Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 272, Hammond, Lake County, 7 May 1912 — Page 1

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WEATHER. UNSETTLED WEATHER TODAT AND TOMORROW. EDITION VOL. VI., NO. 272. HAMMOND, INDIANA, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1912ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numbers t Ceata Copy.)

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SEVEN (Special to The Timss.) Lowell, Ind., May 7. Graveyard Curve and Death's Corner, two of the worst angles on the famous Cobe auto course collected heavy toll from Sunday autoists, who were confused by the sudden turns. They sent their big machines to destruction, and endangered a dozen lives. Fortunately no deaths are to be reported, and only good luck is to be thanked for this. Seven were Injured altogether. From other parts of the county other (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., May 7. The county commissioners have had a busy session.' The first thing that was done was' to grant some 140 liquor licenses in the cities of? Gary, East .Chicago, Whiting and Hammond and other places In the county. A petition was also filed in which the county commissioners were asked to call an election in Cedar Creek town ship in which the citie Shelby are located. of Lowell and j ' It is expected that there will be a hard fight between the wets and the drys. Cedar Creek township has been dry for the past two years and there is a great deal of sentiment on both sides. Tomorrow the contract for the construction of the bridge over the canal at Chicago avenue will be let. This

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will make it possible to commence the.' 3. That West Hammond man must construction of a bridge this year and;, own property in West Hammond, complete it next spring. I The effect of this ordinance is ex-w.."TJe-ftn.tract wjji also be let -Tor the' pected to be immediate. I -wilt enable construction of a bridge, on Canal streeC' the" citizens of the city' to exercise a The .contract for the .Improvement. -of more complete supervision over the saSouth Hohman street wiir.be' let tomor- j loons of West Hammond, row and this will make it possible to This is one of the first strokes in the

pave this road this year.

The improvement of Sheffield avenue' in West Hammond and in the future if will probably not be made for several ' an accident occurs in a West Hammonths, in view of the fact that the mond saloon it will be easy to proceed viewers' report Is to be made and the-against the bondsmen, supplementary report will have to be j The passage of this ordinance folreceived by the board before the pav-, lowed the issuing of an order to close ing of the street can be authorized and ; all raloons at 1 o'clock on eve.ry night the work commenced. This means that of the week. This is in compliance another summer will go by before Shef-j with the Illinois law. field avenue will bo passable for au-! The mayor has not yet announced tomoblles. It has been nearly two years who will be appointed to the office of since the agitation r the improvement j chief of police, of this street was started. j

The board of county commissioners appointed Fred Peseny of Whiting as the inspector on the new county infirmary which is in process of construction south of Crown Point. Hiram Jonnson. Hiram Johnson. Governor of California, is one of the sturdiest character in American political life. Two years ago California was dominated by the Southern Pacific Railroad. It could fight the railway interests of the state and live politically. Johnson thought otherwise and he started out to clean up the .state. The people elected him Governor on a progressive ticket. And Johnson has been Governor. The legislature has worked wtih him. Laws providing for the initiative referendum and recall, direct preferential primaries, the short ballot nd woman suffrage have been placed on the statute books, and the Southern Pecific Railway removed from politics. Governor Johnson Is cbnductlng Theodore Roosevelt's primary campaign in California.

