Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 102, Hammond, Lake County, 17 October 1911 — Page 1
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PORTING WEATHEH. CLOUDY AND COOLER TODAY; WEDNESDAY PROBABLY FAIR, TYTIME hi JL!, d TRA VOL. VI., NO. 102. HAMMOND, INDIANA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1911. ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numbers 3 Cents Copj )
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Following a meeting last night of the shareholders of, the Vnited Deposit Loan and Trust company, a fifteen months" old Institution of $25,000 capital, wherein It was voted to liquidate the affairs of the bank and sell Its assets to the South Side Trust and Savings bank. State Auditor O'Brien this morning caused to be posted at the Vnlted Deposit bank a notice of liquidation. The transaction means that the United Deposit bank's assets are sold to the South Side bank, and that It is practically a merger of the two Institutions. " State nak Officer Preaemt. Officials of both banks. State Bank Examiner Fletcher and Deputy State Auditor Arnold say that all depositors will be fully protected and that the deposits will be paid upon demand. However, mariy of the depositors will rest t'netr accounts with the merging Institution. It la believed that share
holders of the United Deposit bank will sustain but a plight loss. The notice postifd this morning at th United Deposit bank is as fallows: XOTICE OF UQIIDATION. Notice In hereby srlven to nil depositors and creditor of I he I'nlted Deposit Loan and Trust company that the South Side Trust and Sai Ibk bank. 1112-1114 Broadway, Gary, Ind., la liquidating; the above company. All depositors will be paid on demand at the Sooth Side Trnat and Saving; bank. W.H. O'BRIFjXi Auditor of State. Dated Gary, Inrt., Oct. 10, 1011.
FACTS ABOIT GARY BAMv COXSOMDATIOX. The Sonth Side - Trust A Savings bank takes over the I'nlted Deposit Loan and Trust company. The n flair Is a sale and consolidation, the aouth side Institution absorbing; the trnat company. This leaves Gary six banks. Three Gary banks have been consolidated alnce the early part of 1910: Calumet Trust A Savings vrlth the First National, the First Trust A Saving! with the Flrat National and the Vnlted Deposit with the South Side Traat. All depositors will be paid In full upon demand by the South Side bank, which w til alao assume all liabilities and collect all assets. It Is believed that ahareholdera of I'nlted Deposit will suffer but little loss. Notice of liquidation was posted this morning by State Auditor O'Brien.
The United Deposit Loan and Trust
company was located in the Reynolds'
building, 524 Broadway. Its principal
owner was L. M. Fairbanks, a Mansfield (III. banker and brother of former
vice President Fairbanks. Although
his name appears very little in the formal records of the bank, he Is said
to have been the sole owner of the
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The federal court at Hammond opened ImpreMlvely this morning with Judge A- 15. Anderson on the . bench. Among the prominent men present at the opening of the court were District Attorney Charles Miller. I'nlted States Clerk Amos Butler, United Stales Matshal Edward Schmidt. Deputy United States Marshal Boyd and a number of well known lawyers.
The first thing that was taken up was the setting of the cases for the present term. Following that there were a number .of motions oc cases now pemlinc. " ' The spectators gallery was crowded with the 146 citizens who are seeking their second papers. Kach of these ! required to have two witnesses and so several hundred persons were presint at the opening of court.
STOCKHOLDERS MEET. (Special to The Times.) j Indiana Harbor, Oct. 1". There was a stockholders' meeting last evening of the Indiana Trust and Savings bank, Pennsylvania and Michigan avenues. It is understood that the meeting was called at the special request of some of the stockholders and that some spirited conversation was indulged in. The exact nature of the business transacted could not be learned after the meeting, but it is said that plenty was done. ' .
PRESIDENT Olf CLUB HELPS CATCHER WED
C. 6. KINGWiLL TO BE ORPHEUhi MANAGER iasnaaananaaMBBBs Old-Time Theatrical Man Hopes to Put House on a
Paying Basis.
Notorious Case Up in Chicago Criminal Court; Sister Superior of St. Margaret's Hospital in Hammond Roughly Treated.
The trial of James Finneran, notorious in Hammond and Gary in the criminal court before Judge Gridley Is beginning to attract attention in Chicago. Finneran, it will be remembered, is
brutally charged with attacking Kvelyn Florin, a fifteen year old ward of the Sisters of St. Francis after he had lured her from St.. Margaret's hospital in
Hammond. The feature of the trial yes
terilay was a vicious attempt to
intimidate the girl who will be a wit ness In the case.
