Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 90, Hammond, Lake County, 2 October 1913 — Page 1

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CORPSE 01 LAST LONG JOURNEY

Motor Hearse Carrying Remains From Pacific to Atlantic Coast Goes Through Lake County, According to Dying Man's Wish. a motor nearse, carrying a corpse from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast. passed through Lake county by way of Hammond and Crown Point and would have attracted much attention had people known its unique mission. The hearse, which bore the body of Michael Moran, a former business man of San lego, started from that city August 28, and is due to arrive at Brooklyn, N. Y.. Saturday. Asked lMt Auto Ride. It was Morans dying wish that his body be transported in this manner across the continent. In his lifetime he had been an automobile enthusiast, and before his death he asked his friends to make arrangements for his last automobile journey. The motor car is equipped with a fortyflve hone power engine, and its irross weight is 6.150 pounds. W. A. Peck, representatives of the factory which makes the motor hearse, was the passenger on the seat with the chauffeur, B. F. Mayor. Died of Tnbereulosta. A death certificate on the coffin says Mr. Moran was forty-nine years old, and that he died from pulmonary tuberculosis August 23, 1913. Moran formerly lived in Brooklyn and It is there the body will be burled. The party has traveled 3,300 miles and has 1,200 miles to traverse. Dog Case In Court. A family quarrel which arose over the trtval question of the ownership of a small dag, has resulted in the arrest of Alexander Meyers of Highlands and h's son Charles Meyers. They are held in Judge Ames court at Hammond n- four chargses -of assault -and battery, Mrs. "Leota 'Sammetlnger having complained that her father and brother beat her in the face with the butt end of a horse whip. When the dog was but a puppy it was owned hy Mrs. Summetinger, but for a number of years has been at the residence of her father. A few days ago Mrs. Summetinger went to her father's home to claim the dog, but was informed that the animal now be longed to him as he ha paid the taxes and fed the dog. Lnable to secure the dog a heated argument and quarrel ensued. The father Is said to have then attacked his daughter and son-in-law with the butt end of a whip and that his son assisted him. ; She was painfully injured by the blows aDout her head and face while her husband also suffered a number of bruises. The case will come up for trial Saturday afternoon. Oil 'Flows Freely. The breaking of an axle on the rear end, of an oli wagon owned by Fred C. T"rohl caused a breakdown and the loss of several gallons of coal oil which flowed freely into the street. The accident occurred shortly before noon at Sibley and Hohman streets. SHE WILL HAVE HER "COMING OUT" SOON s I B( Miss Wayles L'Engle. Waj'les L'Engle, daughter of L new Democratic Congressman e Vlrs. L'Engle of Florida, may be 1 tr&f the congressional debutantes lppseason. It is not yet quite deicl, wnether she will be introduced I "Weiciety this winter or next, but ame is already on tne tentative "buds ' of the coming season,

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PASTOR WILL QUIT CITY FORJEW CHARGE Unusual Act of M. E. Minister Is Result of Visit With Bishop.

