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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS. FRIDAY, JULT 31, 1914. ....... D i . 1 1 - g GOUPLEARRESTED AFTERBIBBRAWL Un and Girl Are Sentenced to the County Jail by Jus tice Carl Kuehl. A telephone rn to the r0110 "at ion ite Ttrdi afternoon conveyed the irformstion that in a Mrn in the roar Pf SIS Twentieth street thero was a drunken Dr.! In which several girls a number of men 'r implicated. Offcert Gustave Klrsch and Charles r m n made r,P1J run to ,he rlacp v'.t lound ot'v to of the big party i.t. a fx,a': her nanie Cora K!- arl B1- Charles Casey, the cam 9 tl""--" tne Pol,ce to he a fictitious oce. re taken into cus- lkiS were l.r.at.! to explain how tl T tappT.ed to re there but stated tMt tii'T IiWl just arrived and that tier kt.ew iH'titlr.j; of a brawl nor had ien otJ.ers in the ;-lace. They were Td on a charge of dis trdr'.v cond-ict ant? the woman was flntf actd m the o nr.fy jail for ZO day a1 tLe n.au for 1" flays by Justice of On Peace Carl Kuehl. Social DANCING PARTY AT TOWER Another of the series of dancing par tes given by the Woodmen of the World, camp No. SS was held at the Watch Tower last evening and was ittended by 10 couples. Bieuer's or chestra gave the dance program. The text of the series wil be held Thurs Uy Aug. 13 also at the Tower. MEN CONDUCT SOCIABLE. The Men's society of the first Lu theran church had arranged to hold a sociable on the parsonage awi list evening, but the threatening weather drove them to the church Cane Sugar 20 lbs. for SI annex. A large crowd attended the affair and a good sum was cleared for the church. HOSTESS TO CINCH CLUB. Mrs. II. l Maker, Sixth ave nue was the hostess yesterday after noon to the Cinch club of which she Is a member. Three tables of the game were played with Mrs. Ayers. Mrs. Jessie Green and Mrs. Albert Schrieber taking the favors. A lunch was served at the small tables after the games. The club will be enter tained in two weeks by Mrs. John Betke, Zo2 Sixth avenue. SOCIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. The Ice cream soclaoie mat was to have been given last evening on the lawn of the Robert Hoffman home, 10:M Seventeenth street by the Young Mens Hible class of the First Bap tist church, will be held this evening instead at the same place. preemman arrested in city Emory McCall Gives Bond and Case Is. Continued Keith Dooley Fined $26. Emory McCall of Preemption was arrested yesterday afternoon by Spe cial Traffic Officer Carey on Fourteenth-and-one-half street cn a charge of exceeding the speed limit. He put up a bond of $15 and the Yeggy-Don garage company of this city, of whom he purchased his car. appeared this morning in hla behalf in justice court and asked for a continu ance. It was granted until August 8. Keith IJooley, arrested by Officer IWry Wednesday night, plead guilty I to a charge of speeding in his auto and paid a fine of $-5 and costs. RAIL MEN TO STRIKE AUG. 7 IS NEW PLAN t Continued from Fago One.) This is your last opportunity to buy at this price for sugar has advanced AT BRADY'S 700 12th St. For Saturday Monday and Tuesday Eat ic ; peaches, per basket, 1 5c Eating or cooking apples, per kssk't 10c Bartlett pears, per basket, 2 0c Fresh ripe tomatoes, per b" 10c Muscatine cantaloupes, extra Iars 10c Sweet juicy oran ees. eac h . . . 1 c Regular 4''c oranges, per lw 29c Rrjuiar 40c lemons, per 29c Fren creamery butter, per pound 30c Home grown potatoes, p1- P 25c ids. navy beans or Jap Keep Smiling SPENCER'S ANNUAL AUGU Don't Worry ALE SAVES YOU 10 to 50 Ten to Fifty Per Gent 10 to 50 Furniture, R.upjs, Linoleum, Stoves, ZDraperies, Beddings, fiouse Furnishings, Etc. Starts Saturday morning ana lasts all during A.ugust, tut even ttougt ttis clearance Sale is 30 days long, yet it is natural ttat tte 2$g Values, tte cream of tte stock, are picked up 11 1 f f 1 r i early by eaoer buyers, so we surest, that, it vou have present or future use tor furniture you investigate this sale at once. or H ouse urnis tings. rice for 25c 14 ot opera"? except with cans Pet or Van Camp s' rfj faithful employes We will m;j 25 N i Hand by the resu!t of any B;:r. 25c cans corn, tomatoes or kidney beans 15c 2 tali cans salmon for 2 5c 3 flat cans salmon for 25c 1 lbs. gfagersnap3 or soda crackers jgc 2 pkgs. Cornflakes 15c i P3s. rracaroni or spaghetti 15c for 8 boxes Noiseless matches. 