Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 298, Hammond, Lake County, 7 June 1911 — Page 8
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THE TIMES. Wednesday, June 7, 1911.
CONSTRUCTION FOREMAN IS RECOVERING
Mike Gaynor. the foreman of the Gary Heat. Light and Water company, who was attacked and badly cut with a razor about the face yesterday morning by four Italians, is recovering nicely at Mercy hospital. All efforts to capture the men who committed the dastardly act by the police have failed, although Captain Gus Newman and a squad of men searched
the territory on the weat side where the encounter took place for houM yesterday. Only minute descriptions of the men were secured and although the police have a shotgun dropped by one of the men when he was chased, the fugitives were too far ahead for the police to get a good view of the men. It now develops that Gaynor, who Is foreman over a gang of men laying service pipes in the west part of the city, discharged several Italians from the Job. It is now thought that the discharged men organized the party to possibly kill Gaynor for his act. The search is being continued by tho police, who hope to capture the members of the band before many days.
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE IS GETTING AT INSIDE HISTORY OF UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION AND ITS METHODS
LEAGUE IS FOUND TO BE MYTH HERE
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tion among the saloon keepers and their lawyers and the public In general, after the "League" had won a battl In the." courts put a saloonkeeper out of commission. The Anti-Saloon League loomed all the stronger because its strengii waunknown. The liquor interests regarded it as its natural enemy who was
liable to strike from any angle. . Until somebody can bring proof to the contrary, the statement that there is no such an organization in Lake County as an Anti-Saloon League nvist stand as a statement of fact. Hereafter when a remonstrance is filed before the county commissioners against a saloonkeeper or a class of saloonkeeper the logical question will be: "Who is the private individual or combination of private interests who - are furnishing the money to carry on the legal fight in opposition to the saloonkeper?" Bruce Has Private Clients. Attorney Otto Bruce of Crown Point, while in Hammond this morning in answer to a question by a Times reporter as to why he did not appear before the county - commissioners last county commissioners last Monday to remonstrate, against issuing of certain saloon licenses, made this significant statement: "I had no clients who wanted to be represented - at the commissioners meeting. I am not the attorney for the Anti-Saloon League and I never havr been, and if the impression has been abroad that I represented that organi
zation it was no fault of mine. I have at all times told people who asked me
whether I represented the Indiana AntlSaloon League, that I was in no wa
r r onected with the assciatlon. In
every instance where. I appeared on a remonstrance I was retained by private
individuals. Frequently I was associat
-d with Attorney Matthews In cases of thic kind. I . had no business of this nature last Monday and that explains why I did noot appear before the
ccunty commissioners last Monday."
hile Attorney Bruce did not care to discuss what was popularly known as
the Anti-Saloon league, he Intimated
that it had never done anything in Lake county. He did not divulge the names of any of his clients who had backed him in his legal fights. Saloonkeeper Hide Under Nome. Investigation along the line whether there is such an' organization in Lake county as the Anti-Saloon league develops the fact that In a number of the most bitter fights saloonkeepers and associations of saloonkeepers have put up the money to fight against the
undesirables in their business, at the - same time leaving the impression go out that the Anti-Saloon league was in back of the legal battle. In this way the liquor interests hoped to establish : the business on a cleaner basis. When it is borne in mind that men like U A. Bryan, the Gary millionaire, put up money out of his own pocket as a private individual, and that others of the same opinion as he in othei parts of the county did the game thing, that In some cases saloonkeepers as Individuals and as members of a saloonkeepers' association took a hand In the -fight, an explanation may be found In what appeared at times as sporadic, erratic and Inconsistent attempts to punish the violators of the saloon law. That accounts for attacks that have been made on one lone violator In the south part of the county while In some of the cities of the north end gambling and dives flourished. The Indiana Anti-Saloon league has all it can do to maintain its state orl
ganization intact, and Is not strong
enough to maintain local organizations.
It has district superintendents, whose only visible income are the collections that are siven at church meetings.
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NO! 'IIS TRUE THERE WASN'T MUCH TO THROTTLE
TIMES Bl'REAU, AT STATE. CAPITAL.
