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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12
WASHINGTON GOSSIP OF
INTEREST TO HOLSTERS.

Representative Crumpacker has in
PRODUCED a bin to pay his secretary.
Nelson Jacobson, $500 for extra eIeri-
cal service rendered during the pres
ent session on the bill providing for
the taking of the census.
Representative Barnhart has received
word that Gilbert Ray Warren of New
Carlisle. successfully passed the mental
examination and then failed on the ply
steal test at Annapolis. The young
man was held to be color blind. An
other young man will be appointed
from the Thirteenth district.
Assistant Secretary Of the Interior
Jesse E. Wilson and family have gone
to Atlantic City to spend a few weeks.
Representative Barnhart has wired
the commissioner of immigration at Ell
lis Island to hold Etima vaneiste and
not deport her until he can obtain a
hearing on the case. This foreigner
was en- route to South Bend, Ind, to
make her home with Joseph Vande-
voorde and family, who are her rela-
tives, and she was detained at Ellis
Island on account of defective eyes and
was ordered deported to her native
land.
The postofhce department announces
the appointment Of Jacob T. HUFF. Orris
G. Gardner, Clarence A. Becker and
Frank B. Livingston additional city let
ter carriers at Gary.
Postmasters appointed: ONO. Hen
bricks county. Loren Hadley, vice T
Mendenhall: Orestes, Madison county
Lyman c. Thornburg. vice B. NJ. Reece
resigned
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IF YOU WERE THE EDITOR.

Would
graduate
says
When
passes
When home point
of breakdown everybody
himself with
When hypoerita for
his
praise the efforts of this public spirited
The Would YOU
that he the
speaking, of
are
diplomacy walk hand in
hand The like individual
he
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12
Up AND DOWN IN INDIANA
RACE PROGRAM READY.

The automobile world has for months
been discussing the new Indianapolis
motor speedway and it will now have
an opportunity to pass judgment on the
first program of auto races arranged
for the new course. The official pro-
gram for the initial meeting of three
days, Thursday Friday and Saturday,
Aug. 10, 20 and q, has just been re-
ceived from the printer.
TELLER STEALS $500.
Edward n. Deter of Fort Wayne.
age 81. and for twenty-one years
trusted bank clerk, is under S. 600 bond
to await a grand jury investigation on
charge of embezzling the funds of
the First National Bank to the amount
Of $500. Deter confessed last night.
He was paying teller at the bank
DISCLOSE BOOK COMBINE.
1t developed Saturday that at a spe-
cial meeting of the township trustees
of Wayne county. held in Richmond,
sensational disclosures were made with
reference to the alleged combine Of
Indiana school supply companies to
keep up high prices and to throttle
those concerns which do not do the
combines bidding.
JOKES AT DEATH COMES.
Alone, far from any relatives. II he
has any. but not neglected, Eddie Pow
ers, a 'bIack-face" comedian, died IN
a Muncie hospital. He was 80 years
old Heart disease claimed him. Pow
ers had made thousands laugh. and TO
the end he was faithful to his role,
refusing to regard his condition as ser
ious and TESTING with those about him.
ELMoRE WRITES NEW POEM.
The street yender" is the title OF
the latest poem from the pen of James
B. Gilmore, the Bard Of Alamo, who
lives near Charlottesville The poem
was written Monday afternoon by the
poet after he had cut wheat all morn
ing and had been compelled to cease
work in the harvest field on account
of the rain.
! STRIKERS THREATEN TROUBLE
The striking employees of the Amert
| can Sheet and in Plate company at Ell
wood are becoming restless and th'
| good conduct committee is having III
hands full in keeping the men in linz
and out of trouble.
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LET GARY BEWAREI


