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John Qui an, a motorman of the' .South Shore litrt was' shot and killed this morning in a most mysterious manner. It is said that his wife is .being held pending an investigation of the killing. Quinn's sbn Bert who is an employe f ' the Indiana Harbor branch, the .South Shore, was. notified of his father's fate this morning. Quinn is .known all over the Calumet region and in Michigan City where he lived until he was transferred to Pullman and took a through route on the line. CAl'SE A MYSTERY. Scores of people who Rave been regular patrons of the South Shore line between the cities of Northern Indiana knew him and liked him. There Is a . rumor to the effect that he had hai trouble with his wife. The following is the account given out in a dispatch from Chicago: John Qulnn, 54 years old, 11050 Michl-

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Senators Shively and Kern "Accepilnvitationsto Commercial Club ' Function . at Indiana Harbor; Nov. 10 ; Is Set as the Date.

(Special to The Times.) ;' Indiana- Harbor, No. 2. Arrangements for the banquet to be given by the Commercial club of Indiana Harbor and Hast Chicago, at which some of the most-" distinguished men of the state re to be guests, are progressing rapidly. ,, . . v ,' , November 40; has been set as the date, Kthls day , being agreeable to Senator Shively who'w's.feen in South Bend by ""V B. D. I Glazehrook a day' or two ago, .and accepted the invitation tendered l3iim through T.r. Glazebrook by the -slpprnmercial club, to attend. Yesterday ,i 'lnator Kern, ho is in Chicago on the 'Qjormer invritifea tion, was seen and he also accepted vf or November 1J Invitations wfljplso be sent to Congressman Crumpiker and Barnhart and Col. Zlnn 1 of th n-a"r department, . Mayor Schlleker and H. C. Kutledge being ap(Contlnued on Page 8.)

PRINCESS PAT FOND OF OUTDOOR SPORTS Prnc53 Pol net a Princess PfJrlcla, of Connaught. or "Princess Pat. 'V as she la called by her intimates. wVo has come to Ottawa, ; Can., with her father, the new governor-general of the Dominion, la a Very pretty young woman - of twenty-four. She J; a lover of outdoor ;port9, and Is" the particuUt chum of her father, tbeXuka. ,: '

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S KILLED ous assassin -early today as be lay- in bed at his home. The killing, which occurred shortly after 4 a. m., brought a perplexing problem to Lieut. Mooney, of the Kensington police station and a squad of detectives. According to the report made at a nearly hour, Quinn conducts a rooming house at his Michigan avenue place. For the accommodation of his roomers the front door of the house is always left unlocked. widow n:i,i,sw kim.ix;. . Quinn and his wife had retired at the usual time Sast night, according to the hysterical story of Mrs. Quinn told to day. Something awakened me early in the morning:," moaned Mrs. Quinn. "Just as I opened my eyes It soemed a roar filled the room and I saw the spark of the gun and smelt the powder. John groaned and fell back. I do not know who could have done it. All I could see was the dim figure of a man." The police found Quinn bleeding from a wound just under the heart, Lieut. Mooney asked the dying man who shot him. "I do not know who did -It," Qulnn gasped Just before he died. Lieut. Mooney and his detectives lm mediately began an investigation of tne shooting1. Indianapolis and Meridian H-People-l.leet WithcCrown Point Citizens and Latter Hear of Possibility That Line Is to Take New Route (Special to Thb Times.) .Crown Point.rlnd., Nov. 2. A meeting between the officials 'of the Indianapolis & Meridian Interurban railroad and prominent citizens in Crown Point, was held at the Commercial Hotel recently In ah effort to ascertain just' what chances there were for securing the road for Crown Point. 'Since the partial failure, of thA promoters to get their franchise in Gafy ihey have been looking elsewhere for a route to Chicago and seem favorably, impressed with Crown Point. Mr. Schaeffer and others connected with the road 'held a lengthy conference with the Crown Point citizens and reported they were very favorably Impressed with their new preliminary survey to run the line from Crown Point to Hammond, thence to Chicago. : Further investigation will be made by the engineers and those financing the proposition and things look bright for a possible Connection by an interurban line between Crown Point and Hammond and the north part of the cunty. The backers claim they have all the money necessary to build the line and once their route i decided up on there will be no delay in putting the road in operation.; Another meeting of thos interested will be held in the near future, MUST PAY J250-A MONTH Kossuth H. Bell Is Ordered to Give Wife Temporary Alimony. ' . " Kossuth H. Bell, formerly of Hammond was ordered yesterday to pay Mrs. Emma H. Hell temporary alimony of $250 a month pending the hearing of a divorce suit begun, by Mrs. Bell. Judge Brentano of Chicago Issued the order. Bell .formerly was general superintendent for the Hammond Packing company. He was pronounced insane in 190! and was sent to a sanitarium, but later was restored to his standing as a sane person. Recently his wife tried to have him declared insane again, but failed. Habitual drunkenness, cruelty and stautory charges are made by Mrs. Bell. Film Destroyed. While trying the moving picture "Lost in the Jungle." be'fore the first performance at the Princes theater ""at :30 this afternoon" the film caught fire and damaged it to such an extent that a performance will not be held tonight. " Both fire departments were called out .and no damage was done outside of the light house. The flames were extinguished by the aid of chemicals.

