
ever come to trial in the Porter circuit court, to which it was venued
from the Lake superior court at Ham-
, mond.
Mrs. Emma Shearer-Adams-Kro wlege, who owns a farm of ninety acres of
as nne rarm land as there is In the county, near Hobart; has fine horses
ana Diooded stock, was refused a di
i, ner xorelgn husband, John Krowlege. and was told by the Judge
u' s"e wouia nave to stick by a bad
uargain. TV.
case was a rarce from, start to finish. Mrs. Krowlege was forrrNrly
. 1.. ucues vi Hooart. She was beautiful, and a farther attraction was her inheritance of ninety acres of fine farm land. She rapidly developed great business
aeua, and secondly, in his efforts to
bring about a consolidation.
T T 1 . .....
ne naa no jittle share in making
an evening like the one of yesterday a possibility. With the .backing, of the
wnoie organization the proposed club-
nouse which Is to be the permanent
home of the society will be tackled
with a renewed effort, and the prospects
lor tne home were never brighter It
is now the one wish of the singers that
tneif twenty-fifth anniversary, which
will be celebrated a year from next
April, will be celebrated in their club
house.
Boosting the Clubhouse.
The building fund is growing and as
an Impetus for its growth, and also that
tne wives and children of the members may share in the pleasures of the so
ciety, a big Christmas festival has been inaugurated and will be celebrated on Jan. 3. A huge Christmas tree will be set up and it will contain a nrcaont
every cmid whose father is a mem-
Der or the society.
ura xcmureB oi tne evenlne-
wm oe ine rarne or a $65 sewine-ma
-"uic. ine proceeds or the evening
wut oe turned lntothe building fund.
I he offficerg elected last evenine re
as ioiiows:
President F. C. Miller. Vice president George Lewke. Treasurer Otto Duelke.
Financial secretary August Zimmer
man IT.
rtecoroing secretary C. Markmiller. Trustees Carl E. Bauer, Emil Pick-
ard, Henry Rennow,
(BULLETIX.
Crown Point, Ind., Dec. 17, 4 P. Si
lt remained for the democratic wit
nesses In the Simons. WIckey contest to prove conclusively that It was only a
matter of money which prevented the
democrats from voting as many foreigners as the republicans did.
Perhaps the most enlightening testi
mony was received from Judge W. iv,
5 ucinico uemocratlc can
didate for the office of judge of the superior court, who said that If the management of the campaign had been
left In his hands the result would have been that the democrats instead of the republicans would have voted the
foreigners.
He corroborated the testimony of Mr. Surprise in every detail and made it ap
parent that the trouble with the demo
crats in the recent election was the fact that they lacked harmony rather than the foreign voe. He said that it was
all due to a lack -of mnn.r
.Bruno Schrleber says that he bad
twenty foreigners naturalized and (hat
Bis helpers bad a large nuinh-r
made citizens. He said that the only
reason that the democrats did not win the election was that they did not have
me rice to get the naturalization pa-
Jacob Schlocr is on he stand.
STRONG BUTTER SCARES!
DEPUTY SHERIFF B. L. P. BELL
HAMMOND MAN WHO RECEIVED HIS APPOINTMENT FROM SHE8IFT-ELECT THOS. GRANT TO-DAY
GETS DEAD
Wallace School Children Are Routed by William Goat; Teacher Is Rebuffed, J anitor Awed, and Principal is Hero.
PRO
F. HILL DOES
SOUE GREAT WORK
Secures the "Bis Stick" snrl Tin a
w V Battle With Stone Breaker's Pride in Wallace School Yard While Terrified Teachers and Children View With Alarm.
pers.
Crown Point, Ind., Dec. 17. Th
commissioners at Crown Point who
are hearing evidence in the SimonsWickey election contest finished with
deputy united States Clerk rh,i..
SurpriiejindtJts.attor,ieya rh.4a-
lestor -railed utterly ' In their efTn-t
to compel Surprise to reveal his ta.
at the Crown Point hearing.
iney tried to make the rPf,,ai t
.i ioc , ground ror contemn- k
their efforts were unavailing and it
was finally decided that Surprise could
not De compelled to bring the books
io u-rown .foint.
