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Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-08-20
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THAT UNLUCKY THIRTEEN.

Fort Smith. Ark, Aug. 20
Passenger train No. -, OF the st. 4
Louis. Iron Mountain & South
} ern, went into ditch across the
} line from here in Oklahoma this 4
morning. Thirteen were Injured
but none was killed.
Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-08-20
ROOSEVELT POLICIES
OVERSHAO0W ALL
QUESTIONS
shall the People Rule?" Is
Not the Real Issue of Cam
pdign. Says Taft
In Interview.
WAS PLEASED WITH
SAERMAN'S SPEECH
ViCe-PreSidential Candidate Made
a Plain Statement of Facts
Roosevelt COnfers With
Hitchcock and
Sherman.

Hot Springs. Aug. 20.-Taft today
commented on the acceptance speech
of Vice Presidential Candidate Sher-
man and expressed his qualification
over Secretary Roots tribute to
Sherman. He said he read with great
interest and pleasure Sherman ror-
chile statement on the issues of the
campaign and his determination that
the over-shadowing issue of the COM
ing election is whether the Roosevelt
administration shalI be endorsed or
not"
Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-08-20
Sherman SECS RooseyeIt.

New York. Aug. 20.-James s.
Sherman. Republican candidate for
vice president, arrived here from
Ohio early today and soon after left
for Sycamore Hill, accompanied by
Chairman Frank Hitchcock to lunch
with President Roosevelt. and ac-
cording to political gossip. to consid-
er the situation which centers around
the question of Governor Hughes
availability as a candidate to succeed
himself.
Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-08-20
TRAIN ARRIVALS

No. I-7.45 p. m.
No a. 5. SO P. m.
No. 10. IS p. m.
No. s. 6 40 p. m.
No. Oil As p. m.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-06
GARY MAN SHOOTS
A LITTLE GIRL
Is Then Beaten Insensible
by Father of Six Year
Old Lass.
SHOOTING WAS ACCIDENTAL
Father of Fatally Wounded Child
In Jail OF a Charge Of
Insanity.

A most Ianentable accidental shoot
ing took place Saturday night at Gas
I'm Stanley Skronpsl<a's boarding house
at the corner of TweIfeth and Madison
street, when Joseph KaminslSi, bOnr-
der, fatally wounded Genevieve kamins-
hi, six years old, through the discharge
of revolver which he did not know
Was loaded.
Genevieve is the daughter of the
daughter of the boarding house keeper
and is now lying at Mercy hospital in
Gary, lowering between life and death.
The enraged and half crazed father
yesterday sought to punish the man
whom he believes is responsible for the
injury to his child and after finding
that he had been released. beat him to
insensibility with a piece of iron.
The father now in jail charged with
assault with intent to kill and is on
the verge of insanity. The man who
did the shooting was released as 1t has
been proven conclusively that the in
jury to the child was purely accidental.
Just after supper Saturday evening
Joseph Kaminski was in his room
cleaning an old rusty revolver He had
removed five of the cartridges and did
not realize that the gun was a six
shooter
The gun would not work very well
and Kaminski made several efforts to
pull the trigger before he finally sue
ceeded in doing so. When the ham
mer was released it exploded the re-
naming cartridge in the gun just as
little Genevieve came running into the
room.
The bullet struck the child in the
eve and she fell over. apparently dead.
DR.. T. B. Templin was called and he
and Robert Long carried the wounded
girl to the hospital in a clothes bas-
ket.
Joe Kaminski and his friends at once
went to the police station and Joe
gave himself up to the police He
was put in a cell pending an investi-
cation but was released when it be-
came apparent that the shooting was
accidental.
While in the cell Kaminski raved
like a wild man and told the police
that If he was not liberated in two
days he would be insane. The shoot
ing preyed upon his mind and his raw
ings were terrible.
AS soon as Kaminski was released he
went back to the boarding house to
get his personal effects. Here he was
assaulted by Stanley Skronpska. the
father of the girl, and was struck over
the head with an iron bar seven times,
according to witnesses.
Skronpska was then arrested for the
assault and he will be held for the
offense. The father is on the verge of
insanity and like Kaminski, who was
responsible for the shooting, is raving
and it is doubtful if his mind can stand
the strain.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-06
EXODUS OF ENGINEERS
Lake County Men Ship for
South America
Saturday.

