Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 151, Hammond, Lake County, 14 December 1909 — Page 1

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Election Commission Finds Him Victor by a Major ity of Two Votes Over His Opponent, Harry Moose. The Cothery contest commission, consisting of Dr. F. W. Smith, T. W. Englehart and E. R. Thomas, appointed by Judge "W. C. McMahan of the cir cuit court to recount the ballots cast at the last municipal election in Gary has' decided that the republican has won over the present incumbent In of fice, Harry Moose, by two votes. The finding of the commission was based oh nine ballots cast in the first precinct of the fourth ward, on which there was found ink spots and which they believed might have been made by the clerks during the recount of the ballots. Seven of the ballots found in this condition were cast for Cothery and two of them were cast for Moose which gave Cothery an advantage of five" votes, sufficient to overcome Moose's lead of three votes. Englehart Balks. The democratic member of the commission, T. W. Englehart, refused to sign tho findings or the commission however, on the grounds that the bal lots could not be legally counted. He also raised another objection in the counting of the ballots in the second precinct of the fourth ward, in which lie claims that the totals of the clerks showed 174 votes cast and the recount ing of the tallies on the tally sheet showed only a total of 171. This shows a discrepancy of three votes, but who they were cast for is not known, as the ballots were destroyed. Mr. Englehart stated that he would (Continued on Page Eight.) SFSiTiPEGTED VRESTL1H Choice Seats Left Today Expected to Be Sold by v Tonight. POLES TAKE GREAT INTEREST Plan Large Reception for Szbyszko, Who Is Looked Upon as National Hero. There are plenty of choice seats left for the wrestling carnial that Is to be held at Towle's opera house in Hammond tonight. It is expected that there will be a big demand for seats today and that there will be a good crowd at the show. An atraction like Zbyszko cannot be seen every day in the week, and his bout with Raul de Boulinger is sure to be an interesting one. There is considerable interest in the event in Chicago, in spite of the fact that it has not ben extensively advertised there. . The members of the Hammond Athletic association have gone to considerable expense to secure this atraction for Hammond, and the sport-loving public of this locality is expected to show its appreciation by Its patronage. Pole Show Great Interest. The Polish people of Hammond are showing great interest in the coming of Zbyszko and are planning a great reception for him. He is a national hero to them and they propose to show their loyalty by coming out in large numbers. This is the first event of the kind that has ever been attempted by the Ham mond Athletic association, and if it is made a success it is expected that other similar events will be pulled off in this city in the future. The famous wrestlers are expected to arrive in the city this afternoon from Chicago and therjp will be a large delegation ready to meet them. The entertainment tonight will begin at 8:30 o'clock'. TOM HON AN WILL RUN Speaker of House Candidate for Attorney-General. TIMES BVHKAU. I AT STATU CAPIT VI.. Indianapolis. Ind., Dec. 14. One by one the candidates are coming out of the woods. Thomas Honan of Seymour, speaker of the house of representatives at the last session of the legislature, announced here last night that he is a candidate for the democratic nomination for attorney-general.

