Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 144, Hammond, Lake County, 5 December 1910 — Page 1
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Hammond Sales Agent of National Cash Register Does $15,000 Worth of Business For Company in the Month of October.
. E. N. Bunnell, he leads the world. Mr. Bunnell Is the Hammond sales agent for the National Cash Register company; and as such In competition with other agents on a basis of points, he has outstripped all others in the United States and all foreign countries. His is a marvelous record, and the business men of Hammond are proud of Its maker. The month of October was the company's biggest business month. Mr. Bunnell did more than $15,000 worth of business for the company in the Calumet region. That's the reason why his picture was given first place In the
all-star cast circular which the com
pany sends out each month to its agents.
For the year 1910, with one month
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BAXTER 10 SUCCEED
OTTO KLEMPERER
Hammond Man Out of Fifty-
Applicants Gets Job With Kaufman and Wolf.
F. S. Baxter, for two and one-half
years the manager i ine jurmiure ae
partmenf srE. C. Minas & Co., has re
signed his position to accept a similar one as manager of the furniture department of the Lion store. He will take the place which will be vacated by Otto Klemperer on the first of the
year.
The friends of Baxter in this city are
congratulating him upon his good
fortune tn securing this position. It is
understood that Baxter, upon hearing
of the prospective vacancy in this de partment of the Lion store, made ap plication for the position and was giv
en the preference over fifty other ap
plicants.
The fact that he is a local man and has a large acquaintance here will
rnake him a valuable man for Kauf
mann & Wolf. Baxter will take charge
of the department on Jan. 1.
Baxter has had considerable experience in the furniture business previous to his coming to Hammond. He is said
to be well qualified to take care of the already large business of the Lion
store and to build It up to even larger
proportions.
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IN HIPPODROME.
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Mabel Dwigfts nimble feet have won her a place In the hearts of the New York Hippodrome crowds. Bhe is young and a bright future if before her.
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Shocking Criminal Offense Laid at Door of Brutal Burglars; McKeller-Ferg- . uson-Clyde Case to Come Up in Superior Court.
For several weeks the authorities of Lake county have been on the stili
hunt for several men who are to be
held responsible for the violent deaths of two Indiana Harbor men. This is the first publication which explains the deaths; of John . Petorzicz and Anton Danus. Anton Danus died in November 14th,
at St. Margaret's hospital in Hammond. He lived at 3604 Deoiior street, Indiana Harbor and is survived by a widow and three children. . As nearly as can be
learne, Danus was assailed by a num
ber of foreigners with whom he worked
In the Chicago tunnel. The foreigners re said to have mistaken him for, another man who they laid for. Danus was taken to the Cook county there he was discharged as cured. He nospital and after several weeks stay went home to Indiana Harbor, and subsequent developments showed that he was probably fatally injured. He was taken to St. Margaret's hospital where he died on November 14th. John Petorzicz died at St. Margaret's hospital on November 17th. He was fatally injured on October 23rd, when he was kicked and beaten up in a saloon on Cedar street. His assailants are unknown. It is thought that the Petorzicz death was due to a feud which had been brought over from the
eld country. An examination at thej
hospital showed that hi sstomacu waa ruptured by teh kicks which he had received.
What is believed to have been one of the most heinous crimes in the history of Lake county will he revealed in the next two days in the trial of Dan McKeller, charged with burglarizing the home of Mrs. Marie Clyde, 415 Sibley street. James Furgeson is being held on the same charge. While the charge against McKeller is burglary, it is understood that another charge, far more terrible. Is being held over his head and in the event of a failure to convict on the charge of burglary the other will be pressed. Attorney Ralph W. Ross is appearing for the state and Attorney Joseph Conroy for the defense. Conroy admits
that he'ls going to have a hard time to clear his client. The crime is alleged to have been committed on the night of Oct. 31 at the home of Mrs. Clyde. Her husband was at work and she was alone when two men sought to be admitted. Pacta I nptiotable. They were refused admission, but later called again and forced . an entrance to the house. Then, according
to the testimony that was introduced at the preliminary hearing, they proceeded to assail Mrs. Clyde in. a most brutal and atrocious maimer. The whole facts of this assault have never been printed and never will be. Mrs. Cl3Tde's eyes were blackened and she was beaten and bruised. The house was robbed of the few valuables the robbers were able to find. In the preliminary hearing both Dan McKeller and James Furgeson admitted that they were so badly Intoxicated that they had spent the entire day going from saloon to saloon and ordering drinks. Furgeson stated, under oath that he must have had seventy-five whiskies in him at the time. However, the law does not recognize drunkenness as an excuse for crime, and if the defendants are found guilty they will have to suffer for their offense. Too Dnmk to Encape. It was only because the men were so intoxicated that they had not yet come to an appreciation of the enormity of their crime. They were still going from saloon to saloon for drinks when they were arrested and taken to jail. Dan McKeller lives in Hammond, but James Furgeson claims Buffalo as his place of residence and says that he is a chimney sweep.
