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Lake County Register (1922), 30 Jul 1924, p. 1

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pldh oe" E*) 54 Thomas R, Marshall every mn--u.d--u-:t"a-u president, but perhaps many of our president, out perhaps of our 110,000,000 are not good.--Philadel. Andrew Traicofi, W#ukegan; Eva Dimetrova, Waukegan, Harold H. Friedlander, Chicago; Ava Berkley, Chicago. Cnaries IL. wagher, Joplin, Mo.; Josephine Ecker, Niagara Falls, N. Plulipc Shaw, '.nm':.(llwankoe Clarence _ Richardson Fleanor Kane, Chicago, -- ,Chigago Charles H. Waghner Ianlia ar. The youths were to be questioned further today by Chief Maroney re-- garding clothing store rohberies staged in Waukegan, Highwood and Highland Park the last few months. Chief Maroney is of the belief that the youth robbed a Highwood tailor MH."&,C&hbdn'm. cral hundreds of dollars. Maroney says that Davis was ar-- rested for robbing the home of a motorcycle policeman in Waukegan about three years ago being brought into County court at he time and sent to the school for boys at Glen-- wood by order olJndgnPury L. Chief of Police .saac Lyor plan-- ned to go to Highland Park and question the boy bandits relative to recent big clothing robberies in Waukegan. breaking into and looting © the Briergate and Iodian Hill golf clubs. Clubs, balls, and money be-- ing taken at these places. Much of the loot was discovered at the homes of the threc lads, al-- though the boys had sold some of the clubs and dozen 'of golf balls. Most of the money taken had been spent. A The trio, the police say, also con-- fessed robbing several Highland Park and Highwood public schools. They are said to have admitted Among the more receht robberfes | admitted by Davis, O'Neill! and | Greese was the burglarizing of the Exmoor' Country cliy in Highland Park Thursday night. Twenty--five | new golf clubs, eight dozen go'f . balls and $35 in cash were taken | from the clubhouse. ; | Admit Other® Robberies. H during the early hours of July 14 and-- abandoned in a side street. Tells of Theft. -- The former Waukegan boy told Chief Maroney th--t he and O'Nei!l stole the motor and glasses on the night of July 13, shortly after mid-- night. The owner of the motor and glasses is :G. Thornborough of 579 Market street. The articles wers In order to make the trip to Wau-- kegan the night in question, a car was--stolen in Hithm. the police remort,. bring <bro: ~Beagolr-- found at the Davis home, the police former Waukegan lad, is said to have been the leader of the gang. Arrested with Davis were Lawrence O'Neill, 16, and Freedie Greese, 17, all of Highwood. They boys had packed up and were about to leave the city when taken im eustody by the officers of the law at Highwood. Davis, according to the police, was the first to break down under grilling. ~One of the first robberics in which he admitted he was impli-- cated was the theft of a motor and a pair of field glasses from a boat in the Waukegan tarbor. were a Friday night by Chief d'hfl-!?:udhmm.dmgh- land Park and police officers of Highwood. Two of the youths con-- fessed a Waukegan robbery, accord-- ing to the Highland Park chief and the loots were recovered. In all the boys are said to have confessed rob-- bing about a dozen places. Shelton Davis, 16 years old, a MARRIAGE LICENSES rances Schwei beries in Waukegan and other cities alon kthe north shore for months A trico of Highwood youths be-- SUNDAY Denver, Colo.; NO. 58 Michigan off afternoon. mm,-z Highland Park with a friend Anderson, who was employed the Iglshart Construction mfl Highland Park laying ers, with a friend, Bert J.:h!nm. to Chicago Man Drowns. Carl Anderson, 30 y irs old, Chi cago, proved the 'second victim of the water when he drowned in Lake Michigan off Ravinia late Sunday Dr. M. D. Penney of Libertyville, deputy coroner, C:i" notified of the finding of the cago man's in Hastings lake and held .:?.. quest there Monday, A verdict of accidental drowning was returned by the jury. { IVE W ACEE ORCUNTCT; WITD yE £OKMCT | ~< The officials: sougbt '"K6 comnect |is believed to have suffered cramps.