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WEATHER INDICATIONS. Probably rsla te-lghii umIUi4 4 salder te-saerrew. Afct. THE FCTS AND ISIO FAKCO 1 AX-SO. 30.

BROOKLYN. MONDAY, I'MO. PHICK ONE CENT. FIE1CI MI PATMLS HOOT MI 9 S.AI 1EP1ISA1L f-3r a- vy jM -V DTT7TT MT JMjiU! 1E1A11 1 LONG ILL, KILLS HIMSELF. PROBERSCALL Ambassador Sharp Reports Thickly Popu- Mr.

Rrid Wife of Woll-Kitwa SANITARIUM MAY NOT GET WHITMAN IGNORES Sheep. haad Bay Mam. MH.ru1mt fr.im Ionic lated Section Attacked. S. FIRST" NEW THEME OF WILSON Hid mmmittrrl suicide ycfiierflay In hi-rmflf through he hitrl.

her hum. No. JAM Kat HEDLEY TO THE STAND Tu en rtrM ntrfi-1, RhrppHhai! Hay. U-r himttHtid In preMrtent of the BOMBS DROPPED IN OPEN FIELD ITS PERMIT COUNTY REPS. Sht-cpfht iirl Hay and Rocknway Krrry, prn.ru'or of the Hdiih, Ti It- uhh popular with turfmen mix! r-M In lh- Hhepuhcai.

new Zeppeli (on'v learned through their nesauapSJlhie last of the second raid on the dry husf dripped lb-- if in Th "lights, oowarning sooadedl UtIS. Jin I i il oi nt li Inii.i I- 14 i-r II in TU If- It II li'-i- i i To Address Germans Itiiv It-id had I-, ill for nearly Asks Ho Brooklyn Hear Interborough ftmrit and for mm lime had Eighth Ave. Residents Before Mayor. that no :,0 ni, while great crowds were iaj i fir as i known the boulevards, the theatres and rsstatM Iropp'd in the second i rants, but when the lights were turned osi in Milwaukee. P.

S. C. Suanestions. Vice-President. Sit hon.l..

f.ll in an again an hour and a half later, it wast rcs.rted that the Zeppelin had berst driven off. It was several hours lataaj that the police were inform! of tha VurA In -Mi In ht run uf a trained nurse. Vhll tiui mirf whs alm-nt yontrday tu prpar hnakfust fur her, Mrs. field Ullli'd htTHt-lf. Mr.

Iteld, who hum h1i'o)Iiik In an adjolnlnK room, hwml the nhot and went Into hia ifi-'w rhamlMTn, whmr ho found htr dt-ail. Ir. Josi-pt. r. (Slynn Bald death had hperi'lnmtinlaneous.

id it Inn i-iili "iir nVhl in the sill. an 1 11 fialni Tin- i i a i' lory, If-sly. official MHtciiiPl.t lo twt-my-sii prsoi.it wr-- kill cction. burst in I'-dilig harm- sard lhat and tliirtv- MITCHEL FAVORS THEM FACES CRUCIAL DAY COLBY AS COUNSEL G. 0.

P. LEADERS ANGRY smi oi inn eppeun over toe suburbs, e-. Smiads of laborers sre digging in thai ruins of a five-story tenement building split half by one of the 600 Bound Isjinba. for bodies to-dajs, FRENCH FLIERS DESTROr Prendergast Protests Open two injured in Saturday nul.t'ii raid. Tic dnm.ize whs Ii-s 1ii.iii Frem-h air patrols ai tacked the raiding dreadnought which fb-d northward, escaping in the mist.

The Zcpi-in -pel over Yass Was Not the Organ-izatian's Candidate. Railroad Man Questioned as to Payments He Gets. GAFFNEY AFTER BROOKLYN CLUB Will Be Closely Guarded in the City Where Roosevelt Was Shot. ing of Institution. the city at such a great height that searchlights ere unable to pick it out of the curtain of fog and it was not shelled by anti ain-rsft guns.

