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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1915
Page
4
A robber entered the residence of William Twigg on Lafayette avenue Monday night and secured 35 dollars. Part of the money was in Mr Twigg's trousers and a small amount in a pocket.
The Cumberland Square Deal Association passed a resolution opposing abandoning the city lighting plant. Introduced by B. Shaffer and seconded by Robert Reynolds and others, the measure drew support from local residents while James E. Harper spoke in favor. Nearby, William Proctor Lashley lay seriously ill at his Virginia avenue home.
A delegation from Consolidation Coal Company and eastern investors toured Fairmont and nearby coal regions. They traveled by special car on the Baltimore and Ohio line, held a meeting at the Watson Building, and visited New Helen's Run and other Monongahela Valley mines and factories led by chairman Clarence W. Watson.
The West Virginia Supreme Court, in an opinion by Judge Miller, issues a writ of mandamus against the Baltimore and Ohio railroad prohibiting charges above two cents per mile for intrastate passenger traffic until the Public Service Commission grants approval. The text also lists a long sequence of named residents and a women’s committee roster involved in related civic matters.
A Frostburg benefit concert directed by Dr. George H. Wilson showcased a grand opera musicale in Market Square Rheims France scenes. Performers included Madame Corra Beach Shumway and Miss Ernestine Wittig with the Mendelssohn Glee Club, drawing praise as a artistic and financial success for the X ray fund of the Miners Hospital.
In Chicago on June 2 the Woman's Temple at La Salle and Monroe Streets sold at public auction ending a quarter century push by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The building once housed WCTU headquarters and Frances Willard memorial efforts but failed to compete with surrounding skyscrapers and was foreclosed by the Marshall Field estate.
In 1836 at Bellevue now near Omaha the first white child in Nebraska was born. Dr Samuel T Merill of Rochester N Y aged about eighty visited the scene. He recalls huts and stockades then and Omaha now a metropolis of 150000. He was the son of a missionary among the Indians.
Berlin June 2. General Hindenburg rarely smiles but laughed heartily as a regiment passed in review. Soldiers saluted, followed by oxen. The handler, uncertain about saluting, finally did so and the oxen turned their heads in salute, triggering the field marshal’s loud laughter.
Canonsburg Pa June 2 An announcement from Standard Tinplate Company states a 12 mill addition will begin at once and be ready next fall. The plant will grow to 22 mills with about 2000 workers and capacity more than doubling.
Tulane University awarded Doctor of Letters to Mrs Grace King, famed Southern writer, breaking its prior rule. At the same ceremony Mrs Ruth MacEnery Stewart, another noted author, received the same honor in New Orleans.
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