The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-05

BRIEF DISPATCHES

Charles M. schwab has been made

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The Belgians are the greatest pota-
to eaters in the world and the Irish
come second.
A Swiss aviator rose to the high Of
1880 feet. overstepping the best pre-
vious ascent.
Uncle Sam made $2,500,00 last year
from the sale of wool from the govern
ment forests.
Since the outbreak of the war 10000
settlers from the United States have
entered Canada.
mill employees in New England have
been announced.
An inventor in Russia has developed
q method for making felt boots and
knit goods from dog hair.
In time lost and medical attention,
the wage earners of this country have
an annual sick bill of $3.50, 100000.
Henry A. Wise resigned as a mem
Dor of the naval consulting board be.
cause he disapproves as inadequate
President Wilson's naval program.
A Florida woman recently offered
the editor of the local paper 81 for
a poem about the town goat, but he
declined to put his autobiography into
verse.
Fifty convicts of the Kansas state
penitentiary were placed in solitary
confinement charged with being ring
leaders In a mutiny In the state coal
mines.
The foreign-born population of this
country is 35,5OO,000. This equals the
population of Belgium and Holland be-
fore the war, or that Of Norway, Den
mark and Sweden at this time.
A one-armed man Waterman at the
central crossing between Shiloh and
Bridgeton, N j., gets his winter sup
ply of potatoes free by exacting a toll
from each load that passes his way.
American marines hereafter will be
Professor Emily G.. Bach Of Welles-
in uniform or out of garrison, the idea
being to add smartness. after the man.
ner of the swagger stick Of Tommy
Atkins
That one Of the effects of the war
would be to make women drug on
the market" was the assertion of
permitted to carry canes when ashore
ley college before the American
Sociological society.
D., toooh;nu 6rornop IN handle noaI
scientifically Hamburg society with
more than 500 members aims to pro-
duce the highest possible efficiency
/ from steam boilers with the least poss-
| ible emission of smoke.
| 1t is now being suggested that Mt.
Robson, one Of the Hottest peaks in
| the Canadian Rockies, be changed to
Mt. Cavell, in honor Of Miss Edith
Cavell, for whom street in Paris
already has been renamed.
Robert l.. Knox, Surveyor of the
Port of New Orleans, shot and killed
Benjamin Foster, Mississippi attor-
ney, formerly associated with the
slayer, and Alexander Franklin. a
pdupcI, at iNouSSy ~.
Records of the United States pen
sion Office show the total death toll of
veterans since the close of the war
has been 1,816,995. In that period the
federal government has paid to veter-
ans their widows and children, $4,614,-
e43,267.
The American Car & Foundry COM
pany at Jeffersonville, Ind, has prac-
tically closed down. declaring that
| the demands for steel for munitions
of war has made it impossible for the
company to get the material to man
ufacture cars.
California has court composed of
women. This is probably the first of
its kind in the United States. The
cases which the court will consider
will be those affecting children. The
Judge, the clerk, the bailiff and the
reporter are all women.
Albert Franz Pahnke, who died re-
Gently in Richmond, Va, had the dis
tinction of being the oldest jeweler in
the state. having founded his bust
ness in 1852 and conducted it contin-
uously ever since, with only one
change in the firm name
In a report to Governor Stanley,
of Kentucky. Sherman Goodpester,
state inspector and examiner, de-
tails alleged bogus claims attributed
to j. e. McGlone, circuit clerk of
Carter county, who is held to the
grand jury under $4,000 bond.
AS drove of cattle was being
driven through Main street, High
more, S. d., tired old COW walked
into the open back door of the First
National bank and down a fight of
stairs to the cellar, where she was
afterward discovered lying down.
Frank Paul. of Eminence, Ky, and
two companions in an automobile
plunged headlong into the Kentucky
river at Frankfort, KY, where mis-
take was made in street, where a
bridge was thought to be, and fire.
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