Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-07-29
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SHORT STORIES FOR SUNDAY.

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II was definitely announced yesterday
that the st. Ciairsville and Northern rail
road, which sustained heavy damage by
the recent food, "a once more in good
shape, and that travel would be resumed
over the line Monday morning, trains leav.
ing on schedule time. This will be good
news TO the people of st. Clairsville. who
have been pretty well cut off from rapid
communication with this city or Bellaiie
for ten days past.
President Woolery, Of Bethany College,
addressed the committee and citizens OF
Middletown, Thursday evening OF last
week, urging them to secure the location
of the State Line Road via Buffalo
Creek to wellsburg. Representatives were
present from Bethany, Dunsfort, Atehi.
son and Canopsburg. The surveys will
be completed, and it il thought the night
Of wsy and local aid asked for will be OBJ
tanned.
The following a~pportionments has been
made by the projectors of the Wheeling,
wellsburg and State Line Railroad: Wheel
ing and vicinity, $50, 900; weilsburg and
vicinity, SIS, 600; Buffalo District, includ-
ing Bethany, SIS. 900; DansfOrt and vicin-
isy. S.. 600; Atchison and vicinity, 5000,
West Middletown and vicinity, $l5. 900;
Csnonshurg and vicinity, SIS. 600; Bridge.
vile and vicinity, $40, 600; Woodv,lie and
vicinity, S., 900; P~,ttsburg, $50, 600; to-
tai, S3l5. 600. Approximate distance 63
miles, S., 900 per mile. When IL nus be
canceded that the road must first be built
before this money is payable, there ought
not to be any difficulty in raising the
amount.
II il understood that some Of the recent
ly discharged employees Of the B. q D. road
are disposed to enter into a little legal
contest with the Company which formerly
gave them employment. 1t appears that
the Company have a system OF pensionirg,
requiring an employe to have contributed
to it for four years, to have been In the
service OF the Company for ten years, and
10 have attained the age OF sixty years be-
fore becoming entitled to the benefit OF
TWENTY-FIVE cents q day. The men claim
they were discharged Just before becoming
entitled to the pension. Railroad men
will look at this action with considerable
interest.
Rumor was rife last evening that Al.
Maui, of the PittsbuIg club, had been ex-
changed to the Wheeling club, in return
for one of our best players, to-wit Flana-
gan. Several base ball authorities were
spoken to about the matter last night, but
all denied that there was anything in the
report. Last evenings Pittsburg Leader,
which came to hand long after the rumor
vas in circulation, contained the follow
ing, which is of interest in this connection :
lone Of the morning papers to-day pub
fishes An item about the Pittsburg clubs
desire to sell Maui, which will very likely
cause somebody considerable trouble.
Manager Phillips says: 4 called a messen-
ger boy at the Central Hotel last night
about eleven o'clock and gave him q bun
die OF kilograms to take to the office.
These were addressed to the various
League clubs, asking. them to waive claim
to Al. Maui, rs the Pittsburg club
had received an excellent offer
from an outside club. Within
half an hour after these kilograms had
been given to the boy for delivery a re-
porter for the paper in question was at the
hotel office, epdeavoriDg to obtain fuller
particulars. Now either the messenger
boy read the telegram and gave the infor-
nation out, or else the news leaked out Of
the telegraph Office. This is the third
time that our private kilograms have been
made public, l laid the case before Man
ager CLARK, Of the Western Union, this
morning, and he is investigating the mat
ter. 4 think concluded Mr.. Phillips,
that it was the boy who carried the mes
sage, but we will know more about the
matter before evening""
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A big oil strike has just been made at
Ninevah, Greene county, pine miles north
west Of Waynesburg. Smith we'll No. 2
reached the Gordon sand Tuesday night,
at a depth of 1885 feet. The we'll was
shut down and the owners, Johnston &
Co., of Pittsburg, telegraphed for. Thurs,
day the well wa tapped, and some oil al
lowed to flow into the tank, but it was
again shut down. In the afternoon the
pipes burst and the oil flowed out over a
meadow and down the creek. New con
nections were hastily made, and the oil
turned into the $50 barrel tank which was
filled in two hours. The owners say the we'll
is good for 1000 to Zoo barrels a day. A
few months ago Smith No. l Was com plet-
ed. The second we'll is located one-fourth
mile west Of No. 1. The oil pool is be-
lieved to lie north and west of the Smith
well, as no territory has been leased
south of Ninevah. Johnston q Co., Van
dergrift & Co., and several private indi-
viduals hold territory in the field. The
first named have IL, 900 acres leased. John
Smith, on whose land the we'll is located,
was yesterday offered $1,000 by Johnston
& Co., for his eighth interest in the well.
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]. NJ. Guffy & Co. are turning up in q
new Oil field, and Greene county people
will soon. know whether their county is
worth q pipe line or not. The Pittsburg
firm, not content with its recent capture Of
all the valuable territory in the new Butler
comfy field, has gone to work and leased
thousands of acres Of that magnificent
Ten-Mile valley east, north and south OF
waynesburg, and already began the work
of its development. One rig is going up
now near the Ssyer's coal works, immedi-
ately east Of Waynesburg, within plain
sight of the Court House tower. 0nly one
effort to strike oil has ever been made in
this locality, and that was by inexpe-
rienced people, within the limits OF the
diminutive borough itself. The scene OF
present operations is only about ten miles
distant from the field that E. NJ. Hukill,
of PittsbuIg, has been 60 mysteriously,
and, it is thought, successfully working for