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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1915
Page
1
Paris reports Premier Vivieni offered his resignation and Aristide Briand is expected to succeed him. The entire ministry is likely to be reorganized as dissatisfaction grows over government foreign policy, notably the German victory in the Balkans.
A high government official said arrests of Robert Fay and four others for plotting to blow up trans Atlantic munitions ships reflect only the froth of the case. The neutrality squad of 85 men in New York’s Collector of the Port office conducted months of work leading to five arrests.
Washington October 28 Count von Bernstorff the German Ambassador telegraphed the State Department that Robert Fay arrested in New York for conspiracy to place bombs on departing ships had no connection with the German secret service or the German government. The State Department will leave the alleged conspiracy to attach explosives to vessels carrying munitions to the courts for handling.
Paris reports four shells exploded about 200 yards from King George V and President Poincare during a front observation with the Prince of Wales and General Joffre. The leaders and officers moved away unharmed as the bombardment continued. Berlin dispatches note Austro German and Bulgarian forces forging a junction in northeastern Serbia near Brza Palanka and along the Danube with direct links established east of the town.
Joseph Cunningham, pursued for a $50 Alexandria Indiana post office theft in 1896, surrendered in Hammond Illinois after 19 years of fear. He learned no federal officers had searched for him and his brother Will, then postmaster, had reimbursed the loss and welcomed him home.
A major blaze in Irwin Pennsylvania on October 28 continues to burn. The fire destroyed three structures including the McClelland building with details still unclear.
Pittsburg October 28. It was learned today that the Union Box Company fire might claim two more lives. Hospital authorities said Gertrude Neidt and Margaret Kinsley were in a precarious condition and hardly expected to live.
Pittsburg October 28 The headless and mutilated body found last night on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks is identified as Miss Sophia McCallin an auditor in the City Comptroller's office and a member of a prominent family. The cause of death is a mystery.
In Youngstown Ohio on October 28 John Lacura a Baltimore and Ohio section hand escaped a fast passenger train when he and several workmen jumped from a hand car. The car was struck and hurled twelve feet. In its descent it crushed Lacura to death.
Stamford reported Mrs Helen Angle, acquitted of manslaughter in Waldo Ballou's death last March, will wed her former husband Frank W. Angle in Bridgeport on Sunday. Angle, employed by Union Metallic Cartridge Co, had divorced him about 18 years ago for desertion.
Harpers Ferry West Virginia October 28 A G Gillesbie 17 was run over yesterday near the town by a Baltimore and Ohio freight he was trying to board and died within half an hour He was an adopted son of Captain G W Graham of Bolivar and an employee of the Baltimore and Ohio at the transfer sheds in Brunswick
Paris October 28 The Chamber of Deputies adjourned after a stormy session at Premier Viviani s request to put off the cabinet crisis discussion until tomorrow. The entire cabinet resigned following the Premier s action.
Washington October 28 A note to Great Britain protesting against the order-to-cease act and interference with American trade is en route to London by messenger Alexander W Kirk third secretary of the American embassy to Berlin who will deliver it to Ambassador Page next Monday Kirk sailing from New York on the steamship Finland The document, over 16000 words, is prepared to prevent transmission errors and represents the first general protest since March 30 with Wilson awaiting clarification of relations with Berlin before renewing representations
Lonaconing Maryland October 28 the Coney Civic Club met to plan support for the Cumberland tuberculosis hospital. A committee will visit town schools Monday to present needs and Wednesday to collect donations from pupils.
Newton D. R. Allen, a Baltimore attorney on the Republican ticket for the House of Delegates, was nominated by the county State Central Committee for State Senator to replace the late John S. Ensor. Dr. Harry B. Jarrett of Towson will take the House seat in place of Allen. Carville D. Benson is the Democratic State Senator nominee.
Harry H H Pluharty business manager of the Clarksburg Daily American was remanded to jail awaiting action by the next Criminal Court grand jury on a whiskey selling charge. He was held in default of $1,000 bail set by Mayor G Y Gordon. A man arrested for disorderly conduct testified against Pluharty at a theatre trial, and was later arrested in his room by Deputy Commissioner J Walter Bee.
Clarksburg West Virginia October 2 secret service and officers pursue a clue from burned needle fragments found in an ash pile near the railroad between Central and Toll Gate. The stash is tied to the October 8 train No. 1 holdup carrying about 600000 dollars in currency and notes. Four alleged needle salesmen were tracked through Reddridge and Ritchie county weeks before the assault. Evidence includes weiner rings bread crumbs and a Melwood whiskey bottle. An ash pile contains needles of all sizes some melted by fire. A government officer and local officials connected to the pile held needles, and a secret service man has a full description of the four suspects.
S F Everett of Ridgeley West Virginia a brakeman on the Western Maryland Railway was injured when a box car derailed hitting him at 6 30 am near Ackerman West Virginia He was taken to Western Maryland Hospital Butler and is reported resting comfortably The derailment delayed both passenger and freight traffic and trains were detoured until tracks reopened.
William Myers, colored, struck J. B. Trieber, president of the Automobile Repair Co., with a whiskey bottle after being ordered from front of the plant at Frederick and Front streets. Trieber was knocked unconscious and cut about the face. he lies at home under a doctor's care. Myers was arrested by Officer Clay Wilson. Trieber had five years of federal government service as a machinist in Panama.
In Peabody Massachusetts twenty one children are confirmed dead with estimates rising as many more were trapped or injured when St. John's parochial school burned. The three story brick building lacked fire escapes and doors opened inward as fire swept the hallways.
In Westminster Maryland Emerson C Harrington defends his nomination against Weller and his backers and denounces machine politics He challenges his opponent to compare records while criticizing Governor Goldsborough and the last Legislature A large Opera House audience hears remarks from Harrington and other speakers including McMullen Lewis Dockery and Cummings
In Baltimore on October 28 19 year old Tony Felix and Edna Garrett both 19 married in the Post Office Building after a Federal Grand Jury dismissed charges under the White Slave Act. Felix, Italian, sought marriage in Hagerstown where license was denied due to age and lack of parental consent. Guardianship letters were issued to obtain a Baltimore license.
After an automobile parade led by the Boy Scouts and county bands, Republicans held a mass meeting in the armory. Dr. C. F. Goodall presided and introduced speakers including A. Alton Dond and Robert F. Duer. Weller and Governor Goldsborough were absent. Duer and Dond spoke on state and national issues. Col. Edward and Leo Weinberg were named as future candidates.
October 24 report states the chief executive will send a recommendation to Parliament to shorten the work week and modify the calendar. The move would redefine daily schedules and national holidays as part of the reform.
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