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GALVESTON
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VOLUME XXXV.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1915. —TWENTY PAGES.
No. 223
GATHER FOR
APPEAL TO
BATH TUB KILLER
PRESIDENT WILSON STUDIES
HANGED TO DEATH
CONFERENCE
GO FORWARD
SITUATION ON THE BORDER
List of Mexican Leaders
Nearly Complete.
WILL CONSIDER
COTTON PROBLEM
SLAVSHOLDING
POLISH CITY
Killed in Clash at Lyford.
BALTIC FLANK
IS CAPTURED
German Armies Checked
Siedice Falls Before Ger-
in Northeast.
man Onslaught.
ZEPPELIN AIRSH.PS
ATTACK ENGLAND
Ala.,
August 26th,
when Mr.' Harding
ZEPPELINS RAID ENGLAND.
ALLIES ADVANCING
IN GERMAN COLONY
MAKING GOOD RETREAT.
SCOTT AT EL PASO.
REPLY NEXT MONDAY.
STATE TROOPS READY.
QUAKES IN ITALY.
VILLISTAS LOSE BATTLE.
ANOTHER OIL ADVANCE.
the weather
REPORT WAS ERRONEOUS.
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RETURNS AUGUST IS.
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PERMITS TRANSPORTATION.
OUT AFTER THIEVES.
porary pass over Texas lines
on account
of emergency conditions
on the bor-
scribed by the Mexican general.
Na- der,
Near
been
and
the
on
ex-
CARRANZA REFUSES
TO TALK WITH VILLA
Gives Directions for Sufficient Troops to Be Held
Ready for Any Emergency.
CAPERTON ASSUMES
MILITARY CONTROL
Several Bankers Already
in Galveston.
Ferguson, Holding Conference Near Rockport,
Reaches No Decision—Another Mexican
STOUT RESISTANCE
SAVING RUSSIANS
FURTHER FEDERAL ACTION DEPENDS UPON
FORMAL REQUEST FROM TEXAS GOVERNOR
Villa Offers to Eliminate Him-
self and Associates If
Necessary.
Russian Forces Making Good
Their Retreat From
Warsaw.
Capture Important Post of Tin-
gere, in African
Province.
CHICAMAUGA
DRUMMER BOY
ENDS CAREER
George Joseph Smith Was Con-
victed of Murdering Three
\ Wives.
SUFFRAGISTS
PAY TRIBUTE
TO PIONEER
Main Body of Troops Is Getting
Safely Out of Warsaw
Salient
EXPLAINS
BULGARIA’S
POSITION
Bobo and Zamor Factions At-
tempt New Uprising at
Cape Haitien.
RUSSIA SEEKS
MARKET FOR
LACE GOODS
By Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 13.—President Wilson personally took up the
situation on the Mexican border today with Acting Secretary Breck-
inridge of the war department, and gave directions that sufficient
troops be held ready for any emergencies.
Governor Ferguson’s telegram asking for more troops is being held
at the war department awaiting any further word from Major Gen-
eral Funston. Secretary Breckinridge reported there were no new
disorders today. Any further troop movements will be left entirely
to General Funston.
A detailed statement of the distribution of the troops has been laid
before the president, and officials take the view that the army can be
used further only if the governor of Texas were to certify in a con-
stitutional manner that he can not control the situation with the*
state authorities and ask for federal aid.
Secretary Breckinridge said after his conference with the presi-
dent that General Funston had asked for no more troops, and that
none would be sent without his request.
General Funston had been authorized to show Governor Fergu-
son his message from Secretary Garrison, saying he can have as many
troops as he thinks necessary.
The Carranza agency’s dispatches today contained a categorical
denial from General Nafarette that any of his troops had crossed into
Texas. Other advices expressed the opinion that the Mexican trou-
ble makers were neither Carranza nor Villa troops.
The FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF GALVESTON
Southeast Cor. Strand and 22d Sts.
UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY
Depositary of the State of Texas
Robbers Got $70 by Blowing Safe Near
Waco.
By Associated Press.
