The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-10-10

EiRton.--Fire destro w
barn belonging to g.
mic north Of Fa,rs ew, U..tt
pounds OF tobacco BE- % o.
ard Ernest Drown. CI 8.
tobicco is placed at slCOJ aud on the
barn at $780,
Hindman.--A big patriotic meeting
was held here last Tpurstay, follow.
ing which the Euett county quota Of
about forty men lcit for an overland
lille for Hazard ami there boarded q
Louisville & Nashville train for Camp
Zachary Taylor.
Hartford. Ohio county ply
sicians have been notified to report
for active duty in the Officers Medi
cal Reserve Corps. Drs. a. y. Riley
and p. f. Dewitt go to Fort BENJAMIN
Harrison, while Dr. F.. w. Fort will 90
to Fort Ogelthorpc, Ga.
Whitesburg--B Hail, deputy Jail
or OF Whitesburg, shot and ils anty
killed Thomas lawson, 80 years old.
at Neon, above here. The officer it is
claimed, went to arrest Lawson, who
resisted, pulling a revolver. Lawson
was shot through the head.
Hickman. -Seventy-eight more men
have been drawn In this county, this
being the third call necessary in order
to get the full quota of 1913, nearly all
married men having been exempted
and others failing to pass the exami
nation in the first two calls.
Greenville.-J. A. Gilman, who has
recently been commissioned as cap
tain In the U. S. Engineers Corps, has
been ordered to report for duty at
Fort Leavenworth. Mr.. Gilman came
to Muhlenburg county, and for eight
years has been superintendent Of the
Greenville Light and Water Co.
Hoplinsville-Wit Dr. z. b. Chap
poll of Nashville, as the principal
speaker, the anniversary of the Sun
day-school Poard was celebrated by
the Louisville Methodist Conference.
bishop w. A. Gambler, of Atlanta,
preached on the temptations of Christ
and the big auditorium was crowded
TO overlooking.
Lexington.-W. Logan Shearer, hav.
ing been declared to be incli.
gible because of the location Of his
residence, Rev. j. w. Porter, pastor Of
the First Baptist Church and vice pres.
ident of the Kentucky Anti-Saloon
League. ia considering a proposal that
he run as an Independent candidate
for the Legislature against William E,
Klair, Democrat.
Lexington-The Second Kentucky
Infantry. when it left here for Hattics.
burg, was o rain-suaked regiment. The
soldiers took down their tents, packed
their belongings ard marched to the
trains in a steady dOwnpOur. Camp
Stanley has been entirely abandoned
except for about 90 men from the two
regiments, dozen OF whom are ili and
CHARTERED in a residence on the site.
Maysville.-Judge Newell. in the
Marion Circuit Court, in the suit of
The II. Il. Pogue Distillery Co., this
city, vs. The Phoenix Distlllery Co,
St. Louis, etc, gave judgment for tho
rlaintir for S15,415.91. with interest,
and Master Commissioner a. G.. SIlscr
was ordered to sell at the court house
door in this city SG1 barrels of whisky
upon which the Pogue Co. has ,eYied.
eXington.-GeneraI Manager s. II.
Daley, OF the Lexington Utilities Com
pany, on his return bore from Wash.
ington after conferences with officials
of the Fuel Administration declared
he had been assured by Administrator
Garfield that the Southern Coal 6
Coke Company, which furnishes the
company coal, would be compelled to
ship enough coal to keep the plant
going.
Paris.-Suit for divorce was filed in
the clerks office of Bourbon county
circuit court by attorneys represent
ing Mrs. Mamie Clay Howard, wife of
Edward W. Howard. In the petition
Mrs. Howard says that since their
marriage her husband has treated her
in such a cruel and inhuman manner
as to show a settled aversion, and to
permanently destroy peace and happi-
ness.
Louisville.-The manner in which
taxpayers of Louisville and Jefferson
county are responding to the urgent
request of the State Tax Commission
to make the new tax law a success ap.