Paoli (IN) Republican, February 17, 1915, p. 8. G. D. Cole, a former Orange County boy now living on a farm near Glidden Iowa, writes to take advantage of one of our magazine clubbing offers. Dave says they have had lots of cold weather there this winter but says they like it out there very much and says it is a great farming country. He says that besides doing a lot of tilling and fence building after he got there last spring, they broke and planted 400 acres of corn, cut 660 acres of wheat on the farm, harvesting 15,500 bushels of wheat and 20,000 bushels of corn. They use two gasoline tractors on that farm and last fall sowed 435 acres of wheat and expect to plant from 450 to 500 acres of corn this spring.
Columbus (IN) Daily Herald, October 11, 1897, p. 2. A BIG FIRE SUNDAY NIGHT AT FRENCH LICK C. W. Adams received a telegram from his brother, Charley, today from French Lick Springs stating that the large hotel at the Springs burned down last night. Charley was in the hotel but escaped uninjured. The hotel had been built just one year (ago).
Paoli (IN) Republican, February 24, 1915, p. 8. State vs. Noble Stine. A & B with intent to kill. The prosecuting attorney moves the court to be permitted to dismiss the intent charge from the affidavit which is done. Defendant enters a plea of guilty to the charge of assault and battery, and a fine of $10 is assessed by the court.
Paoli (IN) Republican, February 24, 1915, p. 8. State vs. Lewis Smith. Failing to provide for child. Finding of court on evidence introduced heretofore that defendant is guilty as charged and ought to be confined in the county jail for three months. Defendant executes bond in the sum of $200 conditioned that he will pay into court for the benefit of said child $2 per week and sentence is suspended.
Chicago (IL) Day Book, May 20, 1913, p. 25. Bedford, Ind.-Thomas Hill fell from second story of National Bank Building when scaffold broke. Fatally injured. Brother fell on top of him and saved himself.
Chicago (IL) Day Book, September 18,1912, p. 26. Bedford, Ind.-Mrs. Maude Ping, charged with having shot and killed husband, James Ping, indicted by grand jury.
Chicago (IL) Day Book, July 10, 1912, p. 7. Bedford, Ind.-Vess Stout drowned in White River while moving machinery forms that had been washed away by recent rains.
Chicago (IN) Day Book, April 27, 1913, p. 30. James Ping, Bedford, Ind., died today from revolver wound inflicted by wife after she found another woman's letters in his pocket. She also shot herself. May die.
Chicago (IL) Day Book, March 29, 1913, final edition, p. 30. NOTE: Only the information for Bedford is noted below. STORM BRIEFS FROM ALL SECTIONS Lawrence County and Bedford, Indiana-15 dead.
Indiana State Sentinel, October 10, 1883. CONFESSED Seymour, Ind., October 9-Billy McBride and John Fay, the two men arrested yesterday for burglarizing the post office and robbing Hon. A. P. Charles' residence, were taken before Justice R. F. Everhart last night for a preliminary hearing. McBride at once confessed his guilty, but Fay protested his innocence until the trial was commenced when he, too, made a clean breast and told just how the robberies were committed and where the stolen goods were concealed, all of which were found except Mr. Charles' jewelry which they said they sold to a man at Cincinnati for $600. They were recognized to the circuit court in bonds for $1,000 each.
Saturday Evening Mail, Terre Haute, Indiana, January 21, 1882. Ella Tunney ran heedless into debt for fine clothes at Seymour, Indiana, and then committed suicide because she could not pay.
Saturday Evening Mail, Terre Haute, Indiana, March 27, 1880. NOTE: According to a digital image of the marriage record available in Indiana Marriages 1811-2007 at FamilySearch, Harry Deputy (variously indexed as Henry Deputy) married Nettie Roseberry on March 8, 1880, in Jackson County, Indiana. In the 1880 census record, Harvey (sic) and Nettie Deputy, ages 20 and 18, respectively, were enumerated together in Seymour, Jackson County, Indiana. Miss Roseberry wanted to marry Mr. Deputy at Seymour, Indiana, but her father commanded her to marry Mr. Bowers and appointed a day for the wedding. On the evening before she secretly became Mrs. Deputy. She was on hand for the other ceremony, however, and it proceeded smoothly as far as the question whether anybody objected, when Mr. Deputy remarked that he had an objection-a trifling one that he felt some reluctance about mentioning-the lady was his life.
