The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-21


inches; Greensboro, Il feet; Lock No. A,
1lfeet; Rice's Landing, 5 feet 8 inches;
Oil City, 4 feet inches; Brownsville, s
feet 0 inches. AT all OF these points it
was falling.
Tho Diurnal got away for Parkersburg
at II AN.
The Il. N. Townsend and tho Lizzie
Townsend touched at the leyee yesterday.
The Andes got away for CINCINNATI last
evening with moderate tip and a fair
passenger list.
The Lioness, Jacob Heatherington,
Maggie, D. w. Woodward, Enterprise and
Belle DlcGowan passed down with coal.
The @. W. Bachelor is laid up at steu-
benville, where she will remain until the
ice thins out, when she will go TO Pitts
burch to so on the docks.
The Katie stockdale passed down for
Cincinnati at G a. NJ. The Louis Shirley,
in place OF the Emma Graham, was sew.
eral hours due on her way up, at mid.
night.
A tow OF coal consisting OF seven boats
and four barges, intended for the Smoky
City to take to Louisville, broke loose
from Risher's lower landing on Sunday
night, and, after being carried down the
river some distance, was sunk. The tow
boats Smoky City and ]. @. Risher were at
the landing at the time OF the fleet break
ing loose, but were unable to rescue it,
This Is the worst accident OF tho season to
the river coal trade. Possibly some OF the
ohn1 tn0H, I,n 1nno,,nen1 whSu 1Ia ts,aFaa
falls.-P PaLsGurgh Commercial Go:dte.
Captain j. N. Williamson, Superintend.
ent Of the Cincinnati & Pittsburgh Packet
Line, died at Riverside, California, Janu-
ary 10, aged 42 years, OF consumption. He
leaves wife and three children. Captain
W. and wife were spending the winter in
California, hoping that a change Of climate
might be Of benefit TO- him. Captain viii
liamson, for tho last twenty years, was
identified with the river. He was captain
and owner OF the Matte Roberts, the
three Emma Grahams, w. P. Thompson,
Hudson, Pittsburgh, Chesapeake, Hiber.
nia, and part owner in several others. The
Captains remains will be transported to
Pomeroy for intermcnt by the side OF his
mother, in Beach Grove Cemetery.
buffalo Bill" Capt. Bogardus and Nate
Saulisbury, the partners owning the
"WildNVest" show, have teredsuittore.
cever $4,000 from the Tacoma Steamboat
Company in the United States Court at
Cincinnati. In Novepber last the "Wild
Vest entered into an agreement with
the company toconveS the combination to
varions points, and finally to land II in
New Orleans. For this the Buffalo Bill
company was to pay S40O week. On
the Sth oflast December the vessel known
as the w. P. Thompson set sail on the
Ohio, carrying the Buffalo Bill show, cnu.
sisting OF employees, animals food and be-
longings. The next day, December 0, the
boat sank in the Mississippi river. The
animals, most OF which were wild, were
drowned, the food, ETC., could not be
saved. Beside the damage thus incurred
by the show people, theeir dats had to be
cancelled at four or FIVE places, thereby
losing money spent in advertising and
other necessities. The plaintiffs claim
that the managers Of the vessel knew very
well before her departure that she was
unscaworthy and unsafe and not adapted
for such heavy cargo; nevertheless, 80
claim tho plaintiffs in their bill, the pro-
prietors Of tho boat guaranteed them to
haul their show safely and deliver II at It's
destinations,