Please unsubscribe me from your list.  Your focus on whitecapping and other violent news is not the type of historical information in which I have an interest.  I appreciate your preservation of that kind of  historical data, but I'm more interested in birth, marriage, and general happenings of days gone by. Janice Fleenor Smith Ocala, FL "Today is the day the Lord hath made. Rejoice and be glad in it." ________________________________ From: "in-south-central-request@rootsweb.com" <in-south-central-request@rootsweb.com> To: in-south-central@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 3:12 PM Subject: IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL Digest, Vol 1, Issue 88 Today's Topics:   1. Harrison County: Father of Thomas J. Hoal Blames    Mother for       Child's Murderous Act (Randi)   2. Harrison County: R. J. Tracewell Once    Comptroller of the       Treasury (Randi)   3. Harrison County: Rev. John W. Welker Killed by    Whitecappers       (Randi)   4. Harrison and Floyd Counties: Walter Q. Gresham    Died (Randi)   5. Harrison County: Attorney General Indicted    Eleven on       Whitecapping Charges (Randi)   6. Crawford County: William Lowe and William    Baggerly Seriously       Injured in Church Riot (Randi)   7. Crawford County: Gabriel Jackson Found Swimming    in His Sleep       (Randi)   8. Crawford County: Arthur Bottinger/Bettinger and    Cora Montague       Married in Unusual Ceremony (Randi)   9. Crawford County: Belle Ballard and Alice Ray    Capture a       Carrier Pigeon from England (Randi) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 11:51:17 -0400 From: "Randi" <gftl@bluemarble.net> Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Harrison County: Father of Thomas J. Hoal     Blames    Mother for Child's Murderous Act To: <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <004001cd32b2$91ae0200$b50a0600$@net> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii" Montgomery (AL) Advertiser, May 6, 1910, p. 10 MOTHER OF HOAL ADDICTED TO DRINK Corydon, Indiana, May 5-The prosecution rested today in the case of Thomas J. Hoal, charged with the murder of J. Hangary (difficult to read) Fawcett, the New Albany banker, and the defense announced that it would present six witnesses. William Hoal, father of the defendant, related incidents in the boy's life tending to show that the boy was mentally defective.  His testimony was based chiefly on the assertion that the boy's mother was addicted to the excessive use of intoxicants both before and after the son's birth.  The husband lived with the wife twelve years after Thomas was born and had tried to raise the boy alone since the separation. "Tom was always sullen and morose," Mr. Hoal testified, "the only thing interesting to him being peanuts and dime novels."  The case may go to the jury late tonight. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 11:52:05 -0400 From: "Randi" <gftl@bluemarble.net> Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Harrison County: R. J. Tracewell Once     Comptroller of the Treasury To: <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <004101cd32b2$ad94f3c0$08bedb40$@net> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii" Watertown (IA) Daily Times, May 15, 1913, p. 1. NEW COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY Washington, May 15-George E. Downey of Aurora, Ind., today took the oath as comptroller of the treasury, succeeding R. J. Tracewell of Corydon, Indiana. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 11:52:58 -0400 From: "Randi" <gftl@bluemarble.net> Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Harrison County: Rev. John W. Welker     Killed by    Whitecappers To: <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <004201cd32b2$cd86bf60$68943e20$@net> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii" Columbia (SC) State, October 6, 1894, p. 1. WHITECAPPER "REV." KILLED Louisville, October 5-Rev. John W. Welker was knocked down and killed near Corydon, Indiana, yesterday by David Wheat.  The latter had received a warning for him to leave the country on peril of being "whitecapped."  He was visited by masked men Sunday night but drove them away with a few shots. Yesterday, Mr. Welker and his son, Alva, went to see Wheat and ordered him to give them the warning note.  Upon his refusal, a fight followed, and in the melee, Wheat knocked the minister down with a billet of wood and killed him. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 12:27:10 -0400 From: "Randi" <gftl@bluemarble.net> Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Harrison and Floyd Counties: Walter Q.     Gresham    Died To: <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <004301cd32b7$956c7750$c04565f0$@net> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii" Bismarck (ND) Tribune, May 28, 1895, p. 2. Hon. Walter Q. Gresham is dead.  He was born at Cordyon, Indiana, March 17, 1833, and was therefore 62 years of age last March.  He was a graduate of Bloomington university, studied law, and at the breaking out of the war in 1861 he enlisted in the Union army and served until 1865.  At its close he was a brevet major general.  After the war he settled at New Albany, Indiana, and resumed the practice of law.  In 1883 he was appointed postmaster general by President Arthur and secretary of the treasury by President Hayes in 1881 (difficult to read, could be 1884), which office he resigned the same year to accept the appointment of United State circuit court judge of the seventh judicial circuit, which position he held until 1892 when he resigned to accept the position of secretary of state in President Cleveland's cabinet.  Mr. Gresham had been a Republican up to the time of his appointment to a cabinet position by President Cleveland and, in 1888, was a prominent candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency.  As a judge, the decision that gave him most prominence was known as the "bucket brigade decision."  The question under consideration was the order of payment by employers of a railroad company in the hands of a receiver.  He decided that section hands who went out with their dinner pails and worked should be first paid and, in doing so, used the language that gave him prominence as a judge whose sympathies were with the laboring man.  He said "pay the bucket brigade first."  As secretary of state he has not been that pronounced success his admirers had hoped to see him.  On the whole the foreign policy of the administration has been weak and vacillating.  The brightest page of his history will ever be recorded as a soldier.  Peace to his ashes. