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Son Had Tools Hidden in Dress Clothes. Mre. Anna Stetson, whos fine home auicide Patrol- | om Franklin Avenue, New Roohelle, ts the Old Blip Station | one of that euburb’s social centres, . He called an ambulance | fended guilty before Judge Swin- Hospital as a mpttor | bourne in the New Rochelle Chy ‘The ambulance surgeon #14 | Court to-day to the larceny of $10 Mringer“had died instantly. | trom a telephone pay station in the pSoroner'eOMice was notified and | Woodside Station of the New York, ‘wae given for the removal New Haven and Hartford Ratiroed he had been’ systematically rebbing climb @ point or two polats telephone boxes and slot machines in adhered to his belief that the | the ratiroad stations all up amd dewn tually drop and pre |the guburban raliroed lines im the to the timit of bie | vicinity of New Rochelle, What this “Resources and frm. AILURE BEFORE | been doing for the & ENDED LiFE, Decker said this afternoon tha: the resourese of | slender, soft apoken young member of the New Rochelle ¥. M. C. A. has two years had been attributed by dotectiveg ,|to @ Clever gang of ten or fifteen the assets of the Stringer | Professional crooks. i E i iz tks 1 it j E i ell if : i ? i k r i { it it it 3 re aE E i 1 i a ¥ 5 e 2 H i [ . & i : : | Hu ir i HI i 4 i : ; fikt i if bby tApuble, ined, “and eas it e g ° gs 5 Wotdaide eve. ‘The ticket agent at the ii Btation noticed a young i if le Hie Hy [ H E Hi TRANSYLVANIA, SAYS DESPATCH TO PARIS PARIG, Jan. 9,—“The Russians have Trenaylvanis,’ Petrograd "| “The Austrians have hastily evacu- 1] ated the whole of Bukowina,” he adds, 1 was only | “leaving open Aew reads for the Rus- sian troops inte the Hungarian prov- fa 1,000,000 MEN IN All of Fritzi Scheff’s Clothing Seized Except Nightie She Wore FOUR LINES OF TRENCHES CAPTURED (Continued From First Page.) fell into our hands here. "On the eastern front bad wea- ther continues. The number of Prisoners taken by us on the 7th of January was 2,000. Also seven mechine guns wore captured.” —— GEN. VON HINDENBURG AND 1,000,000 MEN REPORTED CHECKED NEAR WARSAW. PETROGRAD (via London), Jan. 9, Taking advantage of the continued and increasing cold weather, which bas frogen the marshy land adjacent te the sumerous rivers of North Po- land, the Germans are now initiating another attempt on Wareaw from the north. ‘This time the German offensive is eaid to be en masse, including army corps recently brought over from Belgium. It is reported here that on the Russian Christmas Day heavy fighting ocourred between Miawa and Praasnyes, It te reported that en. von Hin- denburg’s army now numbers 1,000,000 men. An offictal communteation given by the General Staff says: “On the left bank of the Vistula front, at the villages of Soukha, Motirie and Moghely, the fighting has assumed a character more and more desperate, The Ger- mans, notwithstanding the great losses they have sustained, con- Unue obstinate attacks at differ- ent points, “In many places the enemy auo- ceeded jn ocoupytng provisionally certain of our advanced trenches, but our vigorous counter attacks, followed ordinartiy by bayonet charges, compelled the Germans to let go their hold, Thus in the region of Metairie and Moghely on Jan, 7 we drove away the en- emy who rushed our advanced trenches, capturing eeven officers and more than 100 men, “In Bukowina we occupied on Jan. 6 Kimpolung (in Bukowina, mear the border), after an ad- vance and fighting lasting eight days. Our troops during the fighting covered more than 120 versta (about. 80 miles) and finally) o the mountain chain at the frontier between Bukowins and Hungary. During the esoperations we captured more than 1,000 Austrians and also took rich spoils of war, “On the other parts of our front there is nothing worthy of note. “On the Black Gea on Jan, 8 BY The ALLIES type, followed by a transport, sailing east and approaching Sinope, on the north coast of Asia Minor, Seeing themselves Pursued, the Turkish vessels turned west in flight, but we followed and sank the transport. ‘The cruiser escaped.” At Gradow, on the morning of Jan. 2, the ground resembled the strewn bat- tlefleld of Brsesiny or thc body-lit- tered valleys between the woods of Augustowo in October, As in those tragic defeats, where ruthless Generals sacrificed their soldiers like water, there were heaps and ridges of gray-clad dead. Gradow is only one ingle point in the line which the Ger- mane assaulted, yet here alone they lost upward of 6,000 killed. “The same night they utticked the Positions corresponding to the vil- Maso- In every piace they were beaten back with heavy losses, “Betimates from various sources, some official, state that their for a single aesuredly not than 30,000 dead on the greund and three times as many wounded or dead within their own lines. “Germans have been captured lately im whose possession was found the last proclamation of the Kaiser that ‘if 1 am compelled to retire from P: di Mt leave standing neith tome, but only the lao a AUSTRIANS CAUGHT IN TRAP ON THE NIDA RIVER, GENEVA HEARS. GENEVA (via Paris), Jan, 9 (As- sociated Press).