Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 50, Hammond, Lake County, 15 August 1912 — Page 1

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HAMMOND, INDIANA, THURSDAY, UGUST 15, 1912.

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SETS

DATES FO

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Elaborate Program Plan-

J ned for Monday, Sept. 2

by Hammond Country Club Members, When Club House Will Be Dedicated.

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KNOTTS CLAN GETS JOHN BOWERS NEW JOB YESTERDAY.

John O. Bowers.

One of the most elaborate society events that Hammond has ever experi

enced with win be the formal opening of the new Hammond Country club, which President A. Murray Turner today announced will take place on Monday. September 2, Labor day. The magnificent new clubhouse will be thrown open to the members and Invited guests on that occasion, and. the golf links and tennis courts will be dedicated by matches of unusual interest. It has been impossible until this week to fix a date for the opening festivities, but contractors have definitely assured the club officers that work will be completed and all the furniture installed by the date desired. A small army of men are now employed on the clubhouse and grounds, getting things in readiness for the date which will be epochal in Hammond's social life.

It may be assumed that the club opening will be by no means a local affair. Guests from the leading social

circles in Gary, Crown Point, East, Chi

cago, Indiana Harbor, "Whiting and other neighboring cities., As there are now nearly 200. members in the Hammond Country club, and each member

will be priveliged to Invite two guests, some idea of the size of the function

may be gleaned. A most extensive program of enter

talnment for the jen tire day : is being """ST rangod by the committee or general arrangements committee of Dr. H. E.

Sharer, H. M-. Johnson. and P. A. Parry. The program will include cup events in

both golf and tennis for men and wo

men. The preliminary golf flights will take place in the morning and the finals in the afternoon. One of the most

interesting of the day's events will be a silver cup contest for ladies on the putting greens near the clubhouse. The

committee In charge of the golf match

es consists of Rev. C. A. Smith and

Lawrence Cox.

An all-day tennis tournament will be

arranged in charge of a committee

composed of Malcolm Cleveland, Henry Conkey an Otto Gersbach. The preliminaries will take place in the morning and the semi-finals and finals in the afternoon. The club will also have a pennant and flag raising in the morning. The evening program will consist of a reception for invited guests. A musical program will be given by as orchestra, and informal dancing will take place.. Bridge will also.be one of the features and light refreshments will be served. A number of other in1 teresting features in connection with the day's program are Delng arranged by the officers of the club, and the committee In charge. FIANCEE STICKS TO YOUTHFUL FORCER

As told In this papet yesterday, John O. Bowers, formerly of Hammond and later of Gary, was nominated for congress at Rensselaer yesterday on the bull moose ticket. Bowers had no opposition. The nominee was formerly a law partner of Armanis F. Knotts In

Hammond. He was made referee in bankruptcy by Judge Anderson because he was a good republican, and, In fact, influential republicans got the Job for Bowers when he was -a very poor man. When A. F. Knotts made a fortune in Gary real estate he let Bowers In

on the Inside and the latter was able i

to clean up a small fortune, because he knew where he could take advantage of A. F. Knotts' tips. Later Mr.

Bowers moved to Gary and built a fine residence there and has since been a strong supporter of the Knottses bi

partisan machine.

RADLOFF MURDER TRIAL IS ON

MAKE FOLKS WEAR CLOTHES AT.

ATLANTIC CITY; BIC HUkVL IS RAISED

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Sensational Killing of Hus-

band by Wife Brought Up

in Trial Now Taking Place in Cincinnati; Gary and

[Ham]mond Interested.

WOMAN

CONFESSES

HER GUILT

.¶ Iliana Reidan, the self-confessed

slayer of her three weeks old baby, was held to the Superior court yester-

day afternoon by Special City Judge Glazebrook charged with murder.

