Madison County, IL Newspaper Data

The Alton Telegraph
April 1836
Location: Alton

Description: Various News

April 6, 1836

-Dreadful accident, Lexington, March 19. Occurred on the railroad between this place and Frankfort. The locomotive and a passenger car and a number of freight cars were thrown off the track and thrown over the embankment about twenty or thirty feet. Dead: Mr. Tinder of Woodford County, Mr. Wilson of Madison, Indiana. Child of Mr. Tutt?s had his leg broken and since died. Those who sustained the most serious injury were Mr. Archibald W. Goodle of Richmond, KY; Mrs. Hull, an old lady of this place; Mr. Henry J. Estill of Fayette; and Mrs. James Estill, of Madison.

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- Married at Ridge Prairie, in this county, on the 29th March, by Rev. Samuel Wood, Mr. James Purviance to Miss Nancy, daughter of Mr. Isaac Hall, all of that place.

- List of letters remaining in the Post Office at Ridge Prairie, Madison county on the 31 March 1836, which is not taken out within three months, will be sent to the Post Office Department as dead letters:

James Atkinson
James Hodge
Alfred T. Cooper
Henry Walden
2. G. Churchill, P.M.

-Administrators notice: Final settlement of the estate of Elizur Judd, dec?d. By Albert H. Judd.

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-Notice: On the first Monday of April, 1836, before the judge of Probate, in the town of Carlinville, State of Illinois, county Macoupin, settlement of the estate of Lilbourne W. Hodges, dec?d. By W. W. Keas, Adm?r.

- Notice: All person indebted to William Manning, jr., are hereby notified that their claims are left with us for collection, and unless immediately paid will be indiscriminately prosecuted. Davis & Krum, Attorney for Mr. Manning.

April 13, 1836

- For Sale: Last residence of James Mason dec?d. Madison Co., IL near the town of Edwardsville. By Paris Mason, attorney, for Sarah Mason, Guardian.

- Sarah Mason, guardian of Martha Maria Mason, daughter and infant heir of James Mason, dec?d. On application to sell Real Estate. Circuit Court, Madison county.

- The Harrisburg Chronicle states that the wretched being who, under the name of Isaac Heler, lately massacred his family near Brookfield, Ind. For fear they might become a charge to the country ? is the same person who, as Isaac Young, was some years since, tried for cutting off the head of a girl in Middletown, PA, and acquitted by the jury, on the ground of insanity.

- Pawnees and Rocky Mountain, Indians ? Passed through were Dr. Benedict Setterlee and wife, and Miss Palmer of Ithaca, also Dr. Marcus Whitman and wife from Rushville and Rev. H. Spalding and wife from Prattsburgh, state of New York, started for their fields of labor about the first of March., They proceeded by the way of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Council Bluffs, from when Dr. S and his associates go to the Pawnees to join Messrs. Dunbar and Allis, while the other continue their journey by land at 1200 miles further west to the Nez Perces and Flat Head tribes to commence a mission there.

- Robert Allen, Esq, formerly of Nashville, Tenn., was stabbed by a black leg, by the name of Hamilton Taylor, on board the steamboat Selma, on the Mississippi River, of which wounds he died in New Orleans. Hamilton was secured and will be tried at the May term of the Filiciana criminal court. Mr. Allen was a young man of high promise, a member of the bar, and was on his way to Alexandria in the State of Louisiana where he intended to settle himself. Nashville Banner.

- The Mississippi has been rising for several days past, and is now higher than it has been known to be for many years past at this season of the year.

- Married on Wood River, Madison County, IL, on the 10th day of April 1836, by J. R. Taylor, Esq. Williambates, now in his 80th year, to Mrs. Chloe Varnum, now in her 69th year.

- Married on the evening of the 11st inst., by Samuel E. Clement, Esq., Mr. Robert Jullnaux to Mrs. Mary Alford, of this town.

-Children?s nurse wanted to accompany a family to the east and return in about four months, Apply to W. S. Gilman.

-New store in Scottsville - Geo. Downer

-Strayed or Stolen: two horses - Peter OAntwell.

-The steam Ferry boat at Alton having been snagged and lost early in the winter, the public are informed that a new and superior boat is contracted for and will be out from the Ohio in May. Joel Foster.

April 20, 1836

-A speech delivered by Isaac Hendershot, Esq. In an action of trespass vi et armis, tried at the February term of the St. Clair circuit court in which Harvey Green, a Mormon minister, was plaintiff and Miles Vanwinkle et all, of Methodist principles were defendants.

-Married on the 14th of April by Rev. W. McLain, Mr. John H. Bramel to Miss American Tool, all of this town.

-Married in this county on the 14th instant, by the Rev. Mr. Rogers, Mr. Calvin Bannister to Miss Helen Chambers, all of this county.

-Administrator?s Notice: Claims against the estate of Henry P. Calhoun dec?d, are requested to exhibit same to the undersigned, or the court of probate in and for the county of Macoupin, and state of Illinois for settlement. Bela White, Adm?r.

April 27, 1836

-$30 reward for a bluish grey mare in Morgan County near the head of Apple Creek on Friday night last, including saddle, a brass mounted rifle, flask, a drab great coat with two capes...Said articles are supposed to have been stolen by a man calling himself James W. Johnston, but whose proper name has since been ascertained to be George Wilkinson. He has passed in this county by the name of William Dunlap. Said Wilkinson is said to be about 5 feet 9 inches, heavy and well built with black eyes and hair and of a dark complexion. Is fond of gambling and drinking and smoking. Says he is a cooper by trade. Contact William T. Givens, Franklin Post Office, Morgan Co., IL.

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