Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 163, Hammond, Lake County, 29 December 1908 — Page 8

Tiiesdav;Dec. 29, 1908AflGBY FATHER SEEKS ELOPING DAUGHTER WILL THEII BE FIGHT 111 SALQDII An Earthquake in Calabria Drawn Ly Signor Matavia an Eye ltness. A DRY CITY IIOWJII COURT HIS GOOSE i . ALL RIGHT Nineteen Year Old Gary Boy Marries Rich Ohio Girl. After April 30 There Is to Be Piechocki Bros, of Indiana ;an Awful Gurgling in the Steel City. Harbor Are Made Defendants. HOME FOR A VISIT BAD ON PARCHED THROATS S. K0WALSK1 IS THE PLAINTIFF

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Norman Cole, Son of Druggist, Said

He Would Visit oMther Takes a Wife Instead.

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It was learned today from a reliable

source that Norman Cole, the 19-year-

old son of W. H. Cole, proprietor of

the Borman-Watson Drug company, 718 Broadway, had stolen a march on his

parents by eloping and marrying Miss

Mary Walker of Dillionvale, O., girl

the day after Christmas.

The story was given further credence

this morning when it was learned that

J. C. "Walker, who is said to be the wealthiest man in Dillionvale,' O., had

arrived in 'Gary last night, and was

looking for his daughter, but could

and no trace of her here.

Norman Cole left Gary on the 17th

of December to spend the holidays with

his mother and other relatives in Dillionvale, O. Mr. W. Cole and son have just recently purchased the BormanWatson Drug company on Broadway. Their home was in Dillionvale, O., before moving to Gary about a month ago. It was here that young Cole met Miss Walker, -who is but 16 years of age. Both attended high school together and had known each other for years. When the young man came to Gary, it is said, that the two kept up a secret correspondence together through the aid of a "best friend" in both cities. This gave both the young people a chance to lay the plans for their elopement and marriage. Were la Toledo. Cole left Gary for Dillionvale the week before Christmas, and in the meantime Mr. Cole arrived in Gary to take his son's place in the store. On Saturday, the day after Christmas, Norman left home as did Miss Walker.

fNothing save a telegram from Toledo,

O., has been heard of them since except a short letter and several postal

cards, which hinted that the two had married and would robably arrive in

Gary some time this week. Mr. Walker arrived in Gary last night, and hoped to find that he had arrived In time to

head oft the marriage, as he consid

ered his daughter too young to take such a ste. But he. counted without cost, for the young, couple are now

spending their honeymoon and by the time they arrive in Gary the wrath of

the Irate parent will have subsided and instead of giving vent to tjielr feel

ings they will shower tneir " blessings,

People of Gary Will Then Become

Very Sociable With North Township Tavern Drinks.

On the thirtieth of April, 1909, Gary

will be mo dry that It ttIII parch one's

llpn and call forth nothing more than

a raaplnar whisper to even mention the name of the new ateel city. Five saloons went out of the business yesterday, seven will quite the latter part of January, ten will close up shop in February, eleven" will become drug stores or blind tigers in March, and in April eighteen saloons will

either board up the front doors or start

to doing business in the woodshed Just for the novelty of it, don't you know.

The slaughter of innocent little sa

loons in the next few months in Gary

and vicinity will simply be horrible. There will be a general taking down

of the bars, and the thirst parlors In Hessvllle, Gibson and Indiana Harbor

will do all of the Calumet township business.

Expect a Lot of Sociability. It is expected as a "result that the

people of Gary will become much more sociable with the people of North

township than ever before. In the future, the people of Hammond must not suspect that every time a Gary law

yer comes to Hammond he is after the

superior courthouse.

The men who will be compelled to close this month are John F. Farrell, Mike Mandlsh, Anton Sxmit, Fred Stuckman and Charles Van Guilder. Some of these are among the best known in the business.

Gary will be the first city in this part of the state which will have an opportunity to try the blessings of being dry. The people of Hammond, East Chicago and Indiana Harbor will be able to look over the corporation line in a few months and say: "Hello, Gary, how do you feel since you have sworn off?" and the people of Gary will wince and squirm and reply weakly, "I never felt better in my life." The Union saloon, which was located on Broadway, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, closed Saturday night. The' saloon is owned by Martin Bennett and was run by Bob Wilkins for the past month under Bennett's name. Bennett's license does not expire for several months and there is no explanation made as to his reason for closing.

