The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-27
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HoAL DENIES GUILT.

Thomas Jefferson Hoal, the boy band
it who shot and killed the cashier of
the Merchants National Bank of New
Albany and wounded the president and
negro chauffeur few weeks ago.
was arraigned in the Floyd circuit
court room at o'clock Thursday morn
before Judge w. c. Utz In a calm,
clear voice and without the slightest
sign of agitation or worry, Hoal an
severed: Not guilty"
MAN INSTANTLY KILLED.
Milton Stanley, 4s years old. and
single. was instantly killed at Ander-
son Thursday when he drove in front
of a swiftly moving passenger train
at the Main street crossing of the Big
Four freight yards. The man was
thrown seventy 1--WE feet and his back
was broken.
PLAN BIG LOVE FEAST.
| An effort will be made to have a dem
ocratic love feast in Indianapolis in
January, to which the prominent men
in the party in Indiana will be invited
to attend. Senator Shively and Govern
or Marshall being featured for the main
addresses. Interest in the movement is
being created in letters sent uot by
the Democratic League OF clubs.
PLAN CENTRAL POWER HOUSE.
Proposals of an Evansville corpora
ton. the names of whose hackers are
kept secret, to establish a central heat,
light and power station in this city
at an initial cost OF $1,000 900 will be
considered for the first time Friday by
the board OF public works. c. A. GILL
ham. secretary and general manager of
the Central Station Engineering com
pany of Chicago, is representing the
applicants for a franchise.
FREIGHT TRAINS CRASH.
head-on collision on the Indianapo-
Ills Southern occurred Wednesday night
near Tulip, when freight trains Nos.
81 and 50 came together. The locomo-
tives were badly damaged. The en-
gineer and fireman on both trains
jumped to safety.
OLD MAN SENTENCED.
r Levi Burris of Jeffersonville prob
ably the oldest man ever arraigned in
), the Clark circuit court. he now be-
!. ing 20 years old. has been sentenced
to one to seven years in the state pris-
d on at Michigan City on the charge OF
o obtaining money under false pretenses.
When pressed for a reason he replied
that he supposed it was just because he
n wanted TO be mean
CITY FREE FROM GAMBLING.
r For the first time in ten years South
= Bend is practically free of gambling
at Big three-story buildings which in al
times have been devoted to the lure Of
OF roulette wheel. faro. craps and klon-
dixie are dark and so tightly closed th'
OF chances are that it will be severa
years before they will again attrac
n the attention of devotees.
ANOTHER BEDFORD MURDER.
George Nose, of Bedford. the keepe
of a soft-drink shop at Midway. al
isolated spot three miles from Bedford
on the Oolitic and Bloomington road
e was found murdered in his room at a
an early hour Thursday morning. II
sW had evidently been beaten to deaf
INT with a wheel spoke. He was SIS year
ed old and lived alone in rooms adjoinin
ur his place of business, which was for
w merly a saloon
DISASTER CAUSES SUICIDE.
= Rrooding over the Cherry mine dis
"I aster and the fear that a similar fat
eii might befalI him it believed to hay
contributed to the insanity Of JAIME
Gnlum. of Evansville. colored COZ
miner, who was removed to the Soutl
ern Hospital for the Insane.
err WABASH SELLING LOTS.
me In order to raise money to locate
ary large automobile factory Wabash h
ter inauEurated a lot sale. The plant
Of be occupied will be the old Waba'
~ Wabash Bridge and Iron Works, Il
,ok lot sale has been successful and in t
first half hour $4,000 was subscribe
wabash had just completed landing
automobile parts factory.
HoUCK NOT DIsBARED.
the The Kokomo jury in the disbarme
proceedings against v. J. Houck
the Marion reported a disagreement at 6:
O'Clock Wednesday evening and v
art discharged The jury stood 10 to
ept. acauittal Houck was charged W
unprofessional conduct in having pl
Ided sented a false affidavit before the c
of cult court at Marion
QUICKLY AWARDS $4,000.
Chi The Jury at Danville in the S5.'
damage suit of Amos F Mabei
OF against the T Fl. !. & E. Traction co
panv was out only forty minutes wi
ing n returned a verdict awarding Il
Han. So 600. Maberry sued the company
the killing Of his 7-year-old son, Niri
fed at Avon. on June "a 1908. The pr
tended to show that the motorman y
1rial guilty of negligence in not max
hey. sufficient effort to stop his car.
sunk case will be appealed