Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 41, Hammond, Lake County, 8 November 1913 — Page 1

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Governor Shows Firmness in Dealing With Indianapolis' Threatening Strike Situation, Which Was Settled Last Night. CAPITAL CITY GLAD IT IS ALL OVER STRIKE IS OVER. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 8. For the first time in seven days the people of Indianapolis heard the hum of motors and the clang of the bells of street cars this morning as the service, interrupted by the strike of employes of the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal company, -was resumed. Before daylight the first cars left the barns and by the time the majority of workers started downtown nearly normal schedules were maintained. TIMES BUREAU . "AT STATE CAriTAU': ; .-i",-'.'..-Indianapolis, Ind.. Nov. 8. it Is the consensus of opinion here that Governor Ralston has handled the street car strike situation in an admirable manner, and that he Is entitled to credit for bis success in preventing a continuance of the troubles which have prevailed In this city for a full week. There has been no politics in the situation since it reached the hands of the governor. No one has accused him of playing politics. It is evident that he (Continued on page eight.) UNITY COUNCIL WILL ENTERTAIN The members of Unity Council will have the pleasure of entertaining C. M. I Nlezer. state deputy of the Knights of Columbus, and his degree team, who will arrive in Hammond on Sunday morning and will exemplify the degrees of the order on a class of 120 candidates. In the evening the banquet will be served to all members and visitors of the Knights of Columbus in the K. of C. clubhouse on Sibley street. A lare number of visitors is expected to arrive from various points to enjoy the entertainment. U. S. RULES ON NATURALIZATION M. A. Sturges, chief naturalisation examiner at the federal building, Chicago, has received word from Washington that all declaration of intention papers taken out under the old , law prior to 1906 are still good and will be accepted as valid. Those persons who hold the old declaration papers on which the seven-year clause expired on September 2T. 1913, need no longer fear the old papers are not valid, Mr. Sturges said. Football Game Canceled. Owing to the death of Mrs. Ernest Tillman, teacher of book keping in the public night schools, the HammondSouth Bfnd game was called off. It will be played at a later date. Smoke McHle Canadian Club Mixtore. For pipe or cigarette, best that leaf and akill ran produce. Adv. U. S. CRUISER ON The ijnlted btates cruiser has powered wireless In tho navy, and Mexico, particularly In Vera Cruz, Chester Is headed.

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HOB ART'S NEW POLITICAL WONDER HIGH SCHOOL BOY

4. ' George Tabbert. Hobart Is still congratulating: Georgo Tabbert elected new town clerk by an overwhelming majority over one of the town'B foxiest politicians. It seems only yesterday that Mr. Tabbert spoke (in the Hammond theatre as one of the ! contestants in the Lake County Ora ' torical contest. His friends bespeak , for him a great political future. TO CELEBRATE CALUMET AVE. COMPLETION . Caljjmet ; property waera,jg31anj5; that the highway, which Is now being Improved' through Lake Geoff- un tho north side in Hammond, Will, When completed be one of the principal thoroughfares In Lake county, are already making p'uns for a fitting celebration several months hence, wnen It 13 expected that the pavement will be completed. The paving through Lake Gorge, for which the county appropriated $125,000, is the last link to be completed in the straight north and south thoroughfare between Lake Michigan and Munster ar.d steps are already under way for the extension of the street south of Munster to Maynard and Dyer. The distance from Lake Michigan to Munster is nine miles, and Calumet avenue situated as it is drains the traffic of one of the finest agriculaural districts In the state and Intersects the principal east and west highways in j the northern part of the county. It is recognized as one of the principal arteries of traffic and as such its future development is bound to reach tremendous proportions. One of the prime movers in the proposed celebration is II. P. Uiwney of . 1 . TT ,.l' . , . - . A T ., ...... t nitr jn.iiiiitiiiu .-uiiuai viii m nit hcj and I'ortz. The celebration is pong planed on a scale large enough to at tract wide attention to the Importance of . the highway, and the factor It promises to b in. city development. A banquet is one of the featuiea planned and if the weather permits an auto parade is to be held over the highway from one end to the other. Acreage Deal. Another-piece of Gary real estate acreage commanded a price of $1,000 an acre in a sale recorded a few days ago. v. . . The property Is located between Twenty-nhlrd and Twenty-tifth avenues and is west of Madison and runs as faf asi Van Buren street. . - The property comprises the e. s. w. 14 n. e. i of section 16, township 36 north, range 9 west. Fred Keck has given a warranty deed for the land to J. B. Benjamin. This acreage is surrounded by subdi visions lots in which sell from $250 to JSOO. Smoke McHle Canadian Club Mix tore. For pipe or cigarette, beat that leaf and skill ean produce. Adv. WAY TO MEXICO; TO

