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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1915
Page
1
Rome reports a vast earthquake disaster centered in Avezzano and central Italy with thirty thousand dead and one hundred thousand injured. Buildings collapsed including Castle Spina and the Farnese palace while towns inland faced destruction and floods threaten the Fucino valley.
World War I dispatch from Petrograd and London reports General von Hindenburg renewing a center assault at the junction of the Bzura and Rawka rivers to blunt a Russian drive. German heavy artillery aims to crush Russian trenches as German forces push beyond Skupi Sucha and north of Bolimow amid contested gains near Warsaw.
Two vivid dispatches from the front detail unlikely events in the war. A German volunteer recounts a bullet entering his rifle muzzle deflecting shots and injuring him with a French and German bullet found in the barrel. In Petrograd a Russian amputee endures without anesthetic while a British Red Cross doctor performs his hand surgery and jokes about the hand’s fate.
City Council held a special session to pass payrolls. Commissioner Hummelshire proposed an order allowing the city to clean street crossings and deduct costs from contractor Alfred Reid if requirements are not fulfilled. Officials discussed duties for street cleaning and gutters. The order was laid on the table until the next meeting and the session adjourned.
In full dress with Baldrick and sword five hundred invitations have been sent for the affair.
Midland Regulars defeated the scrubs 46 to 17 on the local floor. Arch Stewart of Lona coning gave lessons in passing. Monday the local five meet Eckhart. Also noted, Specht, a leading Deer Park merchant, died Sunday at about 58, with funeral at Flatwoods.
The Red Sox defeated the Braves two games to one on Stakem's alleys in Midland Maryland. The result boosts their pennant chances if the winning streak continues. Public notice advertises a penny war book at The Cumberland Press office.
The Cumberland and Westernport Electric Railway announces a shift to the Ohmer Register fare system by the Ohmer Register Company Dayton Ohio. Beginning February 1 passengers pay 20 cents at the first collection point instead of per zone and conductors no longer file reports, freeing time to improve passenger comfort and safety.
Secretary Bryan has sent a vigorous protest to Carranza authorities at Tampico over the Mexican levy on foreign oil operators. He warns the threat to close wells near Tampico if the heavy assessment is not paid. The issue involves American and British owned plants. Carranza is informed of the pressure and warnings of shut downs.
New York January 1. A list of witnesses for the Federal industrial relations commission hearings next Monday was released by Chairman Frank Walsh. The roster includes J F Morgan George W Perkins John D Rockefeller Jr Andrew Carnegie Samuel Gompers and other notable figures. The panel aims to explore how wealth centralization correlates with wage-earner tensions and to question Rockefeller about his Foundation mining in Colorado and Standard Oil interests.
Republican John Davis contests the Wirt county vote, claiming he was elected to the West Virginia House not James A. Smith. The county canvass declared Smith the winner by four votes. The case is now before the House committee of elections and privileges with hearings underway.
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