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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1915
Page
1
British and two French cruisers were damaged by Turkish forts as the Franco-British fleet bombarded the Dardanelles outer forts. The ships withdrew after shelling Asiatic-side positions, and the forts were reduced though not all destroyed. Wheat prices fell amid war news.
Aurora,, February 26. Police fail to connect John Mason aged 60 to the murder of Emma Peterson 22 as two similar killings of young women shake the town within a year. Mason was released after hospital staff said he was eccentric. Police staged mass arrests with bloodhounds b rought from Decatur as fear grows.
Boston February 26 The federal grand jury finished questioning witnesses in the inquiry into alleged violations of interstate explosives transport laws by Werner Horn the German officer who tried to blow up the international railway bridge at Vanceboro. The jury likely to report findings on March 2.
Lucy Cipacina 16 of Wilton near McKeesport died in McKeesport Hospital after a bullet wound believed self inflicted yesterday afternoon around 4. Her father objected to a neighborhood romance and she was found with the wound in the abdomen. the bullet lodged in her liver.
Pekin February 26 The outlook for adjusting differences between China and Japan has improved as representatives move toward a compromise. The Japanese government has indicated it will not insist at present on its general demands and the key points on which China resisted Tokyo.
Ossining February 26 three slayers paid the death penalty in the electric chair at Sing Sing this morning all for wife murder. They were Robert Kane Oscar Vogt and Vincenzo Campanelli. Had left a note urging abolition capital punishment which will be used by Warden Osborne in his fight to that end. The executions took place without any untoward incidents. Only a few witnesses were present.
Washington reports the House judiciary sub committee will not recommend action against Federal Judge Dayton of West Virginia. Chairman McGillicuddy began preparing a report that may guide any action the sixty fourth Congress decides to take.
February 26. John Brunke assistant cashier of the Farmers' State Bank at Maxton Col was shot and killed by a robber who tried to snatch a revolver from the vault. The robber fled with cash but was captured after a brief posse pursuit. He gave the name Jay Thompson. Glass Plant To Resume. Atlas factory at Washington Pa reopened in full and resumed employment.
Harrisburg February 26. A Croft measure would outlaw selling or operating any vehicle capable of over 30 mph on public highways, with $500 fine or one year in prison for violations, affecting about 0.0 million car owners. Other bills push eye exams for drivers, age-based restrictions, and city license taxes to fund revenue.
Five men were injured when a New York and New England Big Four special rammed a truck near Templeton Lafayette Indiana. Three were seriously hurt as the derailment occurred at about sixty miles an hour. Rescue workers and bystanders assisted the injured at the scene.
London reports Gunner M. L. Gregory of the Sth Siege Battery recalls near dawn action against German 11 inch guns. Rain soaked the ground as shells flew, and a single “coal box” wounded a chicken while the battery endured heavy fire.
Adele Leuville of Plaquemine Louisiana sent a two dollar comfort kit to French soldiers through the Lafayette fund. The recipient, Maurice Dubois of the 27th company, 6th cavalry, 4th army corps, learned they once were schoolmates in Nancy France. She then volunteered to join as a nurse and sailed for France to aid the war effort and meet him.
Morgantown W Va February 26 A cross state campaign to oppose saloons in Point Marion Pa is planned by Fairmont and other West Virginia towns A special train carrying West Virginians will go to Uniontown Pa on April 16 to protest liquor licenses and seek beer only sales while banning cross border carrying of intoxicants
Pittsburgh marked the 128th anniversary of its organization with a Charter Day ceremony at the Mellon Institute. Alumni from across the country attended with faculty and students as Dr. Rossiter E. W. Raymond delivered the address. Notables including Judge Albert H. Gary John Hays Hammond Ira Remson Rossiter Raymond and Theodore Richards were honored at Soldiers' Memorial Hall. Dr Frank Arnold of the Royal Canadian Institute attended as a guest.
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The United States voices a Big Brother stance toward England and Germany, offering informal negotiations to end the hunger war on humanitarian grounds while criticizing dollar diplomacy. The piece also notes mine sowing limits and potential prisoner safety concerns in Europe. The London scene reports Soviet and Austro German battles around Stanislau Galicia with renewed Russian reserves and shifting fronts toward Romania.
Deputy Game Warden Jacob C. Turner submits a year end report praised as the most complete. He made 47 trips targeting violations including Sunday hunting and illegal fishing, along with 16 arrests for various offenses.
Rev George Walker Buckner, pastor in Southport England, said in a lecture that in three years in England he found no one expecting or desiring war. He noted many troops in a training camp lacked uniforms and argued allies would win once war began. He planned to sail to Liverpool Saturday after visiting Speaker Champ Clark in Washington.
A Western Maryland passenger train No. 3 struck and killed Italian Doristo Spalazzi yesterday afternoon near Bidwell Pa a few miles west of Confluence Pa He was a blacksmith for Standard Lime and Stone Co and a brother is reported to live in West Virginia police said the engineer could not stop in time and the body was taken to Connellville for coroner's inquest.
Charleston reports Governor Hatfield will likely call an extra session after adjournment to address revenue gaps. The Senate has not passed the general appropriation bill with amendments, and proposals such as a 90 gas and oil tax and land acreage levies face strong opposition from coal oil gas and land interests.
Berlin via Amsterdam reports Warsaw threatened by two German armies north of the Vistula. Katner's advance guard advances toward Wysograd from Plock, within forty miles of the Polish capital. Von Hindenburg's right wing moves toward the Priasnyex region, with a battle ongoing.
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