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‘BIG OCEAN LINER NORSEMAN = PRI @. (The New CE ONE CENT. Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing € Che [“Circntation Books Open to au\ York World). NEW LAW, 4 CIWS A ry YORK, TUESDAY, JANUA ITISH SLAIN IN SIX-HO = Circulation Books Open to All.’’\ RY 25, 1916. 16 TORPEDOED AND SUNK. WEATHER—Unoettied to-night and Wednesday, ¢ PRIO PAGES | NAL comet. ee CENT. Ss E ONE ATTLE EX-PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONER WOOD INDICTED NORSEMAN SENT TO BOTTOM IN NEW RAID OF SUBMARINES ALONG THE BRITISH COAST Lately Requisitioned by the British) Government and Was Presum- ably Carrying Munitions of War Between England and Her Allies LONDON, Jan, 25.—The Dominion liner Norseman has been sunk «by a submarine, according to a Liverpool despatch to the Exchange | Telegraph. ‘The Norseman was a 10,750 ton steel screw steamer, owned by the Brit- ish and North Atlantic Steamship Cothpany of Liverpool and flew the British flag. She has been in servios in the Atlantic and presumably was gunk in the waters arotind the British Isles. {f this presumption ts eorredt she ts the largest Mner, excepting the Lusitania and Arabic, sunk in British waters by @ submarine. The Norseman was built in Belfast in 1897 and was used on the runs between Montreal and Liverpool, Portland and Liverpool and also in the Boston and Philadelphia Berry and carried a crew of about fifty men ervice The vessel was commanded by Capt The Norseman was recently in the service of the International Mer- cantile Marine and came to York last November, She sailed from 22, arriving in New York with a large cargo of war munitious on Nov. 2: Liverpool on Dec, 7. Short! rward the steamship was requisitioned by the British Government. Whether she was used as a transport or to carry war supplies is not known at the International Mercantile Marine offices, but because of her tremendous capacity tt is presumed that she was in the munition and supply carrying service. ea TOUNTED STATES Steamer Headed Here Runs Out of Fuel on Stormy Voyage and Puts In at St. Johns, Announcement That It Meets Demands Is Declared to Be an Invention. JOHNS, N. F., Jan, %.—The steamship Noordam of the Holland- America Line, with its fuel supply ex- hausted because of delays during stormy weather, arrived here to-day and will remain thirty-six hours to replenish her bunkers. A large num- ber of the Ford peace delegates are on board. It is @ four days’ run from; here to New York. WASHINGTON, Jan, 25,—That an The Noordam encountered bad tee ee tee ie a ee gt weather off the coast of England fore ere bas heen sive i shortly after leaving Rotterdam, The ania negotiations by Germany's latest mote was Indicated at the White Hous to-day. It was offictally stated printed announcement that man note meets all of the Uni States demands “was pure supr tion anf unjustified by the facts. It wis revealed that the note was vessel made less than 100 miles a day | part of the time and is now ten days behind schedule. a. LET WOMEN DECIDE VOTES FOR WOMEN the Ger- that the| delivered to Secretary of State Lans-| - ing by Ambassador Bernstorft Satur-| Assembly, Bill Calls for a Special day and by Lansing to President Wile] Election at Which They Settle son yeste latter to-day ‘ Question of Suffrage. placed it aot Question of Suffrag To the énd that | clear up the} ALBANY, Jan, 23.—Let the women situation as far as possible efore he! of the State themselves decide wheth. eaves on bis Western wip, the Presi-!er or not they want the ballot is the dent will confer at length with tary Lansing to-morrow afternovon.| Assemblyman Cotillo td Its pres- He has changed his time of leaving | entation appeared to be frowned on by for New Yyrk from to-morrow nvvn| yuffragists, lobbying about the cham- to to-mormpw midnight, in order 0) ber for the submission of another | have thi#bonfergnce. In the mean-| equal suffrage referendum to the male plea expressed in @ bill Introduced by day MRS. MOHR READY TOTELL STORY ON WITNESS STAND Defense Is to Call Her as One} of Its First Witnesses at Murder Trial. WILL DOCTOR. More Proof of Confessions of Alleged Accomplices Given to the Jury. (Special From _a Stafi Corres of The Evening World. PROVIDENCE, R. J,, Jan, 25,—Mrs. Elizabeth ‘Tiffany Mohr is to take the her against the charge that she conspired