Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 174, Hammond, Lake County, 11 January 1917 — Page 1

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E-.il S Notorious Character Alter Whip ping Boy Pursued By DetectiYes. (By I lilted Press.) PHILADELPHIA, PA., Jan. 11. N?.rry Kendall Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, slashed his throat and wrist here this afternoon as detectives were about to arrest him to answer an indictment in New York, charging that he whipped 19-year-old Frederick Gjmp." Bleeding profusely he was fcund in the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Taco, 5260 Walnut street. Thaw was rushed to St, Mary's hospital where Dr. Edward Kirby who attended him before his removal to the institution, said his condition was serious. Detective.? had completely surrounded the house. The refugee had evidently been watching the net close about him. Lieutenant tXetective Wood, followed by four plainclothes men, pjunded on the door. After repeated knocks they forced the door. They rushed into the house and passed Samuel Maloney, a republican ward leader and former harbor master, standing in the vestibule. Maloney was white as chalk and v. hen asked where Thaw was nodded Lis head as though he had been transfixed to the spot. Hurling the man aside Lieutenant Wood led the way to r Fitting room. Thaw was sitting in a hair gazing calmly at the blood as it rpurted from the cut. Snatching handkerchiefs from his assistants the lieutenant bound them around the wound v. hile he sent for a physician. The deleotive whipped his belt off and made a tourniquet with which he managed .o ease the flow of blood from the cut in Thaw's wrist. By that time four deiM'tives had brought Dr. Kirby who lives half a block away. As the physician entered the room Thaw slipped from the chair in a faint, muttering he wished to be taken to St. Mary's hospital. An ambulance raced to the institution. It is believed Thaw realized he had been caught before he lost sufficient blood to cause death and wanted To make the time for treatment ns long as possible. Several other hospitals were passed on the way but his wish was respected. Telephone messages had asked that the hospital prepare for a "prominent emergency patient." Before he was brought in the physicians did not know who their patient was. He was placed immediately on the operating table and the flow of blood stopped. The cut in V.i throat was not sufficient to prev it it being treated in the ambulance, the main arteries were cut in the "-rist. A police guard was put at his and held here for the New York au;h1. If he recovers he will be arrested : n."it i;-s. '.-.aloney's connection with the case is a mystery. It is thought he. may have been retained to defend Thaw in the trial. About a year ago Thaw was in - , automobile accident near the house wr.teh he tried to take his life today. Police believe he met Mrs. Taco then for since that time he has been seen frequntly in the neighborhood. Believing detectives would not think to look for him there Thaw probably hid there while his attorneys prepared his defense and friends arranged to send out of the country. AUTHOR OF EIGHT-HOUR BILL

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I i Br 7PN 7 r .f...-v Miss Muriel Oakes. Miss Muriel Oakes is on her way to France, where she will join the small army of Americans now en-g-aed in helping the allied cause. Miss Oakes will join the American Ambulance Corps and she hcpes to be chosen for service on the front line. The photo shows Miss Oakea just before she sailed Xews of great interest to the shippers and manufacturers of the Calumet region developed last night with the statement tht the first step toward equalization of freight rates in Indiana and adjacent states will be made in Chicago Jan. 2!) when a representative of the Interstate Commerce commission will hold a hearing on rates presented by the Central Freight association. The Central Freight association rate readjustment committee will represent the shippers of the territory covered by the freight association. The Central Freight assoc.iitk,,, ,: composed of the railroads operating east of Illinois to Buffalo and Pittsburgh, south to the Ohio river and north to the Great I,akes. Last fall this association submitted a tariff of advp.nced rates to the interstate commerce commission with the request that they go into effect Dec. 1, 1916. The commission suspended the rate measure until March 31. 1917. Aft er the hearing Jan. 29, the findings will be placed before the commerce commission, which will becide upon the rates. The tariff, v.hich the Central Freight association endeavored to have placed in effect Dec. 1 called for an advance of 6.9 cents per hundredweight for first class shipments to Chicago; an advance of 7.6 cents between South Bend and Detroit and an increase of 5.5 cents between Lansing and South Bend. To offset these and other tremendous advances the railroads have lowered the rates between large cities and smaller towns, where little freight service is used. By this the Central Freight association was able to show that the average increase was small. Tet the increased cost to the large producer Js great. Concerns which ship a great majority of its stock to the larger cities of the I'nited States! and therefore have to pay a much higher freight rate. Hunter Shoots High Into Air and Brings Down 6-Pound Fish. COLCMBUS. INU., Jan. 11. Roscoe Hill, a farmer near here, went hunting along the banks of Flatrock river, shot 300 feet Into the air and brought down a six-pound fish. The fish was not a flying fish, but a sucker. It was getting a thrilling ride through the ozone In the talons of a large hawk. Hill's shot brought down both. Hill took the fish home and his family helped eat It, but he had a hard time convincing his friends he had landed the fish by shooting into the air.

