The evening world. Newspaper, January 9, 1915, Page 1

fer EXTRA . The ~ PRIGE e_ONE “OENT. FOUR LINES OF TRENCHES CAPTURED BY THE ALLIES, | BUT ALSATIAN TOWN IS LOST Three Attacks Reported Repulsed at if Soupir—One Hill Captured and Another Held—Soissons Bom- barded by the Germans. d J PARIS, Jan. 9 (Ascoclated Press.)—Successes at various points aloug ‘the battle line in France are claimed in the official report on the progress ppt the fighting given out by the French War Office this afternoon. A Ger- | man victory is admitted in Alsace, where the troops of Emperor William | Beoceupied Burnhaupt-le-Haut. In another place the French gain consisted of three lines of German trenches; at another they advanced 500 yards; elsewhere lesser gains or | he retention of positions are recorded. The French artillery also has ‘Deen active, with results declared to be advantageous. Un the French War Office report to-day it Is stated that three ’ Ines of German trenches were taken after the flermans had been ..,taree times repulsed and that in revenge the. Germans bomharded Solssons and set fire to the Palace of darba. The Berlin report says that the several attacks were beaten off northeast of Solssons “with severe loss to the Freuch.” ‘The claim of the French to a gain of 500 yards at the village of. Perthes is met by the Kerlin report'that the French were re- pulsed with severe loss. Im the Argonne the French say they were subjected to a lively attack, but by a counter move won back lost ground. Berlin claim: in the eastern section of the Argonne the Germans stormed French positions and took 1,200 prisoners.) Following is the text of the French War Office report: “To the south of Ypres we have damaged the trenches of the enemy and reduced to silence the mine-throwers of the Germans. “In the region of Arras and in the vicinity of Amiens there have been thirty artillery engagements resulting advantageously for our batteries. “In the region of Soupir we yesterday morning occupied very brilliantly ‘Hill 132. Three times during the day the enemy de- livered violent counter attacks. Each time they were repulsed. Our gain is represented by three lines of German trenches alohg a front of 600 metres. The enemy, not having been able to recapture that which they had lost, bombarded Soissons and set fire to the i. Palace of Justice. “To the south of Laon and of Craonne our artillery demolished @ camp of huts covering some machine guns, reduced to silence | the artillery of the enemy and destroyed some trenches. “In the region of Perthes the enemy delivered an attack, to which we responded immediately by a counter attack. The move- ment on our part permitted us not only to retain our positions at ‘Hill 200,’ west of Perthes, but also to take pos: fon of 400 yards of the trenches of the enemy between ‘Hill 200° and the village of Perthes. Furthermore, a direct attack delivered by us on Perthes at the same time that we were making our counter attack on ‘Hill 200’ made us masters of the village. We installed ourselves im Perthes and we have advanced beyond the village boundary. 'o Our total gain in this locality is more than 500 yards. “Along all the front between Rheims and the Argonne our artil- “lery has inflicted noticeable losses on the enemy. This has becn attested by prisoners. In the Argonne we were subjected on our right to a lively attack from the enemy, to which we replied with a counter attack which brought us back to our point of departure. “In the Woevre district, to the northwest of Flirey, in the Forest of Ailly and in the Forest of Le Pretre, we made some prog: ross. “In the region of Cernay we maintained our position, Further to the south, the enemy, strongly reinforced, reoccupied Burnflaupt- Je-Haut, at the expense of heavy losses.” BERLIN (By wireless to London), Jan. 9 (Associated Press). —The fol- lowing official communication was Argonne our troops successfully stormed French positions and took 1,200 prisoners ang some mine i) given out to-day at