Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 8, Hammond, Lake County, 27 June 1910 — Page 1

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VENIMG I EDITION X VOL V., NO. 8. HAMMOND, INDIANA, !-JIOND AY, JUNE 27, 1910. 7 7 ONE CENT PER COPY.

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Board of Review Will Adjourn Early Next Month Silence Is Construed As --Satisfaction Work Done By Board Light. The corporations are satisfied, the common people are satisfied, the board of review is satisfied, and the assessors are satisfied, so there will not be much revising of Lake county's levy this year. Accordingly the county board of review will adjourn July 6. thus terminating Its shortest session in a quarter of a century. It is an unusual event for the corporations not, to be satisfied. They must be making money, for this year they did not come with poor mouths about dull business and the necessity of cutting down taxes in order to hoist dividends. While there lias been sectional dissatisfaction in some Darts, It is merely (.Continued on page seven.j AUTOMOBILE YESTERDAY , 1910 Auto Record. Injured by Autos in Region .41 Machines Wrecked .28 (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., June 27. A big Knox touring car running at the rate of 60 miles an hour crashed into a telegraph pole between here and Cedar Lake yesterday and was wrecked. There were four passengers in the car and all of them escaped serious injury though several of them were hurt and bruised. The. party was from Chicago and passing autoists came to their rescue. The steering gear of the car broke and caused the accident. ROWDIES (Special to Thb Times.) Crown Point, Ind., June 27. Rowdies at Cedar Lake assaulted Constable Westburg of Lowell at Monon park yestenday and Injured him severely. He received a cut about the head when he was hit with a chair. Two Chicago men were arrested and fined. They are George Lavernte of Chicago, fined $5 and costs, and Henry Bloomgren of Chicago, who was fined $25 and costs. The cases were tried before Judge Harry B. Nicholson of Crown Point this morning. They were prosecuted at the instance of the Law and Order society of Lake county. . Constable Westburg complained to a couple of rowdies of the disorder they were causing when they assaulted him. The assault occurred in the vicinity of the Monon depot. ociocEiisniJii passes m (Special to Tun Times.) Crown Point, Ind., June 27. Mrs. Dora Horn a Crown Point octagenerian, and mother of Mrs. Blocker of Hammond, Ind. and grandmother of Miss Minnie Schultz of the same city died suddenly Friday night at the home of! Henry Tegtmeler living south of town. Mrs. Horn had been visiting relatives in and around Crown Point for a number of weeks and Friday appeared in the best of health, when she was suddenly ta.ken sick expiring shortly afterward. The deceased was an old pioneer resident of this place, coming to Crown Point with her husband, several years years deceased, many years ago from Germany. The funeral of the much respected old ladj- will be held at the German Evangelical Church on Main street at one thirty o'clock this afternoon. Interment will be at the family burial lot in the Crown Point eameterr. .

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IT WAS EASY, WASN'T IT? Mr. Jacob Fox, SO Doty utree, Hamiuond, landed the three dollar prize on Saturday for mipplylng the correct mining words in the Times' content. There were four who had the right words, hut Mrs. Fox wa the first. The word wcres "rniof," Xor. I nd. Gas & E. Co. "Help," Hammond Distiller)-. If Mr. Fox will call at the office he will he fclven the $3 prise. There in a new list of words In the paper today. They are easy too. Try a.aln, Just a 111 tic letter or n postal card may win you a prize.

