Boone County News Items

The Mormon prisoners, with Joe Smith at their head, escaped in a batch a short time since, and are now in Illinois. They were being removed from Clay to Boone county, on a change of venue. [14 May 1839, The Times Picayune - Submitted by K. Torp]

Boone, McHenry and Dekalb counties do not return any incomes as large as ten thousand dollars. [2 Jul 1869; The Quincy Whig - Submitted by K. Torp]

Criminal Carelessness
Early last evening Mr. Stevens, the Sheriff of Boone County, was walking down South Illinois street, when he slipped on a banana peeling and hit his head a terrible blow on the iron railing in front of the Occidental, and would have been dangerously injured had he not worn a hat bought of Ryan, the hatter, 21 and 23 South Illinois street. The police should enforce the city ordinances.
[October 01, 1881, Paper: Indianapolis Sentinel (Indiana) - Submitted by: K. Torp]

Sheriff Berkington of Boone county, Illinois, has assigned with $50,000 liabilities and ample assets. [26 Oct 1890; Kansas City Times - Submitted by K. Torp]

August H. Johanningsmeier wants a divorce from Caroline Johanningsmeier, his second wife, because of her alleged studied neglect, unmerited reproach, taunts and accusations that he is inferior. She frequently beat and maltreated his five children by the first wife, he says, grabbing his 8-year-old daughter, Florence, by the hair and holding her head in a basin of water until she became unconscious. When she regained her senses, says Johanningsmeier, the girl was warned "not to tell papa" or punishment would be inflicted. The husband says that at another time his wife threatened to stab his 11-year-old son, Henry, to death with a butcher knife she held in her hand. Two weeks ago, he says, she deserted him. Johanningsmeier's second marriage took place in Boone County, Illinois February 2, 1907
[11 Dec 1909; Paper: The Oregonian - Submitted by K. Torp]

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