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Tuesdav, June 30, 1008. THE TIMES. 1 HERE AND THERE IN THE CALUMET REGION Day's Grist in South Chicago MRS. MARY HARLEM SEEKING A DIVORCE. Sny Her Honband Thrown Household Article- at Her for Trilling CauMnK. Suit was rtW-tl yrstorrlay in the circuit court by Mary Harl. ru asking a di vorce from hf-r husband. John. In tho compiaint Mrs. Harlem cliirgos that her husband has treated her very, cruellv during the last year of their married life and at times has thrown plates and others household articles at her for some trifling matter and for ev idence she shows a larg- scar on her head which she claims was Inflicted by her husband Harlem is employed by the Pullman car works at Pullman TWINS ARE BORN BUT MOTHER DIES Mri. E. F. Walker. Wife of Discount Mannscer, IJlei Her Home. Chicago at Mrs. E. F. Walker of 337 Tl. Fixty econd street, wife of Mr. Walker, pres ident of the Chicago Discount company having headquarters in South Chicago, was buried yesterday from her home in Mt. Olivet cemetery. Last Saturday morning Mrs. Walker gave birth to twins, who have survived her and who are now In the care of relatives. Mrs. Walker died last Saturday after Jioon. DAMON AND PYTHIAS ON MOVING PICTURES. Classic Character IlclnK Shown South Clileaieo and are Drawing I.artte (ond. in Damon and Pythias in moving pic tures, is being shown at the South Chicago theater. 9233 Commercial avenue. The pictures me very good in every respect and are drawing large crowds of people at every performance. The manager of the South Chicago theater went to a very larg expense to get these pictures, which every man, woman find child should se. Will Visit The City. It has been tipped off among those who know that Health Commissioner Evans Is gqing to make a visit through South Chicago this wek. Just what he is coming out for no one seems to know, but it is for some kind of an in spection trip. Formerly when there has been any inspecting to be done, fhe health commissioner has sent out hi3 dtputtes, but this time It will be the "Eig Stick." Dr. Blackwood Reappointed. Dr. A. L. Blackwood of South Chi cago, a former member of the board of education, was reappointed last even ing' by Mayor Busso and his appoint ment was confirmed by the city council While a member of the hoard of educa tion Dr. Blackwood was prominent in all educational ventures and at the end of his regime still remained active as an outsider in all school work. His reappointment is the source of much 1ov in South Chicago today, es pecially among the teachers, principals and the parents of the local students. Briefs. Thomas Hughes, who has been out of the city visiting friends in Aurora, 111., returner1, yesterday and has taken up a position In Lorenzen's barber shop, In the Columbia block. Edward Hinler. of Tampa, Fla.. ar rived In Windsor Park yesterday where he will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Thomas at their home on West Seventy-eighth street. Mrs, J. J. Todhunt- r, 7767 Railroad avenue, accompanied by her children, has gone on an extended visit with friends in the East. While on the trip Mrs. Todhunter will visit friends in New York City and Baltimore, Mil. Headed by Alexander Wisienswskl and Attorney I.e Carpenter, the South Chicago democrats are making great preparations for their trip to attend the democratic national convention which will be held in Ienver. Colo. The local aggregation of democrats will leave South Chicago on the Fourth for the Colorado city and will visit several points of interest before returning. With few exceptions all of the local crowd are solid for Bryan. South Chicago BUSINESS DIRECTORY HENRY GROSS Painting and Decorating:: PAINT, GLASS, WALL PAPER PAINTER'S SURPLUS 9033 Commercial Ave. Tel. So. Chicago 212 So. Chicago William A. Schoening General Contractor and Builder Fire Losses Adjusted c'obblng Promptly Attended to 1C520 TORRENCE AVE.. Chicago Phone, South Chicago 480 tt!p6aHi Office, 148 1 Keatdeae 343, South Chicago. FRANK FOSTER ATTOHSET AT LAW. Room 15. Commercial Block, J30S Commercial avenue. - Chicago, TIL Residence 8120 Exchange avenue. New Hospital For FJ Fl FJ IF1 PI W PI Wl 13m.lL.Bj D B H H STREET SIGNS WANTED Grand Crossing Improve ment Association Hold a Meeting. At the regular meeting of the Grand Crossing Improvement association. which was held at their clubrooms last night, it was decided to make a re quest for new street signs in Grand Crossing, and accordingly a request was sent to Commissioner of Public Works John J. Hanberg. Among the other subjects to come up for discussion was the filling in of Herman avenue, which at the present time is in an inpassable eandltion. This matter was turned over to the board "of public works, who will prob abl act on the matter at their next meeting. All business men of Grand Crossing have been requested to close their stores on the Fourth and from all in dications this request will be com plied with. ITS STOfiEY ISLAND AVE. Original Name of Highway Must be Adhered to Says Washington. 