Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 185, Hammond, Lake County, 7 January 1913 — Page 1
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7 TYT WBiTHEI. SNOW AND COLDER TODAY; WEDNSDAYl FAIR AND COLD. EDITION ONE CENT PER COPY; - .(Back Numbers S Cent Copjr.) ,VOL. TO; NO. 185. HAMMOND, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1 913.
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George Parker of Hammond ; Mangled Under Erie Freight Last Nigit While
Intoxicated ; Shot and Kill
ed .Woman Two Years Ago
Intoxication, resulted in the final
traic chapter in the life of George
Parker, 70 Plummer avenue, Hammond
oarlv last nisrht when failing to hear
the warning of crossing watchman, A.
J. Hord, he was hurled into eternity by an eastbound Erie freight train. jWlth his untimely death last night the
shocking j tragedy on the evening of April 25. 1910 is recalled when Parker
came home in a drunken condition.
nulled a revolver out of a drawer and
killed his housekeeper. I
His tragic end occurredat the (deadly
Hohman street crossing shortly after i o'clock last night. Parker was suppos
ed to work in the place of another watchman who was oft duty and when - he came to work, he appeared In an
intoxicated condition. Hord, another watchman and Parker were sitting in
the watchman's shanty when they noticed an approaching eastbound
train.
Grabbing a lantern, Parker stumbled out of the door and walked toward the
Erie tracks, heedless of the warning o
Hord who tried to call him back. As though he imagined the oncoming train
was on the Monon tracks, Parker walk
AIR HOSE JOKER
GOES T FREE
Ross Finds no "Criminal
Intent" on Part of Slayer.
John Katara, who was held for the
death of Joseph Artin, his 18-year-old
helper at the Standard Steel Car plant last week, walked out of his prison cell
i free man. The coroner's inquest and
the ilvestlgatlon of Deputy Prosecutor Ralph Ross did not reveal any evidence
tending to show that there was any
criminal intent for Katara's action in applying the compressed air hose to
Artin. Katara heaved a deep sigh of
relief-'as he walked out of the jail.
the remaining evidence for the inquest
was submitted at 7 o clock last night,
when it was all in, he was released.
The death of Artin is the latest of a
series of similar ones in the Calumet
region, due to the ghastly air hose.
joke and it has caused considerable
discussion. . As long as the prosecution
would be unable to show a criminal intent a conviction in such a case would
fall under the law, but there is a united
demand for a law that woui make an
example of jokers like Katara.
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U1SURAUCE MATTERS JAY GET HI CQUR
j iif?bablyWiU-Re;. ' ym a Lawsuit. ' stomach m .
"Eifficulties - in"- i&uitfc1 tne .a,oQnt
THIEVES BREAK INTO
CLUB BOAT HOUSES
Steal Nothing of Value,
However; Similar Depredations Recalled.
DR. M. P. BOYNTON, NOTD CHICAGO PASTOR, ' WHO SPEAKS AT THE HAMMOND BAPTIST CHURCH.
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BILLY RU6H PLE
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SAYS COUSIW
Rock Island Relative of Dead ; Hero Hakes Sensational Charges. Charges Memorial Was Boom Scheme
Members of the First Baptist church of Hammond will have an opportunity during the next two or three weeks of hearing a well-known Chicago pulpit speaker, the Rev. Dr. M. P. Boynton of the Lexington Avenue Baptist church. Dr. Boynton will assist the Rev. F. H. Adams in an evangelistic campaign which will be conducted at the First Baptist church. Speetel orchestra and choir music will be rendered each evening.
According to Bock Island relatives of "Billy" Hugh, the Gary newsboy who gave up his life to save the life of
a girl, all the honor that Gary did to the hero was empty, and his heroism has become merely an excuse for
landing the name of the city where
he lived.
Mrs. Ida McCabe of Rock Island,
111., in her home in that city last night made the charges that all of the expenses attached to the illness and
funeral of "Billy" Hugh, the Gary newsboy who gave his life to save that of Miss Ethel Smith, have come
out of his estate and from relatives of
the young hero.