We notice a newspaper article to the
effect that Gary, Ind. the site of the
United States Steel corporations gi-
gantic new plant, is expected to sur
pass Pittsburg in the near future.
We trust that Gary will think twice
before 1t does that. 1t is all right for
it to turn out more steel products than
Pittsburg If it can and wants to. But
an effort to surpass Pittsburg in gen.
eral would tend, If successful, to i'm
pair seriously the reputation of a
growing Indiana city. which has no
past to be ashamed of.
No true friend of Gary could view a
concerted movement to establish there
a social organization with sensational
features superior to those of the Du-
quesne club with anything but the
deepest regret It would not only give
the city much advertisement that it
could well dispense with. but would
also increase the demand on the vigil
ance Of the police to such an extent as
to injure the efficiency of the police
service at other points.
The effort to produce a variety of So
cial scandals worthy to take precedence
over the finished Pittsburg product
would also be a great mistake. 1t
would absorb nervous energy and in
tellfgence that could better be employ
ed in developing the growing city, and
| thus prove a positive handicap.
| Gary should remember, too. that
| Pittsburg's proficiency in scandals did
not come about in day Back of il
are the long years of experience that
a new town necessarily lacks.
| Furthermore. a wellwisher of Gary
we have no hesitation in urging most
strongly that no effort be made, for
| the present at least. to interfere with
Pittsburg's lead in the business Of
furnishing millionaire husbands fol-
New York chorus girls.
For long time Gary will prob
ably need all the millionaires it car
rake and scrape to help the town II
it's business. To attempt to supply the
needs of the stage before its own need:
are met would be sheer folly.
We might dwell on other point:
wherein Pittsburg is pre-eminent ant
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12

The state of New York killed Mary
Farmer, wife and mother, last month.
1t was a sickening story. They har-
messed the woman in chair, having
shaved her head, and the executioner
described an arc with lever, sending
the deadly current into her convulsed
frame.
And then
After examination they found that
Mrs. Farmer still had spark Of the
life that God had given her, and-again
the electricity.
Warden Bonham telegraphed the
governor following the execution:
There were no distressing Incl
dents"
In the estimation Of the calloused
warden the killing had been done with
neatness and dispatch.
No distressing incidents?
Was it no distressing incident that
wife was being killed by the state
while her husband prayed in his cell;
that a baby boy should be made an
orphan; that every woman in the
land should be shocked at the dishonor
done her sex; that society should be
brutalized by the spectacle; that the
dial of civilization should be moved
backward?
No distressing incidents?
Why, the whole life of Mary Farmer
was distressing incident.
She was a poor, ignorant woman
who never had a chance.
Both heredity and environment COM
bined to make her what she was. Her
surroundings had calloused her heart
and stunted her mind.
| Society made her what she was and
then killed her for being what she was
and doing what she didI
| Is that too strong?
But can you expect anything but
degradation and disease and crime
from the Mary Farmers whom society
feeds with the measly crumbs thrown
from its sumptuous tables?
Mary Farmer went to her own place
the place the world made for her
Under provocation she did just what
might have been expected Of her.
To say this is not to condone hel
crime, but-the pity Of It'll
When the history of our times ii
read by the people of 2009 they will be
Mortified to learn that commonwealth
officially killed ignorant and erring wo
men
Without distressing Incidents"
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Jemima. wears a stylish lid, that
fashioned like bowl, and she can only
see the ground when she goes LOT
stroll; the birds may gambol IN the
trees. the lambs upon the fat Jenlma
knows it not, for she can't see beyond
her hat. She knows not If the skies
are blue. or dark with threat OF RAIN
for her the gaudy apple trees present
their bloom in vain; all nature Is
charming sight, but she'll have none of
that-she might as well be blind Tor
she can't see beyond her hat Next
year the bowl she calls hat she may
turn upside down, exhibiting vacuum
where once there was crown; then
she may watch the little birds, the
calves and Iambkins fat; she'll hail the
day when she may see some feet be-
vond her hat WALT MASON.
Copyright. 1909. by George Matthew
Adams.
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COMMUNICATIONS.
CROWN POINTS NEXT ENTERTAINMENT.

surprise, when
pugist The edig spectacle of
honorable fighters Crown Point
evidently
have
nothing
there will
0
pretty
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12

should be left pre-eminent by town
with care for its reputation-its ebon
skies, its stogies. its brand OF NUM-
cipal corruption, etc But we have said
enough to illustrate the inexpediency
of attempting to surpass Pennsyl-
vania's most famous city all along the
line.
Nay these we'll meant words of ad-
vice fall on fruitful soil. May the
stage be left to elevate itself. the
chorus girl be abandoned to her own
spinster devices, the wine agent be as
If he were not, and the divorce scandal
be kept afar off-as far as Gary is
concerned.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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THIS IS ny GOTH BIRTHDAY.
William OsIer.

