Daily Advocate from Victoria, Texas • 1

YOUR BOYS' SCHOOL SUITS AT BIG S. P. DQVER THE STORE FOR MEN AND BOYS. SATURDAY EVENING POST LADIES HOME JOURNAL COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. Heink's Pharmacy 439 Fhonea 397 2 VICTORIA, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUS 19, 1915.

17. NUMBER 121. VOLUME MANY AMERICANS ARE WITH, THE CANADIANS FIGHTING Uf BELGIUM FRENCH LOSSES IN RECENT BATTLES ARE ESTIMATED AT 78,000 STORD COST TEXAS THIRTY r.llLLIOH DOLLARS RIG RUSSIAN FORTRESS AT 1(0 VHO CAPTURED BY THE GERMANS YESTERDAY LONDON, Aug. 19 Kovno, on Of the curcial points in the Russian defensive in the north, was captured by the Germans BERLIN, Aug, 19. To gauge as near LONDON.

Aug. 19,. "There are no DEATH LIST IS LIGHT ly correctly as possible ihe-iosses of I fewer than '200 Americans in th ranks of the Canadian military contingent," saIHtffaJor General San Hughes, Cana their opponents In the west, German officers have been Indulging: in mathematics, Ihave questioned the prisoners of war closely and have kept a careful watch of the men who have dlan minister of militia, at a meeting of Americans held here last night HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 19 -Direct word from the storm-, i swept communities of the Southeast Texas coast is bringing de-. "I have already written letters of gratitude and sympathy," he added, itoi inyiii diiu uie iudu iu uic ol rcuuyidu ny.

is now open to the troops of Emperor William. The capture cf a fortress was another triumph for the German sixteen inch guns, Which throughout the present war have been brought anoinct nn fnrtc thov upro unship tn cnhrltiP With thp fnrtre'ts "to mothers of more than 100 American boys who hare fallen while fighting ia the Flanders alongside of Canadian comrades. More tban200 enlist lUMIIIWfc MV I VI IIIVJ IIVI VII IMWI MUM WM Vt VI VI iwal WVW Knunft thp Rprmans haP tnlfpn four hiinrirprl nuns anri" an ed and we could have had many more have had many more if we wished. A number of West Point! laiis ui ine uuuiuai iiuiuudiie wmwi yui uaivsoivm, fanen Texas City and scores of other cities and towns in a dire peril, ThefYench alone during the fight- i With large sections of the district yet unheardjrpm, the death' mg at Arras, the Germans have 1 list was more than one hundred, the heaviest reported loss being 'lost dose to men during the last from Virginia Pointropposite Galveston. The property damage attie8 there: This estimate, of course may exceed thirty million dollars, with Galveston dead aad ACCOrdl Sweep, croc-t County.

aS fdlOWS SAN ANGELO, Texas, Aug. 19. Texas City, hteen; Vteen; Sylvan Beach, three; Houston, two; Hitchcock, seven, Crockett county tne result of a Laporte, seven; Port Arthur, fuor; Lynchburg, three; nre, started Saturday, ozena, Ihree (one of the "largest towns in the county era offeied services, as officers fciiui iiiuuo quaiuiij wi vai lai. This, however is not the most serious part of the matter to and some are now with us." the Russians. Besides opening the way to Vilna, which is an I nnn lAiiin (nnm iiiIiiaU rvnc nf thn IrkilKit omtc hoia rlotTrfort Georgia Negro Lynched BAINBRIDGE.

Aug. WPCU tuwn iiuui nun. iiiuai ui iiiimmiioiiw iw.b utHv- RiKEins 63 years old, a negro, was H1U UHl WIllWl CVCl yiiliny nidi iiiiyiu uc ui uac iu uic nivduti lynched by a posse of farmers here nas oeen removeo, me tan oi ine Tonress xaKes away me iasi i i 'At- a i i ai a Uj late today. He was accused of assault- i .1 l. it.

