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Continued warm and generally fair tonight and Wednesday. ,DNE CENT PER COPY. VOL. IV., NO. 4HAMMOND. INDIANA, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1909. X.

fkM HIDES I FATHER ID k BURNING AUTO SON DROWM

Muncie People Ride Into St. Little Knowing Machine is Doomed

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COiiiPLAl THE HOT

Discover Cause of Discomfort When Lap Robe Begins to Smoke.

of MO HO AT IHTH

SIDE SCRAP

FRANCHISE

TOGETHER

Adolph Booth of Hammond, Carrying His Little BoyOver Bridge Near East East Chicago, Stumbles and Both Disappear.

READY FUR COUNCIL

(Special to The Times.) St. John, Ind., June 22. With a regular little Inferno under their seats, four tourists on their way from Chicago to Muneie, rode blissfully Into St. John last Sunday evening, little knowing that their machine and all their valuables that they carried with them were doomed to destruction. "When they did learn that their big- automobile touring car was afire they had so little time to make their escape that they had to sacrifice their elegant wraps, costly millinery and whatever other valuablts they carried with them, along with the splendid car. In a few minutes

it was a total wrecK, representing a loss of several thousand dollars. The accident furnished a thrilling scene, but fortunately the two women and the two men in the car escaped without injury. To have tarried a little buiger in the machine would have set clothes of the occupants afire. Siimkinu Itlanket Given AYarniug. A smoking blanket which was being

tised as a lap robe gave the first warning, tlu- passengers having given Utile warning to the heat emanating from the bottom of the machine, thinking this was merely due to the hot weather. I'pon examination it was discovered that the leaking gasoline reservoir had pirm i 1 1 i-d the fiit-1 to drop on the muf-lh-r until it became red with heat. From lo-re the fire spread to the woodwork, si tting the body of the car afire. Still one man tried hard to put out the fire with his cat, but It, too, caught afire. Then the tank caught, went up In flames, and the machine was doomed. It was totally destroyed and the party of four were without means to return home that evening. They put up at the Miller hotel and left for Muncie yesterday.

Hammond Police Summoned Post-Haste to Henry Rippe's Saloon to Capture Alleged Highwaymen, But Affair Fizzles Out.

ANOTHER VICTIM DIES LAST NIGHT

Decedent Believed to Be

nd Remains

Unidentified.

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There was a great deal of excitement on the north side in Hammond last

I night when Henry Rippe called up the

local police station and informed Desk Sergeant Dabow that he had three highway robbers cornered in his saloon. Desk Sergeant Debow and Officer Trinen responded to the call, and 'went

over on the north side to investigate. They found that several hoboes had been mixed up in a fight, but they could not discover where any one had been robbed. The fight occurred near the State line tower on the Illinois side of the line. The whole neighborhood was aroused and an effort was made by a number of people to capture the disturbers. They were driven into the cellar of a nearby house, and there held until the crowd was large enough to take them to Rippe's saloon. Those who participated in the capture were John Drennan, 840 Clark street; John Thielman, 6 Gostlin street; M. Huderman, S44 Clark Btreet, and George Gehring, S61 LaSalle street. Fall to Prosecute. Upon the arrival of the police, Thos. Dwyer and John Schraith were arrested on the charge of highway robbery,

and 1111am Jameson, a negro, was ar

rested as a witness. The prosecuting witness came to the station, apparent

ly anxious to prosecute the case, but this morning he disappeared, and was nowhere to be found. On account of the failure of the prosecuting witness to appear, the cases against the other men will prohably be dropped. The police have become convinced that there was no robbery, but that the four men simply became involved In a fight, and one of them charged the others with attempting to rob him.

PARENT IR SEARCH

FOR EMPLOYMENT

Had Secured Job on Section of South

Shore line and Was on His Way

Home When Accident Happened-

Little Boy Was Out for a Holiday and Took Flowers to River Bottom.

DroiT-ainjgH In Region This Season... Drownings In Regrton Int Season... (Special to The Times.)

