The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-02-06
HAPPENINGS FROM THROUGH.
1 OUT KENTUCKY CONDENSED
AND TERsELY TOLD.
FARMER SHOOTS HIMSELF
Dependency, Due to III Health,
Causes Farmer to Commit Suicide
Sheriff Captures Alleged Leader Of
Band Of Hog Thieves.

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ton pike about three miles from Paris
committed suicide by shooting him
self in the head with a rifle. He was
found in his bedroom with the rifle
lying beside him and had evidently
been dead several hours. Despond
ency, due to i'll health, Is supposed I'd
have caused him to kill himself.
Sheriff Clay Hodgkin, in Winches
ter, succeeded in capturing what the
officials believe to be the ringleader
In the hog thefts committed recently
when he arrested George Curtis
white, on his farm about three miles
from Kiddville, in Montgomery coun.
ty. In addition to Curtis two others
are expected to be arrested shortly in
connection with the same robberies.
At meeting of the poultry raisers
Of the county at the Chamber of Com.
merce, Maysville, it was decided to
adopt the Rhode Island Red breed as
a standard, and 5000 eggs will be
brought and distributed throughout
the county for Matching purposes this
spring.
A. F. Wood, of near Maysville, had
fifteen hogs killed by dogs which were
supposed to be in a starving condition.
The carcasses of the hogs were all
partly eaten.
Prof. l.. L. Morgan, principal of the
high school at Moorefield, Nicholas
county, has resigned to take a posi-.
ton with the United States Agricul.
tural Department.
Seventy-nine men of the Pendleton
county selectives did not ask for ex.
emption.
John O'Hara, of Falmouth, was sem
fenced to Jail for nine months and
fined 500 for. shooting his brother,
James O'Hara, with intent to kill.
Following a three days trial of the
will case of Mrs. B. F. Whalley in
the Fleming circuit court, at Elem.
ingsburg, the jury was discharged
when it failed to agree. She had
willed her estate of about $4,000 to her
three brothers, cutting out her two
orphan nieces, Mrs. c. A. Glascock,
Of Flemingsburg, and Mrs. Ida Avery,
who contested the will
AT meeting of hemp growers at
Versailles to complete an organiza-
tion for a centralized sale of the hemp
: crop of Woodford county, reports
showed over 1900 acres signed up.
A white boy about three years old
M dncnrfad of hoo r1i NJ NJ
the corner of Vine and Upper streets,
Lexington, and the police are looking
for man who is said to have left the
child there. The man said he was
from Cleveland, Ohio, and that he was
on his way to Valley View to take the
child to his mother and left the child
at the boarding house.
Warren Dennis, 30, who was appar.
emily permanently injured as the re.
suit of fall eleven years ago, fell on
an icy concrete pavement at George.
town and wrenched back into place
the leg bone which for more than a
decade had caused him to walk ON
crutches or cane. Mr.. Dennis be-
lieves that in falling he threw and
wrenched it back in place. He now
walks without difficulty.
Guy H. Briggs, prominent attor.
ney, of Frankfort, slipped on his door.
step and fell at his home. He cut a
long cash in his scalp and his left leg
was broken just above the ankle.
County agents Of farm extension
work in nine Western Kentucky coun-
ties will convene at Paducah Febru.
airy 81 for three days session. The
purpose of the conference is the dis.
cussion of the agricultural needs of
the counties represented and adop.
ton of plans for the raising of larger
crops next year. The counties to be
represented will be McCracken, Mar.
shall, Galloway, Livingston, Ballard.
Graves, Hickman, Lyon and Carlisle.
A handsome regulation service flag.
commemorative of the members of the
Congregation who are now serving in
the United States army, navy, marines
or other branches was unfurled and
dedicated at the Methodist church at
Hopkinsville. This Is the first service
flag to be displayed by congregation
or public house in Hopkinsville.
The McCracken County Unit of the
Woman's Committee, National De.
tense Council, was organized at a
meeting held at the Woman's Club
building at Paducah, at the direction
of Mrs. Helm Bruce. Of Louisville.
state chairman of the council.
James b. Wood. administrator Of
the estate of Arthur Morton, has filed
suit in the Mason Circuit Court
against the q. f. Hetterick Engineer
ing Co.. of Chattanooga, Tenn, for
$4,000 damages. Morton. who was in
the employ of the company, was
killed.
DR.. Frank L. Mcvey. of the Univer-
sity of Kentucky, has received his ap-
pointment as director for Kentucky Of
the public service reserve. He will
begin his organization work immedi-