The Rev. Oakel F. Hall, who attended the M. E. conference In Hammond last week and who Is a graduate of Wabash college, and pastor of the First Congregational church of Boston, Mass., at a salary of $,500, will return to Indiana and become pastor of the Methodist churches at the villages of Advance and New Ross, at a salary of less than onehalf of what he has been receiving In the east. This action is the result of a conviction on the part of Mr. Hall that the rural church afford an opportunity for aggressive and successful work, and Is opposed by every member of the rich and Influential church of which Mr. Hall is the pastor. Mr. Hall attended the recent session cf the Northwest Indiana conference at Hammond, and, after laying before Bishop W. F. McDowell his plans for the future, the Advance New Ross appointment was given him, and he will so adjust his affairs as to take charge about November 1. STREET TO THIS FALL State Line street Is to be paved on the Indiana side this fall if the plans of the interested property owners carry. What has held up the actual construction Vork on the contract, which was let to William Ahlborn, has been the failure to find a market for the bonds. Finally Ahlborn found where the bonds could be placed providing they could be discounted two per cent. He then put it up to the lnteresied propferty .owners to riije 89 "of th.-amo,unt oi tne discount. The Hammond and Suburban Realty Comply readily assented to pay Its sha.-e' of the extra cost. In fact it ap propriated 1100 towards the fund. Efforts will be made to Induce the owners of the West Homewood addition, the Fredericks addition, W. G. Paxton and William D. Weiss to raise the balance of the sum needed. Ahlborn will have to move 18,000 yards of sand in the next month to be able to get the street constructed this year but ne 13 certain tnai ne win oe able to do so. The paving of State Line street has been delayed for years for various reasons and now that there is a prospect of getting something done It is not believed that $300 or $400 will be allowed to stand In the way. When the street Is completed It will be a paved thoroughfare from Plummer avenue to Lansing and will become an Important north and south thoroughfare. This Is one of the oldest streets in Hammond and West Hammond but on account of the unprogressiveness of the property owners who ought to have been interested they have allowed one thing after another to delay proceedings until the street bears no more traffic today than it did twenty years ago. TWO CHARGED WITH FORGERY Sergeant Mike Gorman of East Chi cago brought to a successful issue last night a little Job of detective work on which he has been engaged since last May and John and Frank Wolock are now under arrest on charges of forg- i ery as a result. Last May A. Laus, who was working at the chemical plant at Grassellt I lost a pay check for 134.50 which was stolen out of his pocket. He missed it and stopped payment on it, and not long afterwards it was banked by Frank Kosnak, a saloonkeeper with a place In Northcote avenue, between 148th and 149th streets. The check was returned dishonored to Kosnak, who could not remember who had presented the paper to him. He told of the case to the police and Sergeant Gorman was given the Job of finding the culprit. Sergeant Gorman told the saloon keeper to have every man who In future presented checks to him for payment, sign their name on a separate piece of paper and submit the signatures to him for comparison with the forgery on the back of the check made out to A. Laus. Yesterday the sergeant took a slant at a bunch of signatures and was Interested In the similarity of th-e writ ing of John Walock to that in the forged signature. He arrested Walock, who at first denied but later admitted his guilt, saying he had procured the check from his brother, Frank, who worked at Grasselll and who stole It from Laus' pocket, giving It to him to cash. John declared that his part f the money realized was only 2, while Frank got the balance. The case will be heard by Judge Walter J. Riley Saturday morning.