East Chicago. Ind.. June 22. One of the most pitiful tragedies that has ever taken place in this region occurred

yesterday morning, when a father and

his little son were drowned in the Calu

met river where the Inteururban bridge

cross the river at Seagram. The man was Adolph Booth of Ham

mond. and the little boy was Willie

Booth, seven years old. The circum

stances of the accident make it all the

more pathetic. The little boy, dressed In his best clothes, had been taken out

for a holiday by the father, who went to Seagram to get a job with an old friend, John Hatfield, also of Hammond, and section foreman for the Interurban at that point. The widow

swooned when the news of the fatality

was broken to her in her little home near Gostlin street. The drowning occurred In the presence of half a dozen witnesses, who stood petrified with horror on the bank, unable to lift a hand to save the struggling forms in the water. Was In Search of "Work. Booth, who Is a railroad section hand,

heard that the lnterurban was paying bigger wages than those he was draw-

At last the Indiana & Chicago Trac

tion company's franchise is ready for

the city council to act on It. It is

signed and was formally accepted by

the board at a session last evening.

There does not seem to be any ob

stacle In the way of passing it now.

with the exception of a minor change

here and there, which one or the other councllmen may suggest. Should all

the councllmen favor it unanimously.

It might be placed upon Its passage.

but this Is doubtful at this time, in

viewing of the opposition which Jacob Schroeter put up against It at the

time it was Informally considered by

the council last Tuesday evening.

It was at first thought that a special

meeting would be called for this even

ing, but, if a special meeting is called

at all, it may not be held until next Friday. The probabilities, however, are

that the matter will rest until the regular meeting next Tuesday evening.

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IUIILI Ull G CHOSEN

WILL HAVE AUTO RACES

NEXI YEAR

HIY II RESULT

Hammond Industrial Association Holds a Meeting Last Night, and Construction Work on New Plant Is Soon to Begin.

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Seiba Badly Injured in Disastrous Runaway on the North Side Yesterday; Engine Causes Fright. ,

"Wets" Believe That Game

of the "Drys" Is to Delay Trial of Now Famous Saloon Case Until Two-Year Restriction Expires.

The Hammond Industrial association, which is to build a model factory building in Hammond for rent and will advertise the fact that Hammond has a site and a building ready for the manufacturer's occupancy, met last even

ing and made great progress with their

plans.

A site, 75x100 feet, near the Stewart Machinery company, was purchased from Gostlin, Meyn & Co. for a nominal consideration, and Otto Knoerzer and F. S. Betz announce that the dirt will begin to fly in short order. The building will be constructed after the plans which were drawn for the Stewart Machinery company, and the building will be erected and ready for occupancy in the fall. The plans and specifications will soon be ready and bids on the construction will be asked for this week. It is understood that Fred Carter owns the

property, next to the site, and will j build on It to suit the plans of the as-J

sociation, so that mote room can be provided the manufacturer who might find the location desirable.

"So far as I can see now, the Cobe

trophy will be laced for next year," declared Ira M. Cobe. president of the

Chicago Automobile club and donor of

me tropny inai was won c"",u ur r . day by Louis Chevrolet In the Bulck X?irS. Maiy GreSKl and HanK

over the Crown Point-Lowell circuit.

This statement was made in Chicago last night at the dinner given by Mr.

Cobe to the executives who handled the

road races and also to Chevrolet, win- 1

ner of the Cobe tiophy, and Matson,

winner of the Indiana cup, given at the

Chicago Automobile club. Following

the dinner the party watched the per

formance of a play at one of the the

aters.

The road-racing situation was care

fully canvassed at the dinner, and It

was the unanimous opinion of the ex

perts that the recent events were suf

ficiently Interesting to educate the i westerners to road racing and that the renewal of the Cobe cup race would

bring out large crowds.

"Well, from the way I size up the sit

uation now, I believe that we can re

peat our races next year; In fact, I think I can safely say that the second running of the Cobe cup will be In

1910.' declared Mr. Cobe. "As to our plans it would be hard to say right

now, but we are going ahead with our

preparations Just the same as we are

going to begin early this time."

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WOMAN MAKING

PURCHASE FROM WAGOfi

Maddened Horses Bolt, Tramnlinir

Woman Under Wheels and Dragging Her Some Distance She Was Tken to St. Margaret's Hospital Fears for Her Recovery.

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IS SHOT AT

SISTERS TELL A STORY Point Out Kindness of South Bend Victim When They Recognize Kim in Hospital.