'Jackson Fark avenue hereafter will be restored to Its original name Stony Island avenue. This is the substance of a late order issued by the postoffice authorities at Washington, D: C, and must be complied with. A few years ago the committee on street nomenclature decided that the name, Jackson Park avenue, was a little bit more classy than Stony Is land avenue, and accordingly changed the name, but, the people who live along the avenue did not take to the new name with approval, and a big kick was registered without results until the postoffice officials decided to change the avenue to its original name. The changing of the name to Stony Island avenue again has caused the people to sit up and take notice and much joy has been shown on all sides over the restoration of the name. DOG ATTACKS A GUILD Little Ella Wall Victim of Animal Under Care of Physician. Klla Wall, 7 years old, living at lilt West One Hundred and Tenth .street, was Mtten on the right leg by a black dog- yesterday afternoon. The little Rlrl was playing In her hark yard when the (loir came running through the fence and began snapping at her. The little lass tried to make her es cape and in crawling through the fence the anlraal sank its teeth into the lower part of her leg. The girl was taken to Dr. Lelewer's office, where the wound was cauter ize,! and treated to an antiseptic. Pr. hflewor stated after attending tho pa tient that he did not think the ani mal was mad but only playing. The name of the owner of the dog could not be learned. TO E Uncle Sam Moves Recruit ing Office in South Chicago. The United States army recruiting headquarters which has been located at 9274 South Chicago avenue will take up new quarters at 9151 Commercial avenue. James Brennan. who is in charge of the local branch of Uncle Sam's army, said that the change was due to the large amount of work that Is coming in under the jurisdiction of the local branch of the army office. Since Mr. Brennan has taken charge of the local office there has been a decided increase In the nu'nber of men sent out, which has clearly demon strated that he well equipped to take care of the work. Mr. Brennan Is a very entertaining young man and as he has served in the regular army for six years he has uuunce oi gooa stories which Llla wib young men who almost dally congregate In his office. CHANG QUARTERS South Chicago FAMILY IS DESTITUTE Attention of Authorities is Called to Condidtion in Grand Crossing Home. The Grand Crossing police were yes terday notified that the family of Her bert Olson, 7522 Clauncey avenue, was on the verge of starvation and was too proud to ask the county for aid. Upon receipt of this report In the station en officer was sent out to investigate the case, which was found to be true. At the Olson home two little chil dren were found playing on the floor, their little bodies hardly covered with clothes and the mother herself on the verge of a nervous breakdown. When asked why they had not notified the police, Mrs. Olson said she was too proud to do it and had been existing from day to day in the hope that her husband could find some kind of em ployment. Mr. Olson, tho husband and father of the family. Is a partial cripple, hav ing his right hand crushed, which in capacitates him in doing any kind lit manual labor. The county physician and the county agent arrived In Grand Crossing yes terday afternoon with clothes and pro visions, and a lady from the Illinois Charitable association has promised to find Mr. Olson some kind of work. Mrs. Olson Is authority for the state ment that they have lived on forty cents for four days. Until the recent panic Olson was employed In the Mackinaw Rubber company, which closed down and has not yet resumed operations. FRIENDS SEEPRISONER Eston on Verge of Nervous Collapse Owing to an Accident. Several friends of Eston Wenneston visited him yesterday at the Hudson avenue police station, where he is be ing held pending the investigation of the death of Mrs. Joseph Tomaszewski, and upon their return to South Chicago stated that the local boy was on the verge of a nervous breakdown as the result of the accident. Weneston, while driving the car, was speeding at the order of Policeman Delehanty, who is employed by the Pouth Tark board, and it was while making the turn near the Grant monument that Mrs. Tomas zewski was struck and killed by the machine. Park Policeman Delehanty was in Pursuit of a