Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 178, Hammond, Lake County, 16 January 1909 — Page 8
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THE TIMES. Saturdav, Jan. 16, 1909.
8ARTEHDERACQUITTED BY JUDGE REILAI1D Harbor Man Who Carved on on Garyite's Face Goes Free.
HE ACTED I'l SELF-DEFENSE
Gary Boilermaker Will Wear Scars
for Balance of His Life on Account cf Encounter.
(Special to The Times.)
East Chicago, Ind., Jan. 16. Judge William A. Relland yesterday acquitted
Edward Snicker of the Harbor hotel
in the trial of the caee in which he
was charged with assaulting one Mike Sheedy, and declared that the assault
was in self-defense. Sheedy, as a re
sult of the knife-play, will carry sev
eral ugly scars upon his face as long
as he Uvea.
Tho defendant was a bartender in
the Harbor hotel until a few weeks ago and Sheedy, a boilermaker at Gary, but a registrant at the hotel. For some reason ho took a dislike to Snicker and did everything in his power to do the man harm. On a Sunday after
noon, two months ajo, Sheedy started a fight lr the bar-room of the saloon and attempted to injure the bartender.
He was arrested on a charge of Intoxication and a small fine imposed. The
following" day, while Snicker was In a side room reading a paper, Sheedy entered the room and closed the door behind him. With an oath Sheedy knocked Snicker from his chair, and as the assault was entirely unexpected Snicker did not have time to prepare for the attack. He managed to gain his feet, however,, and grasping a razor from his pocket," slashed his way to the door and freedom. Sheedy was taken to St. Margaret's hospital where It was feared for a few days that he could not recover from his wounds. Snicker has resigned his position with the Harbor hotel and says that he has had enough of the Sheedy crowd and that he would not come Into contact with the man under any circumstances.
GENERAL STRIKE IS AVERTED
Failure of College Education. "Well," observed Old Man Potts, "I've spent, a heap o' money on my boy Bill's education, more'n nine hundred dollars jest to see him through Yale. And I ain't through yet. It shorely makes me sore to think of the money I'm wastin' on a boy who ain't got as much sense now as he had before he went to college." "What's' the matter, father?" asked Mrs. Potts. "Mebbe you're a little hard on Bill." "No, I ain't, Mary," answered the old man. "Jest to show you a little while ago I says to him I thinks It was going to rain tomorrow. What fool answer d'ye suppose he made to me?" "I'm sure I don't know, father." "He begged my pardon." Harper's Weekly.
(Continued from nt tt. ' the rollers to receive payment for six heats. As the labor is paid for according to the actual work performed, the Cadman brothers felt the unjustlco of this demand and refused to heed it.
MU'alte on Both Side.. Whether the executive board concurred in their decision is not known, the only expression that could be obtained-from either of the Cadmans being that everything was adjusted nicely. "We found that both sides had been slightly mistaken," said Mr. James Cadman of Magoun avenue, yesterday afternoon, "and both myself and my brother will return to work on Monday." The sessions of the executive board of the union organization was presided over by the president, J. P. Mc-
!Ardle, of Pittsburg, Fa., and his assistant, Benjamin Jones, also of PittsJburg. Mr. McArdle who is well known in union circles Is a man of national 'reputation as a .lecturer and has consented to address the members of his union in Odd Fellow's hall at East Chi
cago this evening. A call Is extended to all the members of Lake Lodge No.
2, Davis Lodge, Emlyn Lodge and In
terstate Lodge to be present at this session. Mr. McArdle will not discuss the recent controversy between the Cadmans and the Republic mill, but will confine his remarks entirely to a
few suggestions for the betterment of
labor conditions throughout the Calumet region.
