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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-09-08

10 mot hesitate to call on the city or
bounty sealer II your goods are short
h HI weight" Is the greeting printed as
I y head to q new table OF weights Just
tpftnted by the state department OF
: ItWeights and measures for distribu.
Hon, through county fairs al | other
public meetings. to the householders
of West Virginia says the Charleston
Mail.
The list as prepared by Commits.
!6foner j. II. Nightingale. includes the
Names Of 4S articles Of food, fuel and
2fatns for seed, and gives the exact
weight the purchaser is entitled to re.
2 leefve, for q bushel, q peck or a quart
! bleach article.
The commissions urges all house
holders 10, insist on getting the num-
Der Of pounds indicated on the chart
when purchasing any of the articles
named, and promises relief through
Ehef county or city sesler or the state
department Il the proper weights are
not; given
Among the articles listed and their
weights by bushel, peck and quart.
|feepecttvely, are the following: ap.
zpdes 80 pounds, 12h pounds. and l
bound and 8 ounces; apples (dried)
sl2z pounds, 6 pounds, IL ounces; beans
fdfied and shelled) 60 pounds. Is
bounds, ! pound and IA ounces; buck.
wheat, SO pounds, 10 pounds, l
pound and 10 ounces; carrots, so
pounds, 12h pounds, pound and Q
ounces; corn meal, As pounds. II
pounds, 8 ounces; cranberries, &c
pounds, 8 pounds. I pound and 2
LOUNGES; cucumbers, 80 pounds, 121z
pounds, 1 pound and ounces; cur.
rants, 40 pounds, 10 pounds, IL
pounds; gooseberries. 40 pounds, l
pound and 4 ounces; onions, IS
pounds. 13A pounds. pound and
11M ounces; peaches. As pounds, y
s hounds, pound and ounces.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-09-08
BITS OF
TTE NEWS

r. >. W. Samples, Of Harrison county,
Who q probably. the Oldest teacher in
Ikhe state, was here attending the In.
Ietitute last week, says the Weston In.
dependent. He Ii 72 years old, has
been teaching continuously for 80
wears during which time he made 72
teruah He will go to Marshall College
tntheiuear future to resume his stud.
Hes there, in order that he may be bet.
Per fitted to follow his chosen profes.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-09-08

Eors q fisherman to bait a hook
with worms and catch an average OF
q dshf and . half a minute. is going
Eon1e,s but this, according to the Sis.
EersyiIle Review, Is what Foster Car
roll. Sistersville B. 6 o. freight agent
claims TO have done on a recent fish.
ing excursion to Middle Island creek.
4fr. Carroll AYERS that he took out
ietxty fish in about forty minutes. Lo-
;cals piscatorial artists will have to get
dp and dig to beat this story, but Mr.
Carroll says it's the absolute truth
md Of course 1t must be accepted as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-04
DR.. G. A. QUINBY DIES AT "a.
Oldest Alumnus of y. Y. L. Medical
School

The oldest alumnus OF New York
University Medical School, DR.. George
A. Quinby, of u West Fifty-hfth
Street, died yesterday at his home. He
was born in Parsippany, Y. j., on March
4, 1892, and was graduated from the
New York University Medical School
in 1866.
He was appointed surgeon on the
staff Of New York Hospital in 1856. In
the following year he left this city and
practised at Morristown until 1864,
when he joined the staff Of ST. Luke's
Hospital in this city. He was in active
practice in this city from 1865 TO 1867
at 81 East Thirty eighth Street. On
accouna of the health of his wife, for
merly Miss Mary Gamble Sneden. whom
he married in 1864, he bought Oak Hill
in Loudon County, Va, which was at
one time the home of President Mon
roe. He lived there from 1870 TO 1885,
occupying himself with the care of his
estate and in scientific pursuits. At
this time he became a member OF the
State Agricultural Society of Virginia.
DR.. Quinby travelled abroad extensive
ly, and bought plantation at ST. Au-
gustine, Fla, where he spent his win
tiers.
Since 1885 he had resided chiefly in
this city. He was a member of the
Metropolitan Club. He left a wife
and two grandchildren.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-04
ASKS INVESTIGATION
OF TAX FRAUD CHARGES
Heating Demands McAdoo Make
Public Returns.

