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14 THREE CENTS. STIRRING SNOW SCENES IN AND AROUND BROOKLYN TO-DAY. MOAN HIM UP," SEVERE COLO SNAP LIKELY TO FOLLOW IN ME OF SNOW SAYS COLLECTOR LOEB; EXPECTED Drop of 14 to 15 Degrees in Temperature Expected by Officials of Weather Bureau. Had Sugar Trust Secretary in Mind as Official Who Probably Would Have to Stand Trial. FOOD SUPPLIES HELD UP.

GRATIFIED AT JURY ACTION. Vehicular Traffic Most Affected by Snow Downfall Accidents and Deaths Many in Storm. Heike Ig the Highest Refining Company Official Yet Charged With Participation in Sugar Frauds. Washington, January 16 "Helke is 'the man bigber up' whom all along I have bad in mind as the official who probably would be Indicted," said Collector of tha Port William Loeb, of New York, In speaking of the Indictments yesterday against Charles R. Helke, secretary of the American Sugar Refining Company West End Train Caught Behind Snowdrift on Harway Avenue, Between TJlmer Park and Coney Island.

and five officials for partlcupatlon in the sugar trust frauds In New York. Loeb declared that there was no The First Long Island Eailrcad Train to Plow Its Way Through the Drifts Into L. I. City To-day. Local Treather forecast Pair 4o-nla-ht and Knndayt colder 4o-night dlnilnlahliig; northwest winds.

A cold snap calculated to take a fall of fourteen or fifteen degrees out of the mercury Is the next thing on the weather menu that the productive West Is serving to New York. The big storm, gathering fury as It passed over the city, swept out to sea this morning over Long Island, drawing from the east a gale that reached a velocity of a mile a minute during the night at Block Island. For New York the storm brought the biggest snowfall In eleven years. As officially measured at the weather bureau to-day, the fall was 14.6 Inches. It exceeded that of the Christmas storm by one-half inch, and that of any storm since the Lincoln's birthday blizzard of 1899, when there was a fall of 15.5 Inches.

The blizzard of 1888 had a snowfall of 20.9 inches. The storm that ended to-day was the heaviest for the month of January on one else "higher up" that he had In mind in that connection. He expressed keen gratification over the results of the Investigation that had been conducted Into STUDENTS IN PITCHED BATTLE. Eepublican Students Drive Their Ad AFTEO FIGHT WITH STORM His to versaries Out of the Sorbonne. Paris, January 15 A long series of disorders at the law school of the Sorbonne fomented by Royalist Catholic students, culminated to-day in a pitched battle between the political partisans The Republican students fought their adversaries with their fists and drove them out of the building.

The Sorbonne. a building erected In 1629 by Cardinal Richelieu for the theological faculty of tho University of Paris. 1b now devoted chiefly to the faculties of literature, science. Jurisprudence and medicine. In 1808 the Sorbonne was the wrongdoing In the New York customs service.

Although Mr. Loeb declared he was in Washington for the present Rttendlng to some private affairs, he found occasion to spend a god deal of his time at the Treasury Department, where he consulted with officials regarding matters In tho New York custom house. It Is Mr. Loco's intention to remain In Washington until Sunday. Is Highest Sugar Official Yet Charged With Complicity in Frauds Against Government.

Honor Was Forced Spend Night at Hicksville. record. ENJOYED THE EXPL. made the seat of the University of France but in 1898 it onco more became the University of Paris. Five Meet Death Due to Storm.

Five persons lost their lives in the storm. One man, an employe of an electric lighting company, was blown from the Queensboro Bridge, another died of exposure after walking across the Williamsburg Bridge. A third fell down In a snowdrift, was stabbed by a knife which he carried In his pocket, and bled to death. A fourth died ot exposure and freezing at Lynbrook, L. and a fifth, a track-walker on the Sixth avenue elevated road, in Manhattan, was run down by a train and killed.

