Instantly Killed.W. S. Stewart, the well known livery-man, and highly esteemed resident of Harpers Ferry, while crossing the B. & O. bridge Monday afternoon, was struck by No. 5 and instantly killed. His body was hurled […]
THE JOHN BROWN RAIDSOME CLIPPINGS FROM OUR OLD PILES OF 1859. Thursday, October 20th, 1859.OUr citizens were startled on Monday morning last, by the arrival of a messenger informing us that a band of lawless Desperadoes […]
Mr. John W. Russell has completed tin roofing the residence of Miss L. Broaddus, in this place [Charles Town], and is now engaged in roofing the dwelling for Mr. Patrick Higgins at Harper’s Ferry.
Benjamin Curry, son-in-law of Mr. Patrick Higgins, of Keep Tryst, Md., who was employed in the B. & O. yards at Brunswick, was killed by a train there Thursday morning. — H. F. Sentinel.
Two bootleggers, Monroe Peyton, colored, of Bakerton, and Moses Welsh, white, of Charles Town, were convicted in the Federal Court at Elkins and sentenced to 60 days in the Martinsburg jail and to pay a fine […]
E. M. Miskimmon, a druggist of Harper’s Ferry, was arrested and tried last Friday on a warrant sworn out before Justice C. F. Gallaher by Mr. S. W. Bratt, superintendent of the Washington Building Lime Company […]
THE VIRGINIA ELECTION. The election of Mr. Wise, says the Washington Organ, is generally conceded although there are nearly fifty counties yet to be heard from. It is hardly probable that Mr. Flournoy has gained enough […]
PETRIFIED MAN.– The Morris (Ill.) Yeoman states that not long since, while some men were digging in a coal bank, near the canal, they exhumed the body of a man in a perfect state of petrifaction. […]
THE SUFFERING POOR OF IRELAND. The New York Courier has the following article:The warm-hearted Irishman is an expression that has passed into a proverb.– The facts we are about to relate, and which have just been […]
Remarkable Outrage.— Incredible as it may seem New York yesterday the scene of a deliberate attempt to burn a woman and her two children to death. The victims were the wife, son and infant child of […]
Shocking Outrage.– We learn that a most outrageous murder was committed last night on the Washington Rail-Road, 8th section, about 18 miles from Baltimore. It appears that a dispute arose between some of the workmen and […]
The Order of the American Union At Work.The hatred of the Northern Republican for a Catholic church is only matched by the hatred of the carpet-bagger for the county jail. It is well-known that some years […]
From the Wheeling Register.Bishop Kain and the Incendiary Press. “Bishop Kain has prohibited the West Virginia Catholics from taking the Irish World.” The above paragraph has been floating around in the papers for several days without […]
Died, May 15, 1891, at Harper’s Ferry, CATHARINE, relict of the late Patrick O’Farrell, and a native of Newtown, Kings county, Ireland, aged 70 years. Last July it was the writer’s sad office to note the […]
