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Wo SLADES INDICTED IN OSBORNE-TANZER CONSPIRACY Federal Indictments To-Day. SEVEN CAUGHT IN NET. They Include Rose and Dora Tanzer, Detective and Hotel Clerk. David and Maxwell were counsel for Rae Tanzer, the factory forewoman, $50,000 breach of promise sult against James W. Osborne, thelaw¥er, which was later withdrawn, indicted by the Federal Grand Jury noon. Rae Tanzer was also indicted, as woll as Albert J. McCullough, a private detective, a a result of the investigation into the alleged plot. to extort money from Mr Slade, who in her were Osborne. There are ten counts in the indict- | ment against Miss Tanzer, charging her with using the mais in an at- tempt to defraud, One count in the this after- | WHO ACCUSED J W. OSBORNE, AFTERRISE T0155 ARE NOW CHARGED WITH PLOT Rae Tanzer Is Also Named in "NELSON DYING OPPOSED indictment is based on each of ten letters written by Miss Tanzer to! “Oliver Osborne” and delivered to James W. Osborne at the New York Athletic Club, These letters are made part o fthe indictment, Miss Tanzer's two sisters, Rose and Dora, who identified James W. Os- borne as Oliver Osborne and later admitted that they were mistiken, were indicted yesterday for perjury, and are held in bail afford, the hotel clerk, who identified Mr, Os borne as the companion of Miss Tanzer in @ visit to « hotel in Plains field, N, J., was indi week for *perjury. To-day's indlotments gather in the remainder of all who are said to have been in the son- spiracy. INDICTMENTS CHARGE CON- SPIRACY. There are two indictments against David Slade and two against his brother Maxwell. One in each oase 1098, oF (The hee caomgne ARTIFICIAL MEANS OF KEEPING HIM ALIVE Noted Editor Protested to His Doctors and Soon After Lost Consciousness KANSAS CITY, April 13.—Funeral arrangements for William Rockhill founder and editor of the Kansas City Star, who died early to- day, were being completed by the family to-day, Mr. Nelson had been unconscious since Thursday last. Death was due to uraemic potsoning. As Mr, Nelson became weaker during his illness it was necessary to Tesort to artificial means to prolong his life. He objected vigorously, Laat Thursday, a few hours before he bo- came unconscious, he protested to his physicians against keeping him alive artificially. ‘Thursday afternoon he sank into a coma from which he did | not rally. A day or so before he became un- conscious Mr. Nelson, realizing the probability of a fatal termination of his illness, sald to a friend: “The Lord has been far better to me than I deserve, I have had a long and a happy life, with great opportunities for usefulness. My only regret is that I have not accomplished more, but if this is the end I am ready.” Throurhout his illness the problem of the poor was of intense concern to him, He made large gifte to local charitable Institutions Col. Nelson, as he was always by his friends, was one of thi noted editors of the country He founded the Kansas City Star in 1°80 and built it up until It became one of the “live wires” in the news- paper world. NO FORMAL PEACE allen most The Prem Pebtioning Terk Werks ‘BETHLEHEM STEEL | DROPS 32 POINTS — Strange Variation in Price of War Stock Causes Sen- sation on Exchange '4 000,000 SHARE DAY. U. S. Steel Falls in ‘Falls in Line and Price of Common Takes a Jump. Bethlehem Steel capped the climax of stock market sensation this after- noon by such extreme fluctuations both up and down as to become the Starting the day on Stock Exchange at 126%, this non-dividend paying stock first re- ceded to 123 and then rose ateadily scandal of Wall Street, until it reached $155 per share. In the last fifteen minutes of the These eccentric movements represent- ed a rise of 32 points, a drop of 82 points, The final quo- tation for the day was 125%. There