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(Special to The Times.) Crown l'oint .Ind.. Nov. S. Since the first of this ytar, when Sheriff Henry Whltaker took his office, he has taken sixty-five persons from Lake County to the insane asylum at LongcliHe, Logansport. Thia average of about six a month begins to present itself as a problem peculiar to this region, as most of the unfortunates are sent there from Hammond, Gary, Kast Chicago and Whiting. In most cases the persons sent to the asylum are men and women of recent foreign immigration. They are the un-

aesiraDles that are permitted to enter the various American ports under the lax immigration laws, and it is thii class that tends to draw down the gen era! average of the class of foreigners who are desirable and who eventually oecome gooa citizens. Thev become a burden to the community and the tax Pa'r. and add nothing to the strengtl on ... ... -. I. . . , ogth and welfare of the country at large or this region in particular. sixty-nve insanity cases in ten months means that oftener than once a week experts are called Into various justice courts to pass on the -sanity of some man or woman. No infrequently the history of the case shows that insanity run In the family, and If a thorough examination of the imml grant ha dbeen made, he or she would not have been permitted to land, or re main here very long. OFFICIALS HAVE ALREADY QUALIFIED If You Won an Office in Election Just Go Up and Get Your Certificate. Mayor John D. Smalley and other city officials elect have already qualified for the offices which they are to assume next January. The city clerk has prepared all the election certificates and is prepared to hand them out to the successful candidates as fast as they apply for them. Among those to whom the oath of office has already been administered in addition to Mayor Smalley, Treasurer-elect Otto Duelke, and Council-men-elect Oscar Plageman of the 2nd ward, J. Edward Burns of the 3rd. John Kolanko of the 6th, and John Nordstrand f the 7th ward. c Harve" Meets "Tilly." Harvey Ciostlin writing from Mineral Wells, Ttxas, states that he has l renewed acquaintance with "Tilly" Kllis, a prime favorite In Hammond at one time. Lest this shock purantanic Hammondites it might be well to add that "Tilly" Is a male being whose given name is William. He was formerly connected with the Hammond Elevator company POLICE NEWS. Mrs. Mary Hafner, 86 Brunswick St., reported to Central station that her home was ransacked by intruders yesterday afternoon but that nothing is missing. Word came from Gary that a confidence man with a pocket full of bogus checks was heading for Hammond last evening. He is rescrlbed as 35- years of age, tnedium height, dress in a brown suit and wearing a black stiff hat. He has not arrived to the best knowledge of the police. H. M. Granger, a resident boarder at the down town hotels complained to the police that a watch had been stolen from his clothes last evening. Adam Kotshowak was confined in a cell last night suffering with delirium tremens. PATROL EAST COAST.

DREDGES CLEAR AWAY LAST OBSTRUCTION

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Here is a view of the Panama canal, looking south at Culebra exit, where monster dredges are eneagod in removing the Cucuracha slide which obstructs the canal at thia point. The rapidity with which the work is progressing will soon clear away this last obstruction to the navigation of the canal from the Atlantic to the t'aeific.

