Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 151, Hammond, Lake County, 25 November 1912 — Page 1

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Police Chief Okraj Makes Five Arrests and Disorderly Dance Will Have Its Aftermath in Judge Frank Green's Court Tuesday.

West Hammond had another cleaning up last night. As a result five citizens are in the city bastilo or are out on bond awaiting trial. The lid was pried up just a teeny little bit last night an.l it was clamped down with such a banp that no attempt will be made to raise it again until next spring, when there will be another election.

Those arrested last night were: CON MOORE, former resort keeper; charged with keeping a house of Illfa me. VIOLET COLLIN?, named by Mrs. Moore as a co-respondent in her suit for a separate maintenance; charged with frequenting a disorderly house. FRANK WALL, citizen of West HamHamnonil for years, charged with frequenting a house of ill-fame. ANTON SKIRTZ, charged with disorderly conduct; pointed a revolver at Oflcer Joseph Ponke of West Hammond. JOSEPH SKIRTZ, charged with disorderly conduct. Chief of Police John Okraj spent most of the night last night fighting the effort of the gang to remove the lid in West Hammond. He made the five arrests, mentioned atxive, himself and ass ted Officer Ponke when he was threatened hy the Swirtz brothers. The trouble occurred at a disorderT dance that was held in the old Mika's hall. The officer attempted to restore order when Anton Skwirtz pointed a gun at him. Chief Okraj came in Just at the right time and rescued the officer. H-? then arrested both of the Skwirts brothers. The cliiaf has been keeping a close watch on the J d ivekeepers who have

been refused licenses. LASt night beand a woman enter Con Moore's place and a woman enter ConMoort's place at 100 State street. He arrested them forthwith and they were taken to the police station to give bond. Chief Okraj then made the following statement: 'I'have been employed by the city to maintain law and order and I warn those who are disposed to break the law and order, and I warn those who are disposed to break the law that I will arrest tiiem every time I catch them at it."

Masonic Work.

With the exception of the regular routine work and meeting nights the Masons will have nothing of importance for the' coming week. Wednesl;iy evening the Chapter will meet and Friday the Blue lodge.

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Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 25. Whether the bonds of sis more of the accused j "dynamite plotters" are to be increased j is to be placed before the court at the j resumption of the trial today. j United States Attorney Charles W. j Miller said he would ask the court to rule on a motion for doubling the pres- ;

ent bonds of Frank M. Ryan, president of the Iron Workers' union; John T. Butler, Buffalo, vice president; Michael J. Young, Boston; Philip A. Cooky, New Orleans; Eugene A. Clancy and Olaf A. Tvettmoe, San Francisco. Young and Clancy were named by

Ortie McManigal as having met him on his dynamiting trips. Cooley Is a member of the union's international executive board. Tveitmoe was charged with having published criticisms of the trial "as anarchistic as those printed in the Union Magazine by Mary Field." It was the article by Miss Field which Federal Judge A. B. Anderson denounced in curt as "an outrageous contempt," adding, in reference to criticisms of the trial by the defendants: "If society Is to hold together this thing cannot continue."

Herbert S. Hockin, secretary of the j union, whose $10,000 bond was increased to Sii'.oO't after a witness had testified he had been accepting pay for information about the dynamiters before they were arrested, was still In jail last night. The testimony of Llndsey L. Jewel, an official of a constructing firm in Pittsburg;, that Hockin had disclosed the location of hidden nitroglycerine as early as August, 1910, and had described fully the Los Angeles Times dynamiters to Petective William J. Burns, shortly after the explosion, although arrests were not made until

four months later, and that Hockin had trailed the dynamiters about the

country at the direction of Burns, called attention to McManigal's confession. In his confession McManigal said he told John J. McNamara that Hockin was betraying the locations of hidden explosives. In the interval between the dynamiters' hiding the nitroglycerine at Rochester, Pa, and the time McManigal said he learned it was gone. Jewel testified Hockin took him to an old cooper shop and showed fifty-two quarts of the explosive hidden under the floor.

