The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-03-20

Edmonton.-County Health Omcer
John A. Yates has been appointed to
the local draft board to succeed DR..
Phil d. Harvey, resigned, to accept a
commission in the army.
Pikeville.-G. G. Daniels pleaded
guilty in circuit court to a charge Of
making a false certificate as deputy
clerk to a deed and was sentenced to
i've years Imprisonment.
Flemingsburg.-H. L. Whaley, OF
this city, has been noticing bees going
In and out of the cornice of his house.
One day recently he examined the cor
nice and took six gallons Of honey
from II.
Olive Hill-Arvel Wilson, a brick
mason, of this place, shot and in
stantly killed his wife here and then
himself twice in the left lung. Little
hope is entertained for his recovery.
Maysville.-William s. Hertig, ar
raigned on a charge of cutting w. c.
Powell, waived examining trial and
was bound over to the Mason grand
Jury in bonds OF $500. The ARRAY is
alleged to have occurred on a railroad
caboose.
Observation-Disclosures Sergeant Da-
vid Scanlon, member of the Louisville
police force for the past 10 years, shot
himself through the head at his home
recently. He died a few hours later.
Scanlon had grown respondent, mem
bers of his family say.
Carlisle-Several shots struck
Chief of Police Leonard Howard and
one shot went entirely through the
hat Of James w. Myers, sheriff Of
Nicholas county, when they were shot
at by man they were attempting to
place under arrest near here.
Hickman.-The Rev. w. F.. Renne-
berg, rector of the Episcopal church
here, who has been chief clerk of the
Local Exemption Board, has resigned.
Mrs. T. r. Powell, clerk in the County
Judges office, who has been acting as
second clerk on the board, has taken
his place.
Winchester.-Suit ordered filed by
the city attorney, F. H. Haggard,
against the Cumberland Telephone
and Telegraph Company of this city
for forfeit of franchise because of in
efficient service, was ordered held up
at the council meeting pending work
being done on the company's lines at
present.
Paducah.-Federal authorities are
investigating an alleged pro-German
propaganda in McCracken county to
discourage girls canning clubs, the
scheme being unearthed by Mrs. Edgar
Lyle, home demonstration for the coun-
ty. Mrs. Lyle reported she had trou-
BILE securing members for clubs and
made an investigation.
Louisville.-For the second time
within a week two men, armed with
revolvers, have robbed a Louisville
woman of a wealth of hair by cutting
it off under threat of killing them IL
they made an cutlery. The last victim
of these hair clippers is Mrs. A. c.
Edmonson, who was attacked when in
the yard of her home late at night.
New Castle.-Mrs. Nancy G.. Young,
who is nearly ninety-two years of age
ry county, but who was with her grand
daughter. Mrs. N. d. Avis, in Louis
vile, during the past winter, has knit
ted twenty-five pairs of socks for the
Red Cross this winter, besides more
than that number of wristlets, and Is
still knitting for the boys at the front.
Paris.-A threatened raise of 38 per
cent in the taxable valuation of Bour-
bon county property caused the mer-
chants of Paris and the farmers of the
county to meet at the court house to
enter vigorous protest A resolution
was adopted to send a committee to
Frankfort to notify the state authori-
ties that Bourbon county land was al
ready the highest taxed soil in the
state.
Glasgow.-At a meeting of the City
Council, the local Board of Health,
and the State Board of Health, repre-
scented by DR.. Lillian South, held here,
it has been ordered that, effective at