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VOL. 10, NO. 90, SEMIBALKAN CRISIS RtGARDED WITH MUCH PESSIMISM Serbia Seems Unwilling to Yield Anything at All to the Other Balkan States. MAY SEEK COMPROMISE. (Jwere is Showing an I'misiial Amount of Opposition to the Wishes of (lie Allies. London, Aug. 16.-? Militnry operations in the eastern field are developing slowly. Both sides show the effects of the intensity of the Warsaw * struggle. The German advance centers on the efforts of Field Marshal von Hindenburg to force troops across the Dvina and eastward in the central direction of Petrograa and the near approach of the army of Prince Leopold of Bavaria to the new BrestLitovsk defense. Notwithstanding the steady pressure of the Germans, the Russians have held them west of the Dvina. The Balkun crisis is drawing near a climax. The national assemblies oi Serbia and Greece meet today with the 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 CamKIo it? Ill ? An 1/ a AAmnenniiuo a ri.j DC* Uia n hi dvci\ a vviu|/iuutiov mivi Greece will reject the Bulgarian contentions. Reports from Athens indicate that King Constantine is insisting the new cabinet must maintain strict neutrality, the effect of which would be to withhold Qreece 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 to information from Bucharest, German army corpf have been concentrated near tlu Junction of Hungary, Koumania and Serbia. This, with the bombardment of Belgrade and the activity of Aus irian arunery ai many ponus ainnp the Danube, lends support to report* of a great Austro-German offensive in the Balkans. The outsomo of tlie crisis is await ed most anxiously, as determining whether the allies will receive new support from the Balkans and whether Germany's supplies of ammunition lor Turkey will continue to be shul off by the Balkan barrier. Bulgarian officials do not expect an agreement will be reached, but tin Serbian minister at London, M. Boshkovitch. told the Associated Press In believed a middle ground would bt found on which it will be possible tc unite the Balkan states. VILLA HAD PLAN IN HIS MADNESS levied I'|mui n Soup t'ompunj Which He Alleged Was a ( rafter and n Trust. El Paso, Tex., Aug. 16.?A forceii loan of $100,000, levied by Genera Villa against the James Brittingham Soap Factory, a Mexican corporation ai uomez raiacio. naa oeen lirted it became known bore today. Thl? action followed conferences be tween Villa andrMajor General HugJi L. Scott, chief of staff, of the United States army. The (iomez Palacio factory enjoyed a practical monopoly in the purchase of the cotton seed at a fixed pricfc add the sale of it productior under the Ulaz regime. Kormerlj much of the stock of the company it said to have been held by raeniben of the so-called "Oientiflco" party Ir the fhrm nf "hea.r?ri?" *tr?rlr cerUfi. <ate*; 1 ' * Suspecting thut the certillcation In (his firm servod to conceal the hlen tlty of members of the "Clentiflco' who were deriving revenue from property in his territory, Villa Is said to have exacted loans amounting tc over a quarter of a million dollars. When his last demand was refused thy plant was coiiliseated. At u conference (lenerul Scott is said to hav?^ convinced Villa that the stock is now 'told exclusively by American and Hrltlsh Investors. k al. > WEEKLY. LEO M. FRANK TAKEN FROM PRISON OV MOO; ? Twenty-Five Armed Men Take Noted Prisoner Off in Automobile. GUARDS OVERPOWERED.! I Party Loaves in IHwti<m of Katonton, Itut No Itcport of Arrival Ttioro Has Conic. I Milledgeville, Ga.f Aug. IB.?A [ mob variously estimated at between 25 and 7 5 in number overpowered i Warden Smith and guards at the state prison farm near here at 11 I o'clock tonight and quickly got Leo i M. Frank and rushed him away In , an automobile. First reports that it might be friends of Frank were dispelled when a prisoner said he had heard a member of the mob say that Frank's body would be placed tomorrow on the grave of Mary Phagan at Marietta. Frank was serving a life term for the murder of the girl. i lie iiiuu was orueriy uui worKwi with quick precision. Eight automobiles took the men to within a short distance of the prison. They first cut all wires from Mllledgeville. Five men went to the house of J. T. Smith, warden, covered