Indianapolis, Ind., June 7. Senator John W. Kern did not have to do any strong arm. work to throttle his presidential boom when he arrived home from Washington, yesterday, because, he said, the boom had been strangled before his. arrival.
"There is no Kern boom," he
"If there was a boom It was killed long
ago. I appealed to my friends my real, true friends and told them that if they wanted to save me from embarrassment and humiliation they should put a stop to any talk about my being a candidate for president. They went right at it and put an end to it. Every democratic member of the Indiana
congressional delegation is for Gov
ernor Marshall for president and ev- . erybody knows it. Governor Marshall
will go into, the national convention with the true, loyal support of a solid
delegation from this state. There will
be a conference of the Indiana democratic senators and congressmen proba
bly next week, and there will then be
discussion of the question of whether
they shall make an open declaration to the public of their support of Marshall.
It is merely a question whether it
would be good policy to make such a
public declaration. Everyone is for Marshall, but they do not know whetherIt would be well to Issue a state
ment."
Senator Kern rrobably had in mind.
when he said this, the meeting which
was held some time ago by the Ohio
democratic members of congress when
they started the boom for Governor
however, he came down off his higlt horse and decided to permit the democrats to vote tor a small tariff. Senator Kern favors the bill as agreed on by the caucus. "It Is a long step In the direction of what we have been working for for years' he said. "It is not all we would like to have, but when we can't get all we want we ought to take the next best thing. It will mean more for us In the long run."
Inarmon. xne Harmon Doom got i nxr. n.rru bi?hj i."oneu wntru black eye out of that meeting, and it is he learned that it was decided at Wash-
p. d 1 1 j i j i l 1 1 u tu ijie uoum more naroi b w jcaiciuoj yui ticiiaivi . v . . - than good. But he did not refer to the yon, the new republican senator from Harmon meeting In any way. I Iowa, on the Lorlmer investigating "Nobody at Washington is talking committee, about the presidency," he said. "The ! "Senator Kenyon has been interested subject Is not discussed there, but ' ,n the prosecution of some -of the inthere are some newspapers who would Crests which have been accused of be-
said. hav vo,i hliv that the nreairtencv is 'nK connected with the Lorlmer elec-
the only matter under discussion at Washington. Whatever talk there is about the presidency Is done outside
The congressional committee a Inquiry Into the methods of the Steel Trust Is nialung public tho inside history of the great corporation Chairman Elbert H. Gary testified that Ellhu Root, when Secretary of State, advised President Roosevelt that the absorption of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Co. by the U. S. Steel corporation would be legal, and the President then gave his consent. H. C Frlck vlll likely be called soon as a witness and Andrew Carnegie may come In for examination. He says he Is ready to return from Europe at any time and testify. The main photograph shows the members of committee: Left to right H. O. Young, Michigan; J. D. McGillicuddy. Maine; John Beall, Texas; A. O. Stanley, of Kentucky, (chairman); C 1 Bartlett. Georgia; and H. G. Danfurth, New York.
EAST CHIC
AGO SCHOOLS
PREPARE FOR
C0HE1CE1E
(Special to Thb Times.) Indiana Harbor, June 7. Commencement week was inaugurated last night with the first performance of the high school concert which took place at the Auditorium. The concert is the third annual event of the kind and the proceeds will be used to defray the cost of a pianoplayer for the high school. A large and enthusiastic audience turned out to listen to the music and the pupils did themselves and everybody interested in their training, proud. Miss Mary A. Stone, the supervisor of music in the public schools, received
many compliments on the strength of the showing made. The program was a versatile one, containing solo. quartet and chorus work. The latter showed excellent
training and the solos were remarkable for their technique and expression. The concert will be repeated at the Methodist church. Bast Chicago, on the evening of June 0. The graduating class is' larger than usual this year, containing sixteen members. They are, Haskell E. Brands. Bertha A. Brunclson, Gertrude M. Cadman. Edith I. Davis. Claude H. Dreesen, John J. Dreesen, jr., Russell E. Hill, Emma U.. Hoch. Charles W. Jeppeson, Sadie E. Joyce. Eli Levin, Esther R. McNary, Alice Perkins, Grace M. Reil-
and, Mabel E. spaulding, Ernest P. Spence. The programs issued this year are unusually attractive. They set forth the following events: Tuesday, 6 Hi,?!) School Concert...
