Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 294, Hammond, Lake County, 14 June 1910 — Page 1

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Freight Conductor on Penn sylvania Beheaded; Is Fearfully Mutilated When He Loses His Balance and Falls Under Wheels. 1910 RECORD OF RAIL FATALITIES. Killed In Region by Trains 31 In jo red In Region by Trains 34 A horrible accident happened In the Pennsylvania railroad yards at Hobart yesterday afternoon, when A. J. Filler, a conductor of a local freight fell under the wheels of a car and was killed, his head being severed completely from his body. Filler was In charge of the freight train which was switching: a number tContinued on Page Eght) C. u. DEB BUSINESS FOR HIMSELF Charles C. Deming left yesterday for Martinsville where he has bought out the Steele Lumber Co., and will run U for himself. Deming was formerly con etd-U. the Hammond .LbdUmic. Co. in Hammoxid. The young business men of the city readine:lv reret that Deming has found it necessary to leave the city, However they may congratulate him upon his good fortune in securing an established business in one of the best towns in southern Indiana. Deming has had this matter under consideration for some time and has made several trips to. Martinsville where he has inspected the yards which he finally purchased. Deming was a prominent member of the University club of Hammond wheh he served in the capacity of a director and a member of the membership committee. GEESE AS WITNESS lil A LAW SUIT They Refuse to Quack AnyIncriminating Testimony, However. Two live geese were exhibits in Judge Frank Fresfs court this morning in the case of the State of Indiana vs. R. Martin of 726 Michigan avenue. Some boys are alleged to have stolen the geese. They afterwards sold them to Conductor Whltaker of the Hammond, Whiting East Chicago line. The owners afterwards claimed them and thee case was taken into court.. In order to prove that the geese were stolen from the owner of the flock another goose with feet'marked in the same manner were brought Into court. The two geese stood hissing in the court room as though they were aware of their Importance as witnesses in the case. The case was finally dismissed. Hearing Tomorrow. The hearing in the West Hammond election contest case will be held before Judge Windes in the circuit court in Chicago this afternoon. The attorney argued certain points in the case this morning but the trial of the case will not take place until this afternoon. . . MAN FEARED BARBER HEATED AND ANGRY Muncie, Ind., June 14. Conroy DeLane y felt a sharp, stinging sensation in his knee Saturday, and when he came out from under the "boiling cloth" and lather of the barber shop he expected, to see the barber busy with his razor, breathing hot anger in his face, but it was only an automobile that had come fn through the front window, and was resting heavily against his knee. The drlvT paid for the window and backed o.t without leaving his name. . ,

