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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-10-22
Would Be Boon

Any guy who would invent some
thing effective to take the cut out OF
\ the cutworm would be sure Of ever.
lasting tame.-Boston Globe. \
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
YUAN'S FOES BLAMED
FOR TALK OF CROWN
Plot to Defeat China's Presi-
dent for Second Term,
Is Belief.

Washington, Aug. 17.-Peking dis
patches disclosing the probability OF
President Yuan Shih-kai proclsiming
himself Emperor of China have pre-
Nd officials hero for agitation of that
project by society of Chinese not
ay!rs. There has been no official re-
port from the American Legation.
State Department officials view the
movement as in an elementary stage.
The extreme republican. element IN
China is large and active. DR.. Sun
Yat-Sen, now in exile, has strong in
Auence with his own party at home:
and is receiving support, morally and
financially, from thousands OF Chinese
in the United States. His influence
would be sufficient TO start formidable
measures to preserve the republic.
Some officials here think the new
movement has been engineered by enc
mics OF Yuan Shih-kai, 20 defeat him
for a second term as President.
Japan's attitude toward a monarchy
probably would be adverse, as the Jap
anese so far have induced the republic
can government 70 satisfy their de-
mands. Should the new movement de-
velop il is believed there would be
little ground for interference by the
United States.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
CONSIDINE HELD
AS GAMBLING AID
Arrest in Bookmaking Case I'm
covers Evidence of Betting
i'm Cafes.

Charges made recently by The Trib-
une that gamblers were making hand
books in cafes on the races, with the
knowledge of the owners of such
places, were verified yesterday in the
arrest of William II. Considine, in his
cafe at Forty-second Street and Broad
way. He was charged with permit
ting a handbook maker to operate IN
his place OF business.
George w. Lyon was arrested on
August IL in Considine's cafe, charged
with making a book on the Saratoga
races. During his examination enough
evidence was brought out for Detee-
tives Brady and Morris TO arrest Con-
sidine, who was arraigned before
Magistrate Krotel in the York ville
Court and held in $500 bail for Il
hearing on Friday
Tribune Investigators found hand
book men operating openly. In one
place a gambler was pointed out 10
The Tribune men, and a bet was made,
but outside the premises. In Consl-
dimes cafe severa handbook opera
tors were recognized. As far north as
l04th Street and west Of Eighth Ave
nue. there are more than twenty-five
places where wAgers can be placed.
In Harlem the same condition exists.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
GOAT ENTHUSIAST
BUTTS POLICEMAN
Annoying Pets Put Him in Jail
Freed Yesterdays Now in
Observation Ward.

Somebody is always getting James
Murdock's goat As soon as he got out
of Raymond Street Jail Yesterday he
went straight 70 his home at Avenue
W and West Seventh Street. Gravesend,
Brooklyn. He began to call for Willie.
his pet, crooked-horned goat.
Now Willie and ffty-eleven other
goats formerly owned by Murdoch had
been eating four tons of hay at Peter
Bufalo's livery stable, while their owner
served his sentence. He had been sent
TO Jail because of frequent complaints
from his neighbors against his goats.
In searching for the livery stable
Murdoch ran across Patrolman Robert
Walker, of the Sheepshead Bay sta
ton. Perhaps Murdoch thought he
could get even by getting the police
mans goat. He got down on his hands
and knees and proceeded to butt the
COP.
Now he's looking for goats in the OBJ
seryation ward at Kings County Hospi-
tai
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
TRAIL OF RUIN
TN GALVESTON
Storm Wrecks Buildings,
Sewers Communications,
losses Ships Ashore.

Dallas, Tex, Aug. 17.-Wireless mes
sages from Galveston tonight give the
only direct news from that storm
stricken city. No definite news of loss
of life has been reported, but the des-
perate situation in which the citizens
of Galveston found themselves was in
dictated vaguely by the statement in a
late afternoon radiogram that boats
were taking persons from buildings on
the main streets to the United States
transport Buford. Water in the build
ings was reported to be three feet deep.
The tropical hurricane which swept
down on the island city yesterday ex-
tended its devastation inland to-day,
and wire comm dnication tonight was
impossible beyond Waco, that town be-
ing absolutely cut off from the coast
country.
Beaumont, Houston, Taylor, Temple
and other cities of southeast Texas
were thought TO have been hard hit by
the storm, late reports from those
places telling Of unroofed buildings,
uprooted trees and other damage. Be-
cause of the lack of wires, railroad
traffic TO the storm-swept district was
al a standtill. $
Although late reports indicated that
the storm was subsiding in Galveston
and that the water had started to drain
slowly from the streets, there was no
prospect that wire communication
might be restored for several days.
Hundreds of miles of wires are broken
and thousands of poles blown down.
The greatest damage in Galveston is
believed to have occurred in districts
fronting the sea. All buildings on the
waterfront were ruined. Vessels caught
in the harbor also suffered heavily.
The army transport Mcclellan was re-
ported ashore half a mile inland. The
giant waves thrown up by the storm
carried large and small craft alike far
beyond the usual beach boundaries.
Farms on the coastal plains I'M
doubtedly suffered severe damage. and
many villages in the path of the storm
have not been heard from since early
yesterday.
At Waco, 200 miles northwest Of
Galveston, the barometer was falling
early tonight and gale was blowing
with unabatinR force. indicating, ac-
cording to the Weather Bureau, that
the storm centre was approaching that
part Of the state.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
in RAGE, SLASHES
WIFE; ENDS LIFE
Feared She Would Leave Him,
Suicide Clasps to the
Police.