Waco, Aug. 13.—Sheriff Scarborough
of Lee county and a posse are scour-
ing the country for two men, believed
to have blown the safe at Dimebox late
last night and stolen $70,
Ostrolenka, north of Warsaw, to Cholm,
in the south, the Teutons claim to have
“Sds further progress, but between
PRETTYv,
_WARN}-
By Associated Press.
London, Aug. 13.—The Russians for
the time being are holding in check
the Baltic flank of the German armies
which are struggling to cut the War-
saw-Petrograd railway, and are bat-
tling toward the Dvina, beyond which
lie the roads to the Russian capital.
This has been accomplished with the
aid of reinforcements, and by virtue
of one counter attack after another.
The fortress of Kovno still holds out,
German attacks toward Riga have been
repulsed, and the railway junction at
Dvinsk remains in Russian hands. From
to be held in Birmingham,
ranza’s flat refusal to permit nego- maae
tiations between his Washington rep-
Text of Note to Austria to Be Given
Out Then.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 13.—The American
reply to the Austro-Hungarian note,
protesting against the shipment of mu-
nitions of war to the allies, already
sent to Vienna, will be given out here
for publication in next Monday morn-
ing’s papers.
The American note reiterates the
view of the United States that to place
an embargo on munitions at this time
would not be in accordance with the
principles of neutrality as set forth in
international law.
HUTCHINGS, SEALY & GO.
Established BAHERS Estblished
(Unincorporated)
For
Banks,Individuals, Corporations
American Bankers Association Trav-
elers’ Cheques for Sale.
the Vieprz and the Bug they apparently
have been thrown back with heavy
loss.
It may be that Field Marshal von
Hindenburg has not exerted his full
Date on Which Ferguson Will Again
Be at Austin.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Aug. 13.—According to an-
nouncement from the executive office
today, Governor Ferguson will return
to Austin on Aug. 16, Monday evening,
late.
Night Guards on Duty at Town During
Last Night.
By Associated Press.
Houston, Tex., Aug. 13.—Rumors that
border bandits are crossing Santa Ger-
trudis ranch and are headed toward
Kingsville have led to the organization
of night guards to patrol the residen-
tial sections of that town by night. The
street lights burn all night instead or
being turned off at 11 p. m. Sheriff
Scarborough and deputies are seeking
two Mexicans who put in appearance
at the dairy of Robert Simmons, two
miles from Kingsville, and demanded
that he round up his livestock.
farette had made the statement to
show that the supposed 1,000 Mexicans
reported to have crossed into Texas to
breed uprisings were not Carrancistas
as was reported.
as, last night, was reported.
Mercedes three Mexicans had
killed several hours previously,
twenty-two horses belonging to
raiders captured.
By Associated Press.
Rome, Aug. 12.—(Via Paris, Aug.
13).—The Bulgarian minister to
Italy, D. Rizow, discussing in the
Tribuna the negotiations between
the Balkan states and the quadru-
ple entente, characterizes as unjust
statements that Bulgaria considers
herself indispensable to the allies
and is bargaining on that basis.
Bulgaria, the minister asserts,
has not changed her program. She
was deceived into signing the
treaty of Bucharest of 1913, under
the terms of which she ceded to
Rumania nearly 3,000 square miles
of territory. What Bulgaria now
wished, he continued, was repara-
■ tion based upon the principle of
nationality for which the quadru-
ple entente is contending.
TRIBUNE.
For Texas,
west of 100th meridian: Tonight
and Saturday partly cloudy.
For Oklahoma: Tonight and Sat-
urday partly cloudy; showers and
thunderstorms in east portion; Sat-
urday generally fair.
Winds on Texas coast: Light
southerly.
Shippers’ forecast: 36-hour ship-
ments to the interior will meet with
temperatures from 98 to 102 degrees.
MEXICAN KILLED NEAR LYFORD.
By Associated Press.
Brownsville, Texas, Aug. 13.—One Mexican was killed today near
Lyford, Texas, a short distance north of here, by soldiers and peace
officers. Soldiers shortly before daylight went to a ranch house’
near Lyford, where it was reported a Mexican accused of wounding
Night Watchman Fritz Georgie at Lyford last week, was in hiding.