East Chicago, April 6.-(Special.)-
Robert Reed, city engineer, will tender
his resignation this evening to the city
council. He leaves next SATURDAY. for
South America with a party of five
engineers from this region, to go to
work on new railroad that is about
10 be constructed there. His destina-
ton is Bolivia and the road on which
his services have been engaged is the
Madeira Momone railroad.
The only candidate vet announced
for the position to be vacated by Mr..
Reeds resignation is A. G. Dorland
now OF Gary, but whose home is in La
porte.
His companions from this part of the
country are ]. c. Spaulding of Gary
now employed on the c., L. S. & q:
Engineer Smith and James Schwader
also of Gary, and F. c. ENCLOSING Of
the South Bay hotel, Indiana Harbor
Mr. Enclosing will be engineer-fn-cbief
OF the party, which besides the enei-
neers already named. will include five
others, mostly from st. Louis. All of
the men are single with the excen-
ton of Mr.. ENCLOSING, who has a fam
lily, and who has been retired recently
out got back in the game to undertake
the work for the scene of which he
VIII SO shortly start. The boat will
san from New York next Monday.
Mr. Reed came to East Chicago last
september from Michigan City, sue
ceeding V. c. Brown in that capacity.
Last January his mother moved to
East Chicago and kept house for her
son.
The construction company which has
the contract for the ne wraiIroad are
the J. G. White people, with Offices
In London, New York and Montreal II
IS largely English capital which is
backing the enterprise.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-06
NEW CHURCH IS DEDICATED
AT INDIANA HARBOR.
Swedish Lutherans Gather at That
Place Yesterday.

The new Swedish Lutheran church of
indiana Harbor, located at One Hun
dred and Thirty-ninth street HemIock
avenue, was dedicated yesterday af-
ternoon. Ministers from the surround
ing Swedish Lutheran congregations
were present and assisted in the carry
ing out of the ceremonies.
Rev Martin Heff, who is now in
charge OF an East Chicago congreoa-
ton, and who will be In charge of the
new congregation at Indiana Harbor,
was in charge of the ceremonies yes
terday which began at 8 o'clock in the
afternoon and lasted until o'clock
The new church which is a frame
building. will hold 200 people and is at
present large enough for the congrega-
ton. The attendance yesterday num-
tered $50 people, crowding the church
to the door and leaving many more to
stand outside. Thirty families belong
to the congregation, and the number is
steadily increasing.
The East Side choir has fifty voices
sang at the dedication and was led by
Rev. Andres Andre. pastor of the East
Eide choir.
Ministers were present from East
Side, South Chicago, Cheltenham. Pull
man, Burnside and West Pullman.
The name of the new church will he
Gensearaph.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-06

of large number of the provisions of
the state law and it's amendments IN
der which the railway commission was
created and its powers and duties de-
fined.
few of the many points made in
the arguments are that the powers
granted the commission are unconsti-
tutional and consequently illegal, in
that they are legislative and judicial
and empower the commission to exer-
else its discretion in the providing and
enforcing of penalties for violation of
the law, whereas such powers rest
wholly within the general assembly.
According to the complaint the act is
unconstitutional in that the commission
may order the company to establish
station at given place along its right
of way and not require another rail-
road passing through the same place
under like conditions to do likewise. or
may impose penalty upon one vio-
lator Of an order of the commission and
not upon another.
1t states also that the one act at
tempts to legislate upon two subtecs
which are not sufficiently related. to
each other, and also that the heading
or name given to the act does not in
dictate all of the matters legislated
upon therein.
Each one of the twenty two points
advanced, more than fifteen of which
attack the constitutionality Of the act
and cite sections of the state or fed
eral constitution in support of the ar
gument, is contained in a separate para
graph. Lawyers say the complaint is
one of the most scholarly and master
full documents filed in the Porter coun-
ty courthouse in a long time When
the array of legal talent engaged gets
together for argument, Valparaiso peo-
pie who are interested in legal bat
ties undoubtedly will have the oppor-
tunity of a rare treat.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-06
CHILD DIES WHILE FATHER
is AT POLITICAL RALLY.
William Voss, Republican Candidate for
Assessor of Thornton Township,
Meets Sad Bereavement.