The widespread influence of The
Times may be appreciated when it i3 known that even in this trial, which is
being held in Chicago, the defense made
it a point to ask each of the Jurors If he
is a reader of The Times. The Jury was not selected yesterday
although the entire day was spent in
the work. It is believed that the Jury will not be accepted before noon today.
Ten Jurymen had been accepted yesterday. The defense is represented by S. K.
Markman, the former special assessment attorney of West Hammond, John
Hopkins of Chicago and Ben Ritten-
house of Chicago. The state is represented by the State's Attorney Kdward
S. Day and John F. Reilly of Hammond, Mrs. Kronah Backs Cose.
One of the striking developments In the case is the fact that Mrs. W. C.
CUPID BUSY AT COULD-DECIES WEDDING; THIRD OF THE BRIDESMAIDS IS MARRIED
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DEPUTYSHERIFF TO SERVE PAPERS 0 Village Trustees Will Be Forced to Call a Speedy City Election.
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C. G. Kingwell has been selected as manager of the Orpheum theatre, in
Hammond, and his appointment to this
position has been announced by the members of the Metropolitan Realty
Co., which owns the theatre building.
Kingwell has had some experience in the management of theatres, and has a number of first-class bookings to announced. The theatre will open under the new management in a few days. This finally clears up the muddled conditions of affairs following the abrogating of the lease which Jas. Wingfield held and assures the public of a number of first-class attractions during the rest of the theatrical season. Manager Kingwell will not resign his position with the Simplex Railway Appliance Co., but will take charge of tl theatre as a side issue. He hopes with his knowledge of local conditions to put the house on a paying basis and will cater also to the out-of-town patronage, having a number of new wrinkles to adopt which he believes will aid materially. Mr. Kingwell does not propose to charge $1.50 per seat for road shows.
as has been done in the past, and only attractions which come direct from Chi
cago houses .will be allowed to charge
Chicago prices.
Deputy Sheriff Bergen from Zimmer's office in Chicago arrived in West Hammond today for the purpose of serving the village officials with the papers in the mandamus case. He found that they had all gone to Chicago to confer with their attorney over the matter. He will wait until
they return and then serve them with the papers. Accordingly the election will have to be heldsoon. It is Tnderstood that the reason why the cas$ was not "appealed, according to the program- of the village trustees. Is that the attorney fell down on the job. He let the date for the appeal slip by without taking action.
It is still possible, according to some
authorities, for the village trustees to
have the order set aside on a writ of error, but it is a lengthy proceeding.
Miss Virginia Brooks was very much
elated over the fact that the village of
ficials are finally to be served with the papers. The doughty fight she has put up has aroused the admiration of every one who is acquainted with the cir
cumstances.! They are all hoping and some of them are praying that shi will
win her cause.
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The third of the bridesmaids at the Oould-Decies JiuptSals last winter ia New York has been married. She was Mies Emeline Holmes. Now she is ivlrs. Gustavo E. Touchard, wife of the man who, with Rayjiond D. Little, hoids the teani- doubles championcllp of the United States. The flrBt o. the bridesmaids to marry was Miss Annie Douglas Graham, who became Mrs. Jay Gould. The seebnd was Miss Louise Cromwell. She was married to Walter B. Brooks. Jr., of Baltimore. .
THREATENS TO DO ""lERSEtftiutffift
Annie Schmidt of Hammond Creates Sensation in ' I. Stanford Trial.
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The police patrol was kept busy last night answering drunk calls and this
morning a total of four Keeley cure artists were released by the order of Chief Austgen. In each case they prom
ised if they would leave town - they
were not to be prosecuted. The arrests made were: John Boyle of Hegewisch, 111., ar rested at the interurban station by Of ficer Miller. -
Clarence Hudson of Lawrenceville,
111., arrested on Hohman street by Cap tain Hanlon for drunkenness and beg
ging. Hudons said he did not have any money and only wanted something to eat and money enough to get back home. William O'Mara, 300 Clark street, Chicago, was arrested on State street by Captain Rimbach. E. Smith, 747 West 48th street, Chl.cagq, was arrested by Officer Malo.
