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iOUI OVER LUST MIGHT George W. Parker, Slayer of Mrs. Pester Palen, Sits in Courtroom Oblivious to Surroundings, and Appears Like Man in Trance. AGTI0!1 Of GRID JURYjS AWAITED Victim of His Revolver Is Buried From Undertaker's Chapel This Afternoon Defense of Parker Does Not Uncover Its Hand, But Big Fight Is Anticipated. George W. Parker, charged with

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74 Plummer avenue, last Monday afternoon, was last night bound over to the superior court without bond. He was given a preliminary hear Ing in the city court before Judge Fred Barnett, while quite a pumper of people were present to hear the first clashes between the attorneys In the case. Attorney D. E. Boone appeared for the defense, while . McAleer Bros., as special prosecutors, questioned the witnesses for the state. "Deputy Prosecuting Attorney B. TV. Henderson was also on the side of the prosecution. TJIIIK JVITXESSKS OX ST AMD. v. The entire proceedings did not last more than half tin. Hour, no attempt having been mere by. either side to produce their best evidence. The only witnesses to be put on the stand were Officer Herman Miller, Dr. B. "W." Chidlaw and Peter Palen, the husband of the victim. Officer Miller testified that he was one of the first on the scene of the tragedy and that he found Parker to be under the influence of liquor, and not realizing what he had done. Pr. Chidlaw testified that the woman was breathing her last by the time he arrived and also traced the course of the bullet to the court. The testimony of Peter Palen -was in effect that his wife was well and healthy at noon when he left her to go to his work. PARKER IS COURT. George W. Parker, the prisoner in the case, who is charged with the homicide, was in the court room, but did not testify. The old man sat in the court room motionless, never once venturing to raise his eyes toward the court or the spectators. He seemed like a man that Is dazed. The expression of his face revealed no great activity of his mind. Parker will be taken to Crown Point to await the action of the grand jury. Attorney D. E. Boone would not di vulge the nature of the defense fortius client, saying that he was not ready and that the case should, have further investigation on his part before he proceeded. , III niAli a i Coroner E. M. Shanklln held the inquest yesterday afternoon and arrangements were then made for the funeral today. Services were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Keldow chapel, Rev, P. "Weil officiated. vbgkqfrpqffpqffpqff Well officiated. Interment took place at Oak Hill cefetery. IT WAS The crew of one of the Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago street cars found a plain drunk along side of the street" car tracks in the vicinity of Roby yesterday. The report was given out that the man was injured by a street car, but this is not true. The Hammond , olice were notified and the patrol wagon was sent out o na nice little spin of some five miles. There was considerable gasoline burned in making the trip, but - the patrol arrived in due time and the man .was taken to the police station. Here he was examined by Dr. Clark, who announced that the only Injury that had been done him was to his digestive apparatus by the booze he had takes into his system. The drunk was released and a tenmile automobile trip was all for naught. "' ? . :

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CENSUS COMPLETE The taking- of the federal census Is about completed. A number of the enumerators are through with theif districts and have' turned in their reports. . " r The last day for the taking of the census is May 1st. and. the work must positively be completed by that time. Very little trouble has been experi enced in this locality, and it is believed that the census enumerators had less trouble here' than in 'most. any of the cities of this part' of the country. It will be several months before the reports on the census will be tabu lated and ready for publication. SEAT HAS II STORY Times County Seat Reporter Investigates Latest Rum ors Jtcegaramg Amaigama tion of Interurban Rail way Interests. (Special to Thb Times.) v Crown Point, Ind., April 27. As far as official news , can be learned, the report of the purchase of the Seamen interests in the Gary & Southern railroad by. the South Shore line which again bobbed up as the chief topic of conversation and discussion - in. .Crown Point last evening, is witho tirib'uhda-' tion, and the only material that the common report can be founded, upon Is that negotiations for the exchange of the interests here have been broached by the two principals in the past apd may undergo the same relations in the future. ; ... The news that the South Shore interts had made the purchase of the Seamen holdings, such as franchise's, right of way, etc., and that the concern was ready to "start Immediately on the (Continued on Page Eight.) Hill 1EI RECEIVE DELEGATION Attorneys Ross and Lotz received another delegation, of Gary men in regard to the proposed action to bring suit agalpst the city of Gary to recover salaries of city officials, whom the Gary men claim are not properly "appointed. ' : The Hammond men, however, refused to state what progress had been made in the matter, except that the proposition to bring the suit had not b-;n dropped. CONDITIONS AT STANDARD REPORTED Conditions at the Standard are reported to be good. The plant, according to Superintendent ' Douglas, is employing in the neighborhood of 2,500 men and they are all making "good wages. , Mr. Douglas says that common labor ers make about $150 a day, the more experienced men make $2 to $3 a day, and there are-a "large number of car builders working on the wooden cars who are able to make $4 a day. The force in the plant is being built up slowly, and then men all seem satisfied with their lot. Lake county has become so widely known as a labor market that there are hundreds of men flocking to the manufacturing cities of this region every week. Some o fthem tare employed and others are compelled to go elsewhere for work. Local manufacturers are very much "pleased with this, condition, for when the expansion of working force is necessary there are always enough men from which to make a selection.