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accidents of a minor nature are . re ported, but the two at Lowell were severer than all others put together.. TWO MACHINES COLLIDE. On Sunday evening about 5:30 o'clock a big red Elmore automobile, driven by its owner Mr. Nlckerson of South Chicago and occupied also by two young men, two women and several children was driven from the west and turned sharply into Clark street at Death's Corner. At the same time Peter Seamur and a party in another machine came from the north to swing eastward in Commercial avenue. Nlck erson suddenly Jerked his machine around toward the east and the two (Continued on page 8.) COUNCIL PASSES DMSIIGjnMCE First Step Taken in West Hammond to Oust Notorious Saloons. . A drastic ordinance was passed at the meeting of the West Hammond city council last evening which will make West Hammond people, and they alone responsible for the manner iff which the saloons are conducted. Heretofore it has been the practice of the saloonkeepers to let the breweries sign thlr bonds. This is to be "topped by the new ordinance. If it is necessary to go back on the saloonkeepers bondsmen a West Hammond man will be hit. j Among other things the new or- ' dinance provides for the following: I 1. No brewery may sign the saloonkeeper's bond, j 2. None but West Hammond people 1 may sign the saloonkeeper's bond. j Interests of decency that has been made TITANIC ICEBERG 18 8IGHTE0YESTERDA? Luxurious Furishings of the Wrecked Steamship Surround Floe. Philadelphia, Pa., May 7. What was probably the iceberg which was struck by the Titanic was reported yesterday by Captain Wicke of the Germamtank steamer Clio, from Shields. England, f or I Philadelphia. The captain says that on April 29, in latitude 41.25 north, longitude 48.43 west, he saw an Iceberg about 130 feet high, one end of which was broken as if by a. collision. The mass of lee was surrounded by steamer saloon fittings of mahogany, deck chairs, cushions, fancy hand bags and innumerable small pieces of wreckage. COMMON LAW WIFE FAILS On a warrant sworn out by his supposed wife, Nick Bornart was arrested by Officers Bunde and Einsele last night on a charge of non-support." but at the police station this morning it developed that the couple wore not man and wife. It also developed that the common law wife was the mother of several children, but Prosecuting Attorney Ross found that it would be Impossible to prosecute under these charges and therefore Bornart was released. Each was taken into a separate corner by Mr. Ross and given some good advice which might be of some benefit to them in the near future and avoid further trouble. Ortt's Narrow Escape. J. B. Ortt, who purchased a new Flanders motorcycle- last week and while learning to ride the machine yesterday found that there is more than one thing to learn about the balky machine than to sit on the seat and ride. .Confused by a number of machines which were In front of him yesterday Mr. Ortt thought he was shutting off the spark, but instead he turned on the gasoline and as a result the machine nearly got away from him. He was almost thrown to the ground and escaped with, a -few cuts on his leg. Hereafter Mr.' Ortt says he wfll know which side the spark and the gasoline are on.

FATHER HAPS DAUGHTER

Big Touring Car Stops in Hammond With Pretty Passenger "Taken From Quarantine in Evanston Hospital. Hammond was one of the "control points" in a peculiar kidnaping case yesterday in which an Indiana girl who lives ten miles east of Crown Point was the heroine. Kidnaped at her own request by her parents from St. Francis Hospital, Evanston,-and taken to her home at Hebron, Miss Josephine Ceplin sent a pathetic message to her friends late last night to save "her drawings." With Miss Coplin -was her father who wired to girl friends of his daughter's that she was enjoying the trip. Mr. Coplin was not at all worried about the outcome of the trip when seen by a reporter and said, "Let 'em all dip." Miss Coplln's "kidnaping" occurred almost inbroad daylight. Although a patient, she has persistently refused to be downcast and has continuously questioned her attendants as to why she should not be allowed to get up and enjoy the fresh air She was allowed to do so. Yesterday shortly before sunset one of the burly Northwester nfootball men was seen strolling near the hospital. Shortly afterward a young woman, . clad In the. most up-to-date garments of the day, was heard to inquire of the nurse in charge of the hospital the men being oft for supper (Continued on Page .) GRIFFITH GRANTS LI. G. E. F Fifty Years Life of Grant; Town Desirous of Electric Light. The village board of Griffith Saturday granted the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric company a franchise in the corporate limits of'the town for a period of fifty -years. The franchise provides that the company must turnish both light and power. Griffith has been laboring under a handicap in its effort to locate industries for the reason that it could not get power. Now it is expected that a number of small industries will be located in this important railroad center. Manager W. D. Ray of the Northern Indiana Gas company said today: "This is In line with the announced purpose of the company to furnish ljrnt and power to all of the towns and villages of northern Indiana." It will give them all of the advantages of the metropolitan districts of the county. The people of Griffith are enthusiastic over the prospects of having electric lights. IESCH HASCALL WEDS HAMHD GIRL Well Known East Chicago Young Man Marries at Indianapolis. Friends of Iesh HagcaU, son of 'Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Hascall of Drummond street, Indiana Harbor, were surprised when he came home yesterday with a bride. The latter was before her mar riage Miss Margaret Winkler, daughter of Mrs. K. Winkler of Hohman street, Hammond, where she has lived all her life. The friends of both the young people knew of their engagement, but had not looked for their marriage at this time, and when Ivfach Hascall quietly a(ole out of town a few days ago none of them suspected that he had gone to be married. The wedding took place quietly at the parish residence of the Church of the Assumption in Indianapolis in the pres ence of a number of intimate friends of the bride. The latter four months ago went to Indianapolis, where she ! took a position. She became a member of the parish tributary to the Church of the Assumption, and lived with friends also members of tht parish. A number of showers have been given in her honor of late. . The young people are for the time being with Mr. Hascall's people In the Harbor. Both are well known and popular. ,

