Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 247, Hammond, Lake County, 31 March 1913 — Page 1
COUNTY TIME WEATHER. GENERALLY FAIR AND SOMEWHAT COOLER TODAY. EDITION VOL. VII., NO. 247. HAMMOND, INDIANA, MONDAY, MARCH .31, 1913. ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numbers 2 Cents Copy.) 1 n Die moon
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As Michigan Central Engine Dashes on, Driver Propped Up by Fireman, Has Hundred Lives in His Safe Keeping. FORM RELAXES Ifi DEATH AT DEPOT More than a hundred passengers on a Michigan Central train, bound from Kalamazoo, Mich., to Chicago, rode several miles at top speed Saturday evening drawn by an engine with a dying and -unconscious man at the throttle. Am 41. A I II. I - . i . T withthe fireman driving the engine with one hand and 'holding the engi neer propped up in his Beat with the other, the sufferer's painful breathing stopped. His form relaxed in death as the wheels stopped moving, and a second later the white-faced fireman staggered wut vl wi tau auu ca.ueu iyr assistance. John. .Bentley wa? the engineer. The lavwtVn'.' '3eimrTtJanJr(rt,-.a the-Voti ductor of the train Edward Hurley, carried the body Into the Hammond waiting-room and the train was delayed half an hour while the coroner was taking Gondert's statement. FIR1SM AN TELI.S STOKT. "We left Kalamazoo at 1:15 o'clock ; this afternoon," said Gondert. "When we got to Nlles, Mich., about 2:30, Bentley complafried that his stomach pained him. He drank a great deal of water and was seized with attacks of nausea. Later he said he felf better. (Continued on Pag S.) 101 TO ASK FOR FRANCHISE It is expected that the Automatic Telephone company of Chicago through its Gary representative, Henry ' V. Voasler, will apply to the Gary board of public works for a franchise In Gary. A fight against the measure by representatives of the Chicago Telephone company, who have been on the ground for several days, is anticipated by those familiar with city hall workings. The company asks for a 60-year grant. Residence phones are promised at $1.25 a month. SURGEON GEN. AIDS FLOOD SUFFERERS ' .. St " - 1 Dr. Rupert Blue. Sursreon General Rupert Blue of the United States public health service is in the flood districts to take personal charge of the federal medical officers rendering assistance to the distressed people of Indiana and Ohio,
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MAKING FINANCIAL HEADWAY The Calumet Institute of Hammond, w hich is now being managed by deputy I". S. Clerk Charles Surprise as trustee, is reported to be making some financial headway rince going into the receiver's hands. For how long, however the business will be continued lies in the discretion of the court and the creditors. If the latter are satisfied with the small margin of profit that the trustee has been able to make thus far, it can be continued indefinitely. At any rate the night class work in the law department will be continued to the end of the term with a view of graduating the present class.
COUPLE ELOPE TO CROWN POINT High School Girl Becomes Bride of Harold Hatton. (Special to Thb Times.) Crown Point, Ind., March 31. This place was the scene "of another Chicago elopement last December as was revealed by the announcement of an elopement made public yesterday by a south side couple, Harold Hatton and Miss Gertrude Mickel. Friends were much surprised at the revelation. The bridegroom and young bride, wishing to avoid the fuss and feathers of a church wedding, came to Crown Point, where the ceremony was celebrated Dec. 1. Mrs. Hatton was a pupil of the Wendell Phillips high school. Mr. and Mrs. Hatton will be at home after April 1 at 4147 Prairie avenue. STANLEY USED BLANK CARTRIDGES And His Sweetheart Called in the Police. Stanley Victalrsky of West Hammond. 111., told Miss Josie Kowalski of 107S Milwaukee avenue that unless she would marry him he would commit suicide yesterday afternoon. But Victalrsky used blank cartridges in his "suicide." He. was lying, apparently dead, at the botom of the stairway, when tha pvlie arrived, and was arrested "for his pains. TRAIN LOADS OF MAIL HELD UP BY FLOODS Washington, March 31. Stories of whole train loads of mail marooned on the borders of the flooded section of Ohio and Indiana, unable to move either wyj! are 1 filtering through to the postofflce "! department from railway mait officials and - postal inspectors in that region. " ' Carload's of mail are stalled at Washington, Ind., on the Baltimore & Ohio; and at Huntington, Ind., on the South ern railway. The crippled condition of mails and transportation is extending over southward and with the 'advance of the flood. . - No mails were received in Washington today from the immediate flood district and points south of it. Mail from northern Ohio and the far west came through all right. MARSHALL MEN TO BE OUSTED TIMES