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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1915
Page
1
Germany declares war on Italy as Italy enters the war. Kaiser sends farewell to the Italian ambassador. Austria and Vienna react with anger and calls for punishment. Voluntary enlistment surges in Italy. Trieste surrenders to fear and banners fly.
Constantinople May 24. The gunboat Pelonk I was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine last night. Of a crew of one hundred and eleve n lost their lives. An official notice did not reveal the disaster location but it is believed sunk near the Dardanelles by a submarine of the Anglo French fleet. Allied transports reinforce Dardanelles entry, with Expedit forces now about ninety thousand.
Lonaconing Md May 24 The Allegany County Federation of Women's Clubs endorsed the National Peace Party seeking to end the war in Europe and urged education in peace ideals. They backed good roads, home economics in high schools, and cottage orphanage reforms while advocating better school facilities, medical inspections, nurses, hygiene, and physical education.
C Lee French superintendent of the Cumberland division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, a prominent young railroad man, underwent two serious blood transfusions at the Church Home and Infirmary, Baltimore. His brother in law Thos Meyers and Peter E Berry donated blood. the operation by Dr. W T Willey was pronounced successful. French endured well. Berry and Meyers were little affected. The procedure took under three hours and word spread quickly through the B and O system.
Edmund Weihenmeyer, twenty, was shot dead by a revolver accidentally discharged by companion Wilbourn Gerth in Hagerstown Maryland. He had just returned from a Potomac fishing trip with friends on Potomac Avenue. Interment planned in Philadelphia.
Charles Stone a brakeman for Western Maryland Railway fell from the top of a box car at work in the Hagerstown yard Saturday afternoon and was seriously injured.
East Liverpool Ohio May 24 two men sleeping on the Pennsylvania railroad tracks at Bayard near here were killed by passenger train 307 yesterday The dead are Edward Thompson about 20 East Liverpool and Harry Bickle about 22 East Liverpool Both bodies were brought here last night Identification was found in their pockets and identified Thompson by letters found there The engineer said he saw them too late to prevent the crash
King Constantine of Greece grew more feverish after an operation for pleurisy. His temperature rose from 101.8 to 108.2 as Berlin surgeon Professor Kraus was summoned for a consultation, traveling via Vienna Bucharest and Dedemghatch to reach Athens.
The Continental Mills Tailoring Company now allied with McMullen Bros known for the $11.40 made to order three piece suit will relocate to 18 North Liberty Street beside the Liberty Theater on Saturday May 29. The store is being remodeled for a full line of materials and the $11.40 three piece suits. From now until Saturday the business remains at the McMullen location.
Italian air power centers on heavy aircraft with a few dirigibles including the Ville de Milan. The air strength has grown since the war began, though exact numbers are uncertain. The Ville de Milan measures 234 feet in length and 60 feet in diameter.
Roy L. McCardell and the American Film Manufacturing Company announce The Diamond From the Sky a $10,000 prize photo play to be shown at the Grand and Victoria Theatres with first reels Wednesday. The Cumberland Press will serialize the full story with weekly chapters over at least twenty-five weeks.
Conrad J. Herpich A. S. Huston Harris E. Judy William McCullough and Samuel Brant appointed by the Pride of Potomac Council Jr O U A M to decorate graves of deceased members on Decoration Day. The list includes Rose Hill Charles Swartawelder Carl Smith Frank Madore Charles Broadrup Harry Tucker Joseph Wilkinson Chas G Grimes H H Long Richard Scott H E Smith Alva E Leasure Harry Benna J W Martin Francis M Moreland German Lutheran Julian Sibley Harmon Hobrook John Lindeman G Pichner Carl Zilch Charles B Plummer Cresaptown Herbert McAbee Greenmont Harmon Steele Henry Schrader Charles W H Bucey North Branch Thomas Frans Edward Zimmerly Walter Cook Rawlings Charles McKenzie Geo W Shepherd St Patrick's Cemetery R H Sedars.
Berlin reports the Russian warship Winteleiman sank in the Black Sea with about 1400 lives lost. Dispatches from Bucharest confirm the disaster and expected casualty figures.
President Wilson welcomed delegates to the Pan American Financial Congress in Washington on May 24. He urged building communication, shipping, and trade routes with private capital or government action, and called the delay in the conference mortifying while stressing American neighbors cooperation.
At the Idora Amusement Park opening in Youngstown Ohio a deadly accident at the dip the dips killed one rider and injured about thirty others. Two trains three cars each collided on a steep grade as one car plunged down the dip. Witnesses say a cable system pulled a second train up and its car descended too late.
Carl Scally nine year old son of John Scally was struck by William H Canty owner of Queen City Billiard and Bowling rooms while playing in the National Pike near his home in Clarys ville. He was taken to Miners Hospital Frostburg with critical injuries and initial diagnosis suggested fatal injuries though recovery was hoped.
Bordentown N J May 24 Five were killed when the sand dredge Delware exploded its boilers today. Four others escaped injury. The dead include Captain Anthony Mattie of Trenton engineer John Varley of Bordentown and Mrs Harry Stout wife of the cook and two children. Bodies not recovered at noon.
Delegations from five Catholic societies motor to Frostburg to meet Cardinal Gibbons and escort him to Midland for a reception on the church lawn. The event, run by Father Matthew Total Abstinence and Benevolent Society, precedes a high mass and confirmation of over 100. The St. Joseph's choir will perform Rosewig’s massing with a noted lineup of local soloists.
Berlin May 24 a thirteen year old Alfons Koelble from Alsace earned the Iron Cross for bravery. He enlisted young, served on patrol, was captured, escaped, returned to Münster, and helped save officers from machine gun fire before being celebrated by the Kaiser but sent to a cadet school.
A May 24 Amarillo dispatch notes a Panhandle newspaper lampoons postwar job markets with a headline declaring dead applicants need not apply. The piece, centered in Potter County where Amarillo is the county seat, satirically reflects local labor conditions in Texas’ Panhandle.
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