Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 250, Hammond, Lake County, 21 April 1910 — Page 1
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Eugene Brokaw Alleged to be Clever
ue, Tried in Chicago Criminal
Court Today for Swindling
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Elected to Congress from Rochester
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PRODUCTS CO. PUT PLANT
IN OPERATIO
Ttyfe sewage filtration plant at the American Maize Products company's plant at Roby has been In operation, according to reports from the, super
intendent's office today. For the time
being the system was found to be a
success, but It had to beshut down
temporarily on account of adjustments that are always necessary In connec
tion with a big plant of this nature. The officials are . confident, however,
that the system will be put In permanent operation during the first week in
May. The sewage filtration plant rep
resents a financial outlay of.nearly $50,-
peo. -
The operation of the filtering plant
has been hanging fire for many months,
i but the officials of the company swear
that the delay was not caused by any
neglect on their part to hurry the work
They say they have been handicapped in all kinds of manner while the work has been going on. Once the plant is in operation, the officials promise, .it will
take cafe of air the sewage.
Eugene Brokow, alleged to be a
member of one of the most clever jf
gangs of swindlers that have operated in this country, is to be tried in, the criminal court in Chicago on the charge of swindling the American Express company of $200. on bogus traveler's checks today.
Brokow was arrested In Hammond j?;
after he had attempted to defraud the American Express Company's agent, C. E. Tunison, in the same manner. He was acquitted here
through the efforts of Joseph Conroy who was able to discover a flaw in
the indictment. , WHAT TECHNICALITY WAS.' The technicality was that the American Express company and not C. E. v Tunison would have been defrauded of he money had Brokow been able to pass the bojus; traveler's, checks.
.., jt (w -s4f-'th.t -th -gangof swindkrr .
who ' are' -operating this game have i t '
plenty of money with which to defend j A. ; I?
KroKow ana are usuig 11. Auurne) Jim Brady of Chicago is defending Brokow today. MAY PROVE AX ALIBI. It Is said that in the case of the ' Chicago swindle the guilty man was able to get away with the money, while in Hammond C. E. Tunison called the police and had his man arrested before he got the money. It is stated by Attorney Conroy, who Is conversant with the Chicago case, that Brokow will be able to prove an (Continued on p&ge five.)
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PRICE 1JUSIIII IS THE ONLT TROUBLE Hammond Manufacturer Explains Drop in the Price of Product.
Insane Patient at Crown
Point from Hammond Ploors Man and Locks Him in Her Cell and Deliberately Walks Out.
Speaking of the drop in the price of whisky to $1.30. .John E. Fitzgerald of the Hammond Distilling company stati ed this morning that there Is no war between the Independents and the trust. The independents control practically 75 per cent of the output, and It is they are manitaining prices while the trust was responsible for lowering them.
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Announcement that Taggart is Be Sen ator ial Can didate Sets Politicians in a Ferment
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Mark Twain Noted . Humorist Whose End is Very Near
UP FOR CONTEMPT.
Oodar Lake Man Fatally Injured While Trying to Mail Postcard on Monpi; , Train; Dies in Hammond Hospital.
Max Bulks, a colored man thirty years old, of 2933" State street, Chicago, was fatally injured at Cedar Lake yesterday afternoon and died at St. Margaret's hospital in Hammond this
morning. uuiks was employed as a1 cook in the SIgler hotel and is said to have run down the embankement in' front of. the hotel carrying a post card ' which he wanted to mail on the north ' bound Monon passenger train No. 6
flue in Cedar Lake at 4:10. The accident happened before anybody was aware that the man was in danger. The train is said to have been in motion when he attempted to place his card into the mail car. His foot caught and severed. The wheel passed over his leg between his knee and ankle. The train was brought to an lmmdlate stop before another wheet should pass over him and the injured man was placed in the baggage car and taken to Hammond. Bulks lot considerable blood and was very weak when he arrived at the hospital. He died this morning, his
Eev. Samuel Hueeker, the last of the ministers to be elected to the ministery of the First Presbyterian Church of Hammond, has not accepted the call here for the reason that his parishioners in the Ohio city from which he came would not permit him to leave. The Presbyterians of the city will meet again Sunday to take up the matter of securing a new minister. It is believed that a new list of candidates will have to be heard and from them another selection will have to be made. Whether Hammond's old reputation for wickedness makes the job here worth more than the church is willing to pay remains to be seen. It is believed how
ever that some one will be secured
who will agree to minister td the needs of the fllock in this city.