hT a 1 ine the wife of a planter. The woman proiecuon, wun ine exception oi ine nussian ntiu aimy, iu iu main railway to the capital and also places the Germans in a i i 1 1 i it t. xi 1 seawall and the haste in which the residents of the coastal plains a HI FROM ISLAND I i I Wiilwinrlstrll position to mreaien ine uariKS oi me nussian armies rem my iu Brest-Litovsk lines and those operating in Southern Courland. Grand Duke Nicholas apparently expected the fall of Kovnor for his armies are hastening their retirement in polan eastward. They still hold their own from Kovno to the south of 0s sowetz, but south of that city they are being pressed from the core ine ourni OTinesiorm, dui wis year uuiwaicu ho pipmpnts Thp.

storm reached its heiaht at three a Tnpdsv: whpn the wind rose to ninetv-two mites an noun ARRIVES AT HOUSTON; 50D nonnwHrDy GenerarvonmiJTraTrvieneTmiiaTrwTrr Trom the west by the Archduke Leopold, who has crossed the Bug i i xi I n-l. nM at Galveston. This was eight miles more than the Weather Bureau recorded for the nineteen hundred visitation. niver ana approacning ine Dresi-uuovK aim Ddiyiur; nau-uiiu it ic tho camp In thp cniith whprp vnn Mar.ken7en finallv Seventy-one persons are known to De oeaa in me iropicai GALVEST0I1 HOMES GONE VV C4 Ik iw UIV VIAAI I IV III Mlv has succeeded in driving the Muscovites into their own positions a A I IX I- uhirh cwpnt hver Halveston from the Gulf of Mexico GALVESTON, Texas, Aug. 19.

water in the business district reached Storm swept and battered, with a loss I hight of Hve feet in me Tonress oi uresi-uiovsK. For the first time since he began his retirement from Eastern Galicia in May, Grand Duke Nicholas, in the opinion of Military observers, find part of his army in serious danger of envelopment. The military writers express curosity as to how he will extricate it. The Russian commander continues an orderly retreat. The storm broke upon the city at of only 14 lives.

Galveston fortified by the sea' wall emerges from one of 5 o'clock Monday afternoon and reach 1 aiuiiivnv iiiuvii -y- late Monday and veered inland, scattering death and destruc- tion in its path. The seawall is intact. The causeway is washed out from each end connecting with the concrete work. The drawbridge was uninjured. The Galveston seawall boulevard was washed away for several blocks from Seventeenth street east.

The tented city of Fort Crockett, housing four thousand United States soldiers, was demolished. Two soldiers were drowned on the grounds. mi nolupctnn arp i inner control. ed its worst at about 8 o'clock Tues the most severe Btonns that ever day morning. The wind velocity had reached 93 miles per hour at 2 in the morning.

whereabouts at 10 o'clock Monday night. I swept the Gulf of Mexico, emerges victorious from Its fight with flood and wave. About 500 homes have been crushed and the wreckage" is strewn over the island. Four of the dead are soldiers Galveston's greatest need is water. H.

B. Moore of Texas City requests that all shipments In the way of re-lief be sent to Texas City, and that 4te The blood test will be completed, however. Blood from the shirt was omimred b-Df- Crabb -with blood She fire damage alone-will exceed thirty-five thousand dol-t it nf Galveston. Tele IEATH LIST WTOThT 230 phone and telegraph service is out of commission. The only Trom a chicken and there was no resemblance.

Tuesday afternoon he obtained blood from Howard's body and will compare it with the shirt stain. Howard wa.s killed with a knife and and ten are civilians, who lost their lives trying to reach the Tremont Hotel, where several thousand people were quartered for the night. It Is now definitely known that about two persons evidently were implicated. Importation trom uaivesion is oy uuau Eight bodies of women, suposedly form Galveston floated ashore at Texas City yesterday, forming contrast to the thousands of bodies which floated ashore at the point after the Galveston storm in nineteen hundred. one thousand feet of the causeway is will tugs and boats to get them across to the island.

