Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 27, Hammond, Lake County, 20 July 1911 — Page 1

LAKE WKATBUEB. FAIR, NOT MUCH CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE. TY TIMES EDITION ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back .Numbers 2 Cents Copy.) VOL. VI., NO. 27. HAMMOND, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1911.

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Judge Henry of Terry Hut Is Peeved Because the Hammond Police Nabbed His Auto When It Was Breaking the Law. Mr. Ht-nry of Terre Haute is sore. He says he Isn't but he gives the lie in a letter he wrote to a well-known Hammond man yesterday. Soreness sticks ont of it all over. v Mr. Henry was fined yesterday for breaking: the law. His machine was one of those gathered in by Capt. HanIon recently when it was going through Hammond faster than a lot of locomotives go through it. Now Mr. Henry is on the warpath. He has begun to "crab." He is going to do dire things to Hammond. A catastrophe impends. Oh, you Henry. Here is what he wrote: "I have traveled 15.000 miles and this Is the first time I have ever had an officer to interfere with me anywhere. "VVe were coming down a road, which apparently was through a swamp. No sign of any city and no sign showing that we were within the city limits; no sign upon the highway that there were any ordinances to violate; no houses on either side and no business blocks or dwellings just a road through a ewamp. when some one shot out from somewhere and drove up beside us and told us to go with him. He did not look like an officer of the law, but more like a circus hand. He took this $25 and eaid that the fine would be $5 and the cost of all would be $15. I wonder who gets the $10 and I wonder If I will get the other $10 back again. This was all done in the name of the city of Hammond. I couldn't have been more surprised If I had been In A desert. I have always been told that Hammond was second to Indiana,w (ConUmi on Page, 2.) RAY SEELEY CO. SURVEYOR 8 VERY ILL Ray Seeley, county surveyor, who Is in a precarious condition at St. Margaret's hospital as a result of a gangrene rupture of the appendicitis, as was told in these columns yesterday, is reported today to be doing as well as could be expected. He underwent an operation on Tuesday evening, this having been absolutely necessary to save his life. A few days must yet elapse before his physician can state with any definiteness whether the patient can recover. Mr. Seeley himself is optimistic and hopes to be out In due time. CHANCE HISTORY TO SATISFY HIM After Governor Blease, of South Carolina, refused to approve the adoption by the state board of education of Thompson's history of ths United States because the author bad left in dubt the responsibility for burning Columbia. & CI. In 18S5. Waddy Thompson, of Atlanta, Ga., the author, consented to place the blams on General Sherman. This has rlways been a mooted point but Blease insisted that Sherman be credited with the deed.

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BLOODY NOSE; AWFUL MYSTERY. (Special to The Times.) East Chicago, Ind., July 20. "Roy Williams and his Bloody Nose" or "The Thrilling Mystery of the Buggy'' is the title of a diverting detective story that came to a climax here today. Williams is a Crown Point boy who is employed by a farmer near the county seat. He drove here yesterday and spots of blood were found in the buggy. The police notified Sheriff Grant at Crown Point, who called up Farmer McCarthy. The latter said that young Williams was afflicted now and anon with nose-bleed and that his reputation was the best. It developed also that the youth had the nose-bleed in a Crown Point cigar store before he started for East Chicago. Williams went away in peace this morning and thus another great mystery was unraveled.

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The widening of State street east of Oakley avenue now seems an assured fact. A canvass of the property owners has been made and almost without exception they favor the project. State street property owners are among the most progressive in the city. They have seen values rise so rapidly in the past few years that the street will unquestionably be one of the best business streets in the city in a little while. But most of the development has been confined to that portion of the street between the Nickel Plat tracks and Oakley avenue. The problem la.to make that development . " .continue farther east. v , . The widening of the street seems to offer the best solution of the problem. A merchant who has his place of business on a. wide street with a side walk wide enough to accommodate the pedestrians and yet afford them a view of his windows has the better of th business man whose store is located on such a narrow street that only a few can see his wares. took 'or Big Development. It is confidently believed that as soon as the street is widened and paved that there will be remarkable develop ment along the whole street. The merchants who want to cater to the great east side, which contains three-fourths of the population of Hammond, will locate on State street. More property owners are signifying their approval of the project every day. B. F. Bunde and E. A. Bunde are the latest to boost the project. Others are falling in line and the time is now ripe for the circulation of the petition In favor of the project. State street is proving that its prop erty owners can work in harmony in favor of a great public improvement. It is proving that its business men are progressive; that they are able to look into the future instead of concerning themselves with only the present. A big meeting of the property own ers on this street is to be held in the near future. At this meeting arrangements will be made to go before the city officials with their project and secure their sanction. PETTY THIEVES MAKE THEIR PRESENCE KNOWN Two Saloons on Plummer Ave. Entered by Easy Fingered Gentry. Two saloons on Plummer avenue were broken Into last night and the police believe the parties are local talent and one that has been lmplcated In other petty robberies. The first Kaloon entered was Henry Krieger at 2 Plummer avenue and was broken into sometime shortly after midnight. Entrance was gained by tearing out a screen and breaking the glass In a window on the southwest corner of the. building. The thieves were unable to find any money and only took a cut glass bottle filled with Parker rye whiskey. Kreiger has no suspicions. The second robbery took place shortly aff'er the other when the saloon of Gottfriend Locttscher, 6 Plummer avenue was broken Into In the same manner, They gained entrance by taking a screen out of the window on the west side of the building and made their escape with a gold filled watch and f3 in money. Lottscher suspects an umbrella mender who was seen loitering around his place in the earlier part of the evening. These are the- first robberies that have been reported to tne police since the latter part of May.

