FALL KILLS WOMAN, 83Hemorrhage Results From Accident in Charles Town.Special Dispatch to The Star. BAKERTON, W. Va., September 21.– Mrs. Henrietta Moler, 83 years old, widow of George W. Moler, died at her home here yesterday […]
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 […]
Shepherd College Professor Dies.Special to The Washington Post. Walter M. Duke, of the Shepherd College faculty, Shepherdstown, died today, after a short illness of pneumonia following an attack of influenza. The deceased was 40 years old […]
Killed by Train in QuarriesSpecial to The Washington Post. Harpers Ferry, W. Va., May 5– William Smith, of Samples Manor, Maryland, was killed today at the quarries in Bakerton. While running a dinky engine in the […]
Train Kills Two Men Pushing Truck on RailSpecial to The Washington Post. Martinsburg, W. Va., Sept. 28.– Samuel Potts, 57, Bakerton, W. Va., and Thomas Sutherland, 42, Reedson, W. Va., were killed at Reedson this afternoon […]
Man Crazed by Heat Drowns After LeapHARPERS FERRY, W. Va., July 31. — Apparently crazed by the heat, Guy Allen, 25, Bakerton, plunged from a boat into the Potomac River near here. His body was found […]
BATHER IS DROWNED.CHARLES TOWN, W. Va., July 23.– Guy Allen, native of Maryland, but residing at Bakerton, W. Va., for several years, was drowned while bathing in the Shenandoah River at the Virginia ore bank, west […]
Former Ball Player Dies After Car CrashMARTINSBURG, W. Va., March 12. — Seriously injured in a motorcycle accident Saturday night, Joe Brophy, of this city, former Blue Ridge and Eastern Shore League ball player, died in […]
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Joseph Chiswell Duke, who died suddenly on Wednesday. Mr. Duke was born in Bakerton, W. Va., July 31, 1885. His parents were George W. and Frances Chiswell Duke. After […]
Roy Welsh, Veteran, Dies at Bakerton/Special Dispatch to the Herald. BAKERTON, W. Va., Sept. 26. Roy Welsh, 50, world war veteran, son of the late John and Clara Welsh, died at his home here Sunday suddenly. […]
LEAKY BOAT DROWNS TWO; THIRD ESCAPES.One-Arm Man Unable to Bail Fast Enough as Oarsman Pulls to Escape Sinking. Special Dispatch to The Star.MARTINSBURG, W. Va., December 4.— Mrs. Mary Gross, 40 years old, of Dargan, Md., […]
Md. Farmer Killed When Kicked By Horse HAGERSTOWN, Md., Sept. 9. Frank Kidwiler, 55, a farmer living near Bakerton, died from injuries received by being kicked in the stomach by a horse yesterday afternoon. He was […]
BURNED TO DEATH; FOUL PLAY IS SEEN.Charred Body of Negro Found in Ashes of Shanty. Special Dispatch to The Star.HAGERSTOWN, Md., April 5.– The burning to death of a negro known as “Babe” Carter in his […]
Death of Mrs. S. Preston Millard.Special to The Washington Post Charlestown, W. Va., Oct. 12— Mrs. Mary J. Millard, wife of S. Preston Millard, of Bakerton, Jefferson county, died last night, aged 45 years. She was […]
Paralysis Fatal to West VirginianSpecial to The Washington Post Harpers Ferry W. Va. Nov. 4 — Robert M. Duke died at his home near Bakerton at an early hour this morning following a stroke of paralysis, […]
John Flanagan, about fifty-eight years old, an extensive farmer and owner of stone quarries, died suddenly at his home near Bakerton, W. Va. He was sitting on his porch and complained of pain in his side, […]
BOYDS, Md., July 21, 1907. Intelligence reached here yesterday afternoon announcing the death of Mrs. Florence E. Duke, widow of Robert Duke of Jefferson county, West Virginia, which occurred at her home at Bakerton, W. Va. […]
