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1(5 THE BTtOOKT.YN DAILY FACX.V. NEW YORK, FRTT)AY. ATTGFST IS. M1. WILL LANDS TWO IN COURT I Charles E.

Hughes Assumes Role of Miner; vital records SHOT TO DEATH Candidate Goes Down Into Montana Shaft CATHOLIC EDITORS HEAR DR. WHELAN SEE 4 MEN ORGANIZE' During his stay In Dutte, Montana, the Republican eandldato for President visited the Leonard Copper Mine, one of the largest jn the world. He went down in the regulation working togs and wa- shown the work-Ing: of the mine. The photo shows the candidate operating an air drill, stm fect under ground. IN STREET BRAWL William D.

Matthews Drops at Door of His Homo- William Doppman Held. FRIENDS ACCUSE policeman, Bluccont Snys He Fired Into Alp. Doppman Bad No Revolver, Witnesses Say. William D. Matthews, TO years old of 246 Fifty-fourth street, was shot and killed In street brawl at Fifty-fourth street and Third avenue at 1:45 today, With the result that William Doppman, 27 years old of 116 Ifly-elghth street is held without ball Ing in the Fifth avenue court before Magistrate McQulre next A complaint of felonious assault against Doppman was lodged by Patrolman Herbert siuit of the Fourth avenue slatlon, hut Doppman and Witnesses Of the affray nseert that It was the polieeman, and not Doppman, who shot Matthews.

The shooting followed a row at the corner of Fifty-fourth street and Third avenue. Doppman punched Matthews In the face. Matthews did not light hack, but went down the street to his house, procured a revolver, returned to the corner, and directed five shots from the gun ut Doppman. None of the bullets found its mark, but the noise of the fuallade i the attention of Patrolman Slott. siott chased Matthews, he says, and fired two revolver shots Into the air.

In the iib FHty-'ourth street. Matthews' home, the policeman says he hi Matthews over the head with his nightstick. After he had fallen the bullet wound in Matthews abdomen was discovered. Matthews was removed to the Norwegian Hospital, where he died at 11:00 this morning Slott has nothing to say aside from the statement that he fired Into the air. nnd that no revolver was found on Doppman.

The police could not the entire aiTalr that detectives hard to pierce. today working Mrs. Mary Krupp. While absent on a vacation at Mid-dletown. N.

Mrs. Mary Krupp of Klmhurst. died there on Tuesday of acuta indigestion. The body arrived from Mlddletown yesterday and was conveyed to the home of a daughter, Mrs. John Frohenhofer, on Jennings street, Klmhurst.

Mrs. Krupp was the wife of John Krupp. There is another daughter, Miss Kisie Kruup The funeral was held this morning Mrs. Emily Thorburn. Mrs.

Emily Thorburn died Wednesday of old ago, at her summer homo at I'atchngue. I. She -was 91 years old. Her city residence was at 117 East Tenth street, Manhattan. She was the widow of James M.

Thorburn, founder of the seed firm of J. M. Thorburn Co. She was born in New York Citv. nm ucnveiy luentltled with the chiuitli-i eunnoeied Graoe Church, she and Mr.

Thorburn being the tlrst couple to be married In Grace Church when it removed to Tenth street. Jules Wolff. Jules Wolff, who died at Aberdeen South Dakota, will be buried from the or bis brother-in-law. Wll- liam H. Hamilton.

120 Lee avenue, on ndav. He is survived bv hi-. Ida Hamilton, son. Waldo, two tors. Mrs.

Lucy Spier and Mrs. Ida and two brothers. Kilmnnil I Am. and Wolff. Mrs.

A. B. Mrs. Adele B. White, wife of Howard L.

White, society editor of the New Y'ork Tribune, died last night In St. Luke's Mrs. White was a daughter of William T. and Sara Van Sickle Lb. yd of Manhattan and r.r ii una or im- General John Lloyd.