There were numerous accidents, including that In which Saddened by Accident to Charles E. Shepard, Badly llurt in Fall From Trestle. The Brighton Beach Embankment Loo ked Like an Arctic Waste, but Trains Kept Running. LONSDALE LOSES FAITH IN COOK Heceived Letter Mailed in Spain on nest I.OCAt, WKAT1IKH Fnlr to-nla-lit to nlghti dlml If Br n-iiil Mayor Gaynor this morning gave his version ot his experience and that of Charles E. Shepard on the railroad tres December 24, but Has Heard Nothing From Him Since.

tle near Hicksville, L. last nlght.whlch resulted In serious Injury to Mr. Shepard Copenhagen. January 15 Walter Lons Charles R. Helke, secretary of the American Sugar Refining Company, who was Indicted yesterday by the federal grand Jury in Manhattan for complicity in the underwelghing frauds for which several humbler employes of the company have already been convicted and sentenced, Is the first high official to be Involved In the sugar fraud esses.

Ever alnce tha government lawyers have been pursuing the prosecution of the so-called sugar trust, the trail they have been following has slowly conducted them to the offices of the company on lower Wall street. The flret to be indicted for the underwelghing frauds were checkers and weighers on the docks of the Havermeyer Elder Refinery In Williamsburg. Then Oliver Spltsor. dock superintendent, was caught in the net. dale is the most recent of the former associates and employes of Dr.

Frederick A. Cook to admit a distrust of the man editor of the Lor h. decided After lr. Sb Mayor Gayno-one of the what help he i unconscious and tu. trainman, who had trestle, led down the editor was called to a out to help aud who arrived The mayor and Shepard, accompanied by Mr.

Gaynor's eldest daughter, had left a train that became stalled in a buge snowdrift near Syosset, and In trying to walk back to Hicksville through tha deep whose claim to the discovery of the North Mayor Gaynor and Charles E. Shepard suffered severe exposure on Leag Island. The snowfall stopped at 10:20 o'clock to-day, nearly thirty-six hours after it started. There was an Intermission during the night that greatly aided the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company in keeping its lines open, and there was. fortunately, little difficulty In respect to transit in the morning rush hours.

Less than three Inches of snow fell during tha snow Mr. Shepard, weakened by tha rut them get to Hicksville. at that moment. The train was backed up ting wind which came with terrific force Pole was rejected by the University ot Copenhagen. Lonsdale was private secretary to United States Minister Egan up to the time of the arrival here of Dr.

Cook, with whom he then associated him over the unbroken fields, fell off the trestle, to tho ground breaking his left leg to the trestle, and. as the Mayor explained. Mr. Shepard was taken to Hicksville. This morning Mr.

Shepard was placed on a litter and carried to the Grand Cen and one of his ribs. The reports carried self In a similar confidential capacity. He accompanied the explorer to the in the morning papers made It appear night, though twelve inches had been plied up yesterday. that Mayor Gaynor himself suffered se United States, made the typewritten duplicate of the Polar records and brought tral Hotel at Hicksville, where he Is now resting quietly, and Dr. E.

G. Rave, who Is attending him. says that he will re- cover If pneumonia does not develop as a verely from his experience, that he had bed both ears frozen, and was so badly New York City Gets Brunt of Storm. The City of New York bore the brunt used up that he had to be helped to the home of Dr. Adolph G.

Rave, ot Hicks 'A' I vllle. result of exposure. Mr. Shepard Is among the leading citizens of Huntington. He is editor of tho Long Islander, one of the oldest papers on the island, of which Walt Whitman was the founder.

He Is prominently con the data here for the examination by the university committee. He has remained loyal to his employer until now. when he says he Is beginning to doubt him. Lonsdale states that he received a letter from Cook under date of December 24 and mailed from a city In Southern Spain. According to thlB letter.

Cook was on the sea from December 1 to December 24, and accordingly was not acquainted with the decision of the examining committee "I never was near death at all," Mayor Gaynor told his secretary, Robert Adam- of the storm on the Atlantic coast, and got the deepest snow of any of the big cities in the east. BoBton and Philadelphia did not get much more than half the burden that the metropolis had to shoulder. The fall was heavy, however, in Pennsylvania, central New York and Ohio, son, over the telephone this morning. In nected with the religious, educational aul contradiction of a statement In the morn business affairs of his community, and Is ing papers. "It was a very enjoyable ex a leader In all things tending to tho advancement of the Island in general and I perience." Huntington In particular.