Washington, May 3.-Calling on Sec
rotary McAdoo TO explain why he has
not made public the income tax returns,
Representative Heating, OF Colorado,
introduced to-day a resolution propos-
ing an investigation OF the charges
made by Basil Manly, an investigator
for the Industrial Relations Committee,
that the government is being defrauded
Of SS00,oo0,ooO year in income taxes.
Mr.. Heating pointed out tonight
that. while the Jaw was optional as to
whether income tax returns shall be
made public, il was the opinion OF Mr.
Manly that one reason why the govern
ment loses this S300,000,000 a year is
that the returns are kept secret. II ev-
eryone in a community knew, he pointed
out, just how much income tax his
neighbor was paying, there would be
much more liberal payments.
The resolution was referred TO the
committee on expenditures in the
Treasury Depai TN mt ana Mr.. Heating
will ask for hearings on IT,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-04
FIGHT OR BE OUTCAST,
IS WARNING TO u. S.
c, p. Anderson Says Germany
Will Strike Hard.

"The United States will find herself
an outcast among nations II she does
not enter the war. Despite the Allies
repeated statements 10 the contrary,
they hope at heart that we will enter
the great struggle on their side, not
only for financial reasons. but because
they want the United States TO play
her rightful part in the world read
justment after the war"
Chandler ?. Anderson, former coun-
sellor Of the State Department, gave
this opinion Of the situation abroad
when he returned yesterday on the
Tuscania. Of the Anchor Line. He has
spent several weeks in London as coun-
sci for a number Of Chicago packers
whose shipments we're delayed IN tran
sit, having resigned his government
post last October.
"A declaration OF war would be sure
70 follow a break in our diplomatic re-
lations with Germany" Mr.. Anderson
continued. "The people over here do
not realize what that would mean.
Germany would go TO any extremes. as
the ruins of Europe to-day prove. With
our army in Mexico and half our mi
litia Germans by birth, We do not
dream of the outrages that would fol-
low a declaration of war"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-04
O'CORhAN TO RETIRE
AT END OF HIS TERN
Senator in Statement Says He
Will Not Seek denomination.

Washington, May 3-Scnator James
A. 0'Gorman will not be a candidate
for reelection to the United States
Senate, at the next Senatorial election.
This statement, given out over the
Senator's signature, caused a wide stir
in Washington tonight.
81 have decided" says the statement,
mot TO accept the nomination for re-
election TO the Senate. When my term
expires on March 4. 1917, / shall have
completed an uninterrupted public
service of twenty-four years. eighteen
years as Judge and SIX years as Sena-
tor. My personal affairs now require
and should receive my undivided atten-
ton"
Mr.. O'Gorman said later that he had
been contemplating this step for some
time. He said he had no motive for
refusing the nomination, other than
a desire to resume his law practise in
New York State. His action, he as
serted. had nothing to do it'll the
Wilson administration or with Tam
many politics.
Mr.. O'Gorman won wide reputation
while in the Senate, TO which he was
elected after a seventy-four days dead
lock in the New York Legislature five
years ago. Previous TO his election
he had served on the Supreme Court
bench of New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-04
2 CLAIM $4,000 RECLUsE LEFT
Sister and Adopted Daughter OF Karl
Schmidt Appear.

Karl Schmidt, who died in Bellevue
Hospital two years ago, a supposed
pauper, after leading the II 70 OF re-
cluse in n Bowery lodging house, LETT
m estate Of Sl9,4i6. This is the value
placed on the property OF Schmidt by
William VI. Hoes, public administrator,
in n report TO the Surrogates' Court.
II was believed at first that the es-
tate OF the rccluse would revert 10 the
state because OF no living kin or heir
at law. However, two claimants have
appeared. and Surrogate Fowler must
decide TO whom the property Is to go.
The two claimants are Mrs. William
Malsy, a widow, living at Frankfort
or the Main. Germany, who says she is
n sister of Schmidt, and Mrs. Karolina
Link, OF 236 West 144th Street, whose
claim Is that she was the adopted
daughter OF Sch midi and his wife:
Mrs. Links story is that In 1894,
after the Schmidt couple lost their only
son, Charles Schmidt, they were with
out any relatives in this country, and
Mrs. Link, being unmarried at the time,
was requested by them 10 become their
adopted daughter The Schmidts both
promised to leave her their property
when they died.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-04
TELLS OF Ell DORADO
RIGHT NEAR ASHEVILLE
Prospector Reports Three Veins
in North Carolina.