Army Head-| throwers and a bronze mortar. | quarters: A Lorraine battalion and tho “On the western front there |* Hessian landwehr particularly have been heavy rains, which distinguished themselves in this @ecmod more like cloudbursts than fight. One of our advanced trenches, which we at the time anything else, Thunder was heard all day yesterday, The Lys at ome places has overflowed its banks. #® “Several attacks of the enemy to the noftheast of Soissons were A. peaten off with severe loss to the French, HA Wrench ot -porth of Chalone, was repulsed 1” | gpith covers loss to the enemy. _,.) bod cestere, cvction of te. _. (Continued an fagnd Page. were not occupying, near Flirey, ‘was occupied by the French and at once blown ‘up. All of the French occupants were killed. “Both west and south of Senn- heim (Cernay) there Is nothing to report dtlyer cut of Bus ih US reat nok naar Parthas | Germans Report 1,200 Prisoners at Point Where French Claim Victory Fino: BRAND NEW BRIDE! = \Franklin D. as Divorce Suit Reveals Wife Ran Away on Wedding Night. H. J..Wood and Girl Still Together in St. Louis After Two Years, Youth was not served in the case of Franklin D. Wood, a young hos- pital interne who is suing his twenty- yeareold wife, Lelia, for a divorce, naming his own father as co-respond- ent. Young Wood married the wife he is tryingto get rid of two years ago, and it- was chatged before Justice Cohalan to-day that his father, Henry Jackson Wood, atole the little bride on the very night of the wedding and eloped with her to Chicago. In running away with his son's wife, it is alleged in the suit, Wood abandoned his own wife, the mother of the son he despolled. Wood and his daughter-in-law are now said to be living together in St. Louis, It was an awful shock to young Mr. Wood when his bride told him an | hour after they were married that she loved another and an older man. It was more «f a shock when his bride disappeared the day of the wedding and his father dropped out of sight at tho same time.’ The culminating shock -did not arrive until six months later, when the young man learned for the first time that his father and his wife had gone away together. Mrs, Henry Jackson Wood has paid two visits to her husband and her daughter-in-law in an effort to persuade them to separate. Her trips were fruitless. Her husband wants her to get a divorce so he can marry his daughter-in-law. The sit- uation stood in that light until the young man determined to bring suit for dlyorce. The elder Wood Is forty-five, but does not look nor act his age. It ap pears he was his son's secret rival all through the latter's courtship, but did not realize the strength of his affec- tion for the fair Lelia until after she had married his offspring. His work from that time on was quick and de- cisive. A few words to the bride from Wood wound up the romance of bis son. Previously, however, Wood and his gon had been photographed with the young woman. That photograph is all young Wood has left to remind him of the dream of domestic bliss which was exploded by his father. Young Wood, who is not yet twen- ty-three, told of having wooed his bride for more than six months. She professed to love him deeply, he tes- tifled, and seemed attached to him until immediately after the wedding ceremony, Then her manner grew cold suddenly, and on the way to his father’s home she told ‘him that she did not love him. “There is an older man and you know who he Is, but I'm not going to tell his name. He's the man I really love,” Wood quoted his bride as say- ing to him. A honeymoon planned by the couple was abandoned, and following the quarrel between the young couple they went to their separate homes on the wedding night, Mrs. Henry Jack- son Wood discovered the next morn- ing that her husband was inissing. Simultaneously young Wood + that his bride had left hae. bor i A] i | tH {PARENT SECRET RIVAL. f ed al JANUARY %, ! HENRY JACKSON WOOD THE FATHER SAVED VANDERBILTS, GIVEN $7,000 BERTH Liner’s