Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 36, Hammond, Lake County, 30 July 1912 — Page 5

Tuesday, July 30, 1912.

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LAKE COUNTY COURTS AT A GLANCE UKE SCPEHIOH COURT, ROOM NO. I iudm Virgil B. Rattan Information. Court baa adjourned (or the summer. LAKE Jl'PEHIOR COtRT, HOOM NO. 9 Judge LnnnKt Becker, Information. The court ha ordered that an adjourned terra of court will ba held on July 15. to take up matters that may come before It. UKB SUPERIOR COURT. ROOM SO. 3 Judge Johannes Konelka. At Crown Point. Court has adjourned for the term. THE LAKE-PORTER CIRCUIT COURT. Judge XV. C. MeMakan. At Valparaiso. Court has adjourned for the term. PORTER SUPERIOR COURT. Jade Barry B. Tnfhll. At Valparaiso. Court adjourned.

CLASSIFIED ADTERTISIXO rsa. tatna moat al the news of work to a ka.

Higher Courts' Record. Supreme Court Minutes. 22149. Tulley Anson et al. vs. William Thorn. Huntington C. C. Ap

pellee's briefs. 22202. Silas Adams vs. State of Indiana. Monroe C. C Appellee's briefs.. 22176. William O. Lantz vs. Mary J.

Caraway et al. Hancock C C. Appellant's reply briefs. Appellate Court Minutes. S323. James L. Dillman et al. vs. Oscar M. Ful wider et al. Monroe C. C.

Appellee's briefs. 8325. Mack Sare vs. Hoadley Stone Company. Lawrence C. C. Apellee's petition for time, which is granted includingSeptember SO, 1912. 7537. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company vs. Guy Myers, by next friend. Dekalb C. C. Appellant's petition for rehearing and

briefs. 8017. Thomas Rhea -vs. Llta Sawyer. Wells C. C. Appellant's motion and petition to amend briefs. Acknowledgement of notice for August 1, 1912. S328. Charles L. Henry, receiver, vs. Emma J. Swells. Marion C. C. Appellee's briefs, v

"To My Savknak FHendat MI bid you one and all a kind farewell. I have found la four years of travel that life is not worth tke atruitgle. FERGISOS LAUDER."

They Were The ffig SplashIn The Lake

These were the last words of Ferguson Lauder, alias William Morgan and Harry Evans, a fugitive from Justice who hung himself in the county Jail at Savannah. 111., last week and was wanted by Chief Austgen of the Hammond police for the murder of "Paddy" Golden in 1906. Six years ago when Lauder was residing in Hammond, he was employed as a machinist at the Fits-Hugh Luther plant. In an argument In Jim

Smith's saloon on Plummer avenue at

that time, he shot and killed "Paddy" j Golden and Injured two other men and! then made his get away. For yeara Chief Austgen kept up a still hunt for

his man, tracing Lauder to Kentucky from where he went to South America for two years. He then came back to

he states and Chief Austgen was noti

fied of his whereabouts. .

Slips Away Again. Instead of causing his arrest the

southern authorities wrote Chief

Austgen, inquiring If Lauder, was

wanted, who upon hearing that he Was

to be captured slipped away from the hands of the law again. Using the names of William Morgan and Harry Evans, Lauder succeeded In eluding

the police traveling from one part of the city to another.

Peter W. Meyn and J. J. Ruff, two of, Hammond's well-known business men. j stole into their respective homes last Saturday evening, evaded their respective wives, went to their respective rooms, changed their respective clothes and have since have been keeping their respective counsels. It is a dark, deep mystery that was only unraveled after the most painstaking efforts on the part of the community at large. It Is a mystery that demands a public expose. Let it be known that Peter W. Meyn and J. JT. Ruff are both the owners of Stock in the Champion Potato Machinery company. The officers, stockholders and employes held a picnic at K.indel'8 grove last Saturday. Among those present were Messrs. Meyn and Ruff. They engaged In the festivities of the day and finally determined to go for a boat ride. Not having rowed with the crew at Poughkeepsle. neither of them understood the actions of the boat. However, the craft was fairly seaworthy, and after having established the northern line" of the Northwestern Iron company's plant in the middle of Lake George they returned to shore. Now getting out of an automobile nJ disembarking from a boat are two

different things. Two men may leave

n automobile running aboard simultaneously, but not so with the side of a rowboat.