She resided in i'latidoine. L. I. Mrs. Jane Inln Rossa.

i Mrs. Mary Jane Irwin Rossa. widow of Jeremiah o'Donovan Rossa, Irish patriot nnd revolutionist, died yester-1 home on twenty-live land 1 the last William P. lough, William P. Clough.

chairman of the I 1 board of directors of the Northern Pa- 11 ciiic Railroad Company, died last 1 night at his home in Mr. CI. ugh was a director of several other railroad companies and was vice, president of the Northern Express Company, He was in his 7Jd year. lie was born In Freetown. Courtland County.

and wis raised In Erloj County. Pa. DEATHS. WINCKELM ANN On Thursday, August 17. 1916, MBO the beloved husband of Anna U'lschinnnn Wlnckelmann, Services at the late residence.

Beilclev place, 0 p.m. Please omit (lowers. i'. in of J. iel LHRSNKR 111.

tit Hart- LERBNER to 1, ootn AI At hnmc of her niece. Mr III. Si mi 1 1) Elliott Place, or Augusl IT, 11)16, MARY B. BROOKLYN l.i mm- Mn a 0. elks Brothers: STou art requsat-ed to attend the funeral service of our late brother.

HA.MKI. K. HAM MONO, Friday evening. Auanat 18. UK 8:30 o'clock, ai his late residence, 414 FRED C.

REYNOLDS, Exalted l(uir. Joseph H. Becker. Secretary. I BRUSH Suddenly, nt Glen Cove.

L. on Wednesday. August lfl. 11)16. rf.n.iamin r.

hi year. Funeral services will he hold at Ins hue residence i.Mr. Seymour 11. Wansor's), Forest av, Glen Cove. L.

Saturday, August is, nt p.m. C.VI.LAIIAX i Thar lav, August frum her 1 i s4 1 Third piace, urooklyn, ut 5:30 a Saturday. August thence to the R. C. Church of St.

Mary star of the Sea. whore a solemn mass of requiem will ior inc repose ner soul, at Holy Cross Cemetery. Intern CALLAHAN The members of St. fled of the death 0( th-lr beloved (JKNEVIEVE CALLAHAN. Mass of requiem at St Mary.

Star of the Sea Church. Saturday, August i at o'clock. cuil.M-.Lll A. BCHMID. I'resli ant.

Miss r-nmilla Clark. on Aiieust 17. I in his 78th vein, runerai irom ills late residence, t.iMloyt st, on Saturday. August at Of "nr Lady of Mercy. Interment in noiy cross i ointiery.

DUBOCQ On Wednesday, Augusl 16. 1916, at her residence. 810 Van-dorvoor place. Ihaven. L.

1. AGNES MONDS DUBOCQ, Funeral services naay at 8 p.m. 10. FFRLONO At 4 p.m. on August 16, TilC.

after a long illness, at his home, Lafayette nv, llrookhf FRANCIS YV. FFRLONO. nrvleea nt HAMMOND On August 17, 1916, LAL'RA WYOKOFF, beloved and onlv child of Henrietta and Ludlow Hammond of Nynck. N. aged 19 years.

Funeral private. (Nyack papers please KNIPE (nea rife of Rudniph ither of Frank S. 6 ears. Fu- LONGMAN At his summer home, Hempstead, Tuesday, August IB, 1916. CHARLES I.ONIIMAN, In the O'DONOVAN ROSSA -Suddenly, on mrust 17.

1616, MARY O'DONO. AN ROSSA aced 7" years. Funeral om Richmond Terrace St orge. Staten Island. Notice of fu-ral later.

i PATER80N On Waflneaday irjwi ie, 1916, ELIZABETH ATERSON, Funeral lervicea at her le residence. 247 Hawthorne st atbush, Friday evening, at 8 at Abr rdeen. S. Builder and Physician Figure in Assault Charge Dismissed. Charles A.