BOUND OVER TO SUPERIOR COURT v. (Special to Thb Times.) -East Chicago, Ind., April 21. Xick Popovich, whose trial came up yesterday in the city.c(urt. he being charged with arson, was bound over to the Superior court, his bond being $1,000. Tony Stepanovich went the man's bond. His trial will come up in the next term of court. '
The twelve Jurymen who left Judge Ames' court the other evening without permission of the court are to be arraigned this evening on the charge of contempt of cort. The hearing will take place this evening at 7 o'clock. The twelve men who have brought
upon themselves the ire of the court
are as follows: John Prang, ' B. "W
Link, H. Green Jr., W. Schulte Jr., H.
Hermes, "W. H. Huehn, G. , E. Jillson
Charles Arkin. Morris Sitzer, Jesse Pannenborg, William Feustermaker and
A. Glannlng.
Somewhere in this wide wide world
there is a Jury.
A lost, scattered Jury aimlessly wan
dering hither and thither, whence they
know not.
Somewhere in the wide wide world
there is a bailiff, disconsolate and sad
A bailiff who, under special dispensation from the court, ministered to it and had in his keeping the "twelve
men, good and true" who presided over the destinies of a citizen who might
have erred.
But today the jury is still wandering
hither and thither arid the bailiff is still sad and disconsolate. The bailiff was unfaithful to his sacred trust and the
flock has scattered.
"Has any one seen my Jury today?"
Judge Ames is asking, "and where is my faithful bailiff gone." Thus through
one rhans negligence has one of the courts of the land been thrown into
hopeless confusion. Chaos reigns. Jeas Didn't Know.
The fact that, a jury mysteriously
disappeared from Judge Ames court
while he was out to dinner, and it was
supposed to be deliberating on a ver diet has caused a great deal of mer
riment in legal circles today.
Of course. Judge Ames had nothing to do with Jt." He enjoys the Joke as well as every one else. It was the
ignorance of court procedure on the part Of the jurymen that caused the
trouble.
Jess Pannenborg was the foreman
He found that the jury was hopelessly disagreed, and as Jess is pretty regular with his meals, and it was past 6 o'clock he decided that all that would be necessary would be for the jury to leave a little note, on the judge's desk telling him that they had failed to agree. v He little suspected that a juryis subject to the will of the court and can only terminate their deliberations upon the court's order. And so the jurymen scattereed to the four points of the compass, and not until they read The Times last night were they aware of the awful blunder they had made. "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
(Special to The Times.)
Crown Point. Ind., April 21. Mrs.
John Walter from Hammond confined in
the county jail for some time made
things lively for Jailer Adolph Houseman late yesterday and by a clever insane ruse succeeded in making her escape from the institution, only to be captured a half hour, later by the Jail
bailiffs. Jailer Houseman hud inst tak
en the woman her supper to the cell f:
and had Just turned around to close U i h a ii -a 1 . 4i . . i !-
mo ten uwi wiicu i ii c wumtin Willi ail the strength and power of insane people sprang upon his back, throwing him to the rear of the cell and closed the cell door and made her escape out of the woman's ward. It was some time before Houseman could give the alarm, and inquiries from the officials elicited the fact that a woman bearing all the. unmistakable signs of insanitv had been seen. walking in leisurely fashion! south of town, through the cemtery and toward the Coleman "farm. A telephone call later from that farm gave the information that -the woman, was there and Tom Piatt and Beryl Grant hurried in an
auiomonue anu Drought the woman
back, she offering no resistance. Houseman was taken completely by surprise by the attack as the woman had never
hown the" least desire to escane or be
refractory and he was in no way pre-!
ning attack, , ,
The woman was hrought here from
Hammond several days ago. Last year she attempted to' kill herself on i
her husband's grtjve. She was never j jiw-owi-violent and .tfce4 jti-officials considered ; ""wiy ,
her harmless until the outbreak" ye3- '
terday. I
Jailer "Herman" as he is familiarly1
known, will hereafter take no chancer ' with the "batty" patients and will h
probably take the precautions of hand
ing their meals through the slide grate on a- fsh pole.
