Alton Evening Telegraph (Newspaper) - August 10, 1916, Alton, Illinois TELEGRAPH Established January SOULS WITH Laura Anderson Disturb ing The To preach with a butcher knife con a of the ac cording to the ruling of Justice of the Peace In his court yes In Imposing the fine the justice stated that he gone through the entire Bible but had not heard of another case where a butcher knife was used In Jesus Christ was the most successful according to and he during his time on used a butcher According to the evidence in the Anderson had been preach ing with a butcher When some of her neighbors did not repent the way they should she went to their homes and preached to them of the ways of with a butcher knife tit her Several of them testified that she staged If you dont repent there will be crepo on your They testified that they believed she Intended to kill She testified that she really meant that If they did not repent the Lord would strike them She stated that the butcher knife helped her to keep their attention and aided her greatly in the work of sav ing The judge how that the method was a little too strenuous and Imposed a fine of and The entire fine and costs amounted to She made arrange AUGST PASSES TAX LEVY MANGES LEVEE MAY PROCEED AUTO LIGHT DIMMER PER COURT GRANTS QUEST THAT ADDITIONAL MI BE AUTHOR RAISING Judge Eaton In the County Court today granted the petition of the Wood River drainage commission ers that they be authorized to levy a new assessment to pay for raising the levees and making other Improve ments to the channel of Wood River for the sake of giving further protec tion to the Industries around East Al The petition was granted over the of some of the property own ers In the lower end of the Wood Riv er Some of the farmers ob because they said that they would not be benefited unless the c would include In their quest for a new tax levy provision for completing what is known as Section In the last hearing some differ ence of opinion arose and what looked like a probable compromise of all corn re UPPER ALTON TO GO ALTON AND EASTERN AGES CONSIDERED CITY GETS PROM ALTON GAS AND ELECTRIC SAYS ALLIES STILL MAKING BIG GAINS OTHERS SLOWED DOWN AT BOARD OP ments for paying the fine costs and and the Yesterday before she would leave her home to come to the police sta tion she prayed for an hour and after getting into the court room she pray ed before going to HOW TO OUTGLARE BIG HEADLIGHTS Little Machines Have it In Their Power to Punish Drivers of Big Cars Who Are of the International Correspondence is driving a Fjord car and like other drivers of little oars he has had grievous exper with drivers of big cars troubles was knocked out It was stated this afternoon by the attorney for the protesting property owners that they would make a fight In the assessment of benefits and dam ages for the proposed Improvement The commissioners are authorized to make up a new assessment list tax Ing all property in the district The present levee system has been found Inadequate at times of high The farmers who are protesting claim that water is kept from overflowing lands above It is sent down in force and spreads out ov er their They demand that the levee be built clear to the river and that the assessment be made big cover their for pro The estimate of the cost of the improvement authorized today and for which an assessment will be made is Considerable business was trans acted at the regular mooting of the Alton city council last The three tax levy ordinances were passed by the council it was decided to do away with the Upper Alton scales ordinance regulating auto lights was passed and a number of other matters were acted upon by the mem bers of the council during the even The tax levy ordinance for parks called for The ordinances for bridges and corporation tax called for a levy of while the third ordinance for paying off the bonded Indebtedness of the City pf and the interest was The ordinance to regulate the strength of auto was pass ed by the council last The ordinance reads that at a distance of 75 feet from another car the light of the headlights shall not over three feet from the This will mean dimmer lights on many of the autos in the City of The matter of Alton paying for the damages to the prop erty line of the Alton and was brought before the represent ing the township of Wood pointed out that Alton should pay the damages property because It was the cut in Alton township that TRADE SAYS WET ROCK ISLAND DONT DRAW FROM DRY DAVENPORT AND At the Board luncheon at the Mineral Springs Hotel this noon Campbell told of a trip up the Mississippi river which he visited cities while on a vacation The speaker said that all of the cit ies along the river were suffering from the slump after and that Alton alone with an dented era of prosperity as a river Hannibal and the speaker are dead hoping for a as ttm result of the big suf a terrible set aa plants at cities along the river care buy power cheaper than plants In and as a result Keokuk is at a has shown a small in crease In population the last ten years and is not hamming and brimming ov er with The speaker said he told there that former head of the properties is of the rich men Across the river Moline and Rock Is land are being hurt with Here tbi Breaker referred to fact that Moline and Davenport are dry with no but that Rock Island with saloons and the right to does not seem to be drawing anything from the dry cities nor do the dry cities seem to be draw CLOSE ON STANISLAU ITALIANS SEIZE AUSTRIAN AVIA FIRE INSPECTION WILL RETURN SOON LOSES PER KIEL REPORT BU PROGRESS AT persist in throwing a powerful anyone elsa coming when the light could be dimmed and trouble could be HaHow said that some