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... Over Remains of Mrs. Hovis. " - The funeral of Mrs. 'William Forney Hovis was held in St. Paul's parsonage, 1007. West Colfax avenue, this morning at 10 o'clock.- The remains will be removed to Crown Point his evening at 6:24 on the Pennsylvania railroad. There will be services at the home of William Parry, on East street, In Crown Point, at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow " after noon. . .The remains will then be in terred in the J. O. E. Luther mausoleum. Bishop McDowell of Chicago officiated at this morning's service. The South Bend papers all pay glow ing tributes to the deceased, who was well beloved by all who knew her. Mrs. Havis was taken ill with ap pendicitis Saturday, Dec. 4 and was hurried to a hospital for an operation. She was in a serious condition for sev eral days, but rallied last Friday and was so much better her husband felt he could fill his pulpit at St. Paul's Sunday. She became worse again Sunday afternoon and failed rapidly, dying Sunday evening. Mrs. Hovis was born Feb. 14, 1877 at Clitheroe Lancashire, England. She was married to Dr. Hovis Sept. 3, 1902 and came with him to South Bend, when he assumed the pastorate of St. Paul's church, soon after the ceremony. She aided her husband materially in his work, serving as superintendent of the cradle roll of the Sunday school and teaching a large class of women. She was also active in the Missionary society, the Dorcas society and the Junior and Senior Epworth leagues. is. now HAPPY Indiana Avenue Resident Made Glad by Winning Cabinet. The kitchen cabinet, which was given away by the E. C. Minas furniture department in a frea drawing .contest Friday, Dec. 10, was won by Mrs. W. J. Noonan, 415 Indiana avenue. The Hoosier kitchen cabinet is one of the best equipped cabinets on the market, and Mrs. Noonan is well satisfied with her prize. The contest was free to all and many entered into it. The ladies were handed a ticket which they filled out,returning the stub. The stubs were all put in a ballot box and the first stub that was picked out won the cabinet, Mrs. Noonan being the lucky contestant. MEET FOR SOCIAL TIME University Club to Convene This Evening. The members of the University club of Hammond will meet 'at the club rooms tonight for a social session and for the transaction of such business as will come before the club, The announcement has also been made that th club will have a ladies' night Tuesday. Dec. 21. The entertainI ment committee has provided an in novation on this occasion In the form of a fudge making contest. A number of chafing dishes are to be provided and the ingredients for fudge will be on hand. The lady who makes the best fudge will be awarded a valuable prize. Incidentally the members present expect to have a good time offering suggestions to the culinary artists. Card tables will be provided and bridge whist will be indulged in during the evening. Owing to the delay in the work on the Tapper block it is now certain that the club will not be located in-'its new quarters until after the middle of February or the 1st of March. RESUME TOMORROW Trial of Saloon Cases Up Again Before Tuthill. After a respite of ten days the trial of the Gary saloon cases before Judge Tuthill in the superior court at Valparaiso will be resumed tomorrow. It is thought that the famous case can be finished in a few days atid possibly by the end of this week. The trial of the case was postponed because of certain matter which intervened and .required the attention of the court and several of the lawyers. Many Cases Settled. The setting of the court cases will take up the time of the Lake superior court this afternoon. The case of Hamilton vs. the Gary & Ir.terurban went over for the term. The case of East vs. Kraneis was decided in favor of the defendant on a default. The cases of Von Rhode and Kovaesy vs. the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend interurban line 'were settled in court. The case of Kuketich vs. the Republic Iron & Steel company was settled. Licensed to Wed. A marriage license was Issued today in Chicago to James Grinstead of Indiana Harbor and Miss Martha Peterson of Hammond. The names of neither of the parties are given In the directory.