Asheville. y. c.. May 9.-That Bun
combe County, of which Asheville is the
seat. is destined TO become a second
FL Dorado is the opinion of W. s. Proc
tor, who reports that he has uncovered
three veins of gold on Browns Noun
tain, near Gambler. about fourteen miles
from Asheville. The three veins, accord
ing TO an assayer's test, run SIT, 500
and S157 to the ton.
Mr.. Proctor had beer looking for tel
ephone poles in Western North Caro-
lima, and hearing of small placer mines
in the Hominy section, started a pros
specting trip which led him eventually
to Browns Mountain.
Before the California gold days there
was considerable gold mining in West
ern North Carolina, and biologists say
that there is a vein of gold through
this section TO the Georgia line.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-04
DETECTIVES SHOOT TWO
BOYS IN CAR BATTLE
Pair Dying-Gang Tried to Steal
from Hoboken Freight Train.

Two boys, one seventeen and the 9TH
err only seven, were severely wounde 1
last night, when the gang to which
they belonged attempted to steal mer-
chandise from a West Shore freight
train in Hoboken. Railroad detectives
fred upon them when the thieves tried
to rescue one Of their number who had
been arrested.
Joseph Bossitto, seventeen. OF 423
Jackson Street, with q bullet in his
spine, and James De Possit. seven. o.
All Jackson Avenue. with a ball in his
liver. are In St. Vincent's Hospital. II
is doubtful whether either will recover.
The gang boarded the train near
Twelfth Street, but were beaten OF by
the detectives. A. Eighth Street they
again climbed aboard. opened the door
of a boxcsr and began throwing out its
contents.
Harry Timbell arrested one, but the
rest turned on him. took his revolver
and were handling him roughly when
Arthur Beschler interfered. Beschler
fred eleven shots from his automatic
and the thieves fed, leaving Bossitto
ard the De Possit boy wounded.
Timbell and Besehler were arrested
and three other detectives on the train
dstA!nsd - vttuslssA ..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-04
U. S. READY TO BUY
DANISH WEST INDIES
Deal, Nearly Concluded, Soon
To Be Acted On.

Washington, May "A new negotia-
ton to purchase the Danish West
Indies is nearly concluded, and soon
will be submitted to the Senate and
the Danish Parliament. This deal has
been blocked several times by German
influence at the Danish court, although
Denmark, the United States and the
inhabitants of the islands have favored
it.
II is understood that Secretary Lam
sing and Minister Brun of Denmark
have been discussing the purchase for
several months. The plan is to secure
simultaneous ratification, and put the
treaty through in single executive
session of the Senate.
The islands cover an area of about
1873 square miles, and lie almost at
the intersection of the steamship
routes from Liverpool and the Panama
Canal and from New York to Trinidad.
The chief islands are Saint Croix and
Saint Thomas.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-04
Irish "President" Was a
School Teacher and
an Editor.
CONNOLLY TOURED
u. S. AS SOCIALIST
Other Executed Leaders Long
Identified with Sim
Fein Activities.

Patrick II. Pearse, the provisional
President OF Ireland" executed In Lon
don yesterday, was about thirty-three
or thirty-four years OF age, and was
known in Ireland as an authority Oh
Gaelic literature He started in life
as a barrister, but devoted most Of
his time TO literary and educationa!
pursuits. For some time he was editor
of "The Gaelic Journal" in Dublin,
and later founded St. Endas School.
which he conducted up 70 the time Oh
the Sim Fein rebellion.
Pearse had many friends In the
United States. He lectured in this
country on Irish ideals and Gaelic
literature, the proceeds of his lectures
going to the support OF his school
The head Of the Sim Fein rebellion
was the son of an Englishman, but
was himself born and educated In Dub
lin. He was unmarried.
James Connolly lived for several
years in New York, where he. was ac-
tive as a socialist and labor agitstor.
lie returned to Ireland about five
years ago to aid in organizing the Irish
labor party. Connolly was about fifty
years Of age, and was self-educated.
lie was the author Of book entitled
Labor in Irish History" published In
Dublin, and was editor Of labor paper
in that city, called "The Irish Worker"
He was the father of eight children,
all of whom, as well as his wife, sur
vive him.
Thomas MacDonsgh was a close as
sociate Of Pearses and a highly edu-
Gated man. He was for some time as
sistant professor of English Literaturs
in the National University Of Ireland,
but resigned to become assistant to
Pearse in st. Endas school.
Thomas ]. Clark was one Of the lead
ers in the Fenian conspiracy OF the
early eighties. He was arrested and
sentenced 10 life imprisonment, but
was released after serving fourteen
years. After a short visit to America
he returned to Dublin. where he opened
tobacco store. Clark married the
daughter Of Mayor John Daily in Linn
erick, another of the Fenian leaders.
He is survived by his wife and four
boys.
Chicago, May 3.--James Connolly
was formerly a labor leader in this
city, it was said in Irish circles here
to-day. He was active here about ten
years ago and wrote a book entitled
Socialism Made Easy"
Connolly toured the country in the
interest CT a socialist propaganda, it
was said, under the auspices of the
Socialist party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-04
EXPECT CONVICT'S AID
IN ARNOLD SEARCH
Police Think Way Will Be Found
TO Release OlenorriS.
IF,crn /. star Correspondent Of The TribuI

