Welsh of Harpers Ferry

Evidence Category: Spirit of Jefferson

  • Lady (Houser) Dragged to Death

    A Lady Dragged to Death.
    A most shocking and horrible accident occurred Sunday in Washington county, Md., opposite Knott’s quarry, below this place. Miss Bettie Houser, in her 22nd year, living near Sample’s Manor Church, was out driving with a young lady friend and a gentleman named Mr. Arthur Myers. A horse attached to the buggy in which they were riding took fright at a traction engine and ran off. As the horse started to run away the buggy was overturned and the occupants were thrown out. One lady and Mr. Myers escaped unhurt, but Miss Houser became entangled in the lines and was dragged about three miles to the Mountain Lock, where the horse stopped. The body was horribly mangled. All the clothing save her corset was torn from her body, which presented a sickening sight. Miss Houser is of a well-known family and great sorrow is expressed at her tragic death. She lived about fifteen minutes after the accident. The deceased was a niece of Mr. Raleigh Houser, of Bakerton, this county, and grandniece of Mr. Mason Bennett, of this town. — Shepherdstown Independent.

  • Decker, Harpers Ferrian, Liberator, and Patentee.

    The Harper’s Ferry correspondent of the Shepherdstown Independent says:
    “Carl” Decker, the New York Journal Cuban correspondent, and the liberator of Miss Cisneros from the Spanish dungeon, Cuba, is a Harper’s Ferrian by birth and ancestry. His right baptismal name is Charles Dubal, and he is a son of Geo. W. Decker, who removed from here to Washington after the war and engaged in the lime business and since became the patentee of the iron cleared kiln, which is used at Bakerton. “Carl” married Dr. Bennett’s daughter, of Washington, and besides, became the author of a guide book of Washington City and another on Cuba.

  • Harwood, Painful Injuries from Fall.

    Mr. Clinton Harwood fell from a building he was erecting for Mr. Jesse Cook, near Bakerton, and sustained painful injuries. Dr. S. T. Knott rendered the necessary attention.

  • Works at Bakerton

    Passing through the busy little settlement of Bakerton last Thursday, we stopped for a few minutes chat with Mr. D. R. Houser, the efficient superintendent of the outside men engaged upon the works of the Washington Building Lime Company, of which Mr. Daniel Baker, of Baltimore, is the enterprising and popular president. Upon inquiry we learned that the company has in its employ outside, under Mr. Houser, some forty-two men, and inside the two works, at Bakerton and Engle’s, some fifty more– or nearly one hundred in all. These are kept busy, and are turning out about twelve car-loads of crushed stone and ten to twelve thousand bushels of lime per week. The consumption of wood is enormous, and this is supplied by that go-ahead gentleman, Mr. Chas. E. Jones, of the vicinity of Leetown. Market for most of the product is found in Washington City.

  • Obit: Benjamin F. Daniels

    Mr. Benjamin F. Daniels, an old citizen of Shepherdstown, died very suddenly in Sangamon county, Illinois, February 10th, 1896, aged about 66 years. On Monday before his death he was out hunting and on Tuesday was paralyzed. He died the next day. One brother and two sisters survive him– Mr. Dennis M. Daniels, of Bakerton, and Mrs. Sallie M. McGary, near Duffields, this county, and Mrs. Mary Kearney, Sykesville, Md. —
    Shep. Independent.

  • Poindexter Jailed For Shooting of King

    Elizabeth Poindexter, of Bakerton, has been committed to jail here to answer before the next grand jury on a charge of shooting Elisha King.

  • Carter Arrest for Theft of Horse

    A man calling himself James H. Carter has been arrested and placed in jail here charged with stealing a horse from Mr. R. D. Houser, at Bakerton. He is also wanted in Virginia and Maryland for like offenses.

  • A Visit to Bakerton

    We had the occasion to visit the Bakerton neighborhood last week, and were pleased to find it full of life and energy. The large lime works there were running in full blast, and quite a thriving village has been built up in that locality. Old Zion Presbyterian Church, near by, has been handsomely remodeled, the Southern Methodists have a nice new church building, and Oak Grove School-House affords the young idea a fine field for shooting in the direction of a liberal common school education. If you are traveling in this section and meet a man you don’t know call him a Moler on a venture. If he don’t respond to this strike him on Engle and you’ll get him almost sure, one or the other, and you may calculate almost to a dead certainty to have a good man also. Dust’s Crossing, Uvilla and Bakerton are all excellent neighborhoods. If you are and old bacherlor and wish to consult about matrimony, “pap” Grove Hinkle or “pap” Frank Moler will likely say “better late than never;” but with either of them you will find yourself with a stone’s throw of some as pretty and charming young ladies as Jefferson affords– and this is saying a great deal.

  • Bakerton Methodist Dedication

    Last Sunday was a big day for the Southern Methodist Church at Bakerton. In the morning Rev. J. P. Stump preached the sermon and Rev. Dr. J. P. Hyde preached at night. The dedicatory services were held in the afternoon, and were conducted by the ministers above named and Revs. A. A. P. Neel and F. A. Strother. The friends of the church subscribed the sum of $450, which is sufficient to liquidate the indebtedness resting upon it. — Shep. Register

  • New Church at Bakerton to be Dedicated

    The new Southern Methodist church at Bakerton will be dedicated the fourth Sunday in this month.– Arrangements are being made for a grand church re-union there on the Saturday previous.