The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-07-31

town from the various fishing camps
yesterday, among them one which
Luther Blaney broughtirom the Bruins
wick clubs camp. 1t was brought up
aliyeinthe tank OF an Ohio river engine,
and taken to Held Il BoRdwing's, where
it was put in the bath tub. This morn
ing Mr.. Blanoy will take 1t out to MS
homo in the country. II was caught
several days ago and tied to the root OF
a tree with a trot line, SO that it could
swim about in the river. 1t weighed
% pounds.
Word comes from Fish creek OF o cat
fish caught there by Wheeling boys
which weighed 81 pounds. This one
the boys are going to send to John u
Kline. ,,,.l
AT tho camp OF the Mabel fishing
club at Shannon's landing, o., Eddie
Flanagan caught u ut pund cat,
A monster catfish was caught by W.
j. Oliver, OF Slacktown, q short distance
above the Union Bridge on Saturday:
He and August Yarion were in askil1
looking over u trot line, when very un-
expectedly Oliver felt a great pulling
on the line and saw much splashlng IN
the water. He saw the fish was u big
ono and allowed it to exhaust itself.
after which he landed it in the skill
with little difficulty. The fish was
taken to Martins Ferry and weighed.
It tipped the beam ut "a pounds. The
fish was a yard long and had q tail ana
fin as large as u palm-leat ian. Inc
mouth and throat were so large that a
man could put his handi in it with ease.
The fish was taken to Tricks saloon and
placed in his stone trough, where 1t at
tracted much attention. The fish was
go large that he could not turn around
in the trough.
Will Tweedy, of Martins Ferry, has
returned from u two weeks fish at Aoar
with u party Of friends. They caught
about l25 pounds OF catfish and a lot OF
turtles, one weighing about twenty-five
pounds. They had t~wenty-six visitors
ut dinner one day.
Yesterday was II big day for visitors
at the various fishing camps lying
along the river.
AT the AIark Twain clubs camp, at
Krebbe's landing, about thirty, guests
enjoyed the hospitality extended by
the members. All the members Wed
with each other in making their visit
enjoyable. In this they succeeded, as
was evidenced by tho showers OF praise
bestowed OH them by tho returning
guests on the evening train on the Ohio
River road.
At the KingGsheFs' Club, neal Mata'
moras, o., the entertainment OF visitors
was conducted on a more elaborate
scale, the main features being u big
dinner and concert during the day by
Mayors orchestra. These features, with
the good fellowship Of the members,
made the time speed by too fast.
Anumber OF other clubs also enter
tanned, and contributed their quota OF
passengers to the up train, consisting oil
i've coaches, NIL well crowded.
A down-the.river paper takes the
cake with astorythatthe riverhas got SO
low that when the big catfish want to
makei it ovet u ripple they wait till the
steamboat Liberty ome along and
then drop III tho wake and ride over on
the swell from the wheel.
A large cat was brought up last oven
ing from the South Side clubs camp,
and taken home by some Eighth ward
boys.
German carp, which have been stock
ed into many OF the stroams, are now
said to feed upon the eggs OF other fish
and are d%epopulating tho streams Of
other species. III many places lshor'
mon are DISCRIMINATING tho carp.
The creek by Fulton is 80 low and the
water so foul that fish arc dying there
by the hundred. There is not even
enough water to wash the carcasses
away, and the stencil that results is u
serious annoyance.