SHE SHOWED THEM HOW Lowell, Infl., Nov. 8. Mrs. John Bowie ,wife of the editor of the Wheatfield Review, went out with some of the younger folks to show them how to celebrate Hallowe'en. In running to escape some victim of thir tracks Mrs. Fiiwie stubbed ft e?t"and rolled down a hill with such force that she didn't stop roiling until she collided with a garage at the foot of the hill. She received two cracked ribs, and Editor Bowie Is now doing his own cooking. WRECK Of ("iO'iOf BEAR RENSSELAER One Member of Wrecking Crew Was Injured Internally. (Special to The Times.) Rennsalaer, Ind., Nov. 7. A wreck occurred on the Monon railway last night near this place. Two freight and two coal cars were demolished and the track torn up for half a mile. Roy Cook, of the wrecking crew, whose home is m Laiayeue, was seriously hurt about the head and Injured Internally, part of a freight car falling on him and pinning him to the ground. He was picked up unconscious and after receiving medical attention, was taken to Fafayette. The wreck .was caused by the. casting of a wheel on a freight car, throw- ' ing the coal cars from the track. j WEEKLY MAY BE SOLD SOON (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Nov. 8. News is current around the city that the Crown .Point Register, up to the last year. a popular wekly here, will soon change hands, and with the change will also enter a new field of politics, the paper to be edited and run as a Democratic weekly and boost the candidacy of several aspirants for county and Judicial offices. It Is not known when the paper will be taken over, but in time to assist in the coming campaign for those offices. BIG TIM IN ANOTHER ROW Alderman Tim Englehart of Gary, who had a fiatic encounter on Thursday night w!th a man named John McDonald, last night went to the mat with Harry frommers, proprietor of the Gary hotel In both instances political discussioiis started the row. It was not necessary for the ambulance corps to be summoned. Breltnnga La Venda Cigars are considered supreme by the best Judges. Adv. tt Is your- house cold when yon reach home? Get a Gas Heating Stove. No. in. Gas A Elex Co. Adv. 2Stf

THE LAUGH 01 JOHN THIS TRIP

Now that the campaign is over, the voters in Hammond can get a little laugh out of John Gavit on a case that was filed In the superior court today. It is still fresh in the memory of thosa who heard the campaign addresses on j both sides that Peter Crumpacker was ! being crucified by the democrats for :;S being the attorney for some corporas. "Corporation Lawyer" was the an sign they hung onto him and not without effect. . j Meekness and the charity that eoverpled ominating traits of the republican campaigners. They went out and j told the voters that in the democratic ranks could be found men who were corporation lawyers, . and that one of them John A. Gavit represented both the city and the New York Central lines. Either by design or accident It so haDttens that Peter Crumpacker the Vnrnoratlon lawyer" files his first case ; after the campaign for a private party agajnst a corporation, the Michigan Centrai railroad which is part of the New york Central system and asks for fi thousand dollars damages. j . f the case itself it Is brought on half of Herman Getze who claims th t hjg trotting mare "Sweet Salome" whose record Is 2:15V, was injured In a collision at Kensington, III., last September. She was being shipped from ; Watseka. 111., to Kalamazoo and the car In which was standing in a siding i when it was bumped by a heavy ; freight. It is charged that the valuable animal broke several ribs in the collision. Sues for Divorce. , Mrs. Delia Spanier, : represented by 1 McAleer Brothers, has trought suit in i the superior court for divorce from i her husband, William Spannier. Tho', complaint charges the husband with ' excessive use or jiquor ana nun cruti treatment. The couple has three children, two giils. six and four years old, respectively, and a two-year-old boy. The mother asks the custody of tnese end 2,0(0 alimony. The Spaniers wero married on July 3. 1906. Missed His Geese. Charles Masko of Hammond, who was fattening several geese for a Thanksgiving day dinner, missed them one morning not long ago. This morning J. O. Koontz filed a suit in the superior court in which Masko is made defendant In the sum of $5,000 for an alleged slander on Andy Rendes. The complaint says that Masko, in the hearing of Mary Betustak, said: "Is Andy Rendes here? He stole my geese and I am going te have him arrested." Smoke McHle Canadian Club Mixture. For pipe er cigarette, beat that leaf and ak.il! ean prod ace. Adv. . Breitung'a La Venda Cigars are the highest class In all its sizes Adv. tf

