Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 248, Hammond, Lake County, 1 April 1913 — Page 1
COHJMTY TIM EEETIHG EDITION WEATHER. FAIR TODAY AND PROBABLY WEDNESDAY. VOL. VII., NO. 248. ONE CENT PER COPY (Back Numbers 2 Cents Copy.) HAMMOND, INDIANA; TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1913.
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WHEELER
Mayor of Crown Point Collapses on Michigan Cen
tral Train and Dies Last
Night at the Battle Creek
Sanatarium.
YEAR Of SDFFcBiH6
CDHES
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(Dl'LLETIX.). Crowa Point, lud., April I. The faneral of Mayor 'Wfceoler will take place ob Thurmlaj- afternocs at 2 o'clock.
OLD OFFICERS RE-ELECTED Annual Report Shows Loan Co. in Good Trim. Old officers In the Hammond Building and Loan association were reelected at the annual meeting; last Saturday night In Weis' hall, and the annual reports showed the organization in flourishing condition. Hnry Pickert was elected to fill the unexpired two year director's term of A. W. Graves, the latter's office having expired with the maturing of his stock. I T. Meyer and John Liesenfeld are the other two year directors. The one year directors are F. Ewert. J. V. Weis and J. W. Reed. The directors elected last Saturday to hold over for three years are B. F. Bump. Henry Radloff and Joseph Voss. The reelected officers of the. board of directors ore AV. C. Belman, president; John I. Rohde, vice president: A. F. W. Fodder, secretary, and P. W. Meyn. treasurer. More than 1,050 are enrolled as subscribers of stock in the association, which speaks for the popularity of it.
(Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., April 1. Harold H. Wheeler, Mayor of Crown Point and one of the best known public men in Lake County died last
night at eight o'clock at the Battle i Creek, Mich, sanatarium where hej
was taken last Sunday. j Mr. Wheeler's trip was made in the hope that treatment at the famous Michigan health resort would prove beneficial, but he collapsed in the train as he neared his journey's end and death was imminent. ED .NOT V X EXPECTED. With Mr. Wheeler on the trip and at his bedside at the time of his death were his wife and son and Dr. Schaible of Gary. They saw that the end was fast approaching after Mr. Wheeler had reached the sanatarium and;, the long battle he had fou?ht for so long came as no surprise to them. ; For oyer year Mayor.; WTieeier has " been la miserable" health." Kverythlni? that could possibly be done to restore him was - done. The " most eminent specialists in the country were consulted. Mr. Wheeler was taken to a Chicago hospital last winter and there he submitted to an operation that at first gave some promise but later It
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HEAD RELIEF WORK IN FLOOD DISTRICT
FORCES FAMILY OUT OF HOUSE
John Juhas of East Hammond Was a Bad Man. After forcing his wife and children into the street and declaring that he would kill them. John Juhas of East Hammond was arrested by the Hammond police last night. He was taken to the central station in the police patrol ami booked for intoxication and disorderly conduct. This morning he was arraigned before City Judge Harnett and found guilty. He was fined $5 and costs, amounting to $15, and warned if he ever molested his wife or children again that he would be sent to jail for six months. His wife appeared as complaining witness and stated that she feared he would do her bodily harm. The trouble was caused by Juhas coming home in an intoxicated
condition.
WHEN'SOCIALTEA'DERS DRINK COCKTAILS DO THEY ENDANGER MORALS OF. WORKING GIRLS? UPPER CRUST WOMEN ASKED TQ TELL
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BUM DING 01 STARTED
If) TWIN CITIES THIS
SPRIFIGSHOWS IUCH
LIFE
Seldom has a year yielded more in the way of improvements in and about Indiana Harbor and East Chicago factories and mills, than are promised for this year. On all sides there are improvements just being completed, in process of erection, and contemplated. The Interstate and the Republic mills at East Chicago are contemplating quite extensive improvements, to cost at the former plant in the neighborhood of and at the lat
ter about $20,000. Thirty thousand dollars approximately has just been laid out by the Graver Tank works for new buildings etc. and the Green Engineering company has under way about $18,000 worth -of improve
ments, and is planning on something like $10,000 more. This is Just a sample of what is in progress throughout the Twin Cities in the various factories and plants. The Republic is figuring on
improving its eight inch mill and has already on the ground all the ma
chinery necessary for this. There is to be installed here a ten inch train of rolls which will necessitate the building of a new structure fifty by
seventy-five feet in dimensions, new furnaces, new engines etc., the whole
investment to take about $20,000. Work on this will be begun as soon as the weather will permit.
Edaon Bradley. Mrs. Nteholaa Longworth and Mrs. Barns? Bemmlck.
