While in a fit of intoxication, Robert Shipley, an employee of the Virginia Ore Bank, four miles up the Potomac River from Harper’s Ferry, created a miniature riot on Sunday afternoon. Using a heavy piece of […]
STORE ROBBED AT HARPER’S FERRY AND SHOOTING.– Thieves broke into the grocery store of Mr. J. C. Child at Harper’s Ferry on Thursday night, the 22nd of December, by prying off the shutters, and helped themselves […]
In the House of Delegates, the clerk read a communication from the Senate announcing their agreement to a Joint Committee, on the subject of Harper’s Ferry expenses. Reports were also made allowing a pension to Mrs. […]
Letter from Harper’s Ferry. Messrs. Editors.– A short time ago some thief or thieves invaded the hennery of poor Billy Anderson, and abstracted therefrom eight valuable chickens of fancy blood. They came a few nights since […]
FREDERICK, (Maryland June 17.Last week a person passed through this town, on his way from Kentucke, who informed us on the 22d of May last, he and eleven persons more in company, at the distance of […]
GEORGETOWN, August 19, 1856.Mr. James Flanagan, a very worthy gentleman, and well known to many persons in the District, was brutally murdered on Thursday last by an individual named Sam Boyers. From all we can gather […]
Last week the REGISTER noted the death of Samuel Houser, who lived in Maryland, near Harper’s Ferry. It is said that his death was caused indirectly by Sol. Penner. Mr. Houser, who was 22 years old, […]
GIRL PUTS NEGRO TO FLIGHTBolivar Teacher Fires Four Shots At Night Intruder[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.] Harpers Ferry, W. Va., Oct. 15.– Miss Jesse Cockrell, a teacher in the Bolivar School, near Harpers Ferry, pluckily […]
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 […]
Tate Moton, the colored man who was so badly cut by Henry Taylor, also colored, a few weeks ago in a fight at Bakerton, died at his home in Bolivar last Saturday from the injuries he […]
A man calling himself James H. Carter was arrested in Hillsborough, Loudoun county, Va., Thursday, and brought to this place late that night by Constable S. T. Jones, of Harper’s Ferry. The man was arrested on […]
A man calling himself James H. Carter has been arrested and placed in jail here charged with stealing a horse from Mr. R. D. Houser, at Bakerton. He is also wanted in Virginia and Maryland for […]
A dastardly piece of work was committed Friday night in Sharpsburg by miscreants, who cut the harness of the team of William Welch, of Bakerton, while it was hitched at the City Hotel. The harness was […]
HOLD-UP MAY LINK WITH FATAL CRASHHit-and-Run Death of J. C. Duke Leads Police to Investigate. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.PRIEST BRIDGE, Md., May 31. — With two colored men under arrest in Annapolis as […]
Holds Warrant Till Pitcher Wins Game, Then Places Him Under Arrest.MARTINSBURG, W. Va., July 16.– Deputy Sheriff Harwood Burkhart, of Jefferson county, is a good officer—but a better fan. He went to a baseball game Sunday […]
THERESA CUDDYSCHOOLGIRL told Judge McMahon in Traffic Court how she was struck and injured by an automobile while alighting from a street car. The driver, Walter J. Flanagan, of Bakerton, W. Va., was fined $75. Times […]