EGfiO GOT. his AT CIRCUS LAST NIGHT H. F. Finnen, a negro, came to the police station last night showing signs of brutal mistreatment. Ho was employed as a roustabout in connection with the Young Buffalo's "Wild West show, which showed in West Hammond, and was set upon by some fellow employes after an argument with them. Dr. Young dressed his wound, which, while painful, were not serious. One of his ears was nearly torn off and he had evidently been kicked in the mouth. The police wanted him to accompany him to the camp to arrest the assailants, but Finnen was afraid to venture among them. mrs, some DIES SATURDAY NIGHT Mrs. Elizabeth Sommer. 299 South Hohman street, died last Saturday evening. Her death is ascribed to peritoneal tuberculosis, for which she had been operated on. Mrs. Sommer was 49 years and ten months old and was the widow.. of Geo. SoSmer, ' wTiO :'' dfeil" a number of Sybafa ago. She was also the sister of John Schwab of this city. Mrs. Sommer is survived by three children, they being George and Miss Emma Sommer and Mrs. Myrtle Tarnogrodzki. The funeral has been arranged for Tuesday morning. Services will be held at St. Joseph's Catholic church at 9 o'clock; - and interment will be at Oak HilT cemetery. The pallbearers are all old friends of the family. The following will act:' Kasper Bick, John Portz, Jacob Weis, John Ambos, Patrick Reilley and Jacob Schloer. PROVES HIS METTLE Christian Brown, S07 Alice street, proved himself a hero shortly before noon today when he saved the life t Morris Hawley, aged 13, who was abou to ride his bicycle in front of th Monon passenger train which pass through this city at 11:23. Young Hawley was on his bicycle and evidently did not notice the approaching passenger train and did not hear the warning shouts of the watchman. Just as he was abouf to ride in front of the train Brown grabbed him by the shoulders and drew both the boy and the wheel from his position of peril. Brown says the gates were down, and that the boy was given every warning. The engineer of the train, seeing the dang.;r of running over the boy, stopped his train just beyond the point where the boy would have been struck if he had not been saved by the watchman. The accident happened at the Hohman street and Plummer avenue crossing. THREE SIVORCE CASES IE FILED loom Three divorces were filed in the Lake superior court this morning. Itoxie A. LutterSias brought an action for a divorce against Clarence A. Lutter. They were married on July 30, 1904, and were separated Dec. 15, 190 8. Nonsupport is alleged in the complaint. Ross & Lotz are the attorneys. Mary M. Humbolt has brought an action for a divorce against August Humboldt. It is alleged that they were married in St. John in 1SS1 and were separated May 29, 1910. It is charged that August swore and cursed at his wife and was constantly tinder the influence of intoxicants. They have one natural child and one adopted child. They have $5.000 worth of property at No. 30 Plummer avenue, and Mrs. Humbolt asks for $2,500 and $200 a year for the support of the child. Edith L Woods has brought an action for a divorce against her husband. Otto C. Woods. Cruel and Inhuman treatment is alleged. They ! were married Feb. 2 3, 1905, and were separated Aug. 13, 1909. Kennedy & Shank of East Chicago filed the case.

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Henry Davidson was made cognizant of the complaints that have been made by the people of Lake county regarding the delay on the paving of Indiana boulevard by Thej Times, and today made haste to explain the causes of that delay. He stated that Oscar Krinbill, who was county commissioner at the time he was granted the contract for the paving of Indiana boulevard, instructed him that his work would have to be done simultaneously with the work that Is being done by the Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago Electric Railway company. , He says that all of the delays that have been caused are due to the fact that the street railway company has delayed its part of the work. He states further .that he could not' go ahead with his work regardless of the street railway company, for the reason that the Green line frequently occupied part of the road he was improving while it was rilling in its right of way. Denies Wlthdravrlag Men. He says that last year he was anx-. ious to complete the work before the season ended, but the street railway company held him back. He says that the street railway company now has a fair force of men on the Job and that if it progresses as rapidly as it has in the past three weeks the opening of the street to raffle will not be delayed much longer. Davidson denies positively that he withdrew his men from the Indiana boulevard job for the purpose of put ting them on a Whiting job he had. He says that, on the other, he has given his entire time and attention to the Indiana boulevard paving, and has done his best to get the street paved as quickly 'as possible. Of the three Hammond people who are in the race for the Chicago Examiner's European trip 4-year-old Florence Cutler is now in the lead. She and her two Hammond competitors are working in the rural class. There are thirty-eight in the class. Of these Florence holds seventh place, Miss Hanna Conroy ninth and Mrs. Florence Smith fifteenth. The contest closes tomorrow evening and, while none of the Hammond trio may go to Europe, they will nevertheless be rewarded. BREAK INT 1. E. CKU Vandals entered the First Methodist i church last Saturday night and did as much damage as they dared without making much noise. They secured entrance through a basement window and forced open .practically every door in the building. In the pastor's study, they disturbed the books and papers. The police were notified immediately after the discovery was made early Sunday morning. It is thought that the job Is the work of boys. Hammond people will not lack a place to which to go for amusement on July"4th. Chicago is close, the country j is beckoning, and Lake Michigan is anxious to carry thousands of excursionists on its bosom, tt. Paul's German Lutheran church will enjoy a picnic at Sharpshooters' park, and a South Chicago organization will give one at Kindel's gtove. 1 But there will be no parades, or public fireworks or public demonstration of any kind in Hammond this year. Altogether the day promises to be safe and sane and a" day of rest.