|tn -- pair with other burglaries in |_ Mortenson and Ganzenmuller had | 1 ,1., Forest, Highland Park and '| rowed out into the water attired in | Winnetka but they were finally in-- " their ~ bathing "WHite, Aiving* from 'dicted on the Runne!s charge.-- The their boat several times and.,thcn'au came up today for pleading g"""m' back. -- The» wind ca""'edglnd the man*was sentenced. Plans |were in water some 20" feey j05p| are bting made by Shetit Rdwin |and it was while attempting to get | JSE to have Langner hk \back to the boat that Mortenson ap-- S zen e cacrefarigrcniee ammmccentie ns P | parently suffered the attack. After "going down once he shouted for help coum HEA s | | and Ganzenmuller who was but a F i d | \few feet from him went to his aid.| -- &A 1 c on c _ oo ss| > AETERDMIEET _ At the lake it was said that: a» i 'Mortenson hung so tightly t{:e:.n-{ | zenmuller that the latter became P s fatigued and could make no he.d-|c°""'"°" Opens at Spring ' | way towards the boat. He broke | field August 26, Word Here \lose from Mortenson's grip and| | started to go down wher he was| Announces . ' | saved by two men who had come to | wmnemnmmasce | 'the lake with him. |_-- SPRINGFIELD, I!l., July 26-- | the "¥" camp and requested that the rumors be denied for fear that parents of boys at the camp would worry, believing that their son's lives were in danger. An officer of the camp said the boys at camn are closely watched while in the water and are nc al-- lowed to go out far or dive from boats. Heads of the Y. M. C. A. car.p sAid today that there were reports that the man that drowned was at Locate Body. The body was located and brought to shore this morning however by Captain McGraw, chief of the life guards at Kenosha. A dragnet was used by the Kenosha guare to get pling hooks with them. The 'water was dragged for hours but with no The sheriff's office was notified and Chief Deputy Sheriff Lester Tiffany and Justices of the Peace success, Harry Hoyt and Hervey C. Coul-- son went to the lake, taking grap-- Arnold Mortenson, 22 years ord, son of A. Mortenson, Moline, Il1., who has been livipg at 1400 East Fifty--third street, Chicago, was the |drowning victim at Hastings lake. \He and a companion. Carl Ganzen-- {muller, 25 years old, who lives at the Hyde Park ¥, M. C. A. were in \the water together, when the former 'is believed to have suffered cramps. The men, H. L. Aicks and Lars Maursech, both of Chicago, had rowed out when they heard the cries and took Ganzenmuller as he was about to sink. He was revived by persons on the beach They could not locate Mortenson's body. Two men were drowned and a third had a narrow escape while swim-- ming in lakes in and bordering on the county Sunday. . One drowned in Lake Michigan at Ravinia, while the other drowned at Hastings lake, lo-- cated between Lake Villa and Mil-- burn. _A companion of the man who lost his life in Hastings lake was rescued from d-- »wning when he be--! eame exhaustes in his attempt at a rescue. & CEMENT SACK _ INJURES MAN FIND BODY WHEN HELP IS CALLED Kutis was attended by Dr. Char-- les Leiber who reported that the man, was slightly improved Monday. Emil Kutis, ysln employe of the American t com-- pany, was rushed to the . Coun-- ty General H it on Bunday af-- ternoon with a ctu right leg which he received when a 100 pound cement sack fell on him from a platform under whien he was work-- rappling Hooks used in Search for Youth at Lake Near Milburn. bathe in the lake, it was revealed at the coroners inquest held Morday a*t Prior's undertaking establishment | in Highland Park. _ It is expected that the body will be shipped to Chicago for burial. T cbfind Bopety Chitate Painiy & Y Libertyville, held the inquest. of the pier. He looked around and saw Andersonstruggling. The Chi-- eago man drowned before the other was able to assist. It was said today at the inquest that Anderson was an Expert swim-- 'mer and had not even stopped to take his u:lothing ofll;"Afhr delib-- eration the jury se probe the case reported in tur"v." that the death was accidental. Has Clothing. He waded into the water with his clothing on, his companion accomp-- anying him. They entered the wa-- ter at about six