Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 269, Hammond, Lake County, 3 May 1911 — Page 1

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Shocking Affair is Brought to Light, Two Italians Slain and Several Others Are Injured

Operations of the Chicago ''Black Hand" extended into Gary last night, when shortly after midnight, a dynamite bomb was placed between two freight cars in the E., J. and E. yards, in which a socre or more Italian laborers were sleeping. As a result the car was blown to splinters and killing two of their number and wounding several others. The dead are: BEEDITTO AGI.IO. 35 years Old. Married, lives at43 La Sail street, Chicago. CIOGAMMO IMPASTAUA, 47 years old.

Single. Same residence. THE IJl RED. BAXIJ COI.OGIE, 47 years old. Right leg- blown off. At Steel Company's hospital, not expected to live. BODIES HOHIUBI.Y MAXiLEI), It is reported that several ather laborers were injured, their names b-3-Inar withheld by the hospital physicians. All occupants of the cars received more or less minor injuries from falling timbers and debris. The bodies of Agllo and Impastato. who were uorrlbly mangled, were taken by the police

HAMMOND'S NEW PASTOR.

EXCHANGE

G01PLI1E

Question of Special Privi

leges to Business Men Is

Taken Up By City Fathers at Meeting and an Interesting Controversy Ensues

WHERE WOMEN SCHOOL TEACHERS' TRAIN WAS WRECKED IN PENNSYLVANIA; 13 WERE KILLED AND CARS WERE BURNED.

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(Special to The Ties.) Tndiana Harbor, May 3. There has keen some confusion created by the publication of a change In the, schedule from that accepted by t'ne directors of the Northern Indiana Baseball Association at their last meeting In resident McAleer'a office April 2 5. Copies of the schedule adopted ; at that time were given to the different club anagers and they at once went to work, making preparations for their first gae in accordance with Its provisions. Since that time howev, Mr. C. H. Billings of the schedule committee has had published a revised schedule which provides for sweeping changes In the arrangement of the games. In the meantime Mr. William Zimmerman of Whiting and Manager Matt Sternberg of Indiana Harbor had ordered their advertising matter, understanding that East Chicago would open atWhlting and that Gary open at In

diana Harbor. The new schedule has

date East Chicago at Indiana Harbor

and Gary at Whiting. Inasmuch as this

new arrangement has never been pass

ed on by the directors of the league, the original schedule Is still In lurcc

Rev. Arthur Hoffman. Rev. Arthur Hoffman, newly ordained pastor of the First, Presbyterian church of Hammond, has. been selected to deliver the baccalaureate Mrmoh'to the

gradaatlng class of Ml, H. II. S.

LOWELL

LOSES LIST

The question of privilege for ,the erection of ornamental lamp posts in front of business places lead to an argument in the city council last night which verged close onto personalities. "To some of these councilmen around here it seems to make all the difference in tho world whether a corporation or a poor- devil asks for a permit" was a statement by John Kane, who argued that Charles Arkin, the State street Jeweler, whose request for a permit had preciptated the argument, should have the same privilege

which the council granted tw weeks ago, when it gave the Northern Indiana Gas & Klectric Ught company a permit to place temporarily two ornamental lamp posts in front of its office on Hehman street. "I Told Ytu So" John Kan. City Clerk Otto Duelke had hardly read the communication which the jeweler submitted through his attorney, J. ' K. Stinson. when John Kane made himself heard by saying. "I told you so

two weeks ago. If we grant permission to one we must grant it to all." Councilman Markmueller asked for the floor, and after stating that, in his opinion, Mr. Arkin's sign might be an ornamental one, especially if the clock is to be illuminated at night, the council would have to draw the line immediately. President Adam Kbert of the board of public works explained to the coun-

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LATEST NEWS

.Indianapolis, Ind.. May 3. (Times Bureau.) Gov. Marshall has employed Dan Simms of Lafayette and form

er appellate judge, Frank S. Robey of

this city to assist the attorney-general in defending against the suit to knock, out the proposed new constitution. Simms is a democrat and Robery republican. Senator StotseDburg of Albany will probably also assist.

