Benjamin Curry, son-in-law of Mr. Patrick Higgins, of Keep Tryst, Md., who was employed in the B. & O. yards at Brunswick, was killed by a train there Thursday morning. — H. F. Sentinel.
NEW PROJECTS. To keep pace with the progress of the times, it will be seen by reference to another column, that two Railroad projects are now suggested, in which our County has a deep interest. A […]
By far the most interesting part of the day’s proceedings on Monday was the hearing of an application of the Winchester and Washington City Railway Company for a franchise to erect its poles and string its […]
On Wednesday Judge Faulkner decided the assessment made by the Board of Public Works on the property in Jefferson county of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Winchester and Potomac and the Baker branch, the latter […]
SUIT AGAINST THE RAILROADS.C. V. R. R. and Others Alleged to Discriminate Against the Standard Lime & Stone Co. The Standard Lime & Stone Co. and the Washington Building Lime Co., operating quarries near Martinsburg, both […]
Painter’s Secret.The living worth of good work is always recognized, even in small things. Sign-painters do not usually achieve wealth or fame, yet the Chicago News declares that fortune awaits the man who painted a station […]
HARPER’S FERRY.Since the announcement that Industry Lodge No. 2 A. O. U. W., would give an excursion to Harper’s Ferry on Thursday, July 29th over the new B. & O. Railroad we have frequently been asked […]
RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS.– On Saturday night last, a number of negroes waylaid an Irish citizen near the Cemetery, and beat him in an outrageous manner. Upon this fact being ascertained on the Sabbath, there was some excitement […]
Baltimore & Ohio RailroadWe learn from the “American” that this Company has now in its employ about 1000 mechanics and laborers. In the department of transportation, 700– machinery, 2,400– road repairs, 900. The total number of […]
Shocking Outrage.– We learn that a most outrageous murder was committed last night on the Washington Rail-Road, 8th section, about 18 miles from Baltimore. It appears that a dispute arose between some of the workmen and […]
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, […]
BIRTH IN THE CARS. — A German woman, as we learn from the Baltimore Clipper, gave birth to a child, on Wednesday, in one of the Western train from Baltimore to Cumberland, when it reached Harper’s […]
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.– We regret to state that about five o’clock yesterday morning, while a burden engine, without any lading attached, was passing over the railroad bridge at Harper’s ferry, one of the spans of the bridge […]
VIOLENT RAIN STORM– DAMAGE TO THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.– An express was received in this city last evening from Harper’s Ferry, stating that a violent storm of rain occurred in the vicinity of that place […]
GREAT FRESHET IN THE POTOMAC.– The rains of last week melting the masses of snow on the Alleghany Mountains caused a sudden and heavy freshet in the Potomac River. The water rose higher than at any […]
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 […]
WORKING MEN, HOW DO YOU LIKE IT? — The Hagerstown Torchlight says that “the laborers on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, west of Harper’s Ferry, at the commencement of that work received $1.25 a day — […]
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, […]
