DANIEL BAKER, PRESIDENT OF STANDARD LIME AND STONE COMPANY, DIES MONDAY IN BALTIMORE HOME AFTER LONG ILLNESS. Prominent in Business and Church Life of Maryland– Pioneer of Great Quarry Interests In Berkeley County– Identified With Many […]
George S. Homer, for many years a resident of Bakerton, died Monday after a long illness from paralysis. He was 75 years of age. A daughter, Miss Margaret Houser and four sons, George, Richard, Ernest and […]
Charles Flannagan, aged 22 years died suddenly while laughing and talking with fellow employees of the Washington Building Lime Co., at Bakerton, Monday. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. James Flannagan, who with one […]
Roy Welsh, for years an employee of the Washington Building Lime Co., at Bakerton, died at his home there Saturday after a short illness. He was 44 years of age.
HARPER’S FERRY, Aug. 9. — The sun is very oppressive. Six cases of cholera were reported in town to-day, and three at Bolivar Mill, but no deaths have occurred. Business has been suspended, and more than […]
Fatal Railroad Accident.HARPER’S FERRY, May 18– 6 P. M.We have again to inform you of another fatal accident on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad this afternoon, near this place. A man named Jacob Greenhodge, or Greenwood, […]
FATAL ACCIDENT.– As a man named Joseph Priestly, of Harper’s Ferry, in company with several persons, were going up the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, by some misstep he was precipitated over a ravine some ten feet […]
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.– Mr. James Cromwell, of Kentucky, when on his way homeward, stepped from the cars at Harper’s Ferry, on the 6th inst. and unfortunately fell from a bridge over a precipice of 15 or 20 […]
MAD SUICIDE.– On Thursday, a poor fellow, while laboring under mania a potu, was killed on the railroad near Harper’s Ferry, Maryland. The engineer observed him run from a house and take his stand near the […]
FATAL ACCIDENT. — We regret to learn, says the Baltimore Sun, that Mr. John O’Hara, a young man about twenty years of age, was killed on Tuesday evening. From what we can ascertain of the particulars, […]
A most distressing accident happened at the U. S. saw mill at Harper’s Ferry, on Friday, the 13th inst. A little girl, daughter of Mr. Grymes, had gone to the mill for the purpose of collecting […]
On the 29th of August, near this town, of consumption, Mr. DENNIS McCULLOUGH, aged about 55 years. His remains were interred in the Catholic Cemetery, at Harper’s Ferry.
Died on Saturday, January 18, 1896, of heart failure, Miss MARGARET T. McGRAW, of Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., in the 38th year of her age. Never, perhaps, has this community been so stirred or have the […]
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 […]
LAWRENCE FINLAN DEAD.A Well Known Citizen Who Made His Own Tombstone. On Wednesday evening last, Lawrence Finlan, (familiarly called “Larry,”) a well-known and highly respected citizen of this place, died at his home on Camp Hill […]
Mrs. Kate Burns died at her residence in Cumberland, Md., on the 21st of October, aged 60 years. She was a sister of the late M. Walsh, of this place. The remains were interred in the […]
IN MEMORIAM.We substitute for what we had written of the late John Hyland two tributes from longtime appreciative friends: Died October 11th, 1895, at Providence Hospital, Washington, D. C., of paralysis, JOHN HYLAND, a well-known and […]