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Redding, Conn., April 21. Samueel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) is eying today at Stormfleld, his mansion back in the tamarack hills. Dr. Robert Halsey, the eminent" heart" specialist of New York, was reported to be keeping him alive with stimulants and succeeded in freeing him completely of pain. The patient was unconscious all night. Hi s is very near. Angina pectoris, one of the most excruciatingly painful of maladies, coupled with cardiac asthma, was slowly carrying away the veteran humorist's strength. His mind was clear as a bell. He laughed and joked with his physicians and- nurses and his spirit was hrave and undaunted; but apparently the grizzled old warrior of fun did not care to get well. He seemed to have given himself up.
TIMES BTTREATJ, AT STATE CAPTTAX. Indianapolis, Ind., April 21. Not
V that it is known that Tnm Tnotmr
l is in Tsalitv n. Mnd-Wat for TTnifjrl
States Senator it looks like the coming campaign might be fought out on the issue of Taggart against Beveridge. The first posittre statement that Taggart was a candidate was made In these dispatches several days ago and the statement was based on information which was absolutely correct. This was the first publication of the fact In any newspaper, and It was regarded here as a good newspaper scoop. , HAD THEM tP IN AIR. ' The question of whether or not Taggart would be a candidate for senator was the onethlng that the politicians on both sides were unable to figure out and it had them up in the air. They all realised that Taggarts decision .on this matter would probably mean much in the campaign, and the ' politician:: were watching him like hawks. When the news of his determination to get in . the race was printed .in this paper '
they understood at once that the ques
tion had been settled, so that the pub
lication In this city yesterday of the same statement failed to cause much of, a stir.
OH GEE, OH JOT! There Is no disguising the fact that
Advertiser in The Times Is Besieged by Applicants Who Answered His Advertisement Last Night; Proof of Medium Shown.
Mr. Fitzgerald said this morning that the Independents had come to an agreement with the trust and that the quotations would be the same today. Make Spring; AdJuatment. The .differences In prices came as a result of the annual spring adjustment of prices which fluctuate at this time of the year for the reason that there is
some uncertainty as to what the price of corn will be.
This is also the slack season In the distillery business, and it is natural that the readjustment of prices should take place at this time of the year. Up until yesterday prices have been cut 5 cents infive days, and it is reported that under the cut that was forced by the Independents the trust has already closed one house. The in
dependents are reported to have a combined daily capacity of 135,000 gal
lons of spirits.
Pittsburg, Pa April 21.; Considerable rioting ensued at the Pressed Stel Car company plant at McKee's Rocks today.
death having been due to low of blood I d 6very .flay and ,t Js thought that
and an otherwise weafc constlutton, 8ome arrests may follow."
TRAIN IS WRECKED. (Special to Thb Times.)