Indianapolis, Ind., May 3. (Time3 Bureau.) H. D. Howe of Detroit appeared before thestate tax board and said that the New York Central lines in Indiana net. earnings for three months endingMarch 31st i3 $2,P83,69 below same three months last year due to falling off in business and high cost of labor and materials.

Easton, Pa., May ?. A special train carrying 169 school ieachers and their friends, most of them women from I'tica. Waterville and Syracuse, N. Y., to Washington, P. C. for a day of pleasure, was wrecked near here Saturday. Thirteen persons were killed outright and -three score others were injured. Most of the dead and injured were women. The Wreckage was de

stroyed by fire. j

The train was running at fifty miles an hour when the lecomotive struck a sharp curve and left the rails. Four of the five coaches were carried with It. The cars turned over and were dragged by the locomotive against a big oil tank, which was sideswiped and overturned, oil belpf spilled over the w reckage, the coals! from the wrecked locomotive starting fa fire which completely destroyed evry coach, only the twisted steel of th framework being izih ii

Chicago, 111., May 3. Samuel Gompers, president of the 'America i Federation of Labor, threw up hi hands today and announcea' that he was unable to bring the warring: union plumbers and steamfitters together and settle the jurisdictional fight that menaces the buildfng industry of Chicago. He declared thai: the situation was deplorable, but announced that he had gone as far ur he could and lacked authority to takcj any radical action against the two unions.

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TO SHOW LONDON FARMING METHODS

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(Special to Tho Times.) Lowell, Ind., May 3. At 10 o'clock last evening the last saloon In Jowell closed its doors. Lotn row is a. drytown, but It has one "Jingo" or "soft drink" Joint, and it is said another one will start up in the room where Suamur has been running his saloon, 'rue law and order element of Lowell declare that if "blind tigers" attempt to operate that they will see that the law Is applied.

Now that Lowell Is dry the temperance element will watch the soft

drink places closely and no blind tigers

be permitted to flourish. The business men say the1r business has been better since the saloons have gone out ana there have been more happy homes.

OORSEY TAKEN TO PRISO!

(Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., May 2. Ed Doryse the Gary negro and murderer was refused a new trial at the Superior court in Hammond yesterday and now has a life sentence at Michigan penitentiary staring him in the face. Dorsey takes his fate in a philosophical manner, and says that "while there life there hope and that by bein a good niggah, he

may live to see the day when the prison gates wil reopen for his freedom.

Dorsey still contends that his act

was committed In what he supposed was in defense of his own life and says

that if he had not gotten busy that the three would have done the same thing to him. "But its all the fothuns o' whar," saysJ5orsey, "n" probably then twelve Juhrors an' th' Jedge knows more about what ah oughter git than ah do. Ahm satisfied."

SILLEl JiSCHF GEtBESULT

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CLERK ANXIOUS

Miss KNHE!TfJ!A.G'B1J?S2N3 New York, May 3. Miss Henrietta Grace Parsons, assistant secretary of schools in Brockton, Mass, has gone to London to take charge of a school farm established by the government of that city.

BARELEGGED DANGER'S fflftlGERJ OUSTED Countess de Swirsky, Who Appeared in Hammond, Makes Scene in Hotel.

New York, May 2. f. N. Withey of Syracuse, who used Xy -be a Congregational preacher in Oklahoma City and Kansas City, admitted today-that

he was no longer the manager of lA.in.Aa Tl.aH.awA T J 1...

iv-vM.ti.vBO lu.iuaia j rr w 1 1 a v , 4 Russian dancer of the bare-legged

species. Withey went to hear his old friend, the Rev. Newell Dwlght Hillls, preach yesterday morning, and decided it was not right for a dancer to disport herself before the public in the garb of a mid-African belle. Withey conveyed his impression to the countess. For reply she dashed a glass of ice water into his face. As a -second manifestation of 'her artistic temperament she yanked the table cloth from the table and caused a breakage of some dollars. As a third argument in favor of her unadorned limbs, she swept haughtily to her rooms. The countess insisted that she was not seeking publicity by her outbreak, and as proof of her sincerity she furnished one of her photos, taken a la lace curtains, to the papers.

