The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-01-02
-tHAPPENINGs FROM THROUGH
OUT KENTUCKY CONDENSED
AND TERsELY TOLD.
ALLEGED MURDERER ESCAPES
Teamster at BarbourviIIe Meets Mys-
FERROUS Death-SoIdier at Camp Tay.
Ior, DeIirious From Pneumonia
SIashes Throat.

ster, was mysteriously killed near the
L. & N. railroad tracks. Section men
found his body terribly mangled, one
leg and one arm being severed. The
young man was driving team, which
was found hitched to a tree a short
distance away. 1t is said that some
shots we're heard in the neighborhood,
but little attention was paid to them
The body bears no evidence of foul
play, but officers are investigating.
RUDE Wooten, held at Hazard for the
alleged murder of John Baker, escaped
from jail by saving the bars. = He
probably rode freight train out Of the
local yards north. Baker, cripple
was found in the Combs cemetery ter
ribly beaten and cut. Wooten was held
at Whitesburg until recently.
With the hearts of thousands of SOL
der lads gladdened by the Christmas
festivty. a pail of gloom was thrown
oyer Camp Taylor when it became
known that a soldier had died from a
gunshot wound. He was Private An
ton Sirson, Co. E, 46th United States
NcSuldT llluHtly, anu IL ID DctiC'Cu
he killed himself on account of not
being able to obtain a Christmas fur
Tough.
The newly-elected County Commits.
sioners of Daviess county, who have
entered upon the discharge of their
duties, have received from the Secre-
tary of State their commissions to
hold Office The board will be COM
1fposed of Walter s. Wilson, w. G.
Riney and w. N Horn, and will sue.
coed the present Fiscal Court, com
posed of the County Judge and eight
Magistrates.
C. NJ. Moseley, of Bremen. Mullen
berg county, was shetland probably
fatally wounded The shooting Is said
to have followed a quarrel over a card
game. Moseley was Daviess county
boy, married, and the father of three
children.
Closing his books for the year, Rod
man Keenon, Clerk of the Court of APP
peals, Frankfort, announced that he
has turned into the State Treasury
after paying the expenses of the Office,
$1O,450, and $4,000 into the library
fund.
Delirious from pneumonia, Robert
Snediger, a soldier from Greensboro,
slashed his throat at Camp Taylor.
Prof. Lloyd L. Martin, principal of
<the Turner's Station graded and high
school, has resigned to enter the navy
J. Mel Morris, assistant cashier of the
Deposit Bank of Sulphur, enlisted in
the quartermaster's department at Fl.
Thomas.
More than 5000 members have been.
secured in Daviess county for the Red
Cross. The quota for Daviess county,
with poulation of $4,000, was 9,10O
It is believed by the campaign man.
ager, the Rev. M. G.. Buckner, that
10000 members will be secured by the
close of the campaign.
Clarence Chumley shot and killed
Jess Estes, at Harlan. Estes recently
killed Chumley's father over labor
dispute. The fight took place in the
Palace barber shop after few words
were exchanged. The first shot took
effect in Estes head.
Gov. Stanley has commissioned J..
o. Wilson, j. r. Tolliver and w. l..
Powers, Of Ashland. railway policemen
for the Chesapeake & Ohio railway.
DIR. Lewie South, who has been con-
fined in jail at Frankfort since early in
September, awaiting the action of the
United States Court upon an indict-
ment charging him with using the
mails to defraud, has been released.
BY order of Judge A. M. Cochran he
was permitted to execute his own
recognizance to appear here at the
March term of the court. South's
home Is at Waterloo, Oregon.
The telephone franchise offered for
sale by the city of Versailles was pur-
Combs. president Of the Fayette Home
Telephone Co., at the upset price of
1900.
The State Railroad Commission will
investigate the Louisville & Nashville
railroad collision at Shepherdsville at
q meeting In Louisville. The report
of the wreck was received at Frank
fort and Immediately arrangements
for the investigation were arranged by
Lawrence Finn, chairman of the COM
mission.
County Judge w. H. Rice, of Mays
vile, appointed his brother. J. T. Rice,
as oil Inspector for Mason county to
succeed John G. Everett. who resigned
because of Ill health.
A city directory. just completed.
gives greensboro population of H.
500. The Federal census of 1910 gave
Greensboro 5000 Inhabitants. The
last two years have seen great in
crease in the population of greensboro
!. The bank clearings for Greensboro re-
keently totaled $1.412.745.64. the largest
In the history of Greensboro Clearing
House Association.
The two-story residence of Prof
william J. Craig. q teacher In the
state Normal School at Bowling Green.
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