Bedford (IN) Weekly Mail, December 30, 1898, p. 3. The Monon Company will replace the old bridge over Salt Creek with a new steel structure that will be erected within the next 60 days. It will be 136 feet in length and, according to Road Master Cornwell, the best bridge on the entire road.

Bedford (IN) Weekly Mail, December 30, 1898, p. 3. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fillion left at noon Tuesday for Louisville to attend the funeral of Mrs. Fillion's mother.

Bedford (IN) Weekly Mail, December 30, 1898, p. 3. The funeral of James Thompson, formerly Superintendent of the Bedford Telephone Company who died at Mitchell Saturday morning of typhoid fever, took place from St. Paul's Church at Jeffersonville Sunday afternoon at three o'clock.

Seymour (IN) Daily Republican, January 5, 1898, p. 3. DIED Mrs. Sarah Henderson was last night called to Indianapolis by the death of her brother-in-law, William Sturnes who died at one o'clock Tuesday afternoon, January 4, 1898, with brain fever, aged 30 years. Deceased was well known in Seymour.

Clay City Enterprise, Brazil, Indiana, June 6, 1888, p. 2. James Blair tried to refute the theory of gravitation at Seymour. His bees swarmed on a limb of an apple tree to which he ascended. He sawed it off and now lies in critical condition.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Telephone, January 26, 1934, p. 1. WIFE CHARGES HUBBY DRINKS; VISE VERSA A suit for divorce, filed by Lorita B. Blish against Meedy S. Blish, prominent Seymour residents, has been sent to this county for trail on a change of venue from Jackson circuit court. The plaintiff asks alimony of $10,000 and seeks the restoration of her former name, Lorita Bollinger. The defendant has filed a cross complaint. In the divorce action, Mrs. Blish charges her husband with being a habitual drunkard in the habit of becoming intoxicated daily, and alleged that he struck her at one time injuring her spine. She claims that she suffered a nervous breakdown and was sent to Cleveland, O., by her physician, and that during her stay there, the plaintiff failed to pay any attention to her. In his cross complaint, Blish charges that his wife was in the habit of becoming intoxicated and that she lived extravagantly causing him to accumulated debts. The couple has been married and divorced before, and it is set out in the complaints that Blish still owes a balance of $3,384.25 to the Jackson County Loan and Trust Company on money he borrowed to pay his wife alimony in 1924. The second marriage was May 29, 1932, and the separation July 27, 1927, 1932. Mrs. Blish is represented by Attorney Thomas H. Branaman and Blish by Edward P. Eisner.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Courier, May 5, 1911, p. 3. GIRL ESCAPES FROM GYPSY CAMP "Save me from them people," said a 16-year-old girl to Chief of Police Cooper at Columbus, Indiana, on entering police headquarters yesterday. The girl said she had escaped from a band of gypsies at Seymour, with whom she had been since her babyhood, and that the gypsies beat her and compelled her to steal. She said her name was Jessie Mayes, but that the gypsies had given her their name. She said she had no knowledge of her parents or of their whereabouts. An effort is being made to find a home for the girl.

Indianapolis (IN) Sentinel, September 20, 1880, p. 3. NEWAY ITEMS FROM SEYMOUR Special to the Sentinel: Seymour, Indiana, September 18-Thomas J. Conner, the Republican candidate for sheriff of this county, is lying in a critical condition at his residence, four miles west of here, with diphtheria. His recovery is quite doubtful.

Elkhart (IN) Daily Review, August 26, 1893, p. 1. WHITECAP EXPOSE How the Harrison County Gangs Were Organized Sworn at the Muzzle of a Gun The Oath the Members Took-Bound to Get on a Jury When a Brother Was the Defendant-A Circuit Judge a Member Indianapolis, August 26-A Corydon, Indiana, correspondent sends the following history of the whitecap organization: "It is a well known fact that every township in Harrison County had an organized band of whitecaps a few years ago, but at this time there is but one 'lodge' or 'band,' and it holds regular meetings at a point about six miles south of Corydon. The organization is going to pieces because of the public sentiment that is growing in the county against whitecap methods. Three years ago there was a county organization of whitecaps, and there was a 'chairman' and 'secretary' of the society. All the thirteen townships had organization, and each of these had a "chairman' and "secretary.' County assemblies were held and delegates were sent from the different organizations. Meetings were held in 'sinkholes' in the forest and sentinels were stationed to protect the meeting from intrusion. "Signs, grips and passwords were used just as in other secret societies. The obligation was a most binding one. The candidate was required to get down on his knees and look into the muzzle of a gun while he took the oath. He did not obligate himself to go on any raids, as that was to be done voluntarily, but if he did go, he obligated himself to obey all commands of the captain. Furthermore, he pledged himself to give such assistance as he could to his brother, if he should ever be arrested; to go to the place of trial and get on the jury, if possible. One of the laws was that if a whitecap should be wounded while on a raid he should be shot by his associates. 'Dead men tell no tales' was their password for a long time. "About fourteen years ago an eminent citizen was 'chairman' of the count organization of whitecaps. He was no less a personage than the judge of the Harrison circuit court, if the statements of certain whitecaps be true. The judge is now dead, but his memory is cherished by his former associates. Just how the whitecap organization came into existence no one seems to know. It has been fully forty years since the first case of whitecapping was reported At that time they called themselves 'paderoles' or 'patrols,' and thus it seems that the idea came from the south where 'paderoling' or 'patrolling' was practiced in the days of slavery.

St. Louis (MO) Republic, June 30, 1898, p. 4. FATAL INDIANA DUEL Republic Special Jeffersonville, Indiana, June 29-As the result of a long-standing feud, Amos Lynch and Floyd Della fought a duel in the highway near Corydon, Indiana, today and Della was fatally wounded.