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 12:48:47 -0400 From: "Randi" <gftl@bluemarble.net> Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Harrison County: Attorney General Indicted     Eleven on Whitecapping Charges To: <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <004401cd32ba$99b452d0$cd1cf870$@net> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii" Trenton (NJ) Evening Times, December 16, 1888, p. 1. ELEVEN WHITE CAPS INDICTED Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 15-Gov. Gray has been notified by the prosecutor at Corydon, Ind., that William S. Gregory, James L. Lynch, Lewis Jobe (sic), Daniel Vest, Samuel Bott, John Rawlings, Floyd Morgan, Charles Morgan, William Wiseman, Reuben Robertson and Charles Miller have been indicted for whitecapping outrages. The men are all well-to-do citizens of Harrison County.  Att. General Michener, who directed the prosecution against the whitecaps, says that there will be 25 or 30 more indictments in various southern counties, and from his knowledge of the evidence, he believes there will be a good many convictions. Mr. Michener said that every possible effect would be put forth to rid the state of the regulators and that he felt certain that the effort would succeed. ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:10:21 -0400 From: "Randi" <gftl@bluemarble.net> Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Crawford County: William Lowe and William     Baggerly Seriously Injured in Church Riot To: <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <004601cd32ce$607c67f0$217537d0$@net> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii" Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer, January 10, 1891, p. 1.  Note:  Consider Baggerty as a spelling variant of Baggerly. BLOODY FIGHT IN A CHURCH English, Indiana, January 9-Further details of the church row at Marietta show that William Lowe and William Baggerly (sic) entered the church while intoxicated and one of them stepped on the toe of a little brother of William Wiseman.  This led to a row that was quieted.  After church service, however, Baggerly forced a fight on Wiseman and was twice knocked down. Lowe then went to his assistance and stabbed Wiseman several times, one of the cuts being dangerous.  Several other men then joined in an assault upon Lowe using stones and other weapons, and he was forced to fight.  Baggerly's skull was fractured and his cheek bone was broken.  Wiseman and Baggerly are both in critical condition and not expected to live. ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:11:04 -0400 From: "Randi" <gftl@bluemarble.net> Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Crawford County: Gabriel Jackson Found     Swimming    in His Sleep To: <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <004701cd32ce$79cc8230$6d658690$@net> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii" TAKES SWIM IN HIS SLEEP English, Indiana-Deserting his bed for two hours or more, at least twice a week, and then denying that he had been absent at all, caused Mrs. Gabriel Jackson to become suspicious of her husband and led her to have her brothers "keep an eye upon him."  Recently Gabriel slipped out as usual and was followed watchfully by his brothers-in-law while he traveled more than a mile to the old "swimming hole" upon his father's farm where he divested himself of his clothing and swam to and fro across the pond three or four times.  When he emerged, he carefully redressed and then returned home and to bed.  The next morning he knew nothing of the occurrence till told of it and could not believe it till brought to the scene and shown the footprints in the sand.  The queer part of it is that Jackson is not known to be a somnambulist, though he had been thus afflicted in childhood. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:11:38 -0400 From: "Randi" <gftl@bluemarble.net> Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Crawford County: Arthur     Bottinger/Bettinger and    Cora Montague Married in Unusual Ceremony To: <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <004801cd32ce$8e666760$ab333620$@net> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii" St. Louis (MO) Republic, August 19, 1891, p. 2. UNDERGROUND WEDDING Unique Marriage Ceremony Performed over an Indiana Couple [Special to the Republic] English, Indiana, August 18-The Dillman Cave, that has awakened much curiosity among the lovers of nature's wonders, was the scene this morning at ten o'clock of the wedding of Arthur Bottinger/Bettinger (difficult to read) and Miss Cora Montague in the apartment that shall hereafter be known as the "matrimonial chamber."  Notice had been given out two days ago that the ceremony would be performed and nearly 500 people gathered to witness the wedding. The chamber where the ceremony was performed is upwards of 80 feet long and 31 feet wide with a ceiling not less than 20 feet high.  Stalactites and stalagmites lighted up by three dozen Japanese lanterns and a number of pine torches made a scene never to be forgotten and as beautiful as ever witnessed a kingly wedding.  After the ceremony was performed, cloths were spread and an abundant lunch was set for all the visitors, by whom various toasts were delivered eulogistic of the scene and congratulatory of the happy couple. ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:12:31 -0400 From: "Randi" <gftl@bluemarble.net> Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Crawford County: Belle Ballard and Alice     Ray    Capture a Carrier Pigeon from England To: <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <004901cd32ce$add76a40$09863ec0$@net> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="iso-8859-1" St. Louis (MO) Republic, May 13, 1898, p. 11. A BRITISH BIRD A Carrier Pigeon from England Captured at English, Indiana English, Ind., May 12?Mrs. Belle Ballard, wife of Sheriff Ballard, and Mrs. Alice Ray captured a pigeon in the courthouse yesterday that has created much curiosity.  On the nether side of the left wing the following inscription is stamped with rubber stencil and indelible ink.  ?P. O.  H. B. R., London, England, W.  March 15, 1897. Following this inscription was another line in script but so indistinct as to be illegible.  Following the letter W. was also another letter but indistinct, and whether the second letter is C. or E. is not very plain. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___??__ ------------------------------ End of IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL Digest, Vol 1, Issue 88 ***********************************************