This the two Hammond business men

discovered to their great discomfort, for when they attempted to step from the boat to the pier the boat slid away

from them and they were uncere-monl ously precipitated into the water.

Mr. Ruff found bottom first. He

planted his feet securely in tho mud and to be sure that he had touched

bottom. Mr. Meyn, finding that Mr. Ruff

was eafe and in no danger of drowning attempted to use him for a ste.D-

ladder In ordr to make the ascend to the pier. Ruff objected to this.

In the meantime the crowd on the

shore was engaged in a side splitting

roar of laughter at the performance. No

gymnasts in the Orpheum theatre ever

had anything on those two fellows.

In a signed statement presented to

the press at a late hour today the two

directors of the Champion Potato Ma

chinery Co. had the following to say.

The public has gotten the erroneous

impression that we favor deep water

ways. We desire it to be distinctly un

derstood that we are opposed to water

any deeeper than that found in the av

erage bath tub. On the question of

bathing we do not want to be under stoood as opposing that national lnsti

tution, the bath. We simply take the

stand that there is a time and a place

for all things."

COME ON ALONG 1 COME ON ALONG! TOMORROW NIGHT Grand Cotillon

at Lake Woods Park

Beautiful Cotillon Hats for Every One. In the RATSKELLAR Paul Rockwell, Murl McCarthy and Maisie Harmon, Whirlwind Entertainers. GATE FREE.

RIDGE ROAD HERMIT

DEAD; WORTH $1000

Adolph Hufenhauser, the hermit of

the Ridge Road, died at St. Margaret's hospital on Saturday night after hav

ing been in a stupor for about two

weeks.

The body was removed to Emmer

ling s undertaking establishment

where It awaits burial. In the wilL

which was left with the clerk of the

Lake Circuit court at Crown Point,

Charles Stahlbaum Is named as the

executor.

Tne win provides that his property

shall be left to his brother In Germany, If he is alive, and if not to his

brother's heirs. The estate is valued at five or six thousand dollars. Th-jre was 40 acres of ground on the Rid era

Road and $800 In money.

From the time that he was removed

from his filthy cotage on the Ridge

Road until he died Hufenhauser was

only conscious when he was aroused.

Hufenhauser had locked himself In

his cottage where he Intended to remain until he starved himself to death. At the time he was found by the police he was in a bad condition and It

was seen that he could not live very

much longer.

He was forced to go to the hospital

where he had, for a few brief davs

before his death, the comforts that he had been denied all his life. He was attended by Dr. Alva Toung.

Lauder then made Savanah his

permanent home where he received employment In the C. M. & St. P. shops

at his old trade a machinist.. There he made good and acquired a wide circle of friends. But he had another difference with a man and with the same old revengeful spirit, Lauder purchased a revolver, met the man and pressed the gun to tne man's heart. There was a click and a small flash of fire but the shell did not explode. A scuffle followed In which Lauder's near victim took away the gun, overpower him and placed him under arrest. He was then removed to tho Savanah county Jail where he was held under $5,000 bonds on a charge of attempted manslaughter. The day following his arrest, Lauder made his first attempt to suicide but was foiled and a guard placed near his

cell. Last Wednesday while the guard

stepped away for a snort time, Lauder tore a strip from the blanket of his cot, tied one end around his neck, the

other to the steel bar and Jumped,

causing almost instant death. His remains were found sometime later on the cell floor, the strip of blanket, with which he had ended his life hav

ing broken.

