Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 300, Hammond, Lake County, 9 June 1911 — Page 1

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Swelling the number of suicides In Hammond In less than a week to four, Mrs. Oscar England, 704 Webster avenue, Hammond, committed suicide by drinking a large quantity of carbolic acid this morning and died from the effects of the drug after writhing in agony for more than two hours. Mr. England left his wife shortly after breakfast this morning for work at the Stout coal plant, where he "Is employed as a driver. After leaving his wife Mrs. England drank the contents of a small glass of carbolic acid. After delivering a load of coal Mr. England stopped off at his home and found the children crying and his wife lying on the bed writhing in pain. Drs. Chidlaw and Campbell were called and Annual Commencement Exercises of Hammond High School Held and Its Silver Jubilee Are Celebrated in Impressive Manner. To study the Bible, to store away all possible knowledge, to cultivate accuracy, to devote the best thought to the work at hand, to court the name girl only quicker, to make usefulness to his fellowman. life's chief end and purpose and to cultivate the pleasantries of life, these are the things that Dr. Scott F. Hershey, the commencement speaker for the 1911 graduating class of the Hammond high school class, said he would do if he were back in other days, knowing then what he knows today. No more earnest or practical lecture has ever been heard by a commencement audience than the one given by the speaker at the Orpheum last night, and it was a large and appreciative audience that listedend to Dr. Hershey. Records Are Broken. The exercises last night were notable for a number of things. They were (Continued on Page 7.) CROWN POINT TO HAVE MANUAL TRAINING NOW In Educational Lines, Too, County Seat Is Rapidly Moving Ahead. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., June 9. The new manual training department of the Crown Point schools will be Instituted as soon as the new south ward building is completed and already plans are being arranged to start the innovation in the county seat schools. Crown Point will be the third city in the county to institute manual training brand of education and its unqualified success in other places where it has been practiced assures its welcome here. The new department will add quite an expense to the school city but the returns always show a corresponding amount of god derived through the institution of manual training on the school work. "With this department In successful operation the Crown Point schools will rank second to none in the state. - WOLFE IS ARRAIGNED. Henry C. Wolfe, arrested on the complaint of Mrs. William Elliott on the charge of disorderly conduct, was arraigned before Judge Green of West Hammond and was placed under $200 bonds. His case was continued until Tuesday. Mrs. Florence Brooks and Miss Virginia Brooks, her daughter, were present at Wolfe's trial and went on his bond. Wolfe declares that he will employ a lawyer and fight the case. Stanley Szechanski, who is alleged to nave run down and injured little Clara , Btefanskl while in an intoxicated con- , dltlon, was arraigned before Judge Green and was placed under $500 bonds. . His case will come up next Wednesday.

