The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-26
John Jewell, Nicholasville, has sold

plant for the boys who desire to work
their way through college.
Soldiers plunge into burning homes
at FIT. Thomas and rescued children
after wrapping them in blankets to
protect them from the cold; they car
ried furniture out of the houses and
aided civilians in aghtins the fire.
Townspcople of Oneida, Clay County,
have taken loyal care of all of the boys
burned ont in the fire which destroyed
the boys dormitory at Oneida Insti-
tutc and plans are being made to hold
them all and others who may come.
The past few weeks in the Perry
County Court have been taken up al
most entirely with the trial of whis-
key cases. indictments for the sale OF
Wh.skey or having it in possession for
the purpose Of sale.
Bert Akors. of Horse Cave, was kill.
Cd by McXicans near the Texas line,
according to messages received by his
father lie left Kentucky seven years
ago for Texas lie is survived by
widow and three children.
sunlight, the two-year-old chestnut
colt by oundridge, dam Spectrum, bred
in France by Clarence Mackay, pur-
chased by Kenneth Alexander for &c.
600. dropped dead at the Kentucky
Association course. He was insured
for $500.
.harles Anderson was given SEN
tence in the workhouse aggregating
a. days after a hearing in Police Court
at Lexington in regard to his alleged
systematic 1eecing of the charitably
inclined public with deaf and dumb
scheme.
The resignation of the Rev. w. A..
hopkins from the church at Owings-
Vile was granted by the Presbytery,
and his formal acceptance of the call
terian Church of Lexington was rati-
fed.
Police are searching for a vandal
who ...rew a brick through a second
story window of the home of Rev. G..
A. VAIL, pastor of the United Brethren
Church, Newport. Mr.. VAIL has been
active in the crusade against keeping
saloons open on Sunday.
The Glenmore Distilleries Company,
of greensboro. shortly will embark in
the manufacture of alcohol for use in
the distillation OF liquid dyes. The
demand for dyes for coloring yarns
and all sorts of fabrics has been great
ly increased by the European war.
Anse Hardcastle, a farmer of Alva.
ton vicinity. near Bowling Green went
up in his barn loft and stepped on
some loose planks and fell a distance
Of ten or twelve feet On some stills.
His right shoulder was disiocated and
a deep cash cut over his right eye.
A cablegram received from Lieuten.
ant Lindsay Jones son OF Captain and
Mrs John q. Jones of Winchester,
who is en route to the Philippine Isl.
ands. announces his safety 1t was
feared he had taken passage on the i'll
lated Persia. which was sunk by an
Austrian submarine
A movement is on foot for the build
Ing OF fine roadway from Benham,
In upper Harlan County, up Clover
Lick Creek and through the Loonly
Creek section of Wise County, Va.
I Wise County, Va, will build half the
road, while the Kentucky end will be
built with the aid of road bonds
On complaint of grocers who were
compelled to keep their places closed
on Sunday, the proprietors of sevehral
fruit stands in Lexington have been
arrested. 1t is alleged that they VIC
lated city ordinances by selling canned
goods, cheese, pickles and the like on
Sunday.
A bill intended to reduce the price
OF gasoline was introduced today by
Repr esentative Johnson, OF Kentucky
II proposes that whenever the first
vendor sells gallon OF gasoline at a
price as high as 10 cents be shall pay
tax OF $lOO for each gallon and an
additional tax of dollar a gallon
for each cent above that figure.
! The State Agricultural Department
received a report from the Bourbon
Stock Yards, of Louisville, that a quar-
antine had been laid there against the
State of Illinois on account of a sus-
pected case of foot and mouth" dis
ease. The stock yards today received
a shipment of hogs from Illinois, four
of which had bad feet.
Arthur Mills. who was sentenced to
one year in the Eddyville prison for
HOUSEKEEPING, believes the use of OPT.
ates responsible for the crime he com.
mitted. Commonwealth Attorney
Jack Fisher will recommend that he
be paroled by the State Board of Pris'
on Commissioners as soon as he shall
have been cured of the drug habit.
Frederick Berry, 3s, a painter. and
his wife. of Lexington. from whom he
had been separated for about three
years, were found dead in bed 10 a
room of Mrs. j. T. Bohannon's board
ing house. 1t is believed that death
was due to poisoning. and their stom
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