Those who were most intimately ac

quainted with Lauder, believed that

the murder he committed In Hammond,

'preyed upon his mind until he became mentally unbalanced. The fact that

ne seemed to Know detectives were

shadowing him, also caused a great

deal of worry.

Lauder's home Is In Port Huron,

j Mich, and his remains were sent there

for burial. ..

cinder pile and dumped and the bodyi

recovered. Burns and McGupan were notified and the rematns conveyed to

their undertaking rooms.

The hopper which . was t responsible

for the accident had not been working

right for some time and the men were repeatedly warned not to ge underneath it when it was loaded, but the warning in this Instance was unheeded with fatal results.

The deceased was 55 year old and

boarded at 3714 Cedar street. His family, with the exception of one son who lives In Detroit, are In the old country. The body was prepared for burial by Burns and McGuan at their morgue and was then removed- to the home of Phil Holom, J720 Cedar street, from whose residence the funeral took

place at 1 o'clock today. The interment was at Oak Hill and the Rou

manian priest officiated fit thn Rorv.

ices.

A REMARKABLE

BARGAIN CENTER The great factory left-over sale that Is now running at the White Store In

nsmmona is arawtng enormous

crowds, and by the size of the pack

ages mat one sees on the streets bearing the store's name, it looks like

big business.

Manager J. J. Cohen explains why the bargains are so great and why the people clamor and wait for his sales. Manager Cohen has contracts with some of the best mills, factories

ana jobbers in the united States

whereby they send, without notice, twice a year, all seasonable goods.

lots that are too small for their trav

eling forces to sample, at prices barely covering the cost of material. When these lots arrive they are put on sale immediately at very 1 low prices, which in many instances are

25 and 50 per cent below the regular price. The White Store Is cool and comfortable and has enough trained and courteous sales people to give every customer quick and accurate service. The White Store windows are electrically lighted. portraying various factories that It has contracts with, and It is really a pleasing sight worth coming miles to look at.

$675 a share, or a total market value

for the entire capital of $675,000,000

John D. Rockefeller owns about one-

quarter of the ,sold stock, or 250,000

shares. Therefore, the increased valuation has meant $81,250,000 more for

him. '

FOUR COWS -KILLED BY LIGHTNING

(Special to "The Times.)

Dyer, Ind., July 80. During the

heavy storm swhfcTt raged here on Sunday morning, four cows belonging to Joseph Kellman, a farmer, living north of Dyer, were killed. In as much as only one loud thunder report was heard

it is thought that the animals were killed simultaneously by the same bolt. The cows were in the pasture at the time of the storm, and their killing Is a considerable loss to the owner, and

they were valued. very highly.

The Always Welcome Beverage IT is Blue Ribbon time when you are hot, thirsty or tired . A most healthful beverage that both refreshes and invigorates. No other beer can approach it in flavor or in all around deliciousness. Its popularity is due to the successful and honest efforts of its makers to produce a pure, wholesome and refreshing beverage.

Bottled only at the brewery in crystal clear bottles, showing at a glance that it is clean and pure.

Phone or write for a case.

Oakley and

Fajratto Strata

Pabst Brewing Co.

Phone 9S4M Hammond, Ind.

S3 to $10 S A V E 0

DON'T SPEND

ALL YOUR TIME worrying over your debts. Pay them all off, with OUR MONEY, and at the same time SAVE $3 to $10. we make: loans In amounts from' $5 to $100 to persons owning furniture, pianos, e t c, and also to SALARIED EMPLOYES on their OWN NOTE. Low rates, long time, small pay

ments and LIBERAL REBATES. PRIVATfc. CONFIDENTIAL. "SEE US AND SAVE MONEY." You're to blame if you forget the name. Lake County Loan Co. XS Rlmback Blk. Pkone 218 (Over Lion Store.) HAM MO X D, IJSD. OPEN EVERY EVENING UNTIL EIGHT P. M.

