Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 268, Hammond, Lake County, 12 May 1910 — Page 4
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THE TIKES. Thursdav, Mav,12, 1910.
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THE TIMES wlU prist all commaaieatloaa sabj at eaerI 1st
t ae people, wkca rack caxaraamleatloms are sl-4 by the write, hat will
reject an eomntaaleatloaa aot starved, no matter what their merit. This pre-
rautl i take te avoid mlrepreeatatlvav.
THE TIMES U pabllahed In the bent latereat ef the people, aa It utter.
aacea always lateaded to promote the Kcnrml welfare of th pabUe at larr.
THEY ARE SORRY TOO LATE.
Dimitar Lemak, of Gary, stood before the bar of justice In the Lake , superior court yesterday and pleaded guilty to taking the life of a human being. It was charged that at the time he did the awful act, he was crazed
with liquor, maddened by the effect of whiskey. Lemak is a young man. Life is before him life behind the prison bars
Ile has been deprived of his liberty and as long as he shall live, no matter whether it be one or seventy years, he will be segregated from his kind and kept where he can drink no more whiskey or spill any more human blood.
Lemak has a wife across the blue Atlantic. She dons not know that her
husband, while his brain was saturated with the fumes of whiskey, shot and
killed a fellow-countryman. She does not know that he is to spend the rest of his life in prison. She thinks he is working to save tip enough money to
bring her to this country. She knows none of these and other pitiful facts.
Lemak says he would not have killed Nickola, his compatriot for worlds.
George Parker, the Hammond murderer, who shot and killed the wife of
his tenant, while in delirium, says the same. It wasn't Lemak that killed Nichola; it wasn't Parker that killed Mrs Palen. IT WAS WHISKEY.
GERMANS AND THE FATHERLAND.
The United States is being brought very close to its sister nations in Europe these days. The honors heaped upon ex-President Roosevelt and the
death of King Edward bring us all very close together, and in New York
recently, an incident "transpired which will bring a touch of pride to the
average German heart.
Hundreds of members of the Krieger Bund, an association composed of
German-Americans who fought for their fatherland in the Franco-Prussian
war, assembled at the dock of the Harburg-Amesrican line the other day and gave their two hundred comrades who sailed on the liner Pennsylvania for a
visit to their beloved fatherland, as the honored guests of . Emperor William
many rousing cheers as an affectionate send-off. . The emperor, who wishes
particularly to honor the German veterans from across sea, has given Instruc
tions to that effect and an unusually elaborate program has been ' prepared for the reception and entertainment of the visiting members of the Krieger
Bund. During the three months of their visit they will be the guests of the
Emperor and wll be received not only at the Berlin court, but at the courts
of every one of the states and municipalities of the German empire. Parades
and military spectacles,, receptions and excursions, a trip on a German war
ship and a visit to the tomb of General van Moltke are among the features
of the program arranged for the entertainment of the honored visitors. Four Washingtonfans, repesenting the Minute Men of the Revolutionary war, will accompany the German veterans as a guard of honor and will also be the'
guests of the kaiser during their visit. It is just a little world after all when kinship is combined.
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RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS
SUPPOSE IT WERE
A comet is flying towards the earth at the rate of forty-two miles per second. It will not touch the earth and astronomers assure us that there is no danger from it, in spite of the forebodings of superstitious people. In Hammond some foreigners have begun to draw their money from the bank. One woman, who was engaged as charwoman, refused to work, saying that the world was coming to an end on May 18 and she wouldn't have to work. . . How absurd! But suppose that the coming of the comet did mean the end of all things; supposing that the day of May 18 was the last day What would YOU do Do you ever think about the day "when the earth shall shrivel up like a scrolir ' Have you anything to set right and "is YOUR house In order?" Something to think about, anyway, if such a thing as a collision with the comet were possible. - You know, of course, that in the Immeasurably vast systems of stars, suns and worlds, the earth is not as big as a mustard seed.
HAVE you your moving done or un
done?
VAX Home seems to.be the little
Queen of the May, all right
AND not a word from Mr. Kern
about those bribery charges.
. , PERHAPS W R. Hearst will start
another little party of his own.
OLD age brings experience. This
rule sometimes works backwards.
POLITICIANS are going to have a
deuce of a time dodging issues this
year.