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IMPORTANT MEETIHG Decide on Whether or Not They Will Issue Ten Million in Bonds. The stockholders of the Gary and Interurban railway are holding their annual meeting in Gary today and will elect officers and directors for the en suing year at their afternoon session. They will also take up the proposi tion of a $10,000,000 bond issue and vote upon the project. If they decide to issue the bonds the first issue will be a one and one half million dollar series 75 Wr cent gold bonds to be used for the improvement and exten sion of Fifth avenue. (Special to The Times.) Gary, Ind., June 14. The directors of the Gary & Interurban company, in session this afternoon, voted a ten mil lion dollar bond issue, the first series to be $1,500,000, first mortgage and refunding bonds. The new directors are F. N. Gavit. A. C. Miller, J. B. Price, C. W. Chase and F. H. Wood. ti HONOR OF H HERS The members of the University Club of Hammond expect a large attendance at the smoker which will be given in honor of the forty-four new members of the club this afternoon. All of the preparations have been made and the evening promises to be a very enjoyable one. The members of the club who are Elks will attend the flag day exercises in the early part of the evening and expect to come over to the University Club affair at o'clock. ' The other, members of the club plan to be on hand, in the. new. club rooms at 8 o'clock. The University TCTCrETwlll take this means of having an informal opening of the .club. ; An attendance of at least 100 is expected and music and refreshments will be served. The new club rooms will be inspected and the details of the further development of the club will be made known. MOTHER GETS FIRST WORD OFSOtrS DEATH "Rambling Eddie" Found Dead on the Top of a Passenger Coach. It was sad news that Mrs. Krug received when she came out to Hammond this morning. Kddie Krug. her son, known to his Hammond frlnd3 as "Rambling Eddie," a victim of "wanderlust" was found dead on top of a passenger coach at Connellsville, Pa., and the body Is being held there awaiting its final disposition. The circumstances surrounding the death of the young man can only be surmised, as little information had been given to the Hammond police by the Connellsville undertaker. He wrote to the Hammond authorities asking them whether, they knew of a young man who was known as "Rambling Eddie,", this being the only Identification about him. The young man is a son of Michael Krug of 4925 LafClin street, Chicago, but formerly of West Hammond where he conducted a saloon at the corner of State Line street and RImbach avenue. A married daughter, Mrs. Buzzard, resides at West Hammond, and was nearly overcome by the shock of the news. The Hammond nolice this morning asked the Chicago police to notify the father in Chicago, but later in the day the West Hammond brother-in-law went to Chicago to confer with the parents. AFFINITY IN DIVORCE CASE It Is the same old story of a woman and her affinity if the facts in the divorce case which was filed, in the Lake superior court this afternoon are true. Charles W. Coblentz has brought an i action against Margaret A. Coblentz In which he alleges that he suspected his wife of having improper relations with Joseph Shearer, married, and upon gqIng to his home unexpectedly one night he found her entertaining Shearer while the lights had been blown out. This is alleged to have happened on May 7. 1910. This incident is supposed to have happened while the defendant was thought to be In Rochester. The plaintiff is employed by the Chicago and Erie railroad. The complaint was filed by Arthur Metzler.

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ONE HURT Indiana Harbor Lady Meets With Slight Injury and New Machine Is Wrecked Between Crown Point and St. John. 1910 AUTO RECORD. Killed by autoa in region 4 Injnred by autoa in region 28 Machines wrecked .....23 (Special to The Times.) Indiana Harbor, Ind., June 14. A party composed of A. H. Howell and Mr. and Mrs. Charles "Wilcox and child, while driving near St. John in Mr. Howell's new automobile, delivered to him only last week, met with what might have been a very serious accident when Mr. Howell lost control of the machine and it skidded, dashing full tilt into a post. Mr. Wilcox, realizing that a collision was imminent. Jumped, turning a couple of summersaults as he landed, but further than a few scratches or two and the wrenching of a few muscles, was unharmed. The machine was so badly damaged that it will have to be sent to the factory for repairs. strike Bad Curve. Mr. Howell Is a heater in the Inland sheet mill and lives iu Indiana Harbor. (Continued on Page Eight.) LARSEriS PUT fiEW BOAT lil LAKE Cedar Lake Season at 'Noted Pavilion Begins This Week. (Special to Ths Times.) Cedar Lake, Ind., June 14. Chris and Harry Lassen, proprietors of Lassen's dancing pavilion at this place, have purchased a new 30-foot 10 horse power gasoline launch which Is the finest of any on the lake. The new boat, which makes six uivned by Lassen brothers, has arrived and has been placed In service. It has been christened "Dewey Dandy." The season at the pavilion will open on Wednesday night when the Crown Point Foresters will give their annual party, and It is expected a large crowd will attend. The orchestra this season for the Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday night dances Is the best that could be secured in Chicago, and they -alone are a drawing card to the pavilion. HARVEY IS A VERY STUBBORN MA Veteran Drayman Still Nestling Behind the Bars in the City Jail. It has taken Harvey Marchant, the veteran drayman, more than twentyfour hours to make up his mind whether he will pay a fine for not having a license to dray or not. In the meantime he Is a guest of Chief Austj &en at tne police station and he further j more has the privilege of occupying I an-' 8eU that h has a mind to. Marcnant was tinea ten aoiiars and costs yesterday morning In the city court for not having a license which costs six dollars a year. The police are giving him time to think over it before levying on his horse and wagon. He was still thinking this afternoon. Marchant is said to have two hundred dollars In the bank, but he told a Times reporter this afternoon that it was not his money. SIMPLEX -GETTIfIG -SOME HEW ORDERS Conditions at the Simplex Railway Appliance Co.'s plant In Hammond are looking very much better then they have for two months is the opinion if W. Thomas of that concern. There are a number of orders on hand and there are a few in sight but the officials are not counting on the new orders until they are signed up. However in view of the fact that there is a settlement of the rate war in sight the officials of the local company are optimistic.