The Mexican was arrested and was shot when he made a break to
escape from an automobile in which he was being taken to Lyford.
Rangers and United States regulars today had the upper hand, ap-
parently, through the section extending a hundred miles north of
Brownsville. Details of soldiers patrolled every town along the rail-
road, reinforced by rangers and local peace officers, all heavily
armed. Armed men traveling from town to town half filled the
smoking cars of trains.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Aug. 13.—Via London.—The
Polish city of Siedice, 55 miles south-
east of Warsaw, has been captured by
the Germans. Announcement to this
effect was made today at army head-
quarters.
Siedice is the capital of the province
of that name.
GOVERNOR FERGUSON HOLDS CONFERENCE.
By Associated Press.
Corpus Christi, Texas, Aug. 13.—Governor Ferguson was in con-
ference today with Adjutant General Hutchings, Congressman John
N. Garner, Caesar Kleberg, a prominent ranchman, whose home was
attacked at Norias Sunday night, and County Judge Yates of Browns-
ville, at Ingleside, nea Rockport, where the governor is spending a
vacation. Governor Ferguson said this morning that no decision ,
had yet been reached regarding calling out all troops of the state.
resentatives and those of Villa.
Official optimism still was apparent
today despite Carranza’s attitude.
Villa’s proposal was contained in a
telegram from Diaz Lombardo, his sec-
retary of state, to his agency here.
“If the peace conferences between
the factions in Mexico reach a success-
ful end,” Lombardo’s message said, “not
only Gen. Villa, but all the civil and
military elements affiliated with the
convention party would be disposed to
eliminate themselves, if necessary, with
the single condition that the men who
are placed in charge of the new situ-
ation shall solemnly agree to restore
constitutional order and that they shall
not be drawn from the decadent and
odious cientifico or reactionary party.”
LLombardo also said that he firmly
believed in-the good will of President
Wilson toward Mexico, and that the
American government would not at-
tempt armed intervention.
The capture of Garua and Ngaundere
by Franco-British troops was officially
reported last month. In the South-
ern Kamerun the French ministry of
colonies reported on Aug. 9 that an
encircling operation culminating in the
capture of Bitam resulted in complet-
ing the conquest of that part of the
Congo ceded to Germany in 1911.
power in the north, but is awaiting
events in the south before hammering
his hardest toward the Dvina, near the
banks of which his cavalry have been
for some time.
The fact that the Germans are able
to advance with comparative rapidity
due east from Warsaw, while being
checked on the right and left flanks,
has given rise to the impression in
England, and in Russian that the stout
resistance offered by the Russian
wings will ensure the safe withdrawal
of the main body of troops from the
Warsaw salient. Contrary to many re-
ports, the main line of communication
between the Polish capital and Petro-
grad has not been cut through. It
would be cut if the Germans were to
take Dvinsk.
The approaching meetings of both
the Greek and Serbian parliaments give
promise of bringing the Balkan situ-
ation to a head, though for the moment
Greece and Serbia remain obdurate in
their refusal to concede territory.
By Associated Press.
San Francisco, Aug. 13.— Russia
is seeking to create a market in
the United States for Russian
koustar, or, lace handwork of the
peasants, with a -view to provid-
ing employment for her maimed
and crippled soldiers, according to
an announcement made today by
Theodore Kryshtofovich, special
commissioner from Russia to the
United States, who has arrived
here' from Petrograd, via Japan.
The direction of the lace indus-
try, said the commissioner, has
been taken over by the Russian
government. Able-bodied peasants
will no longer be allowed to make
lace. The work will be turned over
to crippled soldiers incapacitated
for ordinary work.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 13.—New uprisings
by the Bobo and Zamor factions have
broken out at Cape Haitien and have
forced Rear Admiral Caperton to estab-
lish military rule in the city.