Enraged and jealous because his wife
Anna. aged ffty-four. threatened to
leave their home. at 46l Thirty-sixth
Street. Brooklyn, Jacob PAIL, who was
sixty-eight. attacked her with a razor,
cut her throat. struck her on the head
with a hammer. and then cut his own
throat yesterday. He died before he
could give a statement. Surgeons at
the Norwegian Hospital said last night
that Mrs. PAIL had chance of recov-
cry.
According TO Rosie Wolff, the wite's
daughter by a former marriage, domes-
tic war had reigned in the home ever
since her mother married PAIL, six
months ago.
Yesterday noon he sent Rosie TO buy
milk and meat for dinner. During her
absence he attacked his wife. She
graDpled with him. Failing &c break
Ter hold BY hacking at her wrists with
the razor. PAIL grabbed a clawhammer
and brought IL down upon his wife's
head. Even with compound fracture
of the skull. she did not lose conscious
ness, but staggered to the street. where
she was found by bootblack.
In his dying gasps PAIL tried TO ex-
plain to a policeman that his wife had
threatened 70 leave him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
ONLY ONE BID
FOR GREENHUT'S
S1,100,000 Offer of J. N.
fairfield TO Go to
Creditors.

The assets of the ]. p. Greenhut
Company department store were auc-
toned off Yesterday under the super
vision of Peter B. Olney, referee in
bankruptcy. Joseph NJ fairfield, Of
the law firm of White & Case, attor-
neys for holders of bonds of the bank
rupt firm to the amount of s5,5O0,OO0,
bid Sl,I00,000 in the aggregate on he
various parcels SET forth in the decrea
of sale. There were no other bidders,
though more than one hundred per-
sons, including creditors and their At
torneys. we're present.
Mr.. fairfield, at the suggestion OF
Referee Olney, explained at the close
of the bidding that the entire amount
of creditors claims would probably
reach Sl0,000,000, year being allowed
creditors in which to file. The sac
cessful bidders, il was announced, are
to pay 2212 per cent of the claims or
all creditors, which means an outlay
of about S2.250,000. Taxes, cost OF adj
ministration, trustees and attorneys
will be paid, Mr.. fairfield announced.
The bidding was done for individual
parcels and in bulk. The property bid
for consisted of real estate, leaseholds,
merchandise, goodwill, trademark, etc,
and was offered in eighteen parcels.
Mr.. fairfield announced that the re-
organization committee would like to
have the store reopened in time for
fall purchasing. His bid, he said,
would allow the creditors of the bank
rupt TO be paid partially in two ways.
Either they could receive 22ia per cent
Of their claims down in cash or they
could take 1914 per cent Gown and Is
per cent in stock of the new company.
There is now no obstacle to j. b.
Greenhut's plan to reorganize. Cap
tain Greenhut will carry on the nusi-
ness himself The name OF the COM
pany will be similar 10 the old one.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
OR DE-"
HER SERENADE
Wife Has Admirer Arrest
ed for Alleged Threats
Against Her Life.