Captain Who Rescued Ship- wrecked Party Made Yacht Captain at Record Salary. FRANKLIN WOOD THE SON | BOSTON SOCIETY DANCED TILL 3AM. DESPITE THE MAYOR Nobody Had a Watch, So How Was Any to Know Order to Stop at 2 Was Broken? Good seamanship and kindly con- sideration have won for Capt, Walter H, Bevan, for many years a skipper of United Fruit Company steamers, a berth as master of the palatial yacht Warrior, now the property of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, at the biggest salary y pitid a yacht mas; ter, $7,000 n year, This is nearly throe times his wage as captain of a com-| mercial liner. About a year ago, when Frederick | BOSTON, Jan, i.—8, Jlooper- Ww, Vanderbilt owned the Warrior! pooper, leader of Bonton's society and with his wife was entertaining | {he Duke and Duchess of Manches, | tons and Mayor James M. Curtey ter on a crulse in Caribbean waters, clashed to-day over @ question of the went on the rocks off the coast | public morals. Hooper to stop his dance at the liner Almirante and took off the Van- derbilts and their guests Copley-Plaza at 2 o'clock this morn- (Special to The Evening World.) Mr, Vanderbilt formed a _close| : ; ie friendahip with the skipper. When | '® ened a nehaagondiid fn ol Capt. Bevan was {ll in a hospital | of the official edict, kept the dancing going merrily until after 3 o'clook. “Nobody had @ watch,” is the etate- ment of some soclety people who danced till 3 in spite of the Mayor. They added “There was no clook in sight and how were we to know it was after 2.” “T will most certainly take action,” here, recently, the most frequent in- quirer regarding him was Mr. Van- derbilt. The Warrior was brought to New York and sold to Harry Payne Whit- ney, who resold her ‘to Vanderbilt. She ie no® being fitted out under the direction of Capt, Bevan, who| was engaged at the inatance of F.) W. Vanderbilt for a winter West In- dian cruise. announced the Mayor, when be was One of the features of the re-| qotifind by telephone *hat It was tong modelled ship will be a big nursery | for the Vanderbilt jatter 2 and dancing was still going a, | on, | Patronesses of the dance were Mra. WHEAT PRICES SLUMP. | Bryce J, Allan, Mrs. Gordon Abbott, | Mrs, Rodolphe L. Agassiz, Mra, 8, V. iiadahied Re Crosby, Mrs, William ©. Zndtoott Fear of Embarwo Sends « Down Two Points, vie jr, Mrs, Henry 8. Hunnewell, Mra, CHICAGO, Jan, 9.—Wheat dropped to- | Horatio A. Lam Mrs. George von |day as if struck with a hammer, Open-| [, Meyer, Mrs. Preble Motley and ing orices vere In some casos nearly) Mrs, Philip 8. ower than ‘aat —— --——= » SAILING TO- “DA 1915, YOUNG BROKER SHOOTS HIMSELF WHEN SPECULATION RUINS FIR DOCTOR'S FATHER |Bride, Her Husband and His Father, LOPES WITH SON'S ge Eloped With Her on in Night of Wedding . | deraidy fies « Thesctam, | Adeertion nthe ta dimday BM Alter tne— Br Books Open to WEATHER—Fair to-night end Gunday aaa to All.” 10 P ‘LELIA wooD THE BRIDE PRISONER ON WAY HERE ESCAPES FROM TRAIN Robert Helt, Charged With Trying to Extort Money From New Yorker, Jumps Through Window. CHICAGO, Jan, 9,—Robert Helt, be- ing taken from Chicago to New York to be tried on a charge of using the malls in an attempt to extort money, escaped to-day at Pittsburgh, Pa,, by jumping through a car window while the train was moving slowly through the yards. This information was conveyed tn a telegram to the local authorities from Deputy U. 8, Mershal John Stach, who had Heit in custody, The fugitive was charged with threaten- ing to murder H. 4. Guess of New York, constructing engineer em- ployed by the Guagenbetms, tf he did not give him $1,700 which Holt claimed the engineer owed him. STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. WAM. Oceans, Taken by Storm! By a long marci through the lines of the sceptical and reinforced by the convinced at every 3and World ads, pave won the confidence of the public by throwing open the gates of RE- SULTS: 1,275,790 | 581,998 The bona-fide net pald circulation of The