Of course, the msyor only meant to Cold Snap Follows in Wake of Snow. Trailing the storm in the West Is clear He has been a member ot tne tagie have that remark apply to himself. He Fulton Street Was Cleaned Early, While the Trolleys Used Livingston St. reportorial staff for the psst fifteen when the letter was written. Since the receipt of this letter.

Lonsdale Bays he has heard nothing from Cook, thortgh he has addressed several telegrams to him at a point where he thought the explorer could be reached. Lonsdale estimates that Cook cleared from the exploitation of his Arctic reputation. vears. and lias a wme acquaintance weather and a cold wave. In Pittsburg and Binghamton there has been a tcu throughout the Borough of Queens.

degree fall of temperature In twenty-four MAY BE LOMAS BOY MURDERER NEGRESS AT SOCIETY BALL. DID GAYNOR WEAR MITTENS? Joseph Bendernagel, the cashier of the Eastern District Refinery, was the next to be indicted for complicity in the frauds and during his trial last November and December his superior, Ernst W. Gerbracht, was arraigned. Gerbracljt, the highest official of the company to be caught in the dragnet of the government prosecutors up to yes-terdsy, was In supreme charge of the Kastern District Refinery, but Special Attorney General Henry L. Stimson, who Is conducting ie caso against the trust for the was not content to rest with Gerbraeht's arraignment and trial.

That he has secured lh- dlctment Secretary Heike Indicates that the trail he has been pursuing for so many months has ul last Jumped the East River. Heike Signed Company's Recent Annual Beport. Heike is the officer who signed the annual report of the directors of the American Sugar Refining Company, which has en used as an advertisement during tho past few days. The significant feature of this report was the slatf unt that tho "board has no reason to belie und does not believe that any executive oiacer or director of this company had any knowledge of or participation in this fraudulent underwelghing." Tho indictment of-Helke, coming hard upon the heels of hours. In the lake region the temperature is around zero.

The South, too, is In the grip of a cold wave. There is freezing weather as far to the south as That's What Edward F. Linton Would ROOSEVELT WRITES OF FIGHT. Man Answering Description of One Sought by Police Fought His Way Out of a Cellar. Wore Mask and Danced With Several Men Escaped When Face Coverings Were Removed.

Gcorgta and Alabama, and those states have experienced a fall In temperature Like to Know He Gave a Pair to Mayor. that reached 26 degrees at Macon, lia. It was the expectation of local weather Wonders if Jeffries Can Get Back Into Form, He Says in a letter. Forecaster Scarr to-day that the ther Edward P. Linton, the well known East mometer would fall to 12 or 14 degrees in this citv by to-morrow morning.

The N'ew York real estate operator, Is wondering If Mayor Gaynor wore the pair of Buffalo, January 15 Theodore Roose velt's consideration of old friends and his love of a fighter and a good fight haven't Alfred Gilks, 19 years old. who Is the son of the janitor of an apartment house at 601 West One Hundred and Seventy-eighth street. Manhattan, reported to the police of the West One Hundred and Fifty-second street station this morning that as he was fixing the furnaces in the cellar at 5:30 o'clock today he found a man In tho store room, adjoining the cellar. He said that this mnn answered the description of the man who shot nnd killed little Robert Lomas St. Louis.

January 15 An unidentified negress made merry for an hour last night as a guest at a society masked ball at the Century Boat Club. Before she was discovered she had danced with several unsuspecting men, and the club officials are now looking for the person responsible for her appearance at tho function. Handsomely dressed and wearing a headmask and long gloves, she appeared on the floor during a "spook" dance when the lights were low. and accepted minimum during the storm last night was 22 degrees, as recorded at the weather bureau. There was a rise of three degrees during the forenoon, in Brooklyn the temperature at noon was 28.