.¶ The woman after hours of denial

yesterday noon made a complete confession of her crime, telling Sergeant Barker and Officer Lazaar that she had drowned the child in Lake Michigan and accompanying Sergeant Hughes and Officer Lazaar and Loncioni to the spot where she had plunged the little

one to its watery grave. .¶ The drowning occurred off the In-

land pier opposite the South Bay hotel

and after dragging the lake at the

point indicated with grappling hooks for half an hour the pitiful little body

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CITIES FIGURING IN MURDER TRIAL

CINCINNATI. .¶ Mrs. Mathilda Radeloff-Stoker, 22 years old shot her first husband, George Radeloff here on April 4. Now on trial here. HOMESTEAD. .¶ Where Henry Stoker first met the Schrepsers. When they came to Gary he came there to live with them. GARY. .¶ After leaving her first husband Mrs. Radeloff came to Gary to live with her sister Mrs. Fred Schrepser. Here she met Henry Stoker. They were married. Mrs. Stoker then went on a visit to Ohio where she killed her first husband. She returned to Gary and was arrested and for the first time her second husband learned that his bride was a bigamist. HAMMOND. .¶ The scene of the violent death on June 25 of Fred Schrepser, one of the principal witnesses in the murder case.

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the way others would have them.

The "proper" suit Is In the very latest style approved by fashion society.

There is a great rew on at Atlantic City. r-imceiiicu w Ueen instructed by the mayor, on complaint of conur.it tees, -to see that bathers wear raincoats, blankets or something of the kind as they go to the sands. ,

- If they don bathing customer at hotels and walk to the Deacn anu io son

that the bathing costumes are more pienmui hhui " " -o trv-out Is to he riven the Idea of the prudes

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JUNKET VIEWS

LINES TO SOUT

Hammond And, Gary Men Guests of Air

1 Line Officials on Trip of J Inspection.

W. HAMMOND CALLS CHARGES Aff OUTRAGE

No Truth in Tax-Dodging Story," Declare the City Officials.

Today in Judge Bromwell's criminal

court at Cincinnati begins the .trial of

Mrs. Henry Radeloft-Stoker, the youth

ful and pretty Gary bigamist, who is

to be tried ror tne murder ct ueorge it was a great outing. From La

Radelo1 her first husband. I nort h Hn wan wr the Murdock

The -work of getting a Jury has tak- nn the C!hics.sro !iitlfc Send &

en vp the time of the court during tne j Northern, Indiana. to South Bend.

past ten days. Because of the opposi- 1 where dinner was served at the Oliver

tlon to capital punishment !n Ohio tins house. The party arrived at South work hasn't been very easy. The panel Bend at 1:30 p. m. with a keen appfe-

was completed on Monday. tite for lunch. There was no speech-

Gary Husband There. making, but the officers of the various

Interested spectators at the trial will I links of the line were informally re

be Henry Stoker, a roller at the Gary I llcitated on the success of the venture.

(Continued on Page .) ' " In a few day" a Imilar trip win be

made Dy tne stocKnoiaera oi me ait Line nnd its subsidiaries. During the

trip a Btra'Kj vote was taken on the

presidential candidates, wnicn resuix-

ed in Wilson receiving 25; Taft. 21;

Roosevelt, 19, and Debs. 8,

The return to Hammond was made

2:30 and the train arrived in Gary

at 7 o'clock.

In the Hammond party there were

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JUOQgeS JjOOK UP UlieStlOn I Schloer, a Times representative. Al-

idermen Henry it. aggers, ii. aower, Harry Eastwood, JolAi Kane, John

Morlarty and John Sturm, jiiy ton-

PVio v4or , Itroller Ed -Aubrey and Tim Leary,

I I AlIIUJ L11UBO 11 Hit V. 1 1 1 1 (1. 1- . V-1- - ' I Garv: President Frank N. Gavit of

Since the Odd Fellow picnic at Kin- the Gary & Interurban road, A. C.

dele Grove, in Hammond last Sunday, Miller, president of the New York-

SUNDAY PICNIC

RAISES QUESTION ?

