Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-09
Information Regarding Local and West
Virginia's Lines.

Virginia's Lines.
Supt. Taussig, of the Terminal, is ex-
pected to return from Chicago to-day,
o. R. Wood, travelling passenger
agent Of W.. & L. E, will go to Chicago
to-day.
E.W. Frink has been appointed assis-
tant treasurer of the w. & L. E., vice
A. II. Thorpe.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie will
continue its one fare for round trip
rate TO Chicago to-day.
Tomorrow the Ohio River railroad
will run an excursion to Chicago, via
the B. & o. S. w. and Big Four.
Ex.Gov. Wilson is expected to make
an address at the big meeting Of rail-
road men at Huntington, Saturday.
The August accident record shows sc
persons killed and 1872 wounded. OF the
killed 80 were passengers, and Of the
wounded SO.
Last week was a splendid one for the
B. s. o. on Chicago travel. Something
like 500 people took this popular line
for the Worlds Fair.
There have been rumors Of a $3.50
round trip rate to Chicago, from this
city, for several days past, but nothing
definite has yet materialized.
On Friday and Saturday last seven or
eight judgments were entered by JUS
tlces at Jaeger against the Norfolk and
Western in COW and horse cases.
No Roadway has been made among
local B. 81 o. men In the matter OF OBJ
tanning their consent to the proposed
reduction. Every man spoken to is
firm in his opposition to the cut.
tits said that the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company will erect a hand
some monument at Harper's Ferry on
the site of the old John Brown fort,
In commemorstion Of the last stand
Of that deluded but celebrated person.
The railroad tracks run within a few
feet Of the spot.
The Norfolk s. Westsr Railroad
Company has assured the Kenova ASsO-
citation, that the removal Of the end
OF the division from KenoVa, is not
even a remote contemplation. The end
Of a division Is located at Kenova for
good. The company has declared its
intention to complete the repair shops
already begun, as soon as it a get
sufficient mean ahead TO do SO.
Mr.. William Stewart, a freight on
ductor on the B. & o. railroad, met
with what might have been a fatal &C
cident on Tuesday night between
eleven and twelve o'clock near Harper's
Ferry. He was standing on top OF a
box car intent upon reading his mani
fest, and did not notice the c. '. bridge
crossing, by which he was knocked
down, and was found lying on top Of
the car by one of the brakemen. He
was sent TO his home In Brunswick and
at last accounts was doing we'll.
The Norfolk and Western laid of 200
men between Gray and North Fork the
first Of the week. Those laid off were
mostly hands who had been working on
sections between the above points, and
includes the crews and working forces
of two material trains. This falls
heavily upon the men discharged, COM
ing as It Toes at the commencement OF
the winter season, and many Of them
have families who depended solely upon
their monthly income for support.
The completion Of the Confluence &
Oakland road, which has been surveyed
from Oakland, Md, on the Wheeling
division Of the Baltimore & Ohio, to
Confluence, Pa, on the Pittsburg d.
vision Of the Baltimore & Ohio, is as
sured by the fact that the Mountain
Lake Park Association Of Garrett coun-
~. Nd, has voted to give $4,000 to-
wards the project, says the MGnlifdc'
~tiirer's Record. The new road Is about
thirty miles long and will shorten the
distance considerably between Pitts
burg and Baltimore, while it is expect
ed 70 induce many residents Of the for
mel city to come to Deer Park, Noun
tain Lake Park and other Maryland
summer resorts.