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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
ALICE NEILsENs GOODNESS
Sings the Star Spangled Banner fa
Opera Performance and s avs
Panic of 1000

Chicago, Feb. 25.-A panic III tho
Auditorium here during the grand
opera performance was averted by the
presence Of mind Of Miss Alice Nell
sen, who was singing the prima donna
roll. a small blaze underneath the
stage caused the stage manager to or
der the steel fire curtain lowered. The
sight of the barrier and the smell Of
smoke brought the audience of over
1000 persons TO their feet in alarm.
The dash for the exits had already be-
gan when Miss Nielsen darted under
the descending the curtain and called
to the orchestra conductor: play the
Star Spangled Banner"
Her voice rose over the tumuIt ana
stilled the panic before she had finish
ed the first verse Then the curtain
was raised, fremen appeared on the
stage and treasured the audience. and
the opera was resumed after a wild
outburst of cheering on the part Of the
audience. During the confusion some
one entered the dressing room Of NJ.
Constantine leading tenor Of the
san Cairo Opera company, and stole d
diamond pin which had been presented
to him by the King of Spain. The
trinklet was valued at several thou
sand dollars.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

The United States lost the interna-
tional cable chess match with the
British team, the British score being
51a to AZ for the United States.
At Piqua, o., Alexander Green, who
last December celebrated his Tooth an
niversary, is dead Of old age.
Elizabeth, only daughter Of Mayor
and Mrs Tom L. Johnson, Of Cleve-
land, O., is engaged toSignor FREDERICK
Mariani, wealthy Italian.
A congressional party consisting of
about fifty members Of the house and
senate will sail for the isthmus OF
Panama March 6.
The house refused to authorize the
establishment of canteens in soldiers
homes.
1t is reported that John G. Carlisle
will soon wed Mrs. Gertrude Logan,
Of Richmond. Mrs. Logan was born
Tucker.
1t is reported at Tonopah, New, that
Abe Brown, part owner in the Tono-
pah club, lost 100000 at one sitting at
faro
The NJ issouri legislature has skid
dooed owing to the smallpox epidemic
at Jefferson City, No.
Ex-President Cleveland has returned
east from his brief visit to Chicago.
Montgomery Ward, the watch dog
OF the Chicago Lake Front Park, has
begun suit to prevent the building OIL
that park Of the Field Museum build
ing.
Chief Of Police Won Hessbe-g. OF
Odessa. was severely injured by 6
bomb thrown at him by an assassin
who got away.
Educators from all parts Of the
United States are gathered at Chicago
to attend the convention of the depart
ment of superintendent Of the Nation
/ al Educational association, tomorrow
John NJ. Dougherty, Of HowarL
! county. an engrossing clerk in the Mis-
souri, legislature, is reported with tn
/ smallpox at Jefferson City.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
EULoGY FOR ANDY JOHNSON
est Patriot of the Civil War-Praise
for East Tennessee.

Washington, Feb. %. = In replying
to an objection in the house to an APP
preparation for the grave of Andrew
Johnson, once president Of the United
States, Brownlow of Tennessee, q
nephew of Parson Brownlow, who rep
resents the district once represented
by Andrew Johnson, told the story
of what East Tennessee had done for
the Union army. The congressional
district Of which Greenville is the CEN
ter" said Brownlow, "sent more men
to battle for the Union than any other
congressional district in the country,
and they were 100 miles within the
Confederate lines"
Passing to discussion Of Andrew
Johnson and his contemporaries Brown
low said, amid great applause, Il de-
sire to say right here that in my opin-
ion Andrew Johnson was the greatest
patriot Of the civil war" The appro-
priation was voted.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
CO 1ling Apparatus Saved.
GIRLS DO A CLIMBING STUNT
Freaks Of the Colds Mt the DePauw
University-Dor Roof
Is Decorated.

Greencastle, Ind, Feb. 25. = When
he students of Depauw university
awakened in the morning the royal
purple and white of the first year men
decorated the roof of the dormitory. A
dummy with "Soph' painted Gu it
hung in the scrap tree" around which
so many conflicts have been fought
The colors had been placed in position
by several girls who had rooms there.
They gained access to the roof by a
Iire-escape in the rear
The escape goes no higher than the
third-story windows, and the women
We're obliged to place an old wooden
ladder on top Of it. They scrambled
to the overhanging ledge, chung to the
slate roof, and walked in the caves
trough sixty-tiye feet high to the front
of the building, where they placed
their bunting which Haunted It's chal-
lenge to the sophomores.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
VAST AMOUNT OF FREIGHT.
Average Mind Cannot Comprehend
Enormous Amount OF Freight
Handled by Railroads.