Bennett is known to have left Gary several weeks ago and has not been seen since.

Says He Was Believed of a Gun and

$75 in the Place Provocation - . Case Up.

Indiana Harbor, Ind., Dec. 2.9 Judge G. E. Reiland will; today, preside, at the hearing of several flagrant statute vio

lation cases.- The participants , in ev

ery occasion are residents .of . the for

eign district and their fights. were evi

dently occasioned by too great an in

dulgence in "Christmas joy."

Stanley Kowalski yesterday appeared

before the court and asked for a war

rant for the arrest of Leo and Stanley

Uiechockl, the Alder stj-eet saloon

keepers. Kowalski had two beautifully

decorated optics, swollen so badly that he could not even peep from beneath, his eyelids and had to be led into court by his brother. Kowalski recited a pitiful story which, if true, will mean a heavy fine for the Piechocki brothers. On Christmas eve, he declared, he en

tered ' the Piechocki saloon, intending to buy a few drinks. No sooner had he entered the door when Leo, who was evidently half-full, stepped up and relieved him of his gun and $75 in cash. Another Provocation Charge. He was ' then beaten, bruised and battered and his battle-scarred body thrown into the street, where he was

later found by friends and taken to ! his home. Piechocki brothers resent the' assertion " that they robbed their vietim, declaring that Kowalski attempte dto draw his gun in their saloon and that they merely took ' it away from him and gave him a lesson that he will long remember.

As a new angle in the troubles of

John Ondrak and Mike Christan, the

latter has Ondrak arrested on a charge

of provocation. The defendant in the

new case ' recently charged Christan with the theft of a valuable gold ring

and on Saturday evening demanded its

return. Christan maintained his inno

cence and declared that he knew abso

lutely nothing about the jewelry. He was then met with a voluminous attack of curses, "much to his disgust and dismay." Instead of striking Ondrak, Christan resorted to the natural course of the law and will secure legal

redress. The case will be defended by Attorney J. D. Kennedy of Magoun avenue.

Amusing Petit Larceny Case Is Brought Up for Trial in Judge Fitzgerald's Court in Gary Yesterday Afternoons

NOTABLE EARTHQUAKES TAKES A MILLION LIVES.

. .Place.

Catania, Sicily ........1137 Syria 115S CUIda 1S8 Naples 1456 Lisbon . , 1331 Xaplea 12 Raguaa ...1837 SchamaU .1672 Port Royal, Jamaica. ... 1092 Sicily . '. . .1693 Aqulla, Italy .......... 1703 Jed do Aokio) ..... 1703 Abruzzi, Italy .....1706 Algter .......1716 Palermo ...1728 China ......1731 Naples 1732 Lima and Callao. ....... 174 Grand Cairo . . 1 . .1754 . Kanchan, Perala ...... 175.' I .in bo n ................. 1755 Fez, Morocco. . . . . 1757 Syria. .....1759 Martlalco 1767 Tauris 17S0 Calabria .....1783 Bolivia . ............ . 1797 Xaplea 1805 Katch, India 1819 Aleppo ...... . . 1822 Ma rein, Spain.. 1823 Canton, China 1830 Calabria ...... , 1S35 Martinique ...1839 Cape Haytlen, South Domingo ...... ...... 1S42 Point-a-Pitre, Guadelop.1843 Great Sanger...... 1856 Calabria, Italy,...,. 1857 Quito ........... ... 1859 Erzeroum, Aula Minor... 1850 Mendosa, S. America. . . . 1861 Manila .1863 Mltylrne . . . . ... 1867 Peru and Ecuador.. 1867 Santandrr, Colombia . . . . 1875

Scio Cashmere '. . . . . . . The Riviera.... Yunnan, China..

Valparaiso, Chile ....... 1806 San Krnuclnpo. ........ .1!K1 Kingston, Jamaica ...... 1907 Total "..v..

Year. Lives lost.