THOUSANDS POUR IfllO GITYTREASURY

Hammond People Drain

Pockets to Swell City Treasury. "Snowed . under" is the way City

Treasurer William Wolter puts It when

speaking about his work these days,

The taxpaying period closed last Mondftjr, and during this time all the force could do was to take care of the taxpayers as they lined up at the win

dow.

In the meantime stacks of letters have accummulated containing checks.

draft receipts, postoffice money orders, in fact, anything that will pass for currency to pay the taxes. Wherever one looks on the big desk are piles of letters representing thousands of dollars in value. There is one from the Stand

ard Steel Car company with a check

of $7,000, another from the Hammond

Realty company 4r I .500 and scores

containing paper of smaller denomina

tion. During the busiest season the

entire force worked overtime every day until 8 o'clock in the evening, and it will be many days before all tho work which has accummulated will be cleared away. In the meantime the

city treasurer is fervently hoping that the city council will take mercy on him and allow him . an appropriation for

extra clerk hire during the busy sea son.

That the "irnlteaState war depart

ment js now contemplating tne aeep-

ening and widening of the Grand Calu

met river, the width 200 feet, and that

there may be favorable action by tne next congress was the good news that

Mayor John D. Smalley. brought with him today upon, his return from the

east, where he and Postmaster F. Richard Schaaf had spent more than a

week on business and pleasure.

To learn the status of the Calumet

river project was one of the principal objects of the mayor's visit to the na

tional capital. Nothing definite could be learned as what the war department

may do regarding the dumping of sewage into the drinking water of Lake Michigan.

New Cy nail a Possibility.

Mr. Smalley found that the ground had been pretty well broken in Washington for action on the deepening and

widening of the Grand Calumet river from the East Chicago-Indiana Har

bor canal to the forks of the Calumet

river. An appropriation of $216,000 has already been passed for the develop-

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xGARY'S TOY COP ON TRIAL

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(Special to TUB Tjmes.) Crown Point, Ind., May . 3. The .

rounty commissioners have just about

Fowler, Ind., John Foole, a wealthy farmer, today, according to Sheii! Shackelton, confessed to killing his hired man, Joseph Kemper of Chicago, chopping up the body and burying it in a pig pen. Preparations were made to conduct a systematic search by diggers in the belief that a "murder farm" similar to that conducted by Mrs, Belle Gunness at Laporte, Ind.rmay be disclosed. Excitement runs high throughout the county, and there is talk of violence directed against the accused man.

completed the work of considering the big list of licenses and are about ready to take up- the cases in which remonstrances have been filed.

There are 56 of these, a list of which was recently printed in This Times, and1

it is expected that it will take the rest of the week just to dispose of these cases. Th work today has progressed to the point that twelve transfers were taken under advisement, seven renewals were taken under advisement and four transfers were granted. There are not so many people - in Crown Point today as there were yesterday and Monday, although the in

vasion of the county

ed. Every one-8 dm

Harry G. Moose, "city "cfcr'kof "Gary, wants to - know i-whether ist job is worth $1,000 a .year or $2,200.' If it is only worth $1,000 a year he is ready to quit. j

) In order to determine this faet a j friendly suit lias been started in the Lake Superior court in which the State of Indiana on the relation of Harry G. Moose has brought an action to mandate City Treasurer Ernest C. Simpson j to pay his salary of $175 for th month 'or April. j The difficulty is caused by a conflict in the cities and towns law. Moose

y seat is pronounc- - - - - Its that the present! fore U bl',n,e a oitv and the tow" of

Michigan City, Ind , May S.The school populafkm of this city is 6,4 r. according to the enumeration takeu by the Board of Trdstees, which is a decrease of 566 from the enumeration of 1910. The elmup Is attributed to the removal of families, owing to lack of work a-feJXlia-cjirliitildr' during the last few months, A revival is expected when the factory begins the construction of steel car!, for which. a new plant will be built next summer. It is 'predicted that the new plant will increase the population of the city from 19,000 to about 25,000 within the next two years.

session is the star one of the year.