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UPPER BERTHS The Upper Berth is not, primarily, a place of rest. It's a gamble. Like poker, and marriage, and storage eggs. The main idea of the Upper is firstto see if you can get in it and second, to stay there till morning without breaking your neck. The chances are $2 apiece and 100 to 1 that you lose. If you win you pay the porter a quarter. If you lose, you pay your own funeral expenses. Life in an upper is just as calm as life in bathtub on a flagpole in a cyclone. If you insist on trying to sleep in one, put your clothes to bed and hang yourself on a hook. The only right way though is to approach it as a purely sporting proposition. Take a lot of life insurance and a long breath and make a night of it. THE wiff notified us today that she expects the grocer TO begin selling b;ans by the bf-an almost any day. MOSQUITOES were troublesome last night not. nearly so AS we have seen them. WEATHER man Indian sign on has also hung th; JOY-RIDES. THE Strassburg j!l.) News "thanks its corpse of correspondents for their good work." F. DEMOSTHENES used pebbles so he could talk smoother, some men now use rock 'and rye. EDITORS know that the country is unusually prosperous BECAUSE a lot of people tell them so. THE young woman who shot a man because he refused to talk for publication IS in the wrong THERE are altogether too many men who want to talk for publication AND they should not be encouraged. IT was Frank Crane who said that "HELL is stupid BECAUSE men go there fn droves WHILE they travel single file to he:, yen." IF ballplayers earn their money THE rest of us are certainly badly underpaid. OUR advice to THE long lean purse IS to beware of the short full skirt IT can get you Into all kinds of difficulty. IF all the tears that have been shed over Ed Lee's predicament up here WERE put In a thimble a crockroach could WADE through without getting ITS feet wet. SOMETIMES YES; SOMETIMES NO TIMES BUXEAtT, AT STATE CAPITA!.. INDIANAPOLIS. IND., Jan. 11. The members of the legislature from Lake county never get lonesome. They are always greeted by some of their constituents, and if one bunch is goinjr home another bunch is coming in. Regardless of statements they may make to the contrary, whenever you see a man here from Hammond, Crown Point, Gary, East Chicago, or any c-Xher part of the Calumet region, he is here after something. He may not always tell what he is after, but it is something. And it might be said in passing that the fellows generally get what they go after. SENATE REPORTS FAVORABLY TIMT.S BTJEEATJ, AT STATE CAPITAL. INPIANAIt)LIS, IND., .Jan. 11. The Senate committee on courts made a favorable report yesterday on the Kinder bill providing for the removal of I.ake Superior Court, Room 3, now sitting at Hammond and Crown Point, to Gary

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American G!us Co. Robbed of SI 100 According to Wire Dispatches Today, Kenneth Farnham, 23 years old, or Hammond, an alleged embezzler wno is held at Indianapolis as a fugitive, admitted yesterday, the police there say, that he obtained $1,100 from the American Glue Company of West Hammond by padding tho pay roll and spent all the money seeing the white lights of Chicago. Farnham was paymaster and cashier and was given the privilege of