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"Washington, April 27. Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, wife of the senior Indiana senator, is seriously-ill, and two or thread-times vesterdfty afternoon- and evening her life 'was In the balance. Eminent physicians of this city and Baltimore who were summoned Jto her bedside are not able to offer assurance of her recovery. A daughter was born to Senator and Mrs. Beveridge about 9 o'clock yesterday morning. For two hours r.fter.the birth of the little girl the mother showed rapid recovery, but at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon there was a collapse and she was thought by the physicians to be C She rallied, but at 3 o'clock she experienced another sinking spell, and the physicians again

GREENWALD EXPRESSES HIS

BP The first of the blind pig cases will come up in the Lake circuit court next Friday. The trial of these cases will then be continued until they are all disposed of. " Prosecuting Attorney Charles Greenwald said today: "I am of the opinion that the way to handle the immunity bath cases is to have a writ of mandate issued to compel Thomas E. Knotts to jail the blind pig operators who pleaded guilty and were given- Immunity from Incarceration. "In my opinion," said the prosecutor, "it is a waste of the people's money to go to the expense of trying each of these cases. However, I am willing that the cases shall come to trial along the lines laid down by Judge Willis C. McMahon, but he will have to take the responsibility forMhe expense that the public incurs." Greenwald also expressed the opin WEATHER WAS BAD MHE OLDEN BAYS Lake County Covered With White Frost on May 20, 1862. (Special to The Times.) " Crown Point, ' Ind., April 27. Lake county people who think the present weather is phenomenal and unusual, will find .upon inspecting the weather records of years ago that it was noth- J ing uncommon to have ' snows and ' frosts in April, May, June and July. T. H. Ball's record for the year of 1862, gives conditions nearly perelleling those being experienced at present. It is as follows: March, 20-21 Snow fell for twentyfour hours. ' April '2 Terrible wind and rain, April (4 Severe hail "stones, larger than hickory nuts. - April 21 Hard snow storms. May '20 Hard frost. "'""' ' June 9. "White frost - : - -

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thought that death was close at hand iast night they , were unable to givef any assurance to encourage the senator-a nhis.anxiiw,c-frienda. ' --. At midnight - Mrs. Beveridge was Bleeping peacefully, but her condition was regarded as very serious. Some of the most' eminent physicians of Washington, Baltimore and New.Tork were brought into consultation last night. Among them was Dr. Williams of Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, who has world fame as an expert In Fuch cases. Relatives of Mrs. Beveridge, who was Miss.. Katherine Eddy before her marriage, were notified by telt-graph of the gravity of her condition. The baby is' doing well. ion that James I Bingham did not file the writ of mandate in the immunity cases, but directed Attorney Matthews to do it. The procedure simply has Bingham's aprpoval and that is all he has to do with it, in the opinion of Greenwald. ' The cases at Crown Point are being handled by Attorney Matthews, representing the anti-saloon league, and by Attorney Smithy representing the proecutor's office. Attorney "W. J. McAleer will appear for most of the' defendants in these blind pig cases. McAleer said today that the cases would undoubtedly come up on Friday and that the rest of the grist would be tried. It is expected that the old fight, which caused such a sensation the last term of court, will be renewed, and the matter will be watched by the people of the county with renewed Interest. EOW. BE1R1GER NOT IMMINENT DANGER Hammond Business Man Suffering From an Acute Nervous Disorder. Edward Beiriger of 45 Cdndit street, who has heen at St. Marearet's hosnital owing to an acute nervous trouble, is reported to be getting along fairly well, and seemingly is nof"Tn any Imminent danger. It was reported about him yesterday that he was suffering from spinal-meningitis, but upon further diagnosis his jhysicians are quite well satisnea mat -,nis irouoie is notning more than a serH us nervous disorder. , Mr. Beirig er spent a restful . night last night and slept the greater part of the time, i THE TIMES IS TRYING HARD TO IT UJtB MERIT 'THE 1 SUCCESS ACHIEVED.