Ford owners do not know but they hae Jt In their machines to be very nasty with any high powered and highly lighted car giving offense and the lamps on the llt Any car whose lights come direct from a generator In the Instead of from storage batteries can be made to outshine any other car The method used while urn along the road and meeting a brilliantly lighted to disengage the engine froom the running gear of the iby throwing it into TAKES TWO ABLE BODIED To Cut Saw In Work East Broadway and on at any big the and then throw in a full head of speeding disen gaged engine at its This makes a strong current of ty and the little cars light will shine much brighter than any headlights from a storage battery will do the result Is the driver of the car Is thrown Into confusion by sudden glowing of light from small car and Is utterly If he dims his light quickly the driver of the small machine can bjj merci ful and restore the Harlow says that whenever he Is paused annoyance on the road by high power headlights he adopts this policy and he recommends It others as a means of a son to overbearing drivers of cars who wont dim their Italians Another By United August strong Austrian at south of has been occupied by Italian forces H was announced this afternoon Did you ever two men operating a cross cut saw that is less than two feet in length If you never you haye a fine chance to look and see Just that any day right now on East The men are sitting flat on the and are sawing the heavy steel rails on the north half of the street railroad on that The rails were welded together a few years ago when they were put down so that In effect each rail Is as long as the In other the rails being taken up now are long each reaching from Welgler to Cherry Each is longer than that real for each Is a continuous rail from Welgler to Washington street men with the cross cut saw are cutting them into lengths that can be by a dozen or so ordinary men and they are being loaded on flat cars and hauled Heavier and differ ent rails will be placed in the Contractor men are making rapid progress with the work of tear ing up the bricks between the and will reach Cherry street by to morrow The rails are being re moved and It looks like that part of the work will be put through In a damaged the strip of property In Wood River It was also pointed out Alton was morally to pay the Boston made a talk before the conn ell in which he stated that he did not believe should pay any of this The council first decided to refer matter to the Judiciary com and later decided that the cor should take up the matter with the State Board of Pub lic Utilities and let them decide whe ther their ruling meant Alton or should i pay CONCERT V THE WHITE HUSSAR BAND Seminary Jewell Gypsy 8 of the Nile Herbert Trio for Leonard Princess of Laurens a Moonlight on the Nile b Indian War Danoe Laurens Trombone AUTO AND BREWERY WAGON IN WRECK Schweppe Injured In Accident In Rear of City Hall Last A serious accident was narrowly averted last evening when the Hudson auto owned and driven by Schweppe collided with the Anheuser Busch brewery wagon In the rear of 5 the Alton city hall Both the driver at of the ma chine and the brewery wagon stopped Just in time to prevent what might have been a As It the tongue of the wagon rammed through the wind shield of the auto and Schweppe was taken home at once by he Upper Alton scales will be re Bibbed from the streets of Upper Al ton and the street will be paved as the result of a resolution passed by the last The scales H If bat during the past were a big nuisance to the streets petitions Worn about the Dale slaughter hotjse were brought before the coun The was referred to the Board of Mayor Edmond Beall said that he would have a talk Dale and try to adjust the If this it was pro will be started against the The city council voted to change the name of Evergreen avenue in Al ton to Hayden avenue as there Is an Evergreen avenue In Upper What will be known in the future as Hayden avenue runs from Madison avenue to Nineteenth 4 petition was presented by Moore asking that an ordinance be en acted by the members of the council to stop the use of and the whistling of trains near churches This was referred to A letter from was read in which he thanked the council for Appointing him A committee of five was appointed from the wet The speaker made the point that all of river cities have had their and then slipped back into the sanie old and he cautioned that Al ton now in tto zenith of a boom should look carefully to making it per manent and not let It and that IB up totke toen of Alton to keep thecity By United fronts come of further successes of he entente allies have been The progress of the Russians against he front of the and Italians on the western front in the Isonzo valley indicates a heavy fall Ing off in the power of the Austrian resistance and is giving great confi dence to the In the neighborhood the Ital ian pursuing the retreating have captured an Immense number of prisoners and the Italians are moving forward In rapid pursuit of the In the course of their advance the Italians captured an Important aviation camp of the Austrians and have taken great stores beside thousands of On the eastern front the Russians are closing in on and It Is expected that by tonight the city will have been assaulted and perhaps cap This city is one of the most important railway centers and its loss would be costly to the armies which depend upon The latest report was that a rail way three miles from lau had been captured by the Czars in falling back blew up a railroad bridge over OTHER MAY BE REMOVED HV KIRK MARSHALL IN OF EASTERN PART OF Orders which were given a fow days ago for the remove