West Hammond city officials and

other prominent men of the community who were accused in yesterday's Inter

Ocean o Chicago as being tax dodgers, went to Chicago this morning to in

vestigate the origin of the stories, which they say are maliciously false.

'The article credits my father with

dodging taxes on property valued at

$50,000. Now, as a matter of fact, if

hey will give him 5,000 for his prop

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GrO ON JUNKET Eighty business men from Hammond, Gary, Valparaiso and Laporte, and city officials from each of those places made up a junketing party which Journeyed from Hammond to South Bend yesterday and celebrated the opening of a new route of traffic across three Indiana counties. The party left Hammond at 9:30 a. m., took on the Gary delegation an hjur later after traveling over the Hammond extension of the Gary & Interurban; ran over the newly, built lines of the Gary & Connecting railways to the terminus of the Valparaiso & Northern, where the Valparaiso delegation was taken on and then proceeded to Goodrum, where the route was over the Chicago-New York AltLine to Laporte.

ANOTHER WHOLESALE CHECK FORGERY The police ot Indiana" Harbor yesterday afternoon, arrested three check forgers who gave their names as Charles Swanson, Edward Brooks and George Church. When searched cash amounting to $170 and bogus checks made out ostensibly by the Inland Steel Co., aggregating $1,200 were found on the person of Brooks, $103 in cash and checks amounting to $1,000 on Church and $22

cash and f 1,0 00 In checks on Swanson. The men had been operating

only a short time but had already passed checks at the following places for the accompany sums: George Walcis saloon, $52. Jake Sax saloon, $52.70. Paul Bubanovich saloon, $52. Max Salmon saloon, $157.70. Brick Bailey, $52. Golden Gate Wine House, $102.20. Blue Ribbon Buffet, $104. Joe Auxeloich, $52. The prisoners were transferred to the East Chicago police station this morning for a preliminary hearing before Judge Riley.

Famous Check Forgeries Familiar to Gary, Joliet And

South Chicago Are Pulled Off on Inland Steel Payday But East Chicago Police Make Clever Capture.

Indiana Harbor was turned upside down last night by the arrest of three crooks, passers of forged checks, who it is estimated mulcted the business men of at least $1,000. There is no tellir how much more they might have gotten, had they not been intercepted in their work by the police. Clever" John Barney.' 'i"ty It was due to the i perspicacity of

John Barney who is employed at the

Inland mill, that the arrests were jma. Barney noticed suspicious Editions on the part of the crook. which he confided to Sergeant Frank Barker. The latter sent Officer :Rajchlnetz with Barney to identify

the men, to make the arrests and on the first haul only one prisoner was nailed. What was found on Ms person In the way of cash and forged checks, caused Sergeant Barker to ' detail Officers Rajchlnetx and Lamaar, the only two

department men available back hotfoot to watch for the rest of the gang. The officers found two of the gang at Barney Cohen's place and brought them in. The prisoners gave their names as Edward Brooks. Charles Swanson and George Church. It is believed there are others in the gang but thus far they have not been apprehended. ,

Arrest Caused Stir. Seldom has an arrest caused .9t much excitemenTTir Ihillana' " Harbor.

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ABOUT SIDETRACKS

Green Is a Good Fellow, But City Is Peeved at Chicago Management.

TRAIN KILLS FOUR IN A SINGLE TRIP Matirmn, A. V., Aug. IB, Salvador Valk, h Italian, vras (truck and Instantly killed by IVerr York Central' passenger No. 100 Monday ntgbt near here. At the Inquest today the engineer teatlfled that Valk was the fourth man to be killed since the train left Chicago.