j signing the company's checks, he said, i I Guilty Conscience, Is Ztf Farnham said that it was his guilty I conscience that caused the company to' surpoct him and make an investigation. Several weeks ago the man said he saw the president of his company and a detective enter a hotel together. Fearing that he had been detected he departed from Hammond. Each week Farnham said he would sign a check for $200 and cash it. When the canceled chocks were returned from the bank he would destroy the false check. Admits Serving Sentence. Chicago authorities sent a message to the Indianapolis police stating that Farnham also is wanted in that city on charge of issuing worthless checks. When questioned by detectives the man is said to have admitted that he had served a term in the Jcffersonville reformatory for stealing from an Indianapolis jewelry fVre. . Farnham was arrested Monday night nt a hotel on a charge of vagrancy. He will be turned over to the police of Hammond. Emil Bunde of the Hammond police department, left for Indianapolis this morning to bring Farnham back. Farnham came to Hammond from Boston in September and made his home at the Hotel Mee. There he let it be known that his father was a heavy stockholder in the American Glue Works. About Thanksgiving time he gave Mrs. Mee seventy-five dollars worth of worthless checks, and another ?2 5 check to John Snyder, a taxicab owner. Farnham's father is dead and his widowed mother, living in the east, is said to be a most estimable woman. B WIRES TIP ST (By United Freis.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. Brokers' wires from Washington furnished the original tip to Wall Street, James Riley, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, told the house rules committee today. "Secretary Lansing's statement that a note would be issued at 5 p. m. might as well not have been gK-en." Riley said referring to a statement carried by the Jones tfeker that "a peace manifesto would be issued." Riley said the dispatch carried by the ticker operated by the Journal the day of the Lansing statement to newspapermen did not come from the Wall Street Journal representative in Washington. Tho dispatch prepared the street for the shock and really helped to strengthen the market by permitting brokers to get their accounts in shape. "If there had been no warning a panic might have followed. There v:is some selling on the twentieth the day the note tip was given. If all the selling had been on the next day we might have had the panic." RESDLUT10 DEFEATE1 By United Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. Investigation of the leak to Wall street of advance information regarding the Wilson note came to an end today. The houre rules committee defeated the second Wood resolution and refused to take up the first resolution for a general probe. By a strict party vote tho republican resolution for an investigation by a select committee was defeated. Thomas W. Lawson was purged of contempt by the committee's action. Democrats voted adversely on every proposition to investigate the leak. It was understood the resolution would be taken up in the house at 2 o'clock.

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German dead found in a captured trench at W3gram.

Ciermany is winmntr victories, cives an idea how German forces on Mutilated and mangled bodies were a dreadful sight. Note th? mucky, shattered by innumei jle shells. era as PRESIDENT INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Jan. 11. Officers for the County Auditors' Association of Indiana were elected at the annual meeting at the Denison hotel yesterday afternoon as follows: Edward Simon, of Crown Toint, president: J. F. Lochard, of Versailles, vice-president, and George W. Baxter, of Lafayette, secrcta ry-treasurer. .The' election of Baxter as secretarytreasurer broke a precedent that had ben followed for a number of years. Al Zearing. who sells supplies to county commissioners, had held the position of secretary-treasurer for some time, although he was not a county auditor, and some effort was made to re-elect him yesterday but nothing came of it. LATEST ' NEWS OF THE WAR IN EUROPE Hy I nltcil Pro Cnhlcgrnm.) lli:KI.J (Via Siijtlllc Wirclen) Inn. 11 "! officer and more thnn WKI nol'llcr wen? rapturril with lx machine Kiin In a further (trrm.in adtanee In Itoumnnln. 'TVenr 1 1. Million t the enemy nurrrrilcil in occupying n HHlIent trrnrh section of our position." Rcnulne of other attack Tvith liavy lui.vn were reported. 'Cierman-Anxtro-Iliinsarian trMn In the SnisKa valley rap. lured wvcrnl point from the enemy north of Dritoa rnnd. The lDth Infantry (nok wtronjii'y constructed hrfuliin position In Ktorni. Iiik ""1 hand to hand nslKliivr. Teor Mnrntl nnd Racona the captured line na maintained asninnt hostile attack." The tatenrnt reported ni other Important event from the front of 1'oa Mackensen. (fly I'nited I'res Cablegram.) IOMIOX, Jan. 11 I'.ns.'.-tiKl and lier nl'le have told Irellent Wilson IJiey !eire peace hut it must be a real peace. War i preferable to Irulnn domination of llurope. l'rlnie Minister I.loyd George told n guild hall meeting that till po. alrton of the entente poirer had been "made dear lr. the note, replying to Germany' peace offer, but clearer tiil in the reply to the American note."' VMi.jLjXW IkWiJjJJjlJ Frank Morton, a farmer from near Hammond, Ind.. was "ctrongarmed" and robbed of J20 and a watch and chain early today by two men in an alley near West Madison and Throop street in Chicago. Morton, who is staying at the Moline hotel. West Madison and Canal streets, arose early from habit and went out for a walk.

