The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-12-08
PUNCHED PARAGRAPHS

Walter Baker OF Cleveland gets |
Chic automobile license No. 10 for |
next year. There were a number of |
applicants for this number.
William Bache, great grandson of
Benjamin Franklin, was set free at
Lexington. KY, on a charge Of MUIR
der. He killed his stepfather, Will
liam Hunter when the latter attack
cd Bache's mother.
Near Spokane, Wash, a two ton
boulder fell from an overhanging cliff
upon Great Northern train No "A,
crashed through the roof of the ex-
press car and killed w. c. Dunbar,
the express messenger.
One hundred masked men took Will
liam Patrick, negro, from the Forest
City (Ark.) Jail and lynched him. He
was held for the murder of Bert
Nicholas, a merchant
Captain William Bennette, eighty,
wealthy farmer, Republican politician
and civil war veteran. is dead at his
home in Marysville, o.
Sidney Bell, near-sighted autoist,
drove his car through a house at
| South Norwalk. Conn, and broke up
Ralph Comstock's dinner party
At Springfield, Mass, an enterpris-
ing burglar entered a fire station, rob-
bed fifteen sleeping firemen slid down
the CREASED" pole and escaped.
Christian Mathies, seventy, wealthy
farmer, was killed near Crown Point,
Ind. He was found pinned under
big hickory tree. which he had cut
down for exercise.
Senator James d. Phelan, newly
elected from California, has bought
G S125,000 residence in Washington.
At. st. Louis Edward Scbuster swal.
lowed needle that fell into his beer.
An autopsy showed the needle pierced
Schuster's heart.
Mrs. Norman Gait mas invited her
two old colored "aunties' of Roanoke,
Va, to help her dress for her mar
riage to President Wilson.
Melvin H. Goodrode. Chicago; Jack
Thompson, Needles, Cal, and Mrs.
Anna Adkins, Chicago, lost their lives
when an automobile in which they
were riding sank wrongside up in the
West Gary Qnd) marsh.
Seven federal prisoners escaped
from the county Jail at Georgetown,
Ky. and no effort is being made to
apprehend them, inasmucn as their
terms expired previous to their es-
cape. They declined to wait for their
official release.
Colonel w. P. Rend, seventy-five.
millionaire president OF the coal COM
pany in Chicago bearing his name,
died suddenly at his home in Chicago.
Famed by high wind, flames gut
ted the Surber block at Muncie. Ind,
caused 100000 damage and resulted
, If the serious injury of four firemen.
A lone bandit held up and robbed
sixteen passengers on train No. 4,
known as the Pioneer limited, near
Watertown. Wis.
Police found the mutilated body of
Janitor Clarence Green in the base
ment of the Nicollet hotel, Chicago.
Mayor-elect Bernard Welt of Erie.
appendicitis few days ago, is dead.
Mrs. Harvey Nelson, sixty, was
burned to death at her home near
glastonbury, O., when her clothing
caught fire from a stove.
Public school at Old Straitsville
Perry county, o., is situated on land
that is undermined and the mine is
, on fire. The school may be closed.
John George, thirty, and Nick Car
los, thirty-two, section hands, were
instantly killed by a Baltimore and
Ohio train at crossing in Akron, O.
George w. Arbaugh, grocer, is
dead at his home in Martins Ferry
O., after an attack of hiccoughs last
. ing several days. He survived pre-
vious attacking lasting continuously
for two weeks.
More tnan half the town of Avalon
On Santa Catalina island. was destroy
5 ed by fire. Estimates of the loss rur
as high as $1,000,O00.
Joseph Campbell, a negro convict
was found guilty of numbering Mrs
: Maize Odette Allen. wife of former
| Warden Allen of Joliet penitentiary
4 Verdict carries death sentence.
r AS a result of cold weather. watel
) sold for 81 barrel at Anchorage
3 Alaska, a New town established by
the government as construction head
quarters for the Alaskan railroad.
: On account of large freight accum
ulation at its st. George, Staten Is
land, terminal, the Baltimore ant
Ohio railroad placed an embargo OF
iron and steel articles for export
. through New York.
Two store rooms and two buildings
were destroyed by fire at Belle Val
: ley, O., with a loss of $4,000.
Paul Harvey. sixty. well known a
On artist, is dead at st. Louis. Har
ney specialized in pictures of animals
Maus Smith, farmer of near Val
!. Vert, was arrested. charged with fir
. ing upon two Automobiles ditchet