Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 187, Hammond, Lake County, 27 January 1909 — Page 4

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Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1909.

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NEITHER DEAD

Among the live Issues of the present day In. this state, which a number of anxious people had thought was nicely laid away in its grave is the county local option question. In county after county the repeal of the law as suggested by the enemies of the Anti-Saloon league, has been found to be an exceedingly stiff propjosition. "Wabash county went dry and now Noble county finds itself faced with an, election, due to take place on the 29th of the month. A desperate conflict is being waged there and according to the most reliable information at hand the "drys" Lave the bulge. The brewers who had hoped to see the county option law repealed at the present session of the legislature find that it is almost half over and the law has neither been repealed nor is any fight being made to kill it. Sober thought is here for both the Anti-Saloon league of Indiana and the saloons. The question sees to be one that more than any other is being left to the people of Indiana to thrash out for themselves. It is a live wire to the politicians and they fear to handle it lest their fingers get burned. In this part of the state no action has yet been taken to take advantage of the county local option law, but there are' secret rumblings heard that may mean a great deal in the near future. The elections held, by Decatur, Hamilton, Putnam and Tipton counties will be watched with much local interest. SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS. There are some things about our government, great and good as it is, that are a source of wonder to some of us. The negected wreck of the

Maine, still the tomb of sixty-three of Havana and the United States

Governor-General Magoon of Cuba says that of all the thousands who visit the' harbor not one omits to express regret and censure for the deplorable

spectacle. It has become a national

We, at a distance from the set of government, not being able to find out

why the wreck has not been removed, will wonder why it has been neglected. Will it divulge some spectacle that is now hidden by the dancing

waters in Havana Harbor? And, as another paper points out, "what has become of the monument for which subscriptions were solicited years

ago? Who has the contributions?" MR. KERN CONTINUES HIS SILENCE.

In the meantime it has come to be known that John W. Kern will not issue any further statement regarding the so-called "double crossing" that he declared he was given. In fact Mr. Kern says his language on that memorable occasion was sadly misconstrued and he goes so far as to say that he never made any such statement. Now, whether Mr. Kern was "double crossed" or just,, thought he was, is not at issue here. He was de-

ieatea ana no one can Diame him for is naught more bitter than a political jected to such treatment in the past feeling much hurt. But time wears Mr. Kern know that he will eventually

and take it all as a matter of course. ICE IS NOW INSPECTED IN THE EAST. '

A good practice which has been put Into vogue in the East is the inspection of Ice which is now being cut up for consumption in the larger cities next summer. Some of the ice which Is sold in Lake county and brought into the city from out of town points has been looked at askance in this county before this and pure ice means just as much to good health

as does pure water. We bring inspectors hundreds of miles to inspect

our milk and meat but Lake county of the ice supply. It is said that some

cut it too near closely populated districts in order to save transportation. It does not matter to them whether they cut frozen sewage or pure water.

PERSUASION OR "When a person puts forward

I refuse myself the pleasure of contradicting him promptly, and Instantly

demonstrating me aosurmty or his t position; in replying, I begin by observing that, in certain cases or circumstances, his opinion might be Just but that, in the present case, it seems to me that there might be some dif ference, etc. I soon found the advantage of this chance of ton l

had less mortification when I found I

make others see that they were wrong and bring them to agre with me

wnen i was rignt." Benjamin Franklin.