(Special to The Times.) East Chicago, Oct. 18. A sensational scene was enacted in Judge Riley's conrtroom yesterday when Annie Schmidt, the young woman arrested in company with Truant Officer Isaac Stanford about two weeks agogot up, clutched her throat with one hand and her hair with another and threatened
to do herself violence if she was sent back to the reformatory at . Indianapolis from which she had been paroled some time ago.
The girl's eyes protruded from her
head and she became wildly hysterical, her mother, sisters and friends who
surrounded her contributing to the
scene by adding their shrieks to hers.
"I'll die sooner than go back to that
place," screamed the girl.
She was finally calmed and led away
CUBS NOT SOX , . TO PLAY AT HUB
Comiskey Takes Hand in
Game and Will Not Allow Barnstorming.
(Special to The Times.)
Crown Point, Ind., Oct. 17. It will bs the national league Cubs, next Friday
afternoon for Crown Point instead of the American league White Sox as per first arrangement with the Chicago management. After making all arrangements with the White Hose to play a post-season game here on Friday, Guy TV Clark and Manager Keiser were notified yesterday that Comiskey hal taken a hand in the game and refuse! to allow the team to play. Clark, with
the assistance of Jimmy Callahan im mediately got busy with the Cubs man
agement and at six o'clock last evening
wired that alt arrangements had been
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Goes West.
W. E. Devol, clerk to Mr." Conley, su
perintendent of telegraph of the Chi
cago, Indiana & Southern railroad, has left Gibson and has taken a position
in the west.
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two 0r e Gary . newspapers didn't like the bile thrown at Gary in an alleged editorial on the doctors' banquet by a Hammond newspaper. They think that something its 'editor ate at the dinner disagreed with him. One of them says, in speaking of the paper, "Its peevishness Is not half so bad as its grammar and the other said "it is feared that the contemporary, as usual, did not know what it was talking about." Rather neat, eh?
EXTRAS
WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP.
Polo Grounds, New York, Oct. 17. The rush for seats today was elimin
ated and at 9:30 a. m., when the gates
were opened, there were only a few
hundred In line, and the bleacher seats
were almost filled at 1 p. m. The grand stand was filling up very slowly, and at that hour the attendance did not exceed 15,000. The Giants were the first on the field. They ran on the field at 1250 p. m., arid as on Saturday Mathewson led them, and Matty got a
great ovation as he ran to the players' bench. The sun broke through the clouds at 1:04 p. m., and the crowd stood up and yelled at 1:08 p. m.. The Athletics walked on the field with Lord and Oldring to the van. At 1:25 p. m.
the sky was overcast with the wind
from the west and it looked as if the game would be played at 1:30 p. m. Meyers and Bender posed for the camera men, and the two Indians were cheered. Bender and Coombs were warming up for the Athletics and Wlltse and Mathewson for the Giants. The lineup for Philadelphia was Lord If, Oldring cf, Collins 2ndb. Baker 3rdb, Murphy rf, Davis lstb, Barry ss. Coombs and Lapp battery. For New York, Devore If, Doyle 2ndb, Snodgrass cf, Murray rf,. Merkle lstb, Herzog 3rdb, Fletcher ssf Mathewson and Meyers battery. Umpires, Behind plate Brennan, on bases Connolly, right field Dl neen, left field Klem. The wind shifted to the east and rain began to fail. It was a light drizzle, but the clouds are threatening.
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The Cubs-Sox game today was postponed on account
of wet grounds. The next game will be played tomorrow at the National league grounds on the west side.
MAYOR SCHLIEKER BREAKS HIS S iiU
East Chicago's Executive Brings Dictograph Into Limelight Again and Charges that he is Victim of Plot
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PEANUT CROPS ATTRACT KNOEZER Hammond Manufacturer Pushes Aggressive Cam
paign in Sunny South.
Realizing that the peanut raising industry Is rapidly growing to be one of
the biggest In the country. Otto Knoer-
zer, president of the Champion Potato Machinery company, has "Just, concluded a campaign in some of the southeastern states to introduce his peanut digging . machine. Mr. Knoerzer spent several weeks In the Carolinas and the Virginias, and returned with the satisfaction that the Champion peanut digging machine Is growing in favor and that demonstrations with It proved a success. Peanut machinery is in some respects yet In its Infancy, and while there are several different machines on the market. Champion implement Is in many respects their superior. The local people have experimented for a number of years, and. are satisfied that their ma
chine is as nearly perfect as possible. Leo Knoerzer, son of Otto Knoerzer.