o'clock Sunday ev-- ening. Soon Johnson heard cries coming from the water near the end States Senator Earl B. Searcy will address the clerks and record-- ers on the subject of state legisla-- tion. On Thursday Eugene C. Dwyer of East St. Louis will ad-- dress the same organization. A banquet at the Elks club and an automobile trip about the city are among the social features of the meeting that have been ar-- SPRINGFIELD, I!l., July 26-- County officials from all parts of Illinois will gather here to atterd the annual joint convention of the Cireuit Clerks and Recorders As-- sociation, County Treasurers As-- sociation and County Clerks, Pro-- bate Clerks, Auditors and Super-- visors Association. The convention opens August 26 and continues three days. The three associations will meet in joint session the morning of the, opening day but thereafter wllli meet in separate state conventions. ary 10 when they were found on his way toward the Wrigley building. Langner was identified as> having been familiar with the Lake Forest places and soon: confessed having committed the burglary. He said at that tme that he was on his way to rob the Wrigley building. Search Haunts. : The Chicago police on making a search of the usual haunts of the two men found valuables tapestrics and rugs taken from the Lake For-- est home strewn about on stair-- cases and nailed to walls. Some. of the loot was recovered and the prisoners were transferred to the Lake county jail. ; | Albert Langner, Chicago, said to have been a Germa nspy during the late war, was sentenced to serve from one to ten years in prison Mon-- day o na charge of having enterei and robbed the home of Clive Run-- nels, Lake Forest, vice presiiient of the Pullman company. The sentence was meted out in the court of Cireuit Judge Claire C. ~Edwards when -- the prisoner pie&ded };mil:vy" lo.b: tca);arge of bur-- . -- Heé en to i'na:ytew days, it was annaunm; State's Attorney A. V. Smith who handled the case. 4 Langner and Fred Becker, also of Chicago, were taken i. that city by the authorities there about Janu-- ADMIT PART Chicago Police Took Pair Somé! Time Ago; Confesses Steal-- | ing Things from Home of Lake Forest Man e Cmunty Register LIBERTYVILLE, TPLINOIS, WEDNESDAYy, JULY 30 tive serum M "7773;--11"'-" giving information on hog cholera, its control and mhoh m.tg.': obtaine on request m the ed States department of agrica ture, Washington, D. C, In computing the losses from hog cholera, specialists of the bureau of animal industry estimate that 80 per cent of losses from all causes are due to this .h" M"loct of this lo«ss can prevented the proper :anitation and the preven-- ed by cwlera in each state s' that.the ravages of the disease approxinately in proportion to hog porulation, Hog cwlera caused a loss of more thra $27,000,000 to the swine industry of the United States dur-- ing the vear ended April 30, 1924, accordin; to a recent compilation by the Tnited States department of agricultire. More than half of the total los: occurred in the corn belt states, vhere hogs are especially numerous _ A comparison of the number #f hogs with the loss caus-- .| Abbut" $8.000 worth of darm--| see; ; |age Wasieaused by the blaze. The | fou t |home @nd all the furnishings were | the ; |completed destroyed, There were| j | | no fagilities with which to fight the | rive '\fire de the tarm building is. about | tra | two tiles southwest of Area and all | liey that _". m hands and neighbors | att, | could o was to look on and prevent | sto, | the fike from cah:hingonth.»rn to |and déher outlying buildings. / boa | . The blaze started at--2:30 O'Clock | rem | Saturidigy morning. Mrs. Kidder, a| -- 4 | widow was away on a visit in Chi--} m ) cago. There were two boys and | pf , | to m&' tR _bome SMK dm-i.;N {Iy. The boys always keep a lamp w» | burning dn the room adjoining the | 501¢ bedroom while Mrs. Kidder is away.