15.000 20,000 60,000

. 1882 .1885 .1887 .1888

40,000 30,000 70.000 5,000 80,000 N 3,000 100,000 5,000 200,000 15,000 20,000 6.0OO 100,000 1,900

18.000 40.000 40,000 50,000

12,000 20,000 1,600

43,000 25,000 40.000 fl.OOO 2.0OO 20,000 6,000 6,000 l.OOO 700

3,000 5,000 3,000 10,000 3,000 6,000 7,000 1,000 1,000 25,000 11.000 4.000 3,000

practically was swept from the earth by a vast wave from the sea. Few living things escaped from this inundation. Among those lost was Commander Passino of the Italian navy, and a body of men whom he had led ashore as a rescue party from his ship, the Barbor, after the first, shock. Four Cities Wholly Lost. Calabria towns, PaJml, Reggio, Scilla, and Bagnara are reported to have been destroyed completely, being now merely masses of ruins. Many hundreds of persons were killed or in

jured , in each place. It is reported

that Reggio met the same fate as Messina. Mount Aetna seems to have been the

center of the disturbance and that

portion of Sicily within a radius of

forty miles seems to have been laid

waste. It is not known whether the volcano is in action, as that section of the island is completely cut off from the world, even the railroads of the

entire eastern half of Sicily being destroyed. The region devastated today is sub

ject to earthquakes and probably 250,000 persons have been killed by these phenomena in Sicily and Calabria in the last three centuries. .

work far superior to that actually furnished by the L G. & E. F. people. The complaint is mainly against the outside fixtures, comprising the large art posts at the head of the outer steps. These, are now surmounted witha stifflooking, ugly head-piece and not the artistic ardornment supposed to have been selected by the committee. The inside fixture are also frail and not well constructed. One of the councilmen expressed himself last evening by declaring that the "installation was about as good as could be done by an average wash-woman." Round castings have been furnished to fit over hexagon and octagonal slugs and other mechanical discrepancies too numerous to mention were pointed out by the council. Chief of Police Hlggins also succeeded in securing three new policemen for the regular force. Hold-ups have been so numerous in this city for the past two months that it is becoming dangerous to walk about the streets at right. Leo MeCormack and William

Hughes, the latter of the Harbor, have already been selected to fill the posi

tions, and Mayor DeBriae will make his third choice this morning.

EAST CHICAGO COUNCIL LETS FIBEJIAp CONTRACT Architect J7T. Hutton of Hammond Draws Plans for New - Fire Station There Which Will Complete East Chicago's Municipal Buildings.

Rome, Dec. 29. Fifty thousand persons were" killed,""a"ccording to One 'estimate, by an earthquake which this morning destroyed most of the human habitations on the Island of Sicily and in the department , of Calabria, Italy. It is believed to he the greatest disaster of modern times. " '

. (Special to The Times.)

East Chicago, Ind.. Dec. 29. The fondest hopes of Fire Chief Nelson De

2,300 Lcrs are about to be realized and the 4,000 city g-iven an adequate fire station. At 1.500, the regular meeting of the common 452 council laet. night it was decided to 1.10O thoroughly remodel the old "Water and i Light company's plant, in the rear of 1,102,552 the new city hall. Plans have already

been submitted by Architect J. T. Hutton -of Hammond, and In- accordance with these plans, A. H. "W. Johnson, a local contractor, was awarded the reconstructive plum. There were three bidders for the work. Mr. Johnson offered to complete the contract for $8,365. while Fred Stewart of East Chicago bid $M50 and Eric Lund of Ham-

Reports arriving late tonight all tend to confirm the statement that the catas-

mond $8,650. Ins Mr. Hutton's plans the exterior

trophe possibly will equal that which J of the building remains unchanged, occurred in 1783, when 40,000 persons j The inside, however, will be remodeled perished at Messina. Thousands are to permit the use of the building for believed to have been killed in other . the city stables as wtll as a substanplaces. 1 I ttal engine and hose house. The secAccording to late advices tonight ; ond story of the building will be used the city of Messina, Sicily, was terribly '. for the storing away of the city's hay damaged by the first shock at 5 o'clock, and feed. With a new city hall, a new

and later throe-fourths of the town police station at Indiana Harbor and a

v remodeled fire . station. East Chicago

may well be proud of her municipal

Duiidings and the city fathers need

now but to install a private police and fire alarm system to put the city on

a strictly metropolitan basis. This mat

ter, it is understood, will be considered at an early meeting of the council

and appropriation secured for tho pur

pose. Dowt Like be Flit area.