Lansing, ILL.,, April 6.-(Specfal1-
William Voss. of Harvey. ILL.,, the re-
publican candidate for assessor of the
town OF Thornton, has, within two DAYS.
met with sad bereavement On leav-
ing home Friday evening to attend thu
political rally in West Hammond. he
left very sick child. When he re-
turned home he found that his child
had dies. The child is being taken to
the parents old home in Ohio to be
buried.
Mr.. Voss will not return until We'd
nesday morning, the day after election.
leaving his campaign in the hands Of
his friends in the meantime.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-06
MAY DIsQUAL|FY
RY. COMMISSION
Suit Filed in Valparaiso
Promises to be Far
Reaching in Results.
QUESTIONS LEGALITY OF ROAD
Point of Constitutionality Brought
Up in Case of c., I. & S. VS..
tSate officials.

Valparaiso, Ind. April 6.-(SpeciaI)
"A suit of unusual Importance and
one that is destined to be far-reaching
in its results has been brought to VAL
paraiso. The hearing has been set for
trial at the next term of the Porter
superior court on a change of venue
from Lake county
The action was brought by the Chi
cago, Indiana and Southern Railroad
company against the railroad commits
sion of Indiana to enjoin it from pro-
ceeding to enforce the decision of that
body compelling the railroad to es-
tablish freight and passenger sta
ton and proper shopping facilities, in
Guiding cattle pens, chutes, etc, for
live stock, at Lake Village in Newton
county, this state, in response to a
petition of John Hess and others.
Attorneys ]. B. Peterson of Crown
Point, Crumpacker and Crumpacker of
Hammond, and Clemson, Cary, Walker
and Howe of Chicago, represent the
compliments.
In an exhaustive complaint of nine
teen typewriter pages they say that
the company mas the necessary facili-
ties a Conrad, a station two miles
south of Lake Village. and that Lake
Village at the time of the building of
the railroad was merely a farming
community of very few inhabitants and
that the business at the two stations
such short distance apart is not SUI
ficient to warrant the establishment
and maintenance of the additional ia
cilities
The company says that 1t does not
advertise a station or shipping facili-
ties at that place and does not pre-
tend to maintain a station there
Furthermore, they say that the or
der of the commission is unjust, in that
If it is enforced the company will be
subjected to a fine of from one hun
dred to one thousand dollars for fail
ure to have the improvements COM
pleted within ninety days from receipt
of notice of the issuing of the order
and that the time granted them is not
sufficient as the work will have to be
started in mid-winter. They further
allege that the specifications of the
work required are very vague
COnstftutionaIity Questioned
The principal argument advanced.
however and the one which bids fair
to make the case one of the greatest
interest throughout the state. is the
one of the alleged unconstitutionality
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-06
PAVING CONTRACTORS BEGIN
OPERATIONS IN EAST CHICAGO

East Chicago. April Especially
The Gary Construction company in the
persons of A. F. Knots, president, ana
VIM. Yaeger. superintendent, were IN
East Chicago Saturday arranging for
the stabling of about twenty head Of
horses. This company has the con-
tracts for paving four East Chicago
streets and will begin work immediately
OF as soon as the equipment can be
gotten here This contract calls for
macadam and One Hundred and Fiftieth
street will be the first one talked. The
others are One Hundred and Forty
Third. One Hundred and Forty Nineth
and Barring avenue.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-06
NEW PARKS PROMISED
East Chicago and Indiana
Harbor to Have Parks
Galore.

East Chicago and Indiana Harbor
will have parks galore after the East
Chicago company and the East Chicago
council gets through dickering.
number of secret meetings between
the council and the East Chicago COM
pany's representative, George w. Ross,
gigantic deal in which many acres are
to be turned over to the city for a
nominal sum of money, and other good
and valuable considerations which will
cost the city nothing, but will be Of
benefit to the Land company. The ma
ture of these has not been made pub
lie but will most likely be announced
al the council meeting tonight.
The parks which will become the
citys are the Lake Front park, which
has never been transferred to East
Chicago, although it has always been
displayed on maps of the city as
park; five-acre tract near the filter
ing beds, another f1ve-acre tract near
the pumping station, and a large tract
adjoining the city hall, embracing some
twelve or fifteen acres and bounded by
Johnson street, Todd avenue, One Hun
dred and Forty-fourth street and For
syth avenue.
The main city park which occupies
a space in the center of town and
which was once decided to the city,
traded back to the Land company by
a previous city council in exchange
for twenty acres in Park addition.
which is low and swampy and has
never been improved, will be redeemed
to the city with a clear title. When the
trade was made, and before it was
fairly contaminated, but not however.
before certain lots were sold from it
some East Chicago citizens entered a
protest which put the former park
property under cloud. Since then the
title has remained obseured and the
understanding is that this will be re-
moved, the lot purchasers appeased,
and for all this the Land company re-
ceives back as it's own twelve acres of
the. twenty formerly given in exchange
por the park whose title is under dis
pute.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-06
FLOYD FITZPATRICK IS
ACCIDNET FALL GUY"