MANY COUNTRIES TO BE REPRESENTED AT RED CROSS MEETING IN WASHINGTON

T i M Entrance new Red Cross building In Washington. nc Mlsa MaD: Boardman, ,5-: - The International conference of the Red Cross Society will be held at Washington from May 7 to 17. Twenty-two ' foreign, countries will be rep resented, and about one hundred and fifty American and foreign ' delegates are expected to be present. Miss Mabel Boardman, president of the American Red Cross Society, will preside. The conference Will be held In the new Red Croas building, which has Just been completed at a cost exceed ing ($8,000. - Thi was paid for out of the $20,000 appropriated by Congress for the conference. HAfflMO'lD TO HAVE BIG CHURCH AFFAIR Corner Stoftp Laying of St. Joseph's $150,000 Church to Be Notable Event. Hammond Catholics are looking forward to the corner-stone laying of the new St. Joseph's church, foundations for which are now going in at Hohman and Russell streets, and already plana are underlay for a monster celebration. . , Owing to the delay in getting the structural ironhe ftate for thcorneretone laying cah -set only tentatively, the probabilities being that the event will take place either on Sunday, June 2nd. or Sunday, June 9th. The original date was set for May 28th, but this had to be abandoned, owing to the delay of the Iron. Sactetles te Parade. It was hoped that the Rt Rev. H. J. Allerdlng, bishop of the Fort 'Wayne diocese, would give his promise to be In Hammond for the occasion to take the principal part in the ceremonies. but his summer Sunday schedule does not permit this, as all his Sunday dates have been set until some time into Sep tember. The event, however, will bring many other church dignitaries to Ham mond, and among them it Is hoped to have a bishop coadjutor from some other diocese to take the part of Bishop Allerdlng. A parade, including all the Catholic societies in Lake county and from some of the neighboring cities, will be one of the big features of 5he day. The pres ent plans do not provide for a dinner to be served under the auspices of some society, as the outcome of the under taking Is considered too much of an un knownquantity. COUNTY BOARD REDISTRICTS COUNTY Ex-Mayor Reilley of Ham mond Is Made a New Truant Officer. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point. Ind., May 7. The Lake county board of education at their regular meeting held In this office on Monday, May 6, 1912, divided the county as follows for truancy districts: No. 1 Hammond, Munster, Highland, North township. No. 2 rWhiting, East Chicago. No. 3 Miller, East Gary, Gary. No. 4 Remainder of the county. Truant officers elected. No. 1 Patrick Reiley, Hammond. No. 2 John Lloyd, East Chicago. No. 3 W. P. Ray. Gary. No. 4 C. C. Pattee, Lowell. Passed unanimously the following resoluton: ' Resolved, That It is the sense of the Lake county board of education that we stand opposed to the proposed new plan of distribution of school revenues as proposed in the resolution of the Terre Haute board of education under letter of April 11, 1912; that we approve of the present system of distribution of the state school funds of Indiana and that we request the county superintendent to communicate ur action to the various county superintendents of the 10th, 12th and 13th congressional districts. Resolved, That It is the sense of this body that the. county association be limited to one day, and that ray be the last Saturday In October; all teachers attending said association to receive pay for the day.