him with pistols and stood guard over him. Other men went to the house of J. M. Burke, superintendent of the prison, and held him under cover of their guns. Practically every other member of the mob then rushed to the stockade gate nearest the dormitory where Frank was being housed. Only yes. terday did the physicians discharge , him from the hospital where he had . been since being murderously assaulted in the dormitory. As on the night Frank was attack, ed only two guards were on duty. The mob quickly overpowered Chief j Night Guard Hester and the other !: man on duty, proceeded to the dor . iiuiury hiiu w nil ill a lew iiunues , seized Frank and rushed him back , to the automobiles. Those who had been holding Smith and Burke left as soon as Frank was , brought out and joined their fellows. J The automobiles, reported to number t eight, then were started in the direction of Eatonton. Nothing more had been heard of them hours after they j left. Only one member of that part of I the mob that went to the dormitory talked. He gave the commands to! the guards which were backed up byj l the arms of the other members of the mob. A drisoner who was sleeping in the dormitory is responsible for the statement that the spokesman said the mob Intended to take Frank to. Marietta and that tomorrow morning| his body would be found on the grave of Mary I'hagan, for whose murder the prisoner was ser\ing a life sentence. DAVID B. JOHNSON IS A CANDIDATE i I I National I', ducat ional Association | Meeting In Oakland, i California. I Oakland. Cal., Aug. 16.?Every iri| coming train and steamer continued j ^ today to increase the hosts of dele. gates that have gathered here for the , tifty-third annual convention of the I 1 National Kducation Association. It I was estimated that 10,000 were here. ' Representatives from 27 foreign | countries are expected. The national I'council of education, the Internai tional Kindergarten Union, the Amr erican School Peace League and nu, merous other allied organizations , J will meet during the 13-day session. l' The leading candidates for the .: presidency of the association aro Miss Grace C. Strachan. district superintendent of schools, of Brooklyn, .IN. Y., and David 1). Johnson, presi>I dent of the Winthrop Industrial and i' Agricultural College of South CaroI i 1 ma. A nominating committee was , to be appointed today. The election will be held Thursday. I Governor Hiram W. Johnson was! . to welcome the association today.1 . Responses were to be made by l)r. > David Starr Jordan, the president. I and Vice President Joseph Swain, 'president Swsrthniore College. * M LANCASTER, S. C. TUI<> AMERICAN DOLLAR |WI RULES SUPREME A . English Sterling Topples From Tei Throne of the Financial World. WAR BILLS POURING IN.I GA Anxiety IJiiycrs of War Order Stock*I |{<>li<>vnl by ('liaimiim of Monetary Standard. New York. Auk. 16.?The Amerl-i I can dollar rules the financial world I arn today with an iron Krip. Pounds a r sterling francs, lires, virtually all at ' foreign exchange, went down to new depths in a torrent of bills that sev poured into the exchange ma? hots ^ * from American manufacturers see!:- t,al ing pay for the big war contracts of j,ut munitions and other supplies pur- 'I1K chased here by the warring nations of Europe. fro Coincident with the startling de- fSS .... tor; cline In exchange rates, came the n assertion from an unimpeachable source that every contract made by t,ie the American manufacturers for the ^al supplies sent abroad called for pay- acr mpnt 111 Aniprtpan ilnllnru onH nut SllB English pounds sterling, which here- tha tofore had been the standard of ft- 1 nance the world over. The immense v?s '.osses, therefore, due to the decline on in foreign exchange rates, will be C^J borne, to the last penny, by the er^ foreign buyers, and wUl not be sus- cor tained by the American manufac- tho turers. the The maximum depreciation today nor in pounds sterling was 4% per cent below normal; in francs 1 i? ' per cent below normal; in Italian Ind lires 26 per cent. The pound sold Te: at one time today for only $4.6-1 r*'a 6.2 francs equalled a dollar and a ho< dollar purchased 6.48 lires. In the of last hour of the business day, how- ^la< ever, the appearance in Wall street ( of J. P. Morgan for the firsi time' t,,e since the attack on his life six weeks f?r ago and an informal conference of ' ?