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ing the rail mills at Gary sufficient power. . The steel which has bee nbrought out from South Chicago will ze used again In the attempt to produce a rail: The soaking pit in which it is heated to the proper temperature to roll, has proved most satisfactory. . From the activities around the open hearth furnace It looks as if one of these would be tried out In the near future. Several carloads of scrap-iron have been secured which will be put Into the furnaces by the "chargers" for a test of number four open hearths when they are ready.
Gary Rail Mill Will Be Tried
Out Again Tomorrow; the Trial Earlier in the Week Was Not a Complete Suc-
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Bufnngton Plant Is Also Supplied
From Same Source, But Will Be
Cut Off Temporarily in Order That Indiana Steel Mills May Have the
Necessary Amount of "Juice.".
Tomorrow the next tryout of the rail
mill will be made at the Indiana steel plant at Gary. The officials of the plant will make another effort to run
a perfect rail through the mill and If
they succeed the mill may be put in
operation within the next two weeks.
The effort last Monday to produce a
rail proved a failure because of cer
tain minor defects In the setting up of
the machinery. The steel, after it had left the soaking pit was started
through the rollers, but before it could
run through the power broke off and
the men had to give It up. "The rail
was not turning out the way it should
have anyhow," say some of the off! dais of the plant.
Sunday afternoon another trial will
be given the rail mill. During this
I week the mechanics . have been busy
adjusting the machinery so that they
look for a successful tryout tomor
row.
Power from South Chieaa-o.
In order to be assured of sufficient
power to run a rail clear through to
completion the plant at Buffiington,
which receives its power from the South Chicago plant "of ' the United
States Steel corporation as well as
Gary does at the present time, will be
closed down for the afternoon, insur
DEFEAT MAY KILL
OPTION LAW REPEAL
(Continued from pace oae.)
HARBOR ROYALLEAGUE
HSTALLS OFFICERS
Six New Members Receive Degree; Ceremonies Car- . . ried Out Last Night.
ORDER HAS HEALTHY GROWTH
Harbor on Jan. 29. The business tf the councils will be transacted at the South Bay hotel in the afternoon with the initiation of a class of fifteen candidates at the evening" session. The Auditorium hall has Teen engaged for the work and the degree team of Banner council, Chicago, equipped with a bugle and drum corps, will administer the degrees. It is estimated that at least three hundred members of the league from Hammond, East Chicago, Chicago and Indianapolis will be in attendance. Archon c P. Burdick is arranging for a banquet to follow the exemplification of the ritual.
ment, but they were not brewers. In the fight against him were-two of the largest brewers In the state, Crawford Fairbanks of Terre Haute, and Senator
Steve Fleming of Ft. Wayne. Fairbanks was at first supposed to be for John E. Lamb of Terre Haute, but later he changed his position and came
out for Shlvely. And after the caucus
had made Its nomination -and the Shlvely boomers returned to the Denlson hotel at 3 o'clock in the morning
they found Crawford Fairbanks and
Maurice Donnelly, his Indianapolis
manager, there ready to receive them. Fairbanks and Donnelly hugged the Shlvely fellows and thanked them for
giving their support to Shlvely, and there was a general love feast.
Fleming Sore on Kern. Fleming's fight against Kern, of
course, was based on other grounds than brewery grounds. Fleming hates
Kern because several years ago Kern defeated him for chairman on the democratic state committee and that defeat has stung ever since. So Fleming went into the senatorial fight not
as a brewer but for the sole purpose
of defeating Kern, and .incidentally.
to nominate Hoffman if he could. But
the fact remains that Fleming is a brewer and that he was against KJern. Now that the lines have been drawn so clearly as to leave no question of doubt as to the fact that Kern was defeated by the activity of the brewing interests Kern's followers are saying things. And Kern himself has promised that he will issue a .statement that will scorch somebody. He charges that he was double-crossed in the choice of a senator and that those whom he regarded as his friends threw him down. Whether this will involve Tom Taggart or not is not yet known, but Taggart has always been close to the brewery crowd and has, in fact, been one of its leaders. This situation puts the repeal of vthe county option law In danger, and there is a good chance for the effort to fail. There is no question but that Kern has many friends In the legislature. This was shown plainly by the fact that he received 35 votes on the last ballot, while Shlvely received 42, a bare majority. If a dozen or more of Kern's supporters take a notion to get revenge for his defeat anl vote against the repeal of the county option law, the brewers may find that they have made an expensive bargain.
