The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-02-18

ly burned late yesterday afternoon,
while playing with matches. The girls
brother, years old, made heroic efforts
| TO save her and was badly injured, his
hands and face being burned
| FIGHTING SALOONS.
| John l. Thompson, late Republican
nominee for Congress in the Eleventh
District, is taking the lead in the cam
pafgn to prevent return of saloons to
/ his home town of Gas city, adm he
was one of the speakers at a noon day
meeting held yesterday at his glass
bottle factory, in which 500 men and
boys are employed. In his address, Mr..
thompson said that he would not Mt
tempt to tell his emploes how to vote
| at the option electin Feb rs, but that
he wants II understood that the en-
! ployes of his factory must be sober
men.
BIG TRIAL is ON.
| The entire day was spent in the at
tempt to secure a jury in the case
against Jacob Walter the wealthy
! hotel man of Kouts, on trial in Val
paraiso for the alleged murder of Alvin
Johnson. Two special venires of tales
men have been exhausted and a third
venire was called for yesterday The
court chambers were crowded with
spectators from all parts of the county.
The selection Of jury was made diff
cult by the wide publicity given the
case. which is replete with sensational
i features.
4 LIFE PRISNOER SUICIDES.
4 The body of Benjamin Smith, 81
years old, life convict at the state
Prison, received from Muncie Dec .
last, was found hanging in his. cell yes
terday morning by Waterman who
was making hourly rounds of the cell
house at Michigan City in which he
was stationed.
4 TEACHER ON TRINL.
Fully 200 persons crowded the Office
lof Justice of the Peace NJ H. Post in
Anderson yesterday to listen to the
testimony in the case of Vance Conner,
Ia Union Township teacher, cha rged with
Having inhumanly beaten Van Hopes
LIZ years old, a pupil in his school The
Testimony in the case was not finished
until o'clock lat night
FAVOR COL. POsEY.
Frank b. Posey probably will be re-
appointed surveyor of the port al.
Evansville. Representative CrumDack-
er accompanied Col. Rosey to the White
House yesterday and the matter Of
Coll. Posey's reappointment was dis
cussed with the President Judge
lCrumpacker told the President that as
far as he knew, all of the Indiana Re-
publican political leaders could agree
on the appointment of Col. Posey.
OPINION IN LAND CASE.
The opinion in the Kankakee meand-
er land case. better known as the case
OF the state of Indiana against the
Tuesburg Land Company. and involving
thousands of acres of land, was handed
down yesterday by yurpillat in the
Starke Circuit Court. Judge vurpiIlat
holds that the state of Indiana is not
the owner of any land lying within the
established meander lines of the KAN
kakee River, but that said lands belong
to and are the property OF the owners
of the abutting shore lots or fractional
Subdivisions.
| SAY MARSHALL is AUDCIOUS.
| Former Governors Winfield T. -Durbin
land J. Frank Hanly last night gave out
statements in which they pronounced
Governor MarshaFs efforts to bring
about the adoption of a new constitu-
ton under the whip and spur of a
Democratic caucus as i'll advised and
audacious.
i DEMOCRATS PLAN CLUB.
The Indiana Democratic Club re-
joiced last night over the progress
made toward a new club home by the
Indiana Democratic Realty Company
A smoker was given in the clubrooms
for the members and for subscribers to
the stock, whether they are club mem
beers or not.
HEAR MURDER CASE.
crowd that packed the court room
and gallery in Bloomington to capacity
heard the four chief witnesses testify
yesterday in the suit of the state
against Dras Stannard for killing his
father-in-law, Marion Devine, in Lawr-
fence Count last June. The defendant
himself took the witness stand ct 3
o'clock this evening and related the
story of his life and events leading I'D
to the murder.
DROWNED IN SEWER.
| Hilda Schroeder, of Fort Wayne, 5
years old, daughter of Fred Schroeder.
was drowned last night and Alvin, her
brother, years old, rescued with diff
Guilty from an intercepting sewer at its
mouth just east of the city. The sewer
is open near its mouth and the two
children were playing along the edge
when Alvin fell in. Hilda. in an effort
to save her brother, also toppled into
father, who was nearby, could reach
her.