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Daily Advocate from Victoria, Texas • 1

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Daily Advocatei
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8ATUROAY EVENING POST LADIES HOME JOURNAL COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. Heink's Pharmacy 439 Phonai 397. 1' 'i- ft I SUMMEF i s. mm ER CLEARANCE 8ALS NOW GOING ON DOVER THE STOKE FOR MEN AND BOY. VICTORIA, TEX At, MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 16, 1915.

'I, ins TTi irrnfTrTin rt im GERMAN SOCIALISTS JAILED FOR TREASON AIVESTON THE RUSSIANS UNABLE TO CHECK THE GERMAN 1 4 7 i ADVANCE JNTpUSCOVY LONDON, Aug. recovered from the check in--flicted on him early in the week by the Russians, General von Buelow, commanding that portion of the army of Field Marshal yon Hindenburg opperating west of the Dvinsk, again has taken the offensive, and, according to the official report published! (Southwestern Telegraph Telephone Co.) -GALVESTON, Texas, Aug. p. Wind is blowing here at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The water has not yet gone over the seawall, nor is it expected that it will do so.

A I A. 3 A I I .1 I I. I ri li i it MHIflT warn torlans spending the Bummer at Port O'Connor. C. S.

E. Holland motpred from there at 4:30 o'clock this morn-Ing, and when he left the tide was coming in and a little wind was blow ing. He nas ibeen in constant com munication with Port O'Connor aloe he returned to Victoria, and from advices he had received up to 11:00 o'clock conditions there were not alarming. Tbaiometexregistered 29.58 at I ulJS at dU m- naming fullen s1x or eeven int3 vRWti the three hours. a.

i nni i ninnT nnnnrnn nnnn nnirA iatt Tn ntTir rwr atkiai a nuuui viym nunuivu pcuH'v iiuyc icu -uic uuv anu uuicio cue 'Jeaving. 4 Kussians in a battle in the vicin- aiw iviii -PORT O'CONNOR, Texas, Aug, Nearly two nun oenin loaay, nas Deaien tne I ft i ny of KuDisko and pushed them IdKIIig gver IWO mOUSanQ comprising nearly the entire nni a nnrial train "at i InQ SOUtn. ftfltATA KnunnJriO Rucianc nrrnrAinn 4U. -drejleitlzens oLPprjCTConnor, rsnntilatinn nfthe tmvn left hpr ffVMiMtivn r- iiiw kviiiiy iwil liwi nf WivtAKii An AAimt jMOiw, a avu.u u. wind has attained a same report, made an UnSUCCeSSfuIl SOrtlP from Knvnn whTrh i VPZ aS 2SiiSEH om Kovno' mat the Germans now are aDuroachincL I conditions uecome any more alarming, the regular train that will reach here this afternoon will probably double back to Vic loria.

Reservations have been made at the Denver Hotel in Victoria for the refugees from this place. wMywiw a nnn nnrrTimn i 11 1 1 1 t1 fl IVIrt II Mil I II lJ 1 14 I llflHOO MLL I llVU lUlllUlll (Southwestern Telegraph Telephone Co.) CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Aug. -High wind and tide prevails here, but there is little alarm. drawing in their line and advancing from the northwest and south of Brest-Litovsk. While they continue to take comparatively small groups of prisoners, they make no claim to the booty or artillery captured, which is considered by military fair indications that Grand Duke Nicholas' armies continue their orderly retreat and that for a long time to come will be able: to prevent the Germans from detaching any part of their armyr for large ventures elsewhere.

The only event of activity outside of Poland and the Baltic-povinces is on the Serbian frontier, where a bombardment of Belgrade by the Austrians and a counter bombardment of Semliru and Pansoova by the Serbians, has been resumed. TO ORGANIZE MILITARY COMPANY IN VICTORIA MAGNOLIA BEACH, Aug. thirty or thirty-five miles here. road. Mallory's beach is not the town for higher ground.

I at eight o'clock for the purpose of (International NeWS SerVICe) organising a military company at Vic- GALVESTON, Aug. a. A terrific hurricane tona. Quite a number of Victorians Is raging along the Gulf this morning. The gale is blowing at liave been mMering the matter for the rate of about seventy miles an hour here.