AUTO KICKED;

PAINTER HURT

A. B. Carrigan, painting contractor, residing at 126 Doty street, received a

painful injury to his right arm and wrist about 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon when the engine of his automobile back-fired while attempting to crank the machine. ...r....l . The machine was standing outside of tho Homewood garage, and the wind began to blow pretty hard, and Mr. Carrigan decided to run the car inside. As he attempted to turn over the engine It back fired, the crank striking his right arm and throwing him some distance against the fence. At first Mr. Carrigan did not think his arm was not more Injured than a

little sprain, l,ut in an hour it began to pain him so much that he was compelled to see a physician. Upon examining the wrist It was found that a small bone had been broken and the ligaments torn loose from the wrist bone.

LOYAL SONS MEET TONIGHT The Loyal Sons of the First Christian church are requested to be present at the regular meeting to be held at the Christian church this evening at 7:30 o'clock. A number of matters of Importance will.be considered.

JIMMY CLABBY'S

PLACE POPULAR

Jimmy Clabby has a new feature In

his Hammond buffet in the form of an exceedingly modern score board. The board Is compact and yet It shows In large figures the scores of the va

rious games and all of the Important

facts about them.

This Is but one of the many im

provements that have been made in

this place since It was taken over by sult

FLUE DUST SMOTHERS

WORKMAN

(Continued from Pag L

Zasllovlch, who was working near but not In the car at the time the accident occurred, witnessed it, but continued

his labors for an hour before he re

ported what had hapened. The car was then immediately rua out to the

the popular Hammond sportsman. It is apparent that under Clabby's management that the place will become

exceedingly popular.

Another Steel Inquiry.

The views of the house Investigating

committee, headed by Representativ

Stanley, and those of the Interstate

commerce commission as to whether j the transportation activity of tiin i

United States Steel Corporation is a fit

subject for inquiry seem to coincide as far as the independent manufacturers and shippers are concerned. Tho commission has opened another ave

nue of attack on the corporation, although the trust Is not mentioned specifically. An order has been issued, for an inquiry into the rate practices and rules governing the transportation of iron ore, wire and steel. That the investigation farill be far-reaching is issured by the Implication of three hundred railroads. The commission will endeavor to ascertain whether these railroads have any interest in the products which they transport. This "interest" is Interpreted to include stock ownership. It was brought out during the hearings by the Stanley committee that the stel trust had a profitable source of income in railroads' which it controlled or-owned outright. In March O. M. Freer, a traffic expert, told the committee that the Duluth. Missable & Northern railroad, a subsidiary of the trust, made a return on Its ore charges

in 1910 of 240 per cent, on its capital

J stock. Some of the trust's rlchent

holdings are in the Duluth region, and it was learned that this ore as well as much of that from the independent mines was transported to the lake ports on the road mentioned and the Duluth A Iron Range, another controlled line. Further evidence was Introduced to show how other stel trust

lines, Btra.teslcally built, profited at

the expense of rival lines, with the te

that the steel trust's grip was

bull moose skeeters in his town last night. It appears that a flock of mosquitoes that had been eating nivroglycerine at the Aetna powder mills traveled down to Miller late last night. J There are millions of lightning bugs at Miller, as every one knows, and one of the long-bill skeeters friskily started to sting one of the lightning bugs. I The result of the contact of the nitro-loaded skeeter and the firefly was an immediate explosion. Instant- . ly every mosquito In the near vicinity , exploded and Miller folk ran Indoors,

mistaking the series of sharp reports for the discharges of automatic pistols. No one was Injured, but fruit and berires on nearby trees a""nd bushes dropped to the ground. Judge

Westergren, who was standing near-; by, was hurled into the roadside ditch.

but escaped injury.

fore the market yesterday. So far this year orders have been taken for about 135,000 cars, which is at the annual rate of about 225,000. While., this Is not' near a record for a year, it Is about 35,000 cars above the average booked each year from 1905 to 1911.. In 1905 344,700 were ordered and $13,600 cars in 1906, but there has been a lull in equipment placing since then. Locomotive orders placed during- the first seven months of 1912 called for about 2,700 engines. Orders disclosed yesterday were for eight for the Georgia railroad placed with the Baldwin Locomotive works and seventeen electric locomotives for the Butee, Anaconda & Pacific with the American Locomotive company.

