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VOLUME XLIX—NO. 219.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS,
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, 1914 -SIXTEEN PAGES.
ESTABLISHED 1865.
GERMAN FLEET MEETS DEFEAT
North Sea Stage for Great Battle; British Drive
Kaiser's Ship Toward the Dutch Coast
— crla _______ __.
Russian and German
Cruisers Are Sunk
MRS. WILSON DEAD
IN WHITE HOUSE
KAISER, HIS WAR ADVISER,>'<fl) HELPLESS GIRL RULER
Illness Beginning Months
Ago Not Known Generally
to Have Been Serious Un-
til Its Fatal Termination
Was Expected Momen-
tarily.
PUBLIC BUSINESS STOPSJ
President Completely Prostrated
by Great Blow Which Takes
One Not Only His Wife But
Wise Adviser on Great National
and Other Matters—Tributes to
First Lady of Land Come From
Poor as Well as Rich.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 6.—
Mrs. Wondrow Wilson, wife of the
President of the United States, died at
the White House at 5 o'clock this aft-
ernoon. Death came after a brave
struggle of months against Bright's
disease with complications.
The President was completely un-
nerved by the shock and his grief was
heartrending. He bore up well under
the strain, however, and devoted him-
self to his daughters.
The end came while Mrs. Wilson
wa:~ unconscious. Her illness took a
turn for the worse shortly before 1
o'clock in the afternoon and from then
on she gradually grew weaker.
Kneeling at the bedside at the end
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Day's Developments
in European War
British fleet reported victorious
in North Sea, chasing German war-
ships to Dutch coast.
Role of mediator may be assigned
United States any moment.
British cruiser Amphion sunk by
:.nne with a loss of more than a
hundred men.
Emperor William calls on all
Germans capable of bearing arms
to fight for fatherland.
Germans and Belgians are fight-
ing around Liege, where upwards
of 100,000 men are engaged
Austria-Hungary declares war on
Russia.
British Prime Minister's request
for additional war appropriation of
$500,000,000 and army increase of
600,000 men is granted.
Russian cavalry is driven back
by Germans.
Russian cruiser Askold and Ger-
man cruiser Emden sunk in engage-
ment off Wei-Hai-Wei.
Two German cruisers trailing
Lusitania reported sunk by British.
War proves wall more effective
than American tariff.
War causes copper mines in Ari-
zona and California to close.
Belgians' fire bring down German
aeroplane and dirigible balloon.
Japan will aid England with fleet
and 20.000 men.
Americans in Paris get citizen-
ship certificates and are in no panic.
Belgians still delay German ad-
vance.
English colonies will aid mother
country.
All Germans fit for duty called
to service.
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FB1HE upper picture shows a 4-inch gun mounted on the British torpeao boat destroyer Swift, one of tne type of
* vessels which is taking a serious part in the European war. She is the first of her type to be equipped
with such guns.
The lower picture (left) shows the Kaiser in conference with Admiral von Tirpitz, his Minister of Marine, and
Admiral von Holtzendorff, in command of the Baltic /leet.
The other picture is of Luxemburg's ruler, Marie Adelaide, Grand Duchess. This girl ruler has seen her
duchy, supposedly neutral ground, invaded, and is helplos before the moving of the German army to Frcnc'n ter-
ritory.
NELMS SISTERS
MURDERED HERE
Brother Asserts He Has Found House
• in City Where They Were Slain,
and Probably Cremated.
The Nelms sisters of Atlanta were murdered in San Antonio, according to
Marshall Nelms.
This development in the mysterious disappearance case was made last night
by Mr. Nelms, brother of the two women, and Robert L. Barnes, special agent
in charge of the United States Department of Justice here, when they found the
bouse in which the crime is believed to have been committed.
Although they assert it is beyond doubt that the sisters were killed
in the house in the southeastern part of the city, the exact location of which
the two men will not make public, the disposition of the bodies remains a mys-
tery. But from the evidence obtained yesterday it is likely that the bodies have
either been burned bV acid or by slack lime, and placed in trunks and shipped
away.
According to the new clue Victor Innes and his accomplice, aaid to have
been Mrs. Margaret Mims. came to San Antonio early in June and rented a
furnished house on Wilkens Avenue for a month They lived in the house
twenty-eight days and paid $75 in advance for its use. He gave his real name,
Victor E. Innes. when he obtained the receipt. Thev moved in with one trunk.
SISTERS GO TO THE HOUSE.
On the night of June 14, when the two sisters ar^yed in San Antonio from
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CALLED TO DUTY
EMPEROR ISSUES HIS ORDERS
ARMY AND NAVY JOIN IN
in Chinese Waters
LONDON, Aug. 7 (Friday, 1:42 a. m.)—The British fleet has engaged
the German fleet in the high seas. The British warships are driving the Ger-
mans towards the Dutch coast.
The Press Association asserts it was advised of the fight between the
fleets by the admiralty. The admiralty refused to confirm or deny that a
battle was in progress.
The hospital authorities at Hull, England, have received orders to pre-
pare to receive 250 men wounded in the North Sea engagement. Shipping
firms have been informed that the E ast Coast is clear from Hull to London<
German and Russian Cruiser Are Sunk in Battle in Chinese Waters
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Tien Sien says the Russian cruisei
Askold and the German cruiser Emden both have been sunk after an engagement off
Wei-hei-Wei, China. -i
The Emden Was a protected cruiser of 3,592 tons. She carried ten 4.1-inch guns and
was fitted with two torpedo tubes.
