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She wilt tell you all about it. And TRIBUNE mtNUMBER 43 AUSTIN, TEXAS, "MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1915. FIVE CENTS THE COPY THE AUS STATESMAN i fflffif. OUTLOOK FOR BALKAN- UHITY APPEARS iSm SLIGHT; CRISIS IS. EXPECTED II FEW IMS i s.

Storm Warning Drives Forty Mile Gale Is Sweeping Galveston; Center of Storm Seems Passing to East Them Out oi Cottages. IaLARMING RUMORS I IN CIRCULATION MILITARY OPERATIONS IN THE EAST ARE DEVELOPING MORE SLOWLY, BOTH RUSSIANS AND GERMANS ARE SHOWING STRAIN OF RE-GENT TREMENDOUS CAMPAIGN -THE BAVARIANS APPROACH BREST-LITOVSK LINE. BAROMETER FALLING. REPORT ITER 2 NO STORM DAMAGE. GALVESTON, Aug.

16. From the number of private telegrams received In Galveston this morning indications are that erroneous renorts ar interurban Cars Run VESStLS REMAIN II GULF PORTS; WARNINGS OUT liJG OVER GALVESTON, Aug. 16. At 2:30 this afternoon the wind's velocity was 48 to 60 miles an hour and the barom- eter stood at 29.43. There had been no property loss and no one feared that there would be any of a serious nature.

The- city has not been flooded and there are no indications that it will be inundated ns the sea wall is doing its work in per- feet style. SEAWALL ura I From Galveston iear-j ly All Night. I HOUSTON, Aug. 16. 0ver one hundred persons, most of them tourists from other States, 'are here from Galveston, leaving U.t nnint during Sunday in an- prevalent throughout Texas re- garding weather conditions here.

At 11:30 this morning when this 4- 4 message is sent nothing out of the ordinary has occurred ex- cept a slightly Increased wind. A number of the more timid, principally strangers, are leaving as they always do under these circumstances. Otherwise busi- ness. conditions are going on as usual. Any reports to the con- trary eminating from any sources whatever are absolute- I ly Incorrect.

We ask you to take note accordingly. GALVESTON COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION, H. H. Haines, Traffic Mgr. itiAAitiA Ji JuttitiAA AAAA AAA AAA AAA tTTTTTTTTTTtTTTTTtTTTTTTTT GALVESTON, Aug.

16. At 12:30 this afternoon the wind, which had been blowing from the northeast since yesterday afternoon, switched to the north. At this time it is blowing at a velocity of forty miles an hour. The barometer, which rtood at 29.68 at 7 a. m.

today, was 29.50 at 12:30. The direction of the wind indicated that the tropical disturbance which entered the Gulf Sunday would go inland a TWO MARINES WERE man licipation of a storm that has not oinnod A weather bureau warning that dwellings xnnnh mio-ht not he safe short distance oast of Galveston. The report that water is coming over the sea wall is untrue. Occasional bursts along me iu "'e--- in case a storm developed, caused BATTLESHIP of spray are blowing onto the boule vard by wind. Ihe situation from the tide is not alarming as the sea wall HURRICANE IS has already successfully undergone a more severe test than the one to which the exodus.

mterur Dan cars mu. intermittently throughout the Alarming reports circuited this, morning in Houston were promptly denied by the local Veather bureau. it is being subjected today. The local leather bureau las advised persons living in exposed places to observe NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 16.

The tropical storm earty today covered a large part of the Gulf of Mexico and its effects were felt in greater or less degree from Westtrn Florida to Eastern Texas, and for a distance of about fifty miles inland, according to advices received by the local weather bureau. Heavy rains, accompanied wind blowing from twenty-five to forty-eight miles an hour, were reported from the southern section of the Guli States, but no serious damage to Inland property or shipping has been recorded thus far. According to the weather bureau, present conditions indicated the tropical disturbance would move inland sometime today between New Orleans and Brownsville, Texas. High tides were noted along the west Gulf coast today and these probably will continue tonight. Advisory warnings are1 continued in effect and vessels evidently are taking heed, all ports reporting that vessels are not venturing out to sea.