SAVS HONOR WAS EMPTY.
She says that the savings of Billy
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of insurance on the C. Gauthler resi
dence, on Webb street, which was so badly damaged by fire - on Christmas eve, may result in a lawsuit. It is understood that the insurance company
handling the residence refused to
meet the claims set forth ' by Mr. Gauthier and have been given an ultimatum which, it not agreed to, will re suit in legal proceedings.
The house wa3 even worse damaged
than reported the day after the Are, and
it is declared that it will cost nearly
St. 000 to DUt it in the shape it was in
before the fire. No attempt for the
present will be made to make any re
pairs until the question of the amount
of insurance is definitely settled. No trouble is being had with the insurance
on the furniture or belongs to the
" house.
River thieves are reported having;
broken into a number of boat houses on
the river off Sohl street, at Hammond,
some time during the past week,-ago.
although nothing of value has been
found missing . it is evident that the
thieves entered the boat houses with the intention of plundering. . Th report was made by O, D. Duckworth, 79ft Beall avenue, .stating that his a ad, two other boat houses, belonging' i$ 'Caspar ' Schilling and Tone?
Laucicer, ha4 oeeiib-roken Jto,, .' ' .f
Tha police recall a number o? boat
houses being broken into last year
about this time, .the, thieves making
their getaway, with, a, large amount Of
brass. neaTly strirfnine one boat of its
The Hammond Motor Boat club house
was also broken into and ransacked. The police have taken up the case and
hope to punish the guilty parties wti have been committing the boat house
thefts.
BOARD N
meeting
1ST OF
JEW YEAR
gen. :mills praises
U. S MILITIA FORCES
TREAT
THE
FOR
MASONS
sua in uwwn ?int: yMtuotr i j--v I on the 5eet2erining f T . 5 C -Kr"T' typo-bridge to be used acr? XjI&Z 01 Applicants
Would Serve Government ' in Official Capacity Lacks Names of Local Men; Here It is: - - ' - i
f 'T I - . j I Ik- -y i
Hammond Masons and their families
will be treated to one of the noted Leffingwell's travel talks at Masonic temple tomorrow evening. The talk will be Illustrated with motion pictures and colored slides. The subject is "A Trip Through the Golden West." In illustrating his travel talks Mr. Lefflngwell will use 190 beautiful colored slides and a aeries of 20 motion pictures. The journey will start at
Omaha, thence to Denver, Colorado Springs. Manitou, ' Rocky Mountarn
Range, Pike's Peak, Gray's Peak, Gar
den of the Gods, Weber and Ogden
Canyon, Yellowstone Park, through the Pacific Coast from Oregon to the Old
Missions in Lower California.
. The entertainment is free to Masor and their ladies, and a big crowd is planning to attend.
- j. (Special to The Timep.)
Crown Point, Ind- Jan. 7. The County Comlsfiioners at the first meeting
of 1913 in Crown ,Pc,int yesterday de
tha
th canal, at, Forsythe avenue. Oha thing that had considerable weight
with the members of the board in-arriving at their decision is the fact that a number of Scherrer bridges are al
ready In operation in the district and all giving satisfaction. The Hohman street bridge is of that type as well as th C L. S. and E. J. & E. and one of the Lake Shore railroad bridges. The bridge now under course of construction at Chicago avenue and Canal street are also of the same make. By advertising for bids at once it
will be possible for the commissioners to let the contract for the work at the March meeting of the board. . In case this is done the firm receiving the contract should be able, with any kind of fair luck to complete the Job this year. If this is done the people of the whoie district will be highly gratified. Commissioners Richard Schaaf and , Matt Brown were present at the meeting
I yesterday, but Commissioner Levi Hutton
was obliged to be absent on account of sickness. , It is expected thatthe county council will hold a meeting in tha near future when they will make the appropriations
LAKE GO. LACKS JOB HUNTERS