The water is pirenuy wder-coming over the great seawall for the first time since it was J. built. A number of people have fled from the city and others ber of commerce has received a num-are prepared to go at a moment's notice i her of letters from Lieutenant cokmei ShipS Which are On the Gulf are experiencing great difficulty making to harbors-oksafety. niMiviiiy iu iKUHwrwwivij, a leiimu muiui ii idy.iy di udivcMun, duu, du.un.y iu warnings sent out by the United States weather bureau, it is; sweeping southward and threatening Matagorda. Port Lavaca, Port O'Connor, Rockport and other points along the coast below Galveston.

At ten-thirty'this morning the water was washing over the seawall at Galveston for the first time since the wall was built, and the wind there at that hour had reached seventy miles an hour and was increasing in velocity. According to warnings received at Port O'Connor, the storm COPENHAGEN, 6. The Voerwarta annOtfices that a number of Socialists nave been arrested in Berlin on the charge of treason, for circulating In Germany a Swiss Socialist newspftpo. This paper strongly attacked some of the German leading Socialists belonging to. that section of the party which absolutely supports the government Children's Excursion Wednesday.

Thfl Qimoaf will Kirn I A twin An-r. aa kfuuooi, i iui a- ua; excursion from Wharton to Port Iju vaca next Wedneaday. August 18. The train a. mr.

and r6turnillg leave Port ivaca at 8 P. m. at my expense, and I will have all i necessary blanks furnished you. I wm rapidly completing the organiza-! tion of my regiment. Respectfully, (T.

R. RAINS, Colonel Third Infantry Texas National Guard. Houston, Texas. August Geo. M.

Crutsinger. 1015. Secretary Chamher of Commerce victoria, Te, Ci- My Dear Sir I am in receipt of letter from Col George I'. Rains. Commanding Officer Third Infantry, in which he stated that you were of the opinion that the org.iniza.uoJi the company at Vu toria will be started this This I is good news to me.

as judging from the appearance, etc I am of the opin-! ion tliat this company will be needed. If there anything that I can do to further the organization of the com- any. please ise Hoping to receive i 'nt from you soon that the company is ready for muster, with regards. 1 am, I Your very truly, JOHN S. HOOVER.

AMERICAN SOLDIERS RUN MEXICANS AWAY NOG ALES, Aug. 16- Scores of American soldiers were partici iants in a rtot iu the streets of Noga-1 les la night, a the result, it is said. of a rumor that Mexicans had threat-1 eueu 10 laae ineir guns away. lent Mexicans were attacked before the officers got control of the men. One American is reported to have, been slain in NoflnJes, just across the line by infuriated Mexicans.

The soldiers that engageJ In the rioting were members the Twelfth Infantry and the Sixth Field Artillery. They were loined by a number of civilians, who shouted. "Run all the Mexicans across the Two hundred Mexicans either fled or were rtiased across the boundary before the officers got control of the mob and started the soldiers toward their camps. The riot was the culmination of high feelings between the Americans end Mexicans, which has been growing for several days. Soldiers.

is had been pushed off the side walk by Mexicans and subjected In other petty insults. SUPERINTENDENT NAMED BY COMMISSIONERS COURT BEBVILLE. Texas. Aug. 16 1).

E. Beedy was reappointed county suier-intendent of public highways by the commissioners court In regular session. Two more election precincts were created. Both were carved from Pre-1 mist lik ml n. Tynan, Prechvct No.

14, and Olmos, OF $250,000 TO PROMOTE STOCK RAIS'NG FARM BAY CITY, Texa. W. Famsey, formerly or Florida, has ar in Bay City and vl. assume t.n management of the acres of Matagorda County which was scld last week by the Banker's Trust Company of Houston to N'inaman, of St. Louis, for a ca-sh consideration of $126,500.

The new company which has been formed for the purpose of grain farrn ing and hii-grade stock rawing, lias a jaid-in capital of and will tua Re Bay City headquarters. The firm is composed of Wm. T. Nar-lin. president; J.

C. Van Riper, vice president, and C. Safer, secretary, all of St. Ioui3, with W. H.

Ramsey as general manager. GERMANY HAS PLAN TO MAKE ALBUMEN BERLIN. Aug. 16. German scient ists have discovered a new method of producing albumen which is to have far reaching results.