—The Austrians have been caught in a trap akilfully set by Gens, Ruzsky and Ivanoff, according to advices from a Hungarian source received here without first passing through the hands of the censor, In conformity with the Russian plan, the advices say, the Austrian columns pushing toward the a River found themselves stopped by dangerous, marshy ground. At the eame time the Russians attacking Cracow suddenly abandoned th original plan but resumed their tack in a totally unexpected manner, —— GERMAN PARENTS ASK BOYS OF 14 BE TAKEN FROM SCHOOL TO DRILL, LONDON, Jen. 9 [United Presa}. According to the Berlin correspondent of the Nieu Rotterdamsche Cour gene ho Hey ir asks of Spurieen ti W enter upee the 2 SUFFRAGETTES PICK) CITY EMPLOYMENT THE “IMMORTALS” OF THER OWN SEX) BY PRENDERGAST PLANS ATTACKED Select List of Women They|Says Municipality Should Not Think Public Schools Should Be Named After. THINK LADIES SLIGHTED Say Military Heroes Have Been Glorified, Women Overlooked in Choosing Names. Because only sixteen out of two hundred and fifty school houses in New York ere named for women the ouffragiets have decided to draw up a Mst of women “immortals” whose names are worthy of commemoration in this fashion. The list given below is the result of suggestions by many suffrage workers, end te made up al- together of English and American women who are no longer living. The Met will still be aubject to revision and additions by the Collegiate Equal Suffrage League, wi was asked to undertake the work of compilation by Mra, Carrie Chapman Catt, chair- man of the Empire State Campaign Committee. But the seventy names published are thought to deserve least as much “immortality” as is merited by the greater number of male “immortals,” go called, ‘This ts the list: Assume Responsibility for Unemployment. —_—. Comptrotier Prendergast to- bitterly attacked the policy of Mayor Mitchel, City Chamberlain Bruere and Judge. Elbert H. Gary, head of the United States Steet Corporation,and Chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Unemployment. + It ds the contention of the Comp- trotler taht “passion for advertising” “Tm 1s reaponsibie for some of the plans for helping the jobless; that Chari- ties Commissioner Kingsbury has |‘ violated the law in spending money in bis department; that, even admit- ting that there are 200,000 more peo- ple out of work to-day, as claimed by the Gary committee, this does not warrant the city’s taking the respon. sibility, and that conditions in the city are not as bad as they are painted. “It 1s true that I charged at the executive meeting before the Board of Estimate meeting that Commis- sioner Kingsbury exceeded his ap- propriation,” satd Comptrolier Pren- derwast. “What I meant was that he had entered into obligations for which there were no appropriations, I am opposed to the government of the city assuming the responsibility for unemplayment, Some well in- tentioned pople with a advertising themselv: Information, much of it misleading, and attempting to creat: situation which could have no other effect than forcing the city to assume the finan- clal burdens of the distress caused by economic conditions. “I believe it is my duty to stand against what I beli¢ve to be a wrong Poltcy. I do not believe that I am without support in the Board. city ts de- *|laying public work, and I assert that "In choosistg the names,” said Mrs. itt to-day, “we have tried to select women who were not merely great. in science or literature, but by whose ef- forts constructive social work was ad- vanced, All the women who have ben talked to on the subject have ex- pressed regret that in the lat of men’s names suggested for the schoolhouses, military heroes are glorified out of all proportion to the heroes of peace. “Some military heroes deserve to be commemorated. All honor to them. But military glory is likely to be an effulgence that absorbe the landscape. | ¢; ————— NEU AND DR. WOLF WILL QUIT AS COMMISSIONERS Decide Not to Defy Governor and Will Resign From Civil + Service Board. State Civil Service Commissioners Jacob Neu of Brooklyn and Dr. Meyer Wolf of Manhattan have followed the example of Davy Crockett’s coon and agreed to come down. Thi to resign, although averred, up to to: never resi They were going to defy the Governor and force him to use the Legislature to put them out of office. Neu and Wolf are Tammany men. Their fellow commissioner, James Lavery of Poughkeepsie, a Repubii- can, Sent In hia resignation several days ago. Since then, Ney and Wolf have been doing some cogitating. Finally, they proposed to Gov, Whit- man that they would resign, if he would formally request thetr resigna- tions and would give them time to finiah up thelr investigation of the Municipal Civil Service Commiasion, now under way. They will be allowed complete this Investigation and re- ign on their own terms. sant ti PRISONER IS OVERCOME. gasping in bie cell. Dr. Hand from Bt, Vincent's Hospital at a no such delay has been induiged in and that a calm investigation of the facts—that is, if calmness is possible among some people—will confirm this etatement. “Were you to allowing Commissioner Kingsbury $50,000 for providing for 2,000 homeless men at the Farm Colony in Staten