Only the faint hum Developments flew fast nnd thiek I To-day. for the fintf lime siic-e the of the dirigible's engines was heard day in the Public Servic Commission an- turn Senator Thompson Voni Albany The I'nris newspapers, in calling for TRAIN; KILLSOLDOS Jan. 31 Bombs thrown French aria tors In the recent raid on) Freiburg, destroyed a military traki killing and wounding a huge number ofl soldioray according to Zurich, dispatches to-day. ii 1 AMBASSADOR SHARP WIRES U. S.

ABOUT AIR RAIDS Ebbets Refuses to Deny Possibility of Sale. Most of reek, the ci.ininitteo hearing hi oointment wrangle. ICei inmian icaners. nt Mayor Mitehel after hearing arguments urged ly'iinst the granting of a permit to conduct a sanitarium at No Eighth Hvenne, corner of I'nion street, and also the pleas made by the promoters of the proposed institution, declared it name showed icns of un isnnl activity an-l the general opinion prevalent this morning sconis lo be that "The Black incensed to the core. Mid lhat Jovernor YVhitninn had determined to aopohil TraviR H.

Whitney secretary to the commission, and ChnrVs S. Hervey. Pep uty City Controller. iM tint he had emphatically declared he unuid not appoint Wasp of Niagara" lias taken up the chal immediate raids upon largo lierman itie as measun-s of reprisal for the killing and wounding of srsons in again -nnded warning to-day that a hoe of Count Zeppelin's sky nstn-lers. accompanied by several of the Fokker "air Fhlans" may swoop down upon Paris any night.

The raids of Saturday and Sunday night, aeronautic experts wrote, undoubtedly ere for the purpose of testing out Paris' aerial defenses, preparatory to as his opinion, that if the city had any discretionary power it should not issue the permit. He added that he believed Willlkcgun whs lit III'1 station lo-dny wlicn the President's special Irani iir rived shortly before II o'clock, en route Milwaukee. It was pulsing recoi tint), ith mi much Hicoring llint I Iir President could tint be hi-unl fur several lllllllltcs. "I inn imt mi ii errand." Mr. ili on said frmii Ilii' platform.

"I have leugo of "inaciiritv" and is well started FORMER OWNER OF BRAVES TO HAVE THREE PARTNERS Rnmored That MeKeefer Brother Are Willing to Get Out, Which on a campaign. i Jan. ol. JLum that In cases like the presont, the char pclin raids on Paria "covered a small but Kninliriilge Colby, new chief counsel to Alfred E. Vass, chairman of the Republican County Committer, and leader of the acter of the neighborhood should always thickly populated portion of th elfv the committee, was on hand at an earlj lie taken into account nnd preserved Eleventh Assembly District.

As matter of fact, a permit has been Would Force Ebbets to Sell, Too. hour this morning anil it was announced that Frank Hedley. vice-pre-ident of the ReiHiblican leaders heaped wrath upon AmUssador Sharp at Paris reported to the State Department to-day. Hessid no Ism-it fell near the Embassy. He reported ten killed and twenty wounded.

fell it nlisolutclv mi-essnry In trll my issued by the Health Department under greater raids. the Chief Executive- of the State to-day friend I lit- national defense. I The majority of the people of Paris' and declared that was showing con will go forward on my errand with more a verbal opinion given on the 'phone hy an assistant corporation counsel who told Health Commissioner Emerson that he bad no discretion to refuse the permit tempt in return for" the Presidential Imnm riMiiiiingoinoiii ns a result of your rocop- K. (oiffney. brother-in-law of Charle.

Murphy, leader of Tainniany Hall, mny tie the ow ner of the Brooklyn National I.cajrue Baseball Cluh before Ion, (iaffney has formed a syndicate launched be the locjl Republicans for turn." Interborouch and J. S. Doyle, traffic manager of the same company have beer siibpenacd to apicnr at the hearing. Mr. Colby has been reeogniied as a bitter foe of the- "Interborough" and It.

is expected that he will not handle the situation with the "gloved hands" of his predecessor. It is indicated by the line of investigation whii the committee is undertaking even if the neighbors of the institution did object. But the Mayor stated that hen tin- President hfid finied the him. Some suggested that the resolntions In he had cancelled It. FRENCH HIT NEW DRIVE conmstinir of himself.

