The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-02-23
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tel INTO kettle Oh DOlllng water at
Ashland, KY, and was scalded to
death.
Assistant States Attorney General
Hogan, in charge OF Chicago juvenile
court work, declares that white
slave ring exists in the big State
street stores, many girls of tender
years being victims.
When constables began levying OH
his property at Shelbyville, Ind. to
satisfy debts, Edward Price. seventy,
stone contractor, sent his aged wife
to the postolIice to mail letter for
him and then took poison, dying few
hours later.
Safe craftsmen overlooked $4,000
when they dynamited the vault in
stead of a safe in the bank of Hart
ford at Hartford, Ark.
viii II. Orpet, University of Wis
consin student, was lodged in the
county Jail at Waukegan, ILL.,, accused
OF having killed his former sweet
heart Miss Marion Frances Lambert
of Lake Forest. Chicago suburb.
City Magistrate Corrigan of New
York sued George Bronson Howard,
novelist, for 100000, alleging libel.
Howard, he charges, headed a chap
ter, Justice a la Cornigan."
A fire which destroyed the ware
nouse of the A. A. Cooper Wagon and
Euggy company at Dubuque, Ia, caus-
ed loss of 100000.
George A. Macbeth, president of the
NacBetn-Evans Glass company, died
at his home here. He was seventy
years old Mr. Macbeth was born at
Urbana, o.
Auto bandits at Chicago robbed DR..
A. H. Leviton of his jewels and
money, but let him keep his bag whea
he pleaded he was en- route to attend
stork case.
Secretary Daniels approved the re-
port of the academic board Of the
naval academy which ordered dis
nissal of eighty-two midshipmen for
failure to make grades of e21s per-
cent in examinations.
John c. Sheehan, sixty-seven, for.
mer Tammany leader, died in New
York
The postoffice building at White
River, Ark, was swept away by high
water.
Norwegian steamer Correst, 1,036
tons, was sunk in collision with an
ether vessel in the North sea.
Belvidere Brooks, vice president of
the Western Union Telegraph COM
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trouble. He had been in poor health
Tor several months.
At Chicago a score of firemen had
narrow escapes in a 100000 blaze at
A. Ortmayer & Sons saddlery factory.
American Institute of Homeopathy
seeded from the American Medical
association and will conduct it's affairs
as a separate organization
George w. Mundelein, forty-three,
the youngest Catholic archbishop in
the United States, was installed as
head of the Chicago diocese.
Dellmore Newcomb, twenty-five,
was shot and killed in railroad shan
ty at Latonia, Ky. Arch Vertitoe, rail-
road detective, is under arrest.
Thirteen professors and officers
of Ohio Wesleyan university sent a
signed protest to Washington against
the appointment of w. E. Haas as
postmaster at Delaware, o.
At Chicago Policeman Kelly was
shot by gangsters. Kelly is the sew
enth member of the force shot since
Jan. l.
At Cleveland Frank Slawinski and
four children were made seriously ill
from ptomaine poisoning as result
of eating cakes.
Queretaro has been proclaimed tenn
porary capital of Mexico by General
Carranza.
Five Terre Haute election conspira
tors were released from federal pris-
on at Leavenworth after serving short
terms.
Antonio Scott, opera singer, who
has been critically ill at New York
with pneumonia, is reported out of
danger.
Feudists at Franklin, Tex, shot and
killed Joe Hickman, who was to have
gone ON trial Tor the murder or Joe
Reagan in 1914.
Josiah V. Thompson, former presi
dent of the defunct First National
bank of Uniontown. Pa, was indicted
on seventeen counts by the federal
grand jury.
Detroit police have commenced war
of determination against holdup men
and yeggs.
Two persons were burned to death
when fire destroyed boarding house
at Portland, Me.
Four stockmen were killed in a COL
lision on the Chicago and Northwest
ern railroad at Dunlap, la.
Two trainmen are killed at Vim
cennes, Ind, when a passenger en-
CINE plunged into the Wabash river.
Congressman Crosser of Ohio was
named member of the new stand
ing committee of the house ON flood
control.
Michigan state bank exemainer re-
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