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The Rt. Rav. Bishop Alerdlng of the Fort Wayne diocese was in Hammond yesterdaj to administer the sacrament of confirmation in All Saints and St. CahimeJ-'s Catholic churches. The first confirmation services of the day were held it All Saints' church, where nearly 100 candidates were confirmed, at the djlose of the high mass. Bishop Alerding delivered the sermon and said early jnass. In the afternoon a class of 150 were confirmed at St.' Casimer's churcjh. Bishop Alerding arrived Saturday evening and was the guest of Fathef Barrett of All Saints' church. . , ' ' y " '

CliE31J;:C,c. THE TABLE A number of important changes have been made in the Michigan Central time table. Two new trains have been added to the list for the accommodation of resorters who are bound for northern Michigan points. No. 50 leaves Chicago 'at 2 p. m. on Saturdays only. Arrives at Hammond at 2.39 p. m., east-bound. io. oi, west-bound, leaves Hammond at h:( on ..Mondays only, and arrives in Chicago at 9:10. No. 4, east-bound, leaves at 5:41, stops only for passengers for Buffalo and points east, will discontinue stopping at Grand Crossing. No. S, the "Wolverine, east-bound, will discontinue stopping at Grand Crossing. No. 13, west-bound, arrives in Hammond at 2:46, will have a first-class coach wies enclosed smoking room, operated between Buffalo and Chicago, returning on train No. S. No. 43, west-bound, a Grand Rapids train, arrives in Hammond at 11:52. will stop at Gary on signal. No. 23, wes't-bound, which leaves Hammond at S:22, from New York and Boston, will have its buffet library car transferred to No. 13. No. 44. east-bound, formerly left Chicago at 5:40j. now changed to 6:25. Eeat Kills One. One death, that of a baby, was caused by the heat Saturday. The little one is the child of Mrs. Annie Koradaey, Seventeenth and Washington. The remains were interred today in Holy Cross cemetery, Hammond. , Before the summer is over many children will die in the close quarters occupied by the foreigners. Last summer more than twenty-five were sacrificed on account of impure milk, the rapacity and impurities of the ice' sold and crowded conditions. This year the toll in Gary will be much greater. No Further Warning Needed After Mayor Decker's Proclamation relatives to the muzz imr of dr.nrs h.n,l been published for a week, thp nnlico opened the week this morning by j shooting down five animals, and the I slaughter of the innocents will con- j ",IUC '."luem.iieiy. The proclamation as published in the ..caciM ui iiinamona is construetlve notice, at least, and the police are not inclined to spend the remainder j of the year in following every dog own er and tell them of the proclamation like they did of the license ordinance. Dies At Sanatarium. -urs. j. w. iees wife of the general Steel superintendent of the Inland Plant at Indiana Harbor died at cago sanitarium this afternoon, funeral has ben arranged for Thursdy afternoon. ChiTne next Lad Runs Away. Fred Roth of Aurora, III. a fifteen year old lad was picked up in West Hammond yesterday. ue had run away from home with the rircus and was sent back home.