Its Immediate effect in blockaded Ger- I niajiy is to increase the consumption of sugar and to make it still more valuable. The story of the discovery told in the Kolnische Zeltung, ofBerlin, and reprinted in the Scientific American. says: As la known, there are plenty i of bo-hydrates at hand in Germany Bu5. iuou beets. So far, however, foodstuffs rich in albumen, such as barley, we have had to Import.

Now the Institute for Fermentation-Industrie, at Berlin, has succeeded in Inventing a process by which feeding yeast, with more than 50 per cent albumen, is produced from sulphate of ammonia and sugar. "The new process is very simple and existing yeast factories can start I back in a northeasterly priSOnerS. FIFTH MEETING OF FARMERS INSTITUTE The fifth annual meeting of the Tex-, as State Fanners' Institute convened in Austin, Tuesday, July 27, and adjourned the following Friday. Approx- -tmately 220M delegates, representing probably 2000 local institutes with a membership of over 200.000, attended their greatest of the State meetings yet held. Its sessions, of which there were twelve, ere held on two davs in the I great auditorium of 'he and an to days in the House of Representatives, the largest hall of the" Capitol building.

The proceedings embraced addresses and papers by many of the motst eminent agricultural authorities of the. state, including members of the faculty of Uie State I'niversity, re pros- entatives of the Federal Department-' of Agriculture, of the Suite Extension Department of the A. M. and institute lecturers of the State fDepartinent of Aericulture. The subjet discussed or treated.

by these experts comprehended every thing of practical interest or importance to the farmer; and the speakers without exception, commanded the-closes! attention and interest at each-session. Two features ot the Institute were the four sessions each of the Woman's Division, directed by Mrs. E. M- Barrett, and the Girls' Home Economic Bureau, directed bv Mrs. L.

Lan-dnini. The sessions of the former were held in the girls' study hall of the I'niversity. and of the latter, alternately on the lawn of the Blind Institute and in hall of the University. Each of these sessions, attended by all delegates, evoked nlde Interest among the woman populatioe the Capitol City as attested by th the girls' home economics division la available to the editor. The girls' home economic clubs of twenty two towns were represented by seventy three tirl delegates between the ages of eight and sixteen, as supurb a representation of Texae maidenhood as could be collected la the state The president of each of these clubs were present, snd made In person the reports of the clubs achievements In tbe few months Mence It ias known.

These reports show that tbe girls of these club have canned preserred of Ibis year's product orer 13,000 quarts, and has accnmulated at date, after -defraying all clob expenses, a rarptne of something orer tUOO. Thei- made this money by serTlng tee eream sup- per chicken tei. baking cases. and other deuoacies some VII WJIVVIUI IIMIII Ul WW Jm th u.c aiuiiii, wiiuiuui cvai.u.y velocity of forty miles an hour. p.

blowing Water on level with bridge and under water. People have left No alarm felt here. FINISTER GROCERY O'dOCk. there. i o- I hc mnrninh dl rui I ldVditi uno hiui Signals warning boats not to.

it I1 were no indications of a storm fairly high tides and the re 1 .11 nnnn' mMSane from Port O'Connor! In Blind Bayou that automobile can no Vonger croei It The bridge at Magnolia Beach la six nr eight lnohe out of the water, but this la said to be the case when ever there la a blgh and has occasioned little abiroi. There ire a large number ot is timed to reach Port 0 Connor and vicinity between ten-thirty and twelve o'clock tonight. The tide at Port O'Connor was up half of a foot at eleven o'clock this morning and still rising. A high wind was also blowing there, but it had not reached the proportions of a storm. In order to remove the inhabitants from Port O'Connor if deemed necessary, the Frisco sent a special train there from Bloomington this morning.

The train reached Port O'Connor a little before noon and at that time it was said to be getting so stormy that the inhabitants were preparing to leave on the train at once. Magnolia Beach was reported under water early this morn- A mass meeting will be held at the Chaniber of Commerce rooms tonight Hoovet, of the Xlurd Infantry Texii Guard Houston al Houston, and also froiu Colonel Geo. niandins offk.er of the Third Texas Gantry. noth gentlemen are very much interested in havinjr a Kood company organized in Victoria Col. Gaines writes that lie is only too willing to do all in his iwwer to assist iu the organization of the company.