When? Quietly imperceptibly, apparently unconsciously, the Indiana Y. M. C. A. convention, which closed its three day session in Hammond last night has aroused the question In Hammond among all classes, particularly among the men of aaffirs: "When will Hammond have a permanent Y. M. C. A. institution, from which shall emanate continually a spirit such a the onvention has brought to the city?" While the Y. M. C. A. message was preached from practically every protestant pulpit in the Calumet region

yesterday, special meetings were held In Hammond yesterday afternoon and evening. Of these the farewell service in the First Methodist church last night was very impressive. NEW OKFICERS ELECTED.

Officers for the new year were eected at the Saturday evening session ol the convention. They are as follows: President Clarence B. Kessinger, Vincennes. Vice President F. E. Smith, Elkhart. Vice President Thomas C. Howe, president Butler College.

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Which Is to Be Cut Soon; C. B. Stiver Out for Revenue Collectorship.

A report from Indianapolis to Tua Times today that a big democrat had turned down a fat job at Fort Wayne received little credence in democratic -.ircles. The rt-port does sem ir.'-rible-Irom any party standpe-'nt. Speaking of jobs, speculation as to Hammond's next postmaster still con

tinues. There are plenty of the local i paU'.ots who know what '.hey wan;., but j knowing what they ra.it and what j

they will get are two difierent thing.-. Thus Frank O'Rourke. -iho hai i hankering for the "oul 1 sod," would I:ke a commission to :o to County Downs, in Ireland. Otto Duelke says he would just as soon so to Berlin a anywhere. But speculating on home sol", the name of Charles Friedri.-n has com;; on the horizon as a possible factor in the postmaytership serambl-. He is very close to Congressman-Elect John B. Peterson, and unless he is after it himself, his recommenOatlon -.ill probablv go a long way with the congressman. C. II. SttTr H'iy. Those in the nner circles of the democratic party say C'a everything with reference to the postmastership is already settled, and aiwaits but the official announcement. The probability is that it will be Mayor Smalley, the

latter getting out of t ie v. ay for John I- Rohde to run fr mcyor. While there is more or less secrecy about the postmastership. there is one man in the local ilemocraiic party, who is not resorting to any gumshoe methods to get what he wants. That man is C. B. Stiver of May street, who is now the deputy traveling revenue collector for the Sixth district. Mr. Stiver wants th" collectorship, which pays an ann".al salary of $.,000, and he has a host of friends hereabouts who want to see him get it. There is ro question about his efficiency. He has not been idle since the campaign ended. He has lined up his supporters in quite formidable array by personal interviews and letters, but it is believed

j that a down stat friend of T. Tagj gart's has the bulge on the job.

West Hammond schools on the north side were closed this evening for an

j indefinite period, owing to an epidemic ! of measles which prevails. On the south side, where the children attend the Polish parochial school and a small public ! school, there are comparatively few

j cases, and unless the epidemic spreads 1 there, these schools will be continued.

On the north side public school in which Kofi pupils are enrolled, anil the German Lutheran parochial school, with seventy pupils, were closed today. Fully one-third of the children attending these schools are under quarantine, either hecause of their own illness or

; that of a member of the family. ! In Hammond the number of cases of 'measles is steadily decreasing, having been as hisjii as si early last week. To

ward tii" end of the week the number was reduced to fis and today it was reduced to 61. There is no diphtheria in Hammond now. hut three cases of chiekenp'ix and two scarlet fever cases are reported.

WHO WANTS A REPORTER? Because R. M,! Thompson of Den Moines, Iowa, riot-"the" girl while he was at the "lakes this summer he wants to quit t)es Moines and come to Hammond to live. "The" girl probably lives in Hammond. Accordingly he wants a Job as reporter in this locality. He claims he has been running a daily paper at Creston, Iowa, but, desiring to be with "the" girl he is willing to throw over his present job and take one in Hammond. Mr. Thompson claims to be experienced and to have th best of ref erie -"i,3E, ".." girl .la., will be a matter of interest until Mr. Thompson finally reveals her name.

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REFEREE SHERIDAN

(Special to The Timfjs. Crown Point, Ind., Nov. 25. Sixtytwo of the 100 precincts of the county have been canvassed by the board which is making the recount of the ballots that were cast for the candidates for auditor. No information is bcintr given out, following an agreement that the proceedings of the meeting would be kept secret until the official count was completed. Any information that frets out Is believed to come from one of the two representatives of the candidates who are allowt i to sit on the board. There is no authoritative information as to how the count is progressing.

