31 Dec 1915
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1915
Page
1
December 30 1915 The President and Board of Directors of The Frederick Town Savings Institution declare a 2 percent dividend and a 1 percent extra dividend on Weekly Deposits free from taxes for the six months ending December 31 1916 payable on and after January 1 1916 J MARSHALL MILLER Secretary
Philadelphia officials report the Reading Coal & Iron company will raise all prepared anthracite sizes by ten cents per ton above September 1, 1915 prices. An offset is that after January 1 the Pennsylvania state tax on anthracite will not be added to list prices, following the 1913 act’s invalidation and doubts about the 1915 act’s validity.
Two men were killed and a third seriously wounded when two masked bandits raided the Muessel Brewing company office near South Bend Indiana on December 31. Victims include Henry A Muessel and Frank Chebot both shot dead while William Muessel aged seventeen was wounded. Robbers looted vault and money drawer. A 15 year old, Robert Muessel was hurt while being bound. Separate item: Miss Josephine Allis Falso sixteen and barber Anthony Angelo missing after alleged elopement in South Bethlehem Pennsylvania.
Lancaster area report says forty year old Halse, partially dressed and disoriented, wandered into a mule stall at Harry Baucsman's barn and was kicked to death after being moved there by locals. In Maryland a man, John A Sneckenberger, aged sixty two, hanged himself in his attic using a clothesline, found by his son Homer. family devastated.
London reports a general withdrawal of German and Austrian forces along the Macedonia front amid Russian advances in Sessarabia and Bukovina. Battle centers near Toporoutz and across a forty mile stretch from the Pruth to north of the Dniester are described, with heavy bombardment and ongoingRussian assaults. Montenegrin forces claim success against Austro Hungarians in Raskovagora as Varna and Salonika positions shape wider strategic moves.
Geneva dispatches report Italian troops have occupied the Albanian sea port of Durazzo. Austria’s offensive in Montenegro aimed to forestall this Italian move. Montenegrins supplied unexpected resistance to the enemy’s drive toward the Adriatic.
Greenwich Connecticut December 31 Miss Margaret Curtiss eighteen daughter of Julian W Curtiss found frozen in snow behind her home about 70 feet from the house. She is believed to have wandered from the house while asleep and was not discovered until early afternoon when a chauffeur found her body amid snow covered shrubs. She wore night clothes a coat and high lace shoes.
Greenwich Conn Dec 31 the body of a man killed on the New Haven railroad tracks here was identified as Edson Jones of Bellehaven brother in law of Republican National Committeeman William Ward of Westchester and a close friend of Colonel Roosevelt and William H Taft.
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