Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 225, Hammond, Lake County, 23 March 1910 — Page 8

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THE TUXES.

. ' Wednesday, Marclv 23; 1910.

IIS GET AFTER

SIEEL CO.

Evidence Is Submitted to

v ; Attorney General Wicker

' sham Alleging Violation

of Sheriman Law and Mo-

nopoly Is Charged.

':, (Chicago Tribuhe.

Washington. D. C. March 23. Many charges involving the town of Gary, Ind., are made in documents submitted yesterday to Attorney General Wicker-

shaw by the American Federation of

Labor. The evidence . presented yesterday,

which consists of sworn statements. Is intended to support charges against the United States Steel Corporation and follows the petition of the federation to President Taft, who referred the matter to Wickersham, ."The federation seeks to have the United States government bring action for 'the dissolution of the steel trust

DESPONDENCE ORIS WBMAjnO SUICIDE Ten Year Old Daughter the First to Discover Her Mother.

ACT WAS LONG PREMEDITATED

Police Are Summoned by

Stricken Girl Inquest Has Been Held.

Tripping home from school with a sonar on her lips as she entered the

door of ' her home at Twenty-fourth ' and the body was removed

SEALED BOXES sv A TRIUMPH IN SUCAB MAKING! 1 BlSTSUGARFORTEAAWCOFffi! I BT GROCERS EVEKrWHER&t . I

as a violator or tne snerman, law in ;xvo iriena or roe can pass tne guara

manner similar to the "I proceedings without surveillance equivalent to that

brought against the Amefftcan Tobacco "of the Russian. Cossack or . the Fretich company and the Standard'oil company. , gendarme."" ,'

It Is alleged that at Gary a monopoly 1

of the necessaries of life exists and '

that arbitrary prices are charged for everything. Cbarsea Involving Gary. The federation's changes In' connection with conditions In the steel town follow: "The United States Steel Corporation, by virtue of Indiana statutes, was compelled to incorporate numerous small companies, with certain restricted and specific duties vested in each corporation, to carry out the ultimate purposes of the United States Steel Corporation within said state. Among the methods adopted was to have a separate corporations, called the Indi

ana Steel company, with corporate powers, to manufacture steel and iron and their by-products. "Another corporation, known as the j Gary Land company, which is exercising the franchise of owning town sites, has the power of erecting residences, j business blocks, banks, hotels, saloons J

and eating houses; in fact, operating all the functions of an ordinary municipal government, with the powers of a private corporation and a private individual, to provide for everything incident to the private life of a . citizen in the way of drainage, sewerage, light, heat and property ownership. "The gas company Is organized under a separate charter, and the water com

pany by another separate charter. This aggregation of separate state corporations advertises in their prospectuses and In their confidential reports to stockholders that they are subsidiary companies of the United States Steel Corporation. Say Laborer Are Herded. "Aside from the municipal functions above described, the lake transporta-

j tion and the rail transportation are under, separate corporations, and these

in turn are advertised as being subsidiary to the United States Steel Corporation by a stock and bond ownership. The resultant effect of this complete monopoly ownership, monopoly of transportation facilities and monopoly of even all the habitations, enables the company to import and to hold under a species of practical peonage Slavs, Hungarians, Italians, Servians, Poles and Turks. "And this class of laborers, whether made citizens or left' as foreigners, is herded together, in some instances as many as fifteen or sixteen in a room, bringing with them all the degradation, filth and lack of civilization that are incident to the lowest stratum of their respective nations. With, no. chance to be reached or Influenced by -'American workers, or by the organizations of American labor, they have no opportunity to get the benefit and strength of associations of laborers to life their condition. ."They are subjected to the private police supervision : of this corporation, with all its power of wealth and avarice. To illustrate: There are five uniformed and armed guards or. policemen at every'entrance and "exit of the yards.

avenue and Mass street, little ten-year- i old Josephine Mottick was a witness to one of the most shocking tragedies that ever took place in Gary, for upon opening a stairway door, she found the body of her mother dangling In the air, with a rope around her neck and suspended from a rafter. i The horrible sight, that w-ill probably remain on the mind of the child for the

rest of her days, would freeze cold the blood of the strongest person and as pretty little Josephine ran out of the door with a wild cry of despair, her little body sank down upon the soft sand and her heart was broken with grief. v Neighbors Attracted. Her cries attracted a number of neighbors in the vicinity and, running to the Mattlck home, they found the cause of the child's grief. Officer Peter Jurie, who lives in the neighborhood, was summoned and he hurried to the house and cut down the body in hopes that the woman was yet alive. A call was sent to the local police station, and the police patrol, with Chief Martin, Captain Catry and Drs. Harry F. Walsh and W. F. Foulds, was soon at the Mattlck home. An examination proved that the woman's death had been instantaneous, as her neck had been broken by the fall. Upon the arrival of the police there was a pitiful scene. Little Josephine refused to leave the 'house and be comforted. "My poor mama, my poor mama. She always-said she would kill herself. Oh, please- don't let them take her away," and her suffering was so pitiful that it brought tears to the eyes of many of those who stood by. WiDpondent. The Mattlck house is a two-story frame building near the corner of Twenty-fourth avenue and Massachu