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SHOCKING ACCIDENT

TO AUTOIST (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind.. Oct. 2. Caterpulted from the driving seat of his tangoing motor car, William Govert, a wealthy Cedar Creek farmer, ' passed though a wind shield and lit in a ditch near the Otto Meyers farm here late last night. , Nearly Cuts Note Off. He Is now In a critical condition at his home, disfigured, no doubt for life. The head-on crash 'which broke the thick windshield Into a thousand pieces all but cut off his nose. It semains by reason of a. few strands. One cheek contains a six Inch gash. His body Is badly cut and bruised. Car T ii run Turtle. Govert was traveling fast toward his home when the car skidded, stood on end, whirled around and turned turtle. Sometime during that performance the farmer sailed above the steering gear and plunged forward wtlh sufficient Impact to break the glass. Dark Mgkt Bad Cnrr. The accident occurred near the Otto Meyer farm on a very dangerous curve. Govert was alone In the machine. He was able to rise up and call for help. First aid reached him and In a short while the farmer was at his home with Dr. W. H. Houk in attendance. WHITING DEMOCRATS TO HAV CONTEST Two Candidates Out for City Judgeship, But Only One for Mayor. (Special to Thk Times.) The Democratic party of Whiting has now completed their ticket for te coming municipal election. There be ing a contest In the office of city Judg. also in tjfro Jw-ards itwill b' necessary to have primaries whicji w.lfbe held uct. tn, irom one to eignt p. m. The ticku in full Is as lollows: Mayor Beaumont Parks. . City Clerk William A. Greatrake. City Treasurer Andrew Kellman. City Judge U. G. Swart and George Lundy. Alderman first ward John Kostolnlk. Alderman second ward James Donegan. Otto Weldman. Alderman third ward Thos. Eaton Alderman fourth ward Peter Buczkonski, O. E. Meeks. Alderman-at-Large Thomas Puggan and N. E. Miller. Another Affinity Case. Married , women and their affinities have been keeping the Hammond Jus tice courts busy during the past two weeks, four sensational cases having been patched up during that time and In each case hubby and wife have gone home with the vow that they will l"ad the straight and narrow path in the future. Shortly after Judge Prcst had dls posed of an East St. Louis, 111., woman and her affinity last Tuesday and had sent her ack home with her husband and two children. Constable Morris Dobson was called upon to arrest Peter Federhoff of Hegewisch who had run away with another woman. According to the story of Mrs. Federhoff, her husband Is employed in the car sohps at Hegewisch. Tuesday was pay day and when he did not return home at night she became anxious and started to seach for him. Hubby was found on a South Shore car with his affinity, both having Imbibed too free ly from the jug of joy. Federhoff and his affinity were both taken by surprise and considerable commotion was evi dent as the car sped on its way to Hammond. Mrs. Federhoff ordered his arrest bu later asked the court for his release af ter he had promised to have nothing more to do with the fair sex. IT'S PROF. TOM KNOTTS AFTER THIS Mayor Knotts of Gary became Prof. Knotts today when fifteen pupils of the Emerson high school swooped down upon him and asked for a firs hand lesson In civil government. Prof. Knotts took the young men and young women through the city hall and gave them rough Ideas of civics as "she really am." He pointed but the council chamber where man frameups have occurred and told how Battleaxe Castleman had made It fa mous In his aldermanlc days. While his honor did not dwell upon how to make policemen and firemen and city health inspectors do political work instead of city work, it Is pre sumed that they will get an idea of this by reading the Gary newspapers Several ballot boxes were pointed out to the students and one bystander said that a knowledge of how to op erate them is better than all of the text books in the world. Prof. Knotts was voted the thanks of the class when he got through with his lesson

NOTED HAMMOND LAWYER WHO AT SPLENDID MEETING- ACCEPTED REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR MAYOR.

Peter Crumpacker.

JURCH JUSI DIE TIMES HCHEAIV AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapols, Ind., Oct. 2. Steve Jurcha, the East Chicago wife murderer, ound guilty in the Lake cir cuit court, will be electrocuted." All doubt was set. at rest today by ; G6v." Ralston, who notihed Warden Fogarty of Michigan City to ar range for the installation of an electric chair at the state prison. , Death of Babe. Frederick Raasch, flve-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Raasch of Lansing, died this morning at five o' clock. Funeral services will occur from the residence Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. The Rev.-Rruhn of Oak Gltnn will officiate and interment will made at the Concordia cemetery at Hammond. Mr. Raash Is well known at Lansing where he is employed in the saloon business. Masonic Work. Hammond Chapter No. 117 R. A. M conferred the Fast and Most Excellent Master degree on a class of candidates at a special meeting last night after which refreshments were served and a pleasant time spent. Next Wednesday the Royal Arch degree will be con ferred on a class of candidates. GENERAL TRACY A SULZER ATTORNEY General Benjamin F. Tracey. General Benjamin F. Tracy, who in 1873 won national-fame while defending Henry Ward Beecher in the famous Tilton-Beecher case, has been employed by Governor Sulzer as one of the lather's attorneys in the present impeachment trial. General Tracy is eighty-three, but bis mind is still unimpaired.