Myers, a Rldgewnod builder, appeared in the Jamaica police court, before Magistrate Conway, on a summons obtained by Dr. Sherman Hates of 313 Wyrkoff avenue. Ridgewood. The physician accused the builder of assaulting him. According to tho testimony, Dr.

Bates was called to attend a Mrs. Hays, a widow, by a Mr. Cole, her friend since boyhood. It was claimed that a sign was nailed over the door of Mrs. Hays' room, refusing admittance to anyone save the doctor, a nurse and Mr.

Cole. It was also alleged that Mrs. Hays made a will while sick, and under undue influence. This Dr. Hates denied.

Some of Mis. Hays' relatives learnea or tno provisions in the will, and sent for Mr. Meyers an old friend of the family. Ho arrived! while the physician was In the house, I argument folio. lliem ended.

I In his being assaulted. The. provls Ions of the will were opposed, It wa said, by certain relatives. Mrs. Hayt estate Is said to be worth $25,000.

However, Mrs. Hays Is said to recovering. Magistrate Conway dis missed tho assault chargo agalna Meyers. BIT. HAS HEW PLAN TO END GRIEVANCE Col.

Williams Proposes More Trustees in Benefit Society, to Confer With Men. Colonel T. S. Williams, president of no n. n.

i. lias issued to the 10.000 rnemners or tne Employees Benefit As sociation a letter explaining a plan which he says has been approved by the trustees, enlarging Its organization so as to provide for the election of additional trustees in each department to me is. it. i. system, who will foi for such a department a committee conditions.

is being taken among the-members of the Benefit Association upon amendments to the constitution, which embody this plan, and- the members of the association are asked to nominate departmental trustees for nwuun which will De ncld on August 30. Colonel Williams' letter explains the procedure of the departmental trustees in accordance with the proposed amendments of the constitution of the association. Theso amendments provide that in case any question arises in respect to any mat I era affecting working conditions, wages, hours, ad- 1-line. between the department and an Ployee. tli'T or not then the departmental trustees of that department may.

if they deem It ncc- esldent Williams- letter' then con tinues: The officers of the B. R. T. who have suggested the plan and the trustees of tho association who recommend it, believe that it will secure continuous co-operation among all tlmse engaged in the work of the system by keeping the ollloc rs very closely in touch with the feelings of ths The Dlan should also have the ef fect of insuring uninterrupted transportation service. This is essentiul if we are to discharge our duty toward the public.

It is equally essential, we believe, in the interest of our men, for i arnini i.ow.-r not only loss and hardship to men and impany, out, wnat is otten worse, id feeling and possible disaster." ALLEGED COINERS HELD. Counterfeit Suspects Arraigned and Ball Set at 515,000. Five of the men arrested Wednes day on Staten Island by Secret Service agents, charged with preparing to manufacture counterfeit money on an tenslve scale, were arra cned in the Knifed States District Attorney's office in Brooklyn yesterday. At the request of Assistant United States Attorney Henry Ward Beer, Commissioner Mc-Goldrlck fixed the bail in each case at $15,000. The men will come up of Salvatore Giordano, Antonio Monteforte, Lulgl NEW BROOKLYN' DIRECTORS.

(Special to The Eagle.) Albany, August 18 Edward Spiegel nd Marx Sfeiler of Brooklyn are dl-ectors of the Dupony-Spiegel Leather Company of New York ity, nicorpo- Irving Chaves and Samuel Tarter of Brooklyn appear as directors of Silbornian Chaves Co. of New York, apitan.ed at. to uiuuo wo and cliiloren wear. The E. H.

Drum Co. of Brooklyn was chnrtered to deal In medicinal preparations. The capital is and the directors are iSdward H. iumin Rosenzweig and Sydney Ar-iicsberg of Brooklyn. WARRANT NOT NEEDED.