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.Chicago, -Dec. 5. Acceptance or rejection of terms offered by Hart, Schaffner & Marx as a settlement of the garment workers' strike in so far as their former employes are concerned now rests with the strikers themselves. Indorsement of the proposed terms was voted yesterday by the Chicago Federation of Labor and the 10,000 idle operatives were advised to accept. Enid, Okla., Dec. 5. W. L. Eagen, freshman student in the Northwestern State Normal School at-Alva, who received severe injuries last Monday in a football game, has passed a week without r egiuing consciousness and it is now believed he will not recover. Eagen's home is in Watonga, Okla. Manila, Dec. 5. Fully a million dollars' damage has been done and more than 100 natives killed by a typhoon
which has been sweeping over the province ot Zamboan-
sra for two days. Keport ot tne disaster was maac xo mm-
arv headquarters from the City of Zamboanga today.
American soldiers have been mspatcnea xo ao reuei duty.
London. England. Dec. 5. About forty persons were
seriously injured, a number fatally, in a collision on the London and Northwestern railroad at YVillensden June- - i i i 1lT JiJ?., ...1
tion todav. The second section oi a Train iroui v auuru plowed into the first section, which was standing at the
Junction.
FredericJu-"Wl,.lje-.ajin f-(e Louis, who has been appointed to succeed the late Lloyd W. Bowers as solicitor general of the United States, is president of the American Bar association. Mr. Lehman was born in Prussia in 1853. He was admitted to the bar in Iowa and
practiced. In VNebrasTuTtfnHI'lSrS.'a'liA in Iowa from 1876 To 1890, when he moved to St. Louis, as attorney for the Wabash
railroad. He is one of those whose names have been mentioned for one of
the vacancies on the Unitecf atates Su preme court bench.
JOHNSTON ATTENDS
BANQUET
Secretary E. F. Johnston, of the
Hammond Business Men's association, represented his organization at the ban
quet which the Chicago Association of Commerce gave in honor of the members of the national tariff board.
The banquet was held in the gold
room of the Congress hotel and was a very fine affair. The work' of the new
tariff board was discussed and the session was a very Interesting one. The
secretaries of a number of the commercial clubs of this and adjoining cities were invited.
BUSINESS
MEN MEET THURSDAY There will be a meeting of the Hammond Business Men's association next Thursday evening at which a number
of matters of importance will be taken up. The meeting will, in fact, inaugurate the winter's work of the association. The reports of the committee on a sanitary district, on legislation, good roads and a number of other important matters will be heard. The question of the elimination of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad tracks will be taken up and the city administration will he given every encouragement in its fight to have these tracks removed.
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HN0SJ300 PEARL
Edward Barnes Considers
Himself Pretty Lucky; Don't You.
PATRONS
HAffiOi CONTRACTORS
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THURSDAY
Lake County Bar "Association Meeting This Morn
ing Is Postponed; Effort to
Be Made to Have Solid
Front for Campaign.
PftTROWS OF HE HOAR
(Special to Tub Times.)
Whiting, Ind., Dec. 5. Edward Barnes of Robertsdale is considering himself extremely fortunate in the finding of a valuable pearl. Mr) Barnes on his way home from Milwaukee, went into a Chicago restaurant with a friend for an oyster stew. While eating the stew, he suddenly bit into something very hard. Looking to see what it was, he was under the impression that it was a pearl, so he put it into his pocket. On his way home he stopped into a jewelry store to find the true worth of the pearl, and to have it polished. The jeweler at once offered him $300 for the gem, but the young man being more than surprised at the value Of his find refused to part with it.
The patrons of the Hammond, "Whit
ing & East Chicago Railway company j
wants an owl service. The necessity has become more and more apparent with the approach of the winter season. For example, the last car to go south from the corners of State and Hohman street leaves at 12:15. The Monon train from Chicago gets Into Hammond at 12:17. If the Monon is on time and the street car is two minutes late it is possible to catch the car and save a long cold walk. If both the train and the street car are on time those who coma in on the train usually see thenar dissappearing around the corner. In addition to the 12:17 Monon from Chicago, there is the Lake Shore train which gets into Hammond at 12:28, the Michigan Central train which gets in at Co'"'d on page five.)
Here is additional food for thmie-ht
for Gary taxpayers. The new board Of public works, of which John J. Nyhoff. Mayor Knotts and A. P. Melton,
! the city engineer, are members this
noon awarded the contract for the First street pavement to the Cain Construction company for $113,000, while the bid of the Interstate Construction company of Hammond, the lowest bidder by six thousand dollars, was Ignored. The bid of the Interstate Construction company in round figures was $107,000. The decision of the board was reached on the ground that the check of the Interstate Construction company which accompanied the bid was not .large enough to cover the bid. The Inter
state check was $3,500, whle that of
the Cain Construction company was $3,250, twenty dollars larger than the Interstate check. Contractors say that the Interstate check was large enough to cover a bid of. thirty thousand dollars higher.
