The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-06-28

OF tue state, met TO discuss means o
securing better wholesale prices fo
their products. The new organization
takes ever the membership of the
Kentucky Dairy Cattle Club.
James Bentham. of Covington, has
applied for patent on an invention
which he contends will avoid COLI
sions, as well as prevent damage to
ocean liners by nine explosions
Bentham asserts that his patent is a
guard and a signal for ships, and will
avert collision with hidden objects,
such as icebergs or derelicts.
A gold ring lost twenty.six years
ago in a field near Bowling Green
came to light when a negro forking
up a garden, in turning the soil, found
the little gold band still bright as the
day it was lost On the inner side
was the name of Carl d. Herdman, a
prominent real estate dealer of that
city. The negro took the ring to the
owner and received a reward.
Because he used shotgun instead
of an alarm clock to awaken his
brother Steve for breakfast, Joe Jones,
carpenter of Lexington, will have to
answer a charge of shooting and
wounding Brother Steve is in a Lex.
ington hospital doctors having picked
the load of bird shot out of his right
leg. Steve was sleeping in the yard
at their home when the gun was fired.
County Clerk Bingham of Union
County, had a new experience. He
had an application from a man from
Illinois who wanted a marriage license
to wed his mother-in-law. He said
after his wife's death his mother-in-
law continued to reside with him and
help raise the children During this
association an attachment was formed |
with the above application as a re-
suit. II not being legal, the license |
was refused.
Private Charles Reynolds, Company |
X, Third Regiment, X. y. G., lies in a
hospital at greensboro with a knife
wound in his left side over his heart,
and Private John Millburn is in the
county Jail with a bayonet wound on
his head and facing court martial on
charges of refusing to report at the
for duty resisting arrest, in
and malicious cutting.
Millburn resisted arrest and is said
to have attacked Reynolds with a
knife.
A touching incident of a mothers
self-sacrifice for her country was Civ
en- at Hopkinsville. A seventeen-year-
old boy applied for admission to Com
pand ID, but was refused until he could
get written permission from parents
Or guardian. Later he returned and
handed the officers this note: with
sOrrowful heart, take my boy and act
as loving mother to him, with God.
IS my praycr.-Mother." The woman
IS a widow and has several children.
The boy is one of the breadwinners of
he little family.
Ollie Rodgers and Luke Merriweth-
-, negro citizens of Paducah, who
we're IN the Spanish-American War.
IRE maxine an effort to organize
negro regiment in that city. They
nave asked the philosophical citi-
.ens to assist them in effecting the
The regiment would
consist of about 1880 soldiers. There
ire about 5000 or more negroes in Pa
lucah, so there is plenty of material
or regiment. The promoters desire
o organize and offer the regiment for
ervice in Mexico.
l.. ID, Boggs and family. of Potter in
ONE way received a report that Mr..
'oggs' father, Eliphus Boggs, had died
ear Blaine. Relatives procured an
automobile and drove out there, ex-
ecting to attend the funeral. Coming
sight OF the house they saw the ven
rable old gentleman sitting on his p
orch enjoying life as much as usual 81
lie is "A years old and was delighted
nave the family visit him. He YVES
specially glad to know the report Of
Is death was false alarm and treat
the matter as Joke.
Governor Stanley issued a procIa-
lation for volunteers in the following
ords: I'm the hour of stress and
erll, Kentuckians have immemorially ii
cen the ilrst to enter the breach The D.
commander in Chief of the Armies G
nd Navies of the United States has +
sued a call TO the colors, and Ken.
Ickians of this generation will prove
orthy of the proudest traditions of II
eir martial sires hope TO see the j.
lttahons of this commonwealth J.
nong the first in line of duty, and, IL A,
led be- in line of battle.
The Census Bureau made public at u,
ashington Monday the census of '"
anufactures of the State of Ken. "a
cky. In Kentucky there was f.
decrease in five years of 12.4 G.
n cent in the number of manufac.
ring establishments, Is per cent in
e number of persons engaged in al
hnufactures, 17.9 per cent in the Vi
lmber of proprietors and firm mem. f.
RS and 2 Dpr cent i'm tho a,o.o..z Z,