DR.. William OsIer famous as a ply
stefan and educator, was born in Te-
cumseh, Ont, July IL. 1849. and receiv-
ed his education at McGiu university.
Montreal. For ten years he was a mem
Der of the faculty of McGiH university.
In 1884 he left that institution to be-
come professor of clinical medicine at
the University of Pennsylvania. From
1889 to 1905 DR. Osler was professor of
medicine at Johns Hopkins university
and since 1905 he has been regius pro-
fessor of medicine at Oxford univers-
ity Several years ago DIR. Osler had
fame thrust upon him by his reported
declaration that sixty years was the
limit of mans usefulness. Subsequent
ly, however. he disclaimed having ever
made such a statement
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12

After three years spent in hunting
down gang of counterfeiters. United
States Secret Service Agent Lawrence
Richey yesterday landed four of the
principles in Chicago. One of the gang.
Mrs. Tommasina Gagliosa, was not
taken into custody by the marshals be-
cause she is the mother of an eight
day-old baby. The three who were
taken into custody are all Italians, and
are Tony de Paolo, Tony vacca, and
Mrs. Dominica Ricci. The husband of
the latter woman. whom they all ac-
cuse of being the istigator of the
scheme, is in Italy, whittier he went,
1t is said, for the purpose of obtain
ing a fresh supply of the counterfeit
bills. An effort may be made to con-
meet the Chicago counterfeiters with
the Hosford Park gang.
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IT WAS NOT IN HAMMOND.

peculiarly dis
Monday
graceful affair
tenyearod his
made quite hit with the audience
audience that would gather
the pathetic
Hammond which
permit
disgusting
the blame for the that
in
to have the decency o It's
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.


1654-A full court of commissioners
met at Warwick. r. /, and signed
articles of agreement.
1779-Americans made an unsuccessful
assault on the British works at
Stony Point.
18o4-Alexander Hamilton, American
statesman, died. Born Jan. II. 1851.
1817-Henry D. Thoreau, American au-
thor, born. Died May s, 1882.
1855-A convention of the friends of
slavery met at Lexington, Mo.
1S62-Confederates captured Murfrees-
boro, Tenn, after a severe fight
187o-New harbor and docks at Cape
Town inaugurated by the duke of
Edinburgh.
18s5-Much damage done by forest fires
in northern Michigan.
1908-Senor Jose Domingo Obaldia
elected president Of Panama.
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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR MAYOR.

announce my name as n candidate for
the republican nomination for mayor of
Hammond before the republican NOM
mating convention, whose date is to be
decided upon at a later date.
ROBERT KIDNEY.
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A DEMOCRAT IN NAME ONLY.

When such strong democrats
the Adreh bill and such republicans Senator
well ask
Senator Beyedge with
Thursday night the bill in
One democrat McEney republicans
He n
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12
SHUCk $
From the Diary of ST. Lence

Attorney Boggs hez quit Their law
business an started runnin' junk wa
gon. Guess Boggs'll make a success o.
the latter fer I've heern tell he wus al
lus possessed with an abundance O.
brass. There's menny a good scout thet
I've seen unable ter find his way hum.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12
RETURNS FROM VACATION.

