EvidenceCollection: The Baltimore Sun

October 4, 1900

Uncle Tom Davis Club Organized

Uncle Tom Davis Club.[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.]BAKERTON, W. VA., Oct. 8.– A democratic club was organized last night at Bakerton, Jefferson county, with Charles Lamar president, W. J Moler and Robert Duke vice-presidents, W. […]
January 1, 1900

West Virginians [Jefferson Co.] Report a Year of Much Prosperity

FARMERS FARED WELL.West Virginians Report A Year of Much Prosperity.MOST ABUNDANT APPLE CROP.Lands Held Their Own In Price And Farmers Had Little Difficulty In Getting Loans At 6 Per Cent. [Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.]CHARLESTOWN, […]
December 2, 1899

Obit: Mary E. Flanagan

MRS. MARY E. FLANAGAN.[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.]SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. VA., Dec. 1.– Mrs. Mary E. Flanagan, an estimable lady and wife of Mr. James Flanagan, of Bakerton, this county, died at her home yesterday, aged […]
March 25, 1897

Frederick Birds Do Well, But Virginians Have Little Money to Bet.

INTERSTATE COCKING MAIN.Frederick Birds Do Well, but Virginians Have Little Money to Bet– Forty Birds Fought.[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.] POINT OF ROCKS, MD., March 24.– The second cocking main of the season between Maryland […]
January 7, 1895

Bratt, Death from Cancer

Death from Cancer.[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.] EASTON, Md., Jan. 6.– Mrs. Mary A. Bratt, wife of Samuel Bratt, of Oxford, Talbot county, died at her residence there this morning. Her father was the late […]
October 25, 1894

Democrat Meeting at Bakerton

Soup and Oratory — Arranging to Being out a Full Vote[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.] CHARLESTOWN, W. VA., Oct. 24.– There was a large gathering of democrats at Bakerton, Jefferson county, five miles north of […]
October 28, 1890

Engle Appointed Postmaster at Bakerton

New postmasters have been established at Harlan, Dinwiddie county, Va., with Ambler B. Moncure as postmaster, and at Bakerton, Jefferson county, W. Va., with Jesse A. Engle as postmaster.
October 12, 1911

$20k Fire In Bakerton

$20,000 FIRE IN BAKERTONPlant of Washington Building And Lime Company Destroyed. Charlestown, Va., Oct. 11.– The plant of the Washington Building and Lime Company, located at Bakerton, Jefferson county, was destroyed by fire early this morning, […]
July 11, 1904

Two in Jail at Harper’s Ferry Are Threatened with Lynching.

NEGROES AS HIGHWAYMENTwo in Jail at Harper’s Ferry are Threatened With Lynching. [Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.]Charlestown, W. Va., July 10.– Almost at the same spot where George W. Williams, a negro, committed an assault […]
July 20, 1855

Armory Clerk Young Replaced by Duke

REMOVED — The Virginia Free Press states that Mr. Adam Young, who has been one of the acting clerks connected with the Superintendent’s office of the Armory at Harper’s Ferry, for the last two years, has […]
October 22, 1855

McCabe Killed by Engine

FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT. — Mr. Francis McCabe, in the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was run over and killed by an engine in Martinsburg on Saturday evening last. He was formerly a citizen of […]
January 1, 1855

Clowe Nominated to Armory Superintendent

THE ARMORY AT HARPER’S FERRY.– The President has nominated to the Senate Henry W. Clowe to be Superintendent of the Armory at Harper’s Ferry, in conformity with the provisions of the law passed at the last […]