Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 295, Hammond, Lake County, 15 June 1910 — Page 1

HB WEATEEB. FAIR TONIGHT AND POSSIBLY THURSDAY, CONTINUED WARM. : TIME EDITION VOL. IV., NO. 295. HAMMOND, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1910. ONE CENT PER COPY.

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COME M BUS! Unhappy Couples Register Their Complaints in Lake Superior Court, and Various Sensational Charges Are Made by Plaintiffs. Three divorce actions were brought In the Lake superior court this afternoon. Rhoda Clark has brought an action against Thomas Clark, her husband. In which she alleges that owing to the fact that her husband became addicted to the use of intoxicants he compelled her to support him by taking in washings. The Clarks were married Oct. 18, 1883, and were separated April 19, 1909. It Is' alleged that they formerly lived in Hobart from whence they moved to Hammond and then to Tolleston. Clark worked as a drayman. There are five children as the fruits of the marriage, four girls and one boy. The defendant is now said to be at Wheatfield, Ind., while the plaintiff is employed by the Public Savings Insur ance company of Hammond. The case was filed by Attorney G. C. White. -Walks the Streets. Wallace Barney has brought an action against Kizzie Barney, in which he alleges that she walks the streets , at night in company with bad men and women and leaves him at home to cook his meals, wash the dishes and take care of the baby. They were married in September, 1900, and were separated June 10, 1910. The Barneys have three children, 'two of whom are at Kentland for the al leged reason that Mrs. Barney refuses to permit them to remain at the house. The plaintiff asks for the custody of the children and an absolute divorce. The action was filed by McMahon and Conroy. Wants Judgment Paid. The case which was filed by Mary F. Rllea4jHJse;Eb. Slack is a. cpmpMcatwa'one; growing out of a divorce that was granted to the plaintiff in Tearewetl county, IllinoisMrs. Slack alleges that she was granted a divorce and was awarded alimony to the extent of $150 a month She also received judgment of $400 and $50 attorney's fees. It is alleged that Slack is in default for not paying these judgments. A case was also started in the Lake superior court In Hammond and a Judgment in the su mof $400 was granted here. Slack la alleged to be employed in the plant of the American Maize Products company in Hammond and is said to receive $175 a month. AUTO MEI 10 1EEI AT There will be a meeting of the Hammond Automobile Association in the directors' room of the First National Bank on Thursday evening, June 16. This meeting is to be an important one in view of the fact that the policy of that organization will be outlined on this occasion. The association will find it necessary to elect a new presi dent in view of the fact that John K Fitzgerald refuses to serve. It is understood that the matter of improving the roads in and out of Hammond will be taken up. The matter of building a boulevard between Hammond and Chicago will be the mat ter that will receive the most considaeratlon. The members of the association have not done much since the organization meeting but since then there have been many matters of interest to automoblllsts which have come up and it is expected that the members will be more active from now on. HO CHARGE OF IHFIOELITY MADE Sam Mindlln today pointed out that the charge of infidelity was not made in the divorce complaint which he fileV against his wife some time ago. He says that, contrary to the report that was published of the filing of the complaint, no such charge is made. An examination of the complaint which was filed shows Mr. Mindlin to be correct in his claims. Return From St. Louis. Dr. "U". D. Wels, Harry "U'els and John Kennedy returned yesterday from St. Louis, where they had been on business matters. They went there last Friday.

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COME, NOW; GET BUSY. Out of all the scores of answers to the "Mlssln Worod Afls" la THE TIMES Monday ' there vraa not one correct srnesser. Grant Schletker of East Chicago narrowly escaped getting the money. He made a better sm cms than any oae elne, bat failed to get them all right. The same page will be ran and the same mlssiag words again. Try again. The person who gets them correct wins S2.00, the dollar for the Monday guess and the dollar for today, now this Is easy money. Get bnsy. Th missing words are really simple. Remembers answers will be received between 10 and 4 tomorrow. Advertisers wlxhlag to change copy of their advertisements mast send or phone change In to THE TIMES office before 12 o'clock on the day proceeding the day of publication of the "Missing Word" page.

