Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 306, Hammond, Lake County, 17 June 1912 — Page 1

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GORY DEATH OF M. L. Sonnanstine, Found in Dying Condition in West Hammond Saloon; Later He Passes Away in St. Margaret's Hospital. A fight which, it is said, took place Just outside of William L. Stevens' saloon, 12 West State street. West Hammond, between 12 and 1 o'clock last night, resulted in the death of M. L. Sonnanstine of Hammond. John Kulczyk. the chief of police of West Hammond, said that Stevens himself would be arrested and charged with being indirectly responsible for th death. Whether or not he has a clue to the real assailant is not known. It is said that Stevens' arrest would be ordered as a result of testimony that was given the West Hammond police "by Ernest Barlog, 115 Sibley street, and Harry C. Shaw, 41S State street, Hammond. The witnesses were on their way to Hammond and passed Stevens' saloon at the time the affair happened. Following the assault the injured man was removed to St. Margaret's hospital, where ho died within a few hours. He was attended by Dr. Alva Young. Mjulerloun. A good deal of mystery surrounds the case. There are numerous stories as to how the tight started. It is practically established that the trouble began in Stevens' saloon. Chief of Police John Kulczyk stated today that the only information he has as to the identity of the man came from an acquaintance with him earlier in the da-. The victim of the assault called at the West Hammond police station and asked to be sent to the hospital. He is aid to have informed the police there 7: tirap:b?Hva ;tn HammonjU LH. sal that lie was sick and would have to be taken care of, Kulczyk told him that . if he lived in Hammond that he would have to be taken care of there. Accordingly he went to the Hammond police station and asked to be sent to the hospital. Desk Sergeant Oscar Borchert asked him where he lived and was told that he resided on One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street, in West Hammond. Borchert then told him that if he lived in Illinois that the authorities from that state would have to pay the expense of giving him the necessary hospital attention. Dlett Later. That was the last that was heard from him until the West Hammond police were apprised of his injury and later learned of his death in the hospital at Hammond. It Is believed that he went to West Hammond and became involved in the altercation in Stevens' place which resulted in the assault and his death. Dr. Alva Young's report of his connection with the case thrown some light on the subject. "I was on my way to West Hammond," said Dr. (Continued nr. page five.) HICKOK NO LONGER WITH WABASH R. R. , F. N. JHickok, who for , years' has been the agent of the W'nbaSh railroad in Hammond, and later was given the Joint agency of the Webanh and R. & O. C. T. in this city, has been made the agent of the Baltimore & Ohio and Calumet Terminal and a separate agent will be appointed to look after the interests of the Wabash railroad in Hammond. Mr. Hlckok will occupy the depot office and the Wabash atrent will occupy the fi-Is;ht office. This will in no way interfere with Mr. Hickok's residence in Hammond. SAYS ALL WOMEN WILL VOTE IN 1922 V 4 '

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POLL ISJAKEN. How are the delegates lined up? Under what pledges are they to the "home folks"? How will they -rote In the temporary organization? The Record-Herald this morning, for the first time in convention history, attempts to answer these questions. Impartially and without prejudice o the claims of any candidate the reputed status of each of the 1.078 delegates has been obtained. This information either came from their home district when they were elected or was obtained from their delegation chairmen. It has been compared with the figures of the various campaign managers, and revision attempted where delegates had over their signatures announced a change of front as to their instructions. Delegates are credited to a candidate only where definite instructions have been given. All other delegates are classed as "uninstructed." regardless of what stand they have taken toward any candidacy. There are 1.078 delegates voting in the convention. It takes 540 votes to nominate any candidate. The temporary roll of the convention, which includes the 252 eontested delegates seated by the national committee, shows the delegates divided as follows: Intrnrtrd for Tnft..... 437 Inatrueted for Roosevelt 421 Instructed for In f'ollette 38 Instructed for Cnmmlm. . , io I'nicvtrueted 133 This compiliatlon appears to show 1.079 delegates, or one more than there are In the convention. Tlia reason is that P. W. Howard, a negro delegate from the eighth Mississippi district, was' instructed by two rival conventions, by one aa a Taft adherent, by the other for Roosevelt.