< bankers to consider the exchange s'tllfttinn Qunt rotnu ? nttm ./) !>?*r Sterling closed at 4.67 Vi. one- : half point higher than it opened and h'' a point and a half under Satur- r'*a day's close which established a new ? 1 low record at the time. Francs gained points over the low record.! ^al selling at 5.9H at the close and liresl "u rebounded a point closing at 6.47. What to do to remedy the situa-i"' \ ? tion engaged the attention of bank-j ers with international connections at 1>el their conference late today. I( was s,)l decided to do nothing, chiefly be- 'H,i cause the remedy lay with the foreign buyers who will he the suf- NaI ferers. ,'lt MAY SKLh SKCUUITIKS. poi One remedy succested was to sell ? ? - ,\ r American securities held abroad, but j)U, when this contingency was studied < the situation seemed to he pregnant ,na with unique poise. Millions of Amer-!,j1 ican securities. payable in dollars,1 are held abroad, chiefly high-class I g.| railroad bonds and preferred stock ,() of a selected list of American industrials. Should these be sold at present they would bring far more than the purchasers paid for them, due entirely to the depression of wa exchange. With the prospective lis] profits as an inducement, it was tro believed that holders abroad would I be willing to sell, and that for- wa eign buyers of American goods would ly have little difficulty in procuring a I bei large amount of American securities! J51 abroad as collateral for a temporary th* loan in this country, which would 1 00 tend to cdrrect exchange rates. The Un establishment here of a big foreign fis< credit, estimated conservatively at ilea $500,000,000. Is thought to be ab- on solutely necessary if exchango rates! j?r< were to he restore/! to onvtlilno HUn - ? ? - " / I 11(11 normal. 1 Tne assertion that dollars and not: rig pounds sterling had been the flnan- tor cial standard on which contracts for tra war supplies had been accepted cainc nol as a distinct surprise. Aside from we marking the temporary passing of London's control of the world's the treasurer chests, it relieved the anx- lar ietv of investors in war specialties in to the stock market, who were con- d0< fronted with the prospect of a larg*- ins shrinkage in prospective profits dm ht i prevailing exchange rates. nic It was learned that the am .t r % star >I)A Y, AUGUST 17, 191 ":ST INDIAN HURRICANE LARMSCOAST OF TEXAS rrilic Windstorm Reaches Velocity of Seventy Miles an Hour. lLYESTON IS FLOODED. Wall llul<liii|r, llowi'VCI', ami No Loss of |,if?? or Serious l>ain?K?* Is lt<>|?ort<*<l. trOWIlSVillu. Toxas Alii' 111 Tlio ly wireless station here received eport from the transport Buford Galveston tonight that the water re had risen 10 feet and that eral vessels had been overturned, failure of wire communication to veston tonight increased anxiety, the fact that the wind was blowfrom the north and water which I been backed in the streets was m the bay side of the island, reured those familiar with the hisy of the city's storms. The sea wall on the south side of city faces the open gulf. The ters of the bay, directly opposite oss the mile wide island are mere llows except for the narrow ship .11 rho storm which devastated Galton and drowned 8,000 persons September 8, 1900, tore at the r for 12 hours from a BoutheastY direction. Tonight's storm, acding to bulletins, had none nt' se dangerous elements because i wihd was blowing from thu th. Jallas, Texas, Aug, 16.?A West Llan hurricane lashed the c&s Gulf coast tonight, the wind ching a velocity of 70 miles an tr, but up to a late hour no loss life or serious property damage 1 been reported ashore or atloat. lalvcston'r sen wall had withstood f force of the waters and except minor damuges as a result of the iding of the streets on the bay V U iuc V.IIJ, me JII upri IV lUhh I1U(I sn negligible. Sabine. Texas, reported a wind oi miles, and at Port Arthur the gale idled a velocity of 4 5 miles at 10 lock. rhe majority of the residents at line and Sabine Pass as well a? i numerous summer camps and rets ulong the coast moved to places safety last night and early today Galveston residents along the ich abandoned their