When society women drink cocktails and smoke cipareta. do they by exampls endanger ths morals of working rirls? This is ons of the questions which the Illinois rice commission, now in Washington, is asking. Among the social leaders of the capita! who bavs been asked to discuss this subiect before the commission are Mrs. Edson Bradley. Mrs. Alice RooMvelt Longworth, Mrs. Barney Hemmick, Mrs. Huntington Wilson and Mrs. Murray 6ran. -; ; ;
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FLOOD NOW IN SOUTH STATE
Waters at Lawrenceburg Do j
Immense Damage. Lawrenceburg, Ind.. April 1. Practically the whole city Is under deep water today and more than fifty buildings are known to have been carried
away. -'The- KnlppnbttrgMcuxLEflXdsJ
tory burned during the night. Owing to the warnings of flood danger, however, it is not believed there will be any loss of life here. During the Are the foctory buildings were torn from their foundations and carried about five squares, by which time the buildings had burned to the water's edge. The water supply is plentiful for refugees, who fled to the highlands, but It is not believed there is enough food for more than two days on hand. The flood came when the levee broke Saturday afternoon.
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STANLEY SURE HE'S WOUNDED Tells Judge IJe Cares Not What Doctors Say. Stanley Victalrsky of "West Hammond. 30' years old, who "attempted" suicide- by firing bank cartridges be
cause josepnine ivowalski, Zl years old, 1078 Milwaukee avenue. Chicago, refused to marry him, insisted when arraigned before Municipal Judge' Sa-
bath yesterday that he had shot him
self. The case was continued to have
the man examined by a city physician. He is married and has two children
"I'm shot. Judge, and I don't care what
the police say," said Victairsky. "The bullet entered near my heart.'' Dr. Edward Wells testified that he examined
the man, but could find no bullet
wound.
DONNAHUE IS
AFTER PARDON Lake Co. Murderer Wants
Out of the Penitentiary.
Relatives of Frank Donahue, sent up from I,akf? county for a life sentence In the Michigan City penitentiary for the murder of John Northrup, who
was lured from Kenton Harbor, Mich
lo lane county ana killed, are renew
ing their efforts to have him released on a parole. There is little likelihood, however, that they will be successful. The convict's mind is affected and there is little hope for his mental beterment. The prisoner has always protested his innocence.
HAVE INTERESTING filEETINGlflST NIGHT Hammond Chamber of Com
merce Will Meet Hence
forth Monthly.
NOW IS
OR IS IT NOT?
Secretary of War Garrincn top) and Maior General Wood. Arr"d with anthoritv from President Wilson irstantlv to set in motion everv frovrn-intal nirenrv to relieve ufferin. Secretary of War GarHson orrf Mn'or General Woof f the U S nrmv are ?n harpe of the relief work in flnod-srt-Hefceri diftrHcts of OMo. Serre-arv Gwrrifton has power to order federal tnon '"to Ohio ax mnv he npeansrv Tbi tn orobably will not have to b taken.
Educators Get Different Wires About Meeting. Despite the fact that County Super
intendent Frank F. Ileighway reported to The Times yesterday that Arthur J. Deamer had Informed him that the Northern Indiana Teachers' association would meet at Indianapolis as usual on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of April, Superintendent C. M. McDaniel of the Hammond schools has received a telegram from Deamer saying that the meeting has been called off. Deamer Is the chairman of the executive committee and is presumed to know what is going around. It is now up to Superintendent Heighway and Superintendent McDaniel to compare notes. .
Members of. the Hammond Chamber Of Commerce who failed to attend the general meeting last night missed sev. eral good things, among them an interesting resume of the new public utilities law by Judge Lawrence Becker and a pithy address by President V. S. Reiter on what the body has accomplished, and what it stands for in Hammond. Believing that general meetings of the membership should be held more frequently, it was unanimously decided to hold such gatherings at least once a month, with set program for the evening. By invitation from the Indiana Harbor and East Chicago Commercial club, the health committee of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce, along with other civic bodies of the region, will investigate the feasibility of providng a county solaton hospital. The committees are to hold a conference and then to report back to their respective organizations. F.Ieeilon Next Week.