ContInaed on page 7.)
SUPT. M'DANIEL'S HONOR Hammond Educator Remembered by College Association.
PIONEER ISJED TODAY Mrs. Elizabeth Linz, Mother
of Five Children, Dies at Daughter's Home.
Mrs. Elizabeth Linz, one of the pioneers of Hammond, passed away this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lena Webster, 377 Oakley avenue.' Death was due to old age, the deceased having been 78 years old. She is survived by five children, they being F. C. Linz of Hammond, Mrs. Louis Linz of Delton, Mich., but formerly of Hammond; Mrs. Lena Webster of Hammond; William and Martin Linz of Hammond. The funeral has not been definitely arranged, but it is thought that it will take lace next Saturday afternoon from the Oakley avenue reairien
Burial will be at Oak Hill.
The deceased is a member of the
W. R. C. and was also a member of the
Hammond Baptist church.
national
SUES CHICAGO a ERIE
RAILROAD FOR DAWES
W1H Try Another Plan.
u..u.ovuuu mill cne niAn nnn
is io taice Surprise's deposition at Ham
.v,..vi allu sel ax ine records in that
manner. .Every effort will be mart
..o introduce the evidence that the nat
urauzauon books are suDnoseri t
tain into the testimony.
"u'i,1,oe was Kept on the stan .
til 12 o'clock today and he gave way
"""am xiasiings. Who wna th
ngni-nand man of Countv fh.irma.
x naro Scnaaf durine th eiii
T-T O ortm err n A . . t .
-v.60 aa asKea to tell what he
.new or the election frauds and ft u
said that all the information they got out of him was eome good pointers
"men tne democrats may use when
iey essay to run another
campaign in this county.
Schrleber the Next.
xunicucr, mat liflka
boy, is to be the next witness on h
stand and he will be asked to tell what
. mow. or the voting of foreigners
anu me aueged election frauds.
....,5 lIiB ueraocraig who are at the
-"".. seat in the interests of the contest are: Judge W. W. McMahon recent candidate for judge of the Lake suerior jourt; John L. Rhode, a big cog In the democratic political machinery; Peter J. Lyons, the man who tells about how he made foreigners vote the democratic ticket after their naturalization Papers had been paid for by the republicans; William Steffln, the democratic election detective, Frank Shine and Bruno Schrieber.
Bruno
Superintendent C. M. McDaniel of the
Hammond public schools, an alumnus manur? p
......j, iuuiuguiin is suing the Chicago aifd Erie railroad to recover $5,000 damages for the loss of a manure pile and ?1,000 for the loss of an acre of turf. It will be remembered that about a year ago an Erie engine is said to have set fire to the grass and weeds along the Erie right-of-way and in that manner to have ignited Phillip
"u conege and a director of that institution, was elected a member of the executive committee of the Wabash College association of Chicago This association was organized at the banquet, which was held at the UniVOT0 lf tint.
nights ago. The association will, admit to membership all Chicagoans who have ttended college for at least a year. This will include several Hammnod men besides Mr. McDanie. The Chicago alumni of Wabash college number about 120 people who are among the most infiuentlar'business and professional men In Chicago The membership fee will be 5, which will include the price of the annual banquet, which will be held in Chicago, i
lhe fire burned in the manure for several days and finally destroyed a large part of it. It is to recover damage for the loss of this pile that Attorney W. J. McAIeer is suing the railroad for his client. The complaint alleges that it took years and yoars to accumulate the manure and that it had increased in value by being well rotted. It alleges that there was a good market for the manure among the farmers and that he has suffered an Irreparable loss when the pile was burned.
Mc. McAIeer is suing forf$6,000
BECKER IS NAMED FOR SECRETARYSHIP
John C. Becker, trustee-elect of North township, was nominated for secretary of the State Trustees association at Indianapolis yesterday, which he and Mr. Schaaf are attending.
i wo changes in
One little bla-atlna- goat heM aleire
to the Wallace school laat Tuesday and it required the combined valor and the
Kencralshlp of Janitor W. I,. Marshall
o break the blockade which Mr. Rill
Goat established at the entrance of the building.