inquiry for explanation of such ex- traordinary tation but none was forthcoming. va in price, been the sensational leader of quota- tions, Stock Exchange authorities have repeatedly declared that there was professional manipulation in ite price making, but that the changes were the result of the company's profitable business. Conservative brokers, amazed by the gymnastics of the day, marvelled what kind of legitimate business could produce @ rise of 32 points, followed by a fall of 82 points, within fifteen minutes. ‘Total NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL GERMANS BEGIN NEW DRIVE IN POLAND; STORM FORT FROM AIR, LAND AND WATER session it dropped Ike the atick of a burnt rocket down to $128 per share. followed by| was a quick and searching During the past two weeks while Bethlehem has 13, 1915, PEACE FLAG FLOATS “Cirentation Booka Open Prominent Peace Delegates Who Sailed for The Hague To-Day QVERSHPBEARNG WOMEN TO HAGE Big Banner Unfurled on Noor- dam as Delegates for Conference. ADDAMS Sail JANE GOE Non-Passengers Allowed on Liner After Each Is Cross: Examined. ‘With peace at the prow and lovely woman at the helm the steamship Noordam of the Holland-America line sailed this afternoon from Ho- boken for war-torn Europe. She wus echeduled to depart at noon, but) there was eo great a throng of friends to say farewell to the forty women delegates to the International Peace Conference which meets at The Hague on April 26, 27 and 28, that she was held up for many minutes. Miss Jane Addams was perhapa the most striking figure among the forty workers for world peace, but there were many others of note in the 4 gation, including Mrs. Louls F. Post, wife of the Assistant Secretary of Labor; Mrs. William [. Thomas, Secretary of the Chicago Peace So- ciety; Miss Florence Holbrook, Mra. William R, Lioyd and Mrs. Robert Kohihammer of Chi + also Mise Alice Carpenter, Mrs. Frank Cotheren nd Miss Madeline Doty, representing | the New York Peace Party. For the first time in montha officials | of the line permitted persons not pas- sengers to go aboard one of the ship but every one who was allowed aboard had to undergo a long cross- examination, Miss Addams was surrounded by a group of admiring and excited friends, so that it was hurd to get a word with her, but she was glad to say that the international conference MISS JANE apoa: MRS Le rost® ANP HELD UP IN ELEVATOR | WITH $863 HE HAD FOR FIRW'S PAYROLL Robbers Escape After Daring Attack in West Twentieth Street Building. Company, whe! erations that will attend the settle- pa Vietima Mown to gladden the brokers. of to influence wit- he works as receiving clerk, when one __MRS. PETHICK LAWRENCE, FIVE DIE IN _EXPLOSION. The market was thrown into con- cr ; : Works in Pompton Lakes, N, J,, re-| the river in motor boats, Before they Morris Sischelman, forty-five, of No y Ss ae. fusion by Hethiohem’s closing break, | 2%, ope of Delns able to create a), Core eee eae nad fpiral| | inte thee sail turned to their homes to-day while| arrived the fortreas guns got the whtoh) caused some of tie lending | eens con Pence JE no more. ae : ¢{, LONDON, April 13—Four men and «| volunteer searchers and detectives | Tange of the flaming rafts and semt “We don't know what ta in front of [Stepped Into the freight elevator Of hoy were blown to pieces. forl¥ Perl gem the County Prosecutor's office | them to the bottom, standard stocks to lose some of their] |, ( the twelve-ato ft bulidine at N s . " 6 County Pros #0 5 us" she sald, “but the object we |tho twelve-story loft building at No.| sone badly injured and the bly elty her: | fem the County ere iF gedvabs. aiawae! ee notable gains made during © busy| sek in purely worth the effort, More. (37 West ‘Twentieth Streot this after dig fire ta rovaterds,| Were Senru ne Ne Moe er Loman and Ossowsts, the Garanee e le , y a Zi " obert an! chief ol iT J “a and retz, ie er: day, but on the whole the list closed} over we hope to organize and formu. {non and the negro elevator boy, John t Lerwick, Shetland} | 10! 