Boh Davis of crowd ciillcil for Mrs. Wilson, who ramp tu tlir observation platform, carrying a doming him for the Presidential nomina "That was a verbal opinion," said the hnrse-rneinc fame. Jake Fields, an op Slllilod. iMiiiipirt nil' tion be recinded. This suggestion, alone.

erator in nil street, and Hill ownn NAVY EARS FORU.S.K-5 LOST IN FOG well known on the rncetrncks. to buy Al I Forest niiil Highland I'nrk scores of children stood on the Ktation typified the hatred the leaders hare for the Governor. that Thevdore P. Shonls will le called Mayor, addressing Commissioner Emerson. "The.Assistajit Corporation Counsel was at fault.

It should have been made in writing- before you acted on it." The Mayor announced that since the the Hnmklyn club. iilntforins nml waved lines lis tin- I rain to the stand in the near future. Perly Morse, accountant to the com William Bern, who on last Friday, pre tinffney until recently owned the Boston National I.eniiue Club. He sold the Boston eluli bclievinK that with sented a letter to (Jovernor hitman OF KAISER mittee, is busily engaged in compiling the permit had been signed he held the hearing on request of the Eighth avenue from Bridge Commissioner Kracke urging Hnrrv Sim lair, the Iur man of the Fed reports received from the variuus traction eompauies in an effort to get them residents, and would be guided in his that Vass be appointed, said to-day that oral ensue, he could get control of the final decision by the opinion of Corpora (Jinnts. Hut nt the last minute the he was not familiar with the new develop tion Counsel, which he had requested owners of the tiinutM decided not to part uients in the matter.

in shape for presentation as evidence and some interesting exposures are kxiked for. At 11:20 o'clock Senator Thompson called the committee to order and called ns to whether the city hail discretionary 'I Till' I'rosiilc nt to-ilny iinllioriziil III" I of a Wnsliini-'ton flint lie Iinil rliiiiiKcil liis vii-wH on tin- riclit of Anirrifiins to trnrrl on xlitM of liilliKi'r-J. flit nations. Il was that ho is nnt 'In favor of Senator liill, liii-h would liar Ainrriraim from smh ships. hut atanils on Iho priiK-iplr that a rilizn of the I'nitfd Statrs lins iiniiiiestionalilc rights on lif high hciis.

On the Prrsiilcnt's return from Milwaukee, at 11:1.1 p. hunilreils of with the Club. When tinffney hnd be "1 presented Commissioner Kracke's power to refuse the permit. i 1 Await Hews of Submarine and CrevJ come convinced that he could not purchase the tiiants he decided to organize letter to the Governor. He, as well as Onslaughts Diminishing in Violence.

for Frank Hedley as the first witness. "Personally I think it he said. But I am not sure of the law." The Mayor's hearing-room was crowd a svndicnte to luiv the Brooklyn club. myself, are anxious, of course, to see Mr. Vass secure the appointment.

A great Mr. Hedley was not present, and as (Inffncy is very friendly with the Mc-Keever brothers, nnd it is almost a cer ed with prominent residents of the many of his friends wrote letters to the a subpena had beenserved. returnable at 11 o'clock, a messenger was dispatched to the Interborough offices to tainty that he first talked with them Eighth avenue section who had come to protest against a permit being issued to 7 mounted polieeinen will RUiird the Mm' of before coinc to the trouble of forming sanitarium which those in charge of order him to appear at once. his syndicate. liU propress from tl Northwestern Sln- tion to the Klatstone and Inter to the PARIS.

Jan. 31. The new German of Governor in behalf. I think it was very kind of them to do so. Of course, I do not know what the Governor will do, but we are hopeful that he will name Mr.

Vass." Commissioner Kracke's letter recom- President I'harles H. Ebbets said to- At 11:30 Mr. Hedley made his appearance by James L. Quack- it admit is to be used chiefly for narcotic patients. fensive has been checked by vigorous Fnench counter-attacks, the War Office enhush for the Interborough.

Mr. Quackenbush nsked the privilege (Continued On Page Two.) indicated this afternoon in a statement I mended Vnss hnd said he "wns a man of of his stenographer taking notes, but the dny that no offer had ns yet been received for the c(jil mid while he declared himself lis optioned to selling out, for reasons, did not deny that the i luh ould he sold if the proper price was offered. lie stated that he wonld first have to' confer with the McKeever reporting teuton onslaughts aiminismng committee ruled that this was contrary WASHINGTON Jan. Sfi-Mngi 1 o'clock Sunday moining, no efj the submarine K-5, Host in the og efl Charleston, 3. had, -been, founds UfhfcXa an early hour to-day.