Indiana Harbor Auditorium Friday, 9 High School Concert ....M. E. Church, East Chicago Sunday, 11 Class Sermon M. E. Church, East Chcago Rev. J. B. McNary. Monday, 12 Class Reception t ..Home of Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Canine Tuesday, 13 Junior Reception Weilands Hall Thursday, 15 Graduating Exercises Indiana Harbor Auditorium Friday, 16 Alumni Banquet : Weiland's Hall Class Flower American Beauty Roses. Class Motto Possumus quia posse
sldemur. Class Colors Witaria and Creme. Commencement Prosrrnm. Invocation Rev. O. E. Bradshaw Piano Duet Les Sylphes Bachmann
Grace Reiland and Sadie Joyce. The Boy; of Tomorrow Eli Levin fncle Sam and the Canal Zone Russell Hill Song Selected. The Class Success , Emma Hoch The Worker In Poetry .... Alice Perkins Piano Solo Grand Marche de Concert Wollenhaupt Charles Jeppeson. The Problem, of .Child Labor ................... Mabel Spaulding Piano Solo To a Water Lily .McDowell Claude 11. Dreesen. Hull House Edith Davis Song Graduation Farewell Sir Arthur Sullivan y The Class. - Presentation of Diplomas Superintendent E. X. Canine Benediction . . . .Rev;' Alexander Monroe
questioned them. He took them to the
Robertsdale station, fed thorn and at 0 o'clock the East Chicago police re
ceived the glad tidings that the chll
dren had been found. The news was conveyed as speedily as the parents
could be located and Bruce Miller, Jr.
Walter Spencer and. Ed. Jenkins hired
a rig and drove over to Robertsdale af
ter tho strays. The Jacobson baby was all in and slept all the way home, but
the Stratford boy told the East Ehicago men that they had walked all of the way down the railroad track. When the children were recoverou Chief Leo McCormlck and Harvey Jackson went out In search of Jacobson and his party of fifteen to notify him that all was well and it was a happy quartet of parents who retired last night with their children, whom they had begun to think they should never see again, sleeping peacefully in their little cribs.
cape when he declared he was sane.
This was when Judge Rlnaker in
July, 1909. adjudged him sane on testi
mony of D.r. C. H. Lovewell, Mrs. Bell, and the packer's brother, Benjamin L.
P. Bell. It was the testimony of tho latter two that Mrs. Bell yesterday admitted was not true, as they believed him still mentally Incapable. Dr. J. T. Clarke of Hammond told vi an Interview with Bell in tho offices ot the Lake '.County Trust arid Savings Bank, which is located in a building Bell owns. He said thnt he was passing the building when Bell tapped on the win
dow and called htm in. Bell told him, he testified, that he was being pursued by secret agents and that the moment he FteDned Into Illinois he would be
arrested and' thrown "Into Irons."
Under cross-examination, Attorney
Elbridge Hanecy obtained a number of
conflicting statements from Clarke.
Dr. H. I. Davis, former head of the
detention hospital, and Drs. V. H
Podstata. William J. Swift, J. G. Klernan and John Leeming are sitting as an advisory Jury to Judge Owens in the
case.
K. H. BELL SANITY TRIAL IS SENSATION
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aclv and ordered bin away from the by the satisfaction among the pro-city polls, which he did. contingent and the calamity howls of Krupke was still on the stand when one or two of the town sticklers, a recess was taken for ten minutes. (Among the towns and cities in Lake
ine jury in the case Is as follows: Leander Jones. Porter; H. W. Porter,
Pleasant; Fred Bauer, Jackson; John Langrebe, Center; O. C. Williams. Morgan; Jerome Bartholomew, Plasant; Charles Casbon, Jr., Morgan; John Wheeler, Boone; L. G. Furness, Pine; John t'pp, Boone: James Hildreth. Porter; William Goodrum, Pine.
county the sentiment expresed over t.ha county seat elactlon yesterday is that a big victory has been won in Crown Point and the first step of the county seat to get In the ranks of progress wi'i do much tcward creating a sentiment of respect for the up-to-date attitude of
the county seat citizens.