motorcycle and seeing the machine going by boarded the steps and ordered the driver to speed up that he might catch the speeding cyclist. P-lehanty, the park policeman, is under temporary suspension. Mrs. McCapptn, who was greatly affected by the accident, was taken to her home in South Chicago immediately after the accident and since then she has been in a very nervous condition. Yesterday Mr. McCappin said that his chauffeur, Wennoston, was In no way to blame for the accident, as far as he knows. While he did not hear the words between the policeman and the chauffeur he saw the policeman mount the steps, it enneston is not voluntarily released today on effort will be made to ball him out. MISSISSIPPI TO HAVE A TRIAL Philadelphia. Pa., June 30. The bat tleshlp Mississippi left the navy yard here today for Newport, R. I., where she is to be given her final trial in about two weeks. The Mississippi will be placed in commission early In the fall and will be a valuable addition to the navy. She Is a sister ship of the Idaho and though not so large as some of the battleships recently completed she will carry a heavy armament and should be able to give a good account of herself in an engagement with any of the fighting machines now afloat. Y. P. C. U. MEET. Washington. D. C, June 30. Pre parations are complete for entertain ing the twentieth anual convention of the National Young People's Christian Union of the Unlversalist church which is to begin a week s session In this city tomorrow. Several hundred delegates representing all parts of the country are expected. Well known leaders of the denomination. Including Rev. Dr. Frank O. Hall of New York City and Rev. Dr. John Coleman Adams of Hartford, Conn., will be in attend ance and deliver addresses. What Ton want and don't e, a.k for through the column, ol of clarified ad. on pagc 7. Diegel's DAILY SPECIAL THIS ELEGANT LIBRARY or ROMAN CHAIR $9.85 It is not necessary for us to go into a long detailed description of this Wonderful Chair Offering. No use to do it for it tells its own story. We considered ourselves extremely fortunate in securing the entire output. Of course, it meant a big I outlay of money, but it also means a big saving to you, as a customer. We are offering this chair exact ly as illustrated in solid quartet- sawed oak, hand carved and beau tifully finished. Spec- tf ial at 2v.ci5 $1.00 CASH: $1.00 MONTHLY. if you are looKing tor any article for office or home, you can find it I at our store. 9133-9135 Commercial Ave, South Chicago's iL.eaaing furniture stores T f T A. - A TUBE FRANCHISE UP Alderman Moynihan's Fran chise is Referred to the Judiciary. Alderman Moynihan of the Klghth ward introduced an ordinance providing for a fifty-year franchise grant to the Universal Pneumatic Transmission com pany, a Maine corporation, which was referred to the Judiciary committee. For I'nderground Tub. The ordinance proposes that the right be given tho company to erect tubes under the streets, forty-eight inches in diameter, for the transmission of mail. express packages and the like. The edict of the Chicago Telephone company that all new subscribers must deposit $9.50 before telephones will be Installed was assailed by Alderman Fisher and Alderman Moynihan In a resolution asking that the city law de partment submit an opinion as to the company's legal right to enforce such an obligation. The appropriation to pay Miss Val entine Smith, city archivist, for balance of the year at the rate of $2,500 to care for some two dozen curios was passed by Aldeman Bennett and made a speech In its favor. Miss Smith is a resident of Windsor Park, living at the Oaks hotel, Seventy- slxt hstreet and Saginaw avenue. This morning Miss Smith was- very much elated over her salary confirmation by the council. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stag.-s, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarh Cure is the only positive curu now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh be ing a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall s Ca tarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the sytem, thereby de stroying the foundation of the disease and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assist ing nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it falls to cure. Send for list of testi monials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., To ledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti pation. Sign of Illness. A proof of the Importance of a real Iosb of weight Is that In convict pris ons such loss is accepted as conclusive evldenc? that a man is 111. How Coal Grows. It takes a prodigious amount of vege table matter to form a layer of coal, it being