The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-03-06

' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS was received
here Of the suicide OF q. Driscoll at
Blandenville, Ind. He was former
resident of this county, and about As
years old.
Harrodsburg-A number of citizens
here have organized Liberty Service
League, the purpose of which Is to
encourage patriotism and suppress any
seditious talk or act.
Somerset-Henry Clay Anderson,
who vacated the Office of Superintend-
ent of Schools of Pulaski county the
first of the year, committed suicide
here by shooting himself in the right
temple.
Frankfort.-Mrs. Cora Wilson Stew
art, chairman of the State Illiteracy
Commission, has been called by the
Federal Government to inaugurate a
campaign to wipe illiteracy from the
army and navy.
Clay.-Arrests are expected follow
ing a factional gun fight in which
Frank Beadler was shot to death.
Twenty shots we're fired at Beadler
from behind railroad cars, nine Of
which riddled his body.
Georgetown.-Fire of unknown or
fa;,. tAk I'D OF
barn of Senator John Ford, near
Georgetown. A horse valued at about
5000, with two buggies and between
5000 and 1000 pounds OF tobacco, were
destroyed. The barn was valued at
about $1,000.
Paris.-A patient in the Massie Me-
mortal Hospital here, who was oper-
ated on for appendicitis, was discov-
cred to be suffering from a well-devel-
oped case of smallpox. The patient
was at once removed to a small out
building on the grounds and the hos
pital was quarantined
Observation-Disclosures Black, a coal
miner, was arrested on a warrant
charging him with attempting to kill
his wife and her father, Elijah Ride
out. He was taken in custody six
hours after he is alleged to have made
his appearance at the Rideout home,
when it is claimed he shot Rideout
and his wife with shot gun.
Winchester.-Willis Cason, the
hero" in an amateur negro show at
Will Price, who was in the audience.
The actor" was using supposed
blank cartridge, but a loaded one had
been accidentally put in the pistol.
The shot went wild and struck Rice
in the temple.
Mt. Sterling.-Fire, originating in
the basement of the Traders National
Bank Building, Quilted the interior of
the bank and destroyed the barber
shop of G. B. Turner, in the basement.
The law offices of w. c. Hamilton and
R. G. Kern were damaged by smoke.
The loss is estimated at $4,000. Tur-
ner's loss is total.
Bowling Green.-W. S. Taylor, of
Bowling Green, has been elected pro-
fessor of agricultural education at
Cornell university. He is a graduate
Of
school, the University of Kentucky
and the University of Wisconsin and
took a postgraduate course at Teach
ers' college, Columbia university.
Hartford-Jake Smith, of near Davi-
sons Station, recently captured two
gray foxes with a trap made of woven
wire set at the mouth of their den.
traps, but finally succeeded in making
the capture with a trap of his own
make. They were very fine specimens,
measuring three feet four inches in
length.
FRANKLIN. ii. CovingtOn, Director
Of the War Savings Stamp selling cam
paign in this country enlisted the in
terest and aid of the two literary SO.
cieties of the Franklin High School,
Reports submitted show that the
Woodrow Wilson Society sold stamps
to the amount of $500, while the ].
V. Chapman Society reported sales
amounting to $4,000.
ovington.-Dragged a hundred feet
by motorcycle before machine was
stopped, Miss Margie Slaughter, 10
years old, suffered injuries which
caused her death. Miss Slaughter was
on the seat behind the young man
who was driving the motorcycle. Her
coat caught in the sprocket OF the mo-
torcycle, which was going 20 miles
an hour, and she was jerked from the
seat,