-J Gravest fears for the. mining- scbxnarH ine and her crew of twenty-nine werjeexsj pressed. Officials held out bows ever, that the submarine may -naval merely lost her way or become disabled Every available naval auxiliary from the Charleston-and Norfolk Navy' Yards) were to-day combing the seas- -between ripe business experience, and would, without doubt, make an able and highly satisfactory I to the rules. in violence. Auditorium here he will speak.

Admission to the theatre will he hy tieket only. CHICAOO. Ml: --rresidenl Wil-son'H speeinl train loft for Milwaukee nt j0-07 a. ni. to-day after two-hour stay In CliienjEo.

As the train was ahout to pull nut from the station an air hose exploded with a hhist that startled every one in the station. The I'rcsident was asmired there was no dancer. PREFERS DEATH Mr. Hedley was then placed on the Having occupied some French trenches The Republicans have no fault to hnd brothers who own 50 per cejit. of the stand nnd after being sworn was ques we-cked hy their heavy artillery, the with either Hervev or Whitney, other chili stock.

tioned by Mr. Colby as to hisi ixinnec- The Mi-Kecvers and ktibetsj have an than that both are Democrats. Both airrccniciit whereby when either side de cides lo sell, the other must sell. too. (Continued Ou Page J2.I TO LONG HOURS Butcher KillsHimself with It was rumored to-day that the McKeev- men, it is admitted, would make admirable commissioners.

One man hikh in the affairs of the Republican party, spoke more kindly than crs were willing to sell if the proper price Cape Hatteraa and Charleston. A flosj tilla of destroyers, submarine tendensJ Germans have been unable to make farther progress and have been driven out of some of the conquered ground by hot fire from the French positions. "North of Arras, in the region southwest of HilJ Xo. 140, two German hand grenade attacks were said this afternoon's official statement. President Wilson's speeinl train arrived at the.

In Salle street station nt tn. to-dny. The President did it h'nve was) tendered which would also loree KbbctfT'to part with bis. stock. Neither Ed or Stephen McKeever could the others, despite the fact that he favors CITIZENS WIN ships and coast guaroV-cuttera-were iiM the search, -ir -u-i be reached to-dav and nt Oaffney's office Son's Gun.

rin Manhattan it was said that it was After an all-night vigil at th Ns the appointment of vass. "The Governor." he said, "know that the Public Service Commission is going to be one of the big things of his ad not known when he would be in. Department, the only word received. TRANSIT VICTORY "In the Champagne region, north of! wireless and wire, wag the bare stab hit ear, which was immediately switched to the Northwestern tracks for the journey to Milwaukee. Five hundred policemen, directed hy United States Secret Service nceiits, were detailed as the President's escort.

Some of them were to accompany the Execii-Uvc'n special train to Milwaukee. ministration. He is strivng to make as Fresnes, our artillers caused explosions ment that the K-5 Wsxaniissinz when tha good as he can. The appointment of Strauss, one of. the foremost men in the at four points in the trencnes.

rest of the flotilla of boats, the K-l Henry Diehm. 5fi years old. of No. 809 Hendrix street, killed himself early this morning, by firing a charge from a shotgun, owned by his son, Henry, 21 years old, into his head. The body was discovered by another son, Raymond, 23 In mine fighting in the Argoune wo de K-2 and K-6.

arrived off Charh State, is an Indication of the fair, free Lret r. d. to ravor HAVEMEYER MEN GO ON STRIKE stroyed nn enemy gallery near Haute They had sailed Friday-front New To and frank manner in which Whitman Proper Connection, ON BOARD PRESIDENT'S SPE makes appointments. Strauss is a Progressive, as every one knows. The Gov years old, who was leaving for work about ft" o'clock.