The winds greatest velocity along thel coast, according to official reports received here, was forty-eight miles an hour at Burwood, where 2.56 inches of rain At Mobile the wind's velocit was stated at fortj miles an hour; at Galveston, thirty-eight, and at various points in Southern Louisiana and Mississippi, twenty-fives an hour with heavy rain. In New Orleans a thirty- six-mile wind APPROACH proper precaution. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. Two American, marines were washed overboard from the battleship New Hampshire and drowned yesterday while the ship was sailing through the gulf hurricane, somewhere south "of the Florida coast.

No damage to the New Hampshire or Louisiana, which are preceed-ing to southern waters, was reported. TROTTER BREAKS LONDON, Aug. 16. Military operations in the eastern field are developing slowly. Both sides show the effects of the intensity of the Warsaw struggle.

The German advance now centers on the ef" forts of Field Marshal von Ilindenburg to force troops across the Dvina and eastward in the general direction of Petrograd and the near approach of the army of Prince Leopold of Bavaria to the new Brest-Litovsk defenses. Notwithstanding the steady pressure of the Germans the Russians have succeeded thus far in holding them west of the Dvina. The Balkan crisis is drawing to a climax. The National assemblies of Serbia and Greece meet today, with probability of a definite decision as regards Bulgaria's territorial demands, upon which hinge the question of united action of the Balkan States with the allies. In the.

best posted quarters here the outlook is regarded with a degree of pessimism. It is expected Serbia will seek a compromise and Greece will reject the Bulgarian contentions. Reports from Athens indicate that King Constantino is insisting that the new cabinet must maintain strict neutrality, the effect of which would be to withhold Greece from participating in a plan of united, Balkan co-operation with the allies. In the meantime there are many evidences of Austro-German preparations to deal with the Balkan situation. According information from Bucharest, German army corps have been concentrated near the junction of Hungary, Rumania "and Serbia.

This, with the bombardment of Belgrade and the activity of Austrian artillery at many points along the Danube, lends support to reports of a great Austro-German offensive in the Balkans. The outcome of the crisis is awaited most anxiously, as determining whether the allies will receive new support from the Balkans and whether Germany's supplies of ammunition for Turkey will continue to be shut off by the Balkan barrier. Bulgarian officials do not expect an agreement will be reached, but the Serbian minister at London, M. Boshkovitch, told the Associated Press he believed a middle ground would be found on which it would Jbe possible to unite the Balkan States. TEXAS COAST RE OLFST PASS EAST Ill UPON FROM THE MEXICAN SIDE OF GALVESTON WASHINGTON.

Aug. 19. A tropical disturbance is approaching the coast, apparently near the Texas-Louisiana line, according to weather bureau reports. During the last 24 hours easterly gales were reported throughout the east gulf and along the middle coast and strong northeast winds are setting in on the west coast. Hurricane warnings are displayed on the gulf coast from Brownsville to New Orleans and storm warnings eastward to Apalachicola.

FOR 4 YEAR OLD BROWNSVILLE, Aug. 16. A detachment of the United States Cav was accompanied by 1.10 inches of alry patrol was fired on last night from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande A report from Waveland, stated that oie man was killed during an electrical storm and that about 1500 yards of beach road was washed away. near Mercedes, about thirty miles up the Rio Grande from here. The firing occurred at Progreso.

The cavalrymen returned the flro and the shooting from HIGH SURF ROLLING. FREHPORT, Aug. 16. The tropical storm from the Central Gulf brought brisk winds, from the northeast last night. There was a four-foot tide in Brazos this morning with the surf rolling the highest in years.

the Mexican side stopped. There were no casualties among the American troopers. 01D BRITISH Williams Leaves VIEW WITH to Get Latest STERLING FALLS TO ITS LOWEST BANDITS TRYING TO REORGANIZE T. H. Williams of the firm of T.

H. Williams Company left today for New York and the Eastern markets in inln his norn of buyers who are se iW IFI BELGIUM lecting the latest fashions for Austin's select trade. Mr. Williams' buyers left fnr th ant Bump time asro for the BROWNSVILLE, Aug. New Tork office, but Mr.