| ;f » : , Lamp Explodes. li rest "Th' P P '-~"W" ® * A the »noise 'failed to awraken the@ | gay tloe/?'n. Tke fire sprsad rapidly | yea 'and soon the whole house was full | Chi of smoke. --When the smoke poured | Rac into the room in whic: Wallace wis | com | sleeping, it awakened him. By that dep: | time the boarder was so far ovw-,bev | come that he could not talk.. . --R * Wallace was badly cut about the 'arrg | face, body and arms when he crash-- noor |ed through the window pane, He | he } | was taten to the office of Dr. bail. | Charles Galloway at Libertvville on ' back Saturdar where it was found neces--| spot | sary to put eight stitches in his arm.| bein Deput: Sherif Walter Stark was summondd to the scene t« preserve The cther three _ persons were awakene! by Wallace's slarm -- and dashed ut of the house in their night chthes. They were not as badly ovrcome with smoke as was Wallace, but escaped with their lives by »nly a few minutes. A few attempts were made +o stop the progress of the flames, but they wee uséless as the oil and wooden structure of Athe building were tber»flol. The fire swept through w liae & tornado and soor the whole structure was a mass of fames. Due to the rapid-- ity with which the fire went through the hous, it : impossible to save any of tie fu E order .mm';iti.e eould be done. He repoted there was prac-- tically nthing left of the home. CHOLERA PROVES BAD FOR STOCK | ofls UP IN VEW QU A. | of 1 t clerk arrived on Sat-- 'urda 'the room was fitted up anid Med Monday by that offi-- | cial. \Whe is on the first floor | north|of the old place. . _ ® ngered by Flames lich Sweep Area Dwell-- ' Boarder Choked by e Falls from Window AMP FARM FIRE CAUSE use near Diamon Lake | en '\destroyed early Satur-- / Ac & when an oil lamp ex--| me _set the building owned pls ifio Kidder on fire. Wal--| bel & a boarder, was over-- vyo! k and plunged thmgh'w story window and gave| ( were endangered and QUARTERS » the disease are proportion to the iIth the logs caus-- each state shows After the president's return her' camping trip there will gom very important cabinet meeting. o On Saturday, August 2, there will be a very important 'h pic Rfic, to be held on the wh; beach at 3:00 p. m. saving time. There will be 'events and prizes for the winners. The Lake Forest chapter will sell lunch at a stand. A good number are request. ed to go from elcm Let us show them that Li ville is on the map 'arlf. Shouting that he would shoot if he didn't stop Capt. Kennedy ar--| ch rested the mam, _ © " g * At the mlhfiw stat .,"'",!'P',(. | gave his na as T. C years old, 2416 Wentworth avenue, Chicago. .A few moments later the he Racine police hfid:rurs sent a | .. communication to . local police | department to hold the man, that he was wanted in Racine. k + Racine police, it was learned, ll_ld',' larrcstd Martinis Saturday 'after-- hi 'noon on vagrancy charges and that x he had just been réleased on, $25 | *\ bail. Martinis had been riding x 'bukandfathhvmknehitoa.l.}: kspot near where a celebration was it being held, which fact aroused the | 1| suspicions of the police and led to l: his arrest. P The Institute echo meeting to be held on Sunday August 8, will open with a fellowship hour at 5:30 last-- ing until 6:30 p. m. standard time, to be followed by. a real echo meeting from 6:30 to 7" conducted by Miss Addie Lane an outside speaker, -- * 'Let's all her we are nenson s store was robbed sever-- al weeks ago and Harry Benson, proprietor, held up at the point of revolvers by two men. Since that incident, Benson has had a --man sleeping in the store every night. It was the watchman's "off day" and Jenson himself was sleeping in the store when he heard the men tampering with the door. The shots fired came about three inches from going through the glass panel, darkness preventing Benson from taking accurate aim. f A blue coat was found near flni door by the police which may be a elue leading to the discovery of the en by a noise outside the back door.' ; According to Benson he heard twol men conversing in the rear of the place. and found that the door was being tampered with. Taking his re-- volver he fired twice thnrough the ,'pne!f-*ud called the police. | Capt. Thomas Kennedy and Pat-- |rolman Harry Quandt spad to the | scene of the attempted robbery but found that the men had fied upon the firing of the shots, Just as Kennedy and Quandt ar-- rived on the scene, a Chicago