East Chicago, April 4.-(SpeciaD-
Floyd Fitzpatrick is probably one of
the unluckiest men that ever worked
in sewer. There has been two ac-
cidents in the One Hundred and Fiftieth
street sewer at East Chicago, and Floyd
was the victim In both cases
A week ago last Friday there was
a small cavein that managed to catch
him and last Friday a chunk of dirt fell
in that knocked him down and neces-
STATED the taking of about six stitches
in his forhead, to say nothing of nearly
drowning him. He is being cared for
at his home and is expected to be out
shortly.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-06
HIS GRUDGE IS PAID
South Chicagoans Get Re-
venge by Uprooting His
Enemy's Trees.

Having nursed a grudge against ilA
countryman for weeks, and not know
ing how to avenge himself, Itnotz Man.
ikowski, yesterday evening went into
the ward Of John Parkowski, 1888 Com
mercial avenue and pulled up seven
young trees by the roots.
He would have torn out more. but
Tor the interference Of ParkowskI, who
seeing him through the window, hurled
monkey-wrench at the destroyer The
wrench, however. missed its aim, but
scared Hanokiwski, who ran away
Parkowsik summoned the police, who
arrested Manikowski on the charge of
vandalism. The prisoner will be tried
today.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-06
SEVERAL BUILDINGS PLANNED
TO BE BUILT IN GARY

Chicago. April -(SpeciaD-The chit
cago, Lake Shore & Eastern railroad
VIII erect a brick and steel machine
shop 25x15o feet at Gary, after plans
by Engineer A. Montzeimer of Joliet.
me Hill Construction company, Chi
cago, has the contract.
Architect John Klucina has made
plans for $4,000 store and fiat build
ing at Gary for Frank Valch, to be 2
stories 22x52 of pressed brick.
Architect Franz Roy has planned a
2-hat building at Hegewisch for Frank
Crane, to be stories, brick, and cost
$4,000.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-06
HOBART CARPENTERS WILL
ORGANIZE THIS WEEK

Two of the strongest union men of
Gary, William II. Kliver and John T.
Hewitt, will go to Hobart this week
where they will assist in the organiza-
tion of a carpenters union at that place.
The local carpenters have already been
SO energetic that it is not believed that
the work will be very difficult, or
take very long before the union will
be in existence. the committee which
John Bastine. Indiana Harbor; and j. c.
Harlow of Hammond
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-06

Timea' want ads bring results.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-06

Take THE TIMES for it's political
news until after the election. Not for
it's republican news, not for its demo-
cratic news, but for both sides.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-09-02

| Misses Salina and Carrie Yongue
have returned from visit to friends
near Pendleton.
Mrs. T. Walter Thompson and
children are at the home of e. L..
Herndon, in Midway, for few days.
Miss Leize Perritt, of Bounty
Land, spent several days in Walhalla
last week visiting at the home Of Mr..
land Mrs. John F. Craig.
The many friends Of VIM. G..
Russell, Of Russel's, We're pleased to
see him in Walhalla last Monday,
and to note that he is rapidly recoy-
ering from his recent Illness.
"A lierary meeting of the b. NJ.
G. will be held at the home Of Miss
Salina Yongue tomorrow afternoon
at 4 O'Clock. A II members urged to
be present. Important business.
The union meeting at Rocky
Knoll last Sund y was largely attend
ed. The meetilr was a most enjoy
able and profitable one. On Sunday
dinner was served on the grounds.
Misses Louise and Lillian ant,
Of Weatherford, Texas; Mrs. Stella
Dean and son, Harold, of Anderson,
and Mrs. E. A. Dick, of Abbeville, a re
visiting at the home Of Mr.. and MS.
N. l.. FAINT, in Midway.
MIR. and Mrs. G.. w. Pitchf0rd
and son, Charles W., Jr., are in New
York, where Mr.. Pitchford Is search h.
ing the markets for his fall and win
ter stock of goods. They will be alb
sent for week or ten days yet.
Last Saturday an election was
held in West Union School District
on the question of levying a four
mill tax for school purposes. Thir-
teen votes were polled favorable to
levying the tax and nine against the
levy. This district will, therefore,
have larger revenue and better
school. We also understand that it
is the intention of the trustees to
build modern school building.
At the Wagner Theatre tome ~
row (Thursday) night X. Shioi, A.
B., NJ. A., will lecture on the Russo
Jap War. His lecture will be illus
trated by moving pictures and stere-
opticon views. Prominent among
these illustrations are the Battle of
Port Arthur. Togo's Battleship in
Storm, Jiu Jitsu and Sword Fencing,
Explosion Of a Mine, etc. All these
pictures were brought right from the
battlefield of Manchuria, and the not
ed Japanese lecturer will explain
every picture. Go out and hear him.
1t will be well worth your time and
money. Admission, adults 25 cents;
children 10 cents. Tomorrow night
at Wagener Theatre.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-09-02
FIERCE FIRE AT NEW ORLEA MS.
Picnic Costs the City Upwards of Two
Million Dollars.