Fifteen thousand men are at work for the Street Cleaning Department to-day, cleaning the streets of the city. Commissioner Edwards got them to work early, and had them going as fast as the bosses could make tnem an effort to get as much as possible of the snow out of the way before tho severe cold sets In. Freezing weather hinders the work of Bnow removal, and a cold snap after the been changed any by his African trip, as a letter from him received by Tony Gavin, former Rough Rider, testifies. Gavin frequently corresponded with Colonel Roosevelt when he was President. Some months ago he wrote to him In Africa.

Ho has received the following reply: "Africa, on Safari. "Here Is the flower for Alberta. I wish her share of attention from that time and wouuded Arthur Shibley. in Man hattan. two days ago.

and although he i on. When the time came to unmask, she at grappled with him. the man threw him vf H' tempted to flee, but some person grabbed to the ground and ran away through the back door. on tne nead-coverlng. The guests gasped, but nobody made any effort to detain her.

mittens which Mr. L.inton sent mm ine other day, in the exciting experience he hod in the snow storm of yesterday. Mr. Linton was gratified when he learned that the only uncomfortable incident the mayor encountered In trying to walk back from the snowbound train to Hlrks-villo was a frostbitten ear. Mr.

Linton Is sure that the mayor saved his hands by wearing the mittens. The Linton mittens are not of the ordinary kind. They come from Maine, where they were bought at a country fair from all old womsn who herself had knit them. Mr. Linton bought four pairs.

He has been using a pair himself and when he read that his friend. Mayor Gaynor, was also in the habit of protecting his hands on a cold day with a pair of woolen mittens during the journeys from his Brooklyn home over tho bridge to the City Hall In Manhattan, he came to tho conclusion that the mayor would welcome as an appropriate gift a pair of tho Maine mittens. In tendering the gift Mr. Linton sent the mayor the following letter: "Brooklyn. N.

January 10. 1910. "Honorable William J. Oaynort "Dear friend Theso mittens are made from wool, raised, carded, spun and kult on a farm In Litchfield. Maine.

"Were bought at a country fair from an old lady, whose bony hands knit them. I could have sent It with many returns, on her birthday. It was good to hear from you. That must have been a rattling fight between Ketchel and Johnson. Johnson Is unquestionably a first class fighter; I wonder If Jim Jeffries can get back Into form; If he can, it will be a tremendous battle when they meet." nun assertion, snows mat a serious difference of opinion upon this point exls's betwee-i the board of Directors and Mr.

StfmBon. Five employes of the company are named in various counts in the Indictment returned against Heike. Four of these have been Indicted before. Harry W. Walker, assistant dock superintendent under Spilzer.

Is the new man who has teen indicted with Heike. The four who have already been Indicted are Ernst W. Gerbracht, formerly general superintendent; James F. Iiendernagle, formerly cashier; Jean M. Voelker and James F.

Halllgan, checkers, now awaiting trial. At the recent trial of Bendernaglo the Jury disagreed. Voelker's trial was severed from that at which TURKISH TROOPS FOR CRETE. PAUPER LEAVES $100,000. Aged Woman Left Word to Have Dagger Thrust Through Heart.

storm is capaDto oi aaaing jiuu.uou or $200,000 to the snow removal bill presented to the taxpayers. Vehicular Traffic Most Hampered by Snow. The most serious effect of the storm -was not the tying up of local transit lines. It was the hindrance that the deep snow brought to business traffic. Trucking was impeded in every quarter of tho city, and food supplies were all belated in The trains from the West pulled into tho city terminals two to three hours late, and the slow trucking from the terminals added another two or three hours to the delay in delivery to the consumer.

TETANUS FBOM FROZEN FEET. Serum to Be Administered in St. Louis Charles E. Shepard. expressed himself as deeply grieved over tho accident that befell Mr.

Shepard. Ha said It was most unfortunate, and that he did all he could to relieve Shepard from his suffering. The mayor denied that he found himself exhausted by the long walk back to Hicksville. There was no truth in that statement, he said. He felt Just as strong and vigorous as he does when he walks Also Wanted Body Kept Ten Days and Cremated Money for Charitable Institutions.