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The Times Is In receipt of announce ments of a number of appointments to offices in the 'Chicago Tunnel Co. One announcement reads, "The Chicago Tunnell Co. has this date taken posses sion of all such properties and will operate same from midnight of thi date. (May . 2, 1912.) Signed, C. W. Hotchkiss, president." Another announcement reads, "Mr. J, W. Callahan is appointed general man ager In charge of all transportation fa cillties and such other matters as may be assigned to him from time tirne. Sgned, C. W. Hotchkss." The 'third announcement reads, 'Mr. S. V. Tracy is appointed assistant to the president, effective this date." Signed, C. W". Hotchkiss. The appointment of S. W. Tracy is news to the people of Hammond and means that the city will lose another valuable citizen. Mr. Hotchkiss has thus taken two of the important officers of the Chicago. Indiana & Southern railroad with him and their loss to Hammond will be regretted. Both Callahan and Tracy were prominent in the promotion of the Hammond Country club project. As soon as they can dispose of their residences they will move to Chicago. However, practically all of the new appointees who take the place of the men who leave -Hammond will reside there. DATE SET FOR OPTO ELECTION May 28 Will Be First Election of Its Kind Ever Held in Lake County. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., May. 7. May 28, 1912, will be an important date in the history of Cedar Creek township at which. time the township's local option election will be held. The date was set yesterday at the meeting of the county commissioners when a petition asking for vote on the proposition was filedi fiHr n i ry Ing the township and head repre sentatlves present at the commissioners court to set that the election officials partial to their cause new appointed. A bitter campaign between the "wets" and "drys" to carry the territory will be waged, as the results will settle, the liquor status in the township possibly for many years to come. The officers appointed on the election boards were as follows: Election commissioners Wm. Kolliltra and Paul. Hathaway. Lowell precinct 1 2 H. O. Burnham and F, E. Brownell judges, and P. M. McKay and'W. W. Dickerson clerks. Shelby precinct H. H. Chambers and Jake Toesch judges, and J. Cla-ude Rumsey and Edwin Moore clerks. Sam iSirois inspector..