homes anil 'tit the night in the more secure ildings in the business district. Ilollover, Caplen, Patton and 1 to 1 i were reported under water. All >se towns were deserted last night Late tonight a newspaper vorresident attempted to go from Port thur to Sabine in an automobile t was forced to abandon the trip "The wind would have blown oui chine away if we had continued t trip," he declared. Efforts to charter a boat to read] bine were futile, sailors refusing mke the trip. KiH'ncli Not I'sing <?us. Paris, Aug. 16. The ministry ol r today issued a note denying publied statements that the Freud ops are using poisonous gas. r contraets 011 which full or nearfull payments will he due Oeto r 1 approximates $400,000,000 tr 00,000,000. This is in addition t( > huge total of more than $1,000, 0 000 (lUPll hv li'.nr/ino In Ited States at the close of tlx al year June JO. It was alsi rned that the prospective profits some of these contracts had beer atly exaggerated and that onl> rmal profits would accrue. This, it was said, was due to th< id surveillance of British inspec s over all deliveries. Goods con cted for, it was said, that did t come up to a rigid stnndar: re rejected .entailing loss. Another optimistic influence was general belief that a second ge gold shipment was on its wa) New York. Approxiraatelv $U0. it.000 in gold coin reached lion I wi'i'k Irtim I .iirwlriii iV->ll <,?? .?,>1 ?r<l today thai the kjcoimI shin lit was f-oinir.ir from ^o?<tb Afri or Australia 5. MEXICANS FIRE ON i AMERICAN TROOPS1 One of Uncle Sam's Cavalry Of- I ficers Killed and Another Wounded. ? invnriv < daol' imii.xn.. woiii/i iti * Duuui'iK. i l-'oiTf of '270 Mexicans Attack Out- > post of llalt" l>o/,en Soldiers > at Saenz. Brownsville, Texas, Attn. 16.Armed Mexicans in force crossed the j t Uio Grande at a ford near Mercedes j \ tonight, attacking an outpost of half I t a dozen cavalrymen at Saenz, t i Ranger Lieut. Keynau, at Mercedes, i j telephoned State Adjutant General t Hutchings here that Corporal Wil- i man of Troop C, 12th cavalry, was I t killed and Lieut. Roy O. Henry and I two privates of the same troop were i wounded. Reynau reported that the s Mexicans had crossed the border in 1 three bauds and were advancing toward Mercedes. 1 A clash between Mexicans and ; United States troops occurred last j night. The troops were fired upon i from across the Kio Grande, but the Mexicans withdrew when the fire was returned. None of the Americans were wounded. Americans who arrived here today reported that they had been threatened by a party of Carranza soldiers aboard a train en route from Monterey. The soldiers apparently had i been drinking and were incensed by exaggerated reports of the raids on t the American side of the boundary and treatment accorded Mexicans. Officers quieted the troops. The Americans said that a statement signed bv General Nafarrate. Carranza commander at Matamoros, | ' had been published in a Monterey j I ( newspaper, declaring that Carranza | 'troops had no connection with the| ' Texas raids. They reported that the | I majority of the- American residents! "i of Monterey had left that city. The 26th infantry arrived today I 1 front Texas City to reinforce thel . , United States border patrol. '! It has been learned that Clyde' I Robinson, an American, was detained in the Matamoros jail five days' pending an investigation of his presII ence near the Matamoros military | trenches, lie was released at the rei i quest of United States Consul Johnson at Matamoros. ' BOYS PUNISHED BY NAVAL COURT Tiki Midshipmen \re dismissal < I'mm Academy and Twelve > Otliei-s to lie Disciplined. Washington, Aug. 15. Findings of the court of inquiry which investi. gated irregularities in examinations ; and recitations at the Naval \cadeniv, with disciplinary action approv, ed by Secretary Daniels were an: nounced tonight at the navy department. Two midshipmen, Ralph M. 1 Nelson. Jr., of New York, and, I'linrlni. VI ..f / \ I. ! ? ~ ... -IS x II?I irn ??l. ivca^ir Ul WIIIW, ui r Wl^ missed from the Academy. Twelve r others are ordered disciplined in - varying degrees. 1 The court, appointed by Secretary Daniels last June submitted a unanimous report after a long inquiry. The " dismissals were submitted to and ap ' proved by President Wilson. 