William Rice. 40 years old. of 976 Gates avenue, was sent to the workhouse today for six months by Magls- i leisinnr Mary Kice litul a war-issued for his arrest on a chare," of disorderly conduct and had given Last evening Rice raised a rumpus at the home before the warrant could be 'crvcd and iviicem.ui i.ipiiien iuckcu him up. LOST AND FOl'M). COUPON At Ol ST 181 For THE STORY OF OUR ARMY For THE STORY OF OUR NAVY jiur.l uf iIMit 'f 1-oit oiT-or-ToviN n.iilllni; "ii ii anil 15 WANTED A FTOMOBILE8.

vcANfr.r,. win 'nrTcTre 'HOKf ton New Ycr. I Open the Week's Celebration With a Business Meeting in Manhattan. HE URGES CLERGY TO ACT. This Afternoon, Arthur Bennlngloi and F.

A. Wilson -Lawrence Will Speak. "Catholic Week" in New York City was formally opened today at the New York Catholic Club, 120 Central Park South. Manhattan, where the first session of the annual convention of the. Catholic Tress Association was held.

The Catholic newspaper men began their business promptly at 9 o'clock, us all the preliminaries, such as the presentation of credentials by the various delegates wars concluded last nltht at a meeting of the executive committee of tho association at of tho Long Island Diocese, was the the deal Northern Hotel. Dr. John 1. YVholan, edt- I the til, -11 Father Whelan emphasised tho necessity of securing the co-operation of tho clergy to matce Catholic news papers a success and urged that tin method which had worked out so wel in Brooklyn of having many mem bers of tho clergy act as contribulini large pari of the hier of the convention in the absence of the Rev. Owen T.

MacNell. editor of the Catholic Transcript ot minora, -Veil IS rhaijluill of the Conneclicut inilitia and is on duty the Othe sion today were the Rev. James F. Irwin, the Rev. Ward G.

Meehan, Shlela Malum, the Rev. Joseph Mc- Clancy and Joseph A. Cununings, news editor of the Tablet. Biahon James J. Hartley of Colum bus.

Ohio, delivered the invocation at the opening of the session. Bishop Hartley is the honorary president and spiritual adviser of the association which includes 100 Catholic publications in all parts of the country. The Rev. John J. Burke.

C.S.P., editor of Hi" Catholic World, deliv ered the address of welcome On behalf of the New York This afternoon the newspaper men were addressed by Arthur lienington of Brooklyn and F. A. Wilson-Lawrence, head of tho religious department of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. Mr. Benington, who is an experienced Journalist, read a paper on "Presenting tho News" and gave the newspaper men practical lessons in how to dress up their news, editorial and feature material in an attractive manner for their readers.

Mr. Wilson-Lawrence pointed out to deleeates the benefits which tho publishers of religious Journals could secure by alflhuung Using Clubs of the World. Between the sessions today a luncheon In honor of the delegates was held at the Catholic Club. This evening, at 6 o'clock, the annual dinner of tho association will be held at the Catholic Club, following which the delegates will make an automobile tour of the city. The delegates will hold their final sessions tomorrow morning and afternoon, and in the evening will Island.

The majority of tho delegates oit tn attend the sessions of the other Catholic associations which hold their conventions here. DIES OF PNEUMONIA Bank President's Son III Only a Few Hours. (Special to The Eagle.) Grecnoort. L. August 18 Hugh McBirney, 1C years son of Day McBlrney, president of the Flr.st National Bank of Chicago and Presby- lllnovs at Casino.

S'aelter Island. He was taken 111 suddenly. A specialist was summoned but could not determine the nature of the disease. An autopsy was perienned and it was decided that the patient had died of pneumonia. There war, no paralysis.

88.000 BEDFORD AV. FIRE. A fire, starting from an unknown use, in the four-story brick building lOfo, Bedford avenue, caused J8.00U last evening. Mrs. Anna Cohen, who lives in the rear of the ''i'n fruit, damage siorlt.

while the damage to the building was $3,000. CHILD HIT BY AUTOMOBILE. Eight-year-old Lillian Can- of 1000 anitlin avenue Is in a serious condi tion In the Swedish Hospital as the result of being run down by an automobile at Washington avenue and Malbone street, last night. The auto was driven bv It nth Seiter, 19 years old. of 976 East Ninth street.