estimated that the present growth of the world would make a lay er less than one-eighth of an inch In thickness, and that it would take a million years of vegetable growths to form a coal-bed ten feet in thickness. The United States has an area of more than 440,000 square miles of coal-fields, and more than 100,000,000 tons of coal were mined in this coun try last year enough to run a ring around the earth at the center 6 feet wide and 5 feet thick. Competent scientists say that there is enough coal in the United States to supply the world for the next 2,000 years. Sp The Red Beaded Policeman Copyright, 1908. One day as the red beaded police man was pacing his beat In a certain American city of 100.000 inhabitants a woman called to him from the steps of a house and reported that soon after daylight that morning. Just as she had awoke and was making ready to get up. she had been frightened half to death by the sight of a large mon key at the open winodw. She had screamed out, and the animal had fled. Later in the day she had seen the monkey frisking about on the roof of the shed attached to the house next door, into which a stranger, who was evidently a foreigner, had moved three or four days before. lie was a man of middle age, and there was an old woman with him, probably to act as housekeeper. "And I'm askinc vou. sir." continued the woman as she raised her hand and j waved it to ami fro. "if it's the law in i America that a foreigner and an old j woman and a rascally monkey can j move in next door to a respectable ; widow woman, who has paid taxes for the last fifteen years, leaving the mon key to run at large and scare people out of their seven senses?" "It's an Italian, ma'am, who is your new neighbor," answered the police man. "I was jabbering with him the day he rented the house." "Then he's in the hand organ busi ness?" ''Then he's not, ma'am. He's in the count business. He's had to fly from his own sunny skies to save his life. You ought to be proud that you have a live count living next door." Three or four days later the police heard at the station to which he was attached of a bold burglary in the neighborhood. A burglar had entered by a second story window and made a haul of money aud jewelry, and no clew had been left behind. This bur glary was followed by auother within twe,nty-four hours, and then came what the police and press called a "wave" of crime, though it was strict ly confined to despoiling private resi dences. In some cases it was impossi ble to tell how entrance had been ef fected. In others it was plain that an open window was the route. Of course the detectives investigated, and of course when no arrests follow ed they got a roasting in the newspa pers. It reached the point where the chief of police was asked to resign as a man utterly unfitted for the place. In return he bounced two of his de tectives because they could not pick up clews where no clews had been left. Then the red headed policeman sat down to do some thinking. He thought of many a thing before he fol lowed the line down to the widow who had told him about the monkey. Then he began to scratch that red hair and think the harder and finally decided to take a walk around on Sands street and see if the count still occupied the house. He reached the house of the widow first. Again she was standing on the steps. At sight of him she descended to the walk and said: "So it's you, is it? I've been wait-, ing a whole week to ask you if it's the habits of monkeys to go to bed like honest folks at night and get up at. a reasonable hour In the morning or whether they are philandering all over town after midnight and coming home any time before daylight." "In the wilds of Africa, ma'am" began th officer, but was interrupted with: "But these are not the wilds of Af rica. I've been doing some watching for these last few moonlight nights. 1 didn't know but the Ulack Hand would be coming for the count next door. I've seen the monkey come and go half a dozen times. He comes and goes by way of the shed roof." "And what of it, ma'am what of it?" asked the officer. "I can't say, sir, but it's a matter that bothers me. I thought I'd speak of it and let it bother you." It did bother the red headed police man for the next hour. Then he con sulted with his superiors, and as a re sult two detectives were sent to inter view the count They didn't succeed in their purpose. He aud the old wom an had skipped out in a hurry an hour before their arrival. People who had seen them go said that they had no monkey along with them. In fact, the animal was discovered on the roof in the sunshine and fast asleep, but es caped capture. It was felt certain that he was the mysterious burglar, and a watch was set on the