'I Sweeping changes in the method '! of conducting examinations were " suggested by the court, and are un51 der consideration by Secretary Daniels. Among its recommendations ' were: "That the practice of giving out. 1 "dope* or advanced information | should be abolished unless heads of departments issue it by memoranda, | thus insuring that all receive It in eqi'ni amount* nn<i in me same I; form. |t "That examinations should not he i made so long or so difficult as to ,! n.ake 'dope' systems necessary for a 11 great proportion of a class to pass examinations satisfactorily . In itfs report before the in<|uiry m the Academy superintendent, reeomI | aended iwen midshipmen for dis-'mi<?sal, and 16 others were brought | into the proceeding* after the eonrtj began hearings. I&. $1.50 A YEAR. TALIANS STONE GERMAN VESSELS L'nited States Custom Station Also Attacked bv the Reservists. SEVERAL OFFICERS HURT. M'vcral I'nliccinen I ti iitr-?-?| by \n^ry Italians Who Had Conned !*? rath* licl'ore Sailing. Boston. Aug. 15. The assembling oday of l.llOb Italian reservists who vere to sail on tlx* steamer Canopje onight was marked by deinonstraions against the German steamships tmerika and Cincinnati, laid up here is a result of which several policenen were severly injured. Sailors in the German vessels were struck >y stones and sticks. Revolver shots were exchanged between the crowd ind the police, but it could not be learned that any took effect. In another disturbance which developed about the formation of a parade of the reservists in North Square, three police officers were inilirori nno Kolnn- T*"" unv oiaui/rn. I VII ?irrests were made. The reservists paraded the Coinmonwealth pier in the South Boston listrict. The crowd became angered it. the appearance of the police and legan throwing stones at two vessels inchored to the pier, smashing winlows and doing other damage. Two stewards were severly beaten. The mob then rushed to the main jier building. The United States cusoms station was stoned, but eight officers forced the crowd back at tb? [joint of revolvers. Shots were fired in the air .and were answered from ihe crowd but later no bullet wounds could be found. Several policemen, however, required hospital attention, one with a broken leg and others with broken arms and other injuries. Although the officers used their clubs, few of the disturbers bore marks of the fray. At North Square an otticei was stabbed in the cheek and rut severely on the arm. The Canopic sailed just before midnight. According to officers In charge there were 1.4.'10 reservists in her steerage and a few in the cabins and they claimed all were aboard ship when the trouble occurred. FRENCH TROOPS TAKE EXCAVATION Itig t.miv Continue to 'I'ltinoler Challenge in Three lliMi o t^. \eroplnite? Drop Itotnh*. I'aris. Aug 1 After iolent hand-to-hand lighting near "uisalenne between .he ')!-e and \isne rivers. French troops yesterday ocou pied an excavation maile 1>\ the ex plosion of a niin? and* r a German trench, according to today's French war department statement. Exceptionally violent artillery duels are reported in the Artois, the Champagne and the Lorraine districts. Nineteen French aeroplanes dropped H?8 bombs 011 German depots near St. Mlhiel. The statement reads: "In the course of the night aitillery duels were particularly violent in Artois, in the region of Souches, at itoclineourt, in ihe champagne at Beausejour fort and in Lorraine, in the region of Leintrey and iteillon. "Between the Oise and the Aisn? we exploded a mine north of i'uiaalenne and we occupied the excavation after violent hand-to-hnnti .gating "In the Argon.oe, at the 'ourlev chausses and at La Fontaine there were engagement' ..im homo- and petards. "In the Vosget, 11 the region of the Fave river f. German mine v/a? exploded on hill o07. youth of liousz without causing :ny loss ?v damage "A squadron ot lit aeroplanes bombarded derma: porks and depots in the valley of Spada. 'i'he aviatori dropped los shells on their objec tives. All o.ir aeroplane'; refnrnod without incident." (irtrk 1' rl .. Vug. 1?7 A Renter's dig pnliii .'roin Athene -ays that after tli< lection of '/>u itan?>R a? pre8i den of the (i;?e.. cliambo) of depu ties today th? (Jou'mrbt foyer.tment, resigned