Some of the Features of The Sunday Eagle of August 20 WHAT A GENERAL RAILROAD Strike in the United States Would Mean to the People. SAMTKL COMPF.RS, LABOR Federation Pi cm dent, Tells of the Further Unionization of Women. AN EXPERT WRITES OF THE Atlantic Yacht Club Race to lie Held Next Week. MA SOO, A CHINESE RE-former, Who Is a Student at Adclphi College, Tells of the Needs of China. WITH THE SUNDAY EAGLE will be issued a fine art copy ot "The Swing-," by the French artist, A.

Cot, now in the Brooklyn Museum. Union Meeting for B. R. T. Men a Fizzle, but Leaders Chuckle.

SAY THEY FOOLED COMPANY. Advertised the Meeting; to Draw Inspectors From Depots, Where the Real Work Was Done tempt to organize 'the em-f the Brooklyn Rapid Transit was made by William Col- di ration of Labor, and other night in the Labor Lyceum, Willough-by and Myrtle avenues. Surrotindinu the hall were more than 100 inspeo tors, Ftarters and depot superintendents, who had little books In which they made entries as the men passed them on their way Into tho hall. At no time, It is said, wero there mora than ten men In the hall. Although the meeting, which had carried on.

Although only about half a dozen men. watched by inspectors detailed from every line In Brooklyn, ventured to enter the hall, the union organizers expressed a great deal ot optlmlam In spite of the apparent failure of the meeting. What the union organizers who were present at the Labor Lyceum until the small hours uf the morning are particularly satisfied about is the fact that tho company has now assumed a more definite attitude towards organization. The leading spirits in the movement for the formation of a unioi. are now convinced that he Brooklyn Rapid Transit is antagonistic to the organization of Its employees into a union, contrary to reports which have been hitherto spread.

It was claimed by some of the organizers that the meeting had ben called primarily for the purpose of testing the attitude ot the company. Distributed Circular; Says Ho Was Assaulted By B. R. T. Men.

With his head swathed in bandages, and claiming that he had been struck bv a uniformed Brooklyn Rapid Transit employee, Cornelius Shea of 426A enth a ted himself a last night. the forehead and the back of his head. "up' and1 joined in the melee, nellng Shea into unc imsciousness. woke up in a nearby saloon, half an hour later, with an amice surgeon from the Hospital bending over him. ie nils avenue line, claims that he was assaulted by Only Four 15.

It. T. Employees in Uie Hall, Says the Company. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company issued the following statement "The union organizers of New York were unablo to convene their advertised mass meeting in Labor Lyceum Hall last evening, because ol tne lau- ure of tne a. k.

r- near. Tho total attendance or n. n. iceting, other than the superintendents formed inspectors ol the company who gathered in the vicinity of the hall, consisted of two motormen and two conductors. The circular which announced the meeting was to the ef- and would continue until 5 Its purpose v.

as stated to be the enrollment of 'new members, the election of officers and committees to fortnulute demands, At no time were there more than fifteen or twenty men in the hall, of whom the four -were B. R. T. employees, the others, In addition to the union organ- bcing ii-raii'iiijra. maae ro convene a.

mov ing. AUTOMOBILES FOR HIRE TV leotv will I1: li i "'I'-b-. Mr. MAC XJ'-b-'no lbihwick. 11 PROPOSALS FOll BIDS AND ESTI.