bound train pulled in at the station. Be-- !lievh' that the two men who had attempted to break in Benson's store might have boarded the train to : make their escape, Quandt boarded the limited while Kennedy! remained in the rear of the store. | Martinis was on his way to Chi-- cago when he noticed the entrance of the Waukegan -- police officer. Thinking that the Racine police were attempting to rearrest him, he leaped through the open window and ran around to the rear of Ben-- son's store where only a few mo-- ments before two men haid attempt-- ed to gain entrance. Benson's store was robbed sever-- * Ag entered the train, a man m 'leaped through one of the train windows > and ran ground to the rear of Benson's store where Kennedy <had stationed him-- Shortly after two o'clock Sunday mording Benson, who was sleeping in the 'rear of nis store was awaker.. Shore line, frustrated early Sunday morning led to the capture of a man wanted by the Racine police. I; is the gecond--time within two weeks that Enlon'l place has been the ob-- ject Oof robberies. An attempteed robbery of Har-- ry Benson's clothing store in Wash-- ington street, Waukegan, near the Edison Court station of the Nortn Suspect Taken Is Found to Be Wanted for Vagrancy in Ra-- cine; Search Being Made for Two Burglars ADMITS HIS _ GUILT WHEN /. UP IN CASE) As LEAGUE LOUD SPEAKER her a boost and show she came to talk to M. D. Penney was called to attend him. _ His condition is not serious the physician sayse, The two year ol? son of Albert Holst of Libertyville was severely bnmmm.m.,r.g. domen Saturday night, when a jar Williams and his airplane circus are scheduled to show in Liberty-- ville this afterncoon and evening. The {!iyers were scheduled to make their first flight at 2:30 in the afternoon and to open the even"filom at 7:80. "The Human Fly" is to put on a number of stunts from the wings of the speeding machines and if the weather is favorable, it is quite probable that a parachute jamp will be made. The flyers will carry passengers at a nominal charge. "HUMAN FLY¥" Central station, New York. Pet-- erson's relatives refuse to accept it. Herman Peterson ha: employed Attorney Al Ginsburg to investi-- gate the case in his behalf. In the meantime the body of the unknown remains in its coffin in the Grand Dare--Devil Stunts and Wing Walk-- ing Exhibition Feature; Will Carry Passengers The mystery containg one element that may lead to altimate solution. Several months ago Herman wa; the victim of a highway robber in Cleveland. Among the articles taken from him was a letter from his brother at the naval training gekit that perhaps the n died in=~Cleveland and was wrongly ldc_atil-d as Peterson through the Herman Answers. But Herman himself -- answered the call. Tnursday the body arrive --dat the New York Grand Central station. The relatives were about to remove it when a young woman, cousin of the supposedly dead Herman, tele-- phoned® the Bismarck hotel, where Zerman and his vaudeville partner in an acrobatic act were registered. The young woman was calling the partner to learn details of Herman's death. y Tuesday, Peterson came to Chi-- cago and found the xfifln B. & O. station. He reconsigned it to his parents at 420 E. 169th street, New York. e *A The phone call has to ;:B:th ; mystery.. upon m 6: of Cleveland, Chicago.: ahd New York set to work last night. Here is the story in sequence of action: < -- x Gets Message. / Sunday 'night Charles Peterson, chief petty officer at the Great eaived a~ Cleveland. "Your brother Herman, is dead here," the phone ullpr "We will send the bo M in Chicago via the B. & O. road." -- The discovery of the mistake in when a young woman at New York phoned to the BRismarck hotel in Chicago, As the call} was answered at Chicago the woman at the other end of the wire screamed and then fainted. f LAD BURNED AS JAR FALLSA Authorities last Friday were seek-- ing to untangle the strange web of :';u in the o yix.':.p ted uncovering of a m in the identification of a man's body mttochYotk!oqbuhl,aund originally by a letter sent some time ago by an attache of the Great Lakes naval training station. _ _ Mrs. Isabells Sharkeya of