Williams Reports of renewed attempts by Mexican bandits to reorganize their band could not get away at that time. However, he will now remain in the market longer to get every up to the minute1 fashion and novelty that is in the Lower Rio Grand Valley were brought here today by Captain of the Texas Rangers J. J. Sunders. NEW YORK, Aug.

16. The English pound sterling fell today to the lowest American value within the memory of man. Normally quoted at $4.85 in foreign exchange it fell today in the first hour, dropping to $4.66. Greater demoralization was shown by the foreign exchange market at today's opening than ever recorded here before. Paris checks were quoted at $6.00, a weakening of ten cents over the Sunday holiday.

He said hel had received reports PETROGRAD, ug. 16. (Via London, 2:45 p. The military situation is viewed by Russian army officers with a degree of optimism owing to the manner in which the Germans have been checked at the crossings of the Rivers Liewecz and Krzna, east of the Siedlce-Lukow front, where the Invaders lost 800 prisoners in addition to a heavy toll of dead and wounded. Confidence is felt here that the Russians will be able to make any further eastward progress of the Invaders very that Mexicans are crossing in ones and twos into Texas and that they LONDON, Aug.

16. "There art no fewer than 2000 Americans in the ranks of the Canadian military contingent," Bald Major General Sam Hughes, Canadian minister of militia, at a meeting of Americans held here lust night. "I havo already written letters of gratitude and sympathy," ho added, "to mothers of more than 100 American boys who have fallen while fighting in Flanders alongside of Canadian comrades. More than 2000 enlisted and we could have had many more If we wished. A number of West Pointers olfered thsir services as officers ami were attempting to gather again in Hidalgo County, west of Brownsville Sunday.

He said that a bard esti mated at ten or a dozen approached a ranch house near San Benito send costly to them. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 16. Petsr Volo broke the world's record for 4 year old trotters and tied the world's stallion trotting record, established by The Harvester when he won the first heat of his match race with Lee Axworthy at North Randall track this afternoon. Time 2:02.

Ihe 6 year old stallion won the first heat of his match with Directum world's champion racing pacer at North Randall track this afternoon. Time, 1:58. The match is being raced on the two-in-three heat plan. William lowered the track record held by Frank Bogash Jr. two and a half seconds and made a new mark for himself.

His former record was 2. Lee Axworthy won the second heat of the trotting event in 2: 03V4. This establishes a new record for two heats by 4 year old trotters and sets a new record for Lee Axworthy, whose previous record Majestic Manager ior Square Deal F. Gale Wallace, manager of the new Majectic Theater, rrived Monday morning to look after the opening of the new playhouse. Mr.

Wallace left New York Just a week ago, where he has been for several weeks looking after the company's business. En route to Austin he stopped at Chicago, St. Louis and Dallas, where details for the opening and the season's attractions were given attention. By Oct. 1 the new theater will be opened with a first class line of vaudeville the Majestic-Orpheum circuit, which is playing all of the bigger cities In Texas today.

Mr. Wallace formerly made his home in Austin. "I know the people here want a square deal and first class attractions. They shall get both," he declared. Hunting Armed Negro Wanted for Killing That the negro man who is being sought in connection with the killing at Pflugerville late Saturday or Rosa Fowler, a negro woman, is armed and may resist arrest when located, was reoprted fro mPflugerville Monday.

Constable R. N. Ayres is continuing his search for the negro. Bloodohunds were tried Monday, but failed to follow the tralL Despite reports that the negro may resist arrest Mr. Ayres is searching alone for the negro.

FOUR -YEAR-OLD CHILD WAS BURNED TO DEATH. American Reply in Frye Case Delivered WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 The American reply to the last German note on the sinking of the American sailing ship William P. Prye by the Prinz Eitel Frederich has been delivered to the Berlin foreign office by Ambas ing two of its members to the house. Fierce battles are looked for be The rancher's wife wag at home alone.

The Mexicans told her they did not tween the Nurec'and Narew Rivers and at the crossings of the Bug. The immediate German objective is believed to be the double track railroad which wish to hurt her. They asked where some are now with us." STATISTICS ON COUNTY TRAFFIC ARE NEARLY READY her husband wag and where his horses were. After satisfying themselves that both the man of the house and his rouchly parallels thai present fighting sador Gerard and will be given out GALVESTON, Aug. 16.

