Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 232, Hammond, Lake County, 3 March 1913 — Page 8

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Jdoiiclay, March o, front end of the Green Line car. The1 South Shore was badly scraped and lost two steps as an evidence of the encounter, i Fortunately there were few passeng T TO SCHOOL BUILDING UNSAFE, SIX HUNDRED PUPILS GO ON STRIKE IN CLEVELAND; WIN POINT AND BUILDING WILL BE REPAIRED ers on the Hammond car. but the South Shore train had more passengers t aboard and they crowded to the exits. ' EI LIFE IN HOTEL piling off pell-mell, thinking they were In a sure-enough wreck. The South Shore train was able to proceed on Its way, but the Hammond car was put out of commission and traffic on this line-was-delayed for a time. Conductor Landls was In charge OF BATTLE of the South Shore train. Hitchcock i was the motorman and Ed Davis the collector. The Green Line car- was in charge of Conductor Stringer and Motorman Moore.

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.. A young man about 21 years oil. who registered under two different names, used a pistol and the gas Jet in an attempt to end his life at the Gary hotel this morning. Promptness on the part of the hotel staff probably saved his life. V This moraine about 3 o'clock nearly everybody at the hotel was awakened by the report of a pistol. It was thought, however, that the shooting was a block away and this opinion was held by the policeman on the beat. As he was going to his room at 7:15 o'clock Night Clerk Ceroid tSunnlug noticed the odor of gas on the third floor. Tracing it to room 320, he. got no response and then broke into the room. Stretched out on the Moor was the body of a young man, his hand clutching a pistol. Throwing open the windows to save his own life, Mr. Gunning hostily summomned Hairy Sommers, the proprietor, and informed him that one of the guests had commited suicide. Mr. Sommers went to the room and found that there still was some life left. Mr. Sommers rang up a. doctor and in the meantime he applied restoratives, loiter he was removed to the Gary General hospital. ' The wo,uld-b -r suicide on Saturday night registered under the name of Joe Biartonsml on Sunday night as Frank Graygal. His home is said to be in Chicago. A note he loft complains of a pain In. the head. Mr. Sommers believes that he missed fire when he discharged the pistol and that he then used the gas route, but neglected to close a window that was partly open, which with the prompt restoratives saved hislife. OFFICIALl LMO.X SCOL'T SCRAP wttk tae utorn label stands for superiority. All dealer haadMma- It. Save yssr tickets. ARK TOe-tlMES RBADBBt

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rack of Gary will not have to come to school wearing his mother's peek-a-boo shirtwaist, and shoes that don't keep the winter snow from his feet. A Times' reporter on Saturday col- j lected from some of Andy's admirers enough to get him new shoes, shirts and possibly a cap. Andy is the boy who made the most improvement in the clean face and hands contest at the Froebel school. The contest was started by Miss Laura Knaggs, the primary grade teacher, and it has won national publicity. Today Prof. S. J. Brickley, principal of the Froebel school, received the following letter: , t "There is enclosed a postal money order for $10.02, which you will kindly hand to Miss Knaggs. The writer promised her that some money would be secured from Andy's admirers to buy him some new shirts, shoes,-,under-wear, etc. This sum represents the contributions of 102 persons, none of whom was permitted to give more than a dime. If there is any left over after Andy is raken care of probably Miss Knaggs may find that little Katziana or some of her other charges need stockings or hair ribbons." Some time aftVr classes are over with Miss Knaggs will take Andy to a clothing store and have his wants attended to. ' STREET CARS COLLIDE IN EAST CHICAGO (Continued from Page onai bound, composed of motor car No. 114 and two trailers, reached the Forsyth avenue crossing just ahead of the Ham mond, . Whiting and East Chicago car numbered 608, Northbound. The former stopped as is customary, on the edge of the crossing and then proceeded across. Car No. 508 of the H. W. & E. C. was coming on full speed, but expecting that it would stop, the South Shore motorman continued on his way across Forsyth avenue. According to the mo torman on the Green Line car, his brake failed to work and he took the cross ing full tilt, plunging into the center of the South Shore train's motor car. The South Shore motorman. stopped his train, but not until It ripped oft the e

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sition developed In the very cities that were expected to benefit from the prop- ' ositlon. j Accordingly the project was abandon-' ed and will probably not be taken up again until two years hence wven the legislature meets. The failure to get the cooperation is not much of a disappointment to the boosters who favored it for the reason that the project was only suggested to them by tne trustees oi tne drainage aistrlct of Illinois a week ago. The failure is regarded as a diplo matic one purely and simply. While Gary might not have agreed to any proposition for a drainage district it might have been invited to help frame the bill and to take part in the original negotiations which lead up to the de cision to start such a project. Gary's claim was that it would have to pay over one third of the taxes of the proposed district and that most of the benefit would accrue" to the cities in north township. It also objected to its representation on the proposed board. Some of the Gary newspapers incited feeling on the subject by claiming that the project was fathered by political bandits in Hammond and was for the purpose of taking $450,000 out of the Gary treasury for the purpose of building sewers in north township cities. Those back of the project in Hammond, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Whiting saw that lt was useless to go ahead with such a violent opposition and the whole matter was dropped. FOR YOU. I'JTIOX SCOIT SCRAP. COUNTRY CLI B aad FOREX pins cot groYrlna- by leaps aad bounds. Quality aad quantity counts with consumers. MrHle S. Tob. Co. Adv. PATENT MEDICINES AT CUT PRICES SUMMERS PHARMACY Merchandising Druggists , o o