Grays-- lake was granted a divorce Monday from James Sharkeya, also of that : § drunkenness Attorney / BSharkey at : tion was not PHONE CALL mby Cireuit Judge Claire--C. | . She charged eruelty and drunkenness and asked no alimony. Attorney Albert Hall represented Sharkey at the hearing, but the ac-- tion was not contested, The couple has been separated since December, Great Corpse Home for Burial; Finds Brother Is Still Alive in Chicago Hotel ECREE GRANTED IN COURT TODAY ephone.ine AIRPLANE CIRCUS Maybe the La Follette band wagon doesn't look quite strong enough to This reunion ca» safely be snid to be the largest over held in this part of the counttyx Supper was served at five o'clock during which one of the family, Rev. L. Gresens, gave a very interesting MYI'. Immediately -- after supper the families departed for home, looking forward to the noext reunion. The afternoon was spent Iz':hy- ing baseball, racing, stunts va-- rious other games. At four :,'d: a group was taken %, Hcgnml{. of Libertyville.. Klipp and granddaughter, -- Fern, 'William Rabbe and family, Willlam and wife. Mrs Heiry Relnckt and and wife, Mrs. Henry and family, Walter Consoer and family Mrs. Ritchel and family, Mrs, Per-- kins and son, Paul Consoer, Henry Weber and family, William Webber and wife, John Wohifiel and family, Alfred Koester and wife, Henry Mey. er and family, Henry Erdtman and family, Raymond Meyer and family, Geo. Pozek and wife, W. Meyer and family, Paul Meyer and family, Mre. Paul Rouse and son, Louis Gresens . and family and Wm. Knigge and . family. --The residing pastor, Rev. Henry Heise with his wife and two children were guests of this gather-- ing. i A chicken dinner 12 o'clock at which livered a short but dress, Those present were: John Eggers, Henry Eggers and family, Henty Woltman and family, Otto Tegt-- meyer and family, Mrs. Lena and Martha and Louis Peters, William Fendt and family, August ru-:: family, August Jasch and ily, William ~Peters and '1,'-'0.. Adams and family, Ed and family, Louis Albach and family Rl-- On Supday, July 20, a reunion of the August Knigge family was held near the old homestead on the banks of the "Silvan Shores" at Gilmer, Il1. : Relatives commenced gathering at ten o'clock in the morning and by noon approximately 150 were pres-- ent. This number was a representa-- tion of sbven daughters and one son and their families, of the departed Mr. and Mrs. August Knigge. i KNIGGE FAMILY 3 HOLD REUNION This will save a month's tran-- 'smtion to . Boston ~where the work has been carried on up until recently. All the material has gone through to the eastern place and beginning Aug. 3 the new plant will begin taking over its share of the work making the whole work a local turnout, E7 22 * The first of the foree;wme# back Aug. 3 and gradually the i-- ous: departments cwill--pick up with . departments to full strength, _ _ Relatives to the Number of 150 at _ August Knigge Family---- 'z Reunion * ' ! Shat Gradually l vs According to J. H. Jordan, plant . official. the patent leather depar e (. ment at the place is the only j'%'?_ which has been operating full blast _ all the time. The other depart-- ments have been shut down gradu-- ~a ally as the material was put through and shipments were com-- _ pleted. One by one their activities .. were curtailed. f m This, according to the official, was . to allow for the completion of a . new section of the plant which is _ expected to the completed within a _ week. Because of the new section _ the local company will be enabled to do all its degreasing, it was said. _ $2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE In the neighborhood of 350 work-- ers will regain their place in ht by the Griess Pfieger Tanning com-- pany, it was learned Monday. A call has been sent out to that number of employes laid off during the last few weeks at the plant. It states that beginning Aug. % the company will resume is full pro-- gram once more and will be able to take them back at their former industry TANNERY T0 Order Opening of Departments _ nouncement Says wa ssorved at Rev. Heise de-- interesting ad-- e

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