New Orleans, La, Aug. 31.-Fire,
which broke out in the center of the
commercial district here this after
noon, swept over portions of three
blocks, destroying large number
of wholesale houses, manufacturing
plants and small stores. Originating
at Bionville and Chartres streets, the
flames worked their way north as far
as Cont street and west toward
Royal, bringing about a property
loss OF between pne and two million
dollars before they were finally sub
dued.
Several circumstances combined to
give the fire headway which proved
hard to overcome. At the time the
alarm was turned in, shortly before 8
o'clock, the New Orleans firemen were
in the midst Of their annual picnic
at a suburban park and the engines
and patrols responded with a mere
handful of men. It was fully an hour
before the department was in a posi-
ton to make anything like a success
full fight against the fire, and even
then the handicap against 1t was add
ed to by an inadequate supply of
water.
The fire was one of the most spec
tacular that has occurred in New Or
leans during recent years. The sec
ton devastated was made up largely
OF old buildings, some over half
century in use. They proved like so
much tinder to the flames, and fan
ned by high wind, the fire made
rapid progress.
Two warehouses, filled with wine
and liquors, were among the build
ings destroyed by the fire. AS they
burned the barrels OF whiskey and
brandy exploded with tmnderous
roars which could be heard for seve-
raj blocks, and which shook the walls
OF adjoining buildings and endanger-
ed the lives Of firemen engaged in
fighting the flames.
1t was not until several hours had
elapsed that the fire was gotten under
control, and even then it continued
to burn well into the night.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-09-02
Correcting "Campaign" Report.

Until now have paid no attention
to the various campaign reports" )"
but | find one gaining pretty wide
circulation in the last few days that
must be answered. On account of
the fact that Mr.. Cantrell and I
agreed not to make any further per-
sonal canvassing tour of the county,
1T becomes necessary for me to use
the public press to reach the people
with my answer.
The report is, that If | am elected
superintendent of Education others
will run the Office for me. This is
absolutely false, for l have never
thught of allowing such a thing. On
the other hand, If elected, ] shall
give the Office and schools my strict
Personal attention, and will be
superintendent of Education in name
and in fact, subject to no person,
faction, nor party, but a servant of
the whole people.
| wish to say to the voters Of Oco-
nee, If 1T is necessary for me to stoop
to falsehood to be elected, / must
and ought to fail, for truth is one of
the first qualities that one should
possess to fill this position. have
not. nor will /, throw any reflections,
by reports or otherwise, upon my
opponent, and l do not want my
friends to do it. l am running this
race upon my merits and not his de-
merits. If | have not merits enough
to win, then / ought to be defeated.
Yours very truly,
Wade G. Hughs.
September 1st, 1908.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-09-02
Was True to His Promise.

huntsville, Ala, Aug. 30.-Charles
Ea ton, an aged one-armed man, who
hau been released from jail by Fede-
RAJ Judge Hundley to visit his sick
wife, surrendered himself last night
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-09-02

after having walked over 100 miles
to fulfill his promise to return. After
visiting his wife at Winchester, Tenn,
Eaton found himself without funds
and was forced to walk back to the
city or Huntsville, where he was serv-
ing sentence for Illicit disti!ling.