An electric railroad on Long Island has Inquired for ten miles of girder rails running from 105 to 115 pounds to the yard. ' The Canadian Pacific has entered the market with an Inquiry: for from 6.000 to 6,000 tons of fabricated steel. English makers have advanced the price of ferro-manganese Iron $2.50 per ton and are quoting $51 a ton. Credit for the greatest work with the stick this season belongs to Ty Cobb. In the double-headers played July 17-19 (no game July IS) In Philadelphia, Ty made 14 hits with a total of 27 bases.

WHY ARB YOU NOT A TIMES READKRT

HORSES ARRIVING

AT CROWN POINT (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., July 30. The race horses have beg-an to arrive for the Lake county fair and the scene at the racing stables at the fair grounds presents one of unprecedented activity. The management hopes to have a larger field of starters than ever before, and the present indication are that the hopes will be realised.

OLD STANDARD STOCK AT $1,000 j;ew Tork, July 30. Wall street saw the high water mark of $1,000 a share made for old Standard Oil stock today. When the dissolution took place tne market value ci the old stock was

strengthened. The Bessemer & Lake

Erie, a feeder for trunk lines, got. It

was shown, from 15 to 55 per cent, of

the through rates. The Union railroad

also benefited, as did the Elgin. Jollet & Eastern.

The interestate commission, being

possessed of more executive power

than the Stanley committee, probably will be able to get quicker results, but this latest inquiry will be greatly helped by the information gathered in congress. The whole result should have a bearing on the suit for dissolution. The commerce commission did much to separate the coal producing companies from the coal carrying railroads, qually beneficial results should result from a segregation In steel. Indianapolis News.

NITRO-LADEN SKEETERS EXPLODE Judge William Westergren of Miller reports a singular adventure with

STEEL ADVANCES. Higher Prices Looked for in August.

Although It was thought that when' the advances In plates, structurals and bars were made last month there would be no further Increases until

the fall, manufacturers now predict that these three major steel products will be advanced an additional $1 a ton within a few weeks. Premiums as high as $5 a ton are being charged for prompt deliveries, which would warrant the attitude manufacturers have taken. The American Iron and Steel company has advanced the price of spikes an additonal dollar per ton, ! the same advance as was made last week, making the current quotation $1.60 per 100 pounds Pittsburg basis. Also it has advanced track bolts $1 a ton, additional to the same advance j last week, making the current price j $2.05 per 100 pounds. Business with . the company Is better than It has been for years. " j Mills Short of Help. J The hot weather has caused & re- i ductlon in operations in some lines of steel making, but the entire steel ' industry of the country is now operat- j ing on a basis of something like 90 per I cent of full capacity. Owing to labor j shortage and the weather this may be ; slightly reduced "during August, but If j it were not for these difficulties operations would be at about 96 per cent , of capacity, as demands for steel are ; becoming more urgent as the time for moving the crops approaches, and the

mills are shipping as rapidly as they , can obtain sufficient cars. There is an unfilled demand for about 50,000 1 additional laborers, mostly of the unskilled class. The mills have never before been so congested with speciflcations and there are many large orders tentatively before the market which cannot be placed because of the j Inability to make deliveries as wanted. Steel companies have practically t abandoned any effort to obtain any

new business at present, as they are becoming further and further behind on their contract deliveries. Locomotives Ordered. The steel corporation has nearly 6,000,000 tons of unfilled orders on Its books, which would take six months to fill, while some of the smaller Independents are booked for as long as nine months ahead. The New York Central has inquired for 1,000 gondola cars for the Pittsburg & Lake Erie railroad. A number of email car Inquiries came la be-

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