Bl'REAl', AT STATE CAPITA!,. Indianapolis, Ind., March 31. For other proof that Governor Ralston is going to turn out the Marshall appointees and appoint new men to the places in the state government as fast as the places become vacant, is seen in the fact . that he appointed Amos F. Nelson cf Ibanon as state veterinarian to succeed AV. E. Coover of Montpelier. Lebanan is Ralston s home town. The state veterinarian will get a salary of $1,200 a year and fees, which wil lamount to a total of probably $2,500 a year. Other Marshall appointees are expecting the ax whenever .their terms expire. There is a belief that the governor will announce the appointment of the members o? the public service commission this week. RAILROADS RUNNING - REGULAR AGAIN The railroads which were affected by the floods are gradually Retting back to normal and yesterday trains on the Grand Trunk. Michigan Central, Nickel Plate and Wabash lines were running on schedule time. Passengers for some eastern points, however, are still forced to travel double the usual number of miles to reach their destination; On the Grand Trunk passengers bound for Pittsburg are taken through Hamilton and Buffalo and then southwest to. Pittsburg, increasing the. mileage from 425 to 830 miles. , The Nickel Plate yesterday accepted freight without restrictions for points on Its "lines. Freight for connections in Ohio and Indiana the Nickel Plate accepted subject to embargoes placed by connecting roads. THERE ARE MORE THAN" THREE TIME8 MORE TIMES CIRCULATED EVERT DAPy THAN ALL THE OTHER DAILY PAPERS IN LAKE COUNTY PUT TOGETHER.
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TRANSFERRING RESCUED : . Detroit Man Comes to Indiana Harbor and Buries a Knife in Sweetheart's Breast; Girl Is Taken to Hospital in Hammond. Crazed by jealousy, John Rateska of Detroit, who had been rejected by his sweet heart, pretty Anna Mllhattan, recently arrived from Roumania, yesterday attacked the girl on her way out of the Roumania church- at One Hundred and 37th and Beech streets, Indiana Harbor stabbing her in several places with a murderous looking knife, in the presence of a crowd of several hundred persons who had just attended mass In the same edifice. Rateska was arrested shortly after the assault, at 13.8th and Euclid avenue and the girl was sent to St. Margaret's hospital after her wounds had been dressed by Dr. Sauer. Although the wounds are- ugly ones, they are not dangerous, but the victim is nevertheless in a critical condition as the result of the shock and loss of blood. Meh In Furious. After the arrest the Indiana Harbor police station was surrounded by an angry mob determined to wreak vengence upon the prisoner. The police decided that the man's presence in the tContlnued on page 8.) SENT TO CHICAGO FOR BURIAL The remains of Mrs. Sarah Schlensky, 423 Sibley street. Hammond, were placed on the 8:45 Nickel Plato train yesterday morning and shipped to Chicago, where funeral serv'ces were hold yesterday afternoon. Interment was mad- at the Waldheim cemetery. Mrs. Schlensky was 85 years old and has been a resident of Hammond fr several years. Besides eight children she is survived by 41 granj children and five great grandchildren. Horse Is Killed. Edward Dibos lost a valuable work horse this morning when the police were called to shoot the animal, after it had developed lockjaw. It is thought the horse contracted lockjaw by being accidentally stabbed with a pitchfork several days ago. ' " ' Is your house cold wen you reach home? Get a Gas Heating Stove. No. ind. Gas St Elec. Co, ' V
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FLOOD CONDITIONS Illinois --Shawnestown threatened by levef break. River at record flood stage. - State troops on guard. Water at Cairo at 51 foot stage. Still rising. People at Carmi leave for highlands. River threatens levees. Kentucky--Catlettsburg practically cut off by flood. Covington and Newport badly flooded Warnings may prevent loss of life. -West Virginia--Fifteen thousand persons at Huntington homeless from Ohio river flood; City In darkness. Two persons dead at Parkersburg. River higher than during 1884 flood. Ohio Dayton dead now placed at 100. City begins rehabilitation. Hamilton death toll 80. Columbus to begin work today toward rebuilding flooded district. Death list remains at 64. Indiana--Dead at Peru estimated at eight. Money needed. Menace of disease greatest peril to Peru and Logansport. Dead placed at two. FREE LOVE DOCTRINE AGITATES CHICAGO Dr. Anna Blount. The so-called "free love doctrine," advanced by a meeting of Chicago club women, headed by Dr. Anna Blount, has been the source of a lot of controversy in Chicago of late. The essence of the doctrine is that "the mismated righteous are as deserving of relief by divorce as the mismated unrighteous, and persons should not be forced to commit sin or perjury in order to obtain a di-vorce."