From stan Correspondent OF Inc IIlDuhoi
Providence, r. l., May 3.-Not unless
the Rhode Island Board Of Parole gives
him his freedom will Convict Edward
Glenorris point out the grave of Dor
othy Arnold.
This he fatty told the board at the
hearing yesterday afternoon. Rhode
Islands authorities will permit him TO
20 10 New York only If no consents
to return to this state and serve out
the $50 fine attached 10 his present
sentence for forgery.
The parole board. after a closed ses-
sion that lasted nearly four hours, re-
fused TO accept Glenorris's terms. The
board will meet in the Governors
Office again tomorrow morning, and
Il is expected that way of avoiding
the legal technicality barring a parole
will be found, and by nightfall the
man who believes he helped dispose II
Dorothy Arnold's body probably will
be on his way TO New York and the
Tombs.
Glenorris has been promised COM
plete immunity for the crime which
he says he helped commit. This i'm
munity, the New York police state. will
hold good whether or not the confed-
crates in the alleged Arnold murder
are caught
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-04
RAILROADS CHOOSE
STRIKE C0NFERREES
Committee of Seventeen to Meet
EMPLOYEES Here June /.

\ Chicago, May 9.-The general con-
renee committee which will repre-
the railroads Of the United States
q negotiations with the four organiza-
IONS Of railway train service en-
ployes, who have demanded a wage in
crease, estimated by railway officials
at approximately s1OO,000,00o a year,
will consist Of seventeen members.
There will be six representatives from
the Western railroads, six from the
Eastern and FIVE from the Southeast
ern. The representatives Of the East
err roads will be as follows:
Elisha Lee, assistant general mana
ger Pennsylvania Railroad, New York;
A. NJ. Schoyer, vice-president Pennsyl-
vania Lines, Chicago; P. +: Crowley,
assistant vice-president, New York
Central Railroad. New York; A. ].
Stone, vice president Erie Railroad,
New York; II. Z. McMaster, general
manager Wheeling & Lake Erie Rail
road, Cleveland; c. l.. Bardo, general
manager New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad, New Haven.
The railroad representatives will
meet delegates of the brotherhoods
at a series Of conferences beginning
Juno ] in New York City. Ii Is planned
that the representatives. OF the en-
ployes from the different districts will
first meet the railroad representative
from those districts and take up with
him the reply of the railroads he rep
rcsents 20 the demands made by the
employees.
The results Of the district confer
ence then will bs taken up at a meet
ing Of all the representatives 1t Is
exp, cited that these conferences will
develop whether the employees and the
RAILROADS will arbitrate or whether
the employees will strike.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-04
POLICE PRACTICE
WITH MACHINE GUNS
Squad in Training to Protect
BROOKLYN Munition District.

Machine gun practice has been car
ried on for the last two weeks by a
picked squad selected by Captain Gil
len from the police Of the 143d Pro-
cinct. The fact that the district COW
cred by this precinct takes in that
part OF Brooklyn busiest in the manu-
facture of ammunition is said 10 have
caused the organization of this new
squad. The men are being drilled in
the Naval Battalion armory, Fifty
second Street and the bay.
Captain James Gillen said last night:
Il did not intend that it should be
known. You see, ID is entirely out Of
the regular preparedness drills in other
precincts, and | thought it best 10 say
nothing about the new squad"
The gun the men nave been using
hres SIX hundred shots a minute, is
OF French manufacture, and is mounted
on three standards. Two men operate II.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-04
Has Her Pound
of Flesh, Says Leslie
Irish Editor Mourning for Colleagues, Declares |,
Would Have Been Glorious if She Had
Not Taken All Due Her.