Mrs. H. Douglas Potter, of 205 West
103d Street, wife of a prominent in
surance man, appeared in court last
night and testified that Joseph MOCHA,
a liquor dealer ard real estate man Of
Hoboken, threatened her and her hus-
band with death last Thursday night
unless she eloped with him.
She saw MOCHA near her apartment
again yesterday, and fearing further
trouble called policeman and had him
arrested. Sh, was questioned by Magls-
trate Appleton and admitted that she
haG known MOCHA for several years and
had visited Coney Island with him
many tines, as well as cafes about
town.
Last Thursday he came to our
apartment" said Mrs. Potter, land
threatened to kill me and my husband
unless I came out to him. He made so
much noise that the cntire house was
aroused. Finally he was made to leave
the building, BIZ. not before he threat
ened the superintendent with death
also.
81 have known him for some time
and have given money to him at times.
On June IA my lawyer gave him a
Oh k for 500 which MIR. Potter had
maue ouI " HlS' Sie"SN - WV w
him"
"Did your husband know you were
going to these amusement resorts with
this man." asked the magistrate.
Certainly not" replied Mrs. Potter.
"Why did you do this?" was the next
question.
Mrs. Potter did not answer.
MOCHA then testified.
81 have known Mrs. Potter for three
and =. half years" he said "She for
merly was in the theatrical business.
met hel one night at a cabaret. She
had beckoned me to come over to her
box, and we had some cocktails. | got
TO know her better as time went on
ana we went out together quite fire.
ouently. She told me that she was a
married woman.
81 admit that she gave me that check,
and | took it because | needed the
money for real estate transaction.
But this is nothing compared TO what
| have given her-a diamond pendant,
which she is rot wearing this evening,
your honor; quantities of silk dresses
and innumerable silk stockings.
"Mrs. Potter seemed 20 be interested
in & cabaret opening in Hoboken last
Thursday, and ! came to he: apartment
to ask her to 60 there with me. | had
been drinking and may have been in
toxicated, but | am sure | did not
threaten 10 kill her and her husband or
the superintendent"
Magistrate Appleton then found
MOCHA guilty of disorderly conduct and
put him on bond of $500 not to break
the peace again and not to visit Mrs.
Potter for three months.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
BIG BILL COvETS
SHERIFF'S BADGE
Ex-Street Cleaning Head
Will Try to Get Demo
cratic Nomination.
TAMMANY AGAINST
PERKINS, REELECTION
Murphy, Seeing Free Field, SAID
to Favor Judge Swami for
District Attorney.

big Bill" Edwards is TO be a can
didate for the Democratic nomination
for Sheriff in this county. He is get
ting together a select list Of friends 10
political and otherwise within a
few days will make public his cam
paign committee.
Charles F. Murphy, holding his sec
ond Eat home" OF the season in Tam
many Hall yesterday, heard the news
that the former guard of Princeton's
victorious football team was 70 try TO
cross the Sheriff denomination line for
a touchdown. IL worried the seasoned
director of the Democratic destinies
in this courtyard at times in other
counties-not a little biz. big Bill
wasn't his candidate. so why should he
care?
As a matter of fact, friends Of the
aspirant for political honors declare
he is not worrying because Murphy is
not for him. They SO so far as TO
state that Mr.. Edwards intended 10 be
an anti-organization candidate at thc
primaries, anyway
Word was passed around among the
faithful at the Hall yesterday that all
talk Of Tammany indorsing District
attorney Perkins for reelection must
cease. Support was suggested by
Chairman Mccall of the Public Ser
vice Commission, ard Murphy thought
we'll of il so long as it seemed that
there might be general fusion
against Tammany Hall. But nothing
has been done to bring about fusion,
end Tammany is satisfied that II can
cleo. its own candidate for the prinei-
pal Office 10 be filed this fall.
Some Of the leaders are inclined TO
think that Murphy favors the candi-
dacy of Judge Edward Swami, of the
Court Of General Sessions. They ar
que that. with his seat on the bench
at 81 500 a year, the judge would not
be likely TO put his hat in the ring
for the nomination for District Attor-
ney without having some sort of as
surance that he had something more
than an even show.
Friends of Assistant District Attor-
ney James A. Delehanty presented his
name to the "Bos,' FOR consideration
Yesterday. They said that the fact
him in the District Attorneys office,
although he was an Independent Demo-
crat, ought to make him strong with
the Independents.
Charles w. Culkin, leader of the 5th
Assembly District, entered Richard J.
Delaney in the race for the Sherif's
nomination. Mr. Delaney is an under
taker, and ran for Coroner in the last
municipal election. Ii Judge Swami
is to. be the candidate for District At
turney. Delaney viii probably have no
chance. as the Swami boom has been
allowed to emanatc from the 5th Dis
trict, which is old Greenwich Village.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
FIRE DEPARTMENT..