Apparently the tropical disturbance which passed through the Yucatan Channel Sunday is still Centered in the South Central gulf. The maximum wind velocity here last night was thirty-eight miles an hour, from the last. It was thirty-six miles an hour at 7 a. m. The barometer, which stood at 29.80 at 7 o'clock last night, dropped to 29,64 at 2:20 a.

m. and at 7 m. stood at 29.65. The center of the dis: turbance seems to be moving very slowly. At 9 :35 a.

m. the barometer read 29.60 and the wind was blowing at thirty-eight mileg an hour. There was some indication that the disturbance might pass to the fast of Galveston. MOBILE FEELS STORM. 'i MOBILE, Aug.

16. Mobile' felt the effects of the hurricane now prevailing in the gulf early today when the wind reached a velocity, according to official reports, of 40 miles an hour. The barometer at 9:30 o'clock was 29.94. The Mallory liner Sabine, Inbound from New York and Tampa, went whore Saturday night on a Band bar "Wing a high wind and was not float-ed until late Sunday. STORM AT TAMPA.

TAMPA, Aug. 18. Abnormal Mes today, but not high enough to do aamage, marked the passage of the fJlf "torrn from this section. The hlgh-wt wind velocity, 82 was recorded yesterday. No serious damage resulted.

AMERICAN MISSIONARIES ARE "-L FROM THEIR HARDSHIPS wSHINGTON, Aug. 16. Fifteen Van Trs, of th American mission in a Armenia, who were ng the recent fighting In that rf-irLhave arrived in Tlflis broken rl1h work hardships. 'SUlSmith a Tiflls, today noti-Vhv8tate Department that a Mrs. aa died lr Van and that her Tifli, lvWas now dangerously ill in the aispatoh said that while memberB of the 1 lttle band sre are convalescent, they input money or proper clothing.

TO COLLECT DATA. flroaa auditor of the -UlsTv, left Monday for t0 be 8ed when tioa the railroads' applica- Siu4 BCreasel tTht rata i oa September 1. rdiiiover Texas Is Forecast rfla! Tues-f0B la eaBt Portion: t0 north winds on the tonig8ntPr0bably hlEh tid6S line, running from Ossowetz to Bialy-Btock, Brest-Liiovsk and Govel. This Important Gains for Austro-Germans horses were away," the Mexicans left. Rangers were searching for these1 road is protected by dense forests ana Mexicans today.

marshes. The Twenty-sixth Infantry from here by the State Department tomorrow morning for publication in Tuesday afternoon papers. Hacked Himself to Death When Arrested The apparent weakness of the Ger Texas City went on duty here today. BERLIN, Aug. 16.

via London, p. m. Field Marshal von Mackensen, About peventy-Jivei men of the Twenty-sixth were left at Kingsville, 115 miles north of Brownsville, and more A complete statistical report cover continuing his pursuit of the retreating Russians to southward, Brest-Litovsk, has occupied Clale and Slaw-atycze, according to official announce man flanks has removed fear that the Russian army could be bottled up. Evidence of this seeming lack of offensive power is found In the reported removal of a portion of the German troops from the Cledlco-Lukow front to the Baltic region. Ihese troops sre said to have been repulsed by than two companies went on patrol at Harlingen, between here and pnoT yvdtitw Tpt A nar 16.

ing traffic of six counties on the Colorado River as well as estimates on reclamation work in these counties will be presented Sept 1 to Lieutenant Col fnTintnhlA Mnxwell. WHO ment made by German army headquarters today. The army of Prince Leo The embargo Against arms and mu had arrested him for Wise County of pold of Bavaria, pressing the Russians onel C. S. Riche, Government engi from the west, has occupied Losyce and Renewal of th German offensive ficers.

