Council Grove (KS) Republican, April 12, 1879, p. 1. John Conover and Frank Stewart were killed and Jake Corbin dangerously injured by the explosion of a sawmill boiler at Jeffersonville, Ind., on the 4th.

Kinsley (KS) Valley Republican, October 4, 1879, p. 4. At Jeffersonville, Ind., on Monday, Allen Barnett, one of the wealthiest farmers of Clark County, was kicked to death by a mule.

Janesville (WI) Daily Gazette, January 21, 1876, p. 1. Jeffersonville, Ind., Jan. 21-The Southwestern Car Company of this city filed its petition in bankruptcy last evening. Those connected with the company claim the assets will more than cover all liabilities.

Indianapolis (IN) News, March 11, 1904, p.15. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. .The Republicans are for Roosevelt for president and Democrats say he, Roosevelt, is a better Democrat than Cleveland. For governor, the Republicans favor William L. Taylor, and for Congress, they are for Anderson Percifield, good and strong, and express the hope that Percifield will come nearer carrying Brown County and the fourth district than any Republican candidate ever nominated. Mr. Percifield is a native of Brown County and is a self-made man having obtained his education by hard study in the log schoolhouses of Brown County and in the State University. He has a strong following in Brown County, and since he left the Democratic Party a few years ago, he has, by his influence among Democrats, succeeded in cutting down the Democratic majority. The old Democratic leaders of Brown County have passed away. W. G. Watson, Josh Metheny, Thomas J. Taggart, Samuel Webber and others have crossed the river. Their successors may be able to tread in the footsteps of their preceptors, but to date the Republicans seem to have profited by the change in Democratic leaders. The Republicans are still under the lead of the old veterans, Joseph Young, Richard Phillips, George C. Barrick and the later recruits-George W. Allison, Anderson Percifield and James M. Yoder, county chairman, the machinery being in the hands of the juveniles but apparently judiciously directed. The Prohibition leaders are F. P. Taggart, T. D. Calvin and George N. Turner. Brown County will be a red-hot political community this year.

Indianapolis (IN) Star, April 14, 1915, p. 9. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spaulding Ground announce the marriage of their daughter, Jessie Ann, and Allen Percifield, son of Mrs. Katherine Percifield of Nashville. The marriage was celebrated in Nashville, Saturday, April 10.

Indianapolis (IN) News, September 24, 1872, p. 4. Sampson P. Percifield and Joseph Followell, drunk, had a quarrel near Nashville, Brown County, in which the latter had his skull fractured. He afterwards died and Percifield fled.

Herbert Skirvin, "Fire Murder Becomes Super-Mystery," Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Star, March 20, 1931, p. 1. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. What is the solution of Brown County's strange murder mystery? This famous beauty spot of Indiana.is now agog over a murder mystery that may possibly rank as one of the most baffling crimes in the history of Indiana. >From the time that Chester Bunge, farm hand, ran to a neighbor crying that he had been shot and that Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brown, his employers, had been killed by their son, Paul, and left to burn in flames enveloping their isolated farm home, developments in the case have been as sensational as they have been varied.

Elkhart (IN) Weekly Review, September 10, 1902, p. 1. Nashville-George White, who has been in Alaska sixteen years, has returned home a rich man.

Indianapolis (IN) News, August 22, 1901, p. 9. Columbus-An attempt to investigate charges of disorderly conduct against H. C. Hoffman, Frank Hoffman and Roger Dixon of the police force has caused a warm discussion among the city authorities, the mayor taking the sides of the three men. The police board is said to be making an investigation but refuses a statement. The three officers are charged with misconduct while on a trip to Elizabethtown to arrest a fish dynamiter, to which they enter an energetic denial.

New Orleans (LA) Times-Picayune, September 16, 1851, p. 2. NOTE: In 1850, Drucella Owens, age 26, was enumerated with John Owens, age 28, who is probably her husband, and four children aged 5 and under in Flatrock, Bartholomew County, Indiana. Attempted Murder-We learn from the New Albany Bulletin of the 5th inst., that Mrs. Drusilla Owen (sic) of Rock Creek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana, attempted to murder her husband a few days before by pouring molten lead in one of his ears while he slept. Mr. Owen awoke before his wife had succeeded in getting the lead in his ear. She was arrested.

New Orleans (LA) Times-Picayune, January 28, 1850, p. 2. Another quite destructive fire occurred at Columbus, Indiana, recently. A row of buildings consisting of Dr. Rice's office, Stephens's house and bakery, an old stone house lately occupied by Tandler & Lehanan, etc., were destroyed. The goods were all saved. Probably loss on buildings $1,500.

Baltimore (MD) Sun, May 20, 1857, p. 2. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE Madison, Ind., May 18-A fire broke out this morning at Columbus, Indiana, about daylight, in a stable near Simm's Hotel, destroying the hotel, a shoe store, hardware store, milliner shop and a cigar store adjoining. The fire is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The loss is about $7,000 or $8,000; insurance small.

Fremont (OH) Weekly Journal, December 12, 1856, p. 2. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. At the railroad collision in Alliance last evening, one of the passenger cars was thrown into the rotunda of the depot and another into the sitting room of Sourbeck's Hotel in which several persons were sitting. Both these rooms were torn to pieces and the inmates either killed or wounded.Among the wounded are.Anna Armour, Columbus, Indiana.

Salem (IN) Democrat, September 13, 1907, p. 3. Tom Cavanaugh has accepted a position in the Salem graded school and commenced his work last Monday.

Salem (IN) Democrat, September 13, 1907, p. 3. Carl Colglazier returned last week from the west where he has been employed at various things. During his absence he visited Colorado, Nebraska and Montana, and while in Montana he was the guest of William Cauble, formerly of this place but for the past sixteen years a resident of Montana.

Salem (IN) Democrat, September 13, 1907, p. 3. Christopher Cauble left Saturday morning to take charge of his school near Indianapolis.

Salem (IN) Democrat, September 13, 1907, p. 3. FARABEE Pink Hatton left last Friday for Lafayette where he has a position in a Monon round house, he expects to be on the road as a fireman soon.

Salem (IN) Democrat, September 13, 1907, p. 3. HIGHLAND Charles and Burt Fleenor and Jesse Mabbitt left for North Dakota Tuesday to work through the threshing season.

MEDIA RELEASE >From Susan Covey SIGS Publicity Chair 502-456-5322 SOUTHERN INDIANA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY TO PRESENT “MARCH FROM THE SEA” Historian and author Gregg Seidl will present "The March from the Sea: The Civil War Diary of Robert Armstrong” at the September 4 program of the Southern Indiana Genealogical Society. Sgt. Armstrong of Fredericksburg, (Washington County), Indiana, kept a journal while serving in the 66th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, during Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s Carolina Campaign. His diary gives an excellent account of the daily life of a Hoosier soldier in the United States Army during the Civil War. Program time is 7 PM in the Strassweg Auditorium of the New Albany-Floyd County Library, 180 W. Spring St., New Albany, Indiana. Please visit http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~insigs/nextmeet.htm for more information.

Topeka (KS) Daily Capital, August 7, 1885, p. 1. MURDERED Scottsburg, Ind., August 6-Early yesterday morning John C. Brady was murdered in his house by an unknown burglar who escaped.