This statement was issued at the
navy department:
“Admiral Caperton reports that on
account of disturbed conditions in and
around Cape Haitien, due to the Bobo
and Zamor factions, it has become nec-
essary to take military control of the
town and conduct affairs in the same
manner as at Port au Prince. Civil
officials are employed where it is pos-
sible and suitable men can be obtained.
“Commander, Olmsted, commanding
officer of the Nashville, has been placed
in charge and has a battalion of blue-
jackets from the Connecticu ashore to
assist in maintaining order.”
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No Clash Occurred Near Edinburg
Last Night.
By Associated Press.
Brownsville, Tex., Aug. 13.—Reports
of fighting between Mexican bandits
and citizens last night at Edin-burg to-
day are shown to have been erron-
eous and to have originated through
failure of a messenger who called
Brownsville by telephone to give any
details before he left the instrument.
The messenger evidently had been sent
from the scene of the impending at-
tack to call for aid, and without hav-
ing definite information told the
Brownsville end that fighting was in
progress. A .few armed men were seen,
but there was no firing. No further
outbreaks have been reported today.
Officials here in answer to the state-
ment of General Nafarette, Carranza
commander at Matamoros, that he did
not have more than 500 troops on the
border, say that there are more than
two thousand troops in the zone de-
Head of Texas Association
Feels Sure Results Will
Be of Value.
Suffer Heavy Losses in Queretaro
Fight.
By Associated Press.
Laredo, Tex., Aug. 13.—Telegraphic
advices from General J. Maycott, San
Juan del Rio, state of Queretaro, today
report a rout Wednesday of Villista
troops with a loss of 200 dead for Villa,
and the capture of a large amount of
food supplies and ammunition. General
Francisco Coss reports that in fighting
Wednesday near the limits of the fed-
eral district in the state of Morelos,
the Carranza troops defeated the Zapa-
tistas commanded by Emiliano Zapata.
The strike of oil company employes
continues at Tampico and the output
of the companies is greatly curtailed
Military authorities are maintaining
order.
Airships Drop Bombs Upon the East
Coast.
By Associated Press.
London, Aug. 13.—Official announce-
ment - was made today of an airship
raid last night on the east coast of
England. Six persons were killed. One
Zeppelin, the announcement says,
probably was damaged, but escaped.
The official announcement says that
six persons were killed, 23 were in-
jured, and 14 houses were damaged se-
riously by bombs.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 13?—The last
officer on the active list of the
United States army who saw serv-
ice in the war between the states
wag placed on the retired list to-
day when Col. John L. Clem, quar-
termaster’s department, reached
the age of 64 years and wound up
his official duties. He retires with
the additional rank of brigadier
general, in accordance with an act
of congress.
Col. Clem is commonly known
aS “the drummer boy of Chicka-
mauga” because, as a lad of ten,
he ran away from home and at-
tached himself to the Twenty-sec-
ond Michigan infantry regiment
and beat the drum in some of the
bloodiest battles in which that or-
ganization participated.
THOSE TO ATTEND.
.Among the fifty or more persons ex-
pected to attend the meeting at the
Galvez tomorrow, beginning probably
at 10 o’clock, Mr. Hirsch said, are the
following: L. M. Pool, New Orleans,
president of the Louisiana Bankers'
association; President Dwyer of the
Oklahoma Bankers’ association, Chick-
asha, Okla.; F. S. Etheridge, president
of the Georgia Bankers’ association;
Joseph Hirsch, Corpus Christi, presi-
dent of the Texas Bankers’ association;
R. L. VanZandt, Dallas, governor of
. the federal reserve bank at that place;
T. C. Tupper, deputy federal reserve
agent, St. Louis federal reserve bank,
and Frank W. Foote of Hattiesburg,
Miss., a director of the Atlanta, Ga.,
federal reserve bank.
Geo. R. James, vice president of the
Central State National bank at Mem-
phis, Tenn., will head a delegation of
probably five Memphis bankers. Mr.
James took an active part in the recent
agricultural campaign inaugurated by
the western Tennessee, eastern Arkan-
sas and northern Mississippi bankers,
conducted by the Memphis Commercial
organization. The Memphis associa-
tion has been very much interested in
the campaign conducted by the Texas
Bankes’ association.