pound OF flesh, and we shall not hear
the last of il in our life.
Don't think that | am ro-German
| have buried my brother and half OF
my relatives in France, where they died
fighting for the Allies, because they felt
that Teutonism was the greater menace
and that small nations were in danger
The Nationalists of Ireland willingly
put aside their own cause, and have
heard that they were goaded into this
rebellion by England's threats TO dis
arm them. II is England's greatest
blunder. And this is the greatest blow
she has ever struck against herself In
America.
England had the logical right to
kill Pearse; Germany probably has a
logical right in this war, but Ireland is
against logic. England was justified
in way, but it is like the Latin
proverb that says the highest justice
is often times the highest injustice.
In this case she should have shown
elemency. We feel now that we have
been smitten in the face, and that
feeling will last long.
The three men, Pearse. MacDon-
agh and Plunkett Joseph Plunkett,
who has been sentenced to prison..
were very dear 70 me. All of them
wrote beautiful poetry; they had no
practical sense and no money sense.
! know that because / was director OF
the school. They were three idealists.
| don't mean to say that they were
not guilty. for they were guilty, and
so was Carson. lie sowed the wind
and we reaped the whirlwind. We
had won home rule by constitutional
methods, and it was taken from US By
force, and after that there was no law
in Ireland"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-04

Shane Leslie, the Irish editor and
author, spoke last night at the College
Of 81. Francis Xavier on Celtic re-
ligions, but, as the Jesuit father who
introduced him said, there was a "smile
on his face and a tear in his eye"
Only two hours before he mounted the
platform he received a message telling
him Of the execution in England Of two
OF his closest friends and colleagues.
Peter II. Pearse, provisional president
OF the Irish republic" and Thomas
MacDonagh, a poet, who had signed
the republican proclamation.
Just once during his lecture did he
mention the disastrous revolution, and
that was when he said: Forgive me
IL my spirit does not seem to be here
tonight. l have just received word
that two dear friends OF mine have
been executed, and their faces are al
ways before me-" A murmur of sym
pathy swept from the audience, his
voice broke and it was moment be-
fore he could continue; and then he
started abruptly on his topic.
Mourns for Colleague.
But before his lecture he was found
in the bare, white walled rooms Of ono
OF the priests, trying to study his
notes and forget, for the moment, the
fate Of two of the men he had studied
with at Cambridge and labored with
for Irish nstionslism; the two men
whose ideals had been his ideals, and
whose poems he knew and loved.
Talking, as though in soliloquy, he
told Of their association In the Gaelic
League, where one OF Pearse's rules
for the boys in the school was, mo
boy shall kill butterfly" and Of
poetry. His denunciation
Of England for the executions was
his climax.
England" he said, had e chance to
show that she had no faint Of Teuton
blood. II would have been a glorious
day for her II, in view OF the Irish SOL
diers in the field and the injustices Of
the past, she had not taken all that was
due hsE But England has taken her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-04
STRINDBERG PLAY
AT IRVING PLACE
"Wetterleuchten" Given Fine
Performance by German Co.

The theme OF Strindberg's "Wetter-
leuchten" Overwhelmingly. which
was performed at the Irving Place The
atre last night, is a storm which
threatens the serene existence Of hu-
man beings, holds a menace Of reveal
ing the abysses of the human heart
and then passes Off without tho light
ming having struck. The human storm
Is played against a background of
thunder and heat lightning on an
Autumn evening.
A retired official, whose wife has left
him after dragging his name through
the courts, has reconciled himself to
the serenity Of age. Chance DEGREES
that his wife and her second husband
come 20 live in lodgings above his. Her
husband maltreats her and the child
Of her first marriage. and II is in these
circumstances that she again meets the
first husband.
He repulses her, but when the second
husband has fed, is relieved to learn
that she has taken the chill TO the
home Of his mother in the country.
His satisfaction in a calm senescence
vanishes with the threatened domestic
tragedy and the autumn shower.
The play is replete with the irony
which Strindberg lavishes on his char
acters, and the brilliant performance
given it under the direction of Rudolf
Christians brings out not only the ten
sity OF the situations in which human
destinies are suspended, but the light
touches which distinguish a dramatist
and a creator OF characters from
stage carpenter.
Mr.. Christians, as the official; Ernst
Hol znagel, as his brother, and particu-
larly Willy Frey, "a a neighboring con-
fectioner, deserve high commentator.
Crete Meyer gave an excellent per-
formance Of the wife, and Marguerite
Christians was entirely adequate as
Louise.