The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-02-09
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Tnere were 22,54O street accidents
in city of New York during 1915, in
which $50 persons were killed and
23.321 injured.
Owing to the uncertainty regarding
movement of slides in Panama canal.
no prediction can be made when navi-
cation can be- resumed.
Philip Eckert. twenty-eight. gen
eral manager of the Naugatuck Coal
company's plant at Blocton. w. Va,
was murdered byParis Daniels. board
ing house keeper
Miss Margaret Wilson. daughter o.
the president left the hospital at
Philadelphia, where on Jan. 10 she
underwent an operation for the re.
moval of adenoids and both tonsils.
The operation was successful.
DR.. A. !. Noble head of MICHIGAN
state hospital and authority on men.
tai diseases, died suddenly at Detroit.
Mich
Illinois state vice commission, after
thorough Investigation, recommends
law making IS a week minimum wage
for women workers.
Senator Johnson of South Dakota
is confined to his home at Washing.
ton by injuries from falling down
stairs. Several ribs are believed
broken.
The first British volunteers under
Lord Derby's recruiting scheme to be
called up by the war Office for active
cl ruin haOon
approximate 100000 in number.
At New York thirty reformed bar
flies" each wearing a red rose in his
coat lapel, joined the ranks of the
Salvation Army in ceremony enti-
tied From a Red Nose to a Red
Rose"
Suffering from i'll health, Mrs. Dora
X. Ranous, one of the editors Of the
Century Magazine, killed herself in
New York by inhaling gas.
Senator Pomerene has introduced a
bill detailing to Ohio State university
one or more military instructors in
addition to the one it now has.
Frederick T. Price, convicted at
Minneapolis of numbering his third
! wife for her fortune, was sentenced
to life Imprisonment at hard labor.
The Tooth anniversary of the birth
of General Robert E. Lee was OBJ
served throughout the south Jan. 10,
with addresses eulogizing the Confed.
crate chieftain.
A four-story building in the heart
o. the Chicago market district was
destroyed by fire with a loss estimat-
cd at 100000. The building was occu-
pied by George Rasmussen company,
wholesale grocers.
New York experienced the coolest
day of the winter; above.
The cut-f1ower shortage in Chicago
is the most serious ever known. Dark
weather and the high death rate is
responsible for the shortage.
William Todd, seventy-five, well
known to the older New York soci-
ETY. people, had $4,000 in cash when
he was found dead in bed. Todd was
q Fifth avenue cabman.
At Providence, R. l., Croswell Whit
tier twenty-three. shot and killed his
ty-two, daughter of business man,
and then fired two bullets into his
own head. He died several hours
later. Jealousy supposed cause.
Panama canal will be reopened to
the largest ships now afioat on Feb.
| 15 This announcement was made by
Colonel f. F. Glenn, U. S. A., upon
his return from a six weeks visit to
the canal zone.
Grip has attacked mules in the
mines at Hazelton, Pa. Miners de-
clare the mules spread the disease.
At GAINESVILLE Louise Steel, three,
died from burns received when her
dress caught fire from an open crate.
The head of Thomas Snimrock of
Cleveland was found on an engine
pilot at a roundhouse of the New York
| Central in Chicago. Shimrock was
struck at Collinwood
Universalist Church of the Redeem
er, Chicago, is so strong for advertis-
ing that an automobile secretary and
1000 have been turned over to the
pastor for publicity purposes"
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With the temperature II degrees
ebove zero, ~ prisoners, three white
end nine negroes, were publicly fog
ged in the stockade Of the county
workhouse at Greenbank. N. ].
In the Camden On. j. police court
Dominick Maio, thirty-three, and Eu-
genio Maio, twenty-nine, brothers, adj
mitted having exchanged wives for
about year.
George H. Fink, assistant book
keeper of the Hercules Buggy COM
pany, walked out of the company's
office at Evansville, Ind, with satch-
Ell containing $4,000, the money for
the weekly payroll. He was captured
at Boonvile, Ind
Oliver Adams. married, charged
with trapping Lillian McFee, seven
teen into a mock marriage after TAX
ing her to Oakland. Md. was SEN
fenced at Parkersburg, w. Va, to
three years in the penitentiary.
Residents of the little town of West
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