THE HUB SOON TO
BE NEW CITY I
TOTS ARE FOUND IN SUBURB
GARY ELECTION CASES ON TRIAL AT VALPARAISO
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C. Price. E. X. White and Captain John Mulcahey will be tried on the charge of conspiracy. Then will come the Sieaclliner, the trial of Mayor Thomas E. Knotts and Chief of Police Joseph p. Martin on the charge of conspiring to -murder Sheriff Thomas Grant. Immediately after securing Jury, which was accomplished at 2:45, defendants .entered pleas of not guilty. Attorney AVhlnery opened for the state. Ills remarks were frequently In
terrupted by objections from attorneys
for the defense.
Mr. Dalrymple was the first witness
for the state and was followed by Mr.
Krupke, the Land company's watchman, who testified that he had gone to the polls at precincV 19 when he was approached by Yokonovlch, who potnteda revolver at the watchman's stom-
(Continued from Page 1.), that the pro-city forces had a shade the better of tho situation the result was In doubt until the ballots were all counted last evening. That a vigorous
warfare was made by' the town adher
ents is shown by the balloting and the
heavy vote cast is evidence of the interest that was evinced In the matter.
The ote by wards was as follows:
1st Ward Yea 75 No 56 Majority 19 2nd Ward Ycst US Xo . 71
Majority 42 3rd Ward Yes 90 Xo 45 ' Majority 45 Total vote cast ...450 The date for the i-iunicipal election wil lbe made within the next ten days and it is presumed that the election for mayor and aldermen will take place within two months. The results of tho election caused very little demonstration, the pryotechnics being displaced
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tance over the Lake Shore right of way In Imminent peril of their young lives. The children had been playing together "at the" home of C. C. Smith, where the Jarobsonj reside. Mrs. Jacobson missed them at 10 o'clock and started around the neighborhood in Search of them. Xot finding them, she returned to her home and notified the mother of little Ira. and Mrs. Stratford and Mrs. Smith went over toward the
canal to. look for the children, while Mrs. Jacobson went toward town. Xot finding them the police Were asked to keep a lookout for the youngsters and later the police of Hammond, Whiting and other nearby citits were called up
i and given a description of the chilI dren. , i
As the day wore on and no trace of the missing ones was found, others Joined in the search, and parties of from two or three to a dozen or llfteen scoured the neighborhood in every direction to no avail. In the meantime the parents were frantic with fear that their boys had met with some mishap. At about S o'clock a Hammond officer noticed two very much exhausted and travel stained kiddies on the Lake Shore tracks at Robertsdale. They compared favorably with the descrip-
the. testimony, as indicated by the opening statements of the attorneys, will be a blackmailing scheme whereby a man named Marooney and a woman not named cost Mr. Bell $12,000 and an
automobile trip to the British isles last summer.
The causes leading to Mr. Bell's two
months' incarceration In a Kenilworth sanitarium two years ago, his escape and return home, the return of lilj
fortune of $250,000 by his wife, and her leaving him soon thereafter were the features of the naratlve of Mrs. Bell, the first witness, f ( -Charges Made by Wife. Among the pecularltles charged to the packer by his wife were: Habitual appetite for drink since their marriage in 187!. Burned wife's sealskin coat In furn
ace and threw other clothes out of
window. -
Accused family of being in conspiracy with unknown persons, .referred to ai
"they," to rob and poison him.
v nen wire carried a blacK hag or
wore a veil he " insisted they were
"signs" for the conspirators.
Would sleep in bathroom with leg
against door and the electric light
burning all night.
Thought Xew York hotel 'full of Ma
sons'' and slept on hallway floor of
suite because "they" were In next room, and showed wife how "they" crept on
their hands and knees. Tlk of Kldnnplng Plot.