THIS DATE IX HISTORY. January -7. 1785 Charter granted the University of Georgia. 1S04 Great dinner given in Washington by members of congress in honor of President Jefferson. 1S07 Burr's conspiracy communicated to congress. 1824 The Virginia legislature chartered the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal ' company. 1A30 Daniel Webster made his great speech for the Ufcion, in reply to Robert Y. Hayne. 1831 John James Audubon, famous ornithologist, died at Audubon Park, N. Y. Born near New Orleans May 4, 1780. 1S59 Emperor William II. of Germany born. 1S63 Fort McAllister, Georgia, bombarded. 1875 Attempt to capture the James brothers, outlaws, at their home in Kearny, Mo., resulted In the kill ing of their younger brother and the wounding of their mother. 18S3 James G. Blaine, American statesman, died. Born Jan. 31, 1830. 1903 Twenty-one persons killed and many injured in railroad collision near Greenland, N. J. 1908 U. S. supreme court declared un

TIMES are requested te faTor the

lm delivering. ComaamIcate wit a the NOR SLEEPING. American seamen, lies in the harbor has never even - begun to remove it. reproach and international scandal being bitterly disappointed. There defeat and Mr. Kern had been sub that he was undoubtedly justified in away these stings and those who know accept the situation philosophically health officers have taken little notice of the companies, which supply ice, DENUNCIATION. something that I believ tn ho or,was wroner. and I was mnm nhi tn constitutional the law prohibiting discrimination against members of labor organizations. THIS IS MY 33D BIRTHDAY. John Henry Harms. The Rev. Dr. John Henry Harms, who some time ago succeeded James A. B. Scherer as president of NVwh.rrv al lege, Newberry. S. C. wa hnm in g. -vannan, ua., Jan. 27, 1876. He took me a. is. degree at Newherrv afterward being Lutheran Theological seminary at GetlysDurg, ya. After entering the mi istry tie was pastor successively of churches in Chambersburg, Newport and Harrlsburg. Pa Prom th T9h. nacle church in Harrisburg he was i.iiiea Dy nis aimo mater to return her in the canacitv of nrMMent . to and when he was Inducted into the off. ,ce last rail he had the distinction of be ing one- of the- youngest college presi uems in tne country Mr. Malaprop to the Rescue. "Is there any difference in the mean ing or the words nautical' and 'ma rine'?" asked Mr. Malaprop. "Not much," replied Mrs. Malaprop une is a cinnamon of the other." Chicago Record-Herald.

A SOMBER MCTURE. 'Where can I go? No place to work.

no more home, no one to work or. Christian, ray husband, he died two years ago. Then my kids six of them die croup of cold. I marry AmU Jelke. He leave me two months after. He way out in the country. I don't believe him working. He never work for me; Just eat bread all. the time. "One day he bad all the time and get sent to Lansing my girl she go away, too, and Henslow he ran away to Ohio, and I work and work and never go ahead, and then my back breaks. Oh, it hurts terrible ! Thus in, ber broken English did Car oline Freslau, an almost helpless Ger man woman, tell her Iliad of woes at St Mary's hospital at Detroit Several years ago she left the father land, happy In her young motherhood and eager for the future of her young brood In the new land of plenty. Indeed, the poor German mater found bitter hardships, unending toll, sick ness, sorrow, failure and heartache. Her husband died. She tolled at the washtub In a tense and tragic struggle for bread. Six of the eleven children died. She married again, and the worthless husband deserted her. Her health entirely failed, and she was sent to the hospital. This Is a picture from real life al most hideously real. The tints are all somber, and the background Is dark. There la no blue sky, no gleam of sunshine, no horizon. Pictures of this kind make the lover of his kind grow sick at heart. As one thinks of the hopeless little German mother sitting with lusterless face and dazed eyes, looking backward on the utter waste of the years, one begins to know the real meaning of MISERY and DESPAIB. And It also makes one ashamed of his complaining at petty things. In the allotment of human life this woman has somehow been cheated out of her rightful share of the good things. With questioning, almost anger. In your heart you turn to fate and ques tion It: If the law of compensation holds, as we have so often heard if each soul born of woman must get hla portion of the good Where will broken hearted Caroline Freslau get what la owing her? RANDOM THINGS AND FUNGS Professor Jaggar says that earth quakes will soon be foretold. Good. Any time you feel anything breaking out, Professor, hope you'll drop us a postal card. "Clothes do not make the man." No, lrat they break him and make the woman. Garyland Thank you for your kind words, but bless your heart, wait for the next Why, we have only Just be gun. If a woman can't get the beat of a quarrel with her husband with words, ehe will with tears. Latest Cabinet Gossip. Col. Noodle of Podunk: "I will neith er deny nor affirm that I have been asked to accept the secretaryship of the treasury. It is an honor any man might covet" Ool. Snooks of Shady Grove: "I know nothing but what I have seen in the newspapers about the secretaryship of the navy In Judge Taft's cabinet Many of my friends have been good enough to say of me that my talents would find excellent employment in the place, and some of them may have said as much to the president-elect." Col Blackstone of Coke Hill: "I am profoundly obliged to those who think that trusts would soon cea.se to exist under an administration of the department of justice by me, but I do not know that Judge Taft is among the number. If my name is before him I have not laid it there." Washington Star. AS SOON AS A MAN GETS flO,000, SOMEBODY BEGINS TO HAVE A FIT UEST HE STIR VP CLASS HATRED. A Query Annwered. Editor "Random:" Say, what about that boy that came to your house last December? FUSSY. He's got the O. K. tag on him, Fussy. We wouldn't take a million dollars for him, but we wouldn't give a nickel for another one. Most men would rather stand in a street ear than sit on a water wagon. Uncle Bill and Bfer Rabbit. Uncle Bill Bryson, who has been wearing a cap for some time, was In town the other day without it. He said that he went to where the dogs had treed a rabbit in a log and put his leap In the hole to keep It Imprisoned