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Solicitous Person Mistaking Sports for Grave Robbers, Notifies Police and Cock Fight Is Nipped in the Bud. An attempt was made last night in the Lutheran cemetery at Tolleston to t restore the once famous sport in Lake county of cock fighting, but an inquisitive person, believing that an attempt was being made to rob the graves of the dead, informed the Gary police that ghouls were busy in Gary's suburb, and in the brogue of the sportsmen, the "stuff was off." The police patrol buzzed up to the shanty at the cemetery constructed during the reigr of the stockyards boom for a pop factory, and instead of finding perverts there, as they had expected, they found several well-known business men assuming as innocent an air as possible around a coal stove in the shanty. All would have been lovely had not a game cock used poor discretion and crowed at the wrong time. As no fight had been pulled oft" it was impossible for the police to make any arrests. The roosters had been secured from South Chicago. The party, howevery disbanded post-haste and wended their weary way homeward, thinking themselves fortunate that there hadn't been any feathers lying promiscously about the room. EAST CHICAGO'S DEATH RATE LARGE The Indiana State Health Bulletin, for the month of October, just out. shows East Chicago with an annual death rate of 31.3 per 1,000 population. Hammond's death rata is little more than halfas large, its exact figures being 18.2 per 1.000 population. Whiting's death rate is a trifle lower than Hammond's, being 17.5. Lake county's death rate Is IB. 3 per thousand population. A glance through the columns of statistics shows this county to be in the front rank in the matter of death rate. With the exception of Loogoottee, where the death rate-is 43.8, East Chicago has decidedly the highest rate. HAMMONDITES TO ATTEND Local Manufacturers Will Go to Banquet in Chicago. A number of Hammond manufac turers will go to Chicago tonight to attend the banquet of the Illinois Manufacturers' association. "The Corporation" will be the subject of discussion this evening, at the Congress hotel. The speakers will be Judge Grosscup of the United States circuit court; William J. Calhoun, minister plenipotentiary to China, and Patrick Francis Murphy of New York. La Verne W. Noyes has been nominated for re-election as president on the ticket presented to the nominating committee to be voted on at the meeting. Others on the ticket are: W. H. Burn, first vice president; S. M. Hasigs, treasurer; and C. F. Wiehe, H. C. Gardner, Charles Pier, George P. Blow, Charles J. Vopicka and D. W. Simpson, directors. The speaking will commence about 8 o'clock. To Try Nieman Case. Attorney W. J. McAleer of Hammond went to Fort Wayne today to defend his client, Nieman, who is charged with wife desertion. This is one of several cases that have been brought against Nieman, but MAleer seems to think that he is persecuted and believes' that he has a chance to get him out of the latest trouble he has gotten into. Working on Big Warehouse. Reed & Bump are taking advantage of the rise in the temperature of the weather to put the roof on the 50 by 200-foot wareHmse that they are building for the Hammond Glue works. It is expected that the roof will be put on in the near future so that the warehouse can be used this winter. Frye Gets. Appointment. Clarence A. Frye of Gary, one of the Well-known plumbers of the citv, has been appointed to the office of plumbing inspector by Mayor Thomas E. Knotts. Mr. Frye is well liked and is expected to make a capable city official. This is the last of Mayor Knotts' appointments. THERE ARE FOUR COPIES OF THE TIMES SOLD IX IMHMOXD FOR EVERY COPV SOLD BY ANY OTOER PAPER. IT GIVES YOU THREE TIMES AS MUCH NEWS FOR ONE CENT AS OTHER PAPERS DO FOR TWO CENTS.

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Hit Beats Wife and Drives Her and Children From Home. In the case of the state vs. Weyhmuller, Judge- Frank Prest placed the defendant under $300 bonds. Weyhmuller was charged with beating his wife and forcing her and his children to leave the house. The wife appealed at the police station for help, and the arrest of Weyhmuller followed. The case aroused a great deal of feeling among the neighbors. Deputy U. S. Clerk Receives Order as to Turks and Assyrians Permitting Naturalization Can Now Say "I Told You So." Charles Surprise, deputy United States clerk, was vindicated yesterday in the position that he took in the re cent campaign when he issued naturalization papers to Turks and Assyrians, despite the talk in some places that this was in conflict with the law. Mr. Surprise yesterday received notice from Richard K. Campbell, chief of the division of naturalization, department, of commerce and labor, at Washington, in?truoting him that on the! order of Secretary Nagel he is not to refuse to accept declarations of intentions and petitions for naturalization by reason of any meaning hitherto given by the division of naturalization to the words, "White persons "and persons of African nativity or descent." This onrer followed the ruling of a judge in the south last week that Assyrians are white people and entitled to become naturalized citizens. The