The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-19
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erty over 100000.
Corn fed hogs are showing a good
advance on the Louisville market.
Mrs. Tilford Daley, of Maysville,
died in North Yakima, Washington.
The farmers of Fulton and Obion
Counties have formed a Fruit Growers
Association.
Rev. J. s. Sims, former Methodist
pastor at Paris, died in Clermont, Fla,
while on his wedding trip.
II. o. Duncan, of Nicholas, found
several geese frozen on a pond near
Henryvile.
Philip Smith, of Scott County, died
suddenly while visiting his daughter
at FIT. Worth. Texas
A portion of the meteor is claimed
to have fallen in ravine near George
town.
For the first time in thirty years
the saloons were closed in Covington
and Newport Sunday.
w. l.. Bramletts large warehouse,
filled with tobacco. was destroyed by
fire at Carlisle, with a loss of s12, 900.
Mysterious fire at Cave City de-
stroyed property to the value Of
$25, 900.
City Council Of Georgetown refunds
$4,1S7 in license rebates to six sa.
looms that closed last month
The schools at Carlisle have re-
opened after having been closed sew.
eral weeks because of scarlet fever.
Col. John Cunningham, near-cente-
marian. dies in house Of his birth in
Bourbon County.
Jim Crenshaw, Bowling Green, tried
for the murder of his step-grandson.
Robert Boyed, was acquitted.
The tobacco sales of the Planters
Protective Association of Paducah for
the year 1915 were 5000 hogsheads.
Tents were furnished to floor suffer-
ers at Hickman by order of Governor
Stanley.
A receiver has been named for the
ton.
Four prisoners in the Trigg County
jail made their escape. Jailer offers
reward for apprehension of them
George Sweezer. of Huntsville, But
Ter County, was convicted of night
riding and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for one year
A score of automobile owners have
drawn fines in Henderson as the re-
suit of indictments charging viola
lions of the laws
Proctor Davidson, who runs an auto
mobile line between Burnside and
Monticello, was held up at midnight
and robbed of $37.
Miss Ada Wilson was arrested at
Georgetown and held in connection
with robbery of which she is charg-
ed at Walton.
Ben Summers, colored, died at Mil.
burn. aged Ill years. He recalled
being water boy at the building of the
Louisville canal
The ferryboat Trimble, which runs
between Madison and Milton, ran into
a coal barge, sinking it and knocking
hole in the wheelhouse of the ferry.
Attorney w. B. Lindsay, of Win
chester. will be on the examin-
ing board of the State Insurance Com
| ullSSlOu.
John Sloan, 16 years old, was lodged
in Jail at Shepherdsville ON the charge
of killing Philip Beeler with an "un-
loaded" gun.
Mother Evangelista Bindewald, of
Loretto, 6S years old, who has been
a sister of the Loretto Order for 40
years, is dead.
A loose leaf tobacco floor will be
opened at Providence. The first sale
will be when as much as $4,000 pounds
have been brought to the floor.
The new $4,000 school building at
Dixon was formally opened with ex.
ercises by the pupils, patrons. trus.
tees and teachers.
A 100000 loss was sustained when
the Ben Ali Theater of Lexington was
destroyed by fire early Tuesday morn.
ing.
The Lexington Equalization Board
has added nearly four hundred thous-
and dollars to their annual assessment
making the total appraisement in ex.
cess of twenty.eight million.
The first visit OF 'pOssum hunters"
is reported in Henderson. when
James Shoemaker was taken out by
masked men and whipped for alleged
ill.treatment to his wife,
Apple growers in Western Kentucky
are having trouble getting satisfac.
tory prices owing to the enormous
crop throughout the country, They
are now selling at SO barrel
The State Federation of Labor,
which has been holding their conven.
tion at Louisville. have decided upon
Greensboro as the meeting place in
1917
Scores OF negroes In Ruckerville, a
negro settlement in Paris. became
panic-stricken at sight OF the meteor
and spent the entire day in church
praying and fasting
Richard X. Mccartney, prominent pc.
litician of Bourbon County, and post
| mastar of Paris dia1 AT the ATamoria Al