Judge Reiter in his address called attention to the annual meeting of all the members on next Monday night, and the election of directors in the place of eight whose terms expire. This election is to be held on the following day from S o'clock in the afternoon until 8 inthe evening. At the same time he promised that a special committee would matte an exhaustive report at the general meeting about the activity of the Chamber of.. Commerce during the past year. He predicted that it would be interesting and a revelation to the membership. Judge Becker in response dwelt on the need of just such an organization in Hammond as the. Chamber of Commerce. "This is not an organization merely
for a few business men or retail merchanst." he said, "this body alms to give expression to the sentiment of the entire city and to be a guide foa. our public officials. When such a big public improvements as the proposed deep sewer system, which, when completed, on both the north and south sides of
river, will cost the taxpayers not
much lesK than $1,000,000, are contemplated, it behooves the taxpayers to find out just what Is going (fn. Every man whose property Is benefited by the natural growth that this communlty and who Is benefited by the activity of this body, owes it to himself and the city to have a membership in the Chamber of Commerce." Approve of Xew I ."it. In his discussion of the public utilities law made a few brief comments as he read extracts from th elaw, and added that it is a fair measure both for the taxpayer and for the corporation and that all that Is needed is to have n unmiased state board. The new lawt Judge Becker pointed out, recognizes the fact that public utility companies in order to be successful must have a monopoly, and that the board assumes to regulate the monopoly." Rev. . J. Sharp made a brief oral report about conditiona as h and Messrs. Rohde, Simon and O'Rotirke found them in Peru, saying that Hammond's relief car was very acceptable.
NEGRO IS SEfliUP FOR LIFE
Andy Bailey, colored, charged with the murder of Ada Fair, a Gary negress, appeared in Judge Lawrence Becker's court this morning and pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree and accepted a sentence of life imprisonment. Bailey was represented by Attorney H. E. Granger and when asked if he had anything to say, refused to make a statement. At the time he was arraigned he attempted to make a speech
to the court, asserting his Innocence
and setting up the fact that the kill ing was an accident.
He was told to make his pleas at the trial. He accordingly pleaded not guilty. However, he changed his mind
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SOUTH BEND WANTS THROUGH SERVICE
F. Lewis Meyer, general counsel of
the South Shore route, piloted ten
South Bend city officials about Gary
this morning. The South Benders came
up in a special car and are en route to
Chicago to confer with the I. C. R. R.
officials.
South Bend wants through interurban express service to Chicago. Gary is the present terminal of the Chicago express service and passengers from
points to the east have to change cars at Gary. An effort will be made to
have the. I. C. assist in getting the de sired service.
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BICKNELL SUBMITS TO
SERIOUSJDPERATIOII
Veteran Hammond Business
Man Critically 111 in the South.
if Uncle Henry Bicknellf who is one of the must'-rffeihlas irhitra'-tfH-Sf that Hammond has : ever known and who
left a few weeks ago to visit his daughter, Mrs. Henry Kramer of Nacodoces,
Tex., was taken seriously 111 immedi
ateiy arter his arrival there and was
compelled to undergo an operation. Judge Virgil S. Reiter received
night letter from Mrs. Nellie Kramer this morning stating that the operation had been very successful and that
Bicknell. would probnoly recover.
i ne aocior diagnosed trie case as
bladder trouble and found after the op
eration that his diagnosis had been correct. Bicknell is not expected back
in Hammond for several weeks.
He has left the store in the care of clerks. Bicknell did not feel well for
six months prior to his leaving Ham
mond for Texas, and it is hoped that upon his return he will be in the best of health and spirits.
The Green Engineering company's
improvements include several buildings and the necessary equipment. Some of
these are just about completed, and others are in process of construction.
A new tile warehouse Just completed Is 30 by 160 feet in dimensions, built of steel and corrugated iron. A pattern CContlnued oa Pag S.)
B. J. GIFFORD DEAD.
LATEST NEWS
Benjamin J. Oifford, best known In
Jasper county for his work in reclaim
ing thousands of acres of swamp lands
and for having built a railroad from
McCoysburg up Into Lake county, died
morning at 6:30 o'clock after an 111- iTurkish government today unreservness extending over almost three ' edly accepted terms of peace proposed
months, starting in an apoplectic by European powers.
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Constantinople, Turkey, April 1,
stroke. Five days tacked his devoted heart failure.
after he was atwife died from
KILLED BY STEEL GIRDER
Struck on the head by a steel girder I which was being swung Into place by j
a crane, Fred Schier, 23 years old, 883T Houston avenue. South Chicago, was instantly killed yesterday while at work on the new Ninety-second street bridge over the Calumet river. He was employed as a laborer by the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock company.
Cairo, III., April 1. Cairo practically under martial law today in desperate effort to stem flood. Mayor
and citizens patrol -committee took stringent methods to make all men I work. .
1SUPIE.CVTS TAKEN
SIX,- YEAR OLD CHILD TELLS AWFUL TALE
iirao ctrsTODY;Bridgeworkcr
Charges Brought m City Court Today.