1UOIO. A CITY OF NEW YORK. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS, rNSTItUCTlONa TO UIPDEH3. York Churl 111,1,1, i i''1. i'" riVriil.h''" i'v" Si'mT wllh III wl.l, Ii In Inelo.i' th bid, wttniiM tb 'i" 1" llio Cor.

porntlon l-cmiiHi I. i-'Oi J'" I') niil.llr.tloj vvintruvtku vik villi iUo be Been men. GET "THE SWING," SUNDAY Beautiful Free Art Supplement With The Eagle. Cot's "The Swing." sometimes called Sorlngtime" a very delicate painting the French section of the Brooklyn Museum, 11 b- g.v-n nv.ny trei been loaned to tho iv Mrs. E.

L. Good-Ligelow since 1903. LIVING WAGES OF R. R. MEN.

Committee of New Yorkers Sends Appeal to President WINon. That the railroads should be required to pay all their employees living wages, according to the localities which thev live, as well as Justify their present capitalization, is the gist, a letter which has been sent to President Wilson by Frederick L. Cranford, Edward T. Hnrtman. John Hopper, Clarence H.

Ingersoll, Dan Klefer, I roocric i ueuuunww, William Lustgarten, Benjamin C. I Marsh The il An I'll the writers of CO. P. NINE TO BRING Local Committee Meets to Or ganize Campaign-More Local Candidates. i the lagcmont of th paign, will mee 1 Re this afternoon ut the Hamilton to complete the G.

O. I war pit It is expected that the loaders get campaign headquarters In Ri sen street and select the membership of the big campaign committee of or more, winch will probably be announced tomorrow. The Republican leaders will also take up and settlo the few remaining troubles over the selection of local candidates. In conference today and yesterday the leaders practically completed their local slates otherwise, and er mere is mi tho Committee of Nine will not intcr- iiiaries Jacoo Hron-and Charles S. Warbasse, the lead-wlioso districts- are in the Fifth Senatorial District, today chose John F.

W. Classing, a dentist, of 283 Fresl- t. as tne candidate tor Sialc The district is overwhelm ingly Democratic and there Is little chance for the G. O. P.

nominee. Classing comes from Brenner's dis trict, tne I'jtgntii Assembly K-l Assembly selections an- oday were: Second District, rvey of 7 9 Raymond street; (rict, Antonio do Martini of lent street; Seventh District, Uott of 4710 Sixth avenue; li District. Frederick Brehm 'kliolm street, epubllcans of the Twenty-Wlbly District, after a hard led the Bull Moose indorse-their Assembly candidate, best nigl Committer TO FINISH B. R. T.

STATIONS. llids for Work on Manhattan Tube to Be Opened. Bids for the nation finish work on three stations of the Brooklyn Rapid work within six Month, RED CROSS SHIPMENTS. i. Sheets and Hospital Supplies Go to Allies.

American Red Cross shipped and uOd pairs of hoi VS IN KAST RIVER, fielding, employed O'Rourke Company It the East River turn GET MAN on ROBBER'S CHARGE Dominlck Anzren, 23 years of age, of 23C Metropolitan avonfio, wanted for assaulting and robbing Ignalz schcudei of 3ai Metropolitan avenue, was picked up today by Detectives Kelly and Cargan In McCarren Park. Buffering from loss of blood. Sebeudel hi attacked bv Anzeen. Sebeudel 'siiilant. who I inch in lured.

1 although injured. Orders "Cold Storage" Put on 650,000,000 Eggs Atttliat 11 -An ordci Ohn Dillon. State of Food und Market estimated i in Buffalo and 660,600,000 In thai. State, and It sold that If the I order enforced as it Is understood I here More would be a sharp advance in pries this fall. The retnovil of each gg from Its original container, i for stumping at the old storage ware-j I houses, would require tho scrv- 1 lot I of a small army of men, It was The dealer" In cold storage egguM r-re grav, nr.

-nod about this new- I taafM 'aw, requlrlni that uii iggs lei for fresh eggs, mi sonny, but cc stamping 6o I a lot of tgga." Ml ro lor. TUMAL DMlOMt. iVMJfj I'LUiLuits..