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all medlca attendance that could be administered was given here, but without avail. She lived a little over two hours, dying at 10:30. Family troubles of different natures are the cause given for the suicide of Mrs. England. She often scorned discontented, but left no word behind of any sort why she had committed suicide. Mrs. England leaves two small children, who are being taken care of by friends. While making the call to the England home in ihs automobile this morning Dr. Campbell nearly hit two women. As he started out the two ladles stepped in front of his machine and he had to turn into the sidewalk to prevent hitting them. The machine was not damaged. Indiana Harbor, Ind., June 9. Fire, which had some of the evidences of being of incendiary origin, last night, partially destroyed a building in One Hundred and Thirty-seventh street, owned by Tom Ywanow, and located a few doors back of the building which Ywanow occupies with his boarding house. Two of the members of the fire department. Assistant Chief Doherty and William Subtich were ' injured during the progress of the blaze, the" latter quite seriously. The loss on the build -ing was $2,000. The building , was occupied on the ground floor by a grocery, conducted by Albert Kidart and Julius Spuids. Upstairs there were four families. All of these made their escape, many of the members in their night clothes. When the firemen arrived they found that the fire had gained considerable headway, and about fifteen gross rof matches, strewn about the place, made good fuel for the flames. The injuries to the building occurred when the latter were climbing a ladder which was -erected on the roof of an adjoining building. Subtich was at the top of the ladder with Doherty Immediately below him. The roof cracked, causing a chimney to fall and a part of the chimney struck the fireman, knocking him from the ladder. He carried Doherty along with him, some of the brick also striking the assistant chief. Subtich suffered serious injuries, which will confine him to his bed for two or three weeks, three of his ribs being brkoen. Doherty was cut about the face and head, but was about in the morning. The stock and fixtures, which were insured for $2,300, were a total loss. The damage to the building was $2,000. The East Chicago department went over to assist the Indiana Harbor firemen, as the blaze threatened to become serious. Flag Day Exercises. The flag day exercises which are held every year at tho Elks clubroomd have been arranged to be held Wednesday evening, June 14. The exercises are open to Elks and their families and invited friends, and preparations have been made to take care of a large crowd. The committee in charge have arranged for a good program and promise to keep the audience busy all the time. The flag day exercises are beautiful and should not be overlooked by a member. F. N. Gavit of Whiting has been secured to give the patriotic address. After the program is through something good in the line of refreshments will be served, which will be followed by a social hour. The following program has been arranged: Music Star Spangled Banner Introductory , .Exalted Ruler and Officers Prayer Chaplain Vocal Polo Mr. Dearmond Flag Record John F. Rellley Violin Solo Miss Spafford Altar Service Esquire and Officers Music ;. . .Auld Lang Syne Elks Tribute to Flag... Mr. Hotchklss Music and Songs Hammond Lyric Double Quartet Song ....Mr. Dearmond Patriotic Address F. N. Gavit America .......All Altimni Banquet. - The alumni banquet which is to be held at the Masonic temple tonight bj the alumni of the Hammond high school and at whlclr Charles Judd, a Chicago university professor, will speak, will be well attended. It la expected that covers will be laid for not less than 175 persons. The menu will be up to the usual high standard, and the affair promises to be a great success.

PICKING ( WAS EASY

Pickpockets hovered and swarmed like vermin among the "sports" at the Hammond A. A. and an organized gang of more than a score got away with not less than a thousand dollars worth of valuables and money. Twenty empty pocketbooks were picked up in and around the club house last night and this morning, and this number docs not include the wallets that were found and not reported to the police, nor does this number of pocketbooks Indicate the number of watches and diamonds that disappeared in a slight of hand action. Strange to say of all the victims not more than two or three reported their loss to the police. Probably the heaviest individual looser was "Sunny" Sheets a well known East Chicago man. A diamond in a scarf said o have been worth about $500 was "nipped," from his shirt bosom. Find Empty "Wallets On Floor. Including the Chicago police and the various officials from Lake County and Hammond there were probably twentyve policemen in the hull. Most of them knew the place was packed with the nimble fingered gentry, but they wer unable to get any of the gang with (Continued on Page 6.) BLACKMAIL PLOT IS CHARGED IN BELL CASE The revelation of a blackmail plot In which K. H. Bell and his wife, Mrs. Emma Bell, were compelled to pay $11,000 to prevent the publishing of a scandal, is the feature of the proceedings to have K. H. Bell declared Insane. The part taken by Attorney George A. Trude and former Judge E. T. Glennon, the noted railroad lawyer, who acted as council for Kossuth H. Bell in April, 1909, in the settlement of an al leged blackmail plot, will be revealed this afternoon before County Judge John E. Owens, where a second attempt Is being made by Mrs. Emma Bell to have her husband, at one time general superintendent of the Hajnmond Packing company, declared of unsound mind. Mrs. Bell will be first witness called i this aftrenoon and the cross-examination, which was started two days ago, will be resumed. She will be asked by former Judge Elbrldge Hanecy, representing Bell, to identify two receipts, one for $6,000 and the other for $5,000, the first signed by Gelder and the other signed by his wife, "the woman In the case." These receipts are in the nature of releases, whereby both the recipients agreed to make no further financial demands on the former packer. Trade and Glennon Ictermedlarlea. Attorney Trude, in conjunction with Attorney Glennon, acted as counsel and intermediary for Bell in effecting these two settlements, and it was to the former that $12,000 was paid to settle with the Gelders. The part played by James R. Marooney, to whom Bell is said to have paid, $800 for silence, will also be exposed. The day promises to be replete with disclosures of a startling nature. "It was these incidents which resulted in Bell being placed in the Kenllworth sanitarium in April, 1909, after having been declared insane." asserted Attorney Hanecy yesterday. MRS. MEADE ARRESTED William Meade, who has been staying at the Stonebreaker hotel, on Conkey avenue, was arrested at Indiana and Oakley by Officers Bunde and Elnsele last night, and Is held at the police station today for forgery. Meade is accuse dof forging three or four checks in Hammond and are now awaiting for the 1"eturn of a check fro ma Chicago bank, where he claimed he had money. This morning he said he was guilty, but that a fellow gave him the check, but he did not. know where he could find the fellow at the present time. Recently he - tried to sell a check, amounting to $7, for a dollar. He was suspected at that time, but nothing was said about it. His trial will come up before Judge Barnett in the city court tomorrow morning. Board Didn't Meet. The West Hammond board did not meet last night for the reason that there was not a quorum In attendance. The meeting will be called Monday for the purpose of making preparations for the coming election, which is to 'de termine whether or not the villagn shall become a city.