COLD WAVE ' TODAY. Washington, Jan. 7. The eastward advance of the first cold weather of the winter, coming down from Alaska arid the .Canadian northwest, has been effectually retarded by fin area of high pressure developed over the western Atlantic ocean and coast ' states, the weather bureau announces. Very lo wtemperatures prevail throughlow temperatures prevail througherature extending Into the Texas panhandle. ' Abnormally high temperatures tjr this season of the year -prevail east of -tha 'Mississippi fiver, except in
have been used in paying these obliga
tions.. Mrs. McCabe is a cousin of Billy Rugh, and was;with him when he died. She also charges that all the, honor that, the city, of Gary heaped on the newsboy was empty and was used aa J an excuse for bringing the name of , the town prominently before the public " "OTHERS WERE TO PAY." ; She says that all the hospital expenses and the fee of the surgeon were to have been paid by others under an agreement at the time of the operation. Billy was not to be called upon to meet any of the bills, He was to give his time and his leg and run the risk of the operation. He fufllled his part of the bargain, but the Burgeon's fee, 'according ' to Mrs. McCabe, is still unpaid. - DID SHE PAY EXPENSES? The funeral was held and a committee was named -to recelvo sabscriptionj
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ST. PAUL'S CHURCH III AIHIUAL LIEEIKIG
Lutheran Congregation
-Elects Officers for the Coming Year. , . . '
; i W.he-extreme northeast but the fold WnC fthe -Ohio-valley, the upper lake and
Where are the Lake county patriots? Has this county no zealous citizens who are anxious to serve the dear peepul and their native land for a monthly stipend and perquisites? Judging by the list of applicants who have put in a bid for positions as collectors of internal revenue. United States marshals, United States district attorney and the rest of the offices within the gift of the Indiana United States senators and congressmen, tho peope of Lake county are all too busy with their own affairs to wish to serve their government. . Senators Shively and Kern have received a large number of 'applications tor federal positions r from elsewhere. -A dispatch from Washington gives the
for bridges across the canal at 141st , following as the list of those who have and 151st streets. It is hoped that filed.formal applications:
fe-est lower . lake regions by Tuesday night. It will be accompanied by snow over the nortti and central districts and by rains over - the southern districts. . Rain or snow win "result in the Atlantic states Tuesday night and will be accompanied by a fall in temperatures. Cold wave warnings have been ordered - for Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, i Tennessee, Mississippi and northern Alabama.
,At the annual meeting oU St, Paul's German Lutheran congregailon, in the school hall,, last night, .officers were elected' for the ensuing- ytar- and re
ports for th. past year were heard. The
FAMILY TAKE AUTO RIDE: ip BURIIS East Chicago Firemen Eisli Lives to Save r Children ; Thought to Be,7ithjh. '.
While enjoying an ' automobile spin, Joe Herat and his family were In bliss-y ftrl ignorance, last -evening ' that their lvom'e at 1'orsyth avenue and Cme Hun
dred and Forty-elgrt eteeJUESt Cbi-
flourishing condition, and among oth-1 ' Whn they returned however 4hay .
er thlng-s ,it was ' decided to; oelebrate : tow. hat parVof the .fcuUdtog, . of ihe tenth anniversary .of the dedication"' B,ch tho.tiir'j?- rowu; was. he; iaa(q of the church shortly after Easter ' Th- feature,, had- Wn-autted, the ; stovti. -
WILL REGAIN AT TYROL COLLEGE
these year.
bridges may also be built this f Collectors of internal revenue at In-
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BAPTIST CHURCH IS (10V1 INCORPORATED
TRUSTEE PRAISES ! CHARITY MEETING
.John C. Becker, trustee of North
township, who took part in the charity J conference vhich was held at Gary last week, said today that he believed that j meetlngb of tins nature are very proflt- j
able, because they give people a differ, ent conception of charity work. "Many people are under the lmpres sion," said the trustee, "that charity consists in giving relief. That Is true as far as emergency relief is concerned but the best kind of charity nowadays is the kind that teaches and helps the unfortunates to take care of them-
themselves."