DAMAGE SUITS FILED

Attorneys Bruce and Matthews, rep

resenting the remonstrators in the now

famous cases of Theodore Binzen and

James Scanlon,,who are seeking to have

the court set aside the decision of the Lake county commissioners who re

fused them a license, have asked for a change of venue from the county.

This action on the part of the attor

neys for the drys will be vigorously resisted by Judge John H. Gillett, who

is representing the Gary saloonkeepers.

Judge Gillett looks up this this, the

latest move of the "drys," as an effort to delay the trial of the case until the

two-years' restriction provided by the remonstrance has expired.

It will be only eight months more

that the Gary remonstrance will be in effect, and the "wots" believe that It is the game of the "drys" to delay the

trial of the case until their victory

MAIL CLERKS WILL GET SALARY INCREASE Ten Employes Connected With Hammond Postoffice Are Rejoicing.

HEW STAMPS ARE COMING

Fraternal Organizer, Well-

Known Here, Escapes With His Life.

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MTS DUMPING

DREDGE STOPPED

Assistnt P. M. Otto Rober Places

an Order for Yukon-Alaska Stamps.

OFFICERS

Injured Persons Ask Relief From Various Corporations.

At 7 o'clock last night another vic

tim of the South Shore line catastrophe

near Chesterton, expired in Gary, after

ho had remained unconscious since Saturday night at the time of the wreck. His death wns expected at any time by the physicians in charge of the case as his skull was badly fractured and it was seen that he could not live more than a 'eiv hours. The dead man is a Pole, and is still unidentified. The man was evidently u laborer of the better class of foreigners. The description given is as follows: Age, between Co and 40; height, 5 feet 10 inches; weight. 175 pounds; dark mustache, dark hair, black socks, overalls, black and white working shirt, no eoat, good shoes; carried crusiftx. rosary and scapular. A Snd Incident. Another incident in connection with the wreck was related by the Sisters of the Mercy hospital yesterday af

ternoon, after the death of Ray F.

Merriam ot t.outii tienu. This young man had ridden on the cars with them

from Gary to Hammond a short time ago and paid their fares, although a perfect stranger. When he did this he remarked: "I never allow a Sister to pay a car fare on a train that I am

riding on. It may be that they wil

have a chance to take care of me some

time, and I will have to depend upon

them for assistance."

As soon as he was brought into the hospital dying from his Injuries he was recognized by the Sisters as the

man who paid their fares

Through Red Tape; Will Help Hammond.

A Hammond lawyer filed two personal injury suits in the Lake superior court this morning. One was for his client, George D. Stewart, in

which he is asking $25,000 damages

from the Standard Steel Car company, and another is a suit for damages against the Indiana Harbor Belt Kail-

way company, in which he seeks to se

cure $5,000 damages for Katarzyna Ber-

nal.

In the first suit the complaint alleges

that the defendant, the Standard Steel

Car company, does not have a car inspector; that it has an engine, Xo. 6, which is used to haul cars about In the company's yards. Steward alleges that on the 11th day of January, 1909, he was ordered by the yard master to pick up a number of cars, take them to the paint shop. He staets in his complaint that the step on the front of the switch engine was

deefctive and that in attempting to step on the engine, after he had throw'n a switch, his foot slipped and the board broke. This resulted in his being dragged for a distance of about forty feet, and resulted in injuries from which he will never recover. He asks for $100 doctor fees and $25,000 damages. In the other case, Katarzyna Bernal states that he was standing near a derail in the Indiaan Harbor Belt railway when a passenger train approached at the rate of thirty miles an hour and struck him. He suffered injuries for which he believes he should be paid $5,000. Bernal was a section hand.

A sensation was caused at the city

hall In South Bend yesterday when Mrs

Leon O. Mason fired four shots point

and supreme president and organizer War .Department Will UUt

of the Order of Owls, a national fra ternal organization.

All the shots, which were fired within the shadows of the city hall, went

wild, and Talbot made his escape by

running down an alley. The shooting was done In the pres ence of several police officers, who lm

mediately placed Mrs. Mason under ar

rest.

Before firing the first shot Mrs. Ma

son exclaimed: "I'll kill:" Neither of the principals will explain the cause of the shooting. Talbot is well known in Lake county cities, where he has often visited in the interest of the order.