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STATE MEETING WILL BE HELD County Superintendent Corrects an Erroneous Report Today. A report has been current in Hammond that the meeting of the Northern "Indiana Teachers' association which is scheduled to be held in Indianapolis on the third, fourth and fifth of April has been called off on account of the floods. Superintendent Frank F. Heighway, the county superintendent, called The Times on the phone this morning and asked that the report be corrected. He has heard from Superintendent Arthur Deamer of Laporte, the chairman of the executive committee, who reports that the meeting will be held as scheduled. The county examination which was to have been held last Saturday at Crown Point was called off on account of tha interruption of traffic caused by the floods. It will be held next Saturday, however. SEEM TO HAVE EASY SAILING Anti -Reform Element Fails to Put Ticket in the Field. Saturday was the last opportunity to put a ticket in the field in West Hammond and It is now assured that there will be no opposition to the reform administration. Judge Vrank Green is running Independently for the office of police magistrate on the city ticket and for justice of the peace on the township ticket, but there is no apprehension felt about that. Clerk Ignatius Mankowski said that the opposition to him on the township ticket was general and that he would not be elected. He said that there was a chance for him in West Hammond on the city ticket. Peter Esser is running independently for the office of alderman of the First ward. Outside of that there are no independent candidates. So after a number of tough political battles the reform administration in West Hammond finds itself in complete control of the situation. Great prosperity is expected in West Hammond in the coming two years. ' SMOKER AND CHEWER. FOREX (XXXX) plug cut tobacco has become famous with smokers. Quality and quantlty appeallag Ilke UNION SCOUT SCRAP. Save the tickets. McHie S. Tob. Co.--Adv.
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Rome, March 31.--J. Pierpont Morgan, the American financier, died here this afteroon at 12:05 p. m. He had been unconscious for several hours. Earlier in the day his physicians had issued a bulletin declaring that the end was to be expected at any minute. For two days Mr. Morgan had been unable to take nourishment. His heart became affected, owing to extreme nervous congestion, and it became apparent that he could live only a brief time.