LOWELL WON'T GIVE UP TAMELY They are claiming at Lowell that there are enough illegal names on the remonstrance recently filed to make it bad and they are not going to give up without a struggle. Application notices are being published just as though nothing had happened, and a legal battle Is in pros-

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Alleged Philadelphian Puts Up Big Front With $2,500 Check in Order to Touch Hard -Working Man For a Lonely V; Will anybody who happens to meet one John Kolb, please touch him lightly on the shoulder and ask him where he has his bankroll. Not that anybody cares very particularly, but- merely to hear what he has to say. Kolb blew Into town last Friday from si-sue wh?r and having heard that the E. F. Kunert garage and residence were for sale for about twenty thous- ' and dollars, opened negotiations promptly and "stalled" u-ntil Saturday afternoon, when the banks had closed. When a satisfactory price had been arranged he whipped out a blank check book and wrote put a five hundred dolf lor check on the' Independent Bank of Philadelphia, saying that he would return with the cash on the following Monday. He IV Foxy. To lend color , to his credit he procured a. blank hank ellp and secretly filled It out -with bi amounts opposite, as ITnTnailon "ftftft. been telegraphe"!! frcm the Philadelphia bank to one of the Hammond banks. Inquiry was made last Saturday afternoon as to his standing but the information was delayed with Sunday intervening. In the meantime Mr. Kunert did not build any air castles to replace his garage. He continued in the even tenor of his way to await developments. Kolb seemed particularly anxious to have one of Kunert's men In the repair department Join him in a partnrshlp as far as the garage was concerned and Saturday afternoon to show his good will, he asked his partner whether he had enough money to pay the help. Being informed to the contrary Col. Wallingford" Kolb put on the air of a millionaire and catching his thumbs behind his suspenders on his chest he told his partner not to worry as he would write out a check for fifty dollars later In the afternoon. He said that he had ojher business matters to look after down town and that he would return soon. Before going howeven he wheedled his prospective part ner into loaning nim five dollars on the pretense that he would not have ready cash until he had cashed a check. Soon he went up town and nothing has been seen of him since. Despite his five dollars It must have been a losing game for him, and those who made his acquaintance are wondering what his motive was. CLOSING EXERCISES FOB PAROCHIALSGHOOL All Saints to Be Held on ' June 22; Splendid Program in Preparation. The closing exercises for the parochial schools are next in order now that the public scho.s are closed, the school j terms of the former being somewhat longer than the latter. j That the parochial school exercises ; are no less popular than the public ! school exercises is evidenced by the fact that two hours after the Rev. E. F. Barrett of All Saints' church had announced to his congregation last Sunday when and where the exercises were to be held the whole house was practically sold out. The All Saints' school closing exercises will be held at Towle opera house on Wednesday night, June 22d. A splendid program is under preparation for the occasion. The closing exercises for St. Joseph's parochial school will be held some time next week, no definite date having been set. The exercises for this schol will be more of a private nature and will be held in the school hall. The plans now for the closing exercises for the St. Paul German Lutheran church are for Friday July 1st. In past years an excellent program has been given on the closing day, and the patrons of the school are looking forward to another nice program this year.