BOIG IS DOOMED HERE Crooks, pickpockets, barflies and denizens of the underworld last night gave the rejuvenated game of pugilism in Hammond the knockout punch from which it is never to "come back." That was the decision of Mayor Smalley, the board of police commissioners and Chief Austgen, who sat as referees at a special session this afternoon and counted ten over the game which can be clean but never is. Congratulations reached the officials as soon as the news became generally known, for their prompt action in saving Hammond from being the stamping ground for the element that has never earned an honest dollar. "At a meeting this afternoon," said Chief Austgen to The Times, "it was decided that in the future there shall be no more prizefighting or boxing of any kind. That is final and from this there can be no appeal, and all applications in the future will be vain." 1 The action of the officials is not surprising. In fact, a further countenance of conditions created by the Chicago underworld in Hammond last night, would have been the real cause for surpise. The congratulations are due to the fact that the officials acted promptly. The fight game in Hammond has been short lived. The lid was raised with the best of feeling toward the fans who like to see a clean boxing exhibition, but the leeches that follow the sport have sucked its life blood in Hammond. The onus is not so much on the game itself as on the results.

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SIB By today and tomorrow at the latest every parent and guarttan who has a child or more attending the public schools will have received a personal letter from the superintendent, C. M. Mrimiel, and Principal F. D. Mc Elroy o fthe high school Informing them of the standing of their charges relative to their school work. In connection with this the pupils have been furnished with a study course outline showing work which is to be done in the summer school which opens next Monday and which is to continue for two months. In the letter giving the credit reports, the parents will have an opportunity to learn Just where the summer school would help their children either in making up in their studies or in doing advanced work for next year. In the past the summer school -has been found to be an excellent institu tion. The course is devoid of what under ordinary circumstances would be a grind. Some of the pupils who have already enrolled have asked for early morning sessions, and accordingly the first hour will be from 7 until 8 o?clock in the mroning. In the botany work, for instance, the pupils will have an opportunity to study as close to nature as possible. Summer work will be provided for the. pupils from the fifth grade through the high school. The course has the additional advantage in that it keeps the young folks busy during a season which too often is devoted to idleness and the finding of opportunities which rare detrimental to the child's welfare. The work will be carried on In the high school building, and the following teachers will have charge of the course. Botany, Mr. Wicks; English, Mr. Moutlon; mathematics, Mr. McElroy; German and French, Miss Eichhorn; manual arts, Mr. Everly; history. Miss Turner. The course has been so arranged as to be especially adapted to the pupils taking it. PICNIC FOR FIDELIA. Among the first big picnics to be held in Hammond this summer is that of Saengerbund-Fldelia, which has made arrangements to hold a big open air celebration at Klndel's Grove on Sunday, June- 25th. " In a few days several thousand souvenir buttons will arrive which can be worn as badges announcing the event which the singers expect to make one of the biggest in the history of the organization. . Tho program, while not yet outlined In detail, will have the usual picnic features, such as dancing, music, games and refreshments, and a number of extras are promised which will add rest and vim to the occasion. Arrangements will also be made to provide excellent street car service and many other features ae being planned which will make the event a memorable elebration.