E WITH HEAT Indianapolis Springs Great Yarn on Hammond and Accuses City of Increasing Appraisement to Fix Up Bond Issue. TIMES Bl'REAV, AT STATE CAPITAU Indianapolis, Ind., July 20. The pa ternity of a story told here at the ex pense of Hammond is not known, but this story 13 being told at the state house to illustrate how the city of Hammond, Lake county, increased its appraisement so as to enable the city council to increase the bond issue for a new school building. Soon before March 1 a stranger went to Hammond displaying all the outward manifesta tions of wealth commonly ascribed to J. Rufus Wallingford. He took the greater part of the second floor of a Hammond hotel and launched some enormous business enterprises. When the assessor came to him he filed a (Continued on Page 7.) FOR PARK -I Gary and Miller Authorities Have Joint Conference Last Night and Propose to Engineer Quarter Million Dollar Park Deal. If no hitch comes up in the. meantime the City of Gary and Its neighbor to the east, the town of Miller, will have Jointly a lake front park at Miller beach which will consist of 242 acres and which will cost more than a quarter of a million dollars to acquire and a like sum to Improve. Have Joint Senlon. A definite idea of what land would be neccessary and what the location of the proposed $500,000 breathing spot on Lake Michigan will be was gained last night at a joint conference between the park trustees of Gary and the town trustees of Miller acting as park trustees. The joint session was held In the Miller town hall. Later another meeting will be held for the purpose of drafting a resolution which will provide for a Joint control of the park. While Gary will have to do most of the financing Miller will not relinquish the control of any of its dominions but will agree that the Gary park trustees shall dominate the management. A Mile of Lake (nnt. The proposed site will have a mile of lake frontage and will extend back into the sand dune wilderness for a varying length of one-half to threequarters of a mile. Most of the land is in sections 31 and 32. The east half of section 31 and the west half of sections 32 comprise the site. The west boundary follows along the north and south line of the center line of sections (Continued on Page 7.) ARRANGEMENTS MADE FOR FINAL TRANSFER Hammond Again . Expected to Figure in Enormous Grain Business. W. G. Husband was In Hammond yesterday for the purpose of making final arrangements for taking over the Alliance elevators which were recently purchased by K. R. Bacon & Co. of Chicago of which Husband Is the rep resentative. The story of this deal, which The Times gave to its readers exclusively last isaturaay. means that tne new elevator will apen for business at once. This assures the employment of be tween 15 and 25 men ana means that an enormous business in grain will be done here. The story of this big deal was the source of a great deal of interest to' the general public and the fact of the sale would not yet be known were it not for The Times.

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Miss AiildreJ Slierman, Caugh ter of Mr. and Mrr William Watts? Shermrn, of New York, and one of America's wealthiest heiresses, iso t to be marrl d to iord Camoys. of LoDdcu. rfter aii. .Lord Camoys .'hen he saw aa aiDOunceiu.ut ot their engagement In the iewsp..pers, vmb'ed. p" it wasn't io. "I met Miss Sherman at the Gould-Decies wedding.' he said. "She Is a charmiag young lady and I am sorry the retort isn't true ''