"It was about January, 1909. that Mr.
Bell .because convinced that there was
a band ot conspirators across the street," said Mrs. Bell, "and we had to have the shades pulled down because the blackmailers had . spotlights. We talked in whispers because there were phones in the walls to hear everything.
He was not drinking then. He always J
had a gun. Once he went to- the basement during the night and did not return Until morning. ; He-told. me he was trying to get up enough courage to kill himself." , . On April 23. 1909, Bell was adjuded Insane by Judge John W. Williams on testimony of the family physician. Dr. W, F. Dickson, as to his hallucinations
I that persons were attempting to kill
him. He was in the Kenilworth sanitarium two months. His wife testified that on visits she found he had cushions over the ventilators because "they' were around. He wrote her many letters claiming the doctors were trying to poison him at her instigation, later destroying them. He escaped by Jumping from a moving train while going to see a dentist. AdmltH She Committed Perjury. Mrs. Bell said her husband before going to the sanitarium had at his own suggestion turned over all his - cash, stocks, bonds, and deds to her, valued at about $250,000. . The Woodlawn, resi
dence always had been in, her. name
of Washington. Senator Kern also made it plain that there will be a thorough Investigation of the Lorlmer case when the senate committee tackles the case. "Everybody
In the senate is in favor of a complete and full investigation," he said. "The senate Investigation this time will be different from the Illinois legislative investigation of tho case. When the , Illinois legislature made its Investigation one witness who was -summoned ; to testify refused to produce the books, j and a Chicago Judge decided that the legislature could not compel him to ' bring them in. It will be vastly different with the senate Investigation. The senate committee will have full power to compel a witness to attend and the senate can compel him to testlfy. If a witness refuses to testify the 1 committee will report him to the senate, and that body has plenary power
to unprlson him until he does testify.
The United, States supreme court has decided that question. The senate
committee will uncover the source o
tho money which is said to have been
used in the election of Lorlmer to th
senate from Illinois. Even the sena
tors Who supported Lorimer the other
time are now Insisting on a thorough
investigation of the case. Some of
them feel that they may have been im
posed on the other time." Mr. Kern firmly believes the Cana
dian reciprocity treaty will be ratified by the senate. He says practically all of the democratic senators and about twenty or twenty-two republicans will vote for it, and this, he says, will give It a majority of ten or twelve. He says that while President Taft's Chicago speech will not be the cause of this result, yet it will be the means of stiffening up some of those members who were not enthusiastic over the matter. He says, too, that the house will pass the wool tarUT schedule as agreed on In the democratic caucus and that the senate will pass It as It comes from the house. It will be remembered that only a few days ago W. J. Bryan Issued a statement in which he denounced the proposition to place any tariff on wool. He was for free wool, first, last and all the time, and nearly called names when spoke of those democratic congressmen who talked of voting for a tariff on wool. A day or two later.
tion. and he knows all about them. He wil) be a valuable man on Ike committee, for he will know Just how to go after them. The Interests do not want Senator Kenyon on the committee, and this Is one good reason why he ought : to be there." i One of the most interesting things now going on, said Senator Kern. the series of investigations of the various government departments. He says some of the -disclosures show absolutely criminal expenditures, j "For instance," he said, "one man showed me a set of figures which
showed that the war department had shipped a carload of salt from Xew York to San Francisco, and that the freight charges were double the value of the salt. In another instance, the war department shipped some provisions from Chicago to Xew Orleans by express, and the charges were more than the value of the provisions, which could have been purchased at Xew Orleans as cheaply as In Chicago."
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- FOR TOLLESTON LIBRARY
Members of the Sixth Ward Civic association will meet tonight at Kunert's hall for their regular monthly meeting and will take action on the purchase of the site for the new library at Tolleston. There are two sites now under consideration and a vote will be taken tonight to decide upon one of the other. One site is at hte corner of Second street and Thirteenth avenue and the other is on Center street. '" - . Tiiere are eight lots Included In the purchase, each being 25x125 feet, giving a plat of 200x125 on which the new Tolleston library will be erected.
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