5 f maady several tainetunaa pres 4 above last night's figires and reflect- ; SU aa ere ORGTETIR Aran nage 8 guards, ani p 238 4 the strength. of the springtime | Lite the demands of the women of the Wells, No, 74 ne Hundred and guard, are in the county jail at against the Russian trenches, Ip ed the strength of the ; Abiehgctourts Hires cat tal Sore sa) Pi world, who are now to be heard for aris bikes ersenh nae hocaants | A deapaten n early to-day] son, charged with having abducted | each instance the att: @c were pree opm, the firat time as a body in tho delib- |take him up to the offiens o : parted | 1 explosion had wrec f ernoo coded b "i ate an garter malllicn ahare casts y Alb | Fabel UR ta ED reported that an explosion had wrecked| the girly Bunday afternoon. 1 by showers or hand bomb, but rt of Lerwick, with loas of life, - Fair te might Freet probable Wednsetey clean - Fon = PRICE ONE nese ma 20 PAGES — —<242-___——_ GREAT FLAMING RAFTS FLOATED DOWN RIVER TO FIRE RUSSIAN CITY Von Hindenburg Makes Determined Effort to Capture Stronghold of Ossowetz—Five Austrian Armies Fighting in Carpathians. MORE TRENCHES TAKEN, THE REPORT FROM PARIS ~ PETROGRAD, April 13 (United Press).—The Germans launched a new offensive movement in Poland, from Suwalki sou to the Vistula, it was announced to-day from the War Office. They have resumed the bombardment of Ossowetz, abandoned nearly a fort. night ago, and are making infantry attacks against the Russian positions elsewhere. | In their new attempt against Ossowetz fortress, the Kaiser’s troops jare combining ancient and modern methods of warfare. Their aviators are hurling bombs by daylight, while the heavy siege guns smash away | at the outer forts. By night the enemy is attempting to fire the city of | Ossowetz by the use of incendiary bombs and floating fire rafts, GIRLS RETURN AS WIDE ; oye the Biebrize River late at night, SEARCH IS ON FOR THEM following a bombardment in whieh one of the German batteries was ste lenced by the fortress guns. The swollen waters of the Biebriza carried the flaming piles down upon the city Admit Taking Auto Ride With] @t the rate of nearly eight miles am . hour. Simultaneously the Germaa Men Held as Their suns opened fire on Ossowets, shells screaming acrosa the river and @x- Abductors, ploding near the region wh Mary Irvin and Lizzie Warner,| Biabriza penetrated the heart of the city, Volunteer fire corps were sent Up fourteen-year-old daughters of work- men in the duPont-Nemours Powd Lizzie Warner told her mother to- the enemy was repulsed with com- charges conspira ment of peace at the end of this war.” | —— day that Hanke asked them to take a| paratively heavy losses, Aroun@ nesses, the other conspiracy to ob- OFFER, SAYS WILSON stock amounted to 1,068,000 shares Of) ware the delegates auffragists?” of two clean cut, well dressed young BOWIE WINNERS. ride in his automobile with bim and | Suwalki the Slavs captured four guna struct justice, Two Indictments were | Gesiausa an Bons “Fully one-third of them are not,"|men who had followed him in began | —_ Ellis. The machine broke down and| und many prisoners in an engages found against MoCullough on the} sald Miss Adams. “This conference |reating him over the head with 4) mya RACK For two-year-olda;|they went to Newark and spent the} nent that began Saturday. same charges Not Consulted About Hague Gath-| === will not touch on the subject of votes | hi Ebina while the ora overed the four and a half furlongs.