Fate cmvers, ti, a xarraui County pioneer, hacked himself to death at Grapevine yesterday after Miedzyrzcec, the statement adds. nitions, which the Rangers have put on Mexicans on the American side, is the most effective munitions embargo on record in this valley. The penalty for smuggling through this Ranger embarfco Is death. against the Dvina at Jacobstadt Is neer at Galveston, by the statistical committee of the Colorado Valley Im-IhHoti. headed by Con focussing attention on the Baltic re noon.

He had ooiainea me omcer a trt atari 1 1 II Tfl fk ft feW gion. gressman Buchanan, A. A. Siles, State Serbians Re-t They Won Artillery Duel I liii' i minutes while they, were waiting for a train to take them into Fort Worth. Chivors was accused of incest.

AETNA- VILLA GARRISON reclamation engineer ana w. a. secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, all members of the statistical committee, met to discuss its report. Mr. Buchanan is chairman of the committee.

Other members have completed their work, which was to gather fig-, of their counties, Two Battleships to Vera CruzrMex. wicuivp.Tnv 16. Secretary and these figures have been sent to COMPANY PLANT IS BLOWN UP; 5 DEAD Mr. Long, who prepared i iu. oatimntpH of the Six COUn- REVOLTS GOES; TO CARRANZA PARIS, Aug.

1C. A Havas dispatch from Nish, duted Sunday, says that o'n Aug. 13 the Serbians, with a few shells, stopped the enemy from working on defenses in front of the village of Dobra on the Danube. On the same day Serbian artillery before Velicocelo, near Belgrade, following a duel with a hostile battery at the village of Starchevo, at the twelfth shot reduced to silence the enemy's guns, which had fired sixty shells. NEW NAVAL CREDIT.

Daniels has ordered the battleships New Hampshire and Louisiana, now in the Gulf of Mexico, to proceed to t''ra Cruz This course has generally il" hut nnt until today was ties affected by the Colorado River navigation project and present, these at the meeting Monday. Captain Stile mil prepare the reclamation report and Will present both reports to Mr. Buchanan Aug. 80. Two It acknowledged at the Navy Depart DENTON, Autf.

16. News reached here today of the burning to death of 4-year-old Viola Witt at Little Elm Saturday night by the explosion of a cup of gasoline. ment. JKI ournly BROWNSVILLE, Aug. 16.

A State Department" dispatch from Tor-reon says the Villa garrison at Du- Galveston to oI upon 'JK for is Vhw first step )n th campaign to secure rango has revolted and that the city Rome, Aug. 16. (Via Paris.) Th official gazette publtshos a decree authorizing it special new naval credit $16,236,676. has been taken by Carranza forces. EMPORIUM, Pa, A jx 16.

Five men were killed and the gelatine house of the Aetna Explosive1 Company's plant at Grove Run, near here, was blown to pieces today by an explosion. The men, Joseph Strayer, Fred Haskins, Emory Hankie Olsie Miller ar.d Mich-ale Campbell, were thel only employes in the building when the explosion occurred. Company officials, said the cause probably never would be known. The company has been filling war orders, it wua eaid. The six counties jr'r no citron Favette.

NORWEGIAN STEAMER SUNK. Battle in Progress Near Nogales, Ariz. N03ALES, Aug. 16. Severe fighting between Carranza and Vjna forces four miles outside of Nogales, Sonora, is reported in progress.

The international boundary line has been closed to pasage by both Mexican and United States uthoritiee ROBBERS USE BLACK JACK TO GET WOMAN'8 JEWELRY. CHICAGO, Aug. 16. Miss Beatrice Allen, who occupies a fashionable South Side apartment, was robbed in daylight today of $200 in money and iewelry, which she said wag worth $22,000. The robbers stunned the muid with a "Mack jack' and intimidated Miss Allen with a revolver.

THREE BUILDINGS BURN. HALUSTT SVILLJB, Aug. Colorado, Wharton and Matagorda. is estimated that these save in freirht charges $11,000,090 annually if the river is made navlgatls. LONDON, Aug.

16. The Norwegian steamer AIV.s, 13S1 tons gross, and owned in Christiana, baa been sunk by a submarine. Her crew was saved. Fire early toCay dtstroyed three frame houses at Breslau, seveci miles north of here, with a loss of $13,000. The estimated cobi oi $8,000,000..