order is of significant interest in" Lake county, for the original order of the department six months ago that Assyrians and Turks were regarded by the bureau as being Asiatics and therefore not entitled to citizenship was brought about through conditions found here by a federal examiner, who was summoned to Laporte to pass on Charles Said Abraham, an Assyrian, who was an applicant for his second papers. It was the first Assyrian who had asked for second papers in the United States since the department began sending out special examiners, and it resulted in an order which caused sur prise because it prevented the Turks and Assyrians from becoming fullfledged citizens. Yesterday's order, however, nullifies that ruling, so that clerks may accept the declarations of intention and then when the applicant comes into court for his second papers and is questioned by the federal examiner it puts it to the court to decide whether the law, as held by the department, shall be so construed as to class Assyrians and Turks with the Asiatics who are prohibited from becoming citizens. Charles Said Abraham, wiio was de nied citizenship, intends to carry the.' case to the Indiana supreme court and then to the United States supreme court If on the final hearing here in the circuit court second papers are refused him. PATENTS FOR INDIANIANS Washington. Ind., Dec. 14. Patents have been issued to Indianians as follows: C. E. Atkinson, RtNimond, hose or pipe coupling; J. H. Bankson, Otterbein, hame fastener; C. A. Baylor, Laporte, coaster brake; A. J. Blowers, Berne, brooder;- H. R. Bretney, Indianapolis, alarm apafatus; L Clark, Greenfield, grain cutter; G. G. Davis, Indianapolis, upcoupling chain for car couplings; T. . P. "Heineman, Connersville, triple sign manufacture; O. C. Hiatt. Elwood, flue block mold: H. L Kramer, Kramer, apparatus for waste rock elimination: .1. F. Monaghan, South Bend, stamp affixing device; J. L. Potter. Indianapolis, excavating or hoisting apparatus; H. H. Ranje. Indianapolis, railway tie; S. Richardson. Hoover, road grader and scraper; O. F. Kichter, Indianapolis, automatic car coupling; G. Schneider, Bluffton. fence brace; A. K. Smith, SouthBend, shifting rail for vehicle seats; D. C. Southworth, South Bend, tool; F. G. Wiselogel, Indianapolis, press for expressing fluids from solids. THE TIMES PAYS tVEHKLT 8ALAKIES TO NEARLY FIFTY PEOPLB IX HAMMOND, GARY, EAST CHICAGO, WHITING AND OTHER PARTS 09 LAKE COUNTY. THEY SPEND TIIEIB MONEY AT HOME. DOES IT DE II1YE YOUR Sl'PPOBTl

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New Set of Books and Forms For City Court and Annual Reports of City Officials to State to Be Put Into Use. An entire new set of books and blanks for tho use of the city court and for the annual reports of the city officials to the state", as prescribed by the public accounting act, passed by the general assembly In 1909, will be required in this city beginning Jan. 1, 1910, the instructions for the use of such books and blanks having been received today by Clerk Otto Duelke and Judge McMahon from the state accounting board. Samples of the new forms accompanied the instructions. W. A. Dehority of Indianapolis, state examiner of the new state board of accounts, describes in the letter to the judge the form of records of fees,fines and forfeitures collected by the office of the city judge under the new law. A new city book form must be purchased by the city and . its use commenced Jan. 1 in the city court. City blank forms are prescribed for purchase and use also by the court. A feature of the samples enclosed for this city is a column provided for-the examiners of the state accounting board for the checking over by the examiners of each individual item entered by the city judge. Facilitates Examination Work. This is in keeping with, the new public accounting act which . provides for the examination of all public officials' accounts by the state board. The view and uniform entry books, prescribed for use in this city and all cities over the state, will greatly facilitate this examination work. , In the letter to the city clerk new and uniform blanks for the annual reports of the city clerk or city controller to the state examiner are also explained and the. first report under the new forms Is to be made to the state within thirty days after the coming Dec. 31. The forms are for both civil and school officials and reports to be made concern all business of the civil corporation. SAD NEWS REACHES HIM AT LENGTH W. H. Miller, for whom the local police have been looking for the past week in order to notify him of the death of his brother at Wheeling, W. Va., called at the station yesterday, in answer to a note that the police had left. in the postoffiee for him. Miller was employed