The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-09-02
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kOKOMO WANTS MARSHALL.

presence of Governor Marshall Labor
Day. when the Wabash Valley Labor
Day association will be entertained
Prominent business men, labor lead
ers and influential citizens are uniting
IN request for his presence upon this
occasion and requests will be sent to
the executive office
BONNELL MAY LOSE JOB.
Republican politicians are deeply
stirred over stories that Senator Bev-
eridge will recommend an Evansville
man TO succeed John r. Bonnen of
Charlottesville as collector Of the Sew
enth Internal Revenue district. John
| Chewing. retired Editor of the Rock
| port Journal. who is now a travelling
revnue inspector, and Fred j. Ossel-
berg active in Vanderburg county pol
itics and now city chairman, are men
toned.
GASOLINE ExPLODES.
AS result of a conlagration due
to a bottle of gasoline exploding at
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon Mrs Omer
Simmonds of Westport, fourteen miles
south of Greensburg. was seriously
burned about the head, face and hands
and an Smonths-old baby so badly in
jured that it will die
SEEK TO FREE AXTEbL.
The brief of 1S5 pages setting out
reasons for a new trial for Harry A.
| Axtell, the former Bloomington fnan-
cial leader, now serving a term of two
years in the Michigan City prison for
embezzlement will be filed the last of
this week.
BALLOON KILLS BYSTANDER.
damper was cast over the gayety
Of the crowd on the first day of the
home coming at Monon when Henry
Moore, a we'll known laboring man of
this place was killed While hun
dreds were watching a balloon fill, 1t
escaped and loose ropes wrapping
about the legs of Moore, who was as
ststing the aeronaut, caught him I'D
and dashed him along telegraph wires
Torn loose from the ropes he fell TO
the ground and died instantly
TO FLY AT FAIR GROUNDS.
George Bumbaugh will. in making
flights at the State Fair next week
use an airship with which he has made
more than 200 successful trips in the
air. The airship is of the dirigibIe
type, shaped like a cigar. 1t is sixty
feet long and eighteen feet in diameter.
The envolpe will hold 1880 cubic
feet OF hydrogen The ship carries
sixteen horse power motor. Bum
baugh expects to make ten flights
during the fair. or two a day, the first
ascension to be next Monday morning.
CAR SHORTAGE HURTS.
Coal operators in the Indiana dis
trict are complaining of the present
car shortage and many of them say
they are unable to work anything like
full time on account of the conditions
MONON Is BUSY.
Judge Field Of the Monon line was
in Indianapolis Tuesday on official bus
mess. He says the business of the
road is at it's height Every engine
and car the company owns At for serv-
ice is in daily use
INCREASES TWO MILLIONS.
An increase Of s1.s92.73O in the tax
able property Of Center township, as
compared with the assessment Of last
year, is shown in a set of figures com
piled by James E. Barry, township as
SCISSOR. The figures were given to
George T. Breunig. city controller, yes
terday, and from them the city tax
levy will be made on all property with
in the city. The levy on property in
Center township outside the city Of
Indianapolis will be fixed by the coun-
" council. which will meet next Tues
day.
MUST REBUILD MONON.
An experienced engineer, who re-
Gently rode over the Chicago. Cincin-
natl Louisville road. says that he
was surprised at the business that
the line is doing under its adverse cir
cumstanees. 1t lacks side tracks and
its main line is very inferior in con-
struction and the entire road must be
rebuilt to ever compete successfully
with the lines with which it comes in
competition. and he says that before
1t can be made line of value between
Chicago and Cincinnati it viii need to
greatly improve its terminal facilities
and practically rebuild Its entire track. |
That the road eventually will be made
a good road between Cincinnati and
Chicago is not doubted. but a large
sum OF money will needed to be ex-
pended before the track is up to con
ditions to compete with existing lines |