YOU might send the Btraw lid to
the cleaners and at least have It
ready.
THERE is a great difference be
tween a peanut politician and a peanut roaster. " -
- BAD year for the grafters and the
good Lord knows its getting worse
all the time.
WONDER how long the ' weather
man thinks he can keep this thing up on one breath.
ft SEEMS as if Jim Jeffries' press
agent has a great deal better wind than Jim himself.
GRAND Rapids man was killed by
a roll of print paper. A single copy If sufficient in some cases.
UNITED States pension fund now
amounts to $12,000,000 and here's
hoping It never grows less.
SOME men run a newspaper as, if
they had learned how from a mail
order correspondence school.
THE Erie loves grade crossing ac
cidents just as it loves odious bill
boards nailed on its depot-shacks.
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THE sun is now moving northward.
But It is very orderly about It, evidently for fear of blistering the paint.
' ft DON'T think because it is May that there is no little pneumonia germ lurking in the highways and ' byways for you. ( ; ' e- . 1 WHAT has the new play "Chantecler" got to do with the cold storage egg proposition? We are laying for an answer. IF you meet a grouchy friend these days, just bank on it that he got up at 3 a. m. to see the comet and found it hidden by mist. - -ft ' ONE of the troubles about getting along without meat is that there are so few other things to eat if one
doesn't like prunes.
UP to the hour of sliding the fourth
page on the steam table, we have
heard nothing about a movement to
have a "Fathers' Day."
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MICHIGAN bank robber says his
sweetheart drove him to crime. Men haven't found any excuses since Adam's time, have they?
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Heart toHeart Talks. By EDWIN A..NYE.
University of Michigan Dedicates Alumni Memorial Hall
PRODIGIES. Harvard 4 college has three child wonders of the age of fourteen, one of whom has graduated. Now comes
a prodigy of eleven. This precocious child, we are told, lectured to the faculty for three hours on the "fourth dimension." What Is the fourth dimension? It is like the "sixth sense." As the boy would say, "There ain't any." That is to say, you and I know three dimensions. We know a thing has length, breadth and height. But a very few, including this Harvard boy, pretend they know a fourth dimension. They don't know, but they fancy they do and try to prove it by talking about it ' Which is about as practical as the discussions of the school men of the
middle ages who debated as to how many disembodied spirits could dance on the point of a needle. This infant terrible is Just about the right age for convenient spanking. And they have stolen his childhood. And these abnormal kids with anaemic blood have their brain pans stuffed full of "knowledge" at a time when they ought to be out playing tag or leapfrog. Was it Josh Billings who deplored
the fact that so many people knew so
many things that are not so?
When Ulysses came back from his
long tramp the folks refused to recog
size him. Then, reaching up, Ulysses
took down his great bow, which the
suitors of Penelope had essayed In
vain to bend, and, drawing the string;
back to his ear, sent the arrow hur tling straight to its mark.
"Ah, this is Ulysses!" everybody
cried. No other could bend the bow
So the world today is not asking the young man out of college, "What do
you know?"
It is asking him, "What can you
dor "Can you bend the bow?"
And the ability to do. to bend the
J bow, is the ability to use a healthy
mind in a healthy body. Poor kldyeens!
What they need to be doing these days, instead of poring over books in
a library or attending lectures on the whyness of this thusness, is to get fresh air Into their lungs, fiber into their muscles and red blood into their
veins.
They know so much that, in so far
as they are able to use it. Is not so.
O education, what crimes are committed in thy namej
WHAT HAPPENED TO COLONEL MAYO? In his preface to his poetical works Mr. Nelson G. Humphrey explains why he published them. "A friend, Mr. A. C Mayo, of Danville, HI-, urged me' he writes," "and thinking- they would certainly do -no harm, I consented." We have just received from Danville a letter which sheds more light on this metrical matter. "The A. C. Mayo referred to in the preface," writes our correspondent, "was a traveling salesman, and in order to sell Humphrey a big bill of goods he lauded the poems up to - the skies. Mayo was never seen in that town (Le Roy) again, and is now, I think, an alderman in Gary, Ind." Whatever Mayo's ulterior motives may have been, the world is grateful to him for having brought about the publication of "Random Shots." We have already reprinted Mr. Humphrey's charming "Spring," and may dip into his golden treasury in the future. " Chicago Tribune.
