Chicago (IL) Day Book,August 25, 1913, p. 20. Bedford, Ind.-Mrs. James Young tells an exciting experience that she and her mother, Mrs. James Barnes, had at the latter's farmhouse near Freetown. Going to the room to look after her baby, sleeping on the bed, she heard a peculiar noise that she at first thought was made by a katydid. Calling her mother, they noticed the paper near the ceiling of the room move and with a broom touched it, when a large rattlesnake fell to the floor in a fighting mood. They ran from the room with the baby and returned, killing the reptile.

Paoli (IN) Republican, February 17, 1915, p. 7. Bedford-The eight-room farmhouse built near Bryantsville by William Embree 82 years ago and owned by Ollie Walker, was burned to the ground during absence of Mr. Walker. The house had been a landmark for many years.

Jeffersonville (IN) Weekly Journal, February 19, 1897, p. 6. TALLEST INDIANA MAN DEAD Frank Kingle of Guthrie, ten miles north of Bedford, died at two o'clock this morning. He was nearly 65 years old, unmarried and quite wealthy. He is supposed to have been the tallest man in the state of Indiana. It required a 7-foot casket to bury him. The remains will be buried in a rolled steel coffin.

Jeffersonville (IN) Weekly Journal, February 22, 1897, p. 3. FRANK WELLS Sentenced at Greencastle for Horse Stealing; Tells of Numerous Thefts Frank Wells, a horse thief, was arraigned in the court at Greencastle and, on a plea of guilty, was given four years in the penitentiary. In a confession that he made to the court, he said that he left his home at Bedford some three weeks ago and started out in search of work and was engaged as cook at Greensburg for a short time. From there he went to Rushville and took a horse and carriage from the hitching rack. He did not sell it but left it at a livery stable some twenty miles away. From that town he went to Lebanon and took another horse, going to Martinsville where he was well-known, and sold the horse for $49. He then went to Greencastle and took another for which he was arrested. He says he was married in Brown County and has a wife and children at Bedford. He broke down completely when sentenced. He will arrive here this evening.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Evening World, January 5, 1924, p. 1. COLORED MAN ARRESTED FOR BEDFORD COPS Don Henderson, colored, was arrested here on a charge sent from Bedford. He was placed in jail by the local police until the Bedford authorities could come after him this afternoon. The nature of the act for which Henderson was committed was not disclosed by the Bedford police.

Evansville (IN) Journal, May 14, 1870. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as shown by the ellipsis. St. Louis, May 13-The train bearing the bodies that were killed by the collision yesterday arrived about two o'clock this morning. The coroner will hold an inquest at once. The following additional names complete the list of killed: James M. Smith, Seymour, Ind. The REPUBLICAN reporter gives the following description of the collisions and wreck.The two engines rushed at each other like malign and enraged monsters-grappled with a tremendous cash-reared from the track in a mortal wrestle, and fell into helpless and disjointed fragments on the grounds.leaving a frightful ruin spattered with the blood of 40 human beings, entrapped and mutilated beneath its shapeless mass.

Evansville (IN) Journal, May 1, 1867. Cincinnati, April 30-A special to the COMMERCIAL from Seymour, Ind., says about 200 men entered that town yesterday afternoon and forcibly seized a negro man named Mitchell and took him to the woods and hung him. They also seized two white men, named Stewart, and threatened to hang them. The cause of this violence was the robbery of a store in the northern part of that county in which these men were engaged.

Rock Island (IL) Daily Argus, May 9, 1893, p. 1. DEATH OF A REMARKABLE WOMAN Seymour, Ind., May 9-Mrs. Biddy McKee, aged 102 years, a native of Virginia and the mother of 19 children, all living, died here Sunday of general debility.

Central Record, Lancaster, Ky., September 14, 1922, p. 5. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hill left Monday for Seymour, Ind., for a visit to their son, Mr. Thomas Hill and Mrs. Hill.