READY FOR THE CHURCH WORKERS

Lafayette Will Entertain 1,500 at Meeting. Lafayette, Ind., June 22. The advance guard of delegates are arriving to attend the forty-fifth annual convention of the Indiana Sunday School association, which opens today, and will close Thursday night. The local committee has everything in readiness, and the Influx of visitors today will be well taken care of by citizens. Lafayette expects to entertain 1,000 dele-

! gates from outside the county, and have

500 from the county. The sessions will be held at the Second Presbyterian church.

Washington, D. C, June 22. The war department seems to be in for another summary bursting of red tape. And against Secretary Dickinson, who is shattering the tradition. This time he is breaking through the routine to consider the plea of the city of Chicago that the government stop dumping its dredges near the water supply intakes. When Health Commissioner Evans was here a month ago with this complaint he got little satisfaction from

General W. L. Marshall, chief of engineers, and none at all from Acting

Secretary Oliver. He was here again two weeks ago, but Secretary Dickin

son was then at West Point.

Passea Over Subordinates. Dr. Evans put the city's plea in a formal communication and left it with

General Marshall. Ordinarily the com

munication would follow the lines of red tape to the secretary's desk. This route is too slow, however, for the new war secretary. He announced last night that he would take up the matter personally today and go into it. no matter what his subordinates may have done.

LAKE SUPERIOR COURT

Sfw Cases. 3756. Martin Reves vs. Frank L, Malmstedt. Civil.

5757. George I. Stewart vs. Standard Steel Car company. Personal Injury.

575S. Joseph Matysiah vs. Indiana Har

bor Belt Railway Co. Personal in jury.

5759. Katarzyua Bernal vs. Michael

Bombrys. ClvP

An increase of $100 on the annual salary will go into effect for the local letter carriers and mail clerks on July

1, which is the beginning of the fiscal

year. Ten employes connected with the

local postoffice will benefit by this, and I nnine instances will bring the salaries up to $1,100 a year. Otto Rabe, assistant postmaster, lias placed an order for the Alaska-Yukon exposition stamps, there having' been a limited demand for them in Hammond. The order having been placed some time ago, he expects the stamps to be in soon. They will be issued only in the 2-cent denominations. ToukIi Proposition.

Trone as the postal departments of the United States and Canada are to make the effort to overcome all difficulties in Ihe way of mail delivery,

they have struck a tough proposition in northern Ontario, where the new towns of Wigwam and Gowganda have been established in a recently discovered mining camp. The wilderness in which the camp is situated is so nearly impenetrable that the Canadian postal authorities have sent out notice that fourth-class will not be accepted for delivery there. It is stated that the delivery of mail is so difficult, there being no roads, that the department has found it advisable to refuse an attempt at delivery of mail other than first and second-class matter.

Mrs. Mary Oreskt. 8 "West Gostlla street, was perhaps fatally injured, and Hank Seiba, a driver for John Mae Ma. a baker and confectioner, living in 117 One Hundred and Fifty-fifth place. West Hammond, was badly injured In a runaway accident on the north side, near Gostlin and Hohman streets, when a team of horses, hitched to Mae Ma's bakery wagon, became frightened at an Elgin, Joliet & Eastern engine and ran away overturning the wagon on Mrs. Greskl. Mrs. Greskl was making some pur

chases from the bakery wagon and was standing near the driver when, with warning, the horses took fright at the

engine and wheeled around. In so doing they overturned the wagon, and it fell on the body of Mrs. Greskl. The horses were frantic with fear and dratcred the ws-tm' with

Grand JUry RefUSeS tO In- M- Greskl under it, for a considerable

i uiaiiiiiuc oeiore tney were nnany diet William Marquardt , stopped, and she was extricated.

IJrtver AIbo Hit. The driver. Hank Seiba. was also struck by the wagon as the horses' turned it over, but he was not so badly injured. He suffered from a bruised right hip. a sprained back and spine and a number of cuts and minor Injuries. Mrs. Greskl, who is but 24 years old, and has three young children, suffered a compound fracture of the right leg, a fracture of the ankle and foot, she had both legs cut, the left hip and pelvis fractured and her head was badly cut. Dr. II. E. Sharrer was called, and ordered the patient removed to the hospital, where it was necessary to work over her for several hours before she was given any relief. It was reported at the hospital this morning that Mrs. Greskl is very Iott this morning, and grave doubts are entertained as to the possibility of her recovery. The accident was seen by the crossing watchman, who was horrified when he saw the horses wheel about and the

wagon fail over on Mrs. Greski. It is the worst runaway accident that has occurred in Hammond in years.