The Pennsylvania is too vast to be
grasped by the lay mind. In the an
nual report Of the road for 1905 oc-
ours the statement that the lines car
ried Is. SIS, 49, 900 tons of freight one
mile. n the report for 1904 the fig
ure is 1928, 451,000. The increase is
2,662, 034, 600. There is not one trained
reader in hundred that can grasp
the meaning of the change.
In 1905 the Wabash railroad carried
2.339,770.000 tons Of freight one mile
the Lackawanna 2,715,748.000 the
Delaware & Hudson 1,782,383, 600; the
Reading 1,324.829,00O. The increase in
the ton mileage on the Pennsylvania
in 1905 was greater than the entire
ton mileage of the Wabash, the Della
ware & Hudson, or the Reading. If
the entire freight business Of the Wis
consln Central, Omaha, and Chicago
Great Western had been added togeth-
er the total would have been 400 .O0O,-
! 600 tons behind tho amount of the in
| crease on the Pennsylvania.
! These figures are for the Pennsyl-
vanIa railroad alone, All the lines in
the Pennsylvania system reported for
| 1906 a total ton mileage OF 29.503,-
| 100000 against 25,131,000.000 in 1904.
The increase, 4,872,000,000 tons one
mile, is greater than the entire ton
mileage of the Union Pacific. the
! Northwestern. the St. Paul, the North
ern Pacific or the Great Northern for
the year 1905. In other words had one
of the great systems been tackled on
/ to the Pennsylvania as new division.
/ 1t would not have brought so great an
increase in freight tonnage as came
in that year from the ordinary growth
Of the business.
This growth is too big to be m
/ derstood. 1t was made doubtless. at
great cost. But the cost does not
compare with the capital of the Wa
bash, the d. & H., nor the Reading.
Those billions Of tons represent mere
/ III the fruit Of investments made bv
! the Pennsylvania two, three. four Al
4 five years ago. The investments cost
much money They are paving now
/ in two ways, some by dividends on
stocks purchased. others by the Gre
alton of freight traffic. The net re-
! suit is that the ton mileage Of the
4 Pennsylvania increased in 1905 by more
/ than the total aggregate ton mileage
Of the Wabash-and tho public sofa
i the stock.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
Railroad Notes
RAILRoADERs MYsTFIED.
Runaway Train on c. Il. & i. without
Engineer or Fireman Puzzles
ToweFmen.

Kankakee, Ill. Feb. 25.-Noiseless
ly, without a puff Of smoke. loot Of
whistle or clang of bell, with no engi
neer at the throttle, no fireman TO
shovel coal, and no conductor to give
orders, freight train passed through
Watseka, a small town about twenty
five miles south Of here on the Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois railroad. early
saturday morning. The entire town
as wei as the country round about is
stirred up over the "spook train
The train was first seen by H. l.
Burnett, the night towersnan. Bur
nett saw tho train approach from the
north, saw it stop at the Walnut street
crossing at 5:32 O'Clock. The train re-
NAMED motonless for sixteen minutes,
then slowly and noiselessly glided by
the tower, across the T.. z. & w.
tracks and on toward the south.
When the train first appeared Bur-
nett says he thought 1t was extra No.
lO2, but about twenty minutes later
extra 102 pulled UP to the tower. In
the meantime Burnett had been as
sured by the dispatcher that there was
no train between NO 1896, which had
just passed a few minutes before, and
102, just in the yards
Night Towerman J. P. Quinn, at
! Coaler. three miles south Of Watseka,
saw a train coming up close behind
No 800 as the latter was coaling. He
! telegraphed the dispatcher at Danville
| that No. 396 was coaling and there was
train behind IT. mo train there,
| responded the ditpatcher, train extra
/ 102 just out of Pittwood." a few min
utes later 396 pulled out of Coaler, and
| then the train behind it disappeared.
quinn wired the dispatcher that the
train back Of 1876 was not there any
more and he had not seen 1t leave the
coaHng station
Messages were flying back and forth
between the dispatcher's office in Dam
Vile and the towermen at Coaler and
Watseka in a mad effort to find the
missing train Towerman Burnett
sought to solve the mystery by COM
municating with the night man al
Pittwood. but the man In charge Of the
Pittwood tower had seen nothing.
If you see him again (meaning the
train) ask him where in H. he got
on at" wired the dispatcher at Dan
Vile to the Watseka towerman.
Conductor Fox and Engineer Haz-
zard of the Watseka- Terre Haute pas
senger train saw the mysterious train
Engineer Hazard noticed the number
of the engine $50.
On the record kept Of passing trains
in the interlocking tower in Watseks
appears the following: "5.42 to 5:4S,'
meaning the time taken by the train
which had no official engine number
no train number and no existence or
the railroad records, in passing The
tower.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
he TACKLES STATES RIGHTS
Says There Has Been a Curious Re-
vivaI OF That Doctrine.