12,000 Held in Readiness to Be Sent There. Berlin, January 15 A despatch to tho Cologne Gazette from Constantinople says that the Turkish government is holding 12.000 troops In readiness to bo sent to Crete. The Porto recently addressed a note lo the Powers protesting against an alleged new violation of the sovereign rights of the Sultan through the Cretan executlvo committee taking tho oath of members of the "roly-poly'" gang were indicted, because he was said to be too 111 to appear at court, and Gerbracht is out Pittsburg. January 13 'Thrust a dagger through my heart three times to make I bought four pair, all she had. She was Many Householders Deprived of Milk and Other Food Supplies.

Milk trains on the New York Central, the Krle and the Delaware and Lacka u. uiai on a previous Indictment. (Aurbracht and Bendernagle are men who have been respected in their respective neighborhoods In Brooklyn The latter was recently re-elected president of the trustees of the Eastern District Hospital and the latter was re-elected a director of a local bank. sure 1 am dead. Let my body lie ten days, cremate it then and bury the ashes in over tne uroomyn uriage to tne city Hall on a cold morning.

The mayor said Hospital. St. Louis, January 15 Three deaths at the city hospital from tetanus, following frozen feet, within tho last few days, have aroused the physicians at the institution to the dangers of chilled extremities, and all casea hereafter will be given anti-tetanus serum. Tetanus from this cause was unknown among the hospital attaches until this week. The three men who have died wero livery stable employes.

Their cases were not thought serious, but would not yield to treatments, tetanus finally causing their deaths. that Mr. Shepard was not carried back to Allegheny were the written Instructions found with the body of Laura White, single, aged C5 yours, a supposed pauper, living aloue, who discovered early to-day in a room with so astontanea ami pienaeu mat ne remembered mo In her prayers until her death. "They are the real thing. "Please accept them with my best wishes.

If too gay they could be covered With thin silk, any shade desired. "I sent a pair to our old friend Cod-man. "Sincerely, Heike Indictment Contains Several nnegianco to King George and the adoption of a resolution by the Cretan Assembly to introduce the Hellenic code of laws. Replies have been received from Great Britain and Russia, both of which express regret at the policy of the Cretans and intimating that measures were under way to prevent any further acts of a similar nature. Counts.

The new Indictment Is simllsr to the Hicksville on a litter. He instructed a trainman to have the train back down to where Mr. Shepard was lying, and tho Injured man was taken to Hicksville on the train. Secretary Adamson said that the mayor told him that he stayed at Dr. Rave's house, where he and Mr.

Shepard were given shelter until after midnight, ministering to the wants ot his injured companion. Karly this morning he had a good long walk In the snow. Mayor Gaynor prolonged his walk a little longer than the railroad peoplo cx- five locks upon tha door, her badly decomposed body half eaten up by rats. Police found bonk books and a will disposing ot floO.OuO to local charitable institutions In a trunk in the poorly furnished house. Canceled checks In the woman's clothing ranged in amounts from 17 cents to $1,000.

Real estate held by the woman is located in Indiana, Montana and California. The will found by the polico makes special request that "competent medical authority exumiuo her body for ten days" to ascertain to a certainty that death has occurred, leaving $50 for this service. The doctor stabbing her heart three times is to receive $20. Detectives are searching for possible relatives. GEN.

JEFFRIES ACQUITTED. Panama, January 15 General Herbert O. Jeffries, who, last August, struck William Nichols Chandler, editor of the Panama Press, on the head with a large revolver, from tho effects of which Chandler died, was tried yesterday and acquitted of the charge of rturder. The killing was tho result of an article printed in tho newspaper reflecting upon one of General Jeffries' women relatives. pecleu, wnu iiuu ti uuui iauyanu waning "EPWAKU l' L1XTON." Tho mayor was immensely pleased by the gift.

It brought back to him memories of his boyhood days when he wore mittens which were spun from the wool clipped from tho sheep on the Gaynor farm, as is shown by his letter to Mr. Linton acknowledging the gift. "City of New York. "Office of the Mayor. "January 13, 1910.

