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13DRYIWill!County Jail at Crown Pt.for Twenty Days.Nellie Stephen? and Ann Wagner of lary ,wh owe re recently arrested on he charge of being women of immoral haracter. were fined $10 and costs and driven a sentence of ten days in .tail, n the Rake superior court in JHLam-nond yesterday.The jury which heard the case evi-lently paw something funny in the rial, for they had no sooner retired to he Jury room than they laughed so up--oarlously that they were heard all vor the Federal building.In the meantime the women who were :o hear Jhelr fate were sitting quietlyin the courtroom, very much concerned over the deliberations of the Jurors.When the verdict was announced they considered it anything but a joke. They w ill be compelled to spend the next ♦ w o n t y days in Frown F o i n t in the custody of the sheriff.fIwas it learned in Chicago that the mayor ofTered his resignation to the city council last Friday.Iast evening it was denied by Naperville aldermen that the mayor’s act was th eresult of any “demands” on the part of the council. One alderman said that frequently automobile rides in which the mayor had indulged withthe young woman as his companion had evoked aldermafiic comment.“We ‘twitted’ hint about the matter,” he said, “and at first he seemed to •stand the gaff pretty well, hut later he didn’t seem to like it to he spoken of. The resignation will he acceptedby the council.”The former mayor was out of town in the evening, and no one responded at the residence where he lives with his wife and two children.. Mr. IC roe hi or, who is 41 years old. went to Naperville seven years ago with practically nothing and now is rated by acquaintances as being worth $500,-000 with a lounge factory in Naperville and another at Binghampton. N. Y. He is said to be planning a third factory to he located at or near Gary.He is also said to he a stockholder in the Sears-Roebuck mail order concern.Several years ago Mr. Kroehler built a $75,000 residence in Naperville andsince his election as mayor he has caused more public improvements td be made than had been attempted in the previous history of the town.}i;MAYORPLANSWILLGARY FACTORY QUITSMEETINGSewing Circle Talk in Naperville Said to HaveNorthern Indiana TrolleyLeague May Have Garyfor Factor.Induced Act.iPeter Kroehler. mayor and wealthiest citizen of Naperville. 111., who is planning to locate a factory at or near Gary, has resigned as the result, it is j saicT, of village gossip about his attentions to a young woman formerlyin his employ.While Naperville itself has passed up no v opportunities to discuss the “actions” of its former chief executive, it hasn’t advertised the matter in its sis-Gary will send a representative to South Bend Thursday to attend the meetin gat which an attempt will be made to organize a northern Indiana trolley league, to begin with the coming baseball season and to continue permanently is found successful.Gary fans are interested in the movement because they feel that a league of this character, run in a businesslike manner, would get the whole-souled support of the fans and create many new ones in the city who would be interested in the race for the pennant,♦ ui onHntr iif i hf» teams, and in thf
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Hammond Lake County Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Wed, Jan 26, 1910
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Julie G.
USA 15 Jun 2019
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