witness stand in own defense with two negroes, offering them prom- Ise: ) of money it they would waylay and murder her husband, Dr. ¢, ¥ranklin Mobr. This is the plan of her attorneys, formulated upon the case as It lies to- day before the jury in the Superior Court. And it is part of the plan that she shall make a frank and full state- ment of her entire life with Dr, Mohr, laying herself to the searching cross-examination Furthermore, Mrs. Mohr will be one of the first witnesses called when the defense presents its case, It the story Mrs. Mohr has to tell of her alleged sufferings at the hands of her husband shall dis- close without reserve his relationship with other women, to which there has been constant reference during the progress of the trial. This may bring into the case the names of many per- sons well known in Newport and Providence and disclose at least what she knows of the mysterivus “little red book” the physician Js alleged to have kept. Mrs, Mohr will make utter dental of | charges against her in the so- ed confessions of the negroes that she badgered them into murder, gay- ing that whatever communication she had with them was as the wife of thelr employer, As to the bringing of her name into the present case, her attorneys will show that it was George W. Rooks, brother-in-law of Miss Emily G, Burger, the handsome young woman who was with Dr, Mohr when he was killed and re- celved two bullets that night, who first suggested her as a party to the assassination, HEALIS'S BROTHER CONFIRMS CONFESSION. Herbert B. Healis, a brother of George W. Healis, the chauffeur of Dr, Mohr's ear, in which he was shot to death, was an (Continued on Fourth Page.) “It Takes Nine Tailors to Make a Coat!” open most very is intended tha portant witness | so far as song and) i, But, as a matter of 7 can make MANY | This may be t story are concert fact, ONE GOOD ta) GOOD coats. Here or there 1a thoughtless or unwise publicity seeker who thinks It} takes nine or more advertisements to find the » worker, home, investment, investor, bargain, &c., they seek, whereas the truth is, ONE GOOD ad. will {ill their want in a hurry, That WORLD Ads. are GOOD Ads, may you { time Jt is possible the Secretary may| electorate. go over tham: ‘ter again with Ambas-) gyecitically the C wador Berhstorif, though abnounce- provides fo 1 snecial elec ment bas pot beon made of arrange-|P a at me for, such a mecting. women who po the ‘he most important features of tl tions to vote for ‘officer ndte, according to stories to Ww the qualifications of Cae Btate Depa: posed clection w td be _geot, are thos: ae | poet veh PT refraned from v ec y preceding nings to United ® tion d. in 19 ’ ay off Gio Lusitania a eAbina SrBLIAL E \ fication of her refusal ike women's a ee enula one wrongdohg nh the part of ai LU merine Ommander. | neve 4 The prin at It is “ported in the note Germany | purpo: ld be to refewstho offer to pay an indemnity | determi ne worn en of the State the for {hi loss of 115 Americans lost on | on question of *\ the Lusitania, ( ~ 1 erred from the high esteem are held by advertisers prints MORE THAN wunber of separate adver t hed in the Herald, The nearest co uw World gives advertis tS a cire A nornings and Su ‘ than Here'4, Times and Tribu Ri ADDED I OGETH Read World Ads. for Greatest Variety | conferring on them the right to soe \* World Ads for Best Results! WOOD INDICTED, FACES LONG PRISON TERM FOR SOLICITING | $9,000 BRIBE ON P. $. BOARD Ex-Commissioner Pleads Not Guilty;| Is Granted Week’s Time to Change Plea and Released Under, $7,500 Bail. Robert Colgate Wood was indicted to-day for soliciling a bribe while he was a Public Service Commissioner. The principal witness against | Wood was Sidney G. Johnson, Vice President of the Union Switch and Signal Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., who swore that Wood asked him for $5,000 as a condition for Wood’s turning over to him the contract for the'Centre Street loop of the new subway. The maximuy penalty upon convictian is ten years’ imprisonment: : Wood appeared before the bar of — UKED BY QUEENS, | TONED DOWNHERE been indicted for the er iting a bribe. What me of solic- have you fhe defendant enters a plea o| not guilty,” replied his counsel, Will- jam M. Parke of Stancifleld & Levy, “and asks for one week's time in which to withdraw the plea and make such motions