OHIO COUNTY, INDIANA
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
New Albany Daily Ledger June 8 1860
SHOOTING AT RISING SUN
We learn from the attentive clerk of
the Jacob Strader, Mr. Burcaw, that a fatal shooting affair occurred at
Rising Sun Ind. on Tuesday evening, between Mr. James Sheppard and
James Gibbons, his son-in-law, in which the former was instantly
killed. It appears that gibbons, some time since, separated from his
wife, causing hard feelings between himself and father-in-law, and
meeting the latter on Tuesday, an altercation occurred between them,
resulting as above stated. Both the parties are respectable, and have
heretofore been law biding and good citizens.
New Albany Daily Ledger November 24
1857
The Rising Sun visitor says that Ed
Harrison, confined in jail in that county for murder, made his escape
some time ago, and a week afterwards the energetic and public spirited
authorities offered a reward of twenty-five dollars for his
apprehension. Murderers must be cheap in Ohio County when only
twenty-five dollars per head is offered fro them.
New Albany Daily Ledger
September 10, 1859
The store of Jacob C. Wells, in
Rising Sun, was broken open on Sunday night last and goods to the value
of $800 or $1,000 stolen there from. the articles taken were chiefly
jewelry and silks, and the whole lot taken might be carried in two or
three good sized carpet bags.
Indiana State Journal
1897-04-28
Hartford City, Ind. April 24
Judge Vaughn, of the Blackford -Wells circuit, yesterday granted a
restraining order against Mayor Zeigier and the Montpeller City Council
from the sale of the public squares on April 29. the restraining order
is in effect until the suit brought by the Baldwin heirs is settled in
the courts. the decision is favorable to the adjoining property holders.
Indiana
State Journal 1897-04-28
Hartford City, Ind. April 22
Gus McGeath, son of ex-Representative
John P. McGeath, of this city,
was arrested here yesterday by the Sheriff of Wells County, charged
with swindling. it is alleged that he sold chances at Keystone on an
imaginary horse and buggy and a town lot which he claimed he had in his
possession. His arrest was a great surprise here, where he had always
had a good reputation.