vivaI OF That Doctrine.
The important part of his address
to the students Saturday was what he
said Of states rights. In opening his
talk be dwelt upon the duty Of every
college man to take an active part in
the affairs Of the nation. He made
strong defense Of the Tougher athlet-
ic sports, and especially foot ball, and
said he did notwantcollege men turned
out as "mollycOddles."
Referring to more general public is
sues he said in part, after talking
about the great questions at issue =
regulation and control OF corporations:
There has been curious revival of
the doctrine of state rights in cOnnec-
ton with these questions by the peo-
pie who know that the states cannot
with justice to both sides practically
control the corpora tons, and who there
fore advocate such control because
they do not venture to express their
real wish, which is that there shall be
no control at all.
Of state rights to protect state cor
porate creations in predatory activities
extended through our states are as
short-sighted as those who once in
voked the same doctrine to protect
the special slave-hOlding interest. The
states have shown that they have not
tho ability to curb the power Of syndi-
Gated wealth, and, therefore. in the in
terest of the people it must be national
action.
Estates rights should be preserved
when they mean the peoples rights,
but not when they mean the peoples
wrongs: not, for instance, when they
are invoked to prevent the abolition Of
child labor. or to break the force of
the laws which prohibit the importa-
ton of contract labor to this country. J."
he then reviewed the achievements
of the past ten years, at home and
abroad. and said: In all these mat
ters there have been some men in pub
lie life and some men in private life
whose action has been at every point
one Of barren criticism or fTuitless OBJ
struction. These men have had no
part or lot in the great record OF
achievement and success; the record OF
good work worthily done. Some OF
these men have been college graduates
| but all of them have been poor serv-
ants Of the people, useless where theg
ware not harmful"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
HE WAS TOO REALISTIC
Actual Case OF Madness on the Stage,
Which Did Not Fit the Play
Actor Is Restrained.

Bay City. Mich. Feb. 25.-James K.
Corbett, of Troy, n. Y, an actor in the
Kennedy Stock company, became sud
denly insane on the stage Of a local
theater, and flourishing revolver
shouted for some one in the audience
to come forward and shoot him. XIII
me, kill me" he cried. Here's a gun;
shoot me!''
The audience at first thought the
actors excitement was part of the
play, and the other members Of the
company led him from the stage before
tho audience realized the situation.
The play was then resumed and Cor
bett was taken to st. Mary's hospital.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
500 REWARD. s1oo.

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stroying the foundation Of the disease
and SWING the patient strength by
building up the constitution and as
slsting nature IN doing It's work. The
proprtetors have So much faith in lis
eSpraJiNe powers that they offer one
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Take Hairs Family Pills for cousti-
sation.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
CAPTAIN sPERLING A HERO
Man Who with Two Nephews Rescued
Three Women from the III
Fated Steamer Berlin.

London. Feb. 25.-The newspapers
here and on the continent are ringing
with praise for the heroism of Captain
Sporting, of Dordrecht, TO whose initia-
tive and courage 1t was entirely due
that the last three survivors of the
steamer Berlin, which was wrecked
off the Hook of Holland, were rescued
Since the deed Captain Sperling and
his two brave nephews have been con-
tinually engaged in retelling the story
and sitting for photographs. The story
is brief one. A raft was tOwed out to
near the ship and Sperling and his
nephews got aboard the raft, which
was then allowed to drift down to the
wrecked ship.
Sporting climbed aboard the Berlin,
and carried the three women survivors
to the side and lowered them to the
raft Then the raft was hauled back to
the boat and the nearly dead women
were taken ashore They are Frau
Weinberger, her nurse girl, Nina
Kepler, and Fraulein Theile. This
makes a total Of fifteen saved out of
143 on board the Inflated steamer. All
the survivors are recovering.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
FROM DOWN
THE STATE
Telegraph News by DlrecS
Wire from All Over
Indiana.