Governor Marshall arrived home Sat-
urday night from week ''out on the
path in Steuben county, and he said
when he arrived at his office this morn
ing that he would probably have to
lay of a few days and rest up from
his vacation. However. he dug into
the work that had piled up during his
absence, and by noon had cleared away
bunch of It.
HEART FAILS At NINETY-NINE..
Henry Hawkins, of Princeton, age 90.
years, fell dead of heart failure Satur-
day at his home, near Fort Branch. He
was active to the last. He came to
Fort Branch from the south as a boy.
more than eighty years ago, and moth
ing was ever heard of his relatives,
If he had any.
BEVERIDGE APPRECIATED.
A reception is to be given Senator
Beveridge this evening at Tomlinson
hall under the auspices of the Indian
apolis Taft club as d mark Of appre-
citation of his work in the United States
senate during the consideration of the
the tariff BILL which he voted against
DIvoRCEE SOON MARRIED.
Nine hours after his wife had Sc
cured a divorce and the custody of
their children. James NJ. Wynn, of
| Shelbyville, took another bride, Miss
Maude Powers, who resided east of
this city. Mrs. Emma Wynn applied
| for a divorce some time ago, the
charge being cruel and inhuman treat
ment and desertion.
BIG DAY AT VALPARAISO.
Saturday was one of the busiest days
| Valparaiso has experienced in years.
More than twelve thousand people were
in the city to attend the opening of
the Valparaiso Chautauqua, which has
a ten days session. and to see Buffalo
Bilrs wild west and Pawnee BilPs far
| east shows.
LOSES HAND IN CORN SHREDDER,
Phyllis, the 4-year-old daughter OF
Gerald Billings. of Chesterton, while
playing with her 2year-old brother
putting corn into a corn shredder, put
her right hand into the machine while
it was running. The hand was sc
badly injured it had to be amputated.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12

might feel every time his wife
threatened to go home to her
mother.
That gallant old ped, Edward Pay
son Weston, is still merrily hoohns II
down the Pacific slope, lodging snow
sheds, pebbles and old tomato cans.
A LOT OF NICE PEOPLE WHO
LAMENT FORGET THAT THEIR IA
REER', Is NOT WHAT THEY MIGHT
HAVE DONE, But WHAT THEY ARE
DOING.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12
WATCH OUT FOR FAKIRS.

woman who has been selling copies of publication
Charities
visited
women who
charity who
month and might be well for those who mporuned
their OF
with them, that they they to
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12

How shall we print this essay on
liberty:'
Il think it ought TO be in Roman
caps. "-BaItimore American.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12

What is a chauffeur, Hans?"
"A chauffeur Is a man who is smart
enough to run an auto. but too smart
to own one"-Kansas City Journal.
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She Didn't Understand II.

us this the balcony from which you
see the ecHpse?"
Yes. madame. But you are too
late"
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Wrong Diagnosis.

Many girl thinks she has broken
her heart when she has only sprained
her imagination-Life
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FOR ONCE the weather
city had big public gathering
pial and on Sunday. he could be expected
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12

IN THE MEANTIME
quested that
shouldn't let little thing to miss
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12

SENATOR BEVERIDGES
festal Indianapolis state
Winning Dove
think that the insurgents republican
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12

INDIANA authors
operators in the cities and
song.-Chcago Tribune
please?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12

Some men always wear a
Worried look when
They are invited
Out TO dinner,
Especially until after 1T Is all
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12

The farmers are so busy hunting men
to harvest the hay crop that they may
have to call on lot of Maud Mullers.
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And then again the uncertain weather
NAV have something to do with the
fact that Hammond. Gary and East
Chicago will have elections this fall.
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r A n DO NJ
THINGS AND FILINGS

There is no need for anyone to be
idle these days. There is plenty to do
swatting flies and mosquitoes.
kissing through a veil is not
worth while, says an exchange.
Why isn't 1T, If You can kiss
clear through.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12
There are lots of women who
have maids who still do ell the
heavy work about the house.
They make the buildings.

You cannot help feeling kindly to-
ward Senator Aldrich after all We
note that radium, worth several mil
lion dollars a pound, has been put on
the free list.
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1t may be all right to ask q
woman to remove her hat in
church. but where I'm the world
could they put thcm unless
they had special church for
large hats.
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Heart toHeart
Talks.
KILLING A MOTHER
BY EDWTN AWE.

copyright. 1909. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12

Be patient-in few short
weeks the coal xcuttIe and the
snow shovel.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12

Siberia averages sixty days rainfall
each year. but we fail to see where ST
IBERIA has anything on US in rainfall.
The man who was asked to explain
his grief over the death of his
riother-in-layv, admitted that 1t de-
prtyed him of any satisfaction he
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-12