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Secretary E. M. Haas, Richmond. Assistant Secretary Charl-is L. Surprise, Hammond. Press Secretary Marc N. Goodnovr, Chicago. Treasurer John F. Wallick, Indianapolis. The efficient services of the Ham mond secretary of the convention committee were recognized by the convention and the nominating committee in the election of Mr. Surprise to the office of assistant secretary. At the Saturday evening session also resolution were read and adopted thanking thoso of the city, the presi and the churches for their assistanco in making the forty-third annaul convention a success. HOYS FICAST SATl'KD AY", The place of holding the next annual convention was not decided at th meetings here, but will be left to the selection of the state executive committee. Group conferences of city, railroad and student association delegates marked the afternoon. Prominent association speakers appeared before these meetings and discussed phases of the work which were designed to benefit those who heard them. Dr. Peter

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Louis Heintz to Wed. Louis M. Heintz. one of the old residents of Hammond, will be married to Anna Tryzek-Neilawbosky of West Hammond. Mr. Heintz is 55 years of age and his bride-to-be is 32 years old. Heintz is purchasing furniture which he expects to put in a cottage in West Hammond where he and his -wife will live. The parents of Mrs. Neilawbosky run a grocery store in West Hammond. The young woman has been employed In, the Heintz family as a domestic. The romance has ben brewing for a number of years.

Pennsylvania Lady on Visit to Daughter in Indiana Harbor Walks Off Street Car and Dies on Her Way to Hospital.

Senator Augustus O. Bacon. Senator Augustus O. Bacon of Georgia will probably be elected by the senate as its presiding officer when it convenes next month. Tha senator is a Democrat and although his party does not yet control the upper house it is expected that a number of Progressives will vote for him. Since the death of Senator Frye no president pro tern has been elected, but now that Vice President Sherman's death has left the senate without a presiding officer, one will havs to be chosen.

No Trace of Sharper . The police have failed to find trace of the unknown driver who given a job on a coal wagon hy Bieker Bros." Coal company last day and after delivering two loads

collecting for same, made his getaway j with $6.20. It is thought that as soon i

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Hon. Harry C. Sheridan, referee Tn bankruptcy, arrived in Hammond at 10 o'clock this morninsr, and in a short session at the federal court room disposed of several bankruptcy cases. Among the new cases taken up was the one filed by Vasa Lacanski of Indiana Harbor, in which the bankrupt and his attorneys, M'-Mahon & Conroy appeared, and after a short examination the assets in eight were set aside to the bankrupt as exempt. In tiiis ease assets of $.1,002.50 were listed with no assets other than those ('.aimed as exempt. George C. Austgoti, t ie East Side grocer, appeared with Uis attorney, '. F. Kno.viton, and several other attorneys appeared and conducted a short examination. It appearing 11iat there was a stock of goods to be sold by the creditors, .lames K. Stitison and W. W. MeMuhon, elected I'harlo B. Surprise as trustee, which election was approved Jr the court. Several attorneys appeared' from Chicago and South Bend, and after aiT examination of Benjamin Kahn of that city, who was put into bankruptcy bv

any i his creditors. Hi tier, Hunch & Uitimer was j "t Chicago, representing the largest the I realtors elected Deputy Clerk Charles Fri- i Surprise as trustee, and the court orand j dered the turning over of about J.l.noo

to the trustee, which fund has been held at South Bend pending the election

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he collected the money he made j of a trustee in bankruptcy, way out of Hammond as soon as j In the Popovich matter at Indiana

Harbor. Attorneys McMahon & Conroy appeared ami got an order on tTie trustees to turn over to the bankrupt the remaining, assets under his claim for exemption.

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(Special to Tin: Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Nov. 23. Eddie Boehm, the Chicago chauffeur, who twice wed Aimee Givins here, got out of town luckily. He wasn't arrested for perjury, probably because both he and his wife were sober the. second time they came here. The couple came to town again Saturday night'and Boehm was married under his right name by Judge Nicholson, coming to the Huh from Chicago on a niidtr'ght train. For the first time Mr. and Mrs. Boehm told the real story of their tlrst meeting and marriage and how Boehm came to be known to her as ' Kirkman." Yen, He 11 B. (iood. "I am sure that Fdwarl is going to ba a good boy now and we will forget the last few days and be happy," she Continued on Page 8.)