Til ON BIDS IS EXTENDED

Bids for the downtown street lighting contract, providing for ornamental lamp posts, were returned by the board of public works to the bidders this morning. Onlv three were . re

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trar.ts, the board extended the time until Wednesday. These bids are merely to be a feeler as to the probable cost for. the installation-of the ornamental lighting system. ' Other matters of minor importance were taken up and dealt with in the following manner. The contract and bonda of Newell Bros, for the Conkey avenue sidewalks were accepted. The contract and bonds of Downey & Portz for the Wilcox street pavement got similar treatment. Ad vert-semer.t3 tie to he 3tnt out for bids on the sprinkling of Chij cago avenue by oil. Inspectors reports of the Jackson street sidewalk were accepted. O. P. Ward was made inspector of the Indiana avenue pavement and J. E. Prevo 'will inspect the Wilcox avenue street pavement. The matter of hearing remonstrances against the Huehn avenue sidewalk was laid over until June 21. TRAFFIC DIVERTED BY 0PH1 BRIDGE Wm. Thompson Points Out Hammond's Loss Owing to Poor Pavement. On account of the Forsyth avenue bridge being out across ,the west branch of the canal, Sheffield avenue received its share of traffic from automobiles and other vehicles yester day afternoon, when a total of 324 automobiles were counted going south from 5 a.m . to 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Seeing the large number of machines going by his residence Sunday morning and afternoon William Thompson, t superintendent of the G. H. Hammond company ice houses at Wolf Iake, decided out of curiosity to take a count of the automobiles that went by. Getting up at 5 o'clock Mr. Thompson commenced his task of checking the ruuthoound machines and, pretty well tijfcci out by 2 p. m., he stopped the count. 324 machines having gone by. 'This goes to show what a large amount of business the merchants of HfTimond lose every week by not ha--!iir4 Sheffield avemie repaired," said Mr. Thompson this morning, "and I know if I had counted until 5 o'clock I could have counted at least GOO. "Instead of leaving Sheffield avenue thirty feet wide, the way it is now, why couldn't it be made sixty feet wide and have a thoroughfare leading Into Hammond that its residents could be proud of. The street car tracks t u ..n ahoTit fifteen feet of the nrM. ent thirty," which leaves but little space for traffic." A FEW OIMES FOR CAIt FARE OR POSTAGE IF YOU'RE ANSWERING ADS. A FEW DIMES FOR TOUR OWN "WANT." IF YOU'RE ADVERTISING IN THE TIMES AND THE USUAL RE. SILT IS A JOtt.

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TAKEN IN BY MAYOR East Chicago's Chief Executive Uses Diplomacy to Make an Emergency Arrest; Quarry Becomes . a Willing Captive. Mayor Schlieker of East Chicago was impressed into service on Saturday evening as a sleuth and made one arrest. His quarry was a crazy man, decidedly wild, wooly and hard to curry, but -the executive's diplomacy quite won the gentleman's heart and he was easily persuaded to go with the mayor, . ' ' , . The incident, occurred on Saturday evening. Mayor Schlitker happened to be in the police station when, a call came in from 150th street that a crazy man was at large and was intimidating (Continued on Page 8.) The West Hammond police made another raid on a resort in West Hammond and landed three girls and two men in the vice net. The place raided, according to Chief of Police John Kulczyk, was run by Harvey Bills at the corner of State street and Burnham avenue.- " . KMTk ?eprtS tne t0lte8 arrests in ' conneetirh- with - the- . raidGertrude Smith. Katie Shaefer, Helen Smith, Andrew Ostroul and Charles Oslroui. ; ! The defendants were all arraigned before themagistrate and fined $1 and costs each. The raid was made at three o'clock yesterday afternoon. The police of West Hammond have suspected that Bills' place was a disorderly house and so the raid was planned. The result was as is given above. At the same time vice in West Hammond was dealt another blow. Henry Koss, the notorious resort keeper, was arrested on the charge of keeping a disorderly house. He was placed under 1500 bonds and his case was set for June 24. It is said that the minimum fine for this offense is $100. It is pointed out that this weapon in the hands of the West Hammond police would soon clean up the village. DFORDTITLE DEVELOPMENTS (By a Stauff Correspondent.) Crown Point. Ind., June 17. Further complications which, however, real estate men say will soon be set aside, have loomed up with the filing of another deed by the Bradford Jjrothers of Chicago who claim to own all land now possessed or sold by Iouts A. Bryan, the Gary millionaire. Bryan and the Bradfords claim possession of the Chicago, Tolleston Lnd and Investment company, which owned 5.000 lots when Gary came into being. The other day the Bradfords, as is alleged, claiming to be officers of the company of which Bryan is the head executive a deed for several hundred Gary lots owned by Bryan and Individual owners to George Fi3her of Crown Toint as trustee for the Brad"fords in their individual capacity. Bryan retaliated by asking for an injunction restraining them from interfering with the business of the company and to set aside the Fisher deed as fraudulent. Now the Bradfords have come out with a new (deed, issued by the company to Jessie Bradford and dated Jan. 8 1894, which they have filed here. It involves several hundred lots in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth Oak Park additions. PAROLE OLLOiVS SETEVCE. After he had entered a plea of guilty ' riday to being a bigamist, Ernest Landers, 28 years old, who came to Bloomington from Atlanta, Ka, leaving a wife and litle son behind, wTis given an indeterminate sentence of two to fourteen years in the State Reformatory at Jeffersonville and was then paroled. Landers promised to take steps at once to obtain a legal separation from hi Atlanta wife.