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HAMMOND, INDIANA, .THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 1911-

( FROST LOWS 10 Wearing One of Those New Overcoats, the Profane Old Geezer Arrives This Morning and Blusters About What He Is Going to Do. Br-r-r-r! A whole. Icebox full of br-r-r-r-s! Cld Jack Frost blew Into Hammond this morning on a Michigan Central train all covered with snow, for his annual visit. He was diked out in one ' of those dinky River Thames Donegal homespuns and it smelled fearfully of Labrador. Over his listeners he had tacked on u pair of muskrat eartabs and long icicles dangled and clanked from his lambrequins. ' Gee- What a Grouch! The old gentleman had on a foaiful grouch when -a Times" reporter tried to pass oft one of Murray Turner's stogies on him and prepared to shoot a little conversation at Herr Frost. "Don't von think yoa are a liitle hard on us?" twittered your reporter, stamping his kicks to keep warm, "bringing 20 degree weather her when the coal dealers are trying to acclimat ize themselves to B0 degrees?" He Ilu tbe Pep. "Aw, what the h do I care for the coal dealers," growled Jack Frost. "I'm going to freeze this oil oerg up, tightern your Chief .Austgen's ii 1 ins twentyfour hours. "I'll put some pep and ginger in your blanketyblank citizens. I'll make 'cm hop some when th?y get out ' on the street." ', "I'm .right here ; to stlok . around awhile from the snow-bound ice-clar blizzard-swept north," barked the old man.; "and don't you forget it. I'll make you.Jhink tha the Arctic region desert before I got through ' w:h ,you, and Just to show you he could do, the noisy old gink blew a breath , Jown Hohman street that made tbj swinging signs creak. . i - Your reporter ( tried to make Mr. Frost thaw out, but just then he yelped that he was hungry and shuffled off towards a frost-covered beer sign and helped the early bird bartender with the free lunch. ' - STEEPLE JACK HAS A WARROV ESCAPE Adventurous Worker Has Thrillirfg Experience on . Chimney Stack. Dell Seabold, for whom dizzy heights have no terrors, almost lost his life today at the W. B. Con key plant, while he was about to descend from the new cement chimney which is being built there under his direction, gliding down a rope suspended for 110 feet in the wall, he came to a trayed and almost parted place in the rope, twenty feet' from the summit. .By clutching with' desperate strength he stopped himself' a few inches above the treacherous place, . and if he had gone below it would have caused his death on' the stone foundation,, ninety feet below.Seabold swore complacently at this new affliction of fate and. by great exertion drew himself slowly but surely to the top of the stack, where he calmly awaited his. helpers who had left for dinner a few moments before his perilous adventure. When they arrived a new rope wan attached to the disabled one and. drawn up to ' be placed securely. His assistant was pulled up by . helpers below and work was resumed, and the incident recorded with the history of concrete stack building with which Seabold, although but 30 years Old. has been connected since its beginning. In Hung . Kong, China, during the Boxer uprising Seabold and his everpresent assistant, William Morgan, camped without' food or drink for thirtyslx hours at the top of a ninety-foot stack, knowing that if they descended they wouid be killed. In the islands of Hawaii at the time, of the Spanish trouble, Seabold again ascended to this place of refuge, this tlme.only fifty feet above the ground. Morgan was there, and together they they watched the idiotic actions of a half dozen head hunters who had sneaked forth with machettes. He was rescued by a pursuing squad of Infantry. Recently in South America he watched a workman plungo to his death from concrete, which gave away. Seabold had descended a very few minutes before. Like constructional iron 'workers, chimney sweeps and steeple Jacks, Seabold claims to feel safest when on top of a lOOfoot stack. i- ..- CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING era. talaa moat of the eni of work to ha had.

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Attorney Jos. acott, next to Clarence Darrow the r-.ost prominent lavryer In the array of. talent defending the McNamara brothers, charged at Los Angeles with dynamiting the Times plant, is one of the most striking figures in the courtroom. Scott is a fighter every inch of him. Despite the fact that as president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce he was associated with the men who are doing all they can to secure the McNamara's conviction, be Is one of his clients' strongest partisans, and his ardor has often carried him to such lengths In denunciation of the tactics of the opposing counsel that Judge Bordweil has rebuked him repeatedly.