THEATRE IS A SURETY The building of the new theater on State street by Mrs. Peter Schutz for Hugo Freels is now a certainty and it will be thefinest small vaudeville house in this part of the state. Mrs. Schutz is taking a great deal of pride in the project and has authorized Architects Bump and Berry, who are drawing the plans, to spend all the money they need to make the theater the finest in the city. Its capacity Is expected to be in the neighborhood of 600 and it will be an Imposing structure along the lines of those which have been built in Chicago The building will add a great deal to the appearance of state street and is expected to be a great help to business. The work of constructing the new theater will begin at once and it will be completed in time for the winter business. It is the purpose to make the new theater the most attractive place In Hammond and a high class vaudeville show will be' offered to the public. Mr. Friels has faith 1n Hammond as an he can make a pood, bouse pay, . r "In connection with r the theater wil? be a florist's shop for the use of Arthur Schutz who Is now running that part of the business. THERE WAS HO REFEREE AT MILL Consequently Go Between Messrs. Craick and Schloer May Be Called a Draw. There was no referee and. Inasmuch as the bout between Jacob Srhloer, veteran shoe merchant of Hammond, and Hugo Freels, formerly in partnership with William Craick in the Bijou theater, was not a "go to a finish," there was no decision, but the principals mixed it well while It lasted and It will have to be called a draw. .The shoe merchant and the theatrical man met on State street yesterday afternoon and the argument is said to have been a short one before there was fistic action a la Jeffries-Johnson without the gloves. The encounter 1s said to have grown out of the unsatisfactory business relations between Freels and Craick in the manageemnt of the Bijou theater, which resulted In the dissolution of the partnership. Craick is a son-in-law of Mr. Schloer and the latter is himself interested in the theater. It was only a short time ago that Freels and Freels had a similar encounter. The mill yesterday was permitted to go only one round before spectators interfered. Inasmuch as - this is a theater war it has been suggested that Freels advertise himself as a headliner in his proposed theater on State street as "Put-Him-to-Sep Freels," while Mr. Craick on the other side of the street may advertise as a counter-attraction "Vici Kid Schloer." . v NEW CASES IN CIRCUIT COURT Crown Point, Ind., June 15. The following new cases have been filed In the circuit court here: Marie Candldenscu vs. Gary & Interurban Railway Co., a corporation. Personal injury. Lucretla Croudep vs. Edward Croudep. Divorce. Charles Keilman vs. Peter J. Keilman. Attachment on note. P., C, C. & St. L. R. R. vs. Miller K. GIse et al. Condemnation. P., C, C. & St. L. R. R. vs. the estate of Michael Rascher et aL Condemnation. Board Opens Bids. The board of public works at Its session this morning opened the bids for the Morton avenue walks and took them under consideration. The petition for the Beall avenue Improvements was accepted and placed on file, as wr also the profiles for the Logan street Vilnius.