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- One census enumerator in Gary is nursing a bump on his cranium. The other day he called on a negress; and started in with the usual questions : "Whah f oh yoh ask such question ?" she demanded and with the words the enumerator got a sharp whack on the "nop" with a ' broomstick. The census man had merely asked her whether: she was white or black. She happened to be blacker than the ace of spades and thought the census man was kidding her. FOR GITY IS UP Hammond Business Men Fear that Fizzle Would Be Made of State G. A. R. Encampment Because It Lacks Accommodations. The proposed state G. A. R. encampment for Hammond for the year 1911 is knocked in the head. Fearing that Hammond, because ofa lack of accommodatons, would make a fizzle of the whole thing, there is an outspoken sentiment in the business district against bringing the encamp ment to Hammond how. ,' Mr. Bcckman Can't See It. John N. Beckman, who" was 1he chair man of a committee of six appointed by Secretary E. V. Johnston to canvass the business jflistrict, said this noon: " "I have given up. I couldn't find a man in my district- who was' willing to subscribe. Hammond is, not Xn a position to take care of the old soldiers in the way they should be treated, was the consensus of opinion," said John 'Beckman today. Jacob Schloer, another member of the same committee, said that he. found a unanimous sentiment against the project. Can't Rough It Any More. Dr. H. C. Groman, another member of the same committee, said that, while he had not gone out on a formal canvass, he had learned that the sentiment for the present, at least, is not in favor of bringing the old soldiers here. John Glennon of the Hotel Majestic said: "Hammond simply'" has not enough room to accommodate the visitors. On the whole Hammond has as good hotel accommodations as any other city of its cize, but in this instance we would be able ot care for all the old soldiers." Other business men. lathough not members of the committee, were equal ly outspoken on the question. They do not feel like taking a chance on the outcome. They say that Hammond ought not to be made a convention city until it feels before hand that it would be asuccess. "If the old soldiers were to go away from Hammond the whole thing would do the city more harm than good, despite the money that they would spend here," said another business man. "We could go to work and give them sleep ing quarters in tents and cots or the school houses and hall. We would be taking care of them all right, but how would the old soldiers take it. Their days for roughing it are past.", OLD SOL STICKS 00T . HIS HEAD After days and days of darkness the people of Lake county go their first glimpse of the sun today, and Old -Sol made about 75,000 people in this county more cheerful. In fact, yesterday, after several days of continuous rain, it seemed as though a forty-day deluge had set in. . The weather prediction for today is: Partly cloudy, fair tomorrow, with variable winds. The prediction Is of little value to the average person, as he has lost faith in the government meteorological obseravtions, but the appearance of the Sun means muth, and it Is expected that at last the weather is to moderate and spring will return again. A week or two after the weather becomes warm again the full extent of the crop loss will be known. It has been reported that it will not be as bad as was first expected, and the farmers are hoping that this istrue. If you smoke a La Vendor Cigar once you will always call for them.

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Democrats at Indianapolis Unable to. Fathom Governor's Motives ; In Game He is Playing

