Madison County, IL Newspaper Data
Madison County, IL Newspaper Data
-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. [The Alton Telegraph, April 6, 1836]
- 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.
The Alton Telegraph, April 1836- 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. [The Alton Telegraph, April 13, 1836]
-Children?s nurse wanted to accompany a family to the east and return in about four months, Apply to W. S. Gilman. [The Alton Telegraph, April 13, 1836]
-New store in Scottsville - Geo. Downer [The Alton Telegraph, April 13, 1836]
-Strayed or Stolen: two horses - Peter OAntwell. [The Alton Telegraph, April 13, 1836]
- Pocket book found on Piassa Hill, on the road between Alton and Carrollton, containing a number of receipts, notes of hand, and other papers, in favor of Joseph L. Kimball of Boston, Mass. Owner can have the property by applying at this office and paying for this advertisement. [The Alton Telegraph, March 9, 1838 Vol 1, issue 8]
The Alton Telegraph, Page 3 March 23 1836-Rev. J. M. Peck is expected to preach at the Baptist meeting house on the following Sabbath.
-New Livery Stable: J. S. Nutter and J. L. Gingham.
-Alton Female Seminary under the care of Miss Martha O. Dunn.
-Miss M. A. Brown contemplates opening a school in Alton at the vestry of the Baptist church.
The Alton Telegraph, March 30, 1836-John A. Halderman M. D. Practice of Surgery, Medicine and Midwifery.
-Wolcott Steubenville Spring Jeans, manufactured expressly for spring and summer use. James Henry, Wall. St., Louisville.
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