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TIMES BUREAU AT THE STATE CAPITAL - Indianapolis, March 3. War is expected in the house, today, when the new specific appropriations bill introduced by Representative Cravens comes up before the house as a committee of the whole for consideration. There is a little band in the house that is determined on putting in all of the salary grabs that can be stuck Into the bill.

This same crowd fought for the salary grabs when the first appropriations bill was before the house and they are whetting their knived for the more economical members who are opposed to salary grabs. The Cravens bill does not contain a single increase, and this is especially obnoxious to a good many members. who appear to think more of salary grabs than they do of alything else. Another thing that may cause war again today is the Weidler garnishee bill, which may come down for pas sage. Garnishee biljs have caused more trouble than any other one things this session. It was on the garnishee bill that all of the scandal over the manipulation of the roll calls in the house Friday night was caused. It was discovered that a number of members had been recorded as voting one way on the bill when in fact they had vot ed another way. It was charged that one of the roll clerks who was recording the vote had been lobbying against the bill. As a result of this disclosure and the disclosure that the roll call had been manipulated one roll clerk was removed, and another clerk ten dered his resignation. So the gar nishee bill is always good for a lively session at any time. The house and senate have been passing bills to beat the band in the last day or two. Dosens of bills have been passed that the members did not understand. They voted for them be cause some other member asked them to. It is safe to say that 90 per cent of the members do not know anything about the bills they voted for. Bills are amended and twisted around and then put through and no one knows anythings about them. The fact is that the legislature is running loose and wild, since Tom Taggart took his hand off the throttle. As soon as the demo cratic administration and platform bills were out of the way Taggart apparently stepped aside and left the legislature to run itself.. And the result has been that the body is running Month by County Dailies

At the top, banner beirr calltnar for raeruttai bottom. the stairway ' landlns to vrlilca youni strikers ' and mothers objected. Tha strangest, strike on record has Just coma to a close in Cleveland. Six hundred children of the Glddings school of that city said the building was unsafe. The acting superintendent of school buildings in the city, J. A. McDonald, declared the building to be perfectly safe and refused to make repairs. Then the children refused to attend school and struck for a safer building. The mothers of the district, fearful of & repetition of the Coliinwood horror of several years ago when hundreds of children were burned to death, stood back of the young strikers. They even acted as strike pickets, stationing themselves on street corners near, the school building and urging all children to stay away; Then Assistant State Fire Marshal C. H. Crawford was called in. He examined the school building, declared the children were right and Superintendent McDonahl was vrong, and recommended additional Are escapes, new stairways and general strengthening of the building. The repairs will ha made.

wild. Where lt will all end no one: knows. I The inheritance tax bill which the ; governor has signed and which will i become a law when the governor issues his proclamation about the middle of April, will, it is thought, bring the state from $400,000 to $500,000 a year : in taxes. It grades the amount of the j tax according to the degree of relationship of the beneficiary to the de cedent the rate ranging from 1 per! cent' to 5 per cent. . Exemptions are made of $10,000 inheritance by a widow and $2,000 for each child. Smaller exmptions are made ranging from $100 to $500, according to the degree of relationship. Property inherited by one Catholic bishop from another for church purposes also is exempted. The bill is voluminous and it would take a great deal of space to explain it. All taxes are to be collected by the county treasurer and paid over to the state treasury. The law gives the governor power to appoint, on the recommendation of the state tax board, an income tax Investigator, at a salary of $2,000 a year and expenses. The governor has signed a number of bills, among them being the Koenig Fort Wayne bill to regulate the Bremen's pension fund. Another is the ; Van Auken bill requiring divorce suits to remain on file sixty days before they may be tried. Another is the Fleming bill authorizing the county commissioners of Allen, Vigo, Lake and Marion counties to increase the salaries of their county superintendents to $2,500 a J year. ' j The bill providing that no railroad j fireman or brakeman can be promoted ' to conductor or engineer, who has not : had two years' experience. The Van. Auken bill requiring the township trustees to enumerate all old soldiers of the Mexicun, civil and SpanishAmerican wars at the same time that he takes the school enumeration also was signed. Another bill signed was the Franklin bill to admit the soldiers of all wars to the state soldiers' home at Lafayette. Another was the Hughes bill authorizing a tax levy for the purpose of establishing public playgrounds in cities of the second, third and fourth classes. The senate has passed the bill to make "On the Banks of the Wabash" the official state sons of Indiana. The Koenig-Dickinson bill to etsablish the nine-hour work day for women has been set as a special order of business for Tuesday at 10 o'clock. It will be voted on at that time. One of the good jokes of the session is found in the Mitchell 'blackbird" bill. This bill was introduced in the house and It authorized the killing of blackbirds in cities as nuisances.. It passed the house, all right, and went to the 'senate. Senator Adams moved to strike out the word "blackbirds" and the amendment was adopiev 'efore anybody knew what it ni-2rT. The result was 'that the bill was worthless without that word, for it was all there was to the bill. The bill as amended went back to the house, which refused to accept the amendment. Now, the blackbird bill is the subject of a solemn and dignified conference , committee from the house and senate, which is trying to agree on the wording of the bill. - The "pure shoe" bill, passed by the house, and the "pure blanket and mattress" bill, also passed a day or two ago, will have a serious effect on the shoe and bedding trade in the state, according to dealers. The shoe bill pro- ; hibits the sale of boots, shoes or slippers containing any . material except