"My dear Mr. Linton I thank you very much for the mittens, made of wool raised, carded, spun and knit by an old lady In Maine, as you Inform me. I wore mittens Just like them when a boy. the wool of which was 'rom our own sheep, to taKe nini dsck to uroomyn at 11:16 wanna roads were uniformly some two hours behind schedules. The result, witn the difficulty ot getting the morning's supply across the city to the delivery depots, was that hundreds of thousands of Brooklyn residents had to wait three or four hours for their milk.

The Campbell and the Stevens companies, which together deliver some 120.000 quarts of milk daily in Brooklyn, had to hire a seor.i of exira teams and men to get their supply to this borough In anything like mornin.t hours. The Long Island Railroad was more badly crippled than the interior railroads. The snowfall on the Uland was, as heavy, if not heavier, than it was In New York, and tho drifts piled upon the tracks during the night in a way to completely tie up trains and trolley cars, and stall them miles from the homes of I heir passengers. Practically every trolley line on Long Island reported cars stalled In the drifts, and passengers hail either to spend the night In the cars, as they did in Brooklyn Christmas night, or find shelter in farmhouses. Long Island Trains Stalled.

Five Long Island trains were stalled at Hicksville. in tho vicinity of whicli LIFE BUOY OF MISSING BARK. Victoria, B. January IS News was brought by the Bteamer Moona of a possible solution to the mystery of tho disappearance of the British bark Silber-horn which left Newcastle for Iquique on January 1907, and never reached port. A life buoy, marked "Silber-horn, Liverpool," was found by settlors on Pltcairn Island, the latter part of November.

this morning. Mr. Gaynor finally put in an appearance at 11:40 and boarded th train, which had been kept waiting for him all that time. otners in lorm. It is Known as a blanket indictment and contains six counts, four charging tho effecting of false entry nnd two alleging conspiracy to do-fraud the government.

Secretary Heike's part In the fraud, according to the indictment, Is 'hat on July 29, 1907, In pu juance of a conspiracy, ho indorsed a check for $1,111.03 drawn on the assistant treasurer of the United States by the customs officials, payable to the order of the American Sugar Refining Company. ThlB sum, It is alleged, was In excess of the deposits of duty made by tt company, while, in fact. It was a portion of the duties lawfully due the United States. In addition to tho charge of receiving fal-i rebates, Secretary Hoiks Is also accused of having knowledgo of various false entries of weights made, on the docks by the other men Indicted with hlin. All of the men indicted yesterday will be arraigned In the federal building In Manhattan in Monday Tho Mayor 8 experience resulted General Jeffries is a graduate of West Point and has been prominent in nearly every revolution for many years past In Central America.

Chandler hailed from at the card nines Winsboro, South Carolina. DIED OF PELLAGRA. Chicago. January 15 Mrs. Sadie Clem 'and- away, and spun an have from an effort on his part to go to St.

James, where his coutry home is, yesterday. Ho took a train at 7 o'clock for Ihnt village, but the heavy drifts stalled it a mile east of Hicksville. The mayor got out and walked to Hicksville. Later ho decided to come back to Brooklyn, and he boarded another train bound in that direction. This, too.

became stalled, this time near Syosset. The mayor and his daughter got nut to walk back to Hicksville. Mr. Shepard, who is tb.4 GAS KILLS AN ACROBAT. Ottomar BorsinI, 20 years old.

member of a troupe of acrobats, mado up of himself, his mother and tlire brothers, died early to-day In a furnished room house ens died ot pellagra. yesterday, in the "The 24-llnnr St. I.oaln." The beRt train to the Southwest. Leaves New York 6:25 P-M. to-day.

arrives St. Louis OR. State Hospital for the Insane, at Elgin, to which she was committed from Cook County, two years ago. Two other In mother and mother changed since. "Sincerely yours, "Kdward F.

Lintoi "S9il Atlantic i "Brooklyn, at 349 Kant Twentieth street. Manhattan, P.M. to-morrow. ThrouKh sleeping car to Cln. clnnati and Cleveland.

Pennsylvania Railroad. N. from the metis of lunaiiug uiuniiuatiug mates have succumbed to the disease at Mayor Gaynor had a hard experience. Phont "10J2 Madison Square." Adv. the institution.

pat. train moved in either direction, east or.