Oil I. C. ELSTON SAFE. Word has been received In Crawfordsville that Colonel I. C. Elston, president of the Elston ational bank of this city and a director of the Union Trust company of Indianapolis, who was a passenger on the Republic, is safe at New York. GETS SEVERE FENAXTY. Peter Hummel of Evansville was today sentenced to two to fourteen years In the state prison for assault and battery with Intent As he walked from the courtroom with his aged mother the latter said: "They have given me a blow that will kill .me." The gray-haired woman fainted and fell in her son's arms, and her condition is alarming. TO ARREST DRUGGISTS. According to Information which has leaked from the grand jury session at Newcastle druggists of the county have been Indicted almost on the wholesale plan for the sale of liquor contrary to law. Just as soon as the warrants are made out Sheriff Burr and his deputies will begin the work of making arrests and some surprises are promised. FOUR ELECTIONS PLANNED. The crusade against the liquor traffic Is steadily advancing In Indiana and promises within a short time to become state-wide In its effect Four counties of the state will hold elections under the provisions of the county local option law today and other elections are being prepared for rapldtly. The counties which will hold elections today are Hamilton, Putnam, Tipton and Decatur. CONCRETE BRIDGE COLLAPSES. A $2,700 concrete bridge, built over Rock Run Creek at Goshen by the National Concrete company of Indianapolis, collapsed last night and is a wreck. The structure had not been accepted and the building firm must stand the loss. The bridge was opened before the cement dried out and heavy rains caused the collapse. NEGROES THEFTS MAN V. Leonard Wlnburn, colored, formerly an inmate of the asylum at Indianapolis, was placed on trial at Kokomo, being charged with the theft of personal property valued at $1,000, which consisted in chief of diamonds and until he could get his axe and cut It out, when, to his surprise, out came the rabbit with his cap, wearing it off. So If you find a rabbit wearing a cap kill it and return the acp to Uncle Bill on rural route No. 2, from Dahlonega. Dahlonega (Ga.) Nugget A mother thinks her daughter's faithful piano practice Is music. That is love. Substance and Splendor. Mr. L. C. McCoy, a substantial and highly esteemed citizen of Huntersville, Mecklenburg county, passed through the city today en route to Burlington to take unto himself his third wife, in the person of Miss Ellie Simpson, a splendid lady of that town. Mr. McCoy is 78 years old, but one who has known him for years says that he can ride a bicycle and do other stunts almost equal to a lad of ten years. Winston-Salem (N. C.) Sentinel. ' ANYWAY, EVE NEVER HAD OC CASION TO WORRY ADAM BY ASK ING HIM TWO OR THREE TIMES A DAY IF SHE WAS THE ONLY WOMAN HE EVER LOVED. Well, the United States can do like a lot of other-people when it comes to suing a newspaper for libel. They can make a bluff at it. It beats all how the size of women's Hats is increasing; and The contents of the men's Pocket-books are Decreasing. Plenty of Ice In Maine, but the trust won't cut it Now, let the ice companies of the Calumet region get busy. The Day In Congress (Washington, D. a, Jan. 26, 1900.) House. A sensational and bitter attack on William Nelson Cromwell and Presi dent Obaldla of Panama and others by Mr. Rainey of Illinois was made in the house today. The postoffice appropriation bill was under consideration, but Mr. Rainey spoke under license of general debate, and he was unsparing in his charges of corruption and fraud against the persons named. At the conclusion of his speech, which consumed over an hour and a half, Messrs. Stevens of Minnesota and Kustermann of Wisconsin expressed this disapproval of his remarks and entered a defense of the accused. During the morning hour the house passed a Joint resolution making Feb. 12, 1909, which marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, a legal holiday. When the house, at 5 r. m.. ad journed, the postoffice bill was still penaing. Senate. A speech by Senator Davis of Arkansas, favoring legislation to nrevent dealings by exchanges in "futures" in proaucts or the soil, and a maiden speech of Senator Cummins of Iowa against the passage of the postal sav ings name Dill as reported to the senate by the committee on postofflces and postroads were the features in the senate today. Mr. Cummins spoke in favor of tha deposit of postal savings in state and territorial banks. The senate voted to purchase an oil portrait of the late Senator Allison of Iowa.