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SCHOOL DUE Col. J. H. Lewis' Engagements So Numerous That Lincoln-Jeff erson College of Law Had to Change Date. After considerable maneuvering for a suitable commencement date for the graduating class of the Lincoln-Jefferson College of Law of Hammond, the twenty-second ol June, a week from tomorrow night, has finally been decided upon. The whole problem hinged on Col. J. Hamilton Lewis conflicting dates for next week. The noted orator and lawyer of Chicago has more engagements these commencement days than he can take acre of and some ot them had to be eliminated but his high regard for the men behind the LincolnJefferson College of Law, and his desire to be of some assistance to the new institution, took the local school out of consideration for elimination. At Kirnt Methodist Church. Originally it was decided to hold the exercises on the ihenty-thlrd, and later a tentative date was arranged for the twenty-fourth, but Dr. W. Mayes Martin,, the president of the school an nounced this morning that the date for the twenty-second would be definite. The commencement exercises next Wednesday will be Hammond's first for law students. They will be held at the First Methodist church. The graduat ing class is composed of six who have taken the two years' course. Some ex pect to continue their work in the sum mer course which opened last night while others will take post graduate work. The public Is inlvlted Jo attend and there will be no formal invitations. The (Continued on pace nve.) CHAS. HEIMRAGH HAS MADE GREATPROGRESS Hustling Express Agent Has Made Business a Splendid Success. From wheel barrow proportions to three wagon concern, that is the business that Charles Heimbach has built up for the Pacific Express company as Its agent in Hammond. Mr. Heimbach and his company are now in their new location, the broken corner building on Hohman street, and for the first time in the three and half years that Mr. Heimbach has been the agent, the company has an exclusive street entrance. Hitherto its offices have been maintained In the rear of some store or business place, but now these things are changed. Mr. Heimbach took the agency for the Pacific Express company when it was a Question with the officials of the company whether they should retain their hold in Hammond or sell out to another express company. Mr. Heimbach stepped in at the psychological moment, and because of his large acquaintance and consistent energy made the Pacific Express company in Hammond a big success. When he first went on as agent, the company had not a single vehicle in the city, and Mr. Heimbach used his own horse for the company business. Today he runs two wagons and has an assistant in th office and Is boosting the company better than ever. The Pacific Express ships over the Wabash and the C. C & L. railroads In Hammond. ASSQGIATION IS H. S. Alumni Hold Their Annual Business Meeting Last Night. The members, .of the Hammond high school alumni association met last evening for the purpose of holding their annual meeting and making a settlement of the bills that were incurred as a result of the banquet. The annual election of officers took place and resulted as follows: Henry Loverldge, president; Mrs. Vern Summers, vice president; Gertrude Twlss, secretary and John Ryan, terasurer. After going over the accounts it has been discovered that the alumni association made a little money after all of the banquet bills are paid. The association is in a flourishing condi-