LINCOLN SCHOOL TO

BE REBUILT

Gary fixed his salary at $2,200 a year.

After Gary became a city it was governed under the provisions which apply to cities of the fourth class. One of

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The La Vendor Cigar Is uct. None better.

a home prod

Johnny Boasich. Crown Point, Ind., May 3. The case of "Little Johnny" Peter Boasich Is about to be completed at Crown Point today. The instructions to the Jury are being read by the coilrt. Tire Jury will retire at noon and a verdict Is expected some time. this afternoon. Boasich is charged with an assault upon the person of the proprietor of the Victoria hotel in Gary. His act is part of the reign of crime ' thnt terrorized Gary about election time.

The board of education today began negotiations with Gostlin. Meyn & Co. for the purchase of an entire block of land on the north side for the site of a new grade school building which is expected to replace the present Lincoln school building, wh'ch is about to be condemned. At first.it was proposed to purchase enough property adjacent to the present site of the Lincoln school building to make a large play ground, but when it was seen that the cost of these additional purchases would be greater than to buy a whole block from Gostlin, Meyn & Co. the latter plan was favored. The proposed new location is almost exactly in the center of the plaited portion of the north side and is believed to be a very desirable ojie. It is the block bounded on the north by Gostlin street, on the west by Johnson street, on the south by the tracks of the Gary & Interurban line and on the east by Henry street. To Build Soon. While the building of the new school house which wilt adorn this site is not a possibility of the immediate futur It is expected that within a year or

STRIKE BRINGS SOME TROUBLE Seven railway strike sympathizers were arrested last night in West Hammond and were arraigned before Judge Green In West Hammond for trial. Orders from officials of the Indiana

Harbor Belt compelling them to leave their cars and go to work or either get their money. This started trouble and they hurled stones, clubs and even drew knives at the deputies. For a while it looked as it trouble was brewing ami that some one would be hurt, but there was no one injured to any extent other than a few bruises. Warrants were sworp out for the seven iren. who gave their names as Toney John. Peter Watt, Frapk Roman, Fulis Domlck. PUo Miugela and Frank Frame. They were, all fined to the extent of $" and costs each, and were ordered to leave the cars and premises of the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad.

Washington, May 3. Anticipating that Senator Beveridge ,who opposed his reappointment with great vigor will seek to block is confiration ih the Senate, H7 P. Loveland, who. was appointed yesterday as postaster of Peru. Ind., arrived here today. Mr. Loveland's friends have . received word which they regarded as reliable that an attempt to defeat confirmation would be made. At Senator Bourne's office today it could riot be learned that anything has come up to warrant the belief that the nomination will not take the usual course.

SEEK TO OUST

CHIEF LEWIS

NEW RESIDENCE i FOR JUDGE REITER;

Architects Bump and Berry have : completed the plans for the new residence which Judge - Virgil S. Ileiterj will build on South Hohman street,' and the actual work of construction on, it will oomnence In a week or two. j The r.ew residence is to be exceed-J inply attrirtive and will cost in the;

neichherhiiod of- $7,000. I.uring the

pi-og:- s? of the work of construction! on the new residence Judire Reiter is I

two It will be necessary to commence I living in temporary quarters on H slop

the erection of a new building in that t place.

section of the city.

When the Lincoln school Is replaced by anew building and the Riverside school building is torn down the last of the old-fashioned school buildings In the city of Hammond will have been destroyed.

Situation Is Unchanged. The strike of the Maintenance of Way association men insofar as it affects the Indiana Harbor Belt and the Chicago Junction railways remained unchanged today. About three hun-

The plan to purchase a block of land drej Qf tle regular employes are out

between Johnson and Henry streets

in the Calumet region, but they have

on the north side meets with the ap- ( been supplanted to some extent by new proval of most of the people in that lo- j men. The strike Is admittedly causing cality. It will work out nicely with some hardship on the railroads affe'etthe plan of Gostlin, Meyn & Co. to im-! ed. although up to the present the conprove Henry street and make it one of , sequences have not been of a serious

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