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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1915
Page
1
More than 1,000 Republicans gathered at the Maryland Theatre for a rally for Ovington E. Weller for Governor Albert A. Doub for Attorney General and Robert F. Duer for Comptroller. The crowd filled the gallery and foyer as excursion trains from Up Creek towns arrived. D. Lindley Sloan presided and predicted a Republican victory, praising Weller and the party’s Allegheny County ticket.
Coroner Jamison and Mayor Armstrong inspected the disaster site. Warrants were issued for M. E. Weiskopf Henry Schaefer W. C. Kimbel and H H Woods in connection with the Northside fire deaths. Woods posted 10000 bond and others posted 5000 bonds. no statements were made.
Bluefield W Va October 27 Governor Hatfield will swap the governor's mantle for hospital duties. He will oversee the Miner's Hospital for three weeks while Superintendent Dr Hucks is on vacation, returning to his former role as Dor Hatfield.
Max Breitung, cousin of EF N Breitung, appeared in the Federal building for a preliminary arraignment before U S Commissioner Houghton on a charge of participating in an alleged conspiracy to blow up ships carrying munitions of war. He is held on $25,000 bail.
G O P rally remarks followed news that John 8 Ensor Republican State Senator candidate for Baltimore county was killed by a trolley near Pimlico. Ovington B Weller governor candidate expressed shock and called Ensor a warm friend and a civic minded lawyer whose loss will affect his party and the community. Ensor died after stepping from a car to check a injured pedestrian and was struck on the tracks.
London dispatch from Madrid reports Prince von Buelow will submit an outline of German peace terms to President Wilson and King Alfonso of Spain. Prince Camporeale, brother in law of Buelow, is cited as authority. the claim reportedly originated in Rome and lacks corroboration.
Vienna reports three thousand Italian soldiers lie dead in the open before Austrian positions on the Doberdo Plateau. Officials say Italian losses are very heavy throughout the district and continue to mount.
Analysis of Baltimore registration figures shows Democrats ahead in affiliation by about 45 000 over Republicans with around 274 000 total affiliated and declined voters. Supplemental registrations will shift shares but not alter the Democrat lead or the independent declined voters.
London October 27 The war office reports the British transport Marquette torpedoed by a submarine in the Aegean Sea. Ninety nine aboard are unaccounted for.
Austin reports grave peril as Mexican raids intensify. Gov Verguin plans to call out the Texas National Guard to restore order at the border unless Washington sends more troops. Federal officials warn against deploying state forces near regular troops.
Hearing in the Workmen's Compensation cases before Commissioner Charles D Wagaman of Hagerstown continued in City Hall. Decisions will be issued later. Cases include Murphy vs Consolidation Coal Co dealing with a lifted blood vessel claim and Amantea vs Consolidation Coal about a widow and dependent infant. Other actions involve Imes vs Union Mining on which injury caused by two periods of work was debated, Cunningham vs Union Mining on erysipelas, and Snyder vs Union Mining on a hernia.
Pittsburg October 27 The Joseph Seep Agency states Pennsylvania oil prices with a five cent raise. Crude at 1.80 Cabell at 1.35 Corning at 1.30 and Somerset at 1.32. Black and New Castle rise four cents to 1.30.
Sheriff Tabler and deputies arrested Roy Lakeman of Hagerstown at George Rhodes’s home near Foltz after a Saturday assault on Miss Cozie Foltz, a 16 year old schoolgirl. Lakeman protests innocence.
Washington reports Germany prohibits transfer or sale of all German merchant vessels including those interned in a cable from Ambassador Gerard dated October 27. The move removes ships from potential sale or external control amid wartime tensions.
Washington reports the state department says Ambassador Gerards will press the case of thirty two individuals court martialled in Liege Belgium for alleged military offenses using U S influence and good offices.
The president sent a message to Speaker Champ Clark asking him to come to Washington at once to discuss the forthcoming legislative program. The note was delivered from Washington with urgency.
Ten masked men held up and robbed a southbound passenger train on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad two miles south of Onapa early today. They blew the safe in the express car and escaped with an unknown quantity of money and valuables.
Tokyo and McAllister Oklahoma report a full coronation schedule for Japan in November with events from November 6 to 27 including imperial shrine transfer, Shinto rites, ancestral worship, imperial messages, and pilgrimages to Ise. Separate item notes train robbery by bandits near McAllister with no trace found.
Despatches report Kladevo in northeast Serbia occupied by Austrians after a violent bombardment. Serbs evacuated across the Danube. town destroyed. Other notes say Serbian recapture of Veles, and Austrian gains east of Visegrad with fronts at Dvinsk and Champagne activity.
London reports an official notice that an A prisoner convicted of espionage was shot by military authorities after a rejected appeal. Two additional suspects named K and L are under court martial for attempting to gather and pass naval and military intelligence to the enemy.
Reports from Vienna today state heavy damage was inflicted on Venice by Austrian air raids Monday and Tuesday. The attacks were coordinated and caused structural damage across multiple districts. Officials in Berlin and Venice assess reconstruction will take months.
London dispatch reports that adult Americans who enlisted with foreign belligerents cannot be released. The British war office refuses to release these volunteers and the U S State Department cites 1901 policy stating Americans serving abroad must bear the consequences and cannot expect protection. Embassies have freed some minors but not adults, so American fighters must continue until victory or death.
Washington officials said grand jury proceedings in New York will come first before any international developments in the bomb conspiracy case. Robert Pay, alleged German army lieutenant, and his confederates are tied to the investigation.
The Pennsylvania Congress of Mothers begins its sixteenth annual session with broad attendance. Over three days the program includes papers addresses and discussions on child welfare and related problems.
A Copenhagen dispatch reports Premier Zahle stating the government will enforce June 5, 1916, as the new constitutional law conferring suffrage on women. A general election is expected in July when Danish women vote for the first time.
Paris reports President Poincare and War Minister Millerand met King George and the Prince of Wales on the Anglo French front to review British troops. King George later visited Joffre and observed a French colonial march past and battery sites while Poincare awarded the war cross to the Prince of Wales.
Salem Oregon October 27 delegates and visitors of the Oregon Federation of Women's clubs heard songs of praise and awaited an address by President Sarah A Evans. She planned to enumerate the classes of children that should never have been born, a striking feature of the session.
Pittsburg celebrated the formal dedication of The Elizabeth Steel Magee Hospital for Women on October 21 a landmark gift from the late Christopher L Magee The program included participation by Chancellor Samuel Mello of the University of Pittsburg El Cortland Whitehead and Dr W Chipman from the University Medical School
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