Only two boats of the smaller type were left at the docks. At Virginia Point the lcs of life is estimated at from 15 to 25 by J. V. Gros. proprietor of the Causeway Hotel, where all residing at the paint were quartered.

was tiad-ly injured and witli his feet being dressed by a surgeon he told the story of the night at Virginia Point, lie said that the intcrurban that left Houston out. Holes have been washed in the sea wall, one of them in front of the flali'av la Kill i tranlv foot wlrla Farmer Bitten By Coyote. and-through-Vhis a flood poured and spread into the residential section. BRITISH SHIP There is no doubt but that the sea at 1' o'clock reached his place shortly His throat was laid open and he was stabbed in the breast and the neck in eiRht places, and slashed on the arm. A shot from Franklin street was Howard's alarm for help, but it came too late.

Investigating the shot. W. F. Jenkins, a peddler, ran down Houston Street to Franklin and met the patrolman stageerins up the hill. Patrolman Carlisle and Special Officer allie Harring were next on the scene 'Who rat you?" Carlisle asked him.

"A niKPer from Waco and a negro faid Howard, barely able to talk. DONNA, Texas, Aug. 19. Sunday morning about 2 o'clock G. W.Vaughan was bitten on the left arm by a coyote Hearing a disturbance in his yard he got up and opened the screen door to see what was the matter.

As he did I the animal Jumped up and bit him. (In irnational News Service.) GALVESTON, Texas, Aug. 19. Late i reports here this afternoon Indicate that not less than two hundred and thirty people lost their lives in th Gulf Coast hurricane last Monday night. A number of lives were lost at coast points, but the majority lost were aboard the vesselt that were lost in the storm.

Property losses here will run well wall, saved the city A four-masted schooner now rests on the sea wall. There were three fires Monday niitht. One of them was the O. K. Laundry, also the Galveston Dry Goods Company and the Direct Navigation Company.

The latter fire is still raging. The fire loss lias been enormous. ARABIC IS SUNK after 3 o'clock and -ould get no further. There were 48 passengeis on board, including the motorman and conductor. He had about twenty-five additional guests in the hotel.

The intcrurban cars were blown Into the bay, and two barons flouted to the causeway and battered out the con- i -I' On the recommendation of physicians Mr. Vaughan left for treatment at the Pasteur Institute at Austin. Mr. Vaughan is a farmer living about two miles from town. The three bath houses -Murdochs A a' the breakers and The Surf-have been "ft span drawbridge Tuesday swept away hcwel that all were not drown- GALVESTON CAUSEWAY (International News Service.) LONDON, Aug.

19. The big British liner Arabic, which was en route from 200 MAROONED ON ISLE JUST OFF NEW ORLEANS NEARLY UTTER RUIN Liverpool to New York was sunk the southern cont of Ireland tms aii- emoon. The nature of the Ariblc's At "iO a m. Tuesilay the hotel went down with 7i people in it At daylight there were of then) in the two little houses used by the railroad. The others have not been accounted for.

The bodies of four men and one. woman have been recovered. The others are missing. Just before the in the outljinfi districts were crushed, and the wreckage is float ins ahout the island. The water made a clenn sweep along the boulevard, and the houses, from 23 to are all down.

The people were warned in all sections of the city and found safety In the business About, three NKW OltLF.ANS. All. 19 Two hundred persons, mostly women and children campers, are marooned on an island of the Marsh Island group on Into he millions. Fifty Years on an Engine. Nl-JW YOHK.

Aug. 19 -Kiley K. Phil lips has just celebrated fifty year8 of continuous service on the New York. New Haven Hartford -railroad. A the ranking engineer and one of the most popular men in the service, Phil- I lips was the recipient of many congratulatory messages from officer 1 and fellow employes of the company.

Phillips was born July 18. 18, ha cargo was not given. All the ship's crew and passengers were rescued, ac HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 19. Among the refugees were C.

L. Bering and 1 B. Heady, who went to Galveston at noon. They confirmed the report that the loss of life Is slight They say 1000 feet of the boulevard back of the the coast about 150 miles southwest of thousand people spent the night In I house went down, one man killed him- here and more than 100 persons many of them prominent residents of New self in the presence rf three or four Orleans, are marooned on Grand Island the Tremont Hotel. The damage to the ibulldlngs in the business area Is confined to plate glasi windows and roofs, and water damage to goods.