THIRD RESORT IS RAISED IN W. HAMMOND

OFFICIATING CHURCH DIGNITARY AT YESTERDAY'S. CORNER STONE LAYING; PASTOR AND ASSISTANT.

1 n3r T- - I tfk MM J? 4 r' Mgr. G. W. Heer. 4, , 11 Kit v l. "x , f 1 1 Rev. H. M. For 27 Years Pastor CONVENTION PRELIMINARIES AT A GLANCE Two republican national conventions seem certain unless Roosevelt can control the temporary organisation. More delegations reach Chicago from various cities and the downtown streets resound with the music of marching bands: crowds flock to Michigan avenue and cheer the new arrivals. McKinley answers Roosevelt's charges of "theft" by declaring colonel seeks to steal Taft delegates. Ten delegates from Mississippi and Georgia, instructed for Taft. bolt to Roosevelt. Diplomats from many LatinAmerican countries in Chicago for convention. Illinois leaders , canvass state delegation and Roosevelt men concede Taft eight votes at most. Suffragists, assembled in mass meeting In the Illinois theater, declare for Roosevelt as the best candidate and denounce the members of the national committee as "thick-headed and short-sighted thieves." La Follette and Cummins men, both hopeful their favorites will be nominated as a compromise. Taft and Roosevelt leaders consider their respective platforms at conference. i New York delegation proves a puzzle, the claims of the rival presidential , campaign managers being widely at variance; indications are. however, that Roosevelt will get twenty-one. possibly thirty, of the New York votes. WHY ARE YOU NOT A TIMES READER T

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4 : S V . 7fe Rev. A. Badina. fit X. i i Plaster. of the Congregation. DEMOTED; MS SELF (Special to Thb Times.) Crown Point, Ind., June 17. While temporarily deranged David Ross, a veteran of the civil war committed suicide by drowning hlmBelf in the waters of Fancher Lake early this morning. As motives were lacking and previous actions were conclusive evidence of his mental condition, Ross was pronounced not responsible. He left the side of his sleeping wife in a chamber of their home on the outskirts of Crown Point and walked to the lake. He was fully dressed when found. Several of the Ross children are li-lng In this city and are making arrangements for the funeral. WELDING COMPANY INCORPORATED TIMES' BVKEAU AT THE STATU CAPIAL. Indianapolis, Ind., June 17. The Northern Indiana Welding Co. of Hammond was incorporated here today with a capital Ktock of $20,000. The directors are George Chilton, Eugene Junk and W. E. Roe. DISTURBER ARRESTED - The second arrest at the carnival grounds was made Saturday evening by Captain Hanlon, when William Primmer was locked up at the station on a charge of drunkenness and fighting. Earlier In the evening Primmer was engaged, in a fight, and after being warned to go home and be peaceful, he was let go. Bent ' on making trouble Primmer was later found in another figh-t and was placed under arrest and taken to the station. His case was postponed before Judge Barnett until Tuesday morning. June IS.

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CORNERSTONE FOR NEW $100,000 CHURCH LAID BY 1NSIGN0RE E. W JEER

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Brings Thousands to Hammond for Religious Pageant.