in the C C. & L railroad yards, and for the past week remained close to his boarding house, having in that manner failed to get the information of his brother's death. He left for his former home in West Virginia this morning. DEC. 31 THE DATE Democrats Will Choose Delegates Last Day-of Year. TIMES HI' RE A I", AT STATE CAPITA!,. Indianapolis. Ind., Dec. 14. The democratic suite committee has set Dec. 31 for counties to select delegates to l district conventions to be held on Jan. 5 to elect district chairman. The new committee will meet here Jan. 8 to elect a state chairman. County committees will organize on Dec. 31. Mrs. Reilley Better. P. Reilley left this morning for Chicago to bring back his 'wife, who has been confined in the St. Ann's hospital for the past six weeks, owing to an operation. 7 Mrs. Reilley is improving and is now well enough so that she can leave the hospital. Her many friends in Hammond will be glad to hear of her return from the hospital. Attendance Too Small. No business was transacted at the meeting of the North Side Improvement association called for last evening, for the reason that the attendance was too small. The next meeting now will be held subject to the call of, the president, the Lincoln school having been chosen i as the rendezvous. I LAKE SUPERIOR COURT New ( . 6160. Indiana Harbor Lumber company vs. George Hudacko et al. Foreclosure of mechanics' lien. 6162. Mary Nichols vs. First National Bank of Hammond. Appeal. 6163. Frank Berwanger va. Ionnie James et al. Foreclosure of mechanics' lien.

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The announcement has been received by the Masons of the city that Past Master night will be held Thursday, Deo, 16, in Garfield lodge No. 569. This Is one of the hiost important events of the year in the local lodge, and it is expected that there will be a large attendance. Worthy Brother W. H.'Spellman will be W. M., Worthy Brother W. H. Gostlin will be S. W. ,and Worthy Brother J. G. Ibach will be J. W. On the following night the annual election of officers will take place. There Is a great deal of interest being taken in this election, and an effort wlill be made on the part of the members of the order to elect officers who are of the same high character as those who , have served in the past. PtM WMJH TRUST Unions to Try to Overthrow Hold of Steel Company on Employes. Gary Is interested In the report from Pittsburg to the effect that a movement is on foot in union official circles to wrest from the steel trust the hold that corporation now has upon labor. At the close of the first day of one of the most mysterious conferences ever held by labor leaders, eight of the keenest brains in the American Federation of labor wrestled for hours tonight with a gigantic problem, the defeat of the United States Steel corporation. The master, mind of the federation. President Samuel Gompers, devised the plans, and the meeting took place in Pittsburg. The resolutions evolved last night, which embodied the most important suggestions of the speakers at the day session, will be presented for adoption or rejection at the opening session today. From every section of the country the leaders of labor in the United States have been brought together. In the banquet rooms of the historic old Monongahela house, these men, representing nearly every kind of manual labor, have centered for one common purpose to crush the power of the steel trust by laying plans for the complete organization of its employes. At the close of the conference the - forces of the federation will be set in motion to bring about the desired end. MUCH-MARRIED ON THE ANXIOUS SEAT Racines Divorced, Rewed, Not Legally United? (Special to The Times.) Racine, Wis., Dec. 14. If a decision rendered by Judge Smieding holds, there are twenty couples in this city who are not legally married. Alvina Holtz commenced action for divorce from Gustav Holtz. It appears that they had been married once before and the husband secured a divorce. Less than two months after they were again married in the state of Indiana, .because the courts of Wisconsin forbid divorced couples to remarry within a year. When the wife sued for divorce a demurrer was filed, allegations being made that the marriage was not legal. Judge Smieding sustained the demurrer and declares the last marriage null and void. There are twenty couples here who were marired in other states less than a year after being divorced, and they are on the anxious seat. RE-ENTERS HILK TRADE S. T. Johnson Will Open Dairy for Handling of Pasteurized Product. (Special to The) Times.) East Chicago, Ind., Dec. 14. Sam T. Johnson, formerly in the milk business, which he sold out to Powers & Peterson, who have since moved out to Oklahoma, will