2 5c 2pkgs Shredded Wheat or Grape-Xuts 25c 4nc brooms for 29c 1' bsrs Lenox soap 33c Golden Rod coffee, per lb.. 25c Regular Z',t grade coffee, Pr pound 29c Regular noc cake cnorolate to 15c R'riiar 'Z'jC can baking 19c K'gra'ar 25c bottle Snider's ?Ua,I 19c K"?TiUr 25c can cocoa J, 9c Jersey Cream four in towel $1-33 wiflrini or Nortnwestern Jour, per sack $1.39 We carry a full l;ne of dry. ?ood, shoes and furnishings at ost prics. Brady Sells for Less. Phone, H. I. 4tz or J56!. Delivery to any part of city. W. S. Carter, president of the Broth erhood of I.ocomotive Firemen and En- ginemen, will represent the men at ;the conference in Washington. A. W. jTrenholm, chairman of the managers' committee, will represent the roads, j The larger railroads have been pre paring for a strike for several weeks. JMvlsion superintendents have been no 'tified to question their men and pre pare Iiits of the number who can be .depended upon to stay with their en gines in case a strike should be call ed. It is asserted that enough assur ances of loyalty have been given to I warrant the assertion that there will be no interruption of the mail service. However, the engine men contend that they will be able to call out approxl ' mately 53,000 men. about SS per cent of those employed on the railroads j west of the north and south line form led by the Illinois Central, which road is involved. Each of the terminal lines In Chi- Icago, St. Louis. Memphis, Omaha, . Kansns City and other smaller cities is Involved, and the entrinemen as sert an ability to stop the movement J of every pound of freight that may . be in transit next week. j Topeka, Kan., July 31. E. P. Ripley, president of the Atchison. Topeka and : Santa F Railway company yester day addressed a lrtrer to all employes' regarding the threatened strike. ! "The railroad proposes a full arbl-j i irauon vi an questions involved. ne says, "the enginemen offer to arbitrate tonly tne question of tliir own de mands. "We have before us the question of being able to live or perish. We can- loyal and , of course arbitration but to submit to 'arbitration' which ores all justice and provides only that the claims of one Bide be adjudi cated is absurd." Ttis is our Annual Summer Sale of Odd Pieces, End of Season Lines, Floor Samples. Overstocks, Etc. A Deposit Every Article Many Items Reason for Sale gives you tte with Priced if you hare it. Si T t-ji T3 "O 1 T clean house, to get money out of slow ale rnce Flam rigure Uelow Credit sellers, to reduce stock. We rather have tut later delivery "D C e COS e ds ou Season than if-you desire rrice VjOst if you wist it. store them for next season. Ve won t attempt to list all; we can t; there are too many bargains; come and see. Danitary couch $3.19 The the For Sale 1M acres of finely improved everything that goes to a fine noire; near Key . HI. I think you will lis hn I say you can buy It "r 15 per acre and good M acres In center of Edglng W township; well Improved. s win please the city man. o wants to farm; f 125 per cr. Terms. F. M. CARPENTER. Etfglngton, III. Phone. Reynolds. 11L atre dispute between enginemen of the west ern railroads end their employ ers reached a critical stage July 16, 11 ; lai w lien, naviug laiieu 10 come 10 , nn .i w rr .-..-. .ill Inn i.l. Iiit a n 1 I tha 1 ti i n f.ru' f nmmiltoA cn e nrn'l Oil negotiations and the labor loaders in formed the monagers that notice of a ' strike would be served immediately. N i The men's original demands had j been presented Oct. 10. 1913 and nego I tlatiot.s had been going on about three months. Two days later, how- i ever, both sines agreed upon reaerai ! arbitration although the enginemen 1 previously had refused peremptorily j to consider it on the ground that i the road bad refused to be governed by former arbitration court decisions. Matters with the men had proceeded to the taking of a strike vote the result of which, announced July 14, showed that the men were almost un animously In favor of backing their demands by a general walk-out. Hasing their demand on the increas ed cost of living, the men called for Increases in pay and overtime allow ances, which, they said, would Just 'about cover the advance In the price of necessities in the past four years. In answer the roads declared the increases asked for would amount to 133,000,000 a year or a 00 per cent ad vance In the wages and could not be granted. Ninety-eight railroads were affected by the demands. They inclined vir tually every line In the I'nited States west of Chicago and also the Illinois Central road. In Canada every line west of Fort William, Ontario, was 'affected except the Grand Trunk I'a Iclfic. One hundred and forty thous (and miles of roadway and 65,000 en gineers, firemen and hostlers drawing f,7,7S0,000 annual wages were affect ed. The men's committee was headed by Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the brotherhood of locomotive engine ers, and W. S. Carter, president of the brotherhood of locomotive firemen and engineHen. A. W. Trenholm, gen- Brass and Iron Beds You will find a great line of Bed Dav enports on sale and we particularly nsk von to see our COO CJf J.?0 Bed for $ZiZ,.JLiJ ill 8ftSf ! V i $1.65 Iron, sale price $1.19 $6.00 Iron, sale price $10 $9.00 Iron Gilt, sale price $12.50 Git, 2 in. poet, sale price $9.13 $20 Brass, sale price PIS-IO $27.50 Brass, sale price $22.00 Xow is the time to buy a good spring. "Wood frame, now $1.25 All iron frame, now . .$2.95 Our cut prices on Bed Room Furniture will Interest you. $12.50 Dresser, now SS.S-" $15.00 Dresser now $!0.9. $21.50 Dresser now flfl.O Odd Chiffoniers Just one of a kind at almost half regular price. As low as Rock ers of every description , ,o In this sale and 70a j should take advantage of this opportunity and select one that yon need to make your li brary complete. $1.50 Rocker $2.65 Rocker . $5.00 Rocker . $10 Rocker . . $30.00 Turkish . ..8Se ..