Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Courier, March 31, 1899, p. 1. COMPROMISED The Case of Mahem [sic] from Washington Township. The case of Mahem [sic] preferred against Robert Baugh by Silas Hartman was compromised in court yesterday. The plaintiff agreed to settle the trouble by the defendant paying $50 and physician's bill. This amicable agreement was satisfactory to all parties interested, and Judge Martin was also much pleased. His Honor requested the two young men to shake hands, which they did, and thus ended an unpleasant feud and that [sic] had existed for more than a year. Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Courier, March 31, 1899, p. 1. Note: This case is not listed as "unknown" in the book Monroe County Coroners Inquest 1888-1973, published 2001. There is a listing on page 30 of this book for a James King, age not given, who died of unnatural causes, through exposure on 27 March 1899, as listed in Coroner's Book 1, page 52. There do not appear to be any other listings in the published coroner's book that might be the subject of this item. ANOTHER Dead Man Found In Monroe County. An unknown man was found dead in Benton township yesterday on the farm of ex-Trustee Isaac Chitwood. Charley Barnhill's brother, who lives at Unionville, came to the city last night, and notified Coroner Harris, who immediately started for Mr. Chitwood's to hold an inquest. The man had evidently been dead more than a week. No one who viewed the remains was able to identify the unfortunate man. Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Courier, March 24, 1899, p. 1. Will Close To Day. Out of respect to a life-time merchant, John McCalla, we the undersigned believe it our duty to close our places of business during the funeral tomorrow Friday March 24th 99 from 10 to 11. Mose Kahn, Wicks Bee Hive, Breeden and Co L S Field, S W. Collins, Rhorer Bros., J H Wylie, W J Allen, Davis Hardware Co, The Eagle, G T Adkinson G W Campbell & Co, Chas G Mergentheimer, Neeld & Co, J M Smith & Co, Ed Whetsell, C F Reed & Co, Axtell Bros. Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Courier, March 24, 1899, p. 1. Death of John McCalla. A telegram was received by Mrs. R. C. Foster yesterday morning announcing the death of John McCalla at the home of his daughter in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. McCalla suffered a stroke of paralysis some two weeks ago, from which he never recovered. Mr. McCalla will be well remembered as one of the pioneer merchants of Bloomington. At his death he was 85 years old. He left Bloomington about eight years ago, having sold out his dry goods business to Hall and Adams Bros. During his residence in this city he was one of the best known and merchants [sic] of this county. As a citizen he had a high standing. The funeral party arrived from Columbus early this morning. The remains were taken to the home of Miss Kate Hight, each Kirkwood avenue. The funeral will occur from Miss Hight's home this morning at 10 o'clock in charge of Rev. Allison. Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Courier, March 24, 1899, p. 1. Burglary! We insure against burglary. This insurance covers bankers, factories, merchants, householders against loss by Safe Breakers, and other ordinary burglarious operations. For cost of policies and other information, call on WOODWARD & THORNTON

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Courier, March 21, 1899, p. 2. The teachers for the Ellettsville schools for the coming year have been selected as follows: Principal Prof. W. V. Payne, assistant Principal of the Grammar department, F. G. Fowler, assistant, Ethel Swinney. Primary, Myrtle Billings.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Courier, March 21, 1899, p. 2. Mrs. William Gourley three miles north of the city is dead after an illness of pneumonia. She was 65 years old and a member of the United Presbyterian church. She leaves a husband and family to survive her. The children are Albert, William, Edgar, Lizzie and Flora.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Courier, March 21, 1899, p. 2. The County Commissioners yesterday appointed Nathan Smith and William Johnson as viewers on the new pikes in Clear Creek township. There are three short roads to be built, and double the number of names required have been filed with the auditor. East First street and University street are included in the improvement and will be improved in the same manner as roads without sidewalks or gutters. Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Courier, March 21, 1899, p. 2. Killed By The Cars. Allen Bryan of this city, a well known Monon brakeman was killed by the cars at Greencastle yesterday. Mr. Bryan was with the train crew of the local freight and was making a coupling when the bumpers struck him and mashed his hips. Death ensued in a short time. He was brought to this city yesterday afternoon and taken to his home on south Madison street. His family are entirely prostrated with grief. Mr. Bryan has been a hard working quite man, and was about 35 years old. The arrangements for the funeral have not yet been definately [sic] settled but he will likely be buried tomorrow afternoon. Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Courier, March 21, 1899, p. 2. The Supreme Court affirmed a judgement [sic] for $4,000 recovered by Dennis Summit, of this city against the Consolidated Stone Company. Summit's ankle was crushed by the splitting of a stone thirty-five feet long and four feet square as it was being turnod [sic].