(Special to Tbe'Times.) , . East Chicago. Ind-. Oct. 17. After months of silence during which Mayor A. G. Schlieker has made not the slightest reference in public as to the charges which have sought to besmirch his name, his lips were last night unlocked and in a calm, deliberate talk at a public meeting of the East Chicago club he gave utterance to a few sensational charges ;which might be the means of calling together another grand jury to investigate some who ho say have been most prominent in their efforts to over throw him. Culls Spade a Spade. , The .executive mentioned no names
LATEST NEWS
GERMANS FIGHT CHINESE MOB. Berlin, Germany, Oct. 17. News received here today says a force of bluejackets landed from a German battleship is fighting a Chinese mob at Hankow the revolutionary center.
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Major General "William H. Carter,
assistant chief of 'staff, has been ordered to Chicago to take command of the central division of the army. He is to leave for his new post within a few -weeks.
THREE DIE IN A DIXIE DISPUTE. Columbus, Miss., Oct. 17. In a shooting growing out of a simple dispute three persons killed near here yesterday. Will Dent, a negro, killed John Brownlee, owner of a big plan
tation. Shot from the charge "snread " killine Dent's. wife. "Bo"
Brownlee, brother of John, then kill ed the negro.
but he left no doubt" jn the. minds of his hearers that; the import of his remarks was aimed at a , well known Whiting man. The speaker denied in toto the truth the charges made against him and inferred that the Whiting man whosa name he shrouded in the designation "a man who personally applied for one of the street railway franchises," had In person approached him three times with propositions to see that the proceeding against him were dropped provided he. Mayor Schlieker, would use his influence in putting over the franchise In which his would-be-seducer was interested. Had TMetoft-raph Ilerorda.
The speaker declared that he had
dictagraph records of two of .the threo conversations to which he had reference and theat the only reason that he
had not one of the third, -was that the
conversation took place in an autbmobile and the instrument .failed to work.
The reference, to the dictograph waa not made In Mayor Schlieker's speech, but In a conversation after the meeting with ' a representative of this paper. The speaker however refused to name specifically the man his. speech accused by lnuendo, saying that he thought !t was plain enough whom he meant, and (Continued on Page 6.)
WASHINGTON GETS BIG DEBUTANTE CROP
SEE PILOT TO BOOM PITTSBURG. Washington, Oct. 17. The method of the so-called steel trust" in selliDg steel wire to fence manufacturers is
nas jU8 r meu irom a montn s trip transferring the entire fence making
itiiuuK" iiuiin isiis. iu&iii, wnere ne de
monstrated the famous Champion potato digger.
TAXICAB MYSTERY. Officer Kulczyk of the West Hammond police notified Chief Austgen yesterday that a large red and black taxicab was lying in the ditch west of West Hammond. The auto came from Chicago and Officer Kulczyk thinks it was either stolen or a party of joy riders skidded into the ditch. N Who was ,in the machine or if any one was hurt in the accident is not known, as 10 one seems , to know of having seen the machine before. Yesterday an auto truck came out from Chicago and hauled the taxicab into Chicago for repairs. Two numbers were left on the machine, which were No. 1528 and auto No. 12 electric. It is thought that the machine belongs to some taxicab concern in Chicago and that the party hushed the matter up to keep their names out of the papers. . '
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industry to Pittsburg, according to
statements made to the Interstate
Commerce Commission today by D. B.
Hayes, attorney for several Michigan
fence companies. Mr. Hayes said freight rates were against the Western manufacturers.
GARY NEWSPAPER MAN WEDS (Special to Thb Times.) ' . Washington, D. C, Oct. 17. A marriage license was .Issued here today in this city to George R. Scott, city editor of the Gary Tribune, and Miss Alice M. McCormlck of Washington. The wedding will take place here tomorrow.
ONLY 17 DAYS MORE. Including today, seventeen days remain for the payment of county taxes without the payment of the penalty which the treasurer is compelled by law to assess.
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Washington society will receive an unusually large crop of debutantes this season. One of the .-oat beautiful of the younj women whose "coming out" will be celebrated soon is Miss H. Portner, daughter of Mrs. Robert Tortner, of that citj.
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