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See te ee ee ro Le — " ov " COMMISSIONER WOOD NAMED IN $5,000 GRAFT CHARGE FAnoL _Cbe sclould. “ Circulation Books Open to All. ” — == = = = —— | PRICE “ONE. CENT. ea ke nim 6 MU NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER “43; 1915. 18 PAGES PRICE ONE bade WEATHER—Cloudy to-night and Thursday. » ie ould, FINAL © AUSTRIA REPORTED READY TO BACK DOWN; SPECIAL COUNCIL TAKES UP U. S. DEMAND —————— <4 ig aL tags pee au VN ENG MME a | Closely Nation’s Friendship | With United States. | ° Eos paper we. Plarine a: (lleeatie. | Martian P. S. COMMISSIONER WOOD : . ness, Planned to Annihi- | Halts Marriage of Rev. |" yvpger inquiry to-pay |Greek King Is Said to Have Been late Those in Home. Charles Wilson to Anothey BY STATE COMMITTEE Stricken With Influenza and For- bidden by His Physicians to Take Part in Affairs of State. NO INVASION BY BULGARS, GREEK CABINET ASSERTS ‘Updegraff Also Declares That His | Concern Paid Wood $1,500 for |SUBMITS TO PEOPLE.|FIRST FIRED AT WIFE.|CASE WILL BE FOUGHT. | “Special Services” Just Before | Appointment. Says They Have Chosen Him| Retired Fireman Then Killed|Fiancee of Defendant, Miss! | Ruler After Finding a Re- | Daughter and Mother-in- | Mary L. Clark, Is Daughter Walter D. Updegraff, President of the Union Switch and Signal Com- public Unsuitable. | Law. at Corona. of Wall Street Broker, pany, which offered a bid to equip the Centre Street loop of the New) Broadway-Fourth Avenue subway, testified to-day before the Thompson (Consright, 1915, hy United Pree) Frederick Schaeffer, a penstoned Wrening World.) GENEVA (via Paris), Dec. 15.—A despatch from Vienna, via Buchs, ’ ee that his company dismissed Sidney G. Johnson Copsriant in Great Britain.) | J Betas tit oasanna| NE ja Paris), Dec. 15.—A despa a, [Investigating Committee that his company dismisse y | tw the fret public statement by 2m-|freman, suffering from the effects 1 Tho threatened Switzerland, states that President Wilson's note to Austria regarding the Ancona incident has produced a profound impression in Government and political circles. The note is said to be resented by a minority. It is generally believed in Vienna, says the despatch, that Austria will | give satisfaction and will pay an indemnity, especially as she has large Decause he asked for $5,000, which he said he would pay to Public Service | breach of promise suit by Miss Laura | ert C. W . Johnson declared, Wood L. Johnson of Minneapol | Ser ie iat i Wee veg awacaal site Union Switch and |the United Press, the newly pro-|course of duty and from locomotor! oo Cussies c, iene rat te rere eee: to) th tat thie ‘con! . |claimed monarch of China makes|ataxia, sat down in his home, at No. 4 at r of tho Signal Company. |eaeronss Church of Our Savioar.| President Updegraff also swore that | Roslindale, which resulted tn the in- | bstore he was appointed Public Service Commissioner-—Woed received | '* |definite postponement of ths minie-| $1,500 from his company for “special services” in obtaining a eimilar con: | iy exploining why he meant to} | | peror Yuan-Shi-Kal, cabled to-day to} of a blow on the head received in the on May 6, 1914—within two weeks | known to the world the dominating |6 Forty-second Street, Corona, last | reasons for the abolition of the repub-| night and wrote a tong letter to the p Emperor alzo announces his fu- |), ; |ter's marriage on Oct. 28 to Mise i ji ° tract with the Kanras City, Gly County and St, Joseph Railroad, \ture policy toward America und atates |"! himself and his whole family lerady ey os : ai A : ° interests in Americ a ] Kr to-day he did his best to| Mary I. Chirk of Burlington, Vt. Baron von Burian, the Austrian Foreign Minister, has called a s Sidney G. Johnson‘s letter “ te purpowe:to empl ery effort tof Fs ore Hetonaears lial a on, ; ; F jan, the Austria reign Minister, has called a specie for the $1,500 for Wood, was out in com ' ndship between the two | ° 4 ; oe eee tee Rae chee Belinea council to discuss the matter : t nations, ‘The cablexram fol Jdauhter, Anna, eleven years old; His | stock broker, was filed yesterday in pei evidence, as wer Ae x uel PEKING, De por , “i aie PE 48 wounded | the Unite es District Court. BERLIN (via London), Dec. 15.