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John Glennon, the proprietor of the Majestic Hotel, was struck by lightning yesterday evening at about 5:30 when he was out riding in his automobile. The lightning struck one of the steel bars on the machine and then glanced off on the ground. Glennon received a severe shock but outside of a slight burn on his little finger he received no permanent injury. The accident was one of the most re markable that has ever been recorded in this county. Glennon had taken Mr. and Mrs. Hankinson and Mrs. Glennon out for a ride In the car. They were in the neighborhood of the Calumet avenue fire station when Glen non advised the women to go Into the fire station while he put the curtains on the car. SEE BALL OF FIRE. He was working away with the curtains while the women watched him from the shelter of the fire station. All at once there was a terrific crash of thunder. A ball of lightning was seen to strike POLITICIANS GUESSING ON REGISTRATION Democratic County Chairman Calls Meeting For. Wednesday Night. Politicians are guessing what the results of the first registration in Lake county will be. Tender the new law voters will have their first opportunity to register on Thursday of this week. A voter in order to exercise his privilege at the polls next fall must be registered and his name must be registeared either at the May, September or October registration In order that his vote may be valid. County Chairman John A. Gavlt has called a meeting of the democratic preefnet committeemen and registration clerks appointed In Hammond. Whiting and Fast Chicago to meet In the Jefferson club roooms in Hammond tomorrow evening for a final outline of the work and the final instructions. Every voter will be asked to fill out a registration blank, and in order to save time for the voter and the clerks these blanks may be filled out prior to the registration. The blanks can be had from any of the republican or dem ocratic clerks and precinct committee men. Public notices are placed in conspicuous places on posts in the streets, giving information about the law and also describing the boundary lines of each -precinct and giving the registration place. ROOSEVELT LEADS IN MARYLAND Baltimore. Md., May 7, Late returns from the presidential preference primary In Maryland today show sixty-three Taft delegates elected to the state convention to sixty-five for Roosevelt. Only two counties remain to be heard from. These missing counties have five delegates and with them probably lies the chance to gain control of the state convention which will name and Instruct sixteen delegates to the Chicago convention. TAFT GETS SIX IN NEVADA Reno. New, May 7. Six delegates instructed to vote for President Taft were elected to the republican national convention yesterday by the republican state convention in session at Fallona. The administration was indorsed. of President Taft TAFT CARRIES TEXASAustin. Tex.. May 7. As a result of the primaries held in Texas on Satur day there is every likelihood of a contesting delegation to the national republican convention. The Taft forces have the best of the situation, generally speaking, but in the absence of positive instructions, many countes not holding primary conventions, the result will be left with the state convention, meeting In Fort Worth on May 28. WHT ARE READER? TOU NOT A TIMES

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Indescribable Soncr the rod on the wind shield of the ear Glennon had his hand on the car and his finger was quite badly burned. The shock was so great that he was thrown clear across Calumet avenue. The shock first knocked him to th ground a considerable distance from the car, and the women folks thought he had been killed. But presently he Jumped to his feet and danced around like, an Indian. It was feared for a while that he had been made insane by. the shock. . But he recovered shortly and wu able to drive his car home. Glennon said today that he would not have been, any more surprised if Roosevelt had. been nominated. . When the storm was over Glennon' and the other members of the party, returned to the Majestic hotel. Mrs. Maurice Hankinson was an eye-witness of the accident. "The ball of Are struck the car and then seemed to go bouncing down Calumet avenue. I thought Mr. Glennon. had been killed until he Jumped up and' began dancing around. He was knocked a great distance from the car and X did not believe that a man could jump around the way Glennon did. It was certainly a narrow escape." LATEST NEWS ' TWO COINS TO BE MADE. Washington, May. WTher Hous tias passed thBulkel;jr cQjuage measure, which Authorizes-the making of 3-cent pieces and also of halfcent pieces. Three-cent pieces hava been minted before, during the middle of last century, but . are now seldom used. The half-cent piece ha3 never been minted In this country and there is some speculation as to what the proposed coin will -be. NEW ORLEANS UNDER WATER. New Orleans, La., May 7. Fear of loss of man lives and or millions of dollars worth of homes and other property in New Orleans was widespread today, with the publication of the government forecast that another foot raise in the flooded Mississippi River was due before Saturday. The river was already two and one-ha'f feet higher than ever before known. The entire city of New Orleans lie from four to seven feet below the level of the levees. McKinley Club TonightIt is expected that there will be a good attendance of republicans at the organization of the McKinley clus this evening. The meeting will be held in the store room formerly occupied by the E. & F. Clothing store on State street, west of Hohman street. ' The-McKlnley club Is to le the repre sentative republican club lit Hammond, and every republica nls welcome to Join it. 1 v '".,' J W .ws f k Miss Hilda Farr. The engagement of Miss Hilda Farr. daughter of Congressman John K. Farr, of Pennsylvania, has recently been announced. The lucky man is Robert A. Beggs. He la a former president of the Law Academy of Philadelphia and a member of the Pennsyl vania Bar Association.

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