Following are the most recent letters received from the two eentlnmen above mentioned: Marshall. August II. Mr. George M. CrutMiiger.

Victoria. Texas. Dear Sir: As soon as you consider prospects favorable to the organization of the infantry company at Victoria wire me GERMANS TO OPEN NEW WESTERN OFFENSIVE' LONDON. Aug. ltl.

-The first moves in the Getiiian plan to launch a great drive in the woal ami "end i the ww by October, are being made against two vital sect ion of the in Belgium and Angio-i1 rench trout around Verdun. Tl. in v. i Following an ottuui statement this which reported the repulse. rman tuckS between me Bmar- hT.way the ravine of Houyette, the Paris war office last night stated that the fighlng in this section, vital to Ver- ami.

rad resolved itself Into an artil- it iun-d that infantry action, for with nana granaaes. Berlin had no reiKnt to make on this aptured repulsed. by the Germans have been In Artoif, north of Souchez, where nhe much heralded French drive broke down, quiet has settled except for the repulse of a German effort to regain the Chateau of Carleul. Weather Report. Tonight and Tuesday rain; strong saw.

Hivn hviwi -fauuo i.u nu vu gale. t-ropatiir nigh tide today and I tonight mg, Dux. J. t. van ana ta nun, wno reacnea nere irom mem in an automobile shortly after eleven o'clock, say that it was not under water when they left, which was at ten-thirty However, they report a high tide i ui A lairij lllyll WIIIU Wdi UlUWIIiy hut bv noon it had calmed down.

but to sea have been hoisted there as wen as at an omer pons 1 communique yesy -ftc reports a strong infantry attack by the aiOng ine gUIICOaSl. a Annans in the region of Nieuport. at At ten-thirty this morning a thirty-five-mile wind was re- whlch trulllf ported at Matagorda and a twenty-five-mile wind at have been arriving from Ger-and the wind was rapidly increasing in velocity at both points, naay. The attack broke down under Matagorda bay was reported very rough, and the tide was said alIle' flr 10 nave inunoaxea a large portion 01 xne penmbwa. 1 edr- crs in the gulf were reported to be over twenty feet high.

According to dispatches received from Aransas Pass, Rock- mediately the manufacture of the new large attendance The woman's dirK article without changing their instal- si on was addressed by several ladies lation. By the new process 100 pounds of state reputation on topic of pecul-f sugar and 52 pounds of sulphate of iar interest to the farm home A much Ammonia yield 275 pounds of dry feed- i fuller report of the proceedings of Dort and Corpus Christi, there at those points, but all reported cention of storm warnings. 11 1 II' It naS DeCn pretty Winay in VIClOna ail mommy, dim UJ liuun the wind was higher. It is believed that the storm will expend itself before it reaches this tar but every precaution 1 exercised. P5 Hnllnnri rpr.piVPfl a JUSI leil anu was uuiiyiiiy 1 quuc a uuiiiuci ui mc yav vut, whiift a nood manV others remained In the citv.

A aale was ing containing 50 per cent of albumen. Being In the position to produce ammonia from the nitrogen of the air. we may say in the future albumen will be made artificially from the air." Germany imports annually about tons of feedstuff, principally barley for cattle. This amount of provender contains about 10 per cent or 600.000 tons, of albumen. Accordingly would require about 440,000 tons of sugar to replace by the new process the forage which can.

not be imported at present owing to the war. Tbe discovery is of Importance to the United States. It is said, both In restrict tog future exportation! of bar-Is) as well as affecting many la dug tries, albumen being used In mate-' lhotographjc materials (plates tft UIALVI )UlirS blowing at about forty miles an hour. The water had not covered any portion of the town; No alarm was Mi. J.

E. Ryan and Mrs. Ed Hull and rchlldren are the only Victorian remaining at Magnolia Becb, which lit hut ehort distance fmrn ill-fated lodtanola. After hearing the Morra -4 ll. trrnn mnA 1 1 nil fnvtna ed mcM to the teach to bring them bnme.

A Ugh tide prevails at Old In-dlanola and thort Is so much water flljps), calico printing and taomer-'ples,.

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