CIAL, Jnn. 31. President Wilson rose early to-day and started preparation of for Pensacola, for winter convoyed by the tender Tallahassee. Reports to the Navy Department wersj that the K-5 waa last seen-oft the Caro-4 lina coast north of Charleston, A beam HOT FIGHT DUE ernor will not show any partisanship in his naming of commissioners to this The suicide left a note addressed to hia wife, Emma, as follows: body." two big addresses he will make in Milwaukee and Chicago within the next twelve hours. In addition, he will make i "Dear Emma, good-bye to all.

For "I believe that Whitney and Hervey Machinists May Be Followed by Other Employees The committee of 100 and the Fulton Street Anti-Third Tracking Association, won a victory to-day when the Public Service Commission adopted their petition for a resolution directing that the plans for the subway structure under Fulton east of Ashland place, be fog blanketed the sea, and when thai give me for this act. I am tired of get will be appointed. Although, a Repuhli IN BRANDEIS CASE ting up at 3 m. m. for work and coming other vessels arrived off the Charlestonl K- i.

tr it a i (Continued On Page Two.) can, I would not oppose the wish, of the Governor. And you kno wthat 1 am home at 8 p. m. Flense. Emma give me a grave.

HENRY, Fifty-six steam fit tiers, machinists and ASPHYXIATED IN HOME. "1. S. Whoever finds this gun, be WASHINGTON, Jnn. sub-com changed so that a proper connection may later be made with the Fulton street line machinists' helpers went on strike in the among those who have been most active in Mr.

Vass' behalf." "Why, I canuot understand th reason for so much rumpus- about this appoint careful, it is loaded. mittee to-day was named by Acting Havemeyer Refinery of the American hy the new subways now constructed at Diehm had for years worked for the Chairman Overman of the Judiciary Sugar Refining Company in the Eastern District to-day. It is feared that many Ashland place and Fulton street, when firln of Henry Kass Company hid iv-o iuu iim yub iii appears! a nee. The boats were hut together ofl Cape Roniain, where tha, search, to being centered. Navy officials were at loss to-day to explain the disappearance of the sub marine, no heavy weather having bean encountered.

The Carolina coast; while treacherous, was not believed to have caused the submarine's difficulty. 'That that commander may have lost hia war ment, said another or the big leaders the city is financially able to carry out in the borough. "Mr. ass's name has other mechanics who number over three butchers, of No. 277 Greenwich street, Manhattan, which necessitated his rising not been presented to the Governor for hundred will join the strikers, thereby Committee to investigate Louis D.

Bran-deis' fitness for appointment to the Supreme Court. The Senators named are: Chilton, of West Virginia: Fletcher, of Florida, and Walsh, of Democrats, and Has Found Dead on Conch from Gaa by Wife. ljcrinnn Kesseleach. 37 years old. of 141B Hancock street, was found dead in the kitchen in his home early day by his wife, Matilda.

He was asphyxiated by illuminating gas. this appointment by the Republican or crippling, and probably causing the shut about a. in. each morning. Lately be completed of pains in the head.

ganisation of Kings County, so Kings ting down of the immense plant which skirts the East River and extends to must just lay down and say nothing such work. The committee and the association in their petition declared "that failure to provide a physical connection between the lines named would unjustly deprive central Brooklyn of the proper use of the transit facilities which designed and provided for the use of that section and which are most sorely needed at the Clark, of Wyoming, and Cumuiins, of the fog and run aground, or run short Why. the Governor never asked ns to FARRELL QUITS BROWNE CLUB Kent avenue and South First to South Iowa. Republicans. submit a name." The woman attracted by the odor of gas went to the kitchen hnd found her Fifth street.

Of this five it is thought that Chilton When Mr. Berri and others were told Resigns the Presidency ef Beawaa- and Fletcher, and possibly Walsh, will be In order to guard against possible trouble, more than a doxen Central Office of thm, they said it waa true that the kaka Clab. of fuel and forced to lay by until relief arrives, were the explanations advanced. The was authorized in 1911 and cost f.VIO.000. The K-5 is commanded by Lieut.

R. C. Graby and Lieut Hugh C. Fraser. The Brooklyn and New York members of thn organisation had not been asker to sub present time." susceptible to White House influence, even if theit private opinions are adverse to' the Braudeis appointment.

Clark. Re detectives are in the vicinity of the plant. It is also feared that the present trou James A. Farrell has resigned 'the mit a name and that Vase's name was husband lying on a conch and fumes escaping from an open burner. Dr.