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IS - T! FORMER GARY MAII GETS FIRST UGEIISE George O'Donnell Proud Possessor of Federal a License No. 1. George O'Donnell formerly of Gary is the proud possessor of federal saloon license number 1 of the series of 1910. The fiscal year begins July first and C. L. - L&Rue, deputy internal revenue collector for this district heard" that t5iefeTes" from 1 ntf ward "carne-t t&a state this year. . He happenea to remark the ract to George O'Donnell, who until recently the proprietor of the Gary Hotel, and O'Donnell stated that he wanted li cense number one at any cost. LaRue finally consented to go to In dianapolis and see if he could not get It, He was successful and now of all the licenses issued in the whole United States by the government of the new series, 'ODonnell has fhe first. It will be placed on exhibition in his saloon on Sibley street in Hammond. LaRue is very busy these days issuing applications to those who hold federal licenses over his district. His district embraces all of the Tenth congressional district with the exception of Tippecanoe county and including St. Joseph County. In that district he issues In the neighborhood of 2,200 federal saloon licenses and between 400 and 500 licensees for the sale of oleomargerine. The work of v sending out applications to all of these applicants for licenses keeps him very busy. This work must all be done before the first of July. COL. LEWIS' IS, UNOBTAINABLE Noted Chicago Orator Not Able to Appear at Law School Exercises. Hardly had Thb Times been off the press yesterday evening announcing that the commencement exercises for the Lincoln-Jefferson College of Law had been set definitely for next Wednesday, June 22d, when Col. James Hamilton Lewis of Chicago a"s the com mencement orator, when Dr; W. Mayes Martin, president of the college, received a telephone message to the effect that Col. Lewis' engagement had to be cancelled owing to an operation which he must undergo for his throat. While the announcement caused a disappointment among the admirers of Col. Lewis, and the students and friends of the school, the cancellation will not be permitted to cause any' material change in the plans for the commencement. Dr. Martin was unable to make a definite announcemetn today as to the speaker who will take the place of Col. Lewis, but expects to -know In a day or two. The breakdown of CoL Lewis was not surprising to those who have watched his career during the commencement season. He could scarcely speak above a whisper and may be confined to the hospital for several weeks. As a result he had to cancel some big engagements. NOTHING 13 OF GREATER IMPORTANCE TO tOU THAN TO KEEP POSTED ON PASSING EVENTS IN YOUR LOCALITY BY READING THE TIMES EACH EVENING

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EXPERT UTIHEEL Hammond Crirls Take Trir in. Stolen. Auto) But They Didn't Know It Until an Amateur Driver Nearly Wrecked the Car. When Miss Louise Montgomery and her sister, who reside In 439 Hohman street, and Mlas Edna Whitlieb of 343 Towle street accepted the Invitation of two young men to go automobile riding they were not aware of the fact that the young men had stolen the machine. The facts came out as a result of the detective work of three South Chicago men who suspected that the machine had been stolen and compelled the Chicago youths to call up the police And Inform them where they could get the machine. ' Drove to Hammond. The owner of the machine, E. F. Haskell of 6616 Prarie avenue, left his machine in front of the President theatre in South Chicago and later missed it. He notified the police that it had been stolen. In the meantime the young men who took the machine drove to Hammond. They stopped the car In front of one of the theatres here and later accosted the Misses Montgomery and Miss Whitlieb. The girls agreed to go for a ride but at South Chicago the machine broke down and they were compelled to wait for repairs. In the meantime the young men who had stolen the machine met Continued on Page Six.) HAMMOND LADY ATTENDS FUNERAL Mrs. R. H. McHie Loses Her Father and Gallant Colonel Is Buried Today. Col. A. J. Gil key. father of Mrs. H. H. McHle of 518 South Hohman street was buried today at his home, Hampton, Mississippi. Col. Gtlkey, died last Monday at Rochester, Minn., after he had accompanied hia wife to this place for an operation. Mrs. McHie was summoned to his bedside before he died. His death was due to pneumonia, his extreme old age. 87 years, having been unable to weather the sudden change In climate. Colonel Gllkey was born in North Carolina and when the Civil War broke out he Joined the southern army and was soon made a colonel. He was a Forty-Niner in the California gold fields, but after the war settled In Mississippi as a planter. He is survived by six Children, they being Mrs. R. H- McHie, of Hammond; L. L Gllkey. of Panama; Miss Adah Gilkey, Mrs. Claude Penny, of Greenville, Mississippi; Mrs. Eva Scott of Kansas, and Ralph Gilkey of Mississippi City. Mxs. McHie is at her former home for the buriaJ-