—Tlajan,| night in a hotel. ‘Though they reg Von Hin burg, It i# generally be> The letters filed with the indiet- ring, b > for women, We are anxious to ann | levator boy with a revolver 115 (Metcalf), 7 to 10, 1 to & and out,| tered as married couples, Lizaie sald | eved, is creating a diversion with @ i ment trace what United States Mis-| ering, but It Has Presi- Buy a Wosisou' that the voice of women and of the| Ordering the boy to stop at the! poy : nati, U6 (Coleman), 12 to] the two girls oceupled one room and | view ae preventing any Rusaion triet, Attorney Marshall calls the dent's Support. small nations shall be heard in set- | vacant tort on the third. Noor, th) tte 2 and 6 to & second; Mustard,| the men another troops from being withdrawn from ' HW e ence," two holdup men dragged Sixehelman re | ae bai las! li Galand @o thes wrogress of the plot it wa. on re . ting the terms of peace. ly, Is to 5,9 to lo and btod,! Banks had told Chief of Police jand for the Carpathian operations, acca by Mies an it in not} WASHINGTON, my would make a dandy Spring) “women,” sald Mrs. Louls I. Post, | off the elevator, beat him unmerciful ra ‘Pune, of Divan, Potea, sands-|Parry that he merely gave the gila| Of Perhaps to conceal the weakening charged that others influenced her to] MeAUns on a pul ‘AL tis season of the year the business| “Rave to bear the heaviest burdena|!y and robbed him of $500.15, the mid- | yond and Pronibition aise ran./a lift on the road for a mile and knew | of the German forces in Poland, hegin an acti inst Mr. »| Bono edict that the latter had in-) Jord takes on, as it were, a fresh coat| of war, and now for the first time| werk payroll money which he had entry won [nothing of their disappearance. The | ess | dicated a des to support any move = Pee§ J » they going te imike themsel just ught from the Surety Bank = is hom . n ne District’ Attorney 8 of paint y are going make themacives SLCOND KACE -Sellt for three| girl d they spen eater a = Bi, ee es eas ss 1 [the United States might make for!’ Many move AWAY from New ¥ | heard on the subject, We shall strive |at Fourteenth Street and Fifth Ave ‘ ufos ims laa AN) dik Lt lily | RUSSIANS CHECKED, ‘ TAvEGule Ginhco Aum ot lnwvere : Many move rom New York for 8 ar ind a half furlungs.-|the home of Mrs, Wilson, Mary [r THEIR LINES CUT. ld be deceived by her peace, President Wilson declared to- | their health. ‘ especially to promote the idea that) nue. 7 they inade their escape |)" yey), 12 to, 4 to Ti vin's aunt, in. Newark | 1S - qanuld:he deceived By’ hi day that tatimations of this character] Others move TO New York seeking| war hereafter shall not be made with- | into the hallway through the door R eae a a‘ aie seal | THE VIENNA REPORT, Whe:sivet tether wie wi had Leen frequently conveyed to him | their fortune out the consent of all the people of | the vacant loft and tehecea Moses, 105 wearing Wedding rings when they re . « yontly peop! | | (Matthews), 40 to 1, 12 to 1 and 6 to 1,| turned home. __——— g) when, appare “| through different persons, He said,| Opportunities to acquire paying enter-} 4 nation expressed by the ballot and) Wells shot his car to the basement, | fAtthews) ie ied ee - , J r borne” began to sh | however, no formal communication | prises at summering pisses. round about} that the voters at that plebccite shall| where Engineer Henry Anderson sent pds J), By Barrells: 394 tay WASHINGTON, Aptt SiGe wecond dated Oct 1 had come to him on the subject, New ore spring up like mushrooms on Include the women." dor the pal Yto WW, 2 to 4 and out, third fae SUED BY GIRL, HE’ Ss BANKRUPT * Hel War Office bu letin from Vienna Dear Oliver: Mu ti Asked whether the United States] 4 misty morning. The Peace flag, a white ensign ne and men f Onar, Sunno, Lois Vo left at ceived by the Austro-Hungarian Bme i Young men whose hearts turn to . 