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money. The chief sufferers from the thefts were A. I Thalman, a leading Kokomo merchant, and D. C. Jenkins, "i prominent glass manufacturer. TRY TO EXPLAIN ROBBERY. . It is believed at Hartford City that the postoffice thieves who robbed the Upland office early Monday morning remained here until the 1:55 o'clock West-bound Pennsylvania train arrived and that they got off at Upland and did their work. The work waa done so noiselessly that not a person in the little town knew of the robbery and explosion that wrecked the safe until the postmaster, Samuel Connelly, opened the office for business this morning. EXPLAINS HIS DEFALCATIONS. "No treasurer could remain in office and not be a defaulter with the present system of bookkeeping. I want Bloomlngton to do something at once and get me a correct set of books so that my accounts' may be properly checked." These words Harry A. Axtell testified this afternoon he told the city council after he was elected to office In 1904 is city treasurer. NO CLOTHES; SUICIDED. Fretting because she lived In poverty and that she was unable to .dress as other girls of her age, Mabel Mitchell of Evansville, aged 16, and pretty, late In the afternoon committed sulfide by hanging herself. BABY DRINKS BUTTER COLORING. Finding a bottle of coloring fluid used in making butter the 4-year-old child of Howard Moorford of Wabash drank it. "When found the child was unconscious and only by diligent work was it rescued from death. GETS THE SIXTH DIVORCE. In the sixth time that divorce proceedings had been entered by them in the circuit court at Newcastle Judge Jackson today granted a divorce decree which legally separates Benjamin and Elizabeth Moore, well-known elderly people of this city. ANNUAL CONFERENCE OPENS. The annual conference of the Swedish Lutheran churches of northern Indiana and southern Michigan opened in Laporte today. The opening sermon was preached by J. S. Berg of South Bend. Yesterday morning two sermons were delivered, the Rev. A. Sunberg of Covert, Mich., and the Rev. J. E. Nystrom of Porter, Ind., being assigned. THE CREAM OF THE Morning News Secretary of State Root saves Chris tian Rudovitz fro mtrial In Russia and establishes a precedent making the United States an asylum for political refugees. Initial presentation of the the Italian renaissance dazzles a notable assemblage in Art Institute in Chicago. Automatic vending machl vide newspapers and make exact change are to be placed on r.av.oa-,. enter street cars and "L" trains. Committee will formally report to the school board tonight that the Art Institute has been dropped from the teachers' promotion list. New York Consolidated Gas company asks supreme court for rehearing of its case which resulted in a .wintry sustaining 80-cent gas. Senate special committee rennrt ate has no right to call on president ior lniormation about steel merger. .John David Stewart of Kansas City chokes his baby to death so he can have quiet after his day's labor. Eugene Lynch of Boston, injured in the wreck of the liner P.alti rtfo i New York. Heroes of the disaster giv en rousing reception. Captain of the Florida puts blame for collision on the other vessel. Accidental repeal of the New York City SO-cent gas law is averted narrowly in the legislature at Albany by close scrutiny of the consolidation law bills. Governor Gillett in a special message to the California legislature opposes legislation likely to annay Japanese. President Roosevelt send a second letter opposing proposed law. Two Important measures up today. District Attorney Jerome ready to take a hand In New York World libel case, and federal authorities may be forced to stand aside. In another day of balloting at Springfield, 111., Senator Hopkins falls to win the tgo, his strength dwindling from ninety to eighty-four. Formal charges of corruption of voters in the primaries are made against United States Senator Stephenson in the Wisconsin legislature, and as a result the re-election of the senator is blocked. Chicago Hoard of Underwriters to establish a clearing house system. Wheat tone again heavy and prices lower on absence of Investment or speculative demand; corn higher; provisions decline; cattle and hogs weak. United States Steel corporation's earnings for quarter show decrease. ONE WOMAN KILLED; NINETEEN OTHERS INJURED. Orcjton Express Wrecked Near Dana, Wyo., Through lirt-aklng of Flange on Engine Wheel. Omaha, Neb., Jan. 27. The Union Pacific's Oregon express was wrecked late yesterday afternoon near Dana, Wyo. The accident was caused by a broken flange on the locomotive. Miss Cllngenful of Danbury, la., a passenger, was killed and nineteen were Injured, nine seriously. The train was composed of eight passenger cars, one baggage, one mall and one express car. Among the Injured are A. T. Noll of Indianapolis and Mrs. E. M. Hecox of Grand Rapids, Mich. Both were removed to the Cheyenne hospital on a relief train.