ag are necessary.” The motion was granted, and Har- old Norris, for the National Security Company, gave $7,500 ball for Wood. The indicted man was asked if he had anything to say about the charge, No More Will Satyr Express Love by Lying Down on Scarf of Faun. He answered with a long, loud; Hereafter the horned and cloven “NO-O-O!" His lawyer, Mr. Parke,| hoofed Satyr in hia afternoon gam- said: bols as represented by the Ballet “Enough has been printed already about this matter. Why add to it?” Russe at the Century Th lie down on the scart atre will not | pped by the After Johnson had testified before! beautiful Maun with whom he falls the Thompson tnvestigating commit- in love, Insteal, he will pick up the tee last month, he was called before | searf and gallantly kiss And a the Grand Jury by District-Attorney | for the dark-skinned people ‘ho had Perkins. The case was put over un-| become so sportive in the bullet num. | new administration came in, James O'Malley in charge of tt Three witnesses were examined to- day—Henry A, Bullock, Secretary of more dignified. These changes were decided on be fore Chief City Magistrate William| ‘ LUBOV TCHERNIKO Pare ree Ss wa” U.S. STEEL GOES BACK TO OLDFIVE Quarterly * Dividend of ber, * wade,” en their mas-| pirectors of the t 1 States Stee ters, the Sultans, leave their harems,| Corporation this afternoon declared they will make their ful antics | quarterly dividend of 1% per cent on the common stock the old rate There was much uncer TURKS REPUL E THE BRITISH ON WAY TO RELIEVE TROOPS PENNED UP AT KUT-EL-AMARA Gen. Aylmer Makes Desperate but Ineffective Effort to Reach Gen. Townshend’s Forces and Loses 6,000 Men, Killed and Wounded. GETS A TRUCE OF ONE DAY © IN ORDER TO BURY THE DEAD. BERLIN, via wireless to Sayville, L, L, Jan, 25.—British troops have lost more than 6,000 in killed and wounded and have been repulséd in attempts to relieve the garrison surrounded by the ‘Turks "at Kugieleiet /Amara, according to an official statetment from thé Turkish War Office to-day “On the Irak front, English forces coming from. Imann All Gharbi 1) Jan, 21 attacked Turkish positions near Meolarie, about twenty-one niles east of Kut-el-Amara on both banks of the Tigris,” said the Turkish atement. “The engagement lasted for six hours. All Engtish attacks ere repulsed tiles further eastward. GERM N GUNS WRECK WIEUPORT CATHEDRAL| ===>, ue Roman Catholic B Artillery on “Observation Post” Plea. Jan. % (via Lendon).— BERLIN, n y hh oman Catholic Cathedral at Sieuport, the German offictal Atement d this afternoon, has en destre by our artillery fire, 1I- er Cent. Is Declared on Common Stock. equivalent te per annum ainty all day of 5 per cent # an excellent obser- Ne," “our “Kast of Neu suys the report atta ne of the foremost trenches of the following some successful \ine explosions, and captured three nachine guns and 100 prisoners. Sev- ral enemy counter attacks against he captured positions went no fur- her than a miserable effort. Only a stout-hearted men left their “8, and they were shot down, plane squadron at- nilitary establishments Naney and the fac A French biplh J nis near Benoit, ur The ma > undamaged. GREAT MEADOW PRISON CONVICTION UPHELD Appeals Decide: Valley Construction Company Must Pay Fine. ALBANY, Jar 25. The € affirmed mm Valley ¢ indicted in connection troops rench, ow hine and or urt of yurt of hay convie Huds Company construction of Appenls to ton of the struc Wash t Comstuch W prison unty ngton i ounty tried in’ Washingt Justi Henry mipany was thie The on v state the New York Municipal Railway} McAdoo in Mulberry Street Court to-|in the stock market over the result Company; William 8. Mendham, Chief} day, Magistrate McAdoo sat ag ref-|of the directors’ meetings, asx it wa Engineer of the New York Munlolpal| eree-critic in settling the differences | ynown that thors were two facting Railway Company, and Travis H.| between critics of the Ballet Russe! w itn Dene =a, ido Whitney, Secretary of the Public and the representatives of the com-| parning a RONDORATION FOR ts Service Commission pany apelin Seale a ls: Foreman Frank H. Cabot handed M. de Pingbileff, Russian ballet Sane Cilla teas f 96 up the Indictment of Wood to Judge] master, and his assistants were sum-| cy. crmen_ Gary h Win Mulqueen tn the Court of General |, 1 before the Magist on the). yrem ciaiNion cf assste ¢ Sessions, ‘Tho Judge said request of Third Deputy » Come |cuura” wpainetae ee “L understand you have finished | missioner Dunham, wh ved ‘ al badd the important matter which you have | Several letters compl bal-| and uncertain hould the Bur Mr, Dunham had re 1 Mra.) pear war suddenly end, It evident been considering. In discharging you Br, Danna cd reduented Aira t salrsend). 