CREAfil CITY IS JEALOUSMALipilO Minority -Stockholders in ', Chapin Company Start1 Action. (Special to The Tmti.) Milwaukee.. Wis., Nov. 2. The minority stockholders of Chapin &. Co., grain dealers, with warehouses . here and at Hammond, have begun, an actiou. t-J have a receiver appointed. Recklessmanigemen' is cnarged. ' One of the Chapin ' brothers, in charge of the supervision : of the construction of the' new warehouse at Hammond, was interviewed regarding the above Intelligence and made the following statement: "We have been Informed of the action of the minority stockholders and do not regard It as important. We have filed our-answer and do no: have any apprehension as to the'iaulcome of the trial. ."About all there is to the trouble Is that some .of the stockholders do not have the foresight to see that we have selected Hammond, . the greatest shipping center In the middle west, as the base for our operations. , "We are building a warehouse here of concrete construction, designed "to last for the next , fifty years. Because we have the - foresight to do these things our management' is called reckless. , ;"We will be' able 'to' show that we have been working for the best . Interests of Jhc company ' at all times, and I have no doubt that the matter will be'qtiickly disposed of when the time comes." CHINAMAN HERE TO SEE OUR LIBRARIES V r'M Kai Qjjon Vina CWue, Kai Quan Ying Chue, a" wealthy merchant of .Hong Kong, is in New York as the envoy of viceroy Chung, official head of the provinces ot Kwangtung (Canton) and Kwangsl. who has planned to build in Canton the first public library and first museum ot natural history in all China. Kai Quan will visit libraries and museums in the principal American cities to study our methods.

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GRANGER EMPHATIC IFI HIS STATEf.TEriTS Says .. Thrailkill Case Is a V Blow, to Personal " Liberty. "Butting the public off the bridge." is the way in which H. E. Granger, an attorney characterized the alleged attempt of the master plumbers of Hammond -to prevent property owners from installing, or aiding in the work of ; installing, all plumbing fixtures not purchased . from certain firms with which the union Is connected by agreement: T."nder a city ordinance recently adopted, whose Interpretation Granger believes to be an absolute bar to personal liberty in. that it demands that all work on plumbing fixtures be done by (master ' .plumbers,' the connecting of pipes in -which the city water is to flow. must also be done by union workmen. Failure to prosecute the case of Geo. Thrailkill. charged with a violation of this - ordinance, is considered by ' the defense which Granger represents to be a decided admission that the case was" defeated before being brought to trial.-, This-Initial test of the application of the. application of the ordinance was to have been, tried, before a jury of twelve men, before .Judge Barnett. A continuation was granted Robert Martin and John Gavit- - . H. E. Granger was retained as counsel for the defense of the , many cases yet to come up by a representative of the Stevens Plumbing company, a Chicago concern which was not favored by the local union, according to statements made by Granger. . " "Paying ap!umber SO cents an hour to sleep under a bathtub is a., proposition which citizens have been up against now-and then," said-Granger, but'to be compelled to buy this expensive luxury . or have your house float . away Js an infringement on the liberal interpretation of personal liberty... However, when you are compelled to buy this bathtub and all cbnnections of a firm named by the plumbers' union you will very probably feel as' if "yoii were levied upon, assessed, held up and robbed." Funeral Today. The funeral of Bert 1. StonebreaJcer of Highlands was held from the family residence this afternoon at 1 o'clock and a large circle, of friends and relatives attended to pay their last Tespects to the deceased. A Chicago minister officiated at the services and interment was held at the Ross Station cemetery in the family lot. No Clues to GirlNo further clues have been learned by the Hammond police in their search for Elsie Haugh, 418 East Eigbth street, Michigan City, who left her home there last Sunday and has not been seen or heard of since. All that has been learned so far is that she purchased . a ticket on the South Shore interurban for" West Pullman and either got off at Hammond or went on through, to West Pullman. The Chicago police have her description and are also looking for the girl. ARE YOU READING THE TIMES?