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M sAff it y' -s'& 1 T JRhludzxpjua LOWELL LADY SAYS, "H0THII1GT0 STORY" Town Is Aroused By Rumor of Dead Babe Found in - Clothes Basket. (Speclal to Thb Times.) Lowell, June 15. A report which had for Its foundation nothing more than the fact that a eiothea basket was received at the Crestottt station on the Monon addressed to A-"Jeterspn,,gave rise Pne-rerberrthat a founding- keibfl had been sent to Amos P. Peterson at Lowell. Mrs. Amos Peterson denied to Thz Times by long distance telephone this morning that they had received a baby at their house or that they had even received the. empty clothes basket. Mrs. Peterson was familiar with the story and was indignant that her family's name should be connected with the report. Mrs. Peterson said that she had heard that the agent on the Monon at Creston had received a clothes basket which contained some clothes and that the basket was addressed to A. Peterson at Creston. The agent having found no A- Peterson at Creston thought It might be for Amos P. Peterson who lives near Lowell and notified him but the latter Informed the agent that he receives his express at Lowell. In the few days that the report had been current additional alleged facts were added among them that the baby was evidently only a few hours old and th it was dead by the time it ar rived at Creston, and that it had two warm water bottles beside it to keep it warft Arthur Taylor, the agent at Creston, could not be reached by telephone. ERIC LOND OF HAMMOND GETS IT Contract for 12-Apartment Flat Building Is Let Last Night. Appropriate is the name of a big apartment building contracts for which were let today. It will bear the name Carnegie and Krupp apartments and the dollar mark is much in evidence as fitting trappings with the name for the building is to cost $40,000. Fuerst and Weber, 101 Washington street, Chicago, are the owners and architects of the brick structure which will contain the twelve handsomes fiats in the city. Yesterday the firm let the contract for the building to Contractor Eric Lund of Hammond. The new apartment house will be located in the west end at the corner of Sixth avenue and Van Buren street. This is one of the prettiest residential tlrorough fares in Gary. It is one black west of Gary's Riverside Drive, Jackson street, where the steel corporation officials have their mansions. The avenue is two minutes walk from Jefferson park. Construction work on Messrs. Fuerst and Weber's builldng will be pushed ahead so that the apartments can be in readiness by fall. It is understood that other apartment houses are to be erected in the west end this summer. Bank Postponed. Owing to the fact that is was impossible at this time of arranging for the new State street bank to secure a lease in the corner of State -street and Oakley avenue, the starting of the new bank will be postponed for a year or so.

RIOTERS ARE FINED It! THEGiTY COURT

Disturbers of Cedar Lake's Peace Up Against Stiff ) Fine for Crime. (Special to The Trsraa.) Crown Point, Ind., June 15. Th Chloago fellows who were arrested at Cedar Lake last Sunday for rioting were arranged before Judge Nicholson and fined $10.00 and costs amounting to over $28.00 apiece for their days lawnessness. One of the parties waa released on the payment of his fine, but the other will probably lay out his fine In jail as his friends whom he thought would help him out of the scrape failed to make their predicted appearance from Chicago to pay his fine. Sunday's riot and scrap Is report ed to be the worst happening at the summer resort in years and with the amount of shooting and gun play It Is remarkable that no one was killed. HIS DEATH A Connellsville paper sent to Chief Austgen gave a few facts in connection with the death of Eddie Krog who was known around town as "Rambling Ed die" and whose body Is .now at Con nellsvllle awaiting burial. The body was found last Sunday on top of a Pullman passenger coast, the skull having been fractured as If an axe had been used. It is thought the accident happend when the young man raised his head as the coach went through a tunnel. The body will not be brought to Hammond for burial. His parents now live in Chicago and they have ordered the body shipped to Chicago for burial there. ELKS El! JOY i PLEASANT SESSION Only Lodge, in Hammond to Observe Flag Day Was B. P. 0. E. No. 485. Flag day while not observed gener ally in the city yesterday was never theless commemorated In a very ap proprlate fashion by the Elks in thel clubrooms last night. The celebration . which they inaugu rated was of a public nature, the wives and friends of the members having been invited. The evening's program was opened with a short ceremony, known as the building of the floral bell. Flowers representing the national colors were used in the construction and the com pleted floral piece was then placed on the altar in the center of the hall Judge V. S. Relter delivered the oration for the occasion. After the ceremony a social hour fol lowed, with dancing and refreshments as the principal features. A large number of Hammond Elk and others from this region will go t South Bend In a special car on the South Shore line to be the guests o the South Bend lodge. No. 35, for social session. It is erpected that .there will be between fifty and seventy-flv In the party. BUSINESS MEN ' TO HEETJUOBROM Question of Renaming Com mercial Organization to Be Finally Disposed Of. The meeting of the Hammond Business Men's Association at the parlors of the Majestic Hotel tomorrow night will be one of the most Interesting of the year. The old, old question of the change in the name of the association will come up for final consideration and it is expected that it will be settled. There Is considerable unanimity of opinion that the name ought to be changed at once. The committee which was sent to South Bend to represent the Hammond Buisness Men's Association will make its report and it Is understood that It has a very comprehensive report to make. There are several other matters that will come up for consideration. Considering the fact that the association has succeeded in having the matter of a depot for the Alonon railroad taken up by the Indiana railroad commission It is expected that the report of Mayor Lawrence Becker on this matter will be of interest.