Elkhart (IN) Daily Review, July 12, 1907, p. 7. TOOK HIS FRIEND FOR A SQUIRREL Corydon, Indiana, July 12-Emmet Reagan and Earl Stromire, while hunting in the woods, became separated, and Stromire, mistaking Reagan's head for a squirrel as he caught a glimpse of it through the bushes, fired a load of shot. The charge struck Reagan in the back of the head and neck. Reagan is severely wounded but will recover.

Rockford (IL) Daily Register, June 2, 1887, p. 2. NOTE: This type of event is commonly called a whitecapping. "KNIGHTS OF THE SWITCH" Corydon, Indiana, June 2-[Special]-Shortly after midnight last night a body of masked men known as the "Knights of the Switch" rode up to the house of a family named Lynch living seven miles west of here, and taking Mrs. Lynch and her daughter, Mary, into the yard, stripped them to the waist and whipped them with switches till they fainted from pain. Mr. Lynch was compelled at the point of a revolver to witness the chastisement. The women bear a bad reputation.

Springfield (IL) Daily State Register, February 5, 1909, p. 6. MANY HURT IN TRAIN WRECK Passenger Train Goes into Ditch in Indiana Fifteen Passengers Seriously Injured in Wreck Caused by Broken Rail Louisville, Ky., January 28-Fifteen persons were seriously injured and a score of other passengers more or less bruised by the derailment of a portion of train No. 9 on the Southern Railway bound from Evansville, Ind., to Louisville. The accident was caused by a broken rail. Pierce Waltz of Milltown, Indiana, is believed to be fatally injured. The other injured are: L. M. O'Bannon, editor Democrat, Corydon, Indiana; E. E. Kunkel, Detroit; Jesse B. Harmon, Georgetown, Indiana; Louis Jones and wife, Marengo, Indiana; C. C. Adams, Corydon, Indiana; N. S. Hendricks, Indianapolis, Indiana; Benjamin Heinkebin, New Albany, Indiana; Jesse Jones, Valley City, Indiana, C. M. Rosenberger, New Albany.

Springfield Republican, December 25, 1883, p. 5. FROM THE WEST A Serious Railroad Accident Near Salem, Indiana The bridge over Blue River on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad about a mile and a half south of Salem, Indiana was undermined by the water yesterday and a southbound passenger train went down with it. Baggage master Charles Sanford of New Albany, Indiana, and Rev. Jacob Helfrich, 70, of New Albany, were killed and several other passengers are missing and believed to be dead. John Vaughn, the engineer of New Albany, the fireman and eight others were hurt. The train was running at the rate of 40 miles an hour when it reached the bridge. The locomotive crossed safely, but the baggage and mail car, the express car and the smoking car, plunged into the stream. The women's and buffet car remains on the track. The portion of the train not submerged caught fire and in less than half an hour the whole train was consumed. Engineer Vaughn was so seriously hurt that he cannot live. Rough, the fireman, was slightly hurt. Baggage master Sanford was wedged into his car by the baggage and drowned. Rev. Jacob Helfrich was burned to death. A passenger from Quincy, Ill., who got on at Salem, and two from Chicago who were going to Louisville to work at street paving, are among the missing. Four unrecognizable bodies have been taken from the wreck. The wounded were taken to hotels. Their names could not be learned. Two others are believed to be fatally hurt. The loss to the company is estimated at $35,000.

Crawford County (IN) Democrat, February 9, 1899. Jacob Schwartz, 54, New Albany, crazed b grip, almost cut his head off with a razor Tuesday and was dead before his wife reached him.

Crawford County (IN) Democrat, January 5, 1899. New Albany Special: Jack Williams, a well known young man, dropped dead Sunday morning in the yard in the rear of Bloss's Saloon on the Corydon Pike. Coroner Starr decided that death resulted from heart disease. Williams was a dwarf. He was four feet six inches tall and weighed 200 pounds.

New Albany (Indiana) Daily Ledger, July 20, 1911. Frank Dougherty, 612 West Seventh Street, while at work in the Paul Reising (difficult to read) Bottling establishment, severed an artery by cutting it accidentally with a broken bottle.

New Albany (Indiana) Daily Ledger, July 20, 1911. Neely Sutherland died Wednesday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Clara Smith at Six Mile Switch, aged 81 years. He was a member of the U. P. Church.

Rockford (IL) Republic, January 14, 1897, p. 2. APPLE BRANDY MONUMENT Glass Barrel for a Hoosier's Grave to Be Refilled Twice a Year English, Indiana, January 14-The will of J. C. T. Sloan, an eccentric character, was offered for probate today. One of his queer bequests was $2,000 to be so invested that the interest should pay for a glass barrel in which his name is to be blown, the barrel to be filled with the best apple brandy and set upon his grave as his only gravestone. It is to be filled twice a year on the fourth of July and on Christmas.

Jackson (MICH) Citizen Patriot, January 9, 1900, p. 7. FOUND $2,000 IN AN OLD BOOK John B. Pankey, manager of the English Hotel at English, Indiana, while looking through the wareroom of the hotel Saturday, found a book with the name of Philip McDonough of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. written on the flyleaf. Between the leaves of the book were four $100 bills, one $500 bill and two $1,000 bills making a total of $2,900. The book is entitled "Protestantism and Catholicity Compared in Their Effects on the Civilization of Europe." Mr. Pankey has no idea how the book came to be in the wareroom of the hostelry nor does he recall ever having had a guest by the name of McDonnough (sic) at his hotel.