Not in eons have school author)tiA
been so deliberately and shamefnllv
ucneu. n un ine impudence and cour
age or a Castro, in his defiance of th
cnooi authorities, Mr. Ooat. the nron
erty of Dr. A. Stonebreaker, took up a position of vantage abutting the front
or tne school house. If he had a pen non of war on it would have been In scribed, "Abutting Done Right." Children Are Scared.
Along about time to dismiss school the little children started down the stairs in an orderly line. When the
nrst little child got outside of the door
me goat resented the attempt of the
youngster to run the blockade. Bla-at'
ana a long strong of
"lo imie cmw ran back into the
Duiiding, terrified at the warlike m.ni
festatlons of the goat. This demoralized
wic wnoie nne. and it was t
v , . .
uure ine teacner wanted to know
wnat was the matter.
. . uuni "isgieu nis wniSKer-
inos and took a new coign of vantage
Down the stairs tripped the trembling teacher to investigate, and all Bill
uoai nad to do was to blink his eyes at her to send her scurrying into the
scnooi room as fast as the children had gone. The sight of the pretty school ma'am tickled Bill to denth
.nd he batted his eyes at her several
times, but the teacher then went to the door and tried to parley with th
tubborn animal.
Nice little goatle. nice little otie"
said she, but Bill only shook hia poll
(Continued on page 7.)
CRIPPLE KILLED
BY M. C. TRAIN
Bert Tell of Glen Park Tries
to Flip Fast Moving Freight Train.
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"",""""" 11 rn-iviiiia
II AFTER 10 YEARS
Indianian, Thought to Be
Alive, Faces Big Fraud Charge, and Gary Salvation Army Man May Be Implicated.
FORMERINDIANA.
SOLijRRESTED. Clever Deception Practiced By Henry E. Agar . Whose Disappearance in 1905 was the Reigning Sensation In Indiana and Question of Insurance Is Now Pending in Courts.
Benjamin L P. Bell, 276 South Hohraan street, Hammond, has Ianthe tl 1" iT;t"ia Vk ' e north part of the conn
Icston and Hohw..T "Z'ZLl Chicago, Indiana Harbor, Tol-
. . ,r"""r) north ol Center
been ap-
nty Includ-
Bell received his credentials last
toivnahln. tw
niaht frntn h.rfff ..I ra.i
l,0ii , .. . . . iiiumas I. rant of
w . Z --" """" rr xo any rpc-lvlnK congratnlations . . X ed V. ;MP- he "PPOrt f Th' T,' S r-cl. T stated In these columns last week, Fred Furman of Crown Point was appoint He tm V," ttb t'rrito "tb north line of Center township He will have his headq-arters with Mr. Grant in the courthouse at Point, Deputy Sheriff BeH will have hi. office In the superior nrtn Hammond and will be -worn In January first. 7 , , 7 "
Mr. flll'a n n. . i ,
i-- . mi am urn stronir. ton
dosen applicants for both positions.
xmmmA.thmtJfhfrUUinmm chon wisely I. the general Vplnlonl Mr Z is one of the oldest settler, of Hammond and 1 M?' B'
" " inrrui republican
politics here for twenty-five years.
fire department, and no oil will mike a splendid official,
ii -
fire department, and no one doubt, but that "Ben "' . 1" "IJL".-.'"?
7 i"'H"ri.v railed,
-
The Captain Herrlngton mentioned la the story i. believed to be the Salvation Army man created a sensation In Gary sometime aKo for harllng rocks at passers-by, while he was Intoxicated and addressing a street meeting. Herrlngton had a morphine outfit on his persoa when arrested.
RD
CROSS STAMPS
APPEAR EN HAMMOND
IMlfOR BECKER IS ILL Ifi HOSPITAL
Messages of Good Cheer Are ( Hammond's Chief Executive
Prepares to Undergo Serious Operation.
