Madison, IN. May 25, 1899. 
Capt. James H. Smith, aged 80, who lived in Canaan, rushed into his burning barn last night to save a valuable horse, and in the effort was swept down by the flames and perished with the burning building. Captain Smith was one of the best-known residents of Jefferson County. For a long time he taught school, and for many years he served as surveyor, a position to which he was often elected on the Republican ticket. He was a Mason. He leaves 2 sons, one of them being Dr. J.S. Smith, of Galveston, IN. and 1 daughter, Mrs. H.F. Hillis, of Logansport.

Madison, IN. Feb.23,1898.
Ella McMackin, white, and Thomas Ayers, colored, reported as married yesterday in Cincinnati, are both from Madison. The woman is notorious, being known among her set as “Oklahoma” She and Ayers, who has a negro wife here had been living together for some weeks in the old negro church.

Madison, IN. Aug.13,1897. 
In Jefferson County the total vote cast at the recent election aggregated only 4,080. Lee’s plurality was 530. At the last presidential election 6,379 votes were cast in the county. McKinley carried the county last fall by 891 and Sulzer by 971. Harrison carried the county in 1892 by 586.

Madison, IN. June 22, 1898. 
Mr. & Mrs. “Mat” Buck, of Madison, now have 12 sons and 7 daughters, the seventh daughter being born yesterday….

Indiana Notes.9/14/1898
To date there have been 275,000 bushels of peaches shipped from Madison this season to other points. The raisers have realized considerably over $200,000 on the crop which was grown near Madison on both sides of the river.

Madison, IN. Sept. 22, 1898,
Early in the century Rev. Dr. Joseph Oglesby, a Virginian by birth, and the first preacher in Cincinnati, was called to this place to organize the first Masonic Lodge. He was so impressed with the beauty of the place that in 1815 he moved here with his wife, son and an infant daughter, Elizabeth, who died immediately on their arrival. On June 24, 1820, while the preacher was marching at the head of a procession of mason, his open Bible in his hands, his daughter America was born. Now after an absence of more than 60 yrs this daughter, now Mrs. Joseph Hubbs, and mother of Mrs. Bessie H. Woolford, returns to the old place she left as a bride of 17. She expects to live here the rest of her life.

Madison, IN. Dec. 3, 1898.
Joseph Fluegel, who left Madison as a volunteer in the 32nd Indiana Regiment in 1863, and has long been mourned as dead, no word having come from him since his first departure, surprised his sister, Mrs. Joseph Kramer, by suddenly appearing here today. He had been absent 33 yrs, and advertisements for his whereabouts had been published in various papers. He has been most of the time in Mississippi. He is in poor health and will remain in Madison.

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