News of January 1880
The year 1880 was to be an eventful one. The census of the United States would be taken, a new President elected, and it was a leap year....

Lawrence Lore
Jan 296 min read
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Police Shooting and Air Ships in St F
The Vincennes newspapers carried the news of St Francisville as often, if not more, than the Lawrenceville newspapers. However, the facts...

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Jan 84 min read
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Under the Hay Stack--Dead
Early Monday morning, November 10, 1879, word was sent to Coroner Grafham that the body of a man was laying at an old straw stack...

Lawrence Lore
Dec 4, 20243 min read
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County News for September 1879
September 5th, 1879 W L Gray sold his interest in the Bridgeport store of Buchanan & Co to J M Buchanan . Warner Bros rented the upper...

Lawrence Lore
Nov 19, 20244 min read
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Infanticide in Lawrence County in the 1800's
The definition of infanticide is the killing of any infant below the age of one. There is no infanticide statute in Illinois. Thus,...

Lawrence Lore
Nov 18, 20243 min read
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Law and Order 1875
May 15, 1875 A young man named Kaiser was returning from Vincennes to his home on May 16, 1875 at 10 o'clock pm. when he met two...

Lawrence Lore
Nov 14, 20245 min read
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The Lynching
On July 14, 1893, in the law-abiding county of Lawrence, in which Lincoln visited and which claimed the earliest school integration in...

Lawrence Lore
Oct 14, 20246 min read
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Whipping Post
At the jury term of 1827 the whipping post was yet in use in Lawrence County, and James Langley and Levi Rush were each sentenced to...

Lawrence Lore
Aug 16, 20241 min read
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Elizabeth Reed
The Rural Republican occasionally published items that had occurred in the past probably to fill a blank space in the newspaper, or maybe...

Lawrence Lore
Aug 12, 20242 min read
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Killed by Concealed Weapon
Page 3 of The Weekly Western Sun, published in Vincennes, Indiana on Friday, March 28th, 1879 A Lawrenceville Tragedy Upon arriving in...

Lawrence Lore
Aug 7, 20245 min read
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