Distributed in Hammond
For Holiday Season.
LIS TRIP DISASTROUS
REMAINS HORRIBLY MANGLED
Boy Was Seventeen Years of Age and
Horrified Companions Witness Accident.
Von will find that it 1. the merchant, who are advertising; la THE TIMES are the ones who are doin the !-M-. They are live ones.
legislation will be
suggested by Township Trustee F Richard Schaaf of Hammond when he addresses the State Association of Township Trustees today. The state
oi.iauon opened its convention yesterday in the supreme court room at the state house. At least 400 of the state's township trustees and trustees-elect are here for the meeting. Mr. Schaaf, who will speak on
mure legislation." does not like the way the depository law works. The law requires that the trustee's account shall be deposited in all the qualified depositories of the county. Down in Harmony there are twelve qualified depositories in different sections of the county and Schaaf finds It hard to regulate his deposits and keep hfs drafts on each of the banks equalised. He would have the la wamended to make
' f -orv.
Hobart, Ind., Dec. 17. Bert Tell, age
17, of Glen Park, was killed and his
body was strewn for SOO feet along- the
Mlchigraa Central railroad track when
he attennted to board a freight train In the vicinity of his home and slipped unde rthe wheels. The accident happened at about 10
o'clock Tuesday night. He and several other boys were on their way home, and as they crossed the tracks of the Michigan "Central railroad Tell at
tempted to jump an eastbound freight train which happened to be moving over the crosVng. ' f Infirmity Made Him Slip. The boy was a cripple and his infirmity .caused him to slip and fall beneath the wheels. His body was ground and mangled as car after car passed over it. and the swiftly moving train
carnea tne remains of the boy for a sixth of a mile down the tracks. The companions of the boy, who was killed, notified Coroner Gordon of Ho-
uari, ana ne immediately sent Fred Rose and James Shearer to pick un the body. The terribly mangled body was taken to Wild'B undertaking establishment, where the Inquest was held. - The boy was well liked and much sympathy was expressed to the parents in their bereavement.
He Will Speedily Eecover From
Painful Illness.
The American National Red Cross so
ciety, which is devoting especial at
tention just now to the ravages of
the white plague, has reached out to
Indiana, and through the Indianapolis Many Friends of Mntrnr. TTnna un..
office to Hammond. The National Red 1
Cros. society has set itself to raising
a huge fund with which It feels that it can successfully combat consumption and tuberculosis. Part of its plan in raising this fund consists selling Red Cross Christmas stamps, these stamps costing 1 cent a piece and are to be placed on all mail that goes out from now until after the New Year. The Indiana branch at Indianapolis has sent a consignment of 5,000 to the Hammond Womans' club and through the energetic work of Mrs. Minnie Kline. 26 Condlt street nn
Mayor Lawrence Becker is at the hos Pital today, preparing himself to under
6" an operation tomorrow. He returned
from Indianapolis yesterday morning,
110 attended the meeting of
the mayors of the Indiana cities, but his trip to Indianapolis seems to have aggravated his condition. Tin -t
Mrs. D. C. Atkinson, 368 South Hon- j St- Margaret's hospital voluntarily last mn street. evening and spent a restful night. Send a Message of Good Cheer. 1 is condition is somewhat imnrnvpH t n
The entire consignment has already been placed in the various stores of Hammond, where they may be bought by the public. The stamps serve a twofold purpose. In addition to swelling the white plague fund they send a message of good cheer for the holidays. The stamps are to be placed in the
lower left hand corner of the envelope
and are conspicuous there with the Red Cross sign and the holly. Mrs. Joseph Ibach, president of the Hammond Womans' club, and her two assistants.