—Count Ernst von Reventlow, in ag $1,500 and the canceled ¢ *) 2) ve United Pre New Yo. | AEE ae Miss Johnson allexes that she and In thy Schaeffer, who retired 1,500 bearing Robert C, Wood's en ir telegram has been m1 [ . ‘ “| {nad MIBGIIRe tO Mateus | on a $58 2 month pension in October, | Rev. Mr, Wilson made mutual prom- dorsement pe ERissantek G6 tant fot. {191% said that his Intended act wan|!8¢* to marry each other: that she} When Commis Y W 7 the end of fourteen years of mar-|!* Willing to promise, but} t lows | asked later in the dey w wh soverclienty of the Chinese Re- [fled life—a battle with misfortune, ac-|"@ is not, and she seeks to recover Jarticle in the Tages Zeitung, says that the note sent by the United States | to Austria regarding the Ancona case is characterized by a tone of curt command and hinted threats 5 thinks it is remarkable yverelen « 1 p. ee 4 He save h td say about the aceusatior ley ‘ 1 cident and sickness, and later with a | $20,000 damages. ; | public resic he whole body of the 5 r : [that a note “based upon trustworthy against him he replied: sal people. The conventions of the| dissatisfied wife.” He savagely| Attorney Willard, acting for Misa) PASSPORTS FOR BOY-ED informatie id “apparent” tact ASD ORME HOG: HOSTS ND) | people's representatives, considering a| blamed his mother-in-law as | Johnson, sad that the trial will prob- | us opir (judgments and dee truth in it." specific and most harst . n more detailed republic unsuitable on accc tude tt a I te re he was} torical reasons and public opinion, a statement to make late a SC; tues apLtiie wishing to establish permanent peace, asked. Oscar Il. Arrives:at: Kirkwall,| rere hanimognty adopted a conetitus|| \echaatter: aatd hia wite prayed avery “what more can | \ , \ 4 tional monarchy, night for Mx carly death and was | %R'# sult was given out in the nature | Pyblic Service Commissioner ROBERT Where Held-Up Vessels Are Pre ttc ier tis gpd <4 nt of his-|“trouble-maker, man-hater and a| bly take place in March and many curse,” saying “it would be a pity to| Witnesses will come from New York let her live.” and Vermont. The first intimation of Miss John-| ster AND VON PAPEN BRANTED British Embassy at Washington Ihe regarc fa the treatment in the note ) of the circumstances of the case as have already said,” } The status of State Chief i# nat-| planning to put him tn an inatitution, | ot p on Ei Nt by Be, Rev.) COLGATE WOOD Authorized to Issue Them [quite superttclat and even contradies Mr. Updergraff sw C . aoe urally subject to public will ‘The| that she set the children against him, | George T. Ellis, Bishop Coadjutor of | * . tory, He sees a contradiction pate } witel | ake earc . i } ; | : , '! the Diocese of Vermoi he out Conditions i been president of the teh} Taken for Search. Jacting Legislature + reported to] struck and kicked him, and he did not | ‘He Diocese of Vermont, in which h ’ Withou Ml | ticularly in the fact that the note ale & Bignal Company lone the Sil ed that the| want her to live to receive a pension| Sid the Rev, Mr. Wilsc 4 re WABHINGTON, Dec, 15,—The Brit- | lexes the ona tried to escape bee since July, 1914, #1 i | proving t t onveations| payment of $2,000 and $25 a month|Ccelved a notice from Mi nwo ‘ anne the i » fived upon ber, s| ‘ f 1 pRrovin ayer i nd: 98 nth) sh Bm received to-day front 5 G Prout Sidney Gi. hows] KIRKWALL, Orkney