W World In New York City, morn ings , a “Sundays, sxceeds th: ARRANGES ALL DETAILS. = OF FALE, THENFRES EXTRA PRIOE ONE CENT. AGES | BULLET ENDING HS LIE. G. Franklin Stringer, Twenty-Seven Years Old, Junior Member of Firm © of Stringer @ Co., Calmly Enters Office and Shoots Self. LOST ALL FIRM’S FUNDS IN WHEAT SPECULATIO Feared to Face Friends He R = ——<Read of Disgrace on Ticker and Pulled Trigger. G. Franklin Stringer jp., well known in Wall Street as Frank Stringer, and junior member and partner of his father in the Stock Exchange firm of G. PF. Stringer & Co., shot and killed himself in the offices of the concern on the sixteenth floor of the Lord’s Court Building, Exchange Place and William Street, to-day just about the time the announcement was made on the Stock Exchange that the firm had failed. The junior — partner, who was twenty-seven years oki, had speculated in wheat with —_ belonging to customers and was wiped out in yesterday's big: market, Losses incurred by the young man in the grain market and In ing Railroad stocks, conybined with losses sustained by his father in tensive Mexican mining and development companies forced the firm to the wall. The liabilities are estimated at $160,000. Most of the customers of the firm who will lose by the failure are personal friends of young Stringer and went into the market on his solicitation. Rather than face their reproaches he ended his life, The firm of Stringer & Co. was fom PENSIONS FOR WIDOWED |ttrenesr went tm tho ottice as « late MOTHERS SEEM CERTAIN School in Brooklyn. In 1913 his father bought the Stock Exchange seat ef Mf. Jewell and took hts eon in ae Majority in Senate and Assembly] partner. The firm did a commission ~ Declared Assured for Pro- posed New Statute. ALBANY, Jan. %—Penstons for widowed mothers it seems certain business and was not prominent om the Exchange, but the older Stringer will be provided by statute during the coming session of the New York was heavily interested in Mexican properties, being President and Diree. tor of the Guanajato Development Company, and the Securities Com- pw lic and Director of the to Gold Mi State Legislature. The Commission! Mexican Milling aay Tee appointed during Sulzer’s term to In-| Company, the Peregrina Mining and vestigate the question has been ac- Milling Company, and the Pinguies tloe and, sovorsieg to reports, al-| Mines Company. ready haa formulated @ general out-| vic’ Iino of New York's Pension WD.” MANUFACTURER eT oe Members of the Commission have meade @ colse study of the Pension bill for widowed mothers passed in {Utmots. Under this law, widows who find {it impomsible to support their children are given aid by the State ‘The young man married the daugh- in the form of an annual allowance. ter of a wealthy manufacturer of * Bridgeport, Conn,, three years ago ‘The payments continue until the calldren are able to support them- and lived with his wife and eighteen- monthe-old daughter at No, 146 Feni- more Street, Flatbush. His father Mvee at No. 1609 Ditmas Avenue, Flatbush. porte Bibl Stringer went into the : t market without his fat It \ unofficially reported that the] "ues there penaioning of widowed mothers is] knowledge a month ago. At the con- favored Lig é sanorty ge she a clusion of trading yesterday he con-\) © eembly and Senute, thus insur’ © Ze of the monsure when It te fided to his father that he hed lost presented by the Commission, Gov. Whitman has not made public his views on State support for widowed mothers, but tt is @aid he will un- all the available funds of the fiem. * ‘The elder Stringer immediately com- doubtedly look with favor upon the Dill when it comes before him, ————— municated with C. A, Decker, an at- 1,500 PARDONS BY BLEASE. torney, at No. 100 Broadway, relative to making an assignment. y Given All Cony Paroled Mace 1011. 4 < morning. Thy elder Stringer tele, phoned him Mt 10.10 o'clock asking Mr. Decker made an appointment with the Stringers for 10 o'vlook thig ” COLUMBIA, 8. . <n teas