Tndianapolis. Feb. 25-A dispatch
from AIeadviIIe, Pa, says: "Elma Dare,
charged with kidnapping George Rhodi-
NO said TO be Predetermined, at Indi-
anapolfs on Jan. p, and being married
to him at Louisville, KY, was arrested
at the Todd sanatorium, Cambridge
Springs, by Deputy Sheriff Paul Mar
shall. Rhodius was with the woman,
and the two were traced to Cambridge
Springs by Detective J. +. Harper, ex-
police chief of Louisville, and en-
ployed in the case by John W. Clay
pool, Of Indianapolis, attorney for the
Rhodius estate. Half a dozen detec-
tives appeared on the scene as soon as
the woman was placed under arrest,
but Deputy Marshall will bring her to
MeadvilIe, where requlsition will be
made for her return to Indianapolis.
Detective Harper traced the couple first
to Markleton, Pa, and then to Cam
bridge Springs, where they arrived
Saturday. Rhodius is a millionaire"
Styner Is Due to Recover.
indianapolis, Feb. %. - A dispatch
from the City Of Mexico says. Eek
General Manager Styner, of the Next
ran Central railway, will recover from
his mysterious wounds, which so near
~ proved fatal, and that he will be
reinstated in his former position, is an
nounced here by w. T. provence, SUI
perintendent of the chihuahua divis-
ion. provence was appointed the sue
cessor of Styler, but declined the ap.
pointment."
Stood Him on His Head.
Indianapolis, Feb. 25.-When a small
rrowd of people saw two men grapple,
and one Of them turn suddenly and
stand on his head with his legs clenched
by the other man, opposite the Denison
hotel, they naturally came to the con
clusion that jiu jitsu tactics We're be
ing used in the struggle. Then man
who stood upright was Edward Sam.
uels. a husky member Of the detective
department The man who stood up.
side down was Jerry Mccain, a fugi.
tive wanted for burglary in Denison,
o., who had resisted arrest.
Gambling Apparatus Saved.
Indianapolis, Feb. 25.-The senate
killed the Hanna house bill. authoriz-
Ing sheriffs to destroy, before trial,
gambling apparatus and paraphernalia
which they seize in raids Of gambling
places. This bill was introduced to
permit the sheriff of Orange county
to destroy the costly outfit captured
Mt French Lick Springs and West Ba.
Zen.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
Edward @. Cooper Dead.

New York, Feb. %. = Edward @.
Cooper, vice president of the SiegeL
Cooper company, Of Chicago and this
city, is dead at his residence here of
double pneumonia. He was taken sick
q week ago. Cooper was SO years old
and q son OF the late Frank Cooper,
one Of the founders Of the Siegel, Coop
er company. He was born in Peoria,
H. His widow was Miss May Allen, Of
Frankfort, Ind.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
President Roosevelt Puts in a
Busy Day Among the Har-
ward Students.
he HELPS INITIATE HIS SON
Address to the Collegians on Subjects
Of National Interest.
Puts in a Word for Foot Ball and
Deprecates ''NIolIycoddling'-
Some Comments on
States Rights.

Boston, Feb. 25.-President Roose-
welt, who arrived here Saturday on
an unofficial visit with members Of
his family departed for Washington
last night in a special car attached to
tho Federal express. While here the
president addressed the students deal
ing with college life ana the question
of states rights; officiated as godfa-
Their at the christening OF the child
Of Guy Murchie, a Rough Rider and
Harvard friend; visited a publishing
house to look at some rare volumes;
took an automobile ride; took luncheon
at the Sphinx club; received a medal as
ex-editor of the Harvard Advocate;
called at the home of President Eliot;
was given reception by the Hasty
Pudding club; called on his son at the
callers dormitary quarters; was the
guest Of Bishop Lawrence at tea, and
took part in the initiation Of his son
to membership in the Porcelain club
Yesterday he visited Groton school,
where his second son is a pupil, and
whore Mrs. Roosevelt went as soon as
the party arrived here.
Adlnirer Gives Him Flag.
His trip to Groton school was made
by train and there was d crowd to
see him off Just as the train was
moving slowly out middle aged man
ran quickly down the platform behind
the presidents car and when he
reached within a few feet Of it DELHI
erately threw what looked like a paper
parcel toward the president. One OF
the detectives tried to ward off the ar
| ticle before it struck the car. but It
landed safely through harmlessly. The
missile proved to be a silk flag, en-
closed in paper bag. the gift Of an
admirer. At GrOton he gave q "short
sermon to the boys winding up with
/ Nov | wish good luck to all Of you"
AS he left on his train he stood on the
rear platform and shouted Goodbye
all' in reply to the cheers Of the vii
layers.
His Departure for Washington.
On his departure from Boston to
Washington, as the train moved out OF
/ the south terminal at SOP p. m. the
crowd that had assembled cheered
heartily and the president acknowl-
edged the demonstration by waving
his arms and bowling. Roosevelt
seemed in a jovial mood, and, indeed
he had shown great delight in the
meetings at Harvard and with old Mas
sachusetts friends during his two days
visit. Everywhere he was enthusi
Rstically received and was especially
applauded by the Harvard students
when he addressed them.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
Five Women Were Hurt.