The board adjourned this noon meet again this afternoon to take sewer work.
There will be a meeting of the Lake County Bar Association next Thursday evening for the purpose of taking up the question of outlining a legislative program in the interest of the cburts of Lake County. A meeting was to have been held in the Lake Superior court room this morning but nothing was done on account of the small attendance. At the meeting next Thursday it is hoped that practically the entire membership of the Lake County bar will be present.
A number of lawyers in talking over the situation this morning expressed the opinion that there ought to be two extra judges appointed for the courts of Lake County, an extra judge to try civil cases and an extra judge to try criminal cases. Attorney John Gavit said this morning that he believed that there is enough criminal business in Lake Coun-
tv to warrant the establishment or a
criminal court here. AnW For Criminal Court.
Attorney Dan Moran stateTPthat the
judge of the criminal court might also
be given the probate work to do.
Moran stated that in Vigo county
which has only 5,000 more people than Lake County, there is a continuous su-
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.,- (Special toifo icniE8."jT East Chicago, .Ind-i; ' Dec," . 5 i A" large number ot . the patrdnsi of the South Shore line' were considerably discommoded last night by the fact that the Illinois Central train that leaves Randolph street at 9 o'clock in the evening was. a. few minutee late at Pullman and the South Shore car which Is supposed to make the connection with this train, and is due to ieave Pull
man at 9:51, failed to wait for the delayed train. The failure to wait over the few minutes needed to accommodate the commuters was especially disappointing. Inasmuch as there is no car going east via the South Shore between 9:51 and five minutes after midnight.
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BELMONT TURNS FIRE ON PROBERS
DEATH
TWO AT
DEATH'S DOOR.
New-Insurance Co. Reinhardt Elster & Co.. the others being silentpartners, have opened an office in the First National bank building for the purpose of conducting an insurance, loan, real estate and collection business. For the present, however, Mr. Elster will continue to devote part of his time to the music business.
Infant Is Dead. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Unruh, 315 Indiana avenue, died Saturday afternoon. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon and interment was made in Oak Hill cemetery.
(Special to The Times.) Crown Point. Ind., Dec. 5. Word comes from Chicago hospitals that Mrs. Martha Sigler, wife of Charles Sigler of the Monon hotel at Cedar Lake, is
in a critical condition and may not live.! Mrs. John Ludwig is also at death's ! door and not expected to recover. !
Death of Aged Man. Fritz Hille, a resident of Hammond for twenty-nine years, died this morning at his home, 47S Michigan avenue, his death having been due to dropsy. Mr. Hille was 72 years old and is survived by his widow and one son. The funeral has been arran'ged for next Wednesday afternoon. Interment will be made at Oak Hill cemetery.
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Twenty Days to Xmas
DEC. 5
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LAKE COUNTY HORSE HEN GAPTUBE BIBB0IIS
(Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Dec. 5. Lake county horse breeders were signally honored at the recent International
Horse show at Chicago, and captured the prizes and ribbons from some of the best exhibits of thoroughbred stock in their several classes. In class 12, breeding stock, Wilson Brothers of this place, captured third prize, with R. C. McMillan of Hebron stork farm taking fourth honors for horses In this class. The Hebron man also captured fourth honors In the light draft, winning in this event against the famous packing house teams of the various packing concerns in the country. The two stock raisers are Justly proud of their showing at the big show and deserve the patronage of Lake county people for their enterprise in-rmpet-ing against the cream of the horsetiesh of the world, thus bringing distinction again in a new way to old Lake county.
OF MRS. STASZAK.
Mrs. Stefan Staszak, 37 years old, died this morning at 3 o'clock at her home, 221 Hickory street, after an illness of only twelve hours. She was taken down yesterday afternoon with cramps. Medical aid was summoned and no inquest will be held. She is survived by her husband and two
daughters, respectively 16 and 12 years
old. ' The funeral will be held or. Wednesday. Services will be held at St. Casimer's church at 9 o'clock and interment will be made at Holy Cross cemetery.
JUDGE REITER REPRESENTS CITY. There was a joint meeting of the committees on sanitation from the commercial clubs of the region at the Palmer house in Chicago last Saturday night, at which the members partook of a dinner and discussed the question of the establishment of a sanitary distrcit
in Lake county. Judge Virgil S. Reiter of Hammond represented this city. It is understood that a legislative program wos outlined. Reports are to be made back to the various commercial clubs in the region.
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Hold Annual Election. The Knights of Columbus hold their annual election of officers this evening. The installation will be held at a subsequent session. -
August Belmont, chairman of the New York Jockey Club, called bforn the. legislative commiBBlon and asked if he had not helped raise half a million dollars to fight the passage of the anti-racing bill, waxed wroth at the committee. He castigated the committeemen, verbally, for enterttainlng an idea that money was used illegitimately in the fight against the bill which stopped racing in New York, when enacted. James R. Keene and Harry Payne Whittney, wanted as witnesses, are in Europe. Belmont eaid neither knew more than ho did of any Illegal use of money.