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leather unless the shoes are labeled with the name of the substitute. A similar provision is made In th other bill. 5 " . v " ' It is thought that the governor may sign the public utilities bill today or tomorrow, and when he signs it he parobably will announce the names of the men he will appoint on the commission. GARY SUFFER FROM THE ICY BLASTS Many Are Frost Bitten in Rigors of Early March Blizzard. .Gary being at the extreme foot of Lake Michigan got the full benefit of the eero blast that swept over the steel city Saturday night and Sunday. Frostbitten hands, ears,, noses and feet, delayed street cars, much suffering among the poor and damage to the steel mills will make March l and 2 remembered for a long time. . The' Gary - Southern line suffered the most. Snow drifts froze up on its right of way, and the. company having no snow plow. Crown Point was shut off from interurban communication late Saturday night and was kept In that position for more than twenty-four hours. ' .' , " . . Several cases of persons nearly freezing to death were reported to the police. Attorney George Manlove saved the life of one man when he found him lying in the street near Christ church. Mr. Manlove assisted the man to-his DAILY PARIS Tie present styles are especially kind to the small boy, for surely there has never been a more comfortable or more becoming garment than the little Russian blouse dress. J , ......... One for the very small bey of one or two years is illustrated, the dress opening down the left side. This may be made with a standing collar or the neck line may simply be finished with a circular or straight The abave pattera may be obtaiaed postpaid by oar Fashloa Department Baker aaa aise.

home, and after thawing him out hired a taxi-cab and sent him home.

FOUR DROP III FIERCEBLIZZARD Victims Have Narrow Escape From Death by Freezing. . Gary police were called out four time Saturday nisrht to take care of ! men who had dropped by the wayside in the cold wave buzzard. Mad. not tne victims been found in time they probably, would have frozen to death,: and as it is some of them stand a chance of losing a leg or an arm. Tony Savage, 401 Adams street, was picked up at Seventeenth avenue, and Delaware street. . .. i J. J. Nescal was found at Nineteenth avenue and Tyler street, .v An unknown man was fovadi at l Twelfth and Jefferson street, uncon- . scious from the cold. . . ... ..... Attorney George Manlove found the , fourth victim, an unknown man, in the snow at Sixth avenue and Adams i street. ; ; ' Each of the four victims of the cold were taken to the Mercy hospital. It Wasn's Smallpox. What was supposed to be a case of smallpox In an Adams street boarding house resulted in a quarantine at the residence and it was maintained last night. However, yesterday it was learned that the patient was not afflicted with the dreaded disease so the quarantine was lifted by the Gary health board. FASHION NOTE. IN BLUE SERGE FOR One and three-quarters yards serge SO inches wide, at 75c. a yard.... $1.31 One spool sewing silk............. " JO Quarter yard red cashmere for piping bands, 36 inches wide, at 75c a yard 19 , One card nooks and eyes........... JO Paris pattern No. 1,007... JO '''' . ' fl.SO IN BROWN AND WHITE GALATEA FOR 69 CENTS. Two yards jalatea, 27 inches wids at 18 cents a yard.. ..36 One spool thread.. ................ -05 One and one-half yards white wash- , able braid at 5 cents a yard...... .08 One card buttons.. JO Paris pattern No. 1,007............ JO .60 band of the goods, according to the shape of the opening. Wash suits are decidedly the best for the active youngster, even in mid-winter, for the little dresses become soiled so quickly that a cloth garment soon becomes uawearaible. If serge Is used, however, a dark blue is the best choice, and this can be brightened by piping the trimming bands with red cashmere. la slses 1 aaa a years aaa will ba seat s teeelat ml tern ceats. Be aura tm state