How fortunate the versatile city Judge of Gary is in having a friend who has quaffed a beaker from the Pierian Springs, only now has it become known, but we take exception to the intimation in the Tribune that the gallant colonel
; left Le Roy hence because he had lauded the Humphrey poesy.
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Ann Arbor. Mich., May 12. Wlth C urtls Guild Jr., former governor of Massachusetts, as th orator of th occasion. Alumni Memorial hall was dedicated last night on th University 6f Michig-an campus. The sructure, costing $103,000, is a memorial to University of Michigan students who lost their lives In the civil war and to Michigan gradpates In general.
become assistant United States district
attorney. He served as such for three years, when he was appointed to the federal circuit court bench in Kent county, Michigan. He remained In that capacity for ten years, when he retired to resume private practice. In 1900 he again came before the public when he was elected to the Michigan state supreme court. He remained on the bench until his recent appointment by President Taft to be presiding Judge of the new customs court of appeals. '
Consents to Run for D. A R. Post
UP AND DOWN IN INDIANA
. CHIEF MARTIN COMMENDED. Chief of Police Martin, of Gary, is to be commended on taking the stand that henceforth the saloons of Gary will be made to observe the law to the letter. In this, Chief Martin said: "There will be no discrimination, and : every saloonkeeper would be treated alike." Gary is "wet" again and Gary saloonkeepers should remember that in the past two years they have had experience enough to know that their highhanded methods win not be tolerated any longer. Of the number of saloons we have little to say. The county commissioners were powerless and had to grant their licenses. It Is a case of "the survival of the fittest," and If Gary can support nearly 150, saloons, and they conduct their places of business , in a legitimate manner it's up o the saloonkeeper. The city has all the saloons she can use.. Business men want the legally-conducted saloon and if they are conducted right, they will mean a whole lot to Gary in a financial ;way, but letJt&em keep the laws and goxera thecu elves accordingly ;
THE fellow who invented this sea
son's styles for men's, waistcoats, evi
dently went on the theory when in doubt just make 'em as loud a you
can.
HOW would you like to be a perfectly inoffensive comet, tending strict
ly to your own business and be blamed
for every old trouble that comes
along?
- . . ' THE Rough Riders will be able to meet Teddy In a body when he comes home. There are scarcely any of them occupied with the cares of office any longer. THE new Hammond hotel can make a great hit with B. L. T. be forswearing bread pudding before the foundations are put in i. e. in the hotel, not the bread pudding. ft ONE good thing about it is that Mr.
Moe will now be spared the humilia
tion of having alleged humorists on
sundry newspapers taking gross lib
erties with his name.
, IN Paris theatres all the women will be made to sit on one side of the theatre and all the. men on the other, to eliminate the high hat nuisance. What do you know about that? AT Ann Arbor the campus painters have gone on strike. Times have changed forsooth. We remember the time and the college when it was no earthly trouble to find all the paint and painters necessary on campuses.
WORK OF THE DAY IN CONGRESS
IN THE SENATE. Consideration of tha railroad bill resumed. Simmons of South Caroa made argument In favor of striking out Interstate commerce law words "similar circumstances and conditions." This is looked upon as a long and short haul Joker in pres
ent statute, which enables railroads
to charge more for short than long
hauls.
les explained to the senate that
part he played in selection of Bal-
linger as land office commissioner
had been misrepresented.
Mrs. Charles V. Morse obtained the signatures of several senators
In petition for her husband's pardon. IN THE IIOl'SE. Calendar bills discussed. . MISCELLANEOUS.
Senators Aldrlch and Crane and Representatives rtolzell and Payne were in conference today with Pres
ident Taft about matters concerning
the administration legislative pro
gram. Senator Crane said that the senate will probably not reach a vote on the railroad bill before the end of next week. Representative
Payne tomorrow will speak in" the
house in favor of the rayne-AMrich
tariff law.