Terre Haute (IN) Daily Gazette, July 6, 1872. Seymour, Ind., July 5-Last night, while the Germans were preparing for a private theatrical entertainment, a gasoline lamp was upset upon the stage and three girls from ten to fourteen years old, were burned so badly that they all died during the night. One of the girls was a daughter of Christ Klippel, a grocer; the other two of Mrs. Henser and Mrs. Laufrus, both widow ladies of this place. Several other young girls were slightly burned, and one man, Mr. Frederick, very severely.
Marshall County Republican, Plymouth, Indiana, July 23, 1868. In 1860, there was one Hare family living in Jackson County. William Hare, age 44 and a native of New York, was enumerated head of household in Old Rockford Twp., Jackson County, Indiana. He was identified as a fisherman with real estate valued at $100 and personal property valued at $50. Vigilance committees are engaged in clearing the scoundrels from the vicinity of Seymour, Ind. They hung a man named Hare to extort information regarding the rascals and came near carrying the joke too far as he was nearly dead when cut down.
New Albany (IN) Evening Tribune, October 21, 1895, p. 5. MET HIS DEATH In a Disreputable Resort in Louisville-Matthew Brown's Untimely End Matthew Brown, a white man said to reside at Corydon or Borden, Indiana, died last Thursday morning in Prudy Weather's colored assignation house between Ninth and Tenth and Grayson and Walnut streets, Louisville. The greatest effort was made to keep the place of his death a secret, and the remains were shipped Thursday night to his relatives. The facts in the case did not become public until yesterday. He died in a squalid hovel in the most disreputable portion of Louisville, and it was learned he had been a frequent visitor there for several years. Death was caused by heart disease.
Crawford County (IN) Democrat, January 15, 1903, p. 3. The fine residence of Dr. J. L. Neely in Scott Township, Harrison County was, with nearly all its contents, destroyed by fire on the 6th inst. There was an insurance of $1,000 on the building and $400 on the furniture.
Terre Haute (IN) Weekly Express, July 6, 1870. Col. Jacob L. Kintner, a prominent citizen of Harrison County, died on Tuesday.
Indianapolis (IN) News, July 29, 1890, p. 1. Corydon, Ind., July 29-The first case ever tried in this county under the acts of '89 which provides punishment for persons who "unite or combine together for the purpose of doing an unlawful act while wearing white caps, etc." comes up today for a preliminary hearing. It is the case against Lytleton Moore and his two sons, Lincoln Davis, Henry Black, Samuel Roberts, Frank Peters and George Elliott of Harrison and Washington counties, upon a charge of going to the residence of James McKinney and giving him a terrible beating and severely injuring in the struggle his small child. About a hundred witnesses have been subpoenaed and the case is creating considerable excitement.
Indianapolis (IN) Journal, September 15, 1895. WILL SURPRISE THEIR FRIENDS Richmond, Ind., September 14-Last evening W. L. Stocking of Washington, Pa., registered at the Arlington Hotel. Miss Margaret Winger of Corydon, Ind., principal of the schools, stopped at the same place, and they met by previous agreement to marry. Today they sent out a mutual friend to find a minister and were married. Mr. Stocking started to Rio Janeiro, South American, and Miss Winger returned to her school at Corydon. Both are well-known people.
New Albany (IN) Evening Tribune, October 16, 1895, p. 4. DEATHS Edward McCusker, an old resident of this city, died this morning at his home on East Oak Street, Silver Grove, after an illness of several weeks of softening of the brain. He was 60 years old and leaves a wife. He was a member of Holy Trinity Catholic church from which place the funeral will be held.