Islands, Dee. ,¢ tho people's representatives have Jatter his death ? children, | #ttorney demanding reparation from [teh Erm beasey iv o> Gay whereas a entences later “the Viee President i " bs The steamship Oscar IL, having | unanimously elected me Emperor |he said, they were “better off dead| Mr. Wilson on the ground of breach Tandon authorization to tssue sa hip apparently neither offered resite George Westinghouse we j}on board the Ford peace party, ar-} “Firm refusal unavia » E have} than getting the training they got | Of Promise of marriage conduct to Capt, Boy-Ed and ven) tance nor empted t ” the before Mr. Prout, who for PAD ee cates Rneeine been forced to submit ‘ople’s | around here." Mr, Wilson desired the postpone. | Papen, the withdrawn Gorman Nav ute te in addition ignoring completely general charge will and have instructed the differ-| Two weeks ago Schaeffer told his| ment of hiy approaching marriage un- pee © official Austrian description of ment with - | and Military Attaches, the circums Q@. Had you a disa : ms ent ministries and departments to] qaughter Harrtet of hia plan to kin| tl the sult that was SA [ \ Mr. Johnson over an expenditure he} Kirkwall is the port into which most make preparations, The necessary] the family and showed her a revolver, | *hould be started, tried and the mat The safe conducts will be uncondi- Tie tues wished to make? A. Yes. Lato last/ transatlantic vessels which are held] preparations having been made, || The girl told her mother and the| ter cleared up, the statement con tlonal, it having been decided by the jation of this ts that litical rather than ag the note is ¢ June or carly in July Mr. John#08) yp for search by the British authori-| will be requested to carry them out|+wo went out and found a policeman, | cluded. eiles ate 58 resin mater yee ial ae to treat the case objectively, asked for $5,000. I wanted to KNOW] ties are taken. The Oscar IH, was| with due consideration who persuaded Schaeffer to give up| Miss Clark, who is the duughter of ne ete assurances they will refrain from a Coun what he wanted it for, After some/qestined for Christiania, and her ar-| “The relations between China and|;:he weapon. He promised at the | Louis C. Clark, a wealthy Wall Street | | ticipation in the ran Aiier renohing waaigheoaet 7 n 5,000 1 " Pe on ol ome | e re /is. er . je a conduct Fd * a ‘a wa 1. spleen eadadltay ubaprtiende rian “a rival at Kirkwall probably means she ; America have always been most| same time to abandon his plan of|broker and whose summer home is) Syic ide at University of Wis 2 ahaa sytney has not yet been | AFFAIRS IN BALKANS for the purpose of paying it to Mr.\1. Heing detained by the British friendly, and the Monarchy’s Bolles | nurder and sulcide. one of the show places of Burlington, | . 0 a - be el COMPLICATED 3 ‘Wood. , A London despatch last night said| Will be to cement still closer this! just after daybreak to-day Schaef-|Was prostrated when news of thi consin, Where She Was | considered. No request has been | THREAD WE ot Bt Eso Q. One of the Public Service Com-| i. Wo. hardly likely the steamship] friendship and to exert the utmost} rp pressed the muzzle of the revolver | threatened suit became public, but her made ILLNESS OF GREEK KING missioners in the First District of) Voutg be taken to Kirkwall, as sho|t® promote the industrial and com-| | -ainst his wife's temple as she lay|family 1s said to be ready to stand Graduate Student Capts. Boy-Ed and von Papen will New York? A. Yes. I refused to paY| yy no cargo abonrd, It was Int tevelopments of the two D4-} isieep and fired. The bullet, glancing, | behind Mr, Wilson. leave New York, barring a change ta DON, Dee, 1 litteal ette out any money for that pur nd) inated that the Government, follow- |! {id not penetrate the |, but 4t| Mis