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DAWES BUYS GAS PLANT. Announcement was made Tuesday night of a deal looking to the consolidation of the gas properties In Muncie. The Dawes Bros., of Chicago, including
Chas. G. Dawes, formerly comptrollerof the United States treasury, took over the property of the Heat. Light and Power company, owned by H. C. Zeigler of Montpelier and George J. Marott of Indianapolis. , No consideration was given out but it Is understood to be near $200,000. PRESS CLl'B TO ATTEND. Practically the entire membership of the Indiana University Press club of Bloomington will attend the meeting of the State College Press Club Association In Lafayette next Saturday. Delegates for th meeting were elected at th regular meeting Wednesday night, and an effort will b made to chater a special train to take the delegation to Perdu. Indiana and Perdue play baseball on Stuart Field the same day. ACCEPTS NOMINATION. In a letter made public today by District Chairman Scales of Booneville, Representative John W. Boehne. of Evahsville, accepts the democratic renomlnation for congress.
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THIS DATE N HISTORY. May 12. 1780 Surrender of Charleston to
British, under General Clinton. 1789 Tammany society was formed In New York. 1795 Ezra Stiles, seventh president of Yale college, died in New Haven. Born there December 15, 1737. 1829 George "W. Childs, eminent Phlla- , delphla publisher and philanthropist, born in Baltimore. Died Jan. 18, 1894. 1863 Gen. Mcpherson attacked Raymond, Miss., and took the town after a hard fight. 1878 Bishop Thaddeus Amat died In Los Angeles. Born In Spain, December 81. 1811. 1885 Battle of Batoche, ending the rebellion in the Canadian northwest. 1894 Torpedo boat Ericssson, the first
war vessel built on Inland waters, launched at Dubuque, Iowa. 1906 Steamship "Empress Of Britain" arrived at Quebec on her first voyage from Liverpool.
THIS IS MY 61ST BIRTHDAY. May 12. Robert M. Montgomery, chief Justice of the new customs court at Washington, ws born at Eaton Rapids. Mich.,
May 12, 1849. He worked his way while he studied law at the University of Michigan and after bejng admitted to the bar practiced his profession in Detroit for several years. He gained
quite a reputation, and in 1874 was
eiecteci prosecutor of the county as a Republican. After serving for three
years as prosecuting attorney. Mr.
Montgomery resigned his position to
On the eve of the election of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. Frank H. McMullin consented last night to be a "conservative" candi
date for president of the organization. The election will be held this(morning at 10 o'clock in the Fine Arts building.
Mrs. McMullin returned recently from
the east to find that the withdrawal of Mrs. A. C Bartlett early in the week
had left what is known as the "conservative" element in the organization without a candidate.
After the withdrawal of Mrs. Bart
lett and until the appearance of Mrs.
McMullin. Mrs. L. K. Torbet was the only candidate in the field.
OOTS. BACK TO WIFE.
Philip F. Hallen, of Evansville, 21 years old, charged with forgery for obtaining $215 from the Mercantile National bank on worthless checks, was released from Jail today after the grand Jury refused to return an indictment against him. Hallen went before the grand Jury and promised to take good care of his young wife, who was Miss Hallie Grubb, and whom he married after a three days' acquaintance- resulting from a post card correspondence. BOY WAS STAGE STRUCK. John Dehoney, 16 years old, who is In Jail In Columbus after having confessed the theft of a bicycle, has an ambition
to go on the stage. His aunt. Miss
Hattie Dehoney, of Louisville, is trying
to secure his release. He sings con
stantly and those who have heard him say that he has a goo voice. The boy probably will be given a suspended
sentence and released. RETURNS WITH FORTUNE.
"I will not return until I have made my fortune," tv'as the farewell of H. S. Jessup, a business man of La Porte, who disappeared five years ago, leaving no trace of his whereabouts. His parents believed he had fallen a victim of foul play, and both died of broken hearts. His wife and children likewise
V - , mourned him as dead. Today a letter was received from Jessup, written from Lovelock, Nev.. In the mlnine conntrv .
j with the intelligence that he had made
a fortune. H will rturn to his wife and children. CONSOLIDATE BIO LINES. By a deal completed Tuesday stockholders of the Evansville Railways company obtained a majority of the stock of the Owensboro, Ky.. street railway In what is believed to be the first step toward the construction of
a Kentucky-Indiana interurban system.
wun evansville as the center.
