Welsh of Harpers Ferry

Evidence Category: The Shepherdstown Register

  • Liquor Retail Licenses Granted and More

    County Court.

    The County Court last week granted license to retail spirituous liquors to John S. Easterday, Thomas Elliott, Geo. A. Mock, F. B. Souders, Geo. W. Thomas, James A. Thomas and M. J. Kain, in Charlestown; Thomas J. Burley, T. M. Conner, Charles J. Drew, John W. Doll, James Conway and James McGraw, in Harper’s Ferry; and to Geo. L. Weber, in Bolivar, to retail malt liquors, native wines, &c.

    The resignation of Mr. Lewis Dinkle, as sealer of weights and measures, was received and accepted.

    Messrs. W. N. Wood, Geo. T. Light and C. T. Mitchell qualified as notaries public.

    Harry B. Middlekauff was granted permission to erect a harness shop on the rear of the court-house lot, same to revert to the county at the expiration of twenty-three years.

  • Dry month; Corn Crop

    The past month has been an extremely dry one, and vegetation has suffered greatly for want of rain. The corn crop in this section will not be nearly as large as usual, as the ground has become so hard it could not be worked.

  • Welty & Hispley assult Leary

    William Welty and Edwin Hipsley, two Martinsburg boys, were arrested last week for assaulting Thomas Leary, an old B. & O. watchman. They hit the old man with a piece of steel, breaking three of his ribs. While they were being taken to jail young Hipsley escaped from the officer.

  • Italian buried, Dam No. 4

    One of the Italians working on the canal at Dam No.4 was buried on a bank of falling earth a few days ago. He was gotten out alive, but one of his legs was broken and had to be amputated.

  • George Engle, drowned

    A man named George Engle, 37 years old, said to have been from Charlestown, was found drowned in the river at Wheeling last week.

  • Columbia Guano & Phosphate Company Charter

    The Secretary of State has issued a charter to the Columbia Guano and Phosphate Company. The office will be kept at Harper’s Ferry. Capital stock $5,000 with the privilege of increasing to $200,000. The incorporators are Edward E. Bailey, Danville, Ill.; James W. Walsh and E. Brand, Washington, D. C.; W. C. Jones, New York and Benj. F. Herr, of Harper’s Ferry.

  • They Want the Railroad.

    The REGISTER’S article last week on the proposed railroad through Jefferson and Berkeley counties, from North Mountain, say, to Harper’s Ferry, has caused a great deal of comment, and the one expression from the people along the line is, that they want the railroad. We have already received assurances from enough persons between Shepherdstown and Harper’s Ferry to guarantee the right of way along nearly the whole distance, and they say that the matter will receive their hearty aid and encouragement. This is the spirit that gets railroads. We hope the people along the proposed line will keep the subject hot and promptly take such further action as the circumstances may suggest. There’s no doubt that a road tapping the iron ore deposits, the limestone quarries and cement works between here and Harper’s Ferry would be a good thing and a paying investment.

  • Getting the Canal in Shape.

    The trustees of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal held a meeting in Baltimore last Thursday, and contracts for the work of repairing the canal were let to Mason, Hoge & Co. on sections 11 and 12, at Georgetown, and to Jones & Thorne for work at Harper’s Ferry, section 9, and to the same firm upon sections 3 and 4, between Williamsport and Cumberland; Kinsley & Dennis were given the work on sections 6, 7, and 8, from Williamsport towards Harper’s Ferry. The trustees have also made a contract for the purchase of two steam dredges from the Marion Shovel Company of Marion, O. The contracts call for the completion of the canal between Cumberland and Williamsport on May 1st, and from Williamsport to Georgetown by July 1st. All the work will be done under the supervision of Chief Engineer Whitcomb. The estimated cost of the repairs under the bids is $250,000. The trustees passed a resolution guaranteeing to all boat owners the payment of any repairs they may put on their own boats, so as to insure them traffic equal to the amount of the repairs on their boats. About 150 boats will commence running when the canal is ready for them.

  • Harpers Ferry Population

    The population of Harper’s Ferry is 952 and Bolivar 804, making a total of 1,756. Of this number, 426 are colored persons.

  • Bakerton: Ore Bank Strike

    BAKERTON NEWS.
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    BAKERTON, W. VA.,
    March 21, 1891.

    DEAR EDITOR– We again ask admission into your columns, but as this a dull season of the year we cannot give you much news of interest to your readers. Yet perhaps there are some who will be glad to read what little we have to say.

    On Wednesday last the thirty-two hands working at the Virginia Ore Bank went on a strike, demanding 10 hours’ work with same pay as they now get working 11 hours. It is said that a part of the old hands were willing to work, but as the greater number were in favor of striking they would not permit the few to go to work.

    Mr. R. H. Moler was in Baltimore last week on business. Mr. S. W. Bratt was also in Baltimore last week.

    Later intelligence informs us that the Ore Bank strikers have gained their demands, and work will be resumed on Monday morning.

    Yours,
    REX.