premises. He came not back, while during the next ten nights there was a burglary every night to mix things up again. Then a boy solved the w hole case. Two blocks distant from where the count had lived an old tomcat had retired to a stable to die in peace. In his wanderings the monkey had come across him and, being full of sentiment, had sought to make the fe line's last hours pleasant ones. He had continued to rob and plunder as before, but had deposited everything beside old Tom and was a mourner there when discovered and shot by the red headed officer. More that $3,000 worth of stuff was found right there, and. leaving the respectable widow en tirely out of it. the officer took on a new and prouder look as he said to himself: "It pays for a policeman to have thoughts. If I hadn't had 'em this thing would never have happened, and It might hare been twenty years be fore they nude me a roundsman." I AI. QUAD- "Old Clothes." Original. I am the hardest substance known. I have a green tinge about me, though my mates are usually colorless. It is the rarity of this tinge and my size that makes me very valuable. Though no larger than a hickory nut, I am worth many thousand dollars. I was born In Brazil. The first of this world, at least of daylight, for me was rolling out with stones, sand, earth and other minerals following the stroke of a pick. I lay on the ground before a workman. lie looked about him and, seeing his foreman's back turned, pick ed me up and put me in his mouth. When he went from work he was searched, but I was not discovered. The next scene in my life of motion, so to speak, was in a wood. The work man who had found me sold me to a nian of lMcr Srado- The I'rlce Paid 'ns 0 in United States bills. The man who bought me took me to a room, locked the door and examined me carefully. I could see by his expres sion that he was very much pleased with me. He got a box of sewing utensils from a closet and. ripping a pocket in the lining of his coat, put me in and sewed ine fast. I didn't suppose that I would stay long in this place, but I did. One day a policeman came to my owner's room and arrested him. He was not wearing the coat in which he had sewed me. It hung in a closet. A month later it was taken down and with other clothing taken to Villa de Principe, where it was sold to a Jew. A young man "all tattered and torn" came into the Jew's shop, tried on sev eral coats, and. the one I was in fitting him, he bought it. I think the price paid was $2. The young man walked all the way to Rio, doing work hero and there for a meal. Had he known that he had me with him he might have ridden in a coach and four. When lie got to Rio he shipped on a vessel bound for New Haven, Conn. I was rolled, with other clothing, in a small bundle and put under his bunk, he donning sailor togs. When we reach ed New Haven my owner put on his shore clothes, left the vessel and walk ed up into the city. He met a number of young men he knew, and by his con versation with them I learned that he had been a student in the college there and his father had died insolvent dur ing the son's second year. From a student he had become a sailor, had sought employment in South America and had got stranded in Brazil. One of his old chums loaned him some money with which to buy a ticket to his home in a distant city. This home was in a shabby little cot- tage in the suburbs. It was both a melancholy and a happy meeting be tween the young man and his mother and his two sisters. They were evi dently people of refinement living in poverty. Their returned boy was hun gry, but there was nothing save a piece of corn bread in the house to give him. They begged him to stay with them, try for a position and help them. To this he consented, and they were happy. That night after he had gone to bed one of his sisters took his clothes and sat up late patching and darning them that he might appear the better in looking for employment. After the sewing she took them downstairs into the kitchen, heated an iron and pressed them. While running the iron over the coat its nose hit an obstacle in me. She felt of me, took me to the light to examine the place where I was; then, taking u knife, she ripped the sewing and took me out. Seeing nothing but a brownish stone, she threw me into a coal scuttle, but on second thoughts took me up again and put me on a tabie. Then, finishing her ironing, she took the clothes to her brother's room. The next morning she showed me to her brother and told him where she had found me. He looked me over very carefully, thinking all the while, and asked bis sister to show him the place where she had found me. Then he put me In his pocket and later on started out to look for a situation. About noon i