The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-19

burg Military Institute.
Prof A. B. Johnson, teacher OF
physics and mathematics in the
Georgetown College, has resigned to
accept a position with the Oneida In.
stitute at Oneida.
Articles of incorporation were filed
in the County Court Clerks Office at
Paducah by the West Kentucky Auto.
mobile Company, which is capitalized
at $4,000.
A negro woman living in the suburb
of Paris, Bourbon County, gave birth
to twin hoys, and named them Alphl
and Omega, meaning the first and the
last.
George Perkins, a prominent plant.
err of Hopkins County, has hiccoughs
which lasted for a week. Physicians
do not understand his condition, but
1t is believed to be cancer of the
stomach.
"Yeggmen" blew the large safe in
the postoffice at Williamstown, gain
ing an entrance through a rear door
with a jimmy. There was no money
in the safe, but about $50 in reve.
nue. stamps.
Will "Skeets" Thomas and Everett
six" Clark, first bootleggers arrested
in Georgetown since the local option
law went into effect, were given the
limit of the law-$6O fine and 40 days
in Jail.
Mrs. John Moseley, of Greenville,
tells the Circuit Court of that county
that she recognized two alleged night.
riders, one of whom is fugitive and
the other is now trying to establish
an alibi while on trial.
An old oil painting of the late Jus.
tice John Marshall Harlan, of Ken.
lucky, will be hung in the National
Capitol If a bill introduced in Con.
gress by Senator Oliver, of Pennsyl.
vania, is passed.
The l.. & N. railroad company have
sent a crew of men to Barboursville
to survey a new line proposed to Cor
bin. This will relieve great con.
gestion in shipments from Eastern
Kentucky.
Joel C. Clore, formerly of Hebron,
Boone County, has been appointed
postmaster of Cincinnati, to succeed
John Snuff resigned, who too was a
Kentuckian, coming from Bourbon
County.
The following appropriations for
postofflces has been asked by Secre-
tary of Treasury McAdoo, at Washing
ton: Ashland, $4,000; Glasgow, $500;
Lancaster. $500; and Shelbyville,
$1,000.
Colonel Joseph II. Dorst, veteran
of Indian campaigns, Spanish-Ameri.
can war and Philippine Instructions,
a native of Louisville, died at his
home near Warrenton, Va. He re.
tired from the regular army in 1911
after forty years of service.
The Mercer County Girls Canning
Club has rounded out it's second years
work and stands in the forefront OF
canning club work in Kentucky and
the United States Government, hav'
ing captured every prize in which
they have competed.
S. j. Weller, cashier of the Dundee
Deposit Bank, near Hartford, ended
his life by hanging, following bank
examiner going over his books. No
reason can be assigned. The exam
liner could find nothing wrong with
the books.
According to Collector Ben Marshall
at Lexington, three-fifths of the bond
ed spirits and whiskey in the United
States is in warehouses in Kentucky
He further estimates that seven.
tenths of the whiskey produced in the
United States is made in Kentucky.
The prevalence Of grippe and in.
fluenza is not confined to the humans
but also to horses and livestock, ac.
cording to DR.. C. N. Tyree, veteri
marian, at Murray, who says that there
are many animals affected in that sec
ton of the state.
Senator Helen Ring Robinson, OF
Colorado, the only woman Senator in
the United States, has been invited to
speak in Lexington by the Fayette
Equal Rights Association. She is at
present with the Ford peace party in
Europe. but has signified that she
will accept the invitation.
: DR.. John F. Jesse, of Waddy, suf
fered serious injuries when his ma
chine crashed into the iron super
structure of the Floyd creek bridge on
the Shelbyville pike, thirteen miles
east of Louisville. Thurston Waddy
a companion in the car with him, es
capped serious injury,
George Alexander, the Paris banker
who is confined in the Frankfort
Penitentiasy, is reported as seriously
/ i'll and permission has been granted
surgeons of Cincinnati to make an ex
animation. His wife has made two
appeals to Governor Stanley, in an
effort to obtain a pardon.
Through challenge two brothers
ID. II. and Andrew Hargis, of Heb
bardsville, are in their grave. They
both went out to the corner of their
home, stripped. and took a shower
I bath from the drip Of the house dur