16 Io erie I express to you the thanks of the pe urns, Mine Helin PAM ats shat he-w tvoted in moeting community, with full appreciation of ciety for the Prevention| PY the Interests led by Henry ( the value of your work and the zeal Supt. Sumner of the| Frick, who favored resumy ° displayed by bs ie Bos ty f Pr a) divid f t One of the strongest parte of Mr.| °F .viee to at tockh 1 the influ n nu Johnson's testi was his de-] which the Ballet prosy scription of the at No, 43 Ex-|the scales of just i Yr change Place, where, he sald, Wood on uit GBte n ween St asked him for the bribe, Johnson | harem scone mM mee ft th told of find the office furniture}to the antics of t ‘ lividend 1d 1 aft piled up, as if for removal, It Is a fact | scarf of the Faun. The eritics did not | the ma that Wood had dismantled the office|(hink, Mr. Hrown said with cutting _—— After belng appointed on the Public |Sareemal, that the Satyn should ile REPORT WOODS MAY BE rvice Ci jon . way he did that Satyr wanted t | Johnson also deseribed Wood's of- |show his affection for a piece of tex Eo Me penrygeenae en hr | HEAD OF STATE PRISONS found in the office when they entered, y and Wood asket to go away for Police Coma r to & while, ‘Tho detectives have found | arcs | Perry's le nes in Ne Jersey, but 1 Cy i have not been at subpoena him. a I Johnson, in timony, after de Dinghliet. "latina ; . . ribla 1 piled aguinst| have give fornia 1 / the wall ¢ office and Wood's re-| Faun Mr 1 ae ¥ " 1 tinued u ul fam f F QT 4 twas sald? A. Weill, % 1 da : Mr. Wood asked me wt there| Saty ; \ ar would not be a commission in this con. |i tne ee, wa me si of the nual liakst, th n (Continued op Second Page)! — | designed We wonderful costum \ nui Borst SAILING TO-DAY, Columbus, Savannah dents Cit . PLM, Maciel aval ae Bermuda ........ 5PM, spirited | Hudson By our counter-attacks the English were driven several “The Bnglish left on the battle- field about 3,000 dead and as many The Turkish Ieses were Gen, Aylme: commander of the English forces, wounded. ice Razed by] **ke¢ and was granted a one day's truce in order to bury his dead. “English prisoners stated that the English lost 3,000 in the preceding engagements near Sheik Saad. The Turks attacked English detachments advancing west of Korna from Mot tefik, causing the English to retrea' leaving 100 dead upon the field. —— | 20,000 SHELLS FIRED BY THE GERMANS INTO FRENCH TRENCHES PARIS, Jan. 26.—German troops Penetrated advanced French trenches in thelr new offensive movement near the mouth of the Yeer, the French War Office admitted this afternoon. The renewal of the German at tacks followed a few hours after the bombardment in which more than twenty thousand shells were hurled against the French positions. “In the Artois section,” says tl official French report, ‘the mov ment on the part of the enemy yes- terday against our positions to tho east of Neuville St. Vaast, whieh resulted in complete failure, was fe- sumed at the end of the day in greater strength, After a further series of explosions of mines, accom by a very violent bombard- ment, the Germans delivered an at- ack along a front of 1,600 yards, in 16 angle made by the roadway front Arras to L with the road frou | Neuville St. Vaast to Thelus, They © driven back to thelr lines by our two points where our panied we fire At "| trenches had been scattered by mine | explosions they were successtul iu sccupying certain craters, but from nost of these they were almost im- mediately expelled In Belgium fast night the German the French artillery branebe: nued to demonstrate their activ. n the region of Nieuport, Fur: ler detaily confirm previous reports attack of the enemy, deliv- rday near the mouth of the Yser checked by the fire of our guns, ‘The Germans were un- able to come out except at @ singly | point, where several groups were suc- cessful tu penetrating into our first line of trenches. They were, however, immediagely driven out after very | and iver, wa