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IS TRIED Street Car Conductor J. P, Daily on H., W. & E. 0. Line Hero for Resisting a Whiting Man Craied With Booze. J. P. Daily, a conductor en tb tt. mood. Whiting & East Chicago Electrlo wiupajty waa tne hero In an affair In whloh Mike Blostlo of Whiting, whlj crawd with booze, started a pan1 among the passengers of two street cr and broke several windows In the oare before he was finally tamed 'by Dally. Blostlo la under arrest and will b prosecuted on two charge, that of inrowing atones at a publlo oonvwyanoa and aasault and battery, In the Lak Superior court. An effort will be road to hare hira pnnlshed to the limit of the law. Warren Renne of Whltlna- was In the car and ao fierce wa Blostlc'a aaaault on the oar that Renne had all of the women paaaengera line down on the floor of the oar to avoid being hit Dy tne atonea that ware hurled by Blostlo through the wlndowa. Held The Rlg-at of Way. Blostlc was driving a wagon on the street car track and persisted In pre venting the car from having the tight (Continued on page seven.) L SERVICES HELD OK SUMDAY Public memorial services will be held next Sunday morning at the Presby terian church in commemoration of the dead of the Hammond lodge Knights of Pythias. The Rev. Hoffman will have charge of the services which will begin at 10 o'clock. Prior to the services a committee will decorate the graves of the deceased members of the lodge of which there are about eighteen. The members of teh lodge will gather at their lodge and march in a body from the hall to the church. NEW GAS C. H. Geist, who owns control of the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric company, operating both gas and electrlo plants in the cities of Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor Chesterton, Porter and Michigan City, has merged the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric company with the South Bend & Mishawaka Gas company and the Plymouth Lighting company. Mr. Gelst will remain as president of the new merged company, which will retain the name of the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric company, and the name of South Bend and Mishawaka Gas company will be discontinued as will alsQ thaof Plymouth Lighting company, and the properties will be operated in each town under the name of the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric company. There will be no changes in the management in any of these cities. HAHOI (Special to The Times.) So.uth Chicago, June 15. Burglara last night took the short route to get at the Jewelry displayed in the window of C. J. Simon and Co. at 3020 Ninty-second street. Hurling a brick, as in the McGarry robbery in Hammond, through the plate glass window in the store and before the police could arrive on the scene, made their getaway with a tray of diamond rings. The proprietors of the place do not know what their loss is until they have inventoried the place but judge it to b not less than several hundred dollars,;

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