The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-26
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I: PUNCHED PARAGRAPHS

April.
William F. McCombs, chairman of
the Democratic ratlonsl committee.
issued a formal ca! for the Demo.
cratic national Convention in st. Louis
June IA. 1919.
Sisma Phi fraternity house at Ham.
ilton college, at Clinton. y. Y, was
burned with an estimated loss Of
100000.
a recall election for Mayor James
G. Woodward end four members o.
the Atlanta police commission was
ordered by the Atlanta city council
tor Jan. ;. 1916.
Health department announced that
New York city is facing a serious
milk shortage as a result of the
enormous purchases of condensed
milk by the allies for the soldiers in
the trenches.
Robert Waldo and William Haney
were struck and killed by a switch
engine at Conneaut, o.
Edward Van Dyke Robins, famous
political economist, died suddenly at
his home in New York.
Ohio board of agriculture plans a
campaign to win the national dairy
show for the state fair grounds.
Fire in the elevators of the Anchor
line on the water front at Erie, Pa,
destroyed two sections of the com
bination elevator. Loss sS50,000.
When the stork brought twins to
the home Of Charles Taylor at Staun-
ton, Va. Taylor tried to kill himself
by hacking his head with a Ratchet
and slashing his throat with a knife.
Henry H. Tucker, eighty-five, a FIRE.
mont CO., pioneer, was killed when
his horse ran away and threw Tucker
and his wife from their buggy. Mrs.
Tucker was badly injured.
In attempting to stop a runaway
team, John j. Jauch. business man at
Columbus, was fatally injured.
Charles Kohn, jeweler, patient in a
Columbus hospital, jumped to his
death from the fourth story of the
building.
Stephen Phillips, poet and dramat-
list, is dead at Deal, England, where
he had been in failing health for some
months. He was born in 1868.
James Foley, a deaf mute of Joliet.
Ill, is willing to serve two years in
Joliet penitentiary for no crime at all,
just to learn the painters trade.
A canvass of the Republican ma
tional committee shows that the Re-
publican national convention will be
held in Chicago.
Edmund Ball. football coach at
Buena Vista college, and Miss Fern
Benedict, were drowned as a result of
skating on thin ice on Storm lake, la.
Ex-Mayor Patrick ]. Boyle Of New.
FORT. R. l., was elected mayor for his
sixteenth term over Mayor Robert S.
Burlingame by a majority Of 227.
Parlcr maids, cooks, buffers, house
men, chauffeurs and gardeners of P.
A. B. Widener, Philadelphia traction
magnate, have received from 81 900 to
$4,000 each under his will.
The body of Samuel Schultz, who
murdered Ida Krittberg at Pittsburgh
when she again refused to marry him,
was found behind a blacksmith shop.
A bullet wound in his head showed
that he had taken his own life.
Fire at Chicago damaged the Al
hambra theater to the extent Of
$4,000.
James NJ Flautt, fifty-four. wealthy
lumber dealer of Somerset, O., died
following an operation.
Councilman Frank Knauber charged
Newark (OD police department with
extravaganza and corruption.
Because of the war there is short
age of song birds for the holiday trade
at Cleveland. Most birds are import.
ed from Germany.
Will of Sarah Enocn of West Lib
death and disposing of an estate
worth 10000. was set aside by jury.
Charging that Leonard w. Merry.
twenty-seven, Noble county, o., stock
buyer. married Pauline Kieger the
came day he had promised to wed her,
Nioo bCWihu tWShty-t"o, hiSu
suit for $4,000 for alleged breach o.
promise.
Panama-pacifc exposition, which
closed Saturday night, will show a
net profit Of 100000.
Red Cross society of Cleveland Is
planning to dispose of 5000 900 Christ.
mas seals.
Hit by bullet from q rife. Irving
Helsel. ten, Youngstown, o., owes his
life to a bundle of newspapers which
the bullet pierced.
Edwin Morrow, farmer, residing
near Marysville, o., was fatally hurt
when his team became frightened and
ran away. One of the horses kicked
Morrow In the face. crushing mis-
skull
Sarah Bernhard is III in Paris. She
IL suffering from congestion OF the
lungs.
Marion, o., has been flooded with
spurious dimes, quarters and half dol
lars.
Near Spokane, WASH, a two ton