Breckenridge News, Cloverport, Ky., March 29, 1916, p. 7. The Kingston apple orchard near Seymour, Ind., is an example of first-class business management and the success that may follow the use of thoroughly up-to-date methods. It contains 110 acres and is owned by J. J. Peters. Last year the income from the orchard, which then contained only 35 acres in bearing, was $4,375 or approximately $125 to the acre. The remaining part of the 110 acres is too young to be in bearing. While this orchard is operated as a private enterprise, it is also a sort of experiment station for Purdue University, and the methods used are suggested by the station omen. Thorough spraying is one of the things that has brought success.

Indianapolis (IN) Journal, March 15, 1891. UNITED BRETHREN QUARREL Corydon, Ind., March 14-The wrangle that has been going on between the two factions of the United Brethren Church at Fairview, this county, for some time past, and which has caused much bad feeling in the community, has at last terminated in a lawsuit. As is known, there are two factions of the U. B. Church which resulted from a division over a few doctrinal points at a General Conference in 1885, and there is a suit now pending before the Supreme Court that involves the question as to which faction owns the church property of the state. At Fairview the trustees of the church have refused to permit the dissenters or new faction to use the church, hence the suit.

Indianapolis (IN) Journal, November 3, 1892. NOTE: In other accounts of this event, Heth has been identified as Heath and Clabe variously as Clayborn, Claiborn and Claiborne. SHOT DOWN FOR POLITICS Cold-blooded Murder of Republican Marshal by a Democratic Sheriff Corydon, Ind., November 2-Sheriff Clabe Shuck, who shot and killed W. G. Heth, marshal of Corydon, in front of the county jail last evening, was taken to Jeffersonville today for safekeeping. The killing of Marshal Heth was one of the most cold-blooded political murders ever committed in Harrison County. Mr. Heth was a leading Republican, and the only thing that animated Shuck in killing him was political prejudice. Shuck is a Democrat, and when he was placed in jail last night he swore he would "kill every d-d Republican in Corydon when he was released. The evidence at the coroner's inquest went to show that Shuck was in a saloon firing off his revolver and otherwise raising a disturbance when Marshal Heth went in and requested him to keep quiet. Shuck applied a vile epithet to the marshal and Heth went out. When Shuck came out, Heth placed him under arrest, and Shuck pulled his revolver and shot him in the bowels. Shuck was drunk and had been cursing Heth during the day because he was a Republican, and it is said that he made threats that he was going to kill him. Marshal Heth had been marshal of Corydon for a long number of years and had the confidence of everybody. He was a leading Odd Fellow and a member of the G. A. R. The most contemptible part played in the sad affair was the sending of a messenger to the Louisville Courier-Journal with an article that was simply a falsehood from beginning to end and which was a slander on both the living and the dead. The plain, unvarnished truth is that Marshal Heth was killed on account of his politics and this is the reason Shuck has been taken to Jeffersonville to escape lynching. There has been a Democratic speaking in town which gave the sheriff, along with others of his political faith, courage to drink a quantity of liquor and get his nerve up to the point where he could do that which he has not yet expressed any sorrow for. The marshal was simply performing his duty as a city officer when he was shot down. Democrats, naturally almost to a man, support the sheriff.

Indianapolis (IN) Journal, December 7, 1892. NOTE: Available online at www.chroniclingamerica.local.gov/. SLAYER OF MARSHEL HEATH Claborn (consider Clabe, Claiborn, Claiborne and Clayborn as spelling variants) Shuck, the Democratic sheriff who killed the Republican marshall of Corydon, Harrison County, returned to his home last Saturday. Young Heath, son of the city marshall, had previously left for his home in Memphis, Tenn., taking his mother with him. Shuck left Corydon the night he was discharged by the justice of the peace, before whom he had been tried. It is said by some of the citizens of Corydon that Shuck stood in no imaginary danger from young Heath at the time. Shuck spent most of his vacation in New Albany and this city.