Brig. Gen. A. L. Mills. In his recent annual report on th strength of the organized United States militia. Brig. Gen. A. L. Mills., chief of the division of militia affairs, declares that he finds existing organizations better armed, uniformed and equipped, better instructed aird better officered than ever before. Tha infantry of the organized militia consists of 6., 316 officers and 97.627 enlisted men, organized into 139 regiments, eight separate battalions And ttonrteen. separate companies.
The Baptist congregation last night CROWN PT. CITIZEN held its annual business meeting, and i HAS A BAD FALL among other things the trustees signeu j
incorporation papers incorporating the church. Th3 papers were submitted b Attorney W. J. "Whinery and were signed i-y W. H. Hammond, president of the board of trustees, and Messrs. F. W. Kimball, John Wolfe, E. W. Bump and A. C. Berry The church fellowship campaign, which was begun a week ago last Saturday, is stll: eing continued In the Baptist church, and last night and for the next two or three weeks the Rev.
j M. P. Boynton of the Lexington Ave- ! nue church.-Chicago, , will deliver the aadresses at t ie Baptist church.
TJr. Boynton those for his subject last night, 'iTepentance." The Baptist orchestra and the church choir fmniahed the music.
(Special to The Times.) Crown Point. Ind., Jan. 7. One of
i the accidents Incident to the icy sidei walks and pavements yesterday was
that of Mr. Zrubriggan Sr., who fell on a walk near his home and broke his shoulder blade, besides sustaining other bruises. Dr. Blackstone was Called to attend the Injured man and says it
will be some time before he will be fully recovered from the effects of the bad fall. Many other minor accidents resulting from falls on the Ice were reported, and an aeroplane would have been about the safe'', method of locomotion for the much troubled ; pedestrian yesterday.
VIRGINIA BROOKS TO WRITE HOVEL
Militant West Hammondite to Add Another to Her Accomplishments.
Hammond Youth Will Not Return to America, as Was Planned.
Will Meet Friday. The regular monthly meeting of the directors of the Hammond Settlement House Is scheduled for this afternoon. A number of matters of importance are to be taken up.
Township Board Meets. The North township advisory board, composed of President William Hopp, Phil; McLaughlin and Richard Hook, met in the office of Trustee John C. lacker for the auditing of the booko; Ti.e work practically , required an allday session. ' "
Virginia Brooks, . who has seen enough service to entitle her to the appellations' of reformer, humanitarian, politician and lecturer, is about to add another distinction to herself that of becoming sn author. Any one who knows ti:e initiative of the young wonan tees notl. ing very startling In the announcement that she is to write a novel. There is no question about her capability. She enjoyed an excellent education in the fine arts, but best of all, she has ideas of her .uvn. and can express them In forceful language. It is understood that some of the West Hammond situations as she found them In her militant career there, are to bo reflected to some extent in the forthcoming .novel. Whether any of .he cliaractors will represent herself remains to be seen. Inasmuch as her activities have been largely along sociological lines, it is taken for granted that her book wi;l be along these lines, too. Its publication is awaited with interest.
Mat Boney, whose son, Edward, Is attending a Catholic college at Inns
bruck, in -the Austrian synod, has re
ceived word that he will . remain in Graun
school instead of returning to America", as had been planned when Austria became involved in the Balkan embroglio. It was feared at that time .that the famous college, whose students number '5.000, from all parts of the world, would close down If war actually broke out. So many of the young men were
notified that they would be called upon to join the army that the college i attendance would have been wholly dej.pleted.
Mr. Boney's son writes mm that tne interest in the war In Austria is at fever heat, and that nothing else Is seriously discussed but war and Its prospects and possibilities.
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collection, which will be taken up on this day,, will be contributed to the new teachers seminary at River - Forest. The location of the new school means really the removal of the old school from Addison, 111., but new buildings will be -erected on the new site. The following congregational officers were elected: President A. F. W. Fcdder. . Secretary William Koencke. ' Treasurer H. W. Schzeiber. First district, trustee (2 years) mrnt District. Trustee 2 years Frank Brietzke. Collector (1 year) R. Muenich. Second District. Elder (2 years) August Genrich. Collectors (2 years) Louis Doege and A. F. Eidam. Third District. Trustee (2 years) Frank Schwertn. Collectors (2 years) Herman Berg and Christ Schwanke. Fourth DlHtrlct Elder (2 years) A. F. W. Fedder. Collectors (1 year) F. A. Bunde and R. Berg. . Fifth District. Trustee (2 years) Herman W. Schreiber. Collectors (1 year) Ij. Jfeubauer, C.
and Emil Eberi.