SLATE PICKED BY THE WISE ONES LEW ELLIXGHAM, aecretary "of state. - AV.H. O'BRIEX, auditor of Mate. "W. II. VOLLMER, treasurer of atate. THOMAS M. HOSAS or RICHARD MH.DIRX, attorney general. J. FRED FRANCE or GILBERT H. 1IEMJREX, clerk supreme court. R. J. AI-EV, aunertnteudent public Instruction. THOMAS BROI.1.EY, statistician. EDWARD BARRETT, IMatnfleld, g-eoloa-tnt. JOSEPH IBACH, ANDREW AD AMS and M. B. I.AIRY, appellate udses, Northern district. E. W. FELT andjM. B. HOTTEI, appellate Judges, Southern district. DOUGLAS MORRIS, supreme court judge, Second district. CHARLES E. COX, supreme court judge, Third district. Marshall Wins Out. Indianapolis, April ' 27. Governor Marshall has won the first decisive fall in the nerve-racking contest to determine whether or not the democratic state convention shall follow his advice and nominate a canaioaie i United States senate. ' Aroused by the report that his pet I project was to be smothered to death in the report of the" committee, n rules and permanent organisation, and that the latter would be considered by Stokes Jackson, atate chairman, as pre siding officer of the convention before he wm Introduced as temporary chairman, Governor Marshall yesterday afternoon demanded a": revision of the official program. - He invited Chairman Jackson- and Peter Kruyer of Plymouth, member of the subcommittee on arrangements Jor the convention, to confer With him t his office at the State House. Jackson and Kruyer called about 3 p.' m. and were with the governor for more than half an hour. Jackson said hat the committee was perfectly willing to change the program to salt the governors desires, and that no one ever had thought of doing anything to embarrass the governor as temporary chairman. There was no other alternative for Jackson and the organization but to change the program " or "to get a new temporary chairman. 60 DEMOCRATS THERIJ Judging from the number of tickets that Captain Downing, agent for the Monon railroad. haB sold for Indianapolis, some sixty democrats went to Indianapolis from Hammond. This includes practically the entire county delegation. It is expected that most of the delegates will return elther'Tate , tomorrow or early Friday morning, j The biggest delegation went down last night on the midnight train. There were some thirty in this delegation. : O'SHEA 8 O'SHEA LOW BIDDERSJ1 SEWERS Hammond Contractors After a Mammoth Job in Laporte at Present. O'Shea & Shea of Hammond were low bidders on a big sewer construction job at. Laporte this week. The Argus-Bulletin says: "Four bids were opened in the council chamber last night in the matter of the trunk sewer systetn to be built in Laporte this summer. Two of these bids exceed the estimate of City Engineer Burns, $135,000", and hence are out of the running. Those bids which come within the mark were presented by Independent Construction company of Terre Haute and O'Shea & Shea of Hammond. On the trunks proper, excepting the manholes,, the catchbasins and the incidental excavating, the tabulated bids' are published in today's Issue. It is to be seen from this list that the bid of the Independent Construction company figures at $132,S30.28; the bid of O'Shea & Shea, the Hammond firm, at $129,833.90; an approximate difference of $3,000. In the neighborhood of $2,000 must be added to each bid to cover the cost of manholes, catchbasins, house connections and excavation. "With this addition, both bids come under the $35,000 mark. It is difficult to estimate the cost of excavation, but it is believed that $2,000 is a safe shot for all expenses other than the sewer proper. Maybe not. "It is -very likely that the council will accept the bid of either the Hammond -or the Terre Hants concern," -

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MM IS HE POOR POLITICIAN? The Real Fun at Indiana polis Will Start Today and - Fight Is Anticipated, f FRESH FROM THE BAT. Indianapolis, Ind., April 27 The "Great Oriental Trio" arrived at noon today Major Larry Becker, of Han. moadi Mayor Tom Knotts, of Gary and Mayor. Lem Harrow, of La port e. It was reported that they are here to have placed la the platform a plank Indorsing the county option law. Any time that bunch goes Into the temper aneo end of politics It can be asserted without ear of contradiction that their' minds have left them. " v Thomas K softs, mayor of Gary, came to Indianapolis, gunning for Governor Marshall, politically speaking," with his Gary 'delegation.' . . "We're against 'the Marshall plan you can bet on that," said Knotts. - Mayor , Lawrence Becker of " Hammond says he has no intention of seeking the senatorial toga. Becker has very little love for Governor Marshall, and he "tee-totally" la against the Marshall" suggestion. . fed Simon, of HammAniT,' 1 in town. And.be will stay "here 'no' matter If Larry Becker Is also In town. BULLETIN. TIMES BUREAU, ' AT STATE CAPITAL, Indianapolis, Ind., April 27. Probab ly-Senator Shively' will take the conventlon floor tonight and fight against the adoption of Governor Marshall's plan on senatorshlp. Shively says it will depend upon the developments. The convention program is changed and Governor Marshall will speak before the organlaztion committee 'make its report. TIMES' Bl'REAt AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., April 27. Governor Marshall has been an enigma to the politicians here for the last two days. They have not been able to make up their minds just what kind of a game he is playing in connection with the democratic state convention or whether he is playing a game at all. A good mafiy of the democrats regard him as a poor "politician because of the mjiBS he has stirred up over his plan to have the state convention nominate a candidate for United States senator. They declare that this was a" foolish move because it has torn the party to pieces and has damaged the chances It had to carry the state next fall. . On the other hand another element (Continued on page seven.) REMONSTRANCE IS TAKEN UMfESTERDAY Annexation Case Is Not Set For Trial This Term, However. The Hammond remonstrance against the annexation of this city by, East East Chicago came up in the Lake circuit court at Crown Point yesterday, and all of the parties in the case mada an appearance. The case was not set for rial, and it is understood that Judge William C. McMahan will not set the case until the next term of court. - The matter is now up to the couH-and will havs to wait until It is called up for trial. New Poles Erected. Nine iron signal poles with concret foundation were- erected today on the Michigan Central, Erie, Monon and Lake Shore rights of way. in the vicinity of- Hohma.n, State and Plummefl avenue crossings. . . . s