Johnson, who Is suid to b Sie eat tara. | at At “" further after somo controversy the ‘ ng the policy recently outlined in th eA npat unned Mrs, Schaeffer jvery pretty and about ty-four! MADISO Dr Talttha | a earned at t y¥ W-) ¢ ent ‘ en Mines of was taken toa meting of the Bourd of] Fo Oe Commons, would. hardly | “ADMIRAI: SEATING RAM Schaeffer ran into the room where | years old, Key, Mr. Wilson. w Wolk y NY rraduate] da Sere apie he ae Directors. , which ia being thel A = uy Anna, who is eleven yeurs old, and| she was a student in the University | cudent Re se Wiacone| — ntine, a to & Spe Q. At Johnson's request? A ‘i ny neuren the Engi Lg Em catemionet larriet slept. They bh n awak- | of Vermont in the cli f 1914, and el pat ‘ © to-day Wurope and there ely in elas Tilia hobaebaulhel omy ou ECAR ; y la to not her in the forehead. She was) the house of Rt. Rev, O. 8 a sitghe Johnson appeared on su i 1 Harriet | » TO. ' war ' “ One Wa fare W Tw © negotiae Rodd and myself | Wow, if any, o ond MovaROra HT $ Ki hall Mrs. Schaeffer, dazed and antat St, Paul's ( ngton at i" 428 Haw i t : mittee—Messrs. odd, Ro: Ui ountibe REAUIG la oaneidared. Ai arms and screened her Schaeffer 00 0 MAN N UNK [said this afternoon that had re. Office ated by Mied retreat tate ané MéCune—unanimousely demand-|fikely that aay of; then moni te ce in the door of the girl's room B Y F | TR {a telegram from the University | War Ottice Greece t se of the Gres e4 the resignations of Prout and) ashor c For this reas The Former German Cruiser Goe-| ana fri two deliberate shots at the R IN ¢ Wisconsin telling him of hin daugh- | RMRTIN, Deo, 15 (by Wireless to |*lest! xt Sunday, the King’s ite Johnson. Bey a he , a _ whe threat ben Also Torped but Not girl, Both struck his wife, one under BU IED QUICKLIME ter adden death, but not miving the |.) i6) sour allied aoroplanes, in- bh : ) take the ie iding role ip JOHNSON AND PROUT FORCED) 7)! ) Ritvaie coclmite | the uider and the other tearing -, : ee Pea obeinar aah a s time have fame our. lever President (its cere Seriously Damaged. | the scalp at the back of the head. Nie swosived a let » Laltthia| cluding one battle plane w Wo |; F & King Constenting Q. Were the resignations submit-| message were ¢ t ARTS Tocs tat mel Phe chambers of the revolver wero! Workmen Make Find While Tearing a few a M uid, “and| motors, were brought down by Ger t ¥ from 4 eer. teat A y bomeed for delay, | 200 antl ( Ar ae Ae span mpty, Schacter struck Harriet a) 1 n Phil nike seal pias. “@nUeAinOrAte eu t Wa . bare Biates (a) dohnsen meBiinnl Erte Sarwar, Herman edly bute ‘The girl and her mother Victim | {Sli ' ’ ab I PURSUIT OF ALLIES the namie of Commissioner Wood? si of thes ) iy : : ' ' woftor rolonded | ; as dooply | Tha ¥ f ENDED AT THE BORDER, * ' wall, last t if I revol entoved Mr ra AUT ' " . > p A, Yow, He suid hi i et an —— ; ’ , ! wal Aes ; \ SAYS BULGAR KEPORT, persed ney tan na | LAKE STEAMER BURNED, Ma ' ; im. Ho then went back ons ' ‘ ag this sum of mon 1 1 rhe ; j \ then : vint PLA, Dec. 1b—-An offictal Come the Centre Street loop wor wded) onony HOGS, M I form ‘ ' ‘ ’ Sa é ‘ PAIS, 1 Var to our compans Peps i \ , un i rly con ‘ “Did he state." as tonmer M ‘ 7 Thompson, that Pabih ' ' ‘ . 4 T Commiss! dtood tw id two v 1 H Li 1 ¥ of od fa i that question and that c sione ay r 1 ; Ay i " Wood had the deciding ’ ' w as SAILING 6 T0- DAY. \ Mdgult know tat } Pepiitil r : * WEY TER CUIsbs TO WORE Ch i ve ‘ Lo wud frig hor into AM rite 5 Serer hern Nayigation Company's fleet |a parosysm, and there is danger of 4% 2, tiers at hata t Comanche, Jacksonville... 1P.M. + " 1 i A (Continued on Second Page.) origin of the fire js unknown, permanent injury to ber mind, at ¥, Ui. nes liswe Deemed su. adr, City of St, Louis, Savannah... 3P,M, Ope sdbatsoaa wae oorugelied to dand, y ‘ { |