The New Orleans Clearing House
association will send two delegates and
representatives of the Atlanta and Sa-
vannah, Ga.; Charleston, S. C.; Fort
Smith, Ark.; Little Rock, Ark., and
Oklahoma City Clearing House associa-
tions are expected to be in attendance,
as well as representatives from prin-
cipal clearing house organizations and
cotton centers of this state.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
D. C, Dunn, cashier of the Union Na-
tional bank, Houston; W. W. Woodson
cashier of the Central Texas National
bank, Waco; H. E. Chiles, president of
the Itasca, Tex., National bank; J. M.
Potter, president of the First National
bank of Gainesville, and Edwin Hobby
of Dallas, cashier of the Security Na-
tional bank, all members of the execu-
tive committee of the Texas Bankers’
association, are expected to reach Gal-
veston this afternoon or evening for a
session of the executive committee
preceding tomorrow’s conference
Messrs. Dunn, Chiles, Potter, Wood-
son and Hobby, together with J K
Beratta, president of the National
Bank of Commerce, San Antonio, and
C. H. Powell, cashier of the First Na-
tional bank of San Angelo, have been
actively in charge of the warehouse
campaign in their respective banking
districts, and it is through their efforts
largely, under the able direction of
Chairman Nathan Adams, that the
Texas bankers warehouse campaign
has been able to accomplish such effec-
tive results. Since the-campaign was
started, less than three months ago,
applications for over sixty warehouses
have been filed with the state authori-
(Continued on page six.) 1
By Associated Press.
Rome, Aug. 13.—-Via Paris.—-
The great volcanoes of Southern
Italy, which have been disturbed
during the last few days, are
becoming increasingly active.
Thus far it has been impossible
to procure detailed and authen-
tic information from the scene
of the disturbances in which
earthquakes occurred earlier in
the week. It is known, however,
that eruptions have taken place.
FORECAST.
For Galves-
ton and vicin-
ity: Tonight
and Saturday
uns ettled ;
light souther-
ly winds.
For Texas,
east of 10 0th
meridian: Un-
settled tonight
and Saturday;
probably show-
ers and thun-
derstorms i n
the interior.
FEW DEPREDATIONS.
Although few depredations by bands
of Mexican raiders were reported here
in the last twenty-four hours, author-
ities in the lower Rio Grande valley
continued to take measures to suppress
the lawlessness that almost had
brought about a reign of terror in this
section.
Developments in this matter were
expected to follow the conference
which was to be held at Rockport,
Texas, where Governor Ferguson is
spending his vacation. Besides the gov-
ernor, Adjutant General Henry Hutch-
ings, John N. Garner, congressman
from Texas, and other prominent citi-
zens of the state were to discuss the
border situation. Further proof that
the outbreaks are due to a conspiracy
of Mexicans on both sides of the Rio
Grande was to be laid before Governor
Ferguson.
ACTING UNDER PLAN.
That the raiders are acting under
the “plan of San Diego” was indicated
in the reports of United States army
officials reaching the headquarters of
the Southern department, at San An-
tonio. The reports quoted from liter-
ature said to have been distributed- in
large quantities in the border counties
of Texas.
The killing of a Mexican supposed
to have been a member of one of the
bands of marauders, at Mercedes, Tex-
Russians Successful in Getting Out of
Salient.
Latest reports from the war offices
of belligerents give rise to the belief
in the capitals of the entente allies
that the safe withdrawal of the main
parts of Russian forces from the War-
saw salient is assured through the
stout resistance which is being offered
by the wings of the Grand Duke
Nicholas’ army.
The Italian war office reports the
complete repulse by Alpine troops of
simultaneous attacks by the Austrians
through two mountain passes ten thou-
sand feet or more high in the Furva
valley zone. No movements of impor-
tance elsewhere are mentioned.
The most recent Austrian statement
reports the repulse of Italian attacks
on the Doberbo plateau and near
Zagora.