Island, where would work for their lodging?” the Comptroller wae asked. ia “ have the Eyoapie 4 to main- tain I wee opposed any transfers from the Board of Estimate’s funds for this or for any ores purpose and opposed to commencing expen- ditures of this kind without knowing whether they were ging, to lead us and what would be the Wtimate out- ‘T claimed that {f any much ex- penditures were to be made they should come from the regular ap- proprietions of the Charities Depart- me! . MoAneny pi that the Committee on lal Welfare, which conaiste of the Mayor, President Ma- theweon and Mr. McAneny himself as ‘thairman, @hould co-opr' wwhtth the Commissioner of Charities. “I then suggested the Comptroller whould be added to the committee the Board unanimously approved aad it,” he replied. KILL POLICE SERGEANT, THEN BLOW OPEN SAFE Two Robbers, with Officer Lying Dead and Watchman “Covered,” Work for Phinder—Get $4. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 9.—Police Sergeant Michael F. Gibbons was shot and In- stantly killed here to-day when he at- tempted to arrest two bandits robbing the safe of the Delmar Avenue sta: tion of the Wabash Railroad. The bandits escaped. The robbera were at the station safe when Gibbons saw tham through a window. As he opened the door the watchman was sitting on a chair and one thug holding a« revolver over him. The other bursier, who was back of the ticket window and just about to blow the eafe, fired as Gib- bone entered, killing him instantly. from which they got ony $4, and escaped. peicacninimmens BASEBALL INJUNCTION CASE . IS POSTPONED A WEEK aay ite THe : ipsa! ap cat j H i ‘he was nal injuries and S coere fracture of the skull. POLIGEMAN’S BUSY DAY; TWO ACCIDENTS AT ONCE Flanagan Drags Boy From Under Car, Then Rushes.to Scene of Elevator Fall. ‘The official life of Policeman Flan- agan of the Macdougal Street Sta- tion, was crowded to the full to-day. Things began when nine-year-old Al- fonso Frango of No, 110 Thompson Gtreet was knocked down by a south- bound Sixth Avenue cir the Spring Street crossing of West Broadway. The boy wae @aved from instant death by the fender, but sustained a fracture of the skull. Flanagan crawled under the car to rescue him and had hardly reappeared with the unconecious boy in his erme when he was told en elevator had fallen at No, 415 West Broadway. Flanagan left the boy with another policeman to await an ambulance end went to the ecene of the fresh acci- dent. He found a freight elevator, carrying 600 pounds of ashes and three men, had dropped from the sixth floor to the basement. Michael Marone of No. 237 Mott Street, suffered abrasions of the bestian Curuodl: elevator accident and the to St. Vincent's Hospital. DOCTOR'S FATHER ELOPES WITH SON'S injured boy @ halt ip the proceedings Mrs. Wood to regain her She lett a hospital yesterday hardly in @ ttt condition atand. “I received a summons husband ia Chicago,” Mrs. tifled. “I did not tell would arrive there, but I got evening and immediately went home at No. 2238 Milwaukee Aven: A servant let me in, “I walked into # bedroom “and as I opened the door my husband sprang out of bed. As he came to the door Lelia, my son's wife, jumped out of the same bed and ran to the window. “What does this mean? I de- manded, and my daughter-in-lew in @ shriek told me that she loved my huaband—her father-in-law. I tried to persuade them to behave them- aelves and return to their homes, but my daughter-in-law wrapped her arms around my husband and said she wouldn't leave him.” After this incident Mra, Wood re- York. Ghe wl CINCINNATI, Jan. 9.—After hearing the suit fled i might —_—_—— ‘Twenty-cocend’s Appeal Set for Jan. 11, Cel. George A. Potter of the Veteran Asseciation of the Twenty-second Regi- tanh, patentan received © letter Sem teabury, a} yy hl peal to convert > aeband Bae ROGERS VISTS T WOMAN'S BEDSIDE Lawyer Protests When Told He Can See Her Only Three Times a Day. ORDER OF PROSECUTOR. Can Stay Only Fifteen Minutes and Policeman Must Stand © « at His Side. District Attorney Martin to-day ¥e- . stricted the visite of Lorlys Elton ' Rogers to the mother of bis dead children, Mrs. Ida Sniffen Rogers, in Lebanon Hospital. Inspector Walsh announced the new regulation to-day. Rogers may see Mre. Walters three @imes a day and only for fifteen min- utes each time. The policeman has ‘been moved from the hall inside the room, where he sits behind @ screen next to the bed of the convalescent _ ‘woman. Rogers made an angry protest to Inspector Walsh. He said he consid- erede it merely an effort of the Dis- trict Attorney to show his authority, since, if there were any legal reason im keeping him away from Mrs. Wal- tera, it would req him to be kept out altogether, He raised his voles 69 that Mrs, Walters heard the argu- ment and called to know the reason for it. It was explained to her that have the legal rights of a husband, he was still attorney for Mre. Walters and es euch ip entitled to see her at § : i i F 3 g i f ; a i i 5 E 4 E £ E q | tee Egy ES, tf i i i i Exe | [ j i bd | Ext #8 | fl rh i h | i itt i Hy i § ty i i BUSTANOBY’S} COTE OF. AND BROADWAY Wate ea DOMINO ROOM MR. LOUIS BAYO i mt fl i E i Lf i