Nineteen hundred and thlrten will see the completion of the finest edifice, dedicated to religious worship, in northwestern Indiana. The cornerstone for the building, the new St. Joseph's Catholic church, costing $100,000, was laid in Hammond yesterday. A pageant without parallel, for a similar occasion in the city's history was assembled for the day, thousands of visitors having flocked in from every direction to take part in the celebration and to congratulate tho members of, St. Joseph's congregation upon the undertaking. which aside from its religious purpose will also be a subject of civic pride. Rev. Plaster Central Figure. Although the Rt. Rev. Monsignore George W. Heer, IX D. Protonotary Apo3tolic of the Dubuque, la. diocese was the principal church dignitary present for the ocaslon, the Rev. Henry M. Plaster, pastor of St. Joseph's con gregation was the central figure of tne day, as the man who inspired his loyal flock for the progressive work which is now well underway. In the presence of vast concourse of people, who thronged the adjoining streets, while hundreds watched the ceremony from nearby windows and from the roofs of buildings, Mgr. Heer laid the corner stone at four o'clock. The services like nearly all services In the Catholic church were conducted in Latin and were preceoded by Mgr. Heer's address in English, More than a score of visiting priests had a place on the platform and assisted in the services. CongreRation's History Reviewed. The day's program began with the pontifical high mass at 10:15 a. m. the first ever held in Hammond, Mgr. Heer officiated and wss assisted by the Rev. Following h'.s being found in the rear of Gorman's saloon at Hcssvllle in a dazed condition, Fred Wicks of Second and Chicago avenue told a peculiar story that he had been drugged by two men and robbed of a watch and his money. Accordingto his story. Wicks droe to Hessville yesterday afternoon in a buggy with two men, who he claimed were strangers to him. He did not notice anything suspicious and did not know he had been robbed until he woke up in the rear of the saloon. Upon searching his person he found that he was minus a slse 18 open face Elgin watch and $24 in money and that the strangers had made their get away. Dr. A. Young was called to take care of Wicks, who found no trace of him being drugged and from all appearances, it looked like Wicks had been in a fit. The police were then notified and are trying to fathom the case, to determine whether he was robbed or not. Crowds Delay Traffic. Motormen on the South Hohman street line found it difficult to run on the new scheduled time yesterday. Congestion at the comer of Russell street during the corner-stone laying of the St. Joseph's church held one car up for twenty minutes. Other crews experienced nearly as lengthy delays. CONVENTION SOV.

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St. Joseph's Congregation

H. M. Plaster as arch priest, the Rev. A. M. Buchheit of St. John as deacon, the Rev. John De Vile of Gary as subdeacon, and the Rev. Anthony Badir.a, assistant to Father Plaster, as master of ceremonies. The priests in the sanctuary were the Rev. Francis J. Koch, of Reynolds, Jnd.; the Rev. Joseph Flach of Dyer; the Rev. Andiew Guittle of Rensselaer; the Rev. S. Ma. loney of South Chicago; and the Rev. ' C. Stetter D. D. of Kentland, Indiana. The Rev. Bruno Soengen, formerly assistant to Father Plaster, now of SU Anthony's church at Fowler, Ind., preached a scholarly German sermon. During the course of his address he narrated how the first little frame church 30 by 60 feet was built in Hammond in 1S79, how after the coming of Father Plaster, Aug. 16, 1885 the congregation grew so rapidly that the need of a larger building was keenly felt, and the combined church and school building now standing on 'Russell street was erected in 1889. He continued saying, that after 23 years of steady growth, the church Is again found to be to small and that Father Plaster supported by his congregation" had decided to build a temple to which the children of the future generations could point with justifiable pride as a monument reared by their fathers In proof of their faith in God, and their lovaltv to the church. 130 In Parade. St. Josph's choir under the direction of Mrs. Christine Hojnackl assisted by Barnie Young's orchestra, rendered Dachauer's , Mass in E minor. The soloists during the mass were Miss Anna Tauschek, Miss Julia Reilley, Mrs. John Beckman, Miss Agnes Moser. Miss'Susanna Hilbrlch, Messrs. John Scherer, William Humpfer, Mlch&el (Continued on Page 8.) ARRESTED AS THIEVES Car Burglars Implicate a Whiting Saloonkeeper in Their Confessions. (Special to The Times.) Whiting, Ind., June 17. For some time the B. & O. and Fort Wayne railroads have been pestered by box cur theives. Last March ten gallons of gin and about ten gallons of rum together with a quantity of other liquor was stolen from the B. & O. railroad, Since that time the guilty ones have been fugitives from justice. Within the last few days three fellows have been rounded up. John Tabasjy, alias Jaklnsky, alias Polack tJoe, was arrested by B. & O. detective Malloney. Paul Fischer, lias Robisczk, was arrested by th") East Side police and Frank Bona'a alias Bill Diamond was arrested by Officer Hohrlbeck of the Robertsdals police force. Both the later men .were turned over to the local police. The men were arraigned before Mayor Parks on Saturday night. Tabasjy and Fischer were both bound nvr tn th a T.nkn Sunerior Court on $1000 bonds and Eonata was sentenced to six months in jail, to be held as a witness against the other two men. Tn default of bonds, Tabasjy and Fischer were both sent to Crown Point with Bonata. In their confessions the trio Implicated John Furtyo, the East Side saloonkeeper, by telling of his purchasing the liquor they had stolen. Furyo was accordingly placed under $1,000 bonds on the charge of purchasing stolen goods, his bond being signed by Mike Kotacik. SNAP SHOTS. Geo no's?"' w. city