Wife of Illinois Governor Who is Now in Limelight

v A T ;- J i' y j ...' ' -ft ::. . . t if.t ' t ' X'' ' ' f5 V ' ' r .: -' ' , ? ' ' ,- 'S 24&s Charlies With The Legislators A ditch bill was passed that Is important to Jasper, Newton and White counties because it relates to bond Issues for ditches constructed In those counties. It had already passed the house. Under the old law taxpayers had the right to issue ten-year bonds In payment for the construction. An act of the 1907 legislature repealed this and provided that all costs of construction be paid by assessment This law worked hardships with the property owners, who stood in danger of losing their property, but the passage of the bill yesterday afternoon will remove the assessment hazard, and the land owners of Jasper, Newton and White counties will have ten years to meet the cost of construction of the ditch now being built. The house and the senate will have a party of distinguished visitors tomorrow, when the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Indiana, headed by the state officers and about three hundred delegates, representing 7,000 women, will visit the two law-making bodies. The unions of Marion county have appointed four delegates who will attend all the meetings of the -genral assembly every day and on each Wednesday the state officers and delegates from all parts of the state will attend, each wearing the white ribbon. The purpose of the visit to impress on the lawmakers the need of state-wide prohibition and also to ask for the right of suffrage. Senator Grube yesterday afternoon introduced his bill to abolish all forms of capital punishment. He declares that he introduced the bill on his own responsibility, and that he was not acting on behalf of any anti-capital punishment society or other organization of the kind. The question of capital punishment is one to which he has given considerable attention. "I believe," he said, "that it Is time that a civilized state like Indiana took advanced steps in this matter. It Is time to do away with inhuman practices. Capital punishment is a relic of barbarism. The obpect of punishment of criminals is reform and the protection of society. These ends can be accomplished just as easily without resorting to capital punishment. By life Imprisonment, the criminal is removed from society just as effectively as though he had been put to death." A bill presented by Senator McCullough yesterday Is designed to prevent loan sharks from getting possession of the wages of laboring men before the wages have been earned. The bill provides that there shall be no assignment of future wages unless such assignment In a written form has been agreed to by the employer and then the assignment shall be recorded at the office of the clerk of the city or town in which the laborer resides or where he is employed. It is provided further that no assignment shall be recorded at the office of the clerk of the city or town In which the laborer resides or where he is employed. It Is provided further that no asignment of fture wages can be made by a married man unless his wife gives her consent. The bill would apply only to assignments on loans of $200 or less. The bill is modeled after the Massachusetts law.

