The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-16
UP AND DOWN
TN INDIANA
rNDIANIANs OPPOSE CANNON.

pour of letters and kilograms urging
Indiana representatives to stand
against Cannon and the rules which
have built up the so-called house ma
chine" Many of these messages came
from Indiana. In yesterdays grist
We're messages from J. Wesley Reed
of Hammond, Edward Kollmeyer of
Columbus, J. S. Roessler of Valparaiso
and H. ]. Mufitt of Whiting. Mr.. Muf-
fit declares the people want a more
progressive man for speaker-than Can
non.
DRYs CLAIM ST. JOSEPH.
St Joseph county will go dry" by
a large majority when the local option
election takes place early in June ,ac-
cording to predictions of leading bust
ness men of South Bend and Misha-
waka. The handwriting on the wall
is even seen by the brewers and they
are making a last desperate effort to
forestall the tide by compelling saloon
keepers vigorously to obey the law.
WORKS FOR ELECTION.
DR.. ]. 2. Powell of Logansport is
chairman of the Cass Coutny Anti-Sa-
loon organization and had an active
part in the campaign which resulted
in an option election being called for
April 6.
NEW LIFE FOR COMMERCIAL CLUB
| Dr. E. 0. Harold, president, is at the
head of the Marion Chamber of Com
merce, new Industrial organization
which proposes to boom and boost the
| town. The Chamber Of Commerce al
ready has membership of 400, and
/ he III al Jr1h ~ ~
has ceased to exist. The new organi-
cation has propositions from a number
of factories that are seeking new loca,
tons. and the proper inducements will
be offered to land them.
DYNAMITE HOME OF @wET."
An attempt was made last night a
1880 O'Clock to destroy the home o
Charles G. Renner of Martinsville, at
torney for the Anti-Saloon league, b,
dynamite, and the charge did consider
able damage to the house, but injure,
no occupant.
G.. C. & L. IMPROVES.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton s. Dayto,
traffic at Indianapolis is on the in
crease, especially at the depot In tn
western part Of Indianapolis, the old I
: B. & w. freight depot. At this depo
almost twenty-five or thirty cars ar
loaded and unloaded daily. Most 0
the men employed there were wit
the road under the Jurisdiction Of +
B. Hammond, deceased. when he wa
president of that company.
REFUSED HIS DEGREE.
After two years of work with tn
expectation of getting a masters de
! | - to1
g mond. Walter S. RatIff, Wayne coun
tvs representative in the Legislature
is doomed to disappointment. Mr.. RAJ
. lift expected to get the degree
master of science for which he ar
piled two years ago and the work Il
a which he has just completed, but h
e has been notified by President Robel
a L. Kelly of the college that it is be-
e to consider that he is no longer a cal
didate for the degree at Earlham, al
2 signing as a reason that Mr.. Ratlif
9 his voting in the legislature was NJ
q governed by his pledges on NOR
= questions.
KILLED BY LAKE SHORE TRAIN.
!, Louis Kocsis of South Bend w;
= struck and killed last night by a Lal
Shore limited train. A horse whic
he was driving was thrown eighty-fi'
: feet and the mangled body of Kocs
> was found on the pilot of the engine
STARTED FOR WASHINGTON.
Barefooted and thinly clad. Hen
= Cook, aged 70. of Mishawaka, who di
appeared while en- route to attend t.
! inaugural ceremonies at Washingto
was found yesterday in a dement,
n condition at Cumberland, Nd He HI
been missing four weeks.
BLIND TIGERss NO BLIND COPS.
= Myron A. Waterman, bank examin
10 of Kansas, addressed an audience
900 at Columbus Sunday afterno
70 on the option issue. There are bli
tigers only where there are bli
:, officers" was his declaration. and Il
IN is nucleus around which a leag
a, will be organized in Columbus.
as LABOR FAVoRs SALOONS.
,r Backed up by many representativ
es of labor unions, the saloon interests
Id Miami county are asserting they "
lg win i nthe option election to be held
Miami county Tuesday. Adding to t
condition it is said that the matter
ed politics is cutting some figure IN I
pit rural districts, and according to
v ports many republicans viii vote I'VE
e. The liquor interests in Peru ass
at they will carry the city by no less Il
1000 to 1900.