The following VIII report to Frng. 4 J. Muir e
o'clock a ~. Aug ig, {. W Roe. H. Eng y. !.
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1875 G. Olsen. H. & l.. i2N. a. G. Brown. III. l..
Isl: J. J. O'Keefe. II. a L. IA. J. A stack. II. &
l. ltS
Recreation Of Temporary o.tsii-S m. Aug.
H. Frmn Adam MorgeusteTu. A l.. l55. 70 new
Ar alarm station Maibone and Washington sts.
and FIatbISh av Borough ~ Brooklyn.
Temporary Detail a. n Aug. II. Frmi. J. J.
Brierton. Eng 204 70 new IRE alarm telegraph sta
to- Malbone and Washington SIS. and flatbgsh
ay Borough Of Brooklyn.
Leaves Of Absence without psy)-Lleut. H. ".
Rsu n 4 T. = Il hours a. a.. Aps 20:
Frmn. e. {. kun5e. II. 4 L. q. a hours. a. N.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
villa Kills % of His {
Followers for SeditiOn
BY Telsgrsph 70 The Tribune ]

by telegraph 10 The Tribune
ii Paso. Tex. Aug. 17.-General
WA has caused the execution Of
twenty-five prominent Villistas in Chi.
'aahus. charged with plotting to de-
*Ft his cause. according to authorize
i've information reaching the border
"'night. Among those killed were
No ex-Governors. a Secretary of State.
several generals and several rich and
prominent Chihuahua citizens. All Of
the executions took place last Sunday,
wy the news was suppressed by Villa'c
trder
:, Among those reported executed were
Nuitermo Terrszas, grandson of Cen
.ual Luis Terrazas; Felipe Gutierrez.
Ex-Governor Of Chihuahua; Luis Gar
yea; Aureliano Gonzales, ex-Gov-
amor Of Chihuahua; Sylvestre Ter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
friends Declare He VIII
Ask Recognition for
His Government.
uFXICANS OBJECT
TO INTERFERENCE
circulate Inflammatory Plac-
ards in Vera Cruz-Quiet
Prevails Along Border.

Washington, Aug. l7,-General Car
.,,. will reply to the Pan-American
.,,ssl 10 Mexico in a few days it was
,..-,,d here tonight. He will reject
-. ,saee conference proposal urged
- secretary Lansing and Lstin-Ameri-
=, dinlomats. and, il is reported, will
-.s. that the eonferrees use their
.-srsnee 10 obtain recognition for his
..,~roert from their respective re-
publies. -,
According 20 his friends here, Car
ANA appreciated the friendly tone OF
10 psn.American appeal. He has con-
,,r,sd his civil and military associates
,.gsrdinc it and has communicated
vitb Eliseo Arredondo. his Washington
,.,resentative. and other agents OF MS
,,pse in the United States. As re-
en-, Of these conferences, it is declared
-, General has determined to make a
,ovrteous reply. giving in detail MS
,.asons for rejecting the conference
alan ard advancing arguments in an
,sor. % convince the conferrees that
..,ognjtjon Of the Carranza govern
r.,, IS warranted and necessary for
he establishment Of peace IN Mex
iso.
That some Of the Latin-American
3plomats already have been apPrised
q CaYranza's probable course has been
,,norted here. II is known that Mr.
iIredondo conferred yesterday IN Phil
,5slnbis with Eduardo Suarez, Chilean
irbssssdor 70 the United States ana
"rs Of the American conferrees.
n Arredondo is said TO have submit
I'd informally some suggestions re-
rrdiDc the present strength OF the
CsrranzG cause.
10 formal replies TO the peace ap-
,sol have reached the State Depart
msnt from Mexican leaders, but re-
norts have come that the communlca-
Ion has been delivered virtually
throughout Mexico.
oniet nrevailed along the Mexican
bor6er today so far as War Depart
mert reports indicated. Some anxiety
f,r Americans in Vera Cruz is felt
again. however, because Of the circu-
lation of placards there containing
highly inlammatory language and pro-
testing against interference in Next
can affairs. Secretary Daniels said
the battleships Louisiana and New
HAMPSHIRE would reach Vera Cruz to-
norrow morning
4 dispatch 70 the State Department
from Vera Cruz to-day said wounded
were beginning TO arrive at Chihuahua
from the vicinity of Torreon, which is
taken TO indicate fighting between
Oregon and Villa. The report adds
General Villa has ordered many exc
BUTTONS for pillaging.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
SPAIN HIDES WAR
SYMPATHY, SAYS
COURT PHYSICIAN
Royal Family Forgets Its
Mixed Birth - Rabid
Papers Forbidden.