airs. K.nne and Mrs. Atkinson, are hop
ing that all of the stamps will have I Sev
' "u- "e win not permit his optimism, at this- time, to lead him away from the operating table. Liver troubles and resulting complications seem to be the cause of his illness, but he, his Physician, Dr. W. F. Howat, and a multitude of friends hope confidently that his health will be speedily restored after the operation. Hi For Months. -Mayor Becker has been ill now for several months, but despite this and against the advice of his physicians he pluckily persisted in going to his of-
uce and attending tn
Princeton, Ind., Dec. 17. Henry E. Agar, a former Gibson county repre
sentative, supposed, to have been drowned, two years ago in the Wh.h
river at Mount Carmel. 111., and who ws subsequently found, it is said, to bV" more "ihan; iiM.OOO short' Tn his '
grain business, is under arrest at Harl-
ington, Tex., and will ' return to Indiana without requisition. For some lime Agar has been thought
to be in Mexico. It appears he crossed the border yesterday and was caught. Telegrams stated that Agar had confessed and waived extradition. Local officers left for St. Louis last night and will go after Agar. Agar's insurance. amount!
about $30,000 in various companies, has
Deen bitterly contested in the courts, but two policies have already been paid to the supposed widow and estate. At the time of his
1 Agar was one of the beft known Hnci
ness men in this part of the state, his chief interest being the Princeton Elevator company. Early in Januarv, 1907, he gave much attention to corn buying. With the river a flooded stage arid wind raging, Agar, crippled with rhumatism and wearing a heavy closely buttoned overcoat; was on a corn barge on the Wabash river . one
night when he suddenly disappeared. Herrington heard a cry and a splash, but no trace of Agar could be found on the river except- a hat. Later developments rave rise to a suicide theory and his death was generally believed, though some doubted it. Then came the insurance suits. An atttempt was made to prove Captain Herrington an accomplice in the al
leged fraud, but nothing was proved in this except that Harrington had received a 5100 check from Houston, Tex., from a Frank Williams, which he admitted he couldn't quite explain, it is claimed. Herrington is now supposed to be in Gary, Ind.
6IFF0RD BOAD COMING Advance Guard of Lake County's Newest Railroad Strikes Town.
business.
been sold by Jan. 1
They have been placed in the following business houses: The public library. ' The First National bank. . The Commercial bank. Citizens' German National bank. Hammond Savings and Trust company. StaufTer's drug store. Summers' drug store. Bickneli's drug store. Negele's drug store
Model Clothing store. Ruhstadt's clothing store. Burk's grocery store, 270 South Hohman street. Ladies among the various Ladies' Aid societies have also been supplied with a limited number of the stamps. j
everal weeks ago he had Dromls
undergo an operation and was to leave for Chicago on the following day. On the following day, however, he felt so greatly improved that he dismissed the thought of an operation. He did. in fact, feel much Improved and had himself thinking that he was almost well when he suffered a second attack. Now however; ince he has consented to an
"",u ns mends feel that he will soon be well enough to enjoy, the health for which he has been wishing so much lately.
SUING FOE DIVORCE
Elizabeth ReinholtB is suing August Reinholtz for a divorce In the Lake superior court on the charge of cruel and inhuman treatment. She alleges that he called her vile namo
trathfalfr iit tks tub 1 SDpnt nil of-ki.
TIMES 1. . . ' ,: . - - r: "-- r wmsKey.
f - - ..HKr, pm say wants o,ijju alimony, a divorce
- - - - ana in aim t
If yon eai
aubaertha the custody of her children.
and
(Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Dec. 17. Some of the engineeis and advance ir,?n on the
vjni'jiu rauruau, wnicn is constructed to about four mile3 southeast of Crown Point, have already made this town their headquarters. Constructing Engineer Hobbs reports tiat the progress of the road as going slowly, but it is still coming this way and will strike the Panhandle ro&d atout a mile east of town. Mr. Giilord is having considerable trouble in obtaining right
oi way, and citc-s a cf.se where one farmer askod $390 for scarcely an acre of ground witli no improvements on it. Where it can be done the ground is being bought outright in acreages, to be held by , the promoter of the road until the price of land advances, to make the purchase a rood investment Parcels of the Rosenthal and Woodke land were puchasej thi.s week for right of way, and the engineer expects to reach the Pennsylvania railroad in th early spring, providing they are not hampered too much in securing right of way.