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BIG SALE

PUT OH BY G STORE Ladles, who tonight and tomorrow morning in & hundred cities and towns and on scores of rural routes over Northwestern Indiana, here is your chance! The Lion Store, Hammond's big. trade Cfnfcer im - nfferlng -itsJ pale as- - rt i shopping excursion in connection with Its formal Fall Opening and Fare Refunding Sale, which begins next Saturday, Oct. 4th, and continues for one week. The Lion Store will play your fare both way, allowing you to travel at its expense a distance of 125 miles. The particular for this attractive mer cantile event are set forth on page three of this paper. The big inducements for the week. however, are the authentic fall fashion (Continued on pxge seven.) SUIT FOR PARTITION Suit for patition was filed today in tha superior court involving the Adler estate south of Gary, which today is valued at $75,000 dollars but which prior to the location was worth not more than $5,000. The plaintiffs In the suit are Mrs. Helen Adler Hiney, Mrs. Maggie Adler Miller, Mrs. Anna Adler Vonash, Mat and Adam Adler ad their mother, Mrs. Catherine Adler Schneider, widow of the lateJohn Adler. The defendants are the balance of the heirs in the estate who are however non-residents of the State of Indiana. The estate consists of 160 acres, for which five hundred dollars an acre is said to have offered, the land owing to its proximity to Gary being suitable for subdivision purposes. The widowed mother of the twelve children several weeks ago executed a transfer to her children in consideration of each of them or their heirs paying her one hundred dollars. Living with one of her children at Griffith this sum she figures would keep her in comfort for the balance of her days. 139TH ST. WORK BEGUN Work on the improvement of 139th street, Indiana Harbor, from Beech to Guthrie street, a distance of seven blocks, is well under way. F. G. Proudfoot, who has the contract, started work a week ago and the curb and gutter Is all completed and the grading already half finished. The street will be paved in asphalt and as soon as the grading Is finished the material for the paving will be gin to arrive in large quantities. Mr. Proudfoot expects to have the Job finished by November 5. Quite a Drinker. Herman Grunewald according to a divorce complaint filed by McAleer Bros, in the Superior Court for Wilhelmina. the defendant's wife Is In the habit of drinking a gallon of whiskey every nine days, and in addition consumes enough beer to "lubricate and keep ginned up with John Barleycorn." Herman is also charged with being profane and in the habit of swearing by the Trinity. The Grunewalds were married eleven years ago, and own a flat building in the east part of Hammond. She asks $10,000 alimony. Make that cold room bearable with a Gas Heating Stove. No. Iod. Gas A Elec. Co. Adv. 25tf

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Hammond Lawyer at Splendid Meeting Tells Audience He Will Be Repub-