Pittsburg, Feb. 25.-The Philadel-
phia express on the Pennsylvania rail-
road ran into an open switch in the
yards at Sixteenth street. The railway
officials would give no information to
outsiders" but it is learned that five
women were severely cut and burned,
but continued their journey after treat
ment by the railway physicians.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
Senate and Houee in Brief.

Washington, Feb. 25.-AIthough the
senate devoted four hours to legisla-
tive matters nothing was accomplish
ed except speechmaking The time
after 8 p. m. was devoted to eulogies
Of the late Senator Alger and Repre-
sentative Hit,
Under rule reported from the COM
mittee on rules the house amended it's
substitute for the I4aFollette sixteen
hour railroad employees bill by an af-
1rmative vote of 2T9, there being no
negative votes cast. Both Republicans
and Democrats agreed that the amend
ments strengthened it greatly. The
house agreed to the conference report
on the legislative, executive and judi
cial bill and then proceeded with the
consideration Of the sundry civil bill,
holding a night session, but completing
and passing the bill. Yesterday the
house held a session at which eulogies
were pronounced on the following de-
ceased congressman: Senator Alger
and Representatives Adams, of Wis
cousin; Flack and Ketcham, Of New
York.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
Root River on a Rampace.

Lacrosse, Wis. Feb. 25.-Root riv-
er, flowing through southeastern Min
nesota, is on one of the worst ram
pages in It's history. Hundreds of tons
of hay stored on bottom land arc
ruined, and farmers are moving their
stock to places Of safety. The river
is lowing through the streets OF
Houston, village twenty miles west
of this city.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
Ex-County Treasurer Arrested.

Evansville, Ind, Feb. 25.-John P.
Walker. lex-county treasurer was ar
rested upon grand jury indictment.
The indictment is in four counts. one
charging grand larceay and three for
embezzlement. A recent investigation
OF the treasurers Office, it is alleged,
showed shortage Of $4,000 in his &C
counts
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
Mcdonald ont on Rond.

Terre Haute Ind, Feb. 25.-Henry
Mcdonald, of Sanford, proprietor Of a
''blind tiger" who is under suspicion
OF having dynamited the Methodist
CSurch and two stores, has been re-
leased on bond on the larceny charge
used rs a preteXt for his arrest No
one in Sanford is willing to incur his
enm'ty by making formal charge con-
meeting him with wrecking the build
lngs.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
New Honor for Messmer.

Milwaukee, Feb. 25.-Archbishop
Messmer has received from Rome the
appointment Of assistant to the papal
throne. The new honor gives the arch
bishop. when in Rome, certain privi-
leges not accorded to those not hold
ing It.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
He Stands on SANDY Ground.

Evansville, Ind. Feb .. - Albert
Stokois charged with libeIlng Mayor
John w. Boehne in q newspaper card,
announces that he is stin German
subject and will appeal to the German
ambassador. In case the local authori-
ties cannot convict the accused they
will ask the German government to Ie-
port him on the ground that he is an
anarchist.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-25
ETERNAL vigilancen Neglected.

Sumter, s. c., Feb. 25.-While both
companies of the fire department were
attending the funeral of Chief era
ham. who was killed by falling walls
in the fire here Friday, fire broke out
In the baggage room Of the Union sta
ton and gained sufficient Roadway
before the department could respond
to destroy the building.