The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-03-13

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past year.
opkinsville.-Clyde McNeally, Is
years old, was crushed to death when
caught beneath shifting slate in the
Warrington mine near here. His ga
Their was an eyewitness to the tragic
death.
bourville.-Domestic and manual
training and farm demonstration work
will be added to the course of the Bar
bourville high school. Kindergarten,
music and art departments were added
the past year.
Somerset.-George James Sallee
and Mac Woods were painfully
burned about the face and hands
while playing with a railroad fuse.
They had ignited it and in some man.
ner sparks flew into an oil can near
and the can exploded.
Lexington.-Lillian WILDER, IL years
old, of Carlisle county, was entered at
the Greendale Reform School to re-
main until February, 1922, when she
is to be transferred to the Frankfort
penitentiary to serve the remainder of
her seven-year sentence for Staying
her father.
Bardwell.--Miss Lillian Wilmouth
was given seven years in state prison
for the murder of her father, James
Wilmouth, a farmer of this county.
before returning the verdict. Miss
Wilmouth pleaded insanity as the
cause of her act.
Louisville-Albert F. St., Clair,
mail clerk of Lexington, was held to
the Federal grand jury under $1,000
bond. The evidence is said by officials
to show that while he did not take
money from decoy letter he secreted
the letter in a car on which he would
have gone out the next afternoon.
Bowling Green.-The police depart
ment has been requested to search for
Epherage Campbell, 10 years old, from
Newbern, Livingston county, student
at the Western Kentucky State Nor
NAL, who has been missing from his
rooms for some time. He left his
rooms telling his roommate he was CO.
ing to a picture show with a young
woman.
Professionalism of a sensation
has developed here over the DISPOSE
ton of an alleged surplus of $1,000 in
the Bourbon county school fund.
County Superintendent of Schools ].
B. Caywood, who assumed the Office
last January, called upon the County
Board of Education at its meeting to
account for the surplus, saying he was
unable to find it.
Lexington.-A. S. Chaplin, poultry
expert at the Experiment Station, has,
according to announcement made re-
Gently, devised way to make hens
lay colored eggs for Easter He feeds
them certain dyes which are harmless,
and when the eggs are boiled the col
ors are brought out to the SHE'LL
Chickens Matched from these eggs
have colored feathers.
Maysville.-Isaac Martin, 35 years
old, living at Cottageville, KY, fifteen
miles above here, was drowned when
he attempted to ford Sycamore Creek,
near Concord. He was riding his
horse and when he got amid stream
the current was so swift that 1t car
ried the horse down. He was heard
screaming for help. Farmers nearby
tried to help him, but not before he
was drowned.
Paducah.-May Draper, a young
woman living at Fancy Farm, was
brought to the city the second time for
an examination in an effort to locate
a persimmon seed that is lodged in
her throat. Two months ago surgeons
attempted to extract the seed, but were
unable to do so. Since then she has
been subject to violent exhaustive fits
of coughing as result of the irrita- |
tion caused by the foreign matter.
Winchester.-Mrs. j. w. Adams,
who lives on the Muddy Creek pike. is
alarmed over the disappearance of her
husband. ]. w. Adams, who left home
several weeks ago and has not been
heard from since. Mr.. Adams was to
go to Bourbon county in regard to a
land trade and left in the best of hu.
NOR with the expectation of returning
In few days at the latest. They fear
he may have met with some accident.
Whitesburg.-James G. Crockett, O
coal operator Of Graham, Va, was ar.
rested in this county by Sheriff James
rolliver, charged with shooting and
seriously wounding John Baker. an L.
& N. brakeman, at Ulvah. Crockett
was bound over to await action OF the
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