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WHITIIIG K. S. HOLDS GRADUATION EXERCISES High School Auditorium Scene of Commencement Festivities. BUTLER TO GIVE ADDRESS Other Events of Oil Citv's School Closing Week For Present . . . Season. ' ! (Special to The Times.) Whiting, Ind., June 14. The eleventh annual commencement of the Whiting high schoot will be held tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock In the high school auditorium. The commencement address will be delivered by Nathaniel of the Chicago university. The program will be as follows: Selection High School Orchestra Address , . "Some Common Mistakes About Education" Dr. Nathaniel Butler Chorus Bridal Chorus High School. Chorus. Presentation of Diplomas Charles R. Klose Choru...., ..Vocal Gavotte :... " ' Ca-"19J.. The" graduation of the eighth grades (Continued on Page Eigh.) HAM MONO GUILD DIES FROM MS Clarence Schreiber Passes ..way Because of Barefoot Bruise He Received. Clarence Schreiber, eight years old, the youngest of five children of Mr. and Mrs. August Schreiber, of South Hammond, died last night at five thirty, his death having been "due to tetanus, which developed from a little bruise on his foot while running barefoot. The little fellow was conscious ahmost to the last and suffered excruciating pain, The first symptoms developed about two weeks, but apparently no medical skill was needed until late last week. Last Thursday night he was taken down and on Friday his condition as quite serious, but still hs case could not be diagnosed as blood poison. Funeral On Thursday. On Sunday the first dose of antitoxin was administrede. A second dose was administered in the afternoon and another !n the evening. TWo additional doses were administrede yesterday. Clarence was a third grade pupil in the .Saxony school. The funeral has been arranged for next Thursday. Services will be held at the home at two oclock by the Rev. Theodore Claus of the St. Paul s Lutheran church will officiate. Interment will be in Oak Hill cemetery. ITndertaker Wild, brother of Mrs. Schreiber will have charge of the funeral. DIES WHILE0H A VISIT John L. Farry of Griffith Passes Away at Akron, Ind., This Morning. (Special to The Times.) Griffith. Ind.. June 1. John L. Far ry, superintendent of the oil plant here: died at 4 o'clock this morning at th home of his son. Dr. Perry L. Far at Akron, Ind. -Diabetes is the ail ment. Mr. Farry has been around, al though not feeling quite well, but no one realized the seriousness of his condition. He and Mrs. Farry left for the home of his son last Friday apparently as well as he had been for a long time, but he grew suddenly worse and relatives and friends were sent for yesterday, fearing he could not last until today. Mr. Farry has been in the employ of the Standard Oil company for a long time, being one of the oldest men In the service. Since coming here shortly after this plant wa3 built he has made a host of friends.

RULING THIS V Proceedings in Lake Superior Court Came as Surprise.

v The town of Miller can not become a part of the city of Gary for at least two years. This follows a coup that Attorney Harvey Curtiss, representing the city of Gary tried p spring on-the unsuspecting town of Miller in the Lake County Superior Court in Hammond this morning. At a meeting of the Gary city council last evening the ordinance annexing the city of Gary was repealed. This action was taken by the Gary city council In the belief, that Judge Virgil S. Reiter of the Lake Superior court would then dismiss the remonstrance and Gary could at any time pounce down upon poor, unprotected Miller and compel it again to go to the trouble of circu- - - j l..i- ,... i uu.n iiuue huu atari ankother fight against being gobbled Tip by Garv. " - - " But tn the "opinton .or-J-cae"-IIeIte"' the law did not contemplate such an outcome of the case when it provided that in the ' event a . remonstrance against annexation' is successful a town may not again be annexed for a period of two years. - - JIDGE MAKES Rl'UXG. Consequently he' ruled that the Gary cltj council can not dls-annex territory by ordinance but that the proceedure prescribed by law requires that the residents of the territory, sought to be (Continued on Page Sight.) Bridgeport, Conn., Woman Visiting Brother in Hammond Amazed to Find Nearly $4,000 Hidden in Tick. . "Oh, won't Frank be surprised when I give him this some day!" Death last spring cut the pleasant anticipations of Mrs. Frank Mulvey, 82 Plummer avenue. Hammond, short, and the treasure, $3.r.S5, the result of years of savings, which were to be the surprise for her husband, was found accidentslly only a few days ago hidden in a mattn-ss. Mrs. Marshall Gardner of Bridgeport, Conn., a sister of Mr. Mulvey, who is an electrician, found the big roll of greenbacks, had In fact, slept on it for a number, of nights. She came to visit her- brother some time ago, Mrs. Mulvey having died last March. The finding of .the money and the note with it reveals a touching Uttfe story of marital bliss and mutual affection of a couple who were happily married. Mrs. Gardner told the story of the finding of the money to a Times reporter who visited the neat little home at 81 Plummer avenue, this morning. SI"e-p on the Roll. "After Mrs. Mulvey's death I cam to visit my brother." said Mrs. Gard iner. "We knew that Mrs. Mulvey had

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left some money some where, but did not kno wwhere or how much. We looked Into the sofa, and into the cushions and under th carpet, but it never struck us to look into the mattress. When I finally discovered it there I realized why I had slept so' uncomfortably on this particular mattress. I corp!ained to my brother about It, but (Continued on pake , eight.)