Three Others in Noted Riot Case Are Released and Matter Is Settled.

MESSENGER LAD

William Marquardt. the Gary police

officer bound over to the grand jury by Special Judge Henderson of the Hammond city court on a charge of murder, was released yesterday by that body, when the evidence of the prosecution fizzled out completely. Marquardt was not on the stand over four minutes, during which time they touched briefly on his case. The three Poles who sought to have him indicted for

murder not only failed to produce sufficient evidence, but backed down completely from their testimony at the trial before Judge Henderson. Jua4I. Meted Out. In the action of the grand jury yesterday justice was meted out to the Gary police officer, who has been lab

oring under the stigma of a murder

charge. No one in Gary questioned the

Justice of his act in shooting down the man who so viciously attacked him and

whom he killed in self-defense. Looking at the matter from a legal standpoint the case was a farce and the jury quickly pronounced It such. The three Poles who participated In the attack on Marquardt and who sought to have the latter indicted for murder, were also released by the grand jury on the charge preferred against them by Marquardt of assault with intent to kill. Although this was denied. It was believed that the cases

against both the officer and the men were dropped by mutual agreement to

avoid further trouble. iary Rejoice. The news of the release of Marquardt was hailed with joy in Gary by those who appreciate the services of the police in ' guarding the public against such characters as Andrew Ribar, who was shot and killed by the officer in self-protection.

MAYOR BECKER GOES TO LAFAYETTE

CLiBS LADDER MAY SHORTEN COURSE

Faithful Boy Is Rewarded for His Good Work for Two Years.

They Saw the Chinaman? Of course, some one in the Calumet region would have to see Leon Ling, the Chinaman who murdered the white girl in New York and is said to be on his way to the Pacific coast. The long-anticipated discovery of the Chinaman did not happen in South Chicago, as usual, but Fred Kuck of Black Oak called up the local police station and stated that he saw a Chinaman pass through that place on a bicycle. Kuck says the Chinaman looks Just like the. picture of him he saw in the Chicago papers.

Frank Wawrzyinak, former messenger in the local Western Union Telegraph office, is a proud boy. For two years he worked faithfully in the of

fice and was anything but the typical messenger boy who Is pictured in the Sunday paper's funny pag-. In his spare moments he studied the telegraph instrument, anl the code and today he takes a position as operator for the Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern, on the second shift, at Pine station. His office work, which he learned under the tutelage of Miss Ethel Meston, manager of the local office, will stand him in good stead. His place is taken by Henry Palmatter.

Auto Races If Held in Lake County Again Will Be Run Differently.

(Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., June 22. It is said that in the event of other auto races beins: held here that the course will be

considerably shortened, the route going straight south from the fair grounds instead of taking the Cedar Lake road to Lowell. The problem of keeping twenty-three miles of road in perfect condition for races has proven a hard one, and the promoters will tackle a smaller proposition next time.

Hammond's Chief Executive Will Be on Municipal League ProgramMayor Beeker went to Itfayette this morning as Hammond's representative to the Municipal League meeting, which opened for a three-day session there this morning. Mayor Becker is on the program to lead in a discussion on the new cities' and towns' law, on which Warren Voor his, city attorney for Kok'imo, will read a paper. A. P. Melton, city engineer of Gary, will read a paper on "Sewage and Dis

posal Thereof," and will be followed in a discussion, which will be led by H. H. Thompson, city engineer of Logansport. Both Mr. Becker and Mr. Melton will be on the program tomorrow. Mayor Lemuel Darrow of Laporte will open an interesting discussion on the question as to whether Indiana should establish work houses, and how. Municipal ownership of water and electric lights will be another interesting discussion, led by Mayor Hosey of Fort Wayne. The. session closes Thursday afternoon with a sight-seeing trip to places of interest in and around Lafayette. It will make the close of the nineteenth annual convention of the municipal league.

You will do better at the Lion store furniture department. Largest furniture store in northern Indiana,

Costly portfolio of $1,000 prize picture given free this week at the Hon Furniture department

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