setts street. The suicide, Mrs. Mary Mattlck was 29 years old and has been despondent and morbid,, according to the statement of the little ' daughter, for four years, ever since her brother died. At times she was thought to be

insane and would drink heavily. Chief Martin said upon one occasion she ran away from her home for several months and she had been locked up at the local station for drunkeness. Her husband, John Mattlckat work on the sewer on Jefferson- street, near Eleventh avenue, was notified of his wife's suicide, as was also Joseph Mattick, their 12-year-old son, a pupil at the Emerson school. Inquest Yesterday. "Mama seemed to be alright when I left home this morning to go to school," said Josephine to Chief Martin. "She washed me and combed my hair and kissed me as I left the house." On the table near the body was a basketful of groceries, which the woman had evidently purchased from a nearby grocery store before she took

Panic ' ner llfe- -The act was committed but a

short time before the arrival of her daughter, as the hjody was warm at the time the police arived. She had evidently climbed the stairs, tied the rope which was attached to a rafter, around her neck and Jumped. The coroner's

inquest was held j-esterday afternoon

to the

morgue of Undertaker P. C Flnnerty.

A sad feature In connection with the case was that the decedent was' about to become a mother and after the remains of, the later, were cut down life was found in the child, but death resulted later.

TUCKER

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DISCOVERY

OIJE DOSE MAKES DYSPEPS!

HEARTBURN OR GAS VANISH

CORONER WITHHOLDS VERDICT

Aside from State Food Inspector

Frank W. Tucker, who is now busily

engaged In giving Gary a spring house

cleaning in the way of giving the city more sanitary conditions, there have been discovered in the city two federal authorities, who are inquiring into the oleomargerine sales in this city. The inquiry of the federal authorities has even extended into the boarding houses, several of them being under surveillance at.the present time, it having been reported that some of them practice the coloring of the oleo themselves and feed It to the, boarders as pure butter. This lias also, been charged against some of the ' restau

rants. . .. The work of the federal inspectors is largely the result of the disclosures In Chicago, where It is found that the law in regard to the use of coloring matter has been constantly evaded. Already one person, M. Aaronson, has been arrested and several more arrests may be made in a short time.

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BURIED,

structed the passage of the dredges on their way to the turning basin to resume the work of widening and deepen-

I lng the canal has been passed. The

dredges passed through the Terminal j bridge Monday night and workmen have been busy since replacing the

structure and making it available for traffic. There Is still one more bridge for the dredge sto pass, this being the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern. After this has been accomplished work will be commenced on the last, lap toward making the " canal acceptable to the United States government.

SUES FOR

company at Gary will have a capacity of 6.000 tons per month so that tha total amount of the product for that' section of the plant to be built lmmedi ately will be 20,000 tons per month.. The first shipment of steel for the Gary plant will be ready for shipment In a short while. . ' . -

TAFT RETURNS TO WASHINGTON

Deputy Coroner E. K. Gordon of Hobart was. in Gary yesterday afternoon, where he held the Inquest on the remains of Mrs. Mattick who committed suicide earlier In the day. In regards to the coroner's investigation in the Peter Mullen murder case. Dr. Gordon stated that a"s far as he was concerned his work was finished until the local police secured more evidence. "The -tnquest over the remains of Mullen has been held," said Dr. Gordon, "and I have secured depositions from both McDonald and Mackey. I have not rendered my verdict as yet, but if we fall to find the murderers my verdict will be: homicide by an "unknown person. If the Gary police "secure any further evidence I will be only too pleased to lend every assistance In bringing the guilty parties to Justice.

ARE YOtT TAKIXG THE TIMES?

$75,000

A story of personal sacrifice by numerous employes of the Indiana Steel company, who gave portions of their skin to save the life of a fellow-worker, was revealed yesterday with the filing of a suit for $75,000 against the corporation. The suit. was filed by F. G. Loll, formerly an electrician at the company's plant. While working in the plant about a year ago Loll received a shock that burned him so severely that his life was despaired of. It was estimated that nearly 7,000 volts of electricity passed through his body and his escape from Instant death was considered a miracle.

DREDGES GO THROUGH

(Special to The Times.)

East Chicago, Ind. , March 23. The third of the bridges which have ob-

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STARTS TO

President Is Fatigued After

- Long Journey. 'Washington, D. C. Marcn 23. 4 Taft, after a six days' absence from Washington, returned today, arriving at the Union station at 7:15 a. m. As tha -president was somewhat fatigued from his Journey, he did not leave his pr vate car until 8 o'clock.

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STEEL

The. American Bridge company nave started the manufacture of 6,000 tons

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