ATTACKED BY PRISONER. Sheriff Warren Butler, of Logansport,
was attacked by Charles P. Collide, a prisoner, this evening and badly beaten. Collide was being placed in a cell by,
Butler, having been arrested for In
toxication. - He suddenly turned uuon
the officer and tent him Into insensibility with his fists. Deputy Sheriff George Harness rescued the sheriff.
STUDENT HANGS HIMSELF. Despondent on account of failing health, Oscar Engleman. 2S years old.
committed suicide . by hanging himself
to a rafter In th cellar at his home in Georgetown , Ind. He was a student in the Louisville Dental College and
a son of Jefferson Engleman, president
of the board of county commissioners. RESTRAIN BUILDING OF PLANT. To prevent tha rebuilding of the
Union Brain and Coal Company's frame
warehouse. In Anderson, which was recently burned and , which was adjacent to the St. Mary's Catholic church, a restraining order was applied for late Tuesday afternoon by Herman J. Alerding, bishop of the Ft. Wayne diocese, which holds the title to the church property. WEALTHY RECLUSE DEAD. Marshall McMurran, 68 years old, tha wealthy recluse who was found demented and almost starvevd In a hovel on the Strlngtown roa d near Evansville three months ago, died Tuesday at the Southern Hospital for the Insane, to which he was committed Immediately after. McMurran was worth more than $60,000. PHONE MEN ARRIVE.
The vanguard of the 400 telephons men who will attend the Joint convention of the Indiana and Michigan Indepedent Telephone Associations, which opened in South Bend yesterday, has arrived. Among the first to reach the city was Charles S. Norton, of Indianapolis, president of the Indiana association. ,
IN POLITICS
Mankato is the first city of Minnesota to adopt the commission plan of government. The anti-saloon forces are organizing In Oregon to make the state "dry" In 1911. North Dakota Democrats are out to land the vice presidential nomination in 1912 for Governor Burke of their state. Former Governor W. M. O. Dawson, of West Virginia, has issued a denial of the report that he is a candidate for the United States senate. Former President Roosevelt is expected at the biennial convention of the
National Republican League td be held In New Tork next month.
Iowa prohibitionists have nominated a complete state ticket, headed by E. A. McEachron, of Waterloo, as the candidate for governor. Thomas Kershaw. C. C. Featherstone and Col. E. L. Blease will contest for the governorship In the democratic primaries in South Carolina this summer. Governor Stuart, of Pennsylvania, Ansel, of South Carolina and Donaghey, of Kansas, are expected to take part In the great Sunday school parade In Washington next week. The democratic state convention of North Carolina will meet In Charleston on July 14 to nam candidates for the
offices to be filled at the election next November. , Democrats of South Dakota have chosen Chauncey L, Wood of Rapid City as the guebernatorial candidate to head the ticket to be voted for in the state primaries next month. The opinion geems to be gaining ground in Georgia that former Governor Hoke Smith, who was defeated for re-election last year, is likely to again make the race for chief executive. Montana is entitled to be called a banner republican state. In more than two-thirds of the counties of the state the democrats have not elected members of the legislature In recent years, and the chief stronghold of that party now, as formerly, is centered in the mining camps and about the smelters. United States Senator Charles A. Culberson Is' now reported to be 'almost
wholly recovered from the nervous breakdown which has kept him from Washington for a number of months. The senator has Just sent his papers to the secretary of state of Texas announcing himself a candidate for reelection. This was necessary in view of the approaching primaries in Texas.
Sporting Briefs
Ray Bronson and Jack Redmond will clash In Anderson, Ind., May 17. The Armory A. A. of Boston expect to clinch a match between JtmmJ Walsh and Pal Moore for May 17. " From the stories floating from tl Jeffries camp it is hard to tell whether the big fellow Is getting ready for a fight nr the hospital. For his end of the recent Philadelphia bout Stanley Ketchel received $9,375 while Sam Langford took down" $5,626. Soft money for a six rounJ muss. Jonn Mooney, matchmaker of the Armory A. A, of Boston, has resigned. Jom Flynn, the Pueblo fireman. Is in Phyladelphialooking for something to do among the heavyweights. Reports from England state that Freddy Welsh faked In his recent fight with Jack Daniels in London. Jack Sheehan is sure he has the coming champion in Bill Lewis, a colored heavyweight from Honolulu. Willie weighs 250 pounds and stands 6 feet 5 Inches In height.