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Courier, March 21, 1899, p. 2. Miss Jessie Ritter is at home from Denison, Texas, where she has been spending the winter with her brother.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Daily Telephone, October 6, 1925, p. 1. NOTE: The item below is abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. .(Undertakers) used to be gloomy, melancholic, mournful, cold and aloof. Now we are: morticians, hopeful, live wires, cheerful, handshakers. "The old time undertaker was as solemn as the doxology and as cheerful as a dirge," said Alfred B. Gawler of Washington, D. C., in an address. "The modern mortician must be efficient and business-like, and from the brink of the grave he must point the way to new life and hope. The melancholy undertaker is a thing of the past." The name of the association is no long "undertakers" but the "National Selected Morticians Association."

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Daily Telephone, October 6, 1925, p. 1. NOTE: According to the Monroe County (IN) Divorce Index, a divorce was granted to Charles on March 3, 1926. TO HELL WITH HIM-REASON FOR DIVORCE Charles S. Maxwell, through Attorney George W. Henley, asks for a divorce because he alleges that the wife frequently cured him and said "to hell with him." Also that the wife once went away with another man and that it is now impossible for them to live together. They were married in June 1917 and separated in September 1925. There are no children.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Evening World, October 8, 1906, clipping file, Monroe County History Center, Bloomington, Indiana. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the very lengthy original as noted by the ellipsis. With the streets crowded with Saturday night shoppers, and while the levee was in the midst of one of those hilarious noisy evenings, a murder was committed in cold blood on West Kirkwood Avenue. Al Stevens, a white man, proprietor of a lunch wagon, was killed by "Spunk" Jones, a negro. The trouble started about 8:30 in the evening. Stevens had his little son by his side in the wagon and was having an unusually good business. Spunk Jones approached his wagon and called for a sandwich, handing Stevens a half dollar to pay for it. Stevens, it is said, was in a hurry and gave Jones 40 cents instead of 45. Jones returned shortly afterwards and complained of not having enough change, whereupon Stevens handed him another nickel. Jones remained at the wagon, and it is said began to abuse Sevens. Stevens asked him to go on and not cause any trouble, whereupon Jones pulled out his revolver and fired two shots. One shot just grazed the knuckle of his right hand, and the other struck just left of the Adam's apple and went directly through the neck and lodged just back and below Stevens' ear. From the hole in the neck, the blood poured like coming out of a spout, and Stevens was so badly stunned that he began to sink down. Just as he was about to fall, Pete Williams, the saloonkeeper came out of his front door. Williams asked Stevens what was the matter. Stevens could not speak but pointed down the street to Jones who was beginning to run. Williams started after the darky and chased him around on Morton Street.Jones threw his revolver away. He began to deny that he had done the shooting. With not a policeman in sight, William led the colored man up Kirkwood Avenue and down to the jail and locked him up. (Stevens) lost consciousness in front of Collin's grocery. He was then picked up and carried to the office of Drs. Harris and expired in two minutes after arriving there. A crowd was forming in front of the jail, and there were loud and repeated cries of "Hang him, hang him." Marshal Johns and Dick Kerr then secreted Jones out of the south door.They sent for a rig from the Third Street livery barn and, after placing the handcuffs on the negro, drove at breakneck speed out the east pike and later crossed over to the Martinsville road. They drove to Martinsville reaching that city at three o'clock and locked up their prisoner there until daybreak. At seven o'clock they boarded an interurban car and took him to Indianapolis and from there they took him to the Jeffersonville prison where he will remain until brought back here. Jones was nearly scared to death and was glad to get away from Bloomington. Spunk Jones is a negro of bad reputation. He was sentenced to the Jeffersonville reformatory several years ago by Judge Martin for assaulting a man down in Oscar Strother's saloon. He is about 30 years old and has been driving the dray wagon of ex-fire chief Todd. The past two weeks he has been carrying the hod on one of the new business buildings...Jones is a married man and has two children. Al Stevens was a very industrious man. He has been a hard worker and had just paid for his house in the Waterman Addition. He has a wife and six children. He was not a member of any labor organization. He has been conducting a lunch wagon on the levee about six months. The body of Stevens was taken this morning to the Knight Cemetery in Salt Creek Township and funeral was held at noon today in charge of Elder Monroe Swinder.

Bloomington (IN) Telephone, October 27, 1893, p. 1. NOTE: According to information noted in Echoes of One-Room Schools: Monroe County, Indiana, the South Union school as set on fire "by kids" in May 1892 after which it was rebuilt in 1893 "and still stands as a residence." The grand jury is in session this week and violators of the law have already discovered that it is a body of men intent on business. The burning of the South Union school house is among the matters being investigated, and a dozen or more leading citizens of that vicinity are being questioned. It will be recalled that there was a controversy over the removal of the school house, and one fine May night it was burned to the ground. It is stated that some young men of the neighborhood, and one in particular, are strongly suspicioned by reason of the evidence introduced. The parents of the young men stand high in that community and there is much interest in the probably result.

