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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1914
Page
5
Buick announces an early introduction of the 1915 Model Buick due to exhausted 1914 supply. Glisan foresees July availability and urges buyers to wait for the 1915 model rather than securing a late 1914 car. No 1911 Buicks remain. advise prudent patience for the newer release.
A B and O limited train derailed after an open switch 20 miles east of Clarksburg W Virginia early today. Several men believed to be insane veterans were riding in a car toward a home in Washington when the out of control train struck three empty cars. Mrs. Alexander of Cincinnati was seriously injured.
New York reports Harry K Thaw fishing in New Hampshire will be allowed a temporary return to Pittsburgh. A conference today in Williams Travers Jerome's office with Thaw's lawyers and Jerome as Carmody’s representative reached a possible agreement. Thaw will not get bail and will face tight restrictions as he reconnects with his family for the first time since Stanford White’s death.
London reports that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will be guarded during his Madrid to London journey. Fears of suffrage activity have led to withholding his London engagements, and he is not expected to attend public entertainments while in the city.
The Cumberland Athletics, a junior baseball team from the city, will play the last Frostburg Athletics at Frostburg Sunday. The two squads are evenly matched and a hard fought contest is anticipated.
Warden Reigins James Drumm, at Sylvan Retreat, today tendered his resignation to Clerk to the County Commissioners Angus Ireland. He reportedly plans to take another position elsewhere.
In Pittsburg on June 11 police seek Ernest Purin who abandoned his French wife Mrs. Purin after five months of marriage in a Smithfield street store. He left with a diamond ring and a necklace and took part of a $12 gift money earlier. A friend of the husband said he was gone for good and Mrs. Purin returned to Cleveland.
In Martins Ferry Ohio on June 11 eighteen hundred workers were idle as 150 laborers struck the Whittaker Glessner Tron Company and Wheeling Corrugated Company plants. After a 20 percent cut two weeks ago the workers sought restoration of old wages but were refused. An attempt to reassign laborers failed and both plants shut down under the same management.
Mediation conferences will select a Constitutionalist to lead as provisional president of Mexico. General Carranza, now proclaimed provisional president by arms, seeks the presidency and Huerta’s military and political groups will be gradually dissolved. Huerta delegates Rabasa Elguera and Rodriguez agree to the Constitutionalists’ pick, signaling a crisis resolution.
John Martin Frederick, 73, longtime Carnegie Old Guard member at Edgar Thomson Steel Works Braddock and twice Braddock burgess, died at home 118 Corey Ave Braddock Pa. Born July 1 1840 in Williamsport Md he grew up in Johnstown learning iron making. Survived by sister Mrs James M Sloan Lonaconing and nephew D Lindley Sloan.
Senor Rabasa head of the Huerta delegation said they would accept any reasonable proposal on the personality of the man to be provisional president. He declined to say if the candidate should come from the Constitutionalists or not.
A circulated report from London claims suffragettes planted a bomb in Westminster Abbey and it exploded, though the report remains unverified.
Stockholders gathered in the Western Maryland Railway office and elected seven directors for one year: Charles W. Adams Alvin W Krech Frederick T Gates George J Gould Carl R Gray Jerome D Greene and George M Marston. All 70 000 shares were represented by proxies held by T I Titmerman and Benjamin A Richmond. Robert W McMichael served as secretary. G J Fritts and D M Carl acted as inspectors.
The Strawberry Festival at the Masonic Temple hosted by McKinley Chapter No 12 Order of the Eastern Star drew over 300 guests with a lively program of vocal solos, dances, recitations, and instrumentals highlighted by a Victrola loan from Frederick Music Company. Other items cover a Elkins wedding of Russell Brandenburg and Beulah Kildow, Alumni Association officers, class dances, and local club entertainments at Potomac Club and Narrows Park.
Blaine H. Nace through attorney Arner G. Carl filed a bill asking a divorce from wife Mary M. Nace on desertion and unfaithfulness grounds. Married in Dudley Pennsylvania in 1909, petition alleges she left him May 18 1913.
On June 11 the Constitutionalists launched a determined attack on Mazatlan. Heavy volley fire rang out on the city outskirts as the Federals faced likely surrender.
Thomas Parran, former Congressman and State Roads Commission member, files a libel suit in Baltimore Superior Court against A. S. Abell Company and Charles H. Grasty. He seeks $100,000 for a series of Sun publications from April 22 to May 10 criticizing his appointment and implying political influence. The declaration cites headlines and a cartoon as defamatory.
Miss Cora Smouse of Harrison street visits Mrs. L. D. Emmett in Hagerstown. Baltimore couple Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Packer and Martinsburg residents Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Brown attend Allegany County High School graduation as guests of Miss Lillian May Whitson. Everett PA couple Mr. and Mrs. David T. Fisher visit their son Carol Fisher on Fayette street.
A summer coaching program for boys and girls aiming to advance in work studies will open at Allegany High School under Prof William M. Tinker starting Monday June 22. Attendees need not be regular high school students.
A mass meeting of churches in South Cumberland is planned for Sunday night June 14 at Leader Theatre. Services will close at 8 30 p m and attendees will move as a group to the event featuring St John’s Lutheran orchestra, a united chorus, and speakers Rev Dr W W Davis of Baltimore Rev Dr Gordon Ware of Seattle and other leaders. Committee in charge includes Rev J H Balthis Rev Dr Moffatt and Rev H E Richardson.
Members of the Nurses Alumni Association of Allegany Hospital will meet this afternoon in the sun parlors to elect officers for the coming year and to discuss other matters of importance.
The Cumberland Maryland Mayor and City Council announce a special election on July 14, 1914, to decide issuing bonds of up to one hundred fifty thousand dollars to pave streets. Bond proceeds fund street and alley paving, with 15 000 dollar annual interest payments, overseen by the Board of Election Supervisors of Allegany County and public notices in three daily Cumberland newspapers.
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