Fisher, who came from the German Hospital, pronounced the man dead. Mrs. Kesseleach aaid that her husband's death was purely accidental. Present plans and contract for the con presidency of the Seawanhaka Demo not O. by the regular Republican ble among the mechanics will be taken struction of the section of the Brighton cratic ciub, tne regular district or publican, is determinedly opposed to the appointment, and Cummins is inclined to advantage of by I.

W. W. agitators who line subway under St Felix street and be ganixaUon, of the Second Assembly have for some time been very active in crew are: rrank W. 148 Tenth street: Howland Droge. Fleming, L.

John M. Emery, Poughkeepsie, N. District, of which Alderman Browns machine- of the, county. "But do not misunderstand the situation," they said further. "The organization is behind Vass to a man." "The manner in which the Governor be so because of Brandeis' action in the 5 per cent, rate increases case.

How tween the Long Island Railroad station and the subways at Fulton street and trying to induce the thousands of un is the leader. 1,500 FLEE HOMES. ever, Cummins claims he has as yet an Ashland place do not provide for any con William Gottlieb, No, 175 East lfiSth It Is said Farrell's reason for re-' skilled laborers employed in tha refinery to go on strike. There are mora than 4,000 men employed In the plant, and if open mind. nection of the Fulton street line into the signing was becaus he had not been street.

Manhattan: John W. Kathke. has treated the organisation here is a Biekamavn, K. on Mississippi, Ian. The charges expected to be brought Manhattan; Ernest F.

Matthews. Gen. given a position in the recent distribu subwaya" named, but provide for construction which would connect the two Brigh against Brandeis are "unprofessional con eva, N. William J. O'Brien.

Bingham. tion of patronage after he had been the mechanical department employees should quit, these thousands of men will said another leader. "That is what we gea for giving kirn 45.000 more votes than we gave Hedges in 1912. That is what we get for standing behind him ton line tracks with the four subway duct" in thnt it is alleged he drew the terms of the I'nited Shoe Machinery be thrown out of work. ton, N.

and Joseph D. Walsh. New-burg, N. i j.y.,-'-; led tj expeot one. Farrell, It is said, wanted a Deputy Sheriffship, and tracks at Fulton street and Ashland place contract and later ac attorney for the and entirely close up tha four tract con I nthe primaries in the fall of 1913.

His when it was not forthcoming decided to quit the Browne organisation. The K-5 is equipped with wireless cap able of caryiag seventy-five miles. Sh 3 LAMAR CONVICTXOir UPHELD. section at the point named -which, was score is bis answer to ns for beisg the daiad Win I Breaks. HICKMAN.

Kjr, Jan. 11. The levee broke her early to-day, forcing 1.600 people to flee from their homes. All escaped. A sadden rise In tha Mississippi resulted in a watch being kept Warning was given in time.

The entire manufacturing section of Hickman, which employs several thousand men, chiefly In the llengal lumber, plants, la Inundated, bailt at enormous cost in order to provide For a similar reason it la said C. A. Wrat organisation in the State to boom WASHINGTON, Jan. 81- The conviction of David Lamar, the "wolf of Government' attacked their validity; that in the railway rate increases, although supposed to represent the Government and shippers he declared in favor of a rats Increase for the railways: and that direct subway connection between central Weasels haa quit the Twenty-second was one of the latest types of sub. marines.

She was completed by the Electric Boat Comiaoy, Oct. 27, 1913. and Brooklyn and the Wiltoaghby-Montagoe Assembly District Demoeretto Clubl Wall street," for Impersonating a mem him for President. VV hy, we are a bunch of milk babies If we do not rescind the laudatory reeolntioas we adopted when be launched hia boost tor the PresideaUaJ and Is preparing to fight Leadeg ber of Congress waa sustained by the commissioned 27. 1914.

She is 153 street subway and the Fourth avenue sob way. which runs ever.the Manhattan bridge- -v James P. Slnnott for the Exeevtive Supreme Court to-day. when his motion feet long, and entries th old tipe naval he waa guilty of "unethical practices" in the Ballinger-Pincbot coutroveray. 1 to dismiss the Indictment was denied, i Membership la the next Primary, propulsion wmeii.

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