Sixth District
School trustee )3 years) August Fiebelkorn. I Collector 1 year) Ernest Holts. I Auditing committee Paul Fedder, j Messrs. Schroeder and Meier. Registration secretary CI year) Mr. Linscnmanr,. ' The statistical report for the congre- ;
gution for 1912 Is as follows: Communicants ,...1,100 Voting members 190 Baptisms 6" Communions 1.S24 Marriages 25 Burials 29 Conftrmants 45
dining1' room table and ther -furniture having fallen through to the basement.
by reason of the! floor -under, thera being burned away, ' - it - ' 1 In, the meantime, the": fire .department on arriving to find the doors Jocked. aud apparently everyone gone was -Informed that there, were children inside the burning cottage. A number of firemenrisked their lives in a , search of .tae premises for the children, but the house was empty. Fortunately, the children had .accompanied their parents. - ; V When Mr. and Mrs. He-rod, the former of whom is ticket. agent for th Wabash Railroad -company, left the house, there iwaa a good fire in the heater in the. dining r.oom. Apparently the stove become overheated and set fire to the floor. : . ; - , y . .. . The loss Is estimated conservatively at $1,500, but it may be gTeater. Mr. and Mrs. Herod who with their family went to Hammond to spend the nisrht after returning to their desolated home, could not bo reached, so nn accurate-' estimate of the loss was not .secured. Among other pieces of furniture ruined by flames and water was a piano.
ADVERTISE A D AGAIN IN THE TIMES.
ADVERTISE
TRAIN ANNOUNCER USES TELEPHONE
BOYS CUT LOOSE
FROM NOTRE DAME j
This morning Chief Austgen of Hammond received a communication from. Captain Halpln of he Chicago police department asking his aid In locating , three young boys who ran away from: the school at Notre Dame, Ind., yester-; day. Captain Halpin has the lmpres- ! sion that the runaways are headed this way and Chief Austgen has issued orders for his men to keep a sharp.)
lookout foe them. - The three boys are well dressed and range in age from'15 to 20 years..
MASONIC COUNCIL WILL INSTALL The Hammond Council, a Masonic organisation of recent date, will install its newly-elected ofticersi at a
meeting tnis evening. The new officers of the Hammond : Chapter were installed last night and the installation of the officers for the i Hammond Chapter will take place on !
the 16th. The installation in the Blue
lodge was held last Friday evening.
HAMMOND FOLK SAIL.
; rorsTnr n.rn. Smoktaaf or rhrirlig. Bis; package 5r. McIIIe-S. Tob. Co. Bare the tickets MM aee our premltm lMrt. Adv.
Hold Annual Meeting. , The annual meeting of the Home
Building Loan and Savings association t make
will be held on Thursday evening of thl3 week at 7:30 o'clock in the rooms of the Employees "Life and Casualtycompany in the Citizens" bank building. " " . ' ' ' The old officers have served with efficiency and it is understood that an effort will be made to re-elect the entire official family.'
New York City. Jan. 7. Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe E. Woods of Hammond, who sailed Saturday noon on the Hamburg-American . line S. S. Moltke, will
their first stopping place at
Kingston, Jamaica, where they, will cross the Island to Port Antonio and visit Constant Springs. They will not visit Cuba until the last part of their cruise on the. return trip from Panama and Colon. They will arrive in Kingston. Wednesday morning. , .
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The accompanying picture was taken In an obscure turner ot tbe bl union station t Washington. It shows th train announcer about to telephone train information to tha station crowds. Him voice ia magni
fied end carried t a dorn or more homa attached to the welting, room