of a num ber of houses in the city of Alton and for various changes in other houses and buildings in the business district of the city do not complete the The Telegraph learn ed from good authority today that the state fire marshal had not com the work In Another Inspector will be sent back to Alton at the end Weeks to make a further Tony had been given notice to inspect s number of other places in the city about which complaints had been made but he did not have a In fact he did very work east of Weigler When the other fire Inspectors ar rive In the city of Alton they will be put to work on the territory east of street and may also make an of Upper The Indications are that a number of other old buildings In the city will be ordered repaired or Who Earn ed Last Year Working for City no Longer Has who hag worked for the city for the past year as master and has earned but for his services has lost his Tim mom bers of the Alton City Council at the meeting last evening to remove the Upper Alton Instead of the at this point the will be At the meeting of the council last evening It was pointed out that tho scales had done but very little business during the past Most of the coal dealers In Upper Alton have their own scales and the demand for the Upper Alton scales was very It was for this reason that the council de to do away with the Doepke has been In charge of the scales for a number of He was unable to do any heavier work and has been on the job almost all of the His average wage has been less than ten cents per WOLFF AND WIFE SEPARATED Revelation Made to Den i St Louis It developed yesterday in the filing in the Circuit Court of a cross by Evelyn Wolff to the divorce peti of Stratton a den that they are living apart at 2702 North Grand they re sided they separated March 1 Wolff then went live at the Beers Hotel and she remained at the Russell attorney for said he understood Wolff had returned to his Wolff states her husband be came Infatuated with a female office Wolff avers she found a letter written by the assistant to her expressing love and He charges she was Jealous and spied about the office and lay in wait in the Several office assistants quit his service after his wife made the river and are prepared for a stand on the left bank of the against the victorious Russian hosts which are full of enthusiasm In the pursuit of their retreating On the Somme front the French and British report having made fur ther though Berlin reports that all British and French attacks have been The Australian which were fighting toward and yesterday penetrated German have held their gains and are consolidating positions Especially will this be true In that part of the east end which is included in the limits of the city of There are a number of buildings in this part of the city that are a In all over seventyfive orders have been delivered to owners of property In Alton as the result of the last visit of the The state office will keep a close lookout to see that these improvements are THE BETSEY ANN SHOW AT BRIGHTON Burgoo Feast Is Attracting Sited Crowds and Everyone Is Enjoying the Annual and was performing its annual religious rite of eating The best of it Is on succeeds in making everyone else who goes there observe the rite and hot soup known as burgoo is in reat Every woman and child who claims Brighton as his center of population must eat a bowl of burgoo at least once a year to keep In the spirit of being a and so must every friend of every woman and child in the burgoo The picnic Is given of the prettiest groves in this part of the state and the appointments are The committee of Brighton peo ple who arrange the picnic have fur She was Many Injured In Explosion By United on Street score were In ured early four probably fat when a double explosion caused by a short circuit wrecked a street Arkansas Militia to By United Little August members of the Arkansas na guard left today for by the mayor to confer with the Board of committee on river terminals at a meeting on the evening of August Beeby asked that a big be placed at the corner of and nue Instead of the four small This was referred to the light V following were appointed spec ial policemen without pay dHarr George Thompson and Joe first installment of the two per cent which the city Is to receive the Alton Gas and Electric under new franchise was paid In last It amounted to The printing committee was given authority to secure bids for printing the of revised ordinances of the of unpleasant statements to he I Plenty of free chief of which is a balloon ascension Wolff was formerly a resident of and Parachute drop done by an artist Alton and well known He was ln tnat line of the son of a deceased former pastor On hand there are stands for ANOTHER ADVANCE IN FLOUR PRICES Tomatoes Advance in Price Po Have Rotted by Hundreds of Bushels Growers And Advances Are The fourth of fifth advance of for ty cents a barrel on flour wao an to dealers this as member pf advances made in the last few weks and flour now to the consumer costs if bought iby the Less quantities cost more than To matoes were being wholesaled In Al ton at per bushel and ad vance of fifty cents In a The price of Irish potatoes has advanced and is still and while not as high as they have been this spuds appear to be trying to break Growers In this vicinity tod a Telegraph reporter Thursday that while a large crop of potatoes was grown here this hundreds of bushels had rotted in the or shortly after being They said the potatoes had been sunburned 3 or under the ground and that started the rotting ground was hot and MORE THAN MEN HELD PRISONERS Number of Captives Now Greater Than Number of Men in Previous New August than double the num