Kansas farmers have $175,ooO,oOO in
the banks. so that there doesn't seem
to be anything the matter with Kansas
at present.
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sUBSCRIBERS-Readers o THE TIMES requested
irregularities I'm delivering Com
Circulation Department.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-11-01

New York, Nov. 1.-Despite all re-
ports that Mrs Halsey Corwin Hill,
whose name has been mentioned time
and again of late as a warm personal
friend Of John Jacob Astor, now being
sued for divorce, is travelling in Eur
ope, it was learned definitely that she
is in the city.
Ever since the action of Mrs. Astor
became public it has been impossible
to see Mrs. HILL
Access to her apartment at the Bar
nard Court, Seventy-first street and
Central Park. west. was obtained yes
terday, but there was no one at home
except the servants and a talkative
parrot. which took great pleasure in
crying. ''Oh, you Roberta" and oh,
you John Jones'"
The Menges home at Sheepshead
Bay was found boarded up. The neigh.
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$50 Polly told you? That's a good
one. II you only knew who Mr.. Jones
is you would see that he is a big man
in New York
How do / know? Why, because l
know Mrs. Hill. 1 was her secretary
for some time. She is my friend and
also the friend Of Dorothy Russell,
daughter Of Lillian Russell. you know,
and Of lot of US girls here in the Ho-
tel Frederick
She is a nice, sweet girl, and we
all love her. Many a time have I had
the time OF my life in her apartments
and l have been up at the Barnard.
too. She hasn't lived there long, you
know. but the place is q fine one and
there is such an air OF refinement
about it,
Miss DriscoIl was then asked who
Mrs Hill lived with.
"A large retinue of servants-and
that talkative parrot" she replied.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-11-01
Mary Elizabeth Hartman Finds
Deadly Fluid in Coffee Pot
And With Childish Curiosity
Takes a Drink.
TERRIBLE SUFFERING
PRECEDES HER DEATH
Accident Occurred Yesterday
At Home of the Baby's Par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Killian
Hartman, South 18th st.

With childish curiosity, little Mary
Elizabeth Hartman, the II months
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Killian
Hartman of 44O South Thirteenth
street, picked up a coffee pot half
filled with coal Oil on the back porch
Of her home yesterday afternoon
about 1 o'clock and drank the con-
tents, dying in terrible agony a few
hours later.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hartman's attention
was attracted by the child's screams
and on rushing to the rear of the
house they found the little girl in con-
vulsions, while an overturned coffee
pot and the odor Of coal oil told. only
too plainly, the sad tale to the grief
stricken parents.
She Had Commissions.
The coal oil was kept in an old
coffee pot and was used for the pur-
pose of starting fires. The child was
playing on the rear porch and pick
ing up the can drank a large guam
tity of the deadly fluid. Almost i'm
mediately the baby suffered convul-
sions and. although medical aid was
summoned and everything possible
was done. the child's vitality grew
gradually weaker. ebbing away until
death came to it's relief about three
hours after the unfortunate occur
renee. The parents are almost heart
broken over the sad affair and the
untimely end Of their little daughter.
A cloud of gloom has settled over the
Hartman home at the pathetic death
of the little girl. 1t is thought that
death was due more to strangulation,
than the effect of the fluid ON the
stomach. The funeral will take place
Tuesday afternoon at o'clock from
the St. Andrews church, the Rev.
Father Roell officiating. The burial
will be in the St. Andrews cemetery.
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bors said that Mrs. Hills father and
sister were in New York, and that
Miss Nettie Driscoll OF the Hotel
Frederick, might know something of
Mrs. Corwin Hill.
Miss Driscoll was interviewed over
the telephone, because she said it was
too early to receive visitors, the hour
being o'clock in the afternoon
Now you look here, DEAR she
said, Il don't want to be dragged into
this row between my friend, Mrs. Hill
and the members of the smart set.
She is in New York and that's all
can say.
There is a report that she is going
to marry a very prominent millionaire
who is being sued for divorce, and
that marriage will take place in a
nearby state. Who the man is I can
only guess.
Who is Mr.. John Jones? Where
did you hear that name!