The aldermanic body also took occasion to express their dissatisfaction

with the new . electric fixtures in the city hal?. The. fixtures cost $1,525, and were supplied by the Illinois Gas and Electric Fixture company. It appears that the Chicago company has no con

tract wi tli the city for the furnishing of the material, having installed their

work on the recommendation of Alder

man wleklinskl and a purchasing committee. No acceptive record can be found on City Clerk Spencer's books

and it is not unlikely that the entire contract will be given to another con

cern. On their visit to Chicago, the coun cilmanic committee, headed by Alder

man Lewis, were shown a, grade of

LEVI DESERTS HIS HE

(Special to The Times.) Allen Levi, a Gary tailor,xwas ar

rested this morning on the charge of wife desertion, charges having been

preferred by his wife, who was compelled to make her own living In a little shack the neighborhood of Eigh

teenth avenue and "Washington street.

Levi will have a hearing today in Jus tice Townsley's court.

Mrs. Levi has the sympathy of all the

people who know the facts in the case

She has tried hard to make a living for herself and her four children, and the episode of several months ago is still fresh in the minds of some people, especially the Jews of Gary, when Levi

trid to produce testimony to the effect that his wife was insane. The entire

Jewish community stood by the wife.

with the result that she was exonerated of the charges that her husband

tried to prefer against her.

GARY

INSTALL

Colored Lodge Men Have a High Time at Gregory Hall. St. Luke's lodge, Gary colored Masons, last night gave a public installation of officers and a most pleasing entertainment to the lodge ' members and their wives. The ceremonies took place at the Gregory hall, on "Washington street, between Fifteenth and ' Sixteenth avenues, and were well attended. A stringed orchestra provided the music for the evening while the wives of the Masons prepared and served an excellent luncheon. D. W. Caine of Indianapolis, grand master of the state, was present and officiated at the installation and later made a short address. One of the pleasing numbers on the evening's program was a vocal selection by Mrs. Oscar Byrd, Mrs. Emmett Bell and Mrs. Mary Champ.

The arrangement committee consisted of John Ghoston, chairman; Henry Travis, secretary, and John H. Jones,

treasurer.

Wouldn't It make yon angry If yo bouK-ht a goose for Christina, . had It cooked at a friend's houne for your affinity no your wife wouldn't get "wise"! and then have yonr friend get drank and permit the gooae to cook for twelv hours, until It resembles a cross between nn old shoe and a platter of tripe f That was exactly what happened Robert Burnett, erstwhile janitor in various Broadway buildings and who resides at the corner of Seventh avfenue and Washington street. The friend who "cooked his goose," as far as the afftnity part of it was concerned, ria Henry, Pettit, who appeared ." before Judge' P. L.-- Fitigerald yesterday, charged with petit larceny to the extent of a $1.76 goose. The case created a great deal of amusement in Gary yesterday afternoon when the case came up fjr trial. Much, pro and con evidence was intro

duced at the trial until finally the facts were sifted to the bottom and the real cause for he arrest of Pettit was discovered. Attorney Clarence Bretsch drew from the prosecuting witness the fact that Pettit really had not been arrested for stealing the goose, but for the way in which the fowl was cooked. This Is How It Was! : The story of the unique affair is as folios: Bob Burnett purchased a Christmas goose for the sum of $1.76. The goose he intended to serve; to his affinity, a buxom colored Miss of the south end. Not ishing his wife to discover this fact lie had the defendant, Henry, slip into his house the night before Christ

mas and take the goose from the table and carry it home, where he , was to have parboiled it so that it could be easily cooked the next morning. After a few rounds of drinks was had the goose was safely tucked under the arm of Henry, who took it to his own shack. He then, after drinking another small bottle of whisky, proceeded to slam the goose into the washboiler and set it on the stove. With a clear conscience he then lay down to sleep off what looked like a pretty good

sized "stew" of his own.

Oh, Such a Headache! The next time that Henry "came to" he found himself confronting Bob and trying to explain how the goose was all cookd to pieces, and Bob was trying to console his affinity. Finally,however, he became so enraged at missing . ther feast ' that -he had his former friend arrested on a charge of petit larceny, but he could not prove the charge.' v . ' ' After the trial Bob, being unable to make the charge hold good against his former friend, turned around to the judge unexpectedly and asked him if he he knew the difference between a wife and an affinity. . . . '. The judge shook his head, pleading Ignorance. "It's jus' this way," 'Bob explained hastily, "my wife cooks my meals and my affinity cooks my goose."

TWO CASES OF TYPHOID AT MILLER STATION.

Two cases of typhoid fever are reported from Miller. The two children of George Buckingham, George and Clara, are said to be the dangerously ill, the conditiin of the little girl being

especially serious.

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