The sinking of the British steamer
.Jacona, a 3,000-tom vessel; two other
British craft, the steamers Osprey and
Summerfield and the Norwegian steam-
er Aura, presumably through attacks
by German submarines is announced.
Three persons, including one. woman,
were drowned.
German attacks have been resumed
in the Argonne, assaults being
launched against trenches between
Bimarville and Vienne-le-Chateau and
the ravine of La Houette. They were
repulsed after spirited fighting, the
French war office reports. A German
attack north of Carleul in the Artois
district was easily checked, the state-
ment adds. Quiet prevailed elsewhere
along' the French lines.
Further successes by forces of the en-
tente allies in the Kamerun, a German
colony in Western Equatorial Africa,
are reported from Paris. The impor-
tant port of Tingere has been captured,
the Germans retiring toward their
base when an attempt to recapture the
place was defeated, the advices state.
pects to be in Birmingham. It was
said this morning that such a com-
mittee in all probability will be
named.
COTTON AS COLLATERAL.
Nathan Adams in an interview for
the Tribune today said: “I do not be-
lieve the Texas Bankers’ association
has ever engaged in a movement
which promises more far reaching, and
beneficial results than this conference
of Southern bankers, called by our as-
sociation in the endeavor to put our
staple crop on the market as it is
needed and not to permit its sacrifice
during the months of October and No-
vember. Unity of purpose as to the
value of cotton as collateral and a
fixed determination and an energetic
campaign on the part of Southern bank-
ers, backed up by the federal reserve
board and the resources of four South-
ern federal reserve banks, should re-
sult in the establishment of a more
uniform price.” To promote unity of
sentiment as to the value of cotton as
collateral, Mr. Adams said, he under-
stands to be one of the foremost pur-
poses of tomorrow's conference. His
interview continues: “I believe we are
on the right track and I hope for the
undivided support and cooperation of
all the Southern bankers in this move-
ment.”
Assistant Adjutant General Has Things
in Shape.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Aug. 13.—Anticipating that a
decision may be reached by the gover-
nor looking to the ordering out of
state troops to protect the border, As-
sistant Adjutant General McCalmont is
getting things in shape so that there
will be the least possible delay in
carrying out the orders of the gov-
ernor. A conference is scheduled for
today at Rockport with Governor Fer-
guson, Adjutant General Hutchings,
Congressman Garner, at which the
question of ordering out the militia is
under consideration. President Wilson
has not given any positive assurance
to the governor that additional troops
are to be detailed for border service,
and the situation appears to be grow-
ing graver each day.
Adjutant General Hutchings has ad-
vised the department here that he will
reach Austin either tonight or tomor-
row morning. Colonel James T. Stock-
ton, assistant quartermaster general of
the guard, is also at Brownsville.
KINGSVILLE FEARS RAID.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Aug. 13.—A Havas dispatch
received today from West Africa, re-
ports further successes by troops of
the entente allies in the Kamerun, a
German colony in Western Equatorial
Africa. The dispatch says:
“Allied troops on July 18 occupied
the important post of Tingere, the
western section of the Kamerun, on a
plateau 3,390 feet high. The enemy
fled, but on July 23, reinforced, coun-
ter attacked heavily, but was repulsed
after a brilliant engagement and fled
toward Tibati.
“The losses of the allies were
slight; those of the enemy heavy.”
Joseph Hirsch of Corpus Christi,
president of the Texas Bankers’ asso-
ciation, and Nathan Adams of Dallas,
vice president of the Texas bankers’
warehouse campaign, arrived in- Gal-
veston this morning for a preliminary
conference with local financiers rela-
tive to the meeting of Southern states
bankers to be held at Hotel Galvez
tomorrow.
To quote Mr. Hirsch’s own words,
“this conference is called for the pur-
pose of organizing a concerted move-
ment on the part of Southern bankers
looking to the gradual marketing of
the 1915 cotton crop, supplementing
suggestions outlined in recent utter-
ances of the federal reserve board.”
