The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-01-09

che hour earlier for FIVE days OF the
week and an hour and half earlier
OIL Saturday nights.
Lewis Like, 16 years old, died frosl
injuries received when he was kicked
IN the abdomen by horse. He was
the son of Elijah Like, a farmer, near
Petersburg.
Kentucky went over its allotment BY
subscribing s440,070 toward the war
fund of the Y. NJ. c. A., during the ro-
cent campaign, according to figures
made public at Frankfort.
l.. II. Strum. Rumanian, arraigned
before United States Commissioner U.
G.. Rollins, at Pinevllle, charged with
spreading German. propaganda, was
bound over in $500 bonds to await
the action of the Federal grand jury.
Otto +. Eitel, Of Rewee Valley. flied
complaint with the State Railroad
Commission, Frankfort, charging that
the Louisville G Interurban Company
fails to properly heat the car leaving
Lagrange at $50 o'clock each morning
for Louisville.
A panic was narrowly averted at the
Pastlme Theater, Winchester, when
fire was discovered in the engine room
at the rear of the building.
f. M. Wilburn, an ex-marshal OF
Russell, was instantly killed by fast
train No. while attempting to cross
a crossing with team.
Ollie Holland, 80 years old, a paint
er, and married with six children, was
instantly killed at Maysville by G.
& o. passenger train.
Lewis Harris, arraigned before
County Judge Rice Harris at Maysville
on charge of killing his wife, was
held to await action of the Mason cir.
cult court grand jury without bond.
Jack Rigsby, Of Lamont, was
brought to the Southern Kentucky
Sanatorium at Frankfort for an opera
ton. He was accidentally shot by
companion while bird hunting.
The drug store of Dr.. William d.
Greer at Bowling Green has been sod
by Assignee James H. Barclay to its
former owner, who has taken charge.
Mrs. Rufus Pearson was severely
burned at her home on the Scottsville
pike near Bowling Green She was
standing in front of an open crate
when her dress became ignited. Her
husband secured quilt from the bed
and threw around her after she started
to run and extinguished the flames.
Foreign buyers purchased forty.
three mules on the Franklin market,
paying an average of $235. This was
said by experienced mule dealers to
be the highest general average ever
paid on this market for mules.
George Woods, a negro, was arrast
ed on charge of burning his wife to
death in their home at winchester.
Firemen were driven back by the
flames, and after two hours found the
woman's body charred to a crisp.
Charles Roberts, who says his home
is at Buffalo, N. Y, and who claims to
have lost his registration card, was
taken before the draft board at Lex.
ington on charge of trying to evada
the draft. He was placed in Glass AL
and sent to the city jail to await exam.
nation by physicians.
The steamer Greyhound, valued at
$4,000, went down a few miles east
of the Maysville port following an un.
explained explosion. The stern OF the
steamer is completely submerged.
The Greyhound was the last of the
Captain William May line of river
steamers.
Seek Posting of Rail Schedules.
Those who have in contemplation
the pushing of enactments for the bet
terment of railroad operation IN this
state were glad to note in the Prcsi'
dents proclamation assuming Federal
control of the roads that it is not in.
tended to set aside the re ationsh'p Of
State Railroad Commissions nor to in
terfere with the statutes covering the
roads and their affairs. Among the
measures wanted by the people of
kentucky is one requiring that at Ger
tain. periods before the scheduled. time
for the. arrival ST train at way sta
tion the intelligence official at that sta
tiOh kpoot SOiiCSliy tES Va
minutes that train is late and that he
shall promptly report al subsequent
losses in :ime, until the train shall
have arriSa1.
There is an act ~ force now which
rretends &, provideNthe public with
this information. but II, is vag.e and
1t is without singer. What tho peo-
pie want to know, especially, I'm these
times OF laid OFT trans en- ace2znt OF
the movement OF Government troops,
equipment and freight, is. when they
can get away without the loss of VAIL
liable time in waiting staticns.
II the station officials were l.9. re.
,!cbly informed by the comp2nys opsr.
at.ng department and were compile ed
to give that information 10 the pub, &c
promptly the prodnct,veness Of every
community in sAe commonwealth
would be greater.
The time ccnsrmed and temper
aEaSssd IN Kentucky because Of inabIi-
fly to know approximately when one