Outgoing Archon Van Home Is Presented With a Solid Emblem in
Honor of Services.
Judicial Severity. Silence in the court!" thundered th
judge, and the laughter died away.
"Mr. Bailiff," continued the Instruc
tions from the bench, "eject the next
man who defies the law of gravity.": Philadelphia Ledger.
(Special to The Times.) Indiana Harbor, nd., Jan. 16. Fifty members of the local council of the Royal League, attended the annual installation of officers last evening and assisted In the initiation of six new members. The evening was one of the most interesting in the history of the local fraternity and the reports of the various officers showed a growth In nearly every department. The Royal League, a council of which also exists In Hammond and East Chicago, is one Of Lake county's aggressive organiza
tions and the Harbor council is second
to none in its growth during 1908. Almst fifty new members have been initiated in the past twelve months and
the enthusiasm last evening was so great that resolutions were passed demanding the Installation of at least a
hundred new members during the com lng season. .
The officers for 1909 were Installed
by the Advisory Archon, Charles E.
Fowler, who vested authority in the
following: The New Officers. Archon C. P. Burdick. Vice Archon Charles Egbert. Prelate F. R. McKnight. Guide J. E. Reed. Scribe F. C. McCrum. Collector John Bevans. Treasurer I. Meyer. Orator C. A. Leach. Warden J. B. Beal. Sentry William Hart.
Fast Archon Williard B. Van Home.
The outgoing archon, ( Attorney W
B. .Van Home, was .presented with a solid gold jewel, emblematic of his office." Undef the Van Home ad'minlstra tlon,' the lnstallatlng officer" declared the league has prospered -to such an
extent that a substantial recognition of
his energies was deemed -Just. Mr.
Van Home accepted the gift of the
league with a few brief remarks thank
ing the individual . members for their
assistance. To Entertain Dlgnltartr.
Arrangements are now being made for the entertainment of the supreme
and advisory councils of the league
who will hold their sessions in the
Pretty Slow. Horace L. Moore was lieutenant col
onel of the noted Nineteenth Kansas Cavalry. He could lead men for a longer period without rest, on a single ration, than any other officer. Though
not given to jokes, he was the reputed author of as many astonishers as the great Lincoln.
One time, on the march, he sent an
orderly with a message to an officer at some distance.. Before the man was out
of hearing, Moore shouted: "Hey orderly! Come back here?"
He came galloping back, sitting limp
ly In the saddle.
' Moore; dropped his voice, and assum
ing a half confidential manner inquired: "Orderly, In the course of yoiif life have you ever seen a snail?"
"Yes, sir," was the astonished reply. "You met him, then," replied Moore, "for you'd never overtake one!" Kansas CHy Journal.
"What do you mean by staring at my partner so?" ""Your partner happens to be my wife that is my only excuse." Flleende Blatter. ,
Perplexity. Mike (s some one knocks) Sure, .if oi don't naswer, ut's some wan t' give me a job, an' if oi do, ut's the lan'lord after the rint. Life.
The Initial step has been taken looking to the enactment of a law by the Minnesota legislature, requiring that all meat cutters be subject to an examination as to their qualifications beforea board of examiners appointed by the state.
According to Industrial Insurance experience, the 1 fatal accident rate of electricians ; 14.7 per cent were due to accidents and of 240 deaths of linemen, 46.7 per cent. . ' ..,
Where Did Hubby Get It? Why shouldn't a woman take money from her husband's pocket? Quite often she is only working a bad example. Exchange.
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