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January 15, 2025
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Published by Kaila on January 15, 2025
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Giffin, Electrocuted At Bakerton Plant

Electrocuted At Plant.Hagerstown, Aug. 5. — Elmer Giffin, 27, of Samples Manor, Md., was electrocuted today when a switch at the Washington Building and Lime Company, at Bakerton, W. Va., where he was working, was accidentally […]
KailaKaila August 6, 1932
January 15, 2025
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Published by Kaila on January 15, 2025
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Smallpox At Bakerton, W. Va.

Smallpox At Bakerton, W. Va.Harpers Ferry, W. Va., Jan. 17.– Reports reach here of smallpox in the county, in the suburbs of Charlestown and at Bakerton, confined to the colored people. Raleigh Hauser [Houser], general manager […]
KailaKaila January 18, 1913
January 15, 2025
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Amanda Rouf, Death

Hagerstown.– Mrs. Amanda Rouf, 32 years old, died at the home of her mother, Mrs. Thomas Delauney, Sharpsburg. She was twice married. Her first husband was killed at a quarry several years ago at Bakerton, W. […]
KailaKaila January 18, 1912
January 14, 2025
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Published by Kaila on January 14, 2025
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Boyer dropped dead in stone quarries.

John Boyer, a resident of Antietam, dropped dead at the Bakerton stone quarries, where he was employed.
KailaKaila July 30, 1907
January 10, 2025
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Published by Kaila on January 10, 2025
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Antonio Ardeli, Shipped to D.C. for Hospital Treatment

Antonio Ardeli, an Italian laborer, twenty-five years of age, was brought here last night from Bakerton, W. Va., to be given hospital treatment. He was conveyed to the Casualty Hospital. His condition was serious.
KailaKaila June 9, 1908
October 8, 2024
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Published by Kaila on October 8, 2024
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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 […]
KailaKaila July 11, 1904
May 1, 2024
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Published by Kaila on May 1, 2024
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Talk of A Strike, Martinsburg.

Talk of Strike. Three hundred and eighty men are employed at the stone quarries in this city, getting out between fifty and sixty carloads of stone every day. This is not enough of stone to supply […]
KailaKaila March 31, 1900
August 4, 2023
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Published by Kaila on August 4, 2023
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Virginia; Cholera Along the Canal

THE CHOLERA A deep feeling of melancholy came over us, a few days ago, as we passed along the turnpike between this place and Harper’s Ferry. In one part of the road, where, six weeks since, […]
KailaKaila November 6, 1832
August 4, 2023
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Published by Kaila on August 4, 2023
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Seven Deaths In One Day; Harpers Ferry

CHOLERA IN AMERICANew York, Sept. 9. — In this city the deaths by cholera, during the week ending on Saturday, were 138, which is 40 less than occurred the preceding week, though the population of the […]
KailaKaila October 8, 1832
August 3, 2023
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Published by Kaila on August 3, 2023
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Cholera Surrounding Harpers Ferry

THE CHOLERA.Health of the City.– The deaths in this city last week were only SEVENTEEN, one of which was of malignant Cholera.– Boston Gaz.— In another column we publish the weekly report, which has been so […]
KailaKaila September 7, 1832
August 2, 2023
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Published by Kaila on August 2, 2023
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Cholera; Irish Laborers suffering in Harpers Ferry

THE CHOLERA. In Baltimore the deaths by cholera from the 23d to the 30th ult, inclusive, were 99. The disease does not excite any alarm, and indeed there is no perceptible change in the pursuits of […]
KailaKaila September 1, 1832
August 1, 2023
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Published by Kaila on August 1, 2023
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KILLED. — Mr. Thomas Hand

KILLED.–Mr. Thomas Hand, an Irish laborer, who worked several months in this town during the spring and summer, was instantly killed by a premature explosion whilst blasting rock near the residence of Mr. Jas. V. Moore, […]
KailaKaila October 6, 1868
August 1, 2023
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Published by Kaila on August 1, 2023
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Fatal Casualties (Irish Laborers in Wells)

Mr. DENNIS O’LEARY, an eminently worthy and industrious Irish laborer, well and favorably known by the citizens and farmers of this neighborhood, came to his death on Thursday last under very painful circumstances. He was engaged […]
KailaKaila October 12, 1865
August 1, 2023
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Published by Kaila on August 1, 2023
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The War of Races

THE WAR OF RACES.– A party of negro men from Washington and Baltimore were one day last week sent to Newtown to work upon a section of the W. & S. R. R. lately given to […]
KailaKaila August 14, 1869
August 1, 2023
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Published by Kaila on August 1, 2023
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Wars of the Irish – Creed Murdered At Point of Rocks

WARS OF THE IRISH. We are deeply concerned to learn, that three murders, of the most foul and inhuman character, were perpetrated on Friday and Saturday night, on the line of the Canal, near the Point […]
KailaKaila June 26, 1834
August 1, 2023
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Published by Kaila on August 1, 2023
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Disturbances in Winchester

DISTURBANCES IN WINCHESTER.— On Sunday afternoon week quite, a serious row occurred at the depot in Winchester between a party of Irish laborers who had arrived there to go to work on the Strasburg railroad and […]
KailaKaila July 20, 1869
December 11, 2020
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Published by Kaila on December 11, 2020
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Lawrence Murphy, death.

In this town [Charles Town], on Friday morning last, of an illness of 36 hours, Mr. Lawrence Murphy, a native of Ireland, aged about 27 years. He was a stranger here, and had been engaged upon […]
KailaKaila September 6, 1832
December 10, 2020
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Published by Kaila on December 10, 2020
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Halltown Cholera Death

No new case of Cholera has occured in town for more than two weeks— the laborer from Halltown, who brought the disease with him, is dead— and we can again pronounce our village almost entirely free […]
KailaKaila October 11, 1832
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