he went home. He met his mother in the hall. He was pale and trembling. "Oh, mother!" he exclaimed. "My boy, what has happened?" "If It shouldn't be true it would kill me." "What?" The stone Fannie found sewed in my coat. Thinking it might be a jewel in the rough, I took it to a jeweler. He snys it's a diamond. A diamond of that size is worth many thousands of dollars." He took me out of his pocket, and the mother and her daughter gathered round, each trembling with excitement. "Don't count on too much, dear boy," said the mother. "If It is a diamond, it has a real owner, and you must find him, but he will doubtless give you a reward for its return." But the owner was never found. The young man wrote to the officers of all the diamond mines in Brazil, and all replied that they had no record of any such diamond, though I had doubtless been taken from some of them when dug from the earth. Since none of them could prove ownership none of them claimed me. I was polished, cut and sold for a fortune. The young man went back to college, and, the story of his return petting out among the students, they gave him the sobriquet of "Old Clothes." CHARLOTTE BOND HALL. n in Way's M fj n LJ LJ mffftlto Never Fails to RESTORE GRAY or FADED HAIR to its NATURAL COLOR and BEAUTY No matter how long it has been gray or faded. Promotes a luxuriant growth of healthy hair. Stops its falling out, and positively removes Dan druff. Keeps hair soft and glossy. Re fuse all substitutes. 2)4 times as much in $1. 00 as 50c size. IS NOT A DYE. FMlo Hay Spec. Co.. Newark. N. J. $1 and 50c bottles, aS druggists" Otto eg elf, J. V. Wels, A. E. Krpcrt. MINNES0TA REPUBLICANS. St. Paul, Minn, June 30. A small advance guard of delegates put in an appearance today in readiness for the republican state nominating convention. Tho oonentlon will be called to order In the Auditorium at 11 o'clock tomor row morning. A full state ticket will be nominated, including candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, secre tary of state, state treasurer, attorney general and two railroad commission ers. The contest is confined almost wholly to the gubernatorial nomination and the nominations for railroad commis sioners. For each of the other places on the ticket there Is but one candi date In the field. The aspirants for the governorship are numerous, though several of them may drop out of the race before the balloting begins. The candidates for the nomination are Attorney General Edward T. Young, of Appleton; J. F. Jacobson, of Madison: former Con gressman Joel P. Heatwole, of North field; former Congressman Samuel P. Snider, of Minneapolis, and M. W. Sav age, the millionaire horseman, also of M inneapolls. The "Woman cf Stenay." The name of the "Woman of Ste nay" is revered in Lorraine 'as a ra tional heroine. In the Napoleonic wars a detachment of Austrians visit ed Stenay and demanded a cask of wine. "The Woman of Stenay" promptly brought one, telling the sol diers they were welcome to her store, and drank a cup of wine to their health. The soldiers promptly drank, but in a few moments 400 men were writhing in agony on the ground; the "Woman of Stenay" rose from her seat, saying: "You are all poisoned! Vive la France!" and she fell back a corpse. Birthplace of the Icebergi. We might call Greenland the world's ice box. If you glance at the map you will see that the state of New York, large as it seems to us, is not over one-twentieth of the size of Green land, for New York contains only 47. 000 square miles. Then think that the glaciers are steadily moving away from the center of Greenland, really being crowded off the land, and it will not seem so strange that here is the birthplace of nearly all of the icebergs that are; so feared by the mariner. St. Nicho- las. '. MONEY LOANED If" nn trnnA aarttr'tv iich n Pumlffirpf QUIETLY and QUICKLY. CHICAGO DISCOUNT CO 9138-40 Commercial Ave. South Chicago Room 2iC Tel. So. Chicago 10 Open Monday, Thursday ard Stuwlaj evenings until 9 P. M. 2l Greenwald's Seldom, if ever, have the people of the Ca'umet District had an opportunity in selecting their home furnishings from such a complete line of high grade fur niture all new and direct from the factory as is now on sale in our b:g store, which covers nearly 12,000 square feet We have a complete line of Par lor Suits, Bedsteads, Sideboards, China Closels, Tables (all descrip tions), Chairs, Rockers, etc., to select from. We can please you, and with credit terms to suit your convenience. . ...... M, L.Greenwa!d&Co, 279-81-83 Ninety-second St. SOUTH CHICAGO. WHISKEY There is only one BEST TRY Old Steuben Bourbon ( Straight Goods) and agree with us that It is PERFECTION Steuben County Wine Co. I Dlstrtbutorj, CHICAGO, ILLS.