re-enter the milk business again, beginning on Monday he will deliver milk from his old stand in Northcote avenue, near Beacon street. Of late Mr. Johnson has been connected with the Lewis & Smith livery stable. Mr. Johnson's intention is not to sell the common or garden variety of milk, but he will deal only with e pasteurized article. This will t. an innovation in East Chicago, and will be welcomed by many who fear tuberculosis in unpasteurized mf!k. Mr. Johnson will procure his milk already bottled from the new pasteurizing plant of Alexander & McKimposn, in Indiana Harbor, who get the pure article direct from the country and thoroughly sterilize it by means of their perfected pasteurizing process. Mr. Johnson will start out with one wagon, but expects to add a second wagon to his business within a fortnight, as as soon as thereafter as his trade warrants it. f

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Carter Declines to Be "Fall Guy," so Democrats Will Have to Look Elsewhere for Shrievalty TimberShine Aspires. Fred Carter says no. He says no emphatically. The genial Fred will not be a candidate for the office of sheriff of Lake county. The democratic party will have to get some one else to be the "fall guy" this year. Fred Is not in the race and is not likely to get in. The water may be fine, but It don't look fine to Fred. Thomas Grant will be the republican candidate again this year, and there will probably be no opposition to him in his own party. It is rumored, however, that Frank Shine has aspirations. Frank is figuring on rushing in where angels fear to tread. Frank has a great many friends, and it is said that he is going after the bacon. IHU Cominsr Oat. ' There is considerable gossip now about the political situation in general over the county. Charles Greenwald has announced to his friends that he Is out for a second term in the prosecutor's office. According to custom there will probably be no opposition to him in his own party, and it has almost become a custom for the democrats not to oppose the republican candidate for prosecutor. - W. A. Hill has announced that he will be a candfdate for the nomination for the office of county treasurer. He says that he has received a great deal of encouragement from his friends. Assessor Black. will, "probably twf a iahdidafe "to succeed himself In the office of assessor of Lake county. In the meantime there is not being much said about candidates for the office of state senator and for the offices of representative and joint representative. The nominations will be in the spring and the election next fall, so the prospective candidates are beginning to feel out public sentiment in regard to their candidacy. DUCKLINGTOMORROW Musical Comedy Quite a Proper Play for Perfect Lady. "The Ducklings'' is the name of a musical comedy that is coming to the Towle Opera House tomororw night. "The Ducklings" sound rather naughty but it is not half as naughty as i sounds, according to Manager Manderbeck. - Manager. Maniii rbeck says that it will be perfectly proper to bring your lady friends to see the show and the attraction is one of Lessee Wingfield's pets. Tlie program is said to be new ami refreshing, and will not only embrace many novelties and exclusive features, but will serve to introduce an entirely new assemblage of burlesque stars, comedy experts and what is claimed to be the most stunning of girlish beauty ever connected with an organization of this class. The performance opens with that whirl of song and fun, 'The Janitor," in which the entire company of fifty pai t Id pate, followed by a series of headline vaudeville acts, including Charles H. Boyle and Lillian George. Bulla and Raymond. Frank Damsel and Frances Far. The listers Hall. Nugent and Nugent. Delia Faytelle in illustrated songs and various others. The closing number is a specially written musical oxtravagar. za, entitled "A One Night Opera," which may be briefly described as a comic review of the recent prominent musical and dramatic successes of Broadway, at the same time allowing fnr the introduction of gems of grand and eomic opera that are classed as standard. SCHOOLS CLOSE DEC. 23 Holiday Vacation Shorter Than Usual This Year. The holiday vacation in the public schools wilt in all probability begin at 4 o'clock of Thursday, Dec. Such at least were the original plans by Superintendent (.. M. MI'aniel. School wil be resu.ued on Monday, Jan. 3. Tliis is thought to giv the teacher and pupils ample time in wliicl, to rest and enjoy a holiday vacation. A number of the teachers are planninV to go to their hemes for the holiday season. THE TIMES WELCOMES COM. MVXICATIONS FROM THE PUBLIC ON ANY SIRJECT OS" INTEREST TO TUB PEOPLK.

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