6 he H er, var, ‘Thrill, eee here to-day sald the Russel don't try to avoid me; it will be | recently had learned officially or Ua-| thoughts of love get married and natur-| tWelve feet long, bearing the word [he Sec f ae tive Bure inipps Regular and! ste Ida She 12 Ploya! ss d ussian for the best, Will haye to stay | officially of the terms upon wh ch] aiy want a shop, store, market, hotel,| PEACE in big blue letters, was held woe Ye AP iaty a iteiawen, peal j Street, Br ; to the United offensive in the Carpathians had been h from siness, 1 am a | the belligerents might be ready \0] restaurant, &c,, to build up to mighty| by Miss Addams, Mrs, Post, Mrs. with multipie lacerations of the scalp THUD RACE i four-yoare |Btates Piatrict Court in Brooklyn to- | brought to ® standstill and that eamar wreek, Know just who you are; | make peace, the President said re-| proportions. Pothick Lawrence and other delegates | contusions and a probable fracture of olla and upward; seven’ furlongs {ay to protest againat the Gilng by Dr. | tor attacks had broken the Russian « a fact knew all the tit | wre y there had been no basis} In brief, NOW Is an excellent time to] and was photographed by an army of 188 skull. He was removed to Belle Lady 1 i war) i Matt vows, 4 to 3, eae ee - aad a " ak) i ee “S| Line In several places. j ~ ; ‘ " dercoat 3 vue Hospital und al|& to & to irs ob y§ Manhattan Avent a voluntary pet Vklonw LNG WAAlan j < Your RAK, wha so far aa he knew for the sake oh Your . nite HON a8 Your! camera men, Then, the consent of pine ate . of foun f (tral, 6 to 1, 2 tod, even, we ond; | ton to be declared a bankrupt eda . Waetern tion of the i THREATS IN TANZER LETTERS. rumors to chat effect, pyels . y make It! Gant, Krol, the skipper of the Noor-|which they t y, 108 CT. Me int), 20° 1,| dn his petition Dr. Goldstein set down | #hting line,” said the report, “the 1 followed several brief com-| While the United States Govern. | hum dam, having been obtained, two| 2 tod, third as part of his $11,050.77 Nabilities a claim | Russians tried to break through with —/ e tions breathing Warnings and | Ment was not consulted in connection 6,318 quartermasters bent the Peace flag BASEBALL G Colonel Cook, Kayderoncrua |et Mts Shapiro for $1 strong forces in the Ondava and La- } § ‘ ives | peace gathering at The} WORLD “BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY"); 00 the halyards and raised it to the AMES. and sald he was inf «| boraza Valle but completely failed, | In one the young woman Nor CERAINGne tenis ADS. L. c foremast head, —— RAC four- him in New York ¢ ne . rid, "Let me u botore ft eeak ie President indicated to- S, LAST MONTH. Pree sie eat lh fag! gwaved) lanl At Pile Gh day aed. Gne Ereash: oF BF Jwith very vy losses. f Mid elsewhere, Pon't 16 We ome ol SAY Piatt ement had his aym- | in the southwesterly’ breese as’ the ¥ AL Moot peta are stated | LONDON, April 18 (Assoetat ‘ i ‘i ae a : ow pathetic sup Although the meet- ship slowly made her way into the Yale, a) ; ‘out | Bross) Austri ai | aR ane ‘ ing has ne cial status, Mr. Wil stream. Then as, she swung round HAM ore 2 inte (ral), # tot n necond STEAMSHIPS D DUE To- DAY. | armies aporating: eletie thn ae ust wher innit son suid he understood the delegates | on her course and the ensign lifted, and Meyers Urpin Kennedy y O'Ldghty 12 i } path 0 er rog 5 On bee Olver” had re- | A not a " for ofticlay authority the hundred of friends on the pi ng : aBcakD AME ot at third ‘Time 1.291 "tina bse an front, Pe rograd newspaper = | because they preferred to act unoftl- World Ads. Show the Bi ing] Rewd talsed a cheer for the flrat peace /yalo... 9 0° 9 ' Harnharber, Hondondo, York Lad Metapan, Cristobal. » 1A.M.| publish semi-official despatches age ontimued on Sixth Page.) hi sapere ONG AdS, NOW ING BATgZGins! argosy that ever traversed the sea, |Giants. 8 4 — [also ran, Saratoga, Havana 11A,M, claring that the Austrian armies —_ ai \ } , (J