HUDSON GOES TO NOVA SCOTIA Well Known Homewood Family to Leave City. P. W. Hudson, who has been employed at the Standard Steel Car company in Hammond as chief clerk ever since the plant was built, has resigned his position and will go to New Glasgow, Nova Scotla.to take a position with the Eastern Car company, of which H. B. Douglas is manager. Mr; Hudson says that he has a much better position with the new company. He will leave for New Glasgow next week and his wife will follow him in June. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson are well known in social circles in Hammond and their many friends will be sorry to see them go. They came here from the east and have resided in Homewood practically since their coming here. LAKE CO. IS GIVEN WARNING Clyde Stratton Escapes from Federal Prison. Lake county authorities have been. notified to be on the lookout for Clvde W. Stratton. bank burglar, postoffice robber and prison breaker, who made. his escape from the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth last week. He is also suspected of being implicated in the murder of Joseph H. Logue in McVickers' theater building, Chicago, last December. Stratton was serving a five-year sentence for breaking into the postoffice at McCool, Ind., several months ago and was later arrested and convicted on that charge. He has escaped from prison walls twice previous to this and often boasted that he would escape again. In some manner Stratton secured a saw and getting by the prison guards he filed away the steel bars leading to a sewer inside the prison grounds. After crawling through the sewer for nearly a mile, he came to a manhole and made his escape. He then went to the railroad station where he boarded a train. Stratton told three other prisoners that he was going to es- cape. He is known as one of the most daring criminals in the country and the various police heads are anxious to capture him. HAMMOND HEARS REASSURING NEWS Mrs. H. J. Woodruff of 517 Logan street who was worried about her sis- ter and her niece at Dayton, received a telegram this morplng stating that both Mrs. Wheeler, who is her sister, and Mrs. Maud Beatt the niece, are O. K. Attorney E. G. Sproat was also notified by relatives that his brother, who Is a resident of Dayton, had been in no danger. Mrs. Ray Bieber of 276 State street, heard this morning that her father adn mother were among those rescued at Dayton, and now stopping at the Atlas hotel. Her parents resided In Riverdale, a low part of the city which was inundated and remembering this she was greatly worried until this morning. Her sister Miss Ruby Roth, who makes her home with her parents, happened to escape the flood as she is visiting In Hammond. DEATH CLAIMS LEO MERRILL Leo Merrill, son of Mrs. Cynthia Merrill, residing at Walter street and Thornton avenue, died at the family residence yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock following a lingering Illness of nearly a year. Death was due to tuberlosis. Funeral services will he held from the Methodist church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. O. F. Fraley will officiate and interment will be made at Oak Hill cemetery. He was 22 years old is survived by a mother and three brothers. He was well known in Hammond and was employed aas an electrician by the Chicago City railway. COSTS TALMAN VERY DEARLY It just cost J. H. Talman a sum of $25 in the city court this morning for an unwarranted assault upon a stranger. John Dohlstrom appeared as complaining witness and testified that he was standing on the street talking with a lady friend when Taman came up to him and without warning struck him In the mouth with his fist. Officer Bush witnessed the assault and placed Talman under arrest.
NEW LAW AFFECTING THOUSANDS
Lake County Will Have to Sit Up and Take Notice as Soon as Indiana's New Motor Law Goes Into Effect. Four thousand auto and motorcycle owners and chauffeurs in Lake county will have to face an entirely new situation this summer according to the new law passed by the last legislature and it will mean the expenditure of thouands of dollars by Lake county motorists. A complete change in the motor vehicle laws of Indiana goes into effect July 1. The changes are embodied in a law passed by the last legislature increasing the license, fee, requiring the licensing of chauffeurs and introducing a number of other features new to motordom In Indiana. THE NEW LICENSE REGULATIONS. Of greatest interest to owners of motor vehicles are the new license regulations. The old perpetual state license costing $1 is abolished, as are all local license fees. In their place is substituted a schedule of fees as follows: motor bicycle $2: motor vehicle of from 25 to 40 horse power $5; motor vehicle from 40 to 60 horse power $15; motor vehicle above 59 horse power -$20;. electric motor vehicle $3; commercial trucks $5. During the remainder of the year 1913 each applicant for a license will be charged pro rata from the first month in which such application is made unitl the end of the year, according to the number of months. Thereafter all licenses taken ouit before August of each year shall be paid for at the full rate. Registrations after August 1 will cost one half tha regular (Continued on Pas B.) DEMOCRAT SENATOR FROM N. H. AT LAST Henry F. Hollis. Henry F. Hollis, the new U. S. senator, from New Hamphshire, is the first Democrat to be elected to the upper house of congress from his state since 1855. He and his colleague, Senator Gallinger, live and vote in the same precinct in the city of Concord and are warm friends despite their opposite political faiths. The new senator is a graduate of Harvard and a lawyer. He haa been a candidate for congress several times during the past few years and for the position of governor of his state.
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