The Troy Herald, March 11, 1874 A Globe dispatch from Mineral Point, Mo., dated the 5th inst., says: Yesterday afternoon Hugh Fox, a well known citizen of Washington County, was way-laid and shot on the round about two miles west of Cadet Station.  He was hauling cordwood to the railroad when killed.  The villain evidently was determined to make good on his work, using a shotgun.  The team took fright and ran a short distance but was stopped by the wagon striking on a tree, which held them until a late hour in the evening, when it was found with the corpse lying on the wagon.  Mr. Fox was a brother of the Rev. Father Fox, of Old Mines, Mo., now deceased.  Hugh Fox has borne a bad reputation for some time, and was sentenced to the penitentiary some time ago for severely stabbing a man, but only served one month, and was pardoned by petitions through the influence of his pastor brother.  No clue so far as to who committed the murder. It is supposed to have been done through eneminity. The News Boy, March 16, 1895 When a couple, aged 58 and 48, respectively, have become the parents of 21 children, one at a time, they deserve a special notice.  David Hodge is the happy father of a bouncing boy born on the night of Feb 15th making the twenty first child that has come to gladden his heart.  Mrs. Hodge was just 12 years and 4 months of age when she took David for better or worse, and since that time has given birth to 11 boys and 10 girls, of which only 10 remain, 7  boys and 4 girls having died.  Mr and Mrs. Hodge were both born in Irondale and neither have ever been out of the state.  As Dave expresses it, “they expect to die right here”.  Dave says it is his ambition to be the father of 25, and that if he lives his ambition will be fulfilled. Fair Play, April 27, 1889 Died at his residence in Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, of general debility, on April 19, at 6:00 o’clock p.m., Mr. Antoine Blais, aged 79 years 7 months and 23 days.  Deceased was born in Prairie du Rocher August 27, 1809.  At the age of 17 years he came to Ste. Genevieve where he learned the trade of blacksmith and two years afterwards he went to St. Louis and worked his trade. In 1849 he went to California returning in 1857 and it was then that he entered upon his mercantile career.  Mr Blais was favorably known as a business man of reliability and enterprise, and for the past thirty years was recognized as Prairie du Rocher’s leading merchant.  He commenced his career without a dollar and his accumulations have been the result solely of his individual efforts. He was buried from the Catholic Church of Prairie du Rocher, of which he was a member, on Sunday April 21st, a large concourse of mourning relatives and friends following his remains to their last resting place.  R.I.P. The Lincoln County Herald, June 10, 1869 Samuel Thomas, a white man, and Ben Frissell, a negro boy, were arrested in St. Louis on the 28th, having in their possession a pair of valuable horses stolen from Mr. William Shultz of Potosi, Washington County.  On being taken back they came near being hanged by a mob first at Irondale, and then at Mineral Point.  The deputy sheriff in charge there had to lay out all night with his prisoners in order to escape the mob and get them to Potosi safety.