DR.. Florestah Aguilar, physician and
surgeon to King Alfonso of Spain, ar
rived here yesterday from Bordeaux on
the French liner La Tourane. He is
on his way to San Francisco to attend
a congress of surgeons. He will read
a paper on surgery of the face.
Spain" he said, as doing her best
to be neutral in this European war
fare, and | think she will keep out of
the conflict. The government is pro
hibiting the publication Of radical arti-
Giles for either side. Thus far it has
succeeded Also, the government has
even stepped the exp~rt OF food sup
plies to France. .,.
"Of cours, there is strong feeling
in Spain in favor of the Allies. france
is our neighbor, and we always nave
been close to her. The Lib rails SYM
pathize with her and with her aires
but the Conservatives lean toward ger
many. The royal family s IN a curious ;1,?vI
situation. The Queen is OF English
nsrentaps. W he brother of the
Kings mother is at the head of the
Austrian army. nevertheless. Spain
condemned the linking OF the Lusitania,
which was regarded as an atroclous
and barbarous act"
DR.. Augilar said the King OF SPAN
was never enjoying better health imam
when he left Madrid to board the
Touraine at Bordeaux.
Lucien Bonheur, director OF inc
Theatre Francais, in this city, returned
with a list of prominent French actors
and singers whom he had booked for
the playhouse. Among them are Paul
Capellani. Lillian Grueze and Paul
Joffre, a cousin of the French general.
Eugene Boggiano, editor OF lie Rad
ical," of Paris, will give talks mere on
the political situation in France. lie
said he had brought a document signed
by Won Bethmann-llollweg, the. I'M
perial German Chancellor, which he
might make public W thin a few days
He said it We uld surprise Americans.
Miss ne Bordoni, French singer
and dancer, who will Jpear with Elsie
Janis in THE Missing LAX" W. pas
senrer on the vessel. She said her
SONGS were chiefly of serious verse re-
garding the war. Passengers who heard
her sing some of them said they were
stirring
Robert Herrick, the author and edu,
Gator. returned after four months
trim abroad studying war conditions IN
France and Italy. He said Il American
passport in Europe was not worth much
these days, as Germany was making
too many OF them.
Miss Yvonne Bartheleiny, n model
for one of the big dressmaking firms
of London I'D Paris, came % pay her
first visit to this country. She brought
twenty trunks of tailor made gowns;
She said the military type Of gown had
been discarded and that in the fall
styles of gowns the collars and shoe
tops will match.
Among others on board vas Senior
f. L. Chermont, Brazilian Minister to
Japan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
COUPLE MUST LIVE
ON $4,000 A YEAR
Young Wife's Request for Slice
of Extra 100000
Refused.

Mrs. Olga V. Florman, Of TT Madi-
son Avenue, whose husband, Nils Flor
man, works in a piano factory must
continue to struggle along with an in
come of $4,000 a year, plus the incon-
siderable earnings of her husband. The
income is from the estate of her father,
Charles Kohler, a piano manufacturer,
who left an estate valued at S4,3O0,O00.
Mr.. Kohler left his daughter 100000
besides the $4,000 year income. But
his will provided that Mrs. Florman
would receive the inheritance in install
ments of 100000 each-one when she
is twenty-five years old, another at
thirty-fve, and the last when she
reaches forty-fve Mrs. Florman asked
the Surrogates' Court for an advance
Of $4,000 from the first instalment,
saying that she and her husband, hav-
ing been married little more han a
year, had been ut to great expense,
and that the $4,000 a year was made
quate for them and their baby.
Egerton l.. Winthrop, jr., special
guardian for Mrs. Florman, recon-
mended that her request be granted.
"Mr. Fiorman," said the referee, us at
present employed in one of the fac
tories belonging to the estate. He is
a young man and is working hard. His
mention is thoroughly to familiarize
himself with the business. At present
his salary is very small"
Surrogate Fowler refused to grant
the application, because the papers do
no. show that the husband of the pc
titioner has not sufficient means TO sup
port and maintain her; second, it does
not conclusively appear that the income
of $4,000 a year is insufficient for her
support; and, third, because there is
no fund intellectually vested in the petit
toner out of which the advancement Of
$685. 900 could be made"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
ROCKIES TO GET BALLOON
Wanamaker Aircraft Offered
to Wood by Aero Club.

The Aero Club of America announced
yesterday that TO complete the equip
ment Of the business mems military
camp at Plattsburg it had offered to
General Wood to send its balloon.
America Ill. to the training grounds
and three Of its pilots--Alsn r. Haw-
ley president of the club; Jerome Kings
bury and A. Leo Stevens-to operate it.
The America III is a large balloon. OF
1000 cubic feet gas capacity. capable OF
lifting six persons. and was presented
to the club by Rodman Wanamaker.
Already there are two aeroplanes
al the Plattsburg camp.