What began a week ago as a happy visit of a mother to a daughter whom she had not seen in some time, ended tragically Saturday when the elder woman walked off an Indiana Harbor street car going at full speed shortly before noon of that -day, dying some hours later in Hammond while on her way to St. Margaret's hospital. The dead woman was Mis. M. A. Walker, of Vandergrif t. Pa., and the (laughter she was visiting was Mrs. W. V. Lickenfelt, 416 Drummond street. Mrs. Walker who was fifty-lour years of age, in company with her son, Willie Crothers who had accompanied her on her trip from the Pennsylvania town, and her grandson, Charlie l.ickenfelt, had gone down town during the morning. The toys put Mrs. Walter on a street car at the end of the line, tell-

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prof. t. A. Sciisfer. In an address before the British association for the advancement of scii nee, of which he is the newlyelected president. Prof. Schafer startled his audience by the immensity of his claim that he can create human life. His statement, which is derided by the clergy, would if true, compel the world to remodel all its ideas of life and death.

Accompanied by a 50-mile gale Lake Michigan went on a rampage yester

day, residents along the lake front at Itobertsdale. Whiting. Indiana Harbor and Gary witnessing the worst storm in years. Damage running up into hundreds of dollars was done by the angry waves, smashing piers, breakwaters and piling wreckage of all description upon the shore. Jacob Kwsper, superintendent of the pumping station at Hammond, stated last night that. It was the severest storm he has witnessed in fifteen years. Although the lake was very rough and hoppy Saturday night the tempest did rot start :;: earnest until .Sunday morning about S o'clock and did riot abate until 'ate last night. Waves fifteen and twenty feet high smashed against the hath house, carrying such force behind them that they broke the heavy piling and break waters in tw-i .is if they were twi-f. The waves washed up as far as the pumpirg station and in some places the water stood four leer deep In the hake Front park. Considerable damage was (lone to the lawn, the raging waves

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was washed in the park. The waves washed as far as the foot of Sheffield avenue, where the waves cut into the macadam pavement, doing much damage. At Whiting. Indiana Harbor and Gary the storm is reported to have caused a similar (image.

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Promptly at S o'clock tomorrow morning. Market master F. O Kourke of Hammond will give the word to the farmers at the public market in Hammond will give the word to the farmers at the public market in Hammond, to begin the sale of their Thanksgiving fare. Dressed turkeys, which tire being slaughtered today are promised fur tomorrow morning at 22l? cents, and before leaving for the country district this morning. Mr. O'Kourke said there

would be other fowls on the market at reasonable prices, and the usual Thanksgiving trimmings of cranberries, celery, pumpkins and squash. While the popularity of the city market was n the wane, owing to the lateness of the season and the scarcity of garden truck. Mat ket master . O'Rourke decided to make one more effort to the give the people the benefit of it. His inquiry among th local butchershops brought out the fact that Thanksgiving day turkeys would sell from 2S to Z cents a pound dressed. He took up the matter with farmers who had raised a Thanksgiving poultry supply and induced them to come into the market, guaranteeing them that the people of Hammond would pay them 22'. cents a pound. He further arranged with the farmers that if the local meat markets meet this price that the farmers would drop to 20 cents with their turkeys. To prevent the shipping in of cold storage fowls he went among the faimers personally today to inspect their butchering.

No Clue to Them. Although a wide net has been spread by the police of the Calumet region to catch the bold thieves who stripped 3.000 feet of copper wire from the poles of the Chicago Telephone company, few clues of importance have been learned and the thieves remain at large. The wire was taken on Clin avenue. near the Cudahy Packing plant at Fast Chicago. .

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When r,i-:-:-, s re- fiv ney early in r c.eirihr-r :.: i- a.-'t l- intpt-rtant omen-lmcrts t th- i'. S. constitution win b, i.rged. r. prc-entative Henry of Texas, chairman of the rules committee of tic house, wiil push the proposition for changing the date of presidential ina jsjral Ihps from March 4 to the last Thursday in April. Senator Cummins bus chargu of the amendment providing for a six-y.ar non-re-t lection frrn for the president f the I'nited States, which wul probably pass the seriate early in the session anj be taken up by the house.