John L. Johnson, a veteran of the civil war, having served in the Potomac Home Brigade, sustained fatal injuries by a bank caving on him at the West Virginia ore bank, three miles west of Harper’s […]
Last Saturday afternoon Edward Cox and Charles Howard, two young men from Kearneysville, aged 20 and 17 yeas, respectively, were drowned in the Potomac river near the residence of James W. Engle, at Rattling Springs. The […]
William Martin, an employee at the pulp mill west of Harper’s Ferry was struck and killed last Monday night by a B. & O. train. Martin had previously worked at the Virginia ore bank near Bakerton. […]
Barn Burned.Late last Saturday night the barn on the farm of John G. Flanagan, tenanted by Cruzen Link, near Bakerton, this county, was destroyed by fire, with nearly all its contents. Among the valuable property that […]
Fatal Accident at the Ore Bank.A frightful accident occurred about 3 o’clock last Saturday afternoon at the Virginia Ore Bank, six miles east of Shepherdstown, by which Edgar Walters, son of George Walters, a former resident […]
Charles Marshall, aged 30 years, of Sharpsburg, was crushed by a large rock and almost instantly killed at the Virginia ore bank near Bakerton last Wednesday. Very little is known by his fellow-workmen as to how […]
Mrs. Samuel Knott and Mrs. James Hoffmaster, of the vicinity of Moler’s Cross Roads, had a very narrow escape from death or serious injury last Saturday afternoon. They were driving to town in a stick wagon, […]
A MAN BEHEADED. Run Over By A Tramcar Near Shepherdstown— Barn Burned.[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.] SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. VA., Nov 2. — A young man by the name of Walters, about 18 years of age, […]
The News of the Railroads. A general complaint in the business world for the past three months— or at least that part of it interested in shipping freights on the railroads— has been the scarcity of […]
The Earth Caved In On Him. A young man named Marshall, from Sharpsburg, was pretty badly hurt last Monday at the Virginia ore bank, near Bakerton, Jefferson county, W. Va. He was at work getting out […]
Guy Allen Is Drowned While Swimming In Potomac River. Women Wandering Along River Bank Near Dargan Discover Body of Bakerton Man — Duffey Gives Verdict of Accidental Death. Guy Allen, 25 year old Bakerton W. Va., […]
COUNTIAN IS FATALLY HURT.Theodore P. Griffin, 28, Killed IN Blast At Lime Plant. Theodore P. Griffin, 28, of Samples Manor, was instantly killed and Daniel Myers and William Johnson, both of Dargan, and Charles Farley of […]
One day last week while Mr. Geo W. Caton, who lives below town, was hauling lumber in a two-horse wagon the horses were frightened by a dog that jumped over a fence and barked at them. […]
Last Thursday night an old gray horse belonging to James Wright, colored, fell on the ice on the public road near town, and could not regain its feet, dying a few hours afterward. Later while Walter […]
The Register last week gave a brief account of the drowning of Roy Landis Staley, son of Mr. James P. Staley, which occurred about noon on Thursday. The sad affair occurred after a part of ou […]
The first operation, probably, that was performed in this section of Virginia with the use of chloroform was by Dr. [John] Reynolds. It was on March 1, 1848 , and the patient was an Irish workman at […]
A fire occurred at Triadelphia, Montgomery County, Md., on Monday morning last, at 2 o’clock. Much valuable property was threatened, owing to the high wind blowing at the time. The dwelling adjoining that of Mr. Lansdale, […]