Two brothers, John Kiglan and Frank Kiglan, were arrested In East Chicago Sunday on suspicion of being check forgers and fugitives from justice who are wanted In Chicago. It was represented that the men had been arrested in Chicago and jumped their bond. Some one who was acquainted with
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Absolutely the most sickening and revolting charges ever brought against anyone in Hammond were preferred
the brothers tipped it off to the po- J against A. L, Palmer, 216 Tine street, lice that they were in town and the j who is employed in the American officers were sent to arrest them. The j Bridge works at Gary by his 6-year-oUt
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STARTS TRAINS AGAI
East Chicago police followed up the tip and arrested the two men, after which they communicated with the Chicago authorities who said they would send a detective out to identify the suspects. The men later confessed to the fact that they were wanted for the crime as charged and when the city detectives came to get them they waived extradition.
Hoosier Limited First of!
Through Trains South Since Flood Began.
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GARY TO ANNEX MORE LAND Ridge road property owners under the chairmanship of Tim Englehart yesterday afternoon met at the Englehart hall and decided to ask the citycouncil to annex two sections iouth of the city. The council will then be asked to redlstrict the city so that the entire district below the Little Calumet Is in one ward. It is said that Mayor Knotts plans to redistrict the whole city if he can.
The Monon today established train connection again between Chicago and Indianapolis, via the Big Four from Lafayette, and also hoped to get its Louisville trains through tonight and tomorrow. The Hoosier Limited was the first train tn be ntnrted rtiit nr., ty, iAnnt,
since the fiood to reach the capital. I lare arrests win oe mau Krom Lafayette, however .this train i cutions will follow. The first violation had to be routed over the Big Four of this city ordinance was reported this The Louisville line is alresdv onened i morning when Joe Mallett, 3a2 Henry
as far as Bloomington and by tonight
ANOTHER OF THOSE WARNINGS Hammond residents who own chickens were given their first and only warning this morning that unless they keep their chickens from running at
daughter this morning. Hardened to tales of crime and moral degeneracy as they are, the Hammond police were shocked beyond measure at the abhorrent turpitude of the father whose alleged foul deeds against an innocent child are unbelievable and unprintable. Palmer was bound over to the superior court and taken to the Crown Point jail pending further investigation of the shocking case by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Ralph Ross. The child first told a neighbor of her parent's acts, while the mother lies on a bed of pain in St. Margaret's hospital. Officer Trost served the warrant on Palmer while he was at work in Gary. The prisoner refuses to talk. The little girl has made a full confession.
Is your house cold when you reach home? Get a Gas Heating Stove. No. ind. Gas & Elec Co. r- e
HOLDS HIGH PLACE IN POSTAL SERVICE
street, complained that a neighbors chickens were permitted to run at
and were destroying his lawn.
or tomorrow morning It is hoped to
iret the trains throntrh. The nnth. ( large
bound train scheduled to leave Chicago j The police investigated the case.
at 9 o clock in the evening is going to start for Louisville.
Dies from Cancer. Following an illness at St. Margaret's hospital. Mrs. Ella Deaner. a well known and respected resident of Hammond, died yesterday, morning at 2:30 o'clock. Death was due to a cancer. This morning the remains were shipped to her former home at Grand
; Junction, Mich., where funeral services
and Interment will be made tomorrow. : Mrs. Deaner has been in ill health
' ior a nuniDer or months and was re
moved to St. Margaret's hospital in hopes of getting relief from her constant suffering. Very little improvement was shown ,nd her condition became critical. Sunday she suffered a relapse and passed away early yesterday morning. She was 66 years old and Is survived by two stepsons. Fred and Peter Deaner, who reside on East State street.
ANOTHER DONATION The Times acknowledges the receipt of $2 for its "floodf-sufferers" fund from Phillip Buettner, proprietor of the East Lawn greenhouses. 508 Michigan
1 nverme. The money has been ior-
warded. ,
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ADVERTISE AD AGAIN IX THE TUfEJk
AUVKHTISB
'Bo Record Broken., According to Sergeant Oscar Borchert this morning 1.511 hobos have been lodged at the Hammond central station since the first of the year, breaking all previous records. Of this number 638 were booked during the month of March, making an average of nearly 20 lodgers a day. The police cannot account for he large number of sojourners as the weather has not been as severe as In past years. Last year the p"ollce lodged In the neighborhood of 2,000.
DON'T HITCH TOUR WAGON TO A STAR HITCH IT TO A TIMES' AD AND GET RESULTS THAT COUNT.
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James L Blakslee. James 1. Blakslee is the new fourth assistant postmaster eeneraL He has long been prominer in Pennsylvania politics, nd serveo as a member of the hospital reserve corp during the Spaniah-Ameri-caa wac