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- . J?TrE,rr IN POLITICS When Robert R. Glen the governorship of North Carolina re cently he was presented by the Wom an s cnnstian Temperance union with a splendid silver service as a token nf appreciation on the part of the organi zation or tne great work Owornor Glenn did In bring about state-wide proniDmon In North Carolina. In 1904 the total vote of Eugene V. Debs, socialist, for president, was 3S6,955, and In 1908. Debs still runM the socialist vote was 488,453, a gain of oi,u. .During the latter camnaier, it was confidently predicted by the Debsues that they would poll from 1,000 -000 to 2,000,0000 votes in the nation. In the next congress, the Sixty-first there will be sixty republican and thirty-two democrats a gain of one democrat (from Indiana), and 218 republican and 172 democratic members or the house of representatives one seat being vacant a gain of five dem ocrats. In the present congress there are sixty-one republican senators and thirty-one democrats, and 223 repub lican ana 168 democratic members of the house. W. Cameron Forbes, who is slated as the next governor of the Philippines, is a Massachusetts man, a graduate of Harvard, a grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a millionaire. For the past four years he has been a member of the Philippine commission. Be fore that he was engaged in business and was closely identified with the development of electric light and power companies in many cities of the west and south. The presidential vote in 1908 in the following states was larger than In 1904, round figures being given: Arkansas, 35,000; California. 55,000; Colorado 16,000; Delaware, 6.000; Florida, 10,000; Georgia, 4,00rt; Idaho, 24,000; Illinois, 76,000; Indiana. 39.000; Kansas, 53.000; Kentucky, 56,000; Louisiana. 23,000; Maine, 9,000; Maryland, 11,000; Massachusetts, 12,000; Michigan, 21,000; Mississippi, 18,000; Missouri! 73,000; Montana, 6.000; Nebraska, 42,000; New Jersey 23.000; New York, 2o!000; North Dakota, 23,000; Ohio, 117000; Oregon. 20.000; PJiode Island, 3,000; South Carolina, 10.000; South' Dakota, 13,000; Tennessee, 15,000; Texas, 58.000; Utah. 7,000; Virginia, 7.000; Washington, 51,000; West Virginia, 19,000; Wisconsin, .11,000; Wyoming, 7,000. EMPEROR MENELIK DEAD; EMPRESS TAKES THRONE. Fear for Safely of Enropcans at Addis, Abrba, tbe Capital. Paris, Jan. 27. It is announced from an official source that the Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia Is dead and that the Empress Taitou has been for some time directing public affairs. It Is feared that the death of the sovereign may produce serious trouble, chiefly at Addis Abeba, the capital of Abyssinia, and that Kuropear.s there may be In danger. The plain people will get all that is coming to them now. Billy Gostlin, of Hammond is already here, and Murray Turner will be here later. Indlanajolia News