FISH 01 THURSDAY

Jacob Fox, park supervisor, gave i:e good news today for girls of Hammond who years of age. All day j The Times so; i the boys and j are undet 10 next Thursday these children will be permitted to fish with hook and line in the Harrison Park lagoon. The place? is full of, bullheads and perch, and some of these are quite large and bite j very readily. It will be a rare treat j for the youngsters. j Mr. Fox expects to receive a consignHammond i meut of game fish, pickerel and bass next week and the lagoon. this will be planted In HAMHOHD HAM LOSES HIS BROTHER Martin Malloy of G13 Bowen avenue, Chicago, a brother of J. J. Malloy of Sibley street, died in Chicago early yesterday morning after an aillncss of four weeks. Krebs & Burns of Hammond will have charge of the funeral, which will be held tomorrow morning. Services will be held at the Holy Angers church at U o'clock. Interment will be in Mount C;vary cemetery. ARRESTED ON SERIOUS CHARGE Joe Munda, a cripple t-Q was arrested this mornin charge of mistreating little years old r on the Alsa Kalienherst. G years old. of West "Hammond. The trial of the case will takf place in Judge Green's court next Thursday. It is understood that there is some doubt as to the guilt of Munda and the people of West Hammond are Withholding criticism until after the trial. The case has atraeted considerable attention on the South Side in West llanii'iiiiid wrtert the .'isnir ic fiii...7 to havc 0,.curr(.a anrt e,..,n ' nr,. i and one of the village officials denied that such an arrest had been made. Loan Association Meets. Tfie annual mf.et Pnbipshy rtuilding ng of the King John I'an Association ! holds its annual meeting next Fridav evening in Sohierky hall. Three new directors are to be chosen. Only July 10th, the Poles of West Hammond will commemorate the anniversary of the flattie of Cnifncu-aM I The exercises will be held in Towle Opera House. Five Get Third Degree. I'ive candidate received the third degree at a special meeting of the Blue Lodge last Saturday afternoon and evenirg. The afternoon candidate were Henry Loveridge O. L. Mills, F. L Warman, and William Koch. Th? candidate for the evening was R. O. Winkler. A baniuet was served afteh the degree wor kin the evening.

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Calumet River Takes Sunday Tolland Breaks its Record for Human Life Taken Yesterday

WHITING LAD PROVES HIMSELF TO BE A HERO (Special to Thej Times.) Whiting, Ind., June 7. Milton Collins the eleven year old son of Sergeant Clay Collins has the stuff In him of which heroes are made and he proved this last Saturday afternoon when he rescued tVo playmates from drowning in Lakfe Michigan. The boys whose llvefe he saved were Joseph Gordon thfe 13 year old son of Harry Gordojr a Whiting merchant, and Cecyl O'Keefe the 12 year old son of Jack O'Keefe the restaurant man. The boys together with Milton Gevitz another eleven year old playmate were in the water oft Sheridan avenue. - Gordon who Is unable to swim went out be fond a safe depth for him and was unable to cope with the big waves that rolled over him. His mouth filled with water and he soon disappeared. Gervitz started out for Gordon when he first saw hia danger but had to turn back. Collins and O'Keefe followed and the former caught Gordon before he went down a second time. AX the expense of super human strength Collins towed his friends ashore where he was soon revived. Gordon was still thanking his rescuer when the boys heard young O'Keefe crying for help, he having slippef back into teh water again in the mean time. For a second time Collins wbwa.sstill quite weak from his e-fforts -went -out- to- )ttti---MtAtnst the waves, and he soon landed his playmate on a sand' bar. O'Keefe fearing the gibes of his playmates for having proven himself unable to take care of himself in tne water denied that he was in danger and said that he was merely joking when he called for help, but Collins says that O'Keefe was all In when he landed him on terra firma. CALUMET REGION CITIES DEATH RATE Hammond's health for the month of April was, according to the monthly health bulletin, issued by the state board of health, below the average. The average annual death rates cities of Hammond's class was 15.1 per 1,000 population. Hammond's was 16.4. East Chicago, which is classed among- the same cities, shows a death of 25.5. Whiting, while in another class, is far above the average for the month of April, having had only eight deaths per 1,000 population, whereas the av erage for Whiting's class is 16.5. PS1 CROWE HS SPLURGE 111 Pat Crowe, reformed criminal and erstwhile evangelist, who created a sensation when lie visited Gary and Hammond recently, abandoned the water wagon again yesterday and went on a rampage around Chicago avenue and North Clark street until taken in tow and escorted to his brother's hotel by detectives of the Chicago avenue station. Crowe, who gained noteriety in the Kddie Cudahy kidnapping case, invited fifty men out of a saloon to listen to a temperance speech on the corner when he was scarcely able to walk himself. While attempting to sing to tiie music of a hand-organ he was led away. Eanquet At Temple. All automobile owners of Hammond, Whiting, Kast Chicago and Indiana Harbor have an Invitation to attend a banquet to be given at the Masonic temple in Hammond on Thursday evening at 8 o'-cloek. The banquet" is to be given under the auspices of the Hammond Auto club. . Wally Still En Route. Laxvrence WaHsmith arrived in La Junta, Colo., last Friday, according to a postal card which Lorhiel Simpson received yesterday. He is still en his way to the big fight and is making good progress, as can be seen by the fact that he got that far Friday. Evidently Wallsmith expects to go to 'Frisco on the Santa Fe and then go from there to Reno.