Nominee For Mayor

The republican party of Hammond adrift In the wilderness for more than a year, took on new lite and new hope last night. A cheer and a "tiger" for Ptter Crumpacker shook the ceiling In Huehn's Hall, when he told his fellow republicans and friends, who had gathered by the hundreds' that he would accept the nomination for the mayoralty offered him last Saturday night at the republican caucus conven tion. Meeting was Hnmmr. The meeting last night stands unique in Hammond campaign history. Prior to Its opening, neither Crumpacker nor his friends knew whether or not he would accept. The decision to lead was born spontaneously out the frank ness and enthusiasm confidence and de termination which marked the session. Every one who left the hall, went away satisfied In his own mind that the republican party In Hammond means business in this fall's oampalgn. The pledges for support with work and money were made to Crumpacker and the entire republican ticket were evidence of this. A Heal Campaign Corning. The voters of Hammond may look forward to a real campaign, and If the wishes of Crumpacker are carried out there shall be no mud slinging, a candidate's private affairs are not to be dragged into the controversy, there la 300 JEW Owing to a lack of blanks, natural ization work in Itke County is at a . j '. ii . - . - o r-1-...i, temporary standstill. Deputy l. S. Clerk V . , a , h a similes iui la. i " o .ii-. - - . for more supplies, ana one snipmcni ui nine hundred blanks was lost, this causing a delay In his office. As soon as blanks arrive, naturalization work will also be done in the superior court clerks office. Supplies are expected about the fifteenth of this month. Since the first of the year 1,600 foreigners mainly from Gary have been naturalized. Three hundred were naturalized last week. It is reported that the circuit court at Crown Point clerk's office will be open In the evening next week for naturalization. DR. SHARRER IS AGAIN HONORED Indiana Society Makes Him Vice President of Enter4 tainment. Dr. H. K. Sharrer, one of Hammond's live wires, received word last night from the officials of the Indiana Society of Chicago that in acknowledgement of the work he had done as general chairman of the Indiana Society's Hammond entertainment committee last June, he was appointed vicepresident of the society's entertainment committee for the banquet which it will hold next December in Chicago. The Hammond man will be called upon to assist in mapping and carrying out the program, which is always unique. Tobacco Men Here. B. Martin, district salesman for the American Tobacco company, is in Hammond at present Introducing a new prize to be given free with every package of Piper Heidseick. Incidental to that Martin is out after one of the prlzeH that his company gives to their salesmen for the most original report. As the main office must depend on men on the road for accurate Information as to the desires and needs of the smoker this plan has been adopted of stimulating originality. Martin came to America from Italy In 1904 without money or influence. He studied the language without a teacher and Is now a clever conversationalist, employing snappy words and quaint phrases that the average American never uses. He writes an Interesting letter and co-workers expect him to drag down one of the prizes. Saloonmen Meet. The Hammond Saloonkeepers' association met this afternoo nln Moose hall. Routine matters of business comprised the program. Save 8 coupons and set a safety r amor with McHle Canadian CIab Adv.

CITIZENS GARY!

to be no abuse of an opposing party. There is however to be a free and open discussion of issues and platforms, the acts of public officials as such and the record they have made while in office through omission and commission. The meeting was called by Peter Crumpacker, and while the invitation was extended to his fellow republicans and those who would support him if he would accept the nomination, there we s a sprinkling of socialists and progressives in the audience. Mr. Crumpacker himself presided as? chairman and was the principal speaker. Speaks from tbe flhonlde. " He first outlined the conditions under which he would consider the nomination and then asked for a response from anyone in the audience. It was after he had received his answers that he accepted the nomination. The conditions that he laid may be enumerated as follows: 1. A willingness on the part of all who would support him, to get in touoh with the republican' city central committee; 2. Every one to stand ready to do such honorable work as may be assigned him; 3. An effort on the part of every meetings a success by attending them and inducing others to attend; (Continued on page five.) SIMPSON ACCUSED OF GSM CHARGE Daughter Says He Beat Her J and'Tore" Dress TOff " Her Back. , . Joseph F. Simpson, 34S Oak street, . , ' 's arrested on a warrant sworn out Judge Prest's court last night for an assault and battery upon his sixteen year old daughter. He was arraigned for trial this morning and after pleading his own case, the court took the case under advisement for a month. According to the evidence this morning, the assault upon his adughter was the outcome of family difficulties which has existed for nearly- three years. Simpson testified that he was unable to govern his daughter, as she stayed out late at night and kept bad company. Last night he lost his temper and gave the girl such a beating that her screams aroused the entire neighborhood. She escaped and was cared for by the neighbors. The girl stated that her father's assault upon her was unwarranted and j that her life was miserable. "He never speaks a kind word to me or my mother," said the girl, "and last night he had no reason for chastising me the way he did. He not only tore the est dress I had off my back, but choked me till I was black In the face." The mother'B testimony was about the same and said "that her life was a burden and could stand It no longer." CATHOLIC PARTY NOMINATES GAMBOA KiVd My 'L ' Frederico Gamboa. Frederico Gamboa, minister of foreign affairs, has been nominated for the presidency by the Catholic party of Mexico. The efforts of this party, it is said, l.ave been directed at the selection of a man who would be acceptable to the United States. The choice fell upon Gamboa for the reason that he ha3 not been prominently identified with any political party.