The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1898-01-05
SOME SHORT
STORIES.
For Readers Who Have Other
Business To Care
For.
Bits Of Information Gathered From
All InhabitabIe Quarters
Globe by Those Who Are Trained
Expressly For The
Purpose.

Saturday.
A cargo of Cuban tobacco has ar
rived at New York.
Receipts OF the government exceed
che expenditures for December.
Captain Lanning has resigned as SUI
perintendent of the Xenia orphans
home.
Miss Lucille Pulitzer, daughter of
the New York editor, died at Chal-
void, Me.
Mexicans hanled down "Old Glory"
on Clipperton island and ran up the
Mexican flag.
Governor Pingree may call special
session of the Michigan legislature to
get some of his reform ideas into laws.
In removing books to the new Con-
gressional library building a box Of
papers written by Thomas Jefferson
was found.
According to Dun's trade review
there were fewer failures and more
business in the United States In 1897
than in 1896.
The December wheat deal in Chicago
closed without jar.
T No letter was delivered to General
Gomez from Secretary Sherman
I Governor Lowndes has withdrawn
from the Senatorial race in Maryland
+ A few more Chicago Alderman have
been indicte- for running gambling
dens.
Theodore Durrant has been removed
to the death cell in San Quentin (Cal.)
prison.
LIsty cheers for the United States,
President Mckinley and annexation
can be heard in Cuba.
Secondhand dealers tried to pull
William Smith into their store In st.
Louis and he shot them.
Five thousand dollars worth of dia-
monds was stolen from the residence
of Volney T. Malott in Indianapolis.
Reuben Stonesifer, who was once
arrested because he looked like Jonn
Wilkes Booth, assassin of President
Lincoln, died In Willdamsport, Pa.
Thursday.
The Farmers and Traders bank of
Oslaloosa, Ia, has failed.
Great Britain has decided to call
into active service her naval reserve
feet.
Hugh Mclaughlin, dictator Of the
Democratic party in Brooklyn, has re-
tired.
Fitzsimmons says he will not fight
Corbett until the latter has whipped
Maher.
John Reed, arrested In Brooklyn, is
believed to the notorious crook, George
Spencer.
George q. King. SO, author Of num-
erous religious works, is dead In San
Francisco.
Canada will cooperate with the
United States In the matter of relief
for Klondike sufferers.
Revolution is threatened in Salvador,
and the American cruiser Marietta has
been ordered to go there.
"Wednesday.
Six men were injured by the derail-
ment OF locomotive in Chicago.
The Merchants and Traders bank
OF Brunswick, Ga, has suspended.
New York bankers are opposed 10
the proposed postal savings banks.
Coal miners OF Colorado have de-
manded an increase of 10 to 40 per
cent
An American ship was compelled to
haul down the stars and stripes at
Barcelona, Spain, to avoid being mob
bed.
A suit to test the right OF a union
70 force a nonunion man out OF en-
ployment has been filed In San Fran
cisco.
James Whittmer, prominent farmer
near Valparaiso. Ind. has been con-
victed OF incest with his stepdaughter
and sentenced 30 the penitentiary.
Tuesday.
All the members OF the Japanese cab
met have resigned.
Three men were killed In saloon
row In Barbourville, Ky.
italy proposes the establishment OF
an Italian bank in New Orleans.
Mary Castillo was shot to death by
George Touchi IN San Francisco.
Traces Of. three kinds OF poison were