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
Mr. Hirsch continued: “It is hoped
that as a result of the conference here
Saturday a permanent organization of
Southern bankers- will be effected,”
thus making tomorrow’s meeting an
entering wedge, as it were, for greater
concerted action on many matters of:
mutual interest in future.
W. P. Harding, a member of the
federal reserve board at Washington,
has expressed a desire for a meeting
with a committee to be appointed at
the Galveston conference, that meeting
By Associated Press.
New York, Aug. 13.—Women
suffragists from many sections of
the East took part in a pilgrimage
today to Orange, N. J., to pay trib-
ute to the memory of Lucy Stone, a
pioneer in the suffrage cause. The
principal ceremony of a program
was the unveiling of a tablet placed
on the house that Lucy Stone once
owned.
Following the unveiling, the
suffragists planned a series of ral-
lies throughout the eastern part of
New Jersey.
Lucy Stone headed the call for
the first National Woman’s Rights
convention in 1850. Eight years
later her household goods were
sold in Orange because she refused
to pay taxes unless she had a voice
in levying them.
Chief of Staff to Remain There In-
definitely.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 13.—Major General
Scott, chief of staff of the army, has
been ordered to remain at El Paso to
be ready for any mission the state
department may have on the border.
General Scott is reporting directly to
Secretary Lansing.
While General Scott is acting as an
agent of the state department in con-
nection with negotiations between the
Mexican factions, he also is watching
the border situation, and is in com-
munication with Major General Fun-
ston. War department officials say
they have no knowledge of the work
the state department is asking of the
chief of staff.
No more troops were ordered to the
border today.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 13.—The inter-
American appeal to all factions in
Mexico, agreed upon by the Pan-Ameri-
can conference, is expected to go for-
ward today. The text will not be made
public until it has been communicated
to all the heads of the factions and
governors of the Mexican states. There
has been some difficulty in assembling
the list of Mexican leaders to whom
the appeal is addressed, but his now
is practically complete. Secretary
Lansing said today there would be no
further conference with the Latin -
American diplomats until replies had
been received.
No change in the Vera Cruz situa-
tion was received in navy department
dispatches.
Secretary Daniels said the battleships
Louisiana and New Hampshire still
“were proceeding southward.” Today
the ships are off the Florida coast.
That they will go directly to Mexican
waters in the vicinity of Vera Cruz, is
generally expected.
Gen. Villa’s proposal of a three
months’ truce for a peace convention,
has been unacted upon by this gov-
ernment. Villa’s offer, it was suggest-
ed, would be valuable in ading fur-
ther plans of the Pan-American con-
ference with regard to Mexico after re-
plies has been received to the appeal
for peace.
Announcement was made here today
on behalf of Gen. Villa by his Wash-
ington agents that all the civil and
military elements of his party would
eliminate themselves, if necessary, for
the success of a Mexican peace con-
ference
While Gen. Villa has notified the
state department of his willingness to
enter into a peace conference, the Vil-
la agency here announced Gen. Car-
By Associated Press.
London, Aug. 13.—George Joseph
Smith, the wife murderer, was hanged
today at Maidstone.
Smith was found guilty by a jury
on July 1. He was accused of murder-
ing three wives in order to collect in-
surance money on their lives. In each
case the victim was found drowned in
a bath tub soon after the wedding cere-
mony.
After Smith was sentenced the court,
complimenting the jury upon its ver-
dict, declared that the prisoner had
gone through the ceremony of marri-
age with two other women, both of
whom he had robbed of money.
Crude Oil Goes up 5 Cents at Wichita
Falls.
By Associated Press.
Wichita, Falls, Tex., Aug. 13.—The
Texas company posted an advance in
the price of crude oil here tday of five
cents making the price now 65 cents.
This makes a total of twenty cents
advance since the first of August.
Katy Employes Instructed to Honor
Ranger Passes.
By Associated Press.
V aco, Tex., Aug. 13.—H. F. Anderson
general superintendent of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railroad, has issued
instructions notifying employes of the
road to honor Texas ranger warrants
or commissions of authority signed by
the adjutant general of Texas as tern-
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