OH JUST The usual grist of summer .divorces are being filed in the Lake Superior court. Four were filed today." Two of the parties were from, Gary, one from Indiana Harbor and one from Hammond. Harris Bretsch and Ressler of Gary filed a complaint in which Mary Montemore seeks a legal separation from Joseph Montemore. The couple were married in 1905 and separated in 1907. The plaintiff charges abandonment and asks that her maiden name, Mary Tacoma be restored. One of the sensational charges in the complaint was that she was driven away from home She says that her husband now lives In Fort Arthur, Canada. The same firm of Gary lawyers also filed a complaint in which Jennie Austin seeks a divorce from Edward F. Austin of Gary. The couple were married Dec. 22. 1900 and were separated July 12, 1911. It is related in the com plaint that many of the charges are too Indecent to be written into the complaint. CONDITION IMPROVING (Special to Tub Times.) Crown Point, Ind., July 20. The con dition of Mrs. Albert Maack, wife of Treasurer Maack, who was injured in a runaway accident on Tuesday, is said to be improving. It was thought for a time that she had suffered concussion of the brain in her fall to the ground from the buggy, but at this WIFE. NOT JOHN D.. BUILT UP FORTUNE John D. Rockefeller says it waa a woman who amassed the millions of the Standard Oil Company. He gives his wife credit tor piling up his gigantic fortune. She kept his books in the earlier days, he says, and even later, when he was rich, she advised him many times counter to bis own ideas. "And her Judgment invariably proved the better," he declares.

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Made Her -Sleep On Floor, The. .plaintiff charges that Austin made his wife sleep on the floor and unjustly accused her of unchastlty and with having relations with other oitd. She states that he is employed as a locomotive engineer and receives $90 a month for his services. She says that she has no funds with which to prose cute the action and asks that the court authorize the defendant to pay the cost of the prosecution of the action. The plaintiff further asks for $1,500 alimony. Attorney Paul B. McClosky of East Chicago filed a complaint for Joseph Erchin against Emilia Erchin. Tho couple were married in 1909 and sepa rated July 20, 1911. it is alleged that he was an habitual drunkard., Attorney E. G. Sproat, representing Nellie Reich has begun an action against August Reich in which aban uuiimeni is cnargea. ine couple were married Oct. 15. 1S94 and separated Nov. 1. 1908. The plaintiff lives in Hammond. She asks for the custody of their child Raymond. 14 years of age. writing it is not thought that serious results will occur from the unfortu nate accident. TOLLESTO x am going to end It all," and with these words on his lips Andrew Bron nen sent a bullet crashing through his brain at the boarding house of Mrs. B onners at Tolleston, about 1:15 this aiternoon. Airs, conners keeps a boarding house at Borman boulevard near Fourth ave nue. necently she was rllvnrH fmm her husband, and later when Brennen came to board with her she made his acquaintance ani the couple became quite Intimate with her. This noon Mrs. Conners and Brennen were heard in a quarrel and, leaving her, he said, "I will end it all" where he went to his room and put a revolver to his head, death resulting almost instantly. The exact trouble Is not known, but it is said to be over a love affair between the two. Brennen was discharged from the Gary police force about two weeks ago because he had been drinking heavily for the past three months. Brennen is 35 years old and was well known In Gary and Tolleston where he has lived for the past three years and was a single man. C. J. Pachman 111. C. jT. Pachman, who was for a long time the custodian of Douglas park is reported to be very 111 at hia home, and owing to his ags his friends entertain -grave feafs for bis recovery

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Remains Sent to Ohio. The body of E. C. McConnel, the wealthy Kenton, Ohio contractor who committed suicide in the Lash hotel in Hammond-'" last Tuesday evening, and who has been Identified as the contractor who built the South hore line from Miller to the state line, was sent to his home today for buriaL The cause for the action remains a mystery, and the only, solution that can bo given is that the contractor's mind became unbalanced ten days ago when he left his home without telling any one about his plans. He had complained of suffering from the heat. NOT A STRANGER IN HAMMOXD. McConnell was not a total stranger in Hammond. A woman accompanied by her husband, called at the Bums' morgue on State street yesterday, and informed the undertaker that she was a former Kenton resident and that her father and Mr. McConnell were very good friends. Dr. Bain a friend of the family ar rived in Hammond yesterday and orderered the funeral arrangements. Ho could assign no reason tor his friends action and gave It as his opinion that McConnell must have become mentally unbalanced. McConnell was fifty- one years, and is survived by a widow and two children, one a girl, fourteen years old, and a boy, twenty one years old. The lad Is an engineering student at Cornell University. The body was sent via the Erie to Kenton this noon. RETURNS Mayor John , D. Smalley returned from the east yesterday afternoon where he had attended the Elk's convention at Atlantic City and visited in New York, Providence' and Boston. He was gone from the city ten days, having leftn company of Attorney John F. Ueilly and Mrs. Reilly, they also having gone to Atlantic City. The trip to the fast practically constitutes the mayor's vacation for the summer, and but for a. day off now and then he expects to remain at his desk for the balance of the season. Mayor Smalley issued a call for a special council meeting today to be held tomorrow evening, to raify the contract between the board of public works and Contractor George Pearson for the addition to the pumping station. Mayor Smalley and John Reilly were the only Hammond delegates in the convention. They went east with thOj Chicago delegation and marched with them. The Chicago visitors appeared in unique costume. They were arrayed in white duck suits. Prince Albert style, white shoes, stove .pipe hat to match and purple ties, laeh man In the delegation carried a white cane. The Hammondites agreed that it was one of the best conventions in the history of the order. They were pleased too in the fact that their choice had been elected to the office of grand exalted ruler. The latter ' has not yet made his district deputy appointments. The Reillys and Mayor Smalley went to Philadelphia from Atlantic City and from there to New York." Mayor Smal ley went on to Boston and Providence and returned to New York, before going home. HAMMOND MASONS GUESTS FO GARY The Hammond Masonic chapter will be the guests of the Gary chapter tomorrow evening. The visitors will officiate in the conferring of the, royal arch degree upon the Gary candidates. Light refreshments will be served at the close of the session.