Indianapolis (IN) Journal, March 14, 1893. Corydon, Ind., March 13-Samuel and William Conrad, who are in jail here on a charge of murdering their father, will have a preliminary trial before Squire Kirkham March 29. Their arrest was the result of the coroner's verdict that they were guilty of the murder, Samuel as principal and William as accessory. The former is 24 while the latter is 37. Mr. Conrad was 68 years old and lived with his family, consisting of his wife, two sons and a widowed daughter. Last Tuesday he left home to make staves a quarter of a mile from his house. He did not come home at night and next morning was found at his place of work lying in an unconscious condition on a pile of staves. His skull was fractured, and there were numerous bruises on his body. His clothes were badly torn and there were other evidences of a struggle. He was taken home and continued unconscious until he died Thursday morning. There is no direct evidence against the accused. A number of witnesses testified that the sons had beaten their father and driven him away from home frequently in the past and that they had threatened to kill the old man. One witness says one of the sons said, "We've fixed him," when speaking of his father last Wednesday morning. The old man had little property. It is a mysterious case, and there is much excitement over it, but there has been no talk of mob violence as had been reported.

Indianapolis (IN) Journal, May 9, 1892. Corydon, Ind., May 7-One year ago Mrs. Priscilla Slaymaker, an aged widow and an inmate of the county poor asylum, was so unmercifully whipped by Silas Staver and his wife, keepers of the asylum, that she has been a physical wreck ever since. At the time, C. W. Cook prosecuting attorney, had Staver and his wife arrested. The prosecutor received a whitecap notice to dismiss the case, but he did not and the keepers were fined. The poor woman, who has several small children, left the asylum and at once set about to obtain damages. She was unable to employ an attorney until last week when H. H. Richard instituted suit for the woman for $2,000 damages. On Friday night when Richard called for his mail, he was delivered a letter from the whitecaps ordering him to dismiss the case at once and saying: "If you go one step further with that case we will give you 250 lashes on the bare hide. We went through iron for Deven and Tennison (consider Deavin and Tennyson as spelling variants)-the men who were hung by a mob from the bridge at this place-and we will go through fire and steel for you. We would not give you any notice if it was not such a busy time." The letter was mailed at Corydon and postmarked May 4, and most of it is too profane and vulgar for publication. Nine years ago Richard received a similar letter with regard to a lawsuit he was prosecuting, but his friends here say he has the grit to stay with his clients both in and out of court. He has, since receiving this letter, caused his witnesses in the case to be subpoenaed and expresses his determination to prosecute the case to the end.

New Albany (IN) Evening Tribune, October 16, 1895, p. 4. Arthur Raymond Smith and Miss Margaret J. Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, were united in marriage last night at seven o'clock at the First Presbyterian Church, Rev. J. W. Clokey performed the ceremony in the presence of a large number of friends and relatives of the young couple. They left last night on a wedding trip to St. Louis. The groom is the well known young architect of this city.

New Albany (IN) Evening Tribune, October 16, 1895, p. 4. Martin Cavanaugh of this city, who was sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary at Jeffersonville for stealing a brace and bit from the Monon yards, was released today and brought to the jail door by Sheriff Strack. Shadrach Kates sent up for one year for stealing a sheep will be released tomorrow.

New Albany (IN) Evening Tribune, October 16, 1895, p. 4. John Fisher, colored, of this city, who killed Dan Fox, colored, in Louisville last March, was arrested last night in Indianapolis where he had been working in a livery stable for several months. Fisher claims he shot in self-defense, but witnesses of the murder say it was a coldblooded one.

New Albany (IN) Evening Tribune, October 16, 1895, p. 4. Carl Bouffier, nephew of C. A. Kremer of this city, and Miss Kate Hammon were married today at the bride's home in Cloverport, Ky., Rev. I. B. Timberlake officiating. George A. Kremer of this city acted as best man for the groom.

New Albany (IN) Evening Tribune, October 16, 1895, p. 4. John Maxwell, Robert O'Conner, Joe Davis and Fannie Maxwell, arrested for being drunk and disorderly, decided to plead guilty last night and were fined $8.30 each by Justice Richards. Louisville friends paid their fines and they were released.