B A . (Special to The Times.) Crown. Point, Ind.. Nov. 2. There 13 an entirely new angle to the career of Miss Hulda Steinbach, who was burned to death while under parole to a St. Iouis family and whose father claims that he was never notified that she had left the Indiana Girls' School at Clermont, Ind. It develops that the girl was married to Richard Henninger of St. Louis. Tho letter which Christ Steinbach sent to this paper would Indicate that he did not know that his daughter was married. It is said that the authorities at the girl's school permitted her to join her husband at St. Louis on the theory that he had a prior claim on her. Why they did not notify the parents at Crown ANY IDLE IN GARY? NO It took the cold freezing weather of last night, the sudden descent of cold wind blasts from the lakes, and a hevy frost to bring out the truth whether there are any Idle workmen In Gary. There is none. A year ago when thft first cold wave arrived scores of men huddled around the stoves in the south end saloons and as many more were gathered in dugouts and Isolated box cars. Fully a half hundred men applied at the police sta tion for shelter. But last night but three lodgers asked for shelter. " A tour of the south end of Gary by a Times reporter showed that there were but few Idlers.' All of which goes to show good in dustrial.-cojaditkms. - The winter delay ed building operations are now on In full blast and all of the industrial plants of the steel city are running good, i The fact that the steel works alone has 6,329 men on its payroll as compared toM, 200 a year ago is in itself a god Indicator of conditions. It is believed that this fall will be one of the best In Gary and will even out strip the famous boom days of the lat ter part of 1907. . . FATAL BLAST ROCKS JOLIET Four men were , killed early today according to a 'report from Joliet, 111. by the explosion of dynamite on the Klgin. Joliet & Eastern railroad, not far from the penitentiary. The explosion was so terrific t that hundreds of windows in the city were shattered and some buildings damaged by the jar.. The detonation caused a , panic, hun dreds f frightened persons leaving their beds to learn the cause. A gang of men had been working on the railroad for some time. Much blasting had been done recently,- but the explosions had been small and at tracted little attention In the town. The explosion occurred within half mile of the Joliet penitentiary and caused intense excitement there. Guards rushed through 'the prison quitting the frightened prisoners. Dozens of physicians were called from Joliet to go to the scene, it having been reported that a number of men had been injured. - . NEW SYSTEM IS BECOMING POPULAR Rental Circulation at Hammond Public Library -Makes a Hit. Revenue at a minimum ratp of 5 cents is "being obtained by the- Hammond public library for the latest and best fiction in its shelves, under a new system known as tho rental circulation. A daily fine of '1 -cent" is held against . all overdue books and renewals entail ! an additional nickel fare. I Patrons gladly accept this departure ' trm the principle of Carnegie instituHons, knowing that the funds go to j the purchase of new fiction which they will have access ton and would not un der other conditions. It. also has a tendency to persuade financially embarrassed students to delve into the classics. The trend of popular fancy tends -to place In demand certain lines of predige.t.ed, easily assimulated literature, of which there is a weekly crop.'

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ION ONE CENT PER COPY, (Back Numbers 2 Cent Copy.) PRIOR GLAI Point of their action is still unexplained. An effort to reach Christ Steinbach by telephone in order to learn whether or not he knew that his daughter was married was unsuccessful. It seems, from .what fragmentary information obtainable on' the subject, that after the girl had been with her husband In-St. Louts for a short timet she was deserted by him and that his parents secured the permission of the school to-take her into their own home, .The permission was granted and it is said that the girl made regular reports to- the school until the time of her death. It Is also said. In defense of the attitude of the officials of the girl's school, that a member of the board went to Crown Point to receive th. body and assist in the burial. LATEST HEWSl GARY & SOUTHERN INCREASES, Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 2. . (Times' Bureau.) )The Gary - Sa Southern Interurban has filed wito. the secretary of State a notice of Increase in Its capital stock from flftyi thousand to three hundred thousand dollars. SNOW AND COLD m INDIANA. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 2. Northem and central Indiana was swept by a cold wave last night, the mercury goingdown to 24 degrees, . Six inches of snow were reporte-d at South Bend. Indiana suffered its first killing frost. it being the latest In nearly twenty. years. ; . , . , , . , TRAIN KILLS 3 ON A HAND CAR.' Asniand, Me., Nov. 2 A railroad superintendent known as "Tug" Wilson and his ; wife are dead anr hja' result of Y cdilisidu lweH a 'handcar on which Ihejf.were riding and a special train carrying the jrfivale car of President Cram'of the Bangor& Aroostook t railway. - The Wilsons were, on their way from' a visit to Winterville, twenty miles northwest of here. . ' .' . ; - Vandal at Work. ' Some time within the last week or ten days the late residence of L. W. Simpson, 21S Plummer avenue, has been entered and the culprit . deliberately stripped every electric light ; globe in the house. Including a number of light shades: ' The thief even went so far as to tear the electric : light switches from the walls and" then went upstairs where , he entered a bedroom and , tore down an electric light fixture from the celling which was carried away with the spoils. . ',"'.-.. Mr. Simpson Is- unable to understand why they entered his- home and destroyed the fixtures and wiring, and thinks the party, that entered his home Is some one that held a grudge against him. It . is believed to be the meanest piece of vandalism that has taken place In Hammond In a long time. Mr. Simpson moved out of his home on Plummer avenue about ' two months -ago and thinks the deed was committed some time in the past ten days.. RETAINS PLACE AS SUFFRAGETS HEAD Dr. Anna Howard Sbaw, of Moylan. Pa., president, of the National American Woman Suffrage association el nee 1903. brought out . the steam roller to have herself re-elected at the convention Just cloned at Lctuisvllle,. Ky. Opposition developed I among western members, who want-, j 'fed national headquarters and th president located in Chicago.

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