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FT STORIES PLENTY "Well, why didn't you come across with the money. You might Just as wall have been elected as not. First they asked me for $300 and then came down to $200. I told them there was nothing doing." WALTER HAMMOND. "They wanted $500 from me, but they were informed that they had better take a Jump in the lake, or words to that effect. Their emissaries came to me, but I could not see it that way." HENRY BICKNELL. This Is a converstaion that took place on Hohman street last evening between 4 and 6 o'clock between the above named gentlemen. It occurred in the presence of witnesses. Whether or not It was a Joke remains to be seen. Those who heard it did not seem to think that it wase a Joke and the two well-known Hammond men appeared to be taking the matter seriously. Still Look Queer. It is such occurrences as this which leads a great many people to suspect that there, were some queer things about the recent election in the city council in which the vacancy caused by the retirement of Henry Bicknell wag filled. The -rumors will not down. There is the report of a night visit on the part of a certain councilman to the residence of one of the candidates for office. The inside history of the deal by which Stanton was put over may never be known. Stanton himself may not know Just how the trick was turned. But until the whole transaction is explained the people of Hammond will be suspicious. There are people in Hammond who would find It worth while to be able to control Stanton. These are the people who have sought to "put one over." His attitude on the big questions that are now before the board will be matters of great public interest. People of Hammond are saying, "If it Is worth $500 to put a man on the board of education when the salary is only $300 a year, it must have been done for some specific purpose. That purpose will be revealed sooner or later unless the suspicious of a great majority of the citizens of Hammond are entirely unfounded. Board Rescinds Action. The board ot public works at its session this morning rescinded all action on the Hamlin street pavement and ordered new plans and specifications for the same. Notice was given the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric company to extend its gas pipes to the lot line in the alley between State street and Plummer avenue from the Nickel Plato tracks. Klein Buys Winton 6. Max Klein has purchased a "Winton Six touring car from C. H. Stewart, who has the agency for this machine. The car Is expected to be delivered In a short time.

TRAIN WRECKED: THREE WILL DIE

Miscreants Ditched E. J. & E. Special Near Griffith This Morning, By Breaking Semaphore Light. Dying Men Are Rushed to Gary.

(Special to The Times.) Griffith, Ind., June 9. The most dastardly attempt at train wrecking for some unknown purpose, occurred near the crossing of the . J. & . and Grand Trunk railroads here at 3 o'clock this morning and was successful. Three men were fatally hurt. Some miscreant had climbed out on

Clabby Gets Shade on Demon Chicago Greek 'A - ' v Big Crowd Sees Interesting Iill at - the' Hammond Athletic Club :