$1.93 ..$3.29 .$19.93 .$5.95 Mattress All Cotton Sale price, $5.95 $3.19 Reversible, cotton top and bottom MANY SNAPS IN Dinmg Room Suites Golden or Fmmed Oak tott lines are complete, and its your ctance to pick up some very attractive bargains Our Special just one suite left Buffet, Tatle, 6 Ctairs Regular $60; on sale $44.88 Rugs and Carpet Dept. Most of our new Fall Patterns are now in and will go in this August Sale at a great sacrifice in price. This includes Body Brussels, Wil tons, Axminsters, Tapestries, etc. Wiltons at ...$32.50 Body Brussels at $25 Tapestries at. .$12.50 Axminsters at $13.95 27x54 Velvets ..$1.49 27x54 Axmirv. .$2.45 Carpets and Linoleum We hare a lot of patterns with just enough left in the roll for one room or a hall. We will close these out until all are sold at One-Half JP B 'ff i Solid Oak. real leather seat. $3. value, on sale $2.19 Grade 220-224 West Third Street Davenport, Iowa Furniture This sale includes all our high grade furni ture of ever' descrip tion but for lack of space we cannot list the many pieces you will find if you come in. .r.i manager nf the Chlcaco. St. raullsucli a manner as to nullify them. Minneapolis and Omaha railway, was thalrman of the managers' commit tee. The last general movement by the enginemen for an Increase in wages was in 1910 at which time they ob tained an increase of about 10 per cent. Since then, they declare, the roads have greatly increased their re venues and facilities. Preparation of the men s case indicated ineir ciofc observation of the proceedings of the Interstate commerce commission. Every report of the roads to the fed eral body apparently had been scrutl niaed and compared with former re ports and deductions favorable to the men's demands drawn where possi ble. Objections by the enginemen to fed eral arbitration was asserted to rest on alleged refusal by the roads to govern themselves by the recommen dations of the board. They were rec ommendations and not court man dates, the men declared, and the roads either disregarded them or placed their own Interpretations on them In The managers committee challenged Stone and Carter to name an Instance In which such a thing had been done. Wheii conferences between Stone and CarUT and the managers apparently had lonie to the point of a 6trike the managers wore urgent that the federal board of mediation and conciliation should be appealed to. The men's com mittee suddenly acceded to thla, stat ing that it would have a bad appear ance if they refused and asking only that the sessions begin immediately. Accordingly. William U Chambers, chairman of the federal mediation board assistant commissioner G. W. W. Hanger and Federal Judge Mar tin A. Knapp left Washington at ODce prepared to begin sessions In Chica go. The conference began July 21. The men's statement of their case as presented to the board is In part, as follows: "Added responsibilities and the In-crea.-ed cost of living Induced the enginemen in the western territory to make terlaln requests of the man agers of their railroads. These re quests carried moderate increases in pay and some improvements in work ing rules, having for. their object the standardisation of wages and working conditions which were to be revisions and additions to the present schedule." In their printed statement of their position the enginemen laid emphasis on the increased traffic of the rail roads declaring that more powerful locomotives, larger freight cars and longer trains had vastly increased the earning power of the roads and had added correspondingly to the respon sibilities of the enginemen with no corresponding Increase in their pay. The managers' committee replied that railroad conditions at the pres ent time do not justify any increases in wages. The demands of the men, according to the managers, center up on the substitution of an eight-hour day for a 10 hour day in the compu tation of overtime. "The employes know,", the manag er'a statement asserts, "that it woif.d be Impractical to reduce the actual working day In train service to eight hours. To do so it woull be uecebsary to shorten practically all railway di visions, to relocate yards and shops, in fact to reconstruct the railways at prohibitive cost. The employes know the only effective of changing the basis of a day's wage from 1 Oto 8 hours would bo enormously to in crease the overtime paid. "In view of the present condition there could be no justification fc the railroads in taking any step tba would add greatly to their expensei The managers of railway have n moral right to accede to requests c employes that would unduly increaa the expen8e,of railway operation. i T1'V"'iS f-'YiJlWin Small Loans a Specialty It you have furniture or a piano " ' Our Money is Yours to Command in small sums, $10. $20, $30 and up to $100. long time. Private. Phone R. I. 614. For a short time or FIDELITY LOAN CO. 1715ya Second Avenue. 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