ber of men engaged In any previous war that the world has arc confined in prison camps of the bel according to John general secretary of the international committee of tho Young Mens Christian Mott has visited the prison camps of neary all the countries at Mott said that of the prison ers Germany has the greatest num approximately Rus with about comes then with followed in order by Britain and Russias he are rapidly in more than having been added to the camps since the beginning of the last Russian Mott that re ports as to the treatment prisoners of war were receiving have been v In all of tho countries the prisoners receive ally the same food and care that armies of respective countries do Everything possible Is done for their comfort and their of the First Presbyterian Church of Conveys Papal Representative the sale of hot and and everybody was entering into the Spirit of the Hundreds of Alton people attended the first day en To South American to Take Officetertalnment again today there August the first I Were rips over ex time since when the popes lost I roads and enjoyed a papal ship today sails the tho but le trip high Because of Its initial lle attendance was slon It is called the It wau j Ot large on tlle day as In first chartered to carry Mgr former years tho People wore spend dl Torregrossa from Spain to Areen mollo liberally and tho receipts for the two days ought to be ENTERED VIGOROUS COMPLAINT ABOUT LAUNDRY and Coats In Police Court This Morning For Disturbing He Is the new Apostolic Inter nuncio to the South American The Vatican has officially notified the different governments of the ex istence of tho The neu of the Holy See Is sails under a guarantee from all the belligerent The papal colors of and white fly from its mast Vatican circles call the papal ship necessity for the safe Julius Stephen filed such a complaint about his laundry with Michael the well known Five Points grocer has tho and is giving his large store building a thorough overhaul ing and renovating it IB remodeled some and rearranged these burns The dry and there was no chance to cool off even in the night growers and the spuds and Louis Globe Democrat of Thursday morning con the following article on food and Alton Is guided consid In food prices by Louis markets The retail price of flour Is now nearly a This an advance of 50 cents since 1 oclock Tuesday afternoon and a rise of 10 cents a The price has risen about J2 In the last three the millers to unfavorable crop conditions in the dry weather and to the government crop report made The government which caused the showed a loss of bushels for July and more than under the fi nal yield for last Figures on spring wheat were bus against last and for winter wheat against last Tho report stated that rust Insects and drought cut down tho possible yield for 1916 to Mediation of Railroad By United New tives of the four brotherhoods of rail way employes were to get together to day with members of the United States of Mediation and Conciliation o present their for an eight hour day and time and a half for over time for all railway Following the conference today the mediators will draft an agreement that will be submitted to both If re additional meetings will be held by both There will be no Joint meeting until some tentative mediation propositions have been framed for both Following sessions during which the government mediators met with the trainmen and the railway mana gers It was evident the trainmen hail not given an Insisted the trainmen would on the granting of their demands In All meetings were Judge Chamberlain said he had not 000 as compared with Kansas alone lost bushels for tho month of Many attach tho utmost significance Stephen claimed that ho sent some to this unique move on the part of washing to tho laundry some time ago They declare the and It was never Ho asked has come to In It they see tho tho driver about tho laundry but ro possible Inauguration tff a now papal no so wont to I ho i laundry to outer his Ac cording to tho records laundry ey received ho When this he became manager of tho laundry finally hud Will Cuso By United August thai the last German Ho entered FORECAST cooler north portion partly cloudy cooler probably touth Grafton road note on tho case submitted B ot Court this I six months ago Is to be as be Ulf her than late they think to theio to any lii Will Br United it Rock IB Stato today to prosecute th t that M was had failed to comply with tho More joinn to Uy United HI August Ing situs arc being prepared for 000 nioro It is under stood that many still at points in livo will bo to tho Only por cont of the militiamen or uro ill from any Russian Troops Close In on By United troops un der were approaching the only throe miles east of the Galician city of yesterday Tho mans wero expected to mako a final stand on the If they driven from those positions by tho ad Slaves the fall of Stanislau and an retirement north to the Dniester IB considered cor It Is barely possible tho city has already fallen to the Russian ar Costly Cloudburst In Welt By United ordered two more companion of Into tho flooded when reports of of life and suffering confirmed Properly damage In tho stricken was as high as New Cases of Infantile Ily United cases of Infantile paralysis wore re ported at Lex ington DeKalb and Tho death of a child In Chi cago from Chicago to Taz woll county WHB of the man who bus mania for Italians Capture Austrian Aviation Uy United Austrian avia tion station of six of has boon captured by Italian troops who are continuing oi the Austrian J force which from Paris Reports French Ad vance on the Ily log French troops made further progress on tho advancing at Mom taking 100 prisoners mid