The displacement of the Askold was 5 905 tons. Her armament consisted of twelve
six-inch guns, twelve three-inch guns and eight three-pounders. After the battle of the
Yellow Sea, in the Russo-Japanese war, she was interned at Shanghai.
An admiralty report says the British cruiser Amphion was sunk this morning by
striking a mine. Paymaster J. T. Gedge and 130 men were lost. The captain, sixteen of-
ficers and 135 men were saved. '
A previous report said the German mine-layer Koenigin Luise probably had placed!
some mines before she was sunk by the British torpedo boat destroyer Lance.
The Amphion was a light cruiser of 3,440 tons. She was attached to the third de-i
stroyer flotilla under Captain Cecil H. Fox, commanding officer. Her regular comple-
ment was 292 men. She was commissioned in April, 1913.
A French mine ship today captured and towed into Cherbourg a 5,000-ton German
steamer. ,
British Torpedo Boat Destroyer Sinks Steamer Koenigin Luise
The British torpedo boat destroyer Lance figured in the first naval,engagement in
the present war, sinking the Hamburg-American Line steamer Koenigin Luise,which had
been fitted out as a mine-layer. ,
The Lance fired only four shots. The first destroyed the bridge of the steamer, the
third and fourth tore away the stern and the Koenigin Luise sank in six minutes.
The Lance rescued twenty-eight of the German crew. Several of the crew were
drowned. Two of them each lost arms, four each had a leg shot away. None of the
Lance's crew was injured. [
The Koenigin Luise was caught laying mines some sixty miles from Harwich.
The Hamburg-American liner Kron Prinzessin Cecilie and the Prinz Adalbert
lying at the seaport of Falmouth, England, have been seized by the government.
The British cruiser Diana today brought the German schooner Else from Rio Grande
into Falmouth.
The passage of a war budget for $500,000,000 in the House of Commons today without
a dissenting voice and the granting of an army increase of 500,000 men in accordance with
plans of Lord Kitchener, the new war minister, shows that Great Britain is in deadly
earnest.
A call to arms issued by the war office tonight says an addition of 100,000 men t€
the regular army is needed immediately and that "Lord Kitchener is confident this ap-
peal will at once be responded to by all who have the safety of our empire at heart."
The term of service for the new men is to be three years or until the war is ended
The age of enlistment will be between 19 and 30.
The naval estimates provide for 67,000 additional officers and men which will make
the navy's strength 218,000 men. J
There are no illusions in England that the war is certain to be a swift and deci-
sive one. The people are steeled for a longand exhaustive struggle .
TITANIC WAR.
BERLIN. Aug. fi.—(8:30 p. m.)—
The Emperor has issued an order to
the (ierman army and navy in which
he says:
"After forty-three years of peafre 1
call upon all Germans capable of bear-
ing arms. We have to defend our
most sacred pow>essions in the Father-
land and home against the reckless as-
sault of enemies on all sides of us.
"That means hard fighting. I am
confident that the ancient warlike
spirit still lives in the «.ermar people
—that powerful warlike spirit which
attacks the enemy wherever ita finds
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Brings Suit for Nickel
Against Railway Line
BpeMal Telegram to Tbe Expr***.
| DALLAS. Tex., Auk ♦» Probably the
I smallest suit **ter filed anywhere was ft
t to<l*y in Justice of the IVm* I^alie St<»w
| art'a court for the ntovery of a nickel.
The suit as styled T. B. Smith Furniture
Company et a I rs. Gulf. Colorado & Santa
Fe Kallmad Company. The petition ask*
for a recovery of a flve--^*nt overcharge
an*l an allowance «.f a $10 attorney fee.
A suit for 50 «-cnt* was filed here Thur*
day. but It is believed that the 5 cent salt
break* all records.
•
Caledoniar. Cancels Sailing.
LONIM»\\ Any 6. The Leyland Line
stonier Caledonian. which to have
Milled for New York Saturday, today eau
celled her «aiflTi? Tlw* American l«tne
steamer Philadelphia tailed from <Jne*n*
♦©*» late today for
Roused by the parading of troops and warlike
a mob composed principally of young men tonight
WINNIPEG. Aug 6.
speeches of street orators.
stoned the German and Austrian consulates and the German Club here, shat
j tcring windows and damaging interior furnishings. Police guards were placed
about the Austrian consulate but the German consulate and German Club were
closed indefinitely. i
r
LONDON. Aug. 6. (8:55 p
ce Lichnowsky. who left Engl
government expressing his thanks for the
m.i.—The German ambassador at London^
: British
great courtesy shown to us during
Prince Lichnowsky. who left Englcnd toda\. addressed a telegram to the British]
V,
our journey.
A Berlin dispatch says that before the departure of the British ambassador
from the German capital Emperor William sent an aide de camp to express tb»
the regret of his majesty because of the excesses committed against the British!
embassy. Sir Edward Goschen in reply said he was thankful for the solicitude?
shown him by the German government
HARWICH, England. Aug 6 <5.20 r. m.I.— When the German ambassador
and his suite, numbering one hundred persorfs. arrived here late today, a conJ
tingent of the rifle brigade recened them and presented arms. The ambassa-'
dor. in reply to the honor, raised his hat. A young German in th«
shouted: "God save Germany J"
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