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the western front are being- decimated. strewn over the bottom of the trench, raked-over appearance of the trench, (Special to The Times.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 .The river and harbor bill at the present session of congress guarantees further progress on the Indiana Harbor improvement, by containing an expenditure of a half a million dollars for the harbor. UEBV S.R1ES WRR NEWS WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. The message was decoded and translated and Jaid before Secretary Lansing short!y after noon. In transmitting Ambassador Sharp sent instructions about publication. While the exact time was not made public it was said the note wiU be given out at the state department. ! Officials said Lansing will consult iwith official before arranging for j publication. He expected to give j the note out some time this afternoon for morning publication under j agreement with the entente. In the (meantime he decided not to give i any inkling a:j to the contents or nature of the answer. United Press Cablegram. LONDON, Jan. 11. The Cornwains, 14,000-ton British battleship, was torpeoed and sunk in the Mediterranean sea Tuesday. A carrier was also sunk today in Kastelirizzo harbor, the admiralty announced. The Cornwallis was built in 1901 and carried 750 men. She was capable of 19 knots and was 405 feet loner. Thriteen of her j crew are missing. She carried four 12-inch, twelve 6-inch, twelve 3linch, six 3-pounder guns and four torpedo tubes. (By I'nited rress Cablegram.) LONDON, Jan. 11. Six hun- :' dred Turks were killed or wounded Sand 1,600 captured when British forces took an enemy position northeast of El Arish, Egypt, on Tuesday. El Arish is a seaport on the Mediterranean near the boundary line between Egypt and Arabia. It was captured by the British after two years' occupancy by the enemy. MARSH IS REMOVED TIMES BUREAU, AT STATE CAPITAL. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Jan. 11. The patronage committee of the house today removed "K. B. Marsh of Lake county from the position of chief engrossing clerk of the house and appointed Henry Wood of Daviess county to that place.

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Lake County Hears Ttsat Gov. Goodrich Is All Ready to Sin Bill

(BTJLLETIIT.) TIKES BTTBEATJ, AT STATE CAPITAi. INDIA HTAPOI.IS, IND, Jan. ll--Th senate committee reported favorably on Klnder's O&ry court bill. Kinder attempted to force the bill to a second reading'. Nojdl objected and after s warm scrap succeeded In sending1 toe bill back to committee, fcy rote of 23 to 15. Nejdl said there wtlo much objection to It la Xrftfca county and jroblio hearings should be held. (BTJTtXBrr3T.) Not since "EtX" was a pup, wai Him. xnond as excited as It was today. In the excitement ceused by the report from Indianapoli that within another 24 hours, Gary would put over its superior court bill. It was decided at the members' council luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce this noon, to send a bucket brig-ado to Indianapolis instanter and forth with, to put out the conflagration which Gary had started years ago and had been feeding with gasoline aver 3luce. The committee to go to Indianapolis tonight Is composed of Joiin Beckman, W. J. Whinery, Jesse Vilson, JPred Baruett, Jchn . Smr-Uey, John P. Beilly, rrar-k O'F-ourta and T. Richard SchaaZ. That Gary?s court till to transfer room three cf the Superior court from Hammond and Crown Point for permanent work in Gary had been reported out of both committees and will pass both houses on a votfr tomorrow, was the report received "by Lake county lawyers today. Furthermore, Gov. Goodrich is said to have expressed his willingness to sign the bill if it is submitted to him. The opposition forces, if any, were expected to arrive in Indianapolis Friday, but at the rate the Gary boosters are handling the situation, the bill will be signed by I the governor before anybody pet? ready to put in an objection. Gary was organized for a court victory from the day of the primaries, and this organization work is apparenty getting results. BOND ISSUE OPEN The $2, 500, 000 bond issue of the Interstate Iron and Steel Company, East. Chicago, has been thrown upon the open market in the form of six per cent first mortgage sinking fund gold bonds, due serially, 1917 to 1031. It is claimed that th assets of the company are ovr S-".t'l0.OOO or J2.360 securing each J 1.000 l-nd; that the net earnings are Jl.USO,::-', or 13t times the annual interest. The purpose of the Vr.nd issue is the acquisition of the Grand Crossing Tack Co., Chicago. FLANS SUFFRAGE "COLLEGES" t Miss Elinor Byrns, a New York lawyer, has started on a tour to inaugurate "colleges" for suffrage workers, and the first one is to be opened at Buffalo. She proposes to teach women anxious to learn how to make converts to the cause how to d) it. "Much of the suffrage work done in the past by untrained workers lost effectiveness because of the very lack of training," eaid she. "Now we an going to find out those who are good at public speaking and train them for that. Those who can't make speeches but are good at answering questions are to have their special talent developed. Others who show aptitude for canvassing will be drilled for that particular and Important duty.""

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