Pittsburg, Pa., April 21. The Baltimore & Ohio passenger train Xo. 160,
carrying the Pittsburg Pirates en route from Cincinnati here, collided with a
work train about twenty miles west of here today, but no one was injured. The Pirates were delayed some on account of the wreck, and did not arrive until ntarly noon- -
FOR RENT Five-room cottage. Call phone 1613 after 6:30 p. m. this evening or call at room 218 Hammond bldg. tomorrow after 8 a. m., Hammond Realty company. The above want ad appeared exclu
slvely In The Times last night and
brought forty-nine known responses
they coming both by telephone and In
person. The results were not unusual
however, but the strong pulling power of Thb Times again establisher Its
claim as the best advertising medium in Lake county, and points out the great problem in Hammond the scarcity of houses. The number that responded to the little ad may have been much larger than forty-nine, for some people did not wait until this morning to call at Mr. Trout's Hammond building office, some having come to his office last night in the hope that they might be fortunate enough. The papers ,'iad been hardly on the streetsvwhen M, Trout telephoned The Times -and begged that the ad might be taken out for the last edition. Guards Hit Door. "I took the precauton of stating in the ad that home seekers might telephone me at 6:30," said Mr. Trout this morning. "But the telephone began to
ring at 5:30, and for the greater part of the evening Mrs. Trout stood at
the telephone ' answering inquiries,
while I guarded the door and answered questions and turned people awayT I
could have rented thirty houses right
off the reel last night. At times two and three people would be at my place
waiting their turn or going out as others came in. It wasi not a question of location with thu They wanted a
place to live." . j - :
STRIKE 0
iT BREWERY
DELAYS PLA
Owing to the fact that there Is a
strike on at the plant of the Hammond
Brewing company, the actual brewing
of beer will be delayed for several days. The strike is said to be the result of the inability of the sib-contractors to agree as to which crait should put in the pipes for the refrigerating apparatus. It is said that the quarrel has resulted ' in a general Etrike which has tied up the-whole building. It was hoped that the first brew of Hammond beer would be started today, but this will now be delayed for several days.
WEST HIND
ELECTION IM COURTS
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Went on a Visit. Everett Verrill, 36 State street, whose
ten days' disappearance caused considerable worry and anxiety among his friends and relatives, has returned, not
knowing what a hubbub his disappear
ance has created in his circle. Verrill it seems had gone to "Chi
cago on a visit and had written to hla
mother telling her of it. but-the let ter miscarried.
Martin Finneran Does Not
Intend to Let Proceedings go by Default.
The West Hammond election of last
Tuesda la not to stand without a con
test, and preparations are now under way for the battle In the Cook county
court.
The proceedings will be started by
Martin Finneran, the present village
clerk, who headed the Independent democratic ticket but who was counted out in favor of the candidates on the people's ticket. The whole election is so "balled up" that anything t!t one individual act alone will not make it invalid. Safearoardlnir the Ballot. This morning it developed that the ballot box had been taken out of the village hall last Tuesday night and had been kept In the south side saloon until this morning at 10 o'clock. This In itself Is said to be contrary to the Illinois election laws, and on the face of It Is Irregular, especially before the
vote has been canvassed by the village board. The village board meets tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 to canvass the vote. It has no discretionary power In
the matter, but must accept the tallies
as reported by the Judges.
The Independent democrats charge dlana-Chlcago
the Judges and clerks on the other two i franchise.
parties with many kinds of violations. They say that one of the election of
ficials attempted to Influence voters right in front of the village hall when
the election was on, and that two of the 'judges went with the voters into the booths and marked their tickets for them. . The independents have retained Attorney Frederick De Young (ft Chicago, as he is regarded an expert on election laws.
BOARD SAYS THE COM 131 EM
Hammond Board of Pnblia Works Sends Back Sub way Franchise to H., W. & E. 0. Company and Order Changes Made.
. The Hammond, Whiting & East Chl cago Railway company must, , according to members of the board of publ,io works, show a disposition toward fairness In the matter o.' getting the proposed subway franchise. After having first submitted a franchise which provided that the desired route be granted on the terms of the company's original franchise in Hammond, the board told the company's representatives that they must be willing to make better terms and they were advised at the time to copy as much as possible tha Gary & Interurban franchise, or the In-
Tractlon company's
No Damage Done. Although there was frost last night It Is not believed that any serious damage was done. Ridge road farmers are
little worried about their fruit trees as they have only begun to blossom. The indications today were that it would be rather warm tonight, but
I somewhat cooler tomorrow.
Instead the company has submitted a bulky document to which the board objects In many paragraphs. If the company is really In earnest about getting the franchise the board may draw up a franchise and ask the company to accept It. The board wants something more specific than the company has set out thus far in its franchise, in regard to the route, pavement, poles, power, damages for electrolysis, time for delay, the' nature of the property to be carried, as to th rights of the Calumet & South Chicago Railway of Illinois to operate the new line, street sprinkling,
schedule, the Important question of allowing another interurban to use this company's tracks and fares., , Forty-four years is the term of years) for the franchise, according to th company's request