Bloomington (IN) Telephone, October 24, 1893, p. 4. Dr. J. F. Potts received a telegram this morning calling him to the bedside of his father at New Martinsville, Virginia, who is seriously ill.

Bloomington (IN) Telephone, October 24, 1893, p. 4. Rena Strain, daughter of Jackson Strain at McDoel, died Saturday morning at ten o'clock with typhoid fever after three weeks illness. She was 26 years old and an estimable young lady.

Bloomington (IN) Telephone, October 24, 1893, p. 4. William Prather, formerly of Ellettsville but now from Winfield, Kansas, is visiting friends and relatives here.

Bloomington (IN) Telephone, October 24, 1893, p. 4. Mr. Louis Gibbon and Miss Mamie Whaley were married Tuesday night at the residence of the bride's parents. Quite a number of the gay young people of the vicinity met and gave them a regular old fashioned chivarie. Squire Gillaspy officiated.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Telephone, October 24, 1893, p. 4. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. PARDONED! >From a Life Sentence; Bent Jones is Free; Details of a Remarkable Trial Benton Jones, serving a life sentence in the penitentiary, was pardoned by Gov. Matthews Saturday, the son of the prisoner, with unspeakable joy, being the messenger bearing to him the joyous tidings releasing him from imprisonment. Jones was a life prisoner from Monroe County and sentenced after a remarkable trial. He was indicted with his brother, Lee Jones, Thomas Tolliver, a brother-in-law, and Dr. Parks Tolliver, a brother of Thomas, in April 1875, by an Orange County grand jury for the murder of Thomas Moody on March 2. The killing aroused great public indignation. The friends of the prisoners were nearly as strong numerically as those who sought to bring these men to the bar of justice for punishment. This crime had been antedated by another assault on the Moodys on the night of June 24, 1871, when a dozen or more conspirators made a night attack on the Moodys in Lawrence County, and by the use of hand grenades and other murderous instruments, an attempt was made to murder Thomas Moody, his two old bachelor brothers, and his two old sisters. They were all old people held in the highest regard. Shotguns and revolvers were also freely used in this night attack, and Thomas Moody was shot through the body as he was climbing a fence. Jugs of gasoline, coal oil, and blazing torches were thrown into the room of these old people, after the doors and windows had been broken in, and the house was soon in flames in every room. Then it was that hand grenades made of slugs of iron, horseshoe nails, steel screws, gun powder, etc., were thrown into the burning room. The Moodys employed Col. George W. Friedley, Senator Voorhees and other eminent lawyers to fight their legal battles growing out of this conspiracy and succeeded in having him, and nearly a dozen of his relatives, indicted. Old Tom Moody was extremely desirous of having Bent Jones punished but was so conscientious on the witness stand that he would not even identify the voice of any of the party. He spent his money lavishly in other directions, also, and employed the best detective talent to be had, a detective being employed for nearly two years working continuously on this "night attack," as it was called at subsequent trials. The late Major Gordon had charge of the defense and subsequently succeeded in securing acquittals. At this time, Bent Jones was trustee of the township in which Mitchell is located and was a prominent politician. He was also at the head of an extensive lumber business and employed many hands with all of whom he was popular. One Eli Lowery was also indicted in April 1875 for the murder of Moody and was imprisoned in the Paoli jail at the time the Jones and Tollivers were confined there and subsequently made a full confession implicating the two Jones and the two Tollivers. Lengthy habeas corpus proceedings followed, and at all of the trials subsequently, Lowery gave the full details connecting himself and his fellow prisoners with the awful murder and sustained himself to the satisfaction of the prosecution during cross examinations, unusually searching and exhaustive, lasting fully a day. The final trial of Bent Jones came off in this city in June 1876, and was one of the most interesting and protracted criminal cases ever tried in Indiana. Eight days were consumed in taking of the evidence of the 200 witnesses from Lawrence and Orange counties, while a week was taken up with the arguments. The state was represented by her then prosecuting attorney, Judge R. W. Miers, the late Judge Frances Wilson, Col. George W. Friedley and other eminent lawyers. The defense was conducted by Hon. J. Ralph Burton, now Columbian fair commissioner from Kansas; Charles H. Burton, special pension examiner for this district, now stopping at the Nation Hotel; Judge Cyrus F. McNutt and other leading lawyers. .. At the following term of court, Lee Jones was convicted, and he was imprisoned until pardoned on the 20th of last July. Subsequently, Dr. Parks Tolliver was also tried for this crime in this county and, while the jury were out considering their verdict, he became alarmed at their delay and fled on the same night on which his jury decided to acquit him. A sealed verdict was handed into the court next morning, but as the prisoner was gone, it could not be legally opened, and to this day it remains unopened. For many years the action of this jury remained a profound secret, and it has only been within the last year or so that the secret was given up. On the appeal of the Bent Jones case to the supreme court, D. O. Spencer, the official reporter, furnished the transcription of the evidence comprising 3,300 pages.