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Charged With Assault. The case of the State of Indiana vs. ChriKtian Bally was tried before Judge Prest this morning and was found guilty and ' fined 1.00 and costj amounting to $12.35. Margaret Dick tho complaining witness charged Baily with assautl and battery. . She then filed another charge against her husband for assault and battery and he also was fined $1.00 and costs amounting to $13.95. ADVERTISE IX THB) TIMES.

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(Special to Thb Times.) Kenton, Ohio, July 20. The . shocking intelligence of the untimely end of Elmer C. McConnell a railroad contractor, in the Lash Hotel at Hammond first given to his bereaved family by the correspondent of THE TIMES at Hammond has aroused the biggest sensation this town has had in many j ears. When the news of Mr. McConnell's death was first broken to the family they simply couldn't believe it. To no motive whatever can be attributed the cause of the deed other than temporary derangement of mind. COl'LDX'T BELIEVE SEWS. When in tho city- last Mr. McConnel complained of his head hurting hira anl the heat affecting him a great deaj. For Beveral months Mr. , McConnel had been in charge of a big contract of city sewage work at Bellefontaine. A week ago he visited his home here but since that time had not been either ta Ketnon or Bellefontaine. The news of Mr. McConnell's death U great and most unexpected shock. A thorough investigation at Hammond, failed to disclose any motive for the suicide. He had been absent from Kenton for about ten days and had left ostensibly o na business trip. DECEDENT VERY POPULAR. Mr. McConnell is survived by his wife and two children, a daughter. Miss Mary and son Warfen, who 13 an engineering student at Cornell. Warre" went to Belle-fonlaine, this mornlnr -j assist "- ia . lopkinat Rltar.Jis;,'" work there. ; , -v -. i Jr-'9 The news of the suicida waa not rs" celved here until late yesterday afternoon, i Mr. McConnell was a very popular man and the family will have the sympathy of all In their bereavement. What motive governed Mr. McConnell is not known but It is believed that he waa mentally unbalanced. SCHWAB DENIES WORLD TRUST New York, July 20. Charles M. Schwab, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, gave emphatic denial today to the general report that there was an effort made at the Brussels steel coriTerence to make an international agreement to control steel prices. Mr. Schwab ,who attended the Brussels conference, re turned today on the Olympic from Europe. President Farrell of the United States Steel Corporation, also returning today from Europe, said that the steel business was In an exceedingly prosperous condition. INDIANA CROPS GET PRAISE. , Washington, July 20. The Department of Agriculture reported yesterday on the condition of Indiana's bumper crops. The report shows that the acreage planted -.a corn in Indana is 5,120,000, about the same as last year. The condition of the Indiana corn crop on July 1 is rated at 91, as against 84 on June 1, 1910, and a ten-year average of 85. The Indiana wheat crop also is immense. It is rated at 85, as against 78 on July 1, 1910, and a ten-year average of 82. The report makes a fine showing, also, for fruits, especially apples and peaches. TWO TRAINS ARE ROBBED. Chicago, July 20. Two Chicago trains were held up early today. The Northern Pacific's North Coast Limited was "Bhot up" by masked men in true Wild West style neap Buffalo, N. D., the engineer being wounded, the day coaches and Pullmans riddled with bullets' and $500 taken from the passengers. At Janesville, Wis., .100 Italians on a Chicago & Northwestern work train were lined up by four banits and robbed of $10,000. WOMAN DROWNED IN GULL LAKE Kalamazoo, Mich., July 20. Mrs. Archie J. Jones of Chicago, who, with her husband and two young sons, wai passing the summer at their cottago at Highland Park, was drowned last night in Gull Lake.

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