That curly-thatched young globetrotter with the patronymic Clabby, idol of Hammond's fistiana renaissance, hooked a tartar dubbed Knockout Brown, the Greek welter, last night in the H. A. A.'s squared circle. Mistake us not, men, Mr. Brown was no dub. He was true descendant of Agememnon and fought like a posse of spitfires. The collision was a pretty one. Scheduled at ten rounds It went the whole route and both men had to limber up all the guns they had. Though doped out as a draw by the fight critics the little misunderstanding was Clabby's all the distance by a shade but the sixth round, in the belief of his friends. In that session James rather lost his bean and started to carry a stack of roughhouse to the wild man who faced him and the Bwarthy apple-shiner got the round. In the opinion of the critics. Outside of the Clabby-Brown bout and a little excitement caused by an overanxious Chicago Gulliver who walked over three or four chairs full of persons in his haste to beat it to the ringside, the evening was as bald as a coot, as far as ring sensations are concerned. The windup was a pretty exhibition of a fox fighting a dachshund. Our own BOYS ARE PUNISHED BY JUDGE Two more boys were called before Judge Lawrence Becker of the Juvenile court this morning charged with various misdemeanors. Peter Sulymlrwas charged with petty thefts and was sent to the boys' reformatory at Plainfield. The court found that the boy was an unmanagable, wilfully wayward fellow, and he was sent to the reform school until he is of age. In the case of Frank Pouch, charged with throwing a stone through the window of a Lake Shore passenger train, the court ordered that tho father of the boy should pay $1.50 to the railroad for the broken glass and that the boy should be paroled to the truant officer, who is required to report once a month on his conduct. The other boys who were Implicated In various depredations were Willie Olson, 560 Fields avenue; Karraan Daniel. 155 company house, and the two boys mentioned above live in the company houses at the Standard Steel Car plant. Death of Mary White. Death of his sister in Chicago this week marred the pleasures of commencement week for Martin J. White of No. 3 Warren street, who is to be graduated with the class of 1911 in the Lincoln-Jefferson college next week. Mr. White received word late on Monday nlghtthat his sister, Miss Mary White, had died suddenly that same evening. She was burled in Jit. Carmel cemetery yesterday. Miss White was a frequent visitor In Hammond and her death is deeply regretted by many friends. The bereaved brother has received many expressions of sympath from his classmates and many friends. ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES.

the semaphore arm and broken the red signal light so that when special southbound No. 541 reached the crossing the track showed clear and Into the ditch and over went the mogul engine. TOE FATALLY INJURED. C R. M'NIGHT, 32 years old, home Joliet, Head brake-man, jaw broken, body burned and scalded to third de(Contlnued on Page 7.)

Jimmy unloaded his dreadnought early in the game, a stinging left Jab, and' Mr. Brown, believe us, was some busy man dodging It. Jimmy with his own front Iron-plated hung those straight lefts on Brown's dome with due regularity and the Greek thought some one was slamming a door, in his face all the time. The artillery carried by Brown consisted mainly of wild haymakers and back-slappers, though he connected with some stiff body punches and short arm Jolts now and anon that made Clabby realize his work was cut out for him. The Greek was very erratic and as wild as a cross-eyed man with a finger full of slivers trying to play a new eaxaphone. His defense was an amazing thing. He came at Clabby like a corkscrew and it baffled the Hammond boy to untwist it Both men blocked well. The crowd was a big and an orderly one and the officials of the H. A. A. carried out the program In the main in clean fashion. The Chicago delegation was stalled through a broken engine near the Erie bridge, a mile from the arena, and headed by the redoubtable Kckersall, now a sporting writer (Continued on Page 6.) TEACHER'S BOY IS AFFLICTEDWITH RABIES Three Year Old Son of Mrs. Schafer, Bitten by Dog, Will Die. A three year old boy, the son of Mrs. Susie Schaffer, a teacher In the Irving school, whose home is at 483 Kane ave- . nue In Hammond, was brought homo jthls afternoon from the Pasteur Institute In Chicago to die the . terrible death resulting from hydrophobia. Two weeks ago yesterday the child playing In the street was bitten by a mad dog j which was subsequently' killed, as there was no question about the animal being mad. The victim was im- ' mediately taken to the famous Pasteur Institute In Chicago whose percentages of failures are only a fraction of a per cent. This morning Dr. LaGario the bead of the Institute noticed symptoms ycf the deadly virus which , spelled the child's death. He had to Inform the motner'that there was no hope under the sun for her child. An, attempt to describe the heartbroken mother's snguish at hearing the death sentence of her little boy would be hollcv mockery. There remained nothing fot the kind nurses to do but to prepare the child for its trip home where Its condition wil grow worse from day to day until within probably less than five days It must die. The mother who must live through it all because of tha terrible anticipation, suffering even more than the child for its pains can be eased somewhat by the administration of drugs, has the deepest sym pathy of the entire community.