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Gertrude Clark "Joe'a arrest affect our engagement? Well. I should say not. It'll Just delay our plans, that's all." Gertrude Clark, sixteen, of Cleveland, says she'll wait for the release of her fiance, Joseph Leslie, eighteen. Jailed on the charge of forging his employer's name to checks. Leslie was a bookkeeper authorized to sign .becks and he is said to have signed

n few on his f own account. Miss

Clark Is trying to have him freed, declaring he Just made a mistake.

nic should in any way be a cause for

said City Clerk Ignatz Manhowski.

myself am charged with dodging,' when

little cottage for myself." I -M-nt-ii. a -T.w '

The officials and other citlsens were I Moltke or Calumet lodge. They say

the question has been raised In Odd Chicago Air Line; W. H, Clinton, conFellow circles, whether or not Moltke structlon engineer; W. C. Phillips, loand Calumet lodges laid themselves 11a- cal traffic manager of 'the Gary & Inble for revocation of their charters on terurban; L. A. Woodward, treasurer; the ground that they gave a Sunday J- D- Price and L. H. Robblia, also of

picnic in violation of the rules of the th Alr Line; Mayor T. E. Knotts,

Judge O. L. Wildermuth, Councilmen T. "W. Englehart, A. C Mayo, P. C Finerty, Dr. T, B. Templin, Charles Greenwald. A. J. Smith of Hobart, D. Szymanski and John Slemasko, City Engineer A. C. Wllllston, Max Kirchman, C. M. Blcknell of the Gary & Southern road. M. Kozlak. Whiting,

order. Prominent Hammond

Odd Fellows,

unanimous In blaming the assessor for

the present situation. They say the whole thing looks like a frame up to bring discredit upon them. Jerry O'Rourke of Harvey, a member of the Illinois legislature, is the assessor for

Thornton township, In which West Hammond Is situated, and Frank Green

was his deputy when the assessments

were made.

PULLMAN STOCK RISES.

Pullman is a stock which has so long

been representative of the investment class that It has become a matter of custom with some people to draw In

ferences from its price movements as

the attitude toward market affairs of the most substantial class of the investing public. Pullman yesterday on comparatively heavy sales made an ex

treme rise of 3H points to 166, the highest price touched since November,

1910. Just a week ago the stock sold at 160. There wer plenty of people, on the other hand, who did not attach any special significance to this movement, arguing that they did not have to go any further than the favorable business outlook for all' the equipment companies to explain it.

that the picnic was not given under the auspices of either one' of the lodges.

"The fact that It was advertised as the

"Odd Fellows' Picnic," it is argued, was no violation of any lodge rule, as the prohibition extends only o the use of the lodge emblem and the letters I. O. O. F. in connection with a Sunday picnic. The term Odd Fellows in this connection is not construed to be a

proper name, but rather description of

the men who gave the picnic. No formal complaint has been lodged, and it is not probable 'that then, will be one. Tlys proceeds of the plenic, It is understood, were divided among the Moltke and Calumet lodges and placed in their pleasure funds.

M. N. Costleman. H. R. Snyder, City Attorney H. J. Curtis. William Hamil

ton, Ben Knotts and Amos Churchill

of Glen Ellen, 111., one of the stockholders of the road.

The first chapter in the story of the

construction of the Chlcasro New

Tork Air Line was finished yesterday. It is a story of absorbing human interest. It is a story that deals with the loyalty of a little group of men to a project that was the object of ridicule on the part of almost everyone else but the few faithful. About seven years ago a small group of men conceived the idea of building Continued on Page 7.)

j When John L. Rohde, member of the board of public works heards yester-

Green Llna. hadbeen "arrested," along W. U. Will XiXteilCl JliXperi-

with a number of prominent Elks, as a prelude to- the picnic, Mr. Rohde hopd to hear that Mr. Green was

ment to Pittsburg.

Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 15. The West-

charged with maintaining a public ern Union Telegraph company will put nuisance, in the shape of poor tracks girls In as messengers in its Pittsburg and lack of sidetracks. Rhode and offices. The change is to be made Green are good friends personally, and soon, according to J. J. DlehL superboth are agreed that a sidetrack at the lntendent of "messengers, corner of Calumet avenue and State '. The company Is using girls as messtreet, Is a necessity, but when It comes J sengers In Connellsvllle. Greensburg to the point of actually putting In the ; and some of the smaller cities. In sidetracks, Mr. Rohde says, the board ; Pittsburg the girls will be put first In

thus far had to content itself thus far . the branch offrces.

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SUES INDIANA STEEL COMPANY Peter Drokovlch through his attortomeya, MeMahon- & " Conroy, has started an action against the Indiana Steel company to recover $5,000 damages for an accident to his foot which resulted from Its being crushed by the fall of an ingot.

LAST WORK ON , JGr. & I. DONE (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Aug. 15. The

last work of the Gary & Southern j Traction company was completed lastj night when the brick paving was! practically laid and finished after tho ' street has been In sorry condition for ! weeks. The debris will be cleaned up I before the end of the week and the ' last vestige of construction work wtTl"

be done at that time. TThe merchants on the east side of the square will be , ready to' hold a Jubilee to celebrate i the cleaning up of the street, whose! condition has been a detriment . to

business for some time.

The choicest of all Scrap. Chewing

Tobacco is UNION SCOUT.Thanufac-

tured from the pure leaf., flandled by all dealers. Try a package, save the

ticket. See premium list.

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WILSON NOT COMING TO INDIANA ON TOUR Seagirt, N. J., Aug. 15. Governor Wilson decided definitely this afternoon not to attend the ceremonies at Indianapolis next week when his running mate, Governor Thomas R. Marshall, is notified of his nomination. Governor Wilson telegraphed tils re-

only with promises. The blame for this, however, lies mainly with the Chicago management and not in the good will of the Mr. Green.

Girls are mpre conscientious and

less liable to interruption on delivery trips, Dle'hl says.

GARY FEAT DUPLICATED

Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 15. An i eight-room house was reported stolen today by Frank N. Edmonds, a prominent real estate dealer. Edmonds declares some one moved the, house oft Its lot within the last two months. To- ! day he went to the lot and the house j

w.as gone, every stick of it except a !

HARVARD'S GRAND OLD MAN IS HOME

grets to Governor Marshall, saying ! Htla rubblsh. Tht! poHce have fund

that previous engagements tn the east

no trace of the stolen residence.

prevented his coming.

The nominee's first campaign speech J ,rjTTOT7T1Ti fW outside of New Jersey will be dellv- Jt UOXlljU Uli

ered on Aug. 20 at a Granger's picnic

i vviiiiams urove, near Harrisbursr,

Pa.

TIMES STORY AIDS POLICE The first part of the week The Times carried a paragraph that thieves had stolen six pigs from a farm as Harms living between Gary and Hobart. The Whiting police read the article. Yesterday a man drove into that town and it was noted that he had. six pigs in his wagon. The police arrested him on suspicion and he Is held there pending further advices from Gary.

WAGON; HURT

TOBACCO PRESIDENT VISITS GARY . George McHie, president of the Mc-Hie-Scotten . Tobacco company of Detroit, was in Gary yesterday in the interests of his company. Mr. McHie came over from Hammond.

As a result of being pushed out of a Cudahy meat wagon at Roby yesterday afternoon Stanley Duczm&l, 10342

Avenue G, South Chicago, about 17 j years old, received a painful injury to ! his Jeg when the rear wheel ran over his limb above the ankle. Unable to regain his feet Ducrmal was picked : up by a number of boys who saw the ; accident and taken to St. Margaret's i hospital, where he is reported getting along nicely. I Whether Duczmal was stealing a i ride or not is not known, but a numS ber of boys witnessing the accident stated that the driver for the Cudahy

meat wagon, No. 268, pushed the boy from the wagon, the rear wheel passing over the boy's leg above the ankle. Instead of stopping to see if the lad was Injured the driven went on his way across the state line. An effort was made to find the driver, but as yet his arrest has not been made.

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