The west end of the seawall Is absolutely washed oiit and there Is nothing left of the causeway eicept the arches and about 80 mt northwest of Port Eads. I women. He could stand it no longer, nnd pulled his pistol and flred a ball through his head. i i v. a ittir i a ii euiu cat i i as a result or a ua wave wnicn ac- companled the tropical hurricaaa when education in the jonn uw.

it reached the Louisiana coast Sunday fnai scnom a pritr in the old printing house el night tKM FT. WORTH POLICEMAN STABBED TO DEATH; EIGHT NEGROES ARE HELD IN CITY JAIL I TDomas aiaworo. Relief boats have been sent out) outbreak of jUte civil war, te 'I. I cording to the reports available. It it believed the Arabic was sunk I by a German submarine.

Camels Postponed. I AnaUiL. Texas. A.ufc 19.WW1 no official announcement baa been mad, it la learned today that the encamp-', meet of tb Texas National Guard, set for this month, ha been deferred on-r tU aometlma during the latter part-of tfeptpttiber ct first' part of October. ITAUAirSIIIVEIITIOII i iTcoTuioncumc the lift The steamer San Jacinto is beacheo on the Island opposite Galveston.

Two 20-ton granite blocks that ornamented the end of the seawall at Tremont Street were weaned across the boulevard, showing the tremendous force of the storm. Ifessers. Bering end Heady were from all points near by. Much damage wntci, be enlisted with his father ton in feared at Cameron, a settlement in i Fifteenth Connecticut volunteer. an exposed position of Calcasieu Lak near the Texas line, and boats left serving sll through the war.

He entered the employ of the New York New-Haven road in July, 1165. as fireman. Lake Charles at noon yesterday to In vestigate. (over every section of theslty. and FATAL HOTEL FIRE AT CANADIAN, TEXAS were among the first to bring authentic Information concerning the damage done.

They related- Incidents of the fires referred to by others. No loss of life as a result of the hurrlcan haa been reported. Oallas Man Killed In Aute Wreck DALLAS. Texas. Ang.

11. Davis Goldstein was instantly killed and three other men slightly Injured when an auto went over an embankment oa LAILOI WHnULIIUL fact that be had a quarrel with the patrolman Monday afternoon over the arrest of a negro womaa was the orlg-lnal cause of bis detainment, how-ever. Dr. Lewis C. Crabb placed the blood stain under examination Tuesday and declared it was human blood.

The negro said his shirt was stained with blood while cleaning doves which John Scott, ttelknap and Pecan streets, killed Sunday. Scott bears blm out in regard to the doves. The negre baa a further, alibi frem Scott's slater with regard to bis FORT WORTH, Teias, Aug. 19. Practically abandoning the theory that Mexicans were responsible for stabbing to death Patrolman Pete Howard Monday night on Franklln Street, the police Tuesday afternoon had under arrest eight negro suspects.

Many of these had been frequenters of the "Bettercake flat" district, which is reached through Franklin street. Officer now are working on the theory that a plot existed among negroes to get rid of Howard. A negro arrested by the police at Fourth and Calhoun streets Tussdiy mcralog wore a bloody shlrC The Zang'i boullevard here last night Accidental thet le Fatal. BI( WELLS, Teias, Ang. II.

Henry Rotrlge, a prominent farmer of this city, died ia toepUal at San Antonio Monday-Morning from injuria! caused by the accidental discharge of a targt rifle with which be was hunt-tog. 5 CANADIAN, Texas, Aug 19 K. Miller, of Amarillo, Texas, wae iterated to death and three other persons injured in a Are here today, wblch destroyed the Southern HeteL Miller, of AmariDo. Tataa, was ssffe-The fante af the re is aaknowm, iAIS Attf. II.

A device lavented by Italian engineer, Quarinl, which makes it possible to drive tor-' pedoen out of their course and explode them bas satisfied tests, ssys special dispatch from Rome end arrange sent are being made to supply the device to the allied fleets. The driver of the automobile attributes ije cause of the accident to a blinding rain. Goldatela was pinned under the car and crushed- to death,.