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! DROWN Gallant Rescue Made By Whiting Lad Who Saves Two Lives Also. SEASON'S DROWNINGS IN REGION. 13 In a futile attempt to save the life of his cousin George Vijo, 20 years old from drowning in the Calumet river at Gary yesterday moraine. Antonio Vijo failed in his work of mercy, and the two clasped in each others arms sank to their death be neath the murky waters of the Grand Calumet river. DROWNED IN SHALLOW WAron These are the first drowning fatalities for the season in Gary and the thirteenth in the region. The accident occurred about two blocks east of Virginia street and Calumet river. The two cousins who are Italians went over to the river with a party of friends to bath. At the point wfiere the drownings Occurred tne';streaffl,TrYlry8hallo:w-5-v The men had been in water but a short tlme-when George Vijo the younger of the two cousins was seen to disappear under the water. The at(Continued on Page Three.) Ill SHELBY (Special to The Times.) Lowell, Ind., June 27. That the Monon wrecks come in trios was again proved at Shelby last Saturday when the fast passenger train No. 31 on the Monon ran off the track and the passengers escaped without serious, injurythrough many sustained bad bruises. The engine and mail car left the raila and the passengers in the coaches following were badly hsaken up. This is the third wreck in this county that tha Monon has had lately. INY AGE ADMiTTED TO LAKE GO. BAR A large number of Gary. Hammond and Lake County attorneys were admitted to the Lake County Bar Assoelation at a meeting which was held in Lake Superior court this morning. j The names of those who were admitted are Henry F. McCracken. George ! H. Manlove, K. G. Sproat, Guy C. White, Fred Crumpacker, Harry V. Call. Casslus M. Greenlee, J. Will Iielshaw. Arthur W Carnduff, P. A. Parks, Rob ert McAleer and John n. Teterson. Great preparations are being made for the meeting of the members of the Iake County Bar Association which will be held at the Knotts Mineral Springs on July first. ID DOG BITES . HQRSESf D CATTLE (Special to Tun Timkp.) Crown Point. Ind., June 27. A mad

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dog was killed on Saturday by a farmer, living ast of town. The animal showed all the unmistakable signs of rabies when examined by a veterinary and had been running around among a field of horses end cattle for several hours. A close watch is being kept on the cattle supposed to have been bi'ten, to detect ary signs of hydrophobia t which might develop. Thin Is the first mad dog scare this vicinity has had la , several years.