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Was It Presentiment? Mote teMtimony of fate was found shortly after the tragic death of Mrs. Senate L Tillman beneath the Iron wbrrla of pondr roun wagon. On a reading- table In the Tillman home the woman had left a novel. 'Tens of the D'UbervlHea," by Thoraaa Hardy. ' She had bern readlag: ap to the mlnnte that she left for the posrfofTiee and the following UMim-w '. nndermgored. . thing that she neldora didi "lifomwu areldrnta prevent Intentions; and old plana are forgotten." 'To the distracted husband. George W. Cravens and William t'nberferth. member of the school faculty and Intimate woman friends, this pannage and the way In which It was left for them to read. Is a most ominous thing. Tbcy bad all planned for this evening a friendly jubilee at the Tillman home. As all are busy and have few pleasures It meant much to them. They had looked forward to It for a month. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. TILLMAN Mrs. L. 1 .Bomberger sang at the services in the Stewart chapel this morning. Her selections were "Fa'th in Jesus 'and "In the Morning Land." Mrs. Tillman was a member of the First Methodist church in this city and an active worker. During the recent Northwest Indiana Conference she served w:th the women of the Aid society. She held membership with the Lebanon and Rensselaer Woman's clubs. In both of these cities she hdd acted in the capacity of public librarian. . . - A funeral service will be held Mon- -, day at the home of John King, her father, in Rensselaer. The husband went today with the body. Rev. J. W. Tillman of North Manchester, father of Ernest Tillman, arrived this morning with his wife and their daughter. Fred King, brother of the deceased, came from Winona Iakc. with a plater from Rensselaer. Mrs. Tillman leaves two sisters, with her father and mother. Another remarkable thing that Mrs. Tillman left at her home was a calendar with every date filled out to April. She was a most methodical woman as well as highly intelligent and well educated. Those who viewed her body -this morning saw no marks cf the -utast?o- . he A woun in tile breast was the 'worst visible effect found by the docj . ,t showf.a nlainly the imprint of the calk of a horse shoe. HELD UNDER FALSE PRETENSE CHARGE Louis Paul Quinn, a young man of good manners and amiable disposition, is under arrest for peddling alleged "phony" bank checks to Hohman and State street saloonkeepers. He was captured in his operations and aroused the suspicion of T. P. Pohlplatz. With police officers on his trail Quinn traveled a route from John Huber's tov Phil Rack's, to Georga Thomen's and finally to J. W. O'Leary'a Cristal Buffet near the Orpheum. They were expecting him there. An officer was called and Quinn was ar rested. He has been turned over to the Lake County Superior court. Quinn used paper from nearly every bank in town. , What he collected is not known but it was not a great deal. ICBSCRIBE rOR TUB TUCI

Mrs.Ernest Tillman

Suffers End Under Maddened Horse's Feet Mrs. Bessie L. Tillman, ag-ed 28, wife of Ernest S. Tillman, a teacher of botany in the Hammond high school, was instantly killed in Hammond last evening by the passage of an Inlander and Steindler paper delivery wagon across her breast. She had been knocked to the pavement at Oakley avenue and State street by a maddened plunging team that drew the ponderous vehicle. TO.XGVE PENETRATES WALL. William Carr, a boilermaker of Zion City, seated in the Moran saloon a few yards from the tragedy, was knocked out of his chair and across , the barroom by the. impact of tho wagon tongue whicW burst througH the wall and extended Unto the Interior four or five feet. Mrs. Klizabeth Daugherty of Rensselaer, a widow of middle age, had a miraculous- escapef com- dt-atlr beneath iub leaiu ur unucr me wa&uii.. one js on the verge of a nervous collapse from the experience. SEEX BV SCORES. John Gehrke, 135 Marble street, the driver, was placed under arrest for violation of a city ordinance requiring that horses left unattended on public highways be hitched or the wagon locked. He is out on bail of one hundred dollars. R. E. Moran, 195 State street, and a Mrs. Hemike, 230 State street, have been retained as witnesses. FIXERAI, SERVICES THIS MORXG. Rev. Frank O. Fraley conducted chapel services at Stewart's undertaking establishment at eleven o'clock to day. The body of Mrs. Tillman was shipped on the 12:45 Monon to Rensse laer, the former home of the Tillman's, REPORTER FOR CUB. Mrs. Tillman was a member of the Hammond Woman's Club, occupying an (Continued on page eight.) TO HEAD W. C, T. U. ONE MORE YEAR -X. 4 'VJ .? V- ' fc ' ' Jf 1 Mrs. Lillian Stevens (left) and miss Anna A. Gordon. At the recent annual convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at Asbury Park, N. J., Mrs. Lillian Stevens of Portland, J laine, was re-elected president. Mrs. Stevens came to the presidency in 1898 on the death of Mrs Francis E. Willard, founder of the W. C. T. and has served the national body ever ince. She re-appointed as vic president-at-large Miss Anna A. Gordon of Evans ton. UL . .

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