The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-02-07


The Lexington and Liberty got away
on time, both having fair trips to start
on.
The marks Mt u. m. showed IS feet 4
inches and slowly falling. Weather.
rain and cooler.
The Hudson got away for Cincinnati
at 8 n. m. She added considerable
freight at Wheeling wharf and mill
landings,
The light house steamer Goldenrod
is coming up the river, supplying the
various government light stations with
supplies.
The New South left Cincinnati last
night for New Orleans, with the largest
crowd OF Mardi Gras excursionlsts ever
sent out OF Cincinnati.
The Ironsides. W. W. o'Niell and
John A. Woods, out OF the
Mississippi, have passed Cairo for
Pittsburgh with enpties.
Masters md pilots are notified that
n fixed post hight, No. lsll-3, Pine creek,
has been established on the right bank
Of the Ohio river, two and half miles
above Sciotoville, Ohio, and 200 yards
below the mouth Of Pine creek.
A two OF 5000 tons OF steel rails, worth
$25 per ton, Is being brought down the
river by the Wash Honshell OF the Nc
Kinley Company, agents for the Hnut-
ington and st. Louis Towboat Com
pany. The rails are for the Texas Pa
cific Railroad Company.
The price OF Pittsburgh coal by the
boatload at New Orleans Is three cents
per barrel higher than II was at this
time last year, through the stock this
season up to q week ago was fully eX-
hausted. The cause OF the advance, It
Is said, ia due 10 the many disasters in
floating coal south this scnson. also the
long wait for water to ship, which, Of
course. had cost the Pittsburgh opera
tors more to keep the same aflont than
usual.
The report Of Lieut.. Col. stickney on
the results OF a survey for the location
OF dams numbers 2, J, I and on the
Ohio river between Pittsburgh and
Beaver. Pa, was laid before the house
yesterday. at Washington. II is rec
commanded that they be located as fol-
lows: No. 2, at Merriman's; No. 3,nenr
"the trap; No. I at Legionville. and
No. s at Freedom. II Is estimated that
they can be CONSTRUCTED for $4,000
each. The report says that with the
construction OF these dams great gain
will be made for the interests Of naV-
CATION, rs the worst part OF the river
will be made safe for navigation and
ample room will be afforded for the
storage OF vast amounts OF coal.
Wheeling lays claim to the Oldest
steamboRtmun on western waters now
IN active service. He Ia Captain John
K. Booth OF the Wheeling and Parkcrs-
burg packet, Liberty. whose perform
ances In battling with the Ice this Win
ter has earned for him the title OF THE
Ice King" Captlin Booth Is past the
seventy hve-ycars mark, but Is as &C.
tive and hearty rs the average man OF
fifty and bids fnir to remain in the
harness for years to come. The cap
tain has been steamboatiHg since his
boyhood almost unlnterruptetlly, and
during the war was the owner OF sever
| al fine packets and barge line on the
lower nver. Through business as
| socinte's pCrfdlty he was compelled to
make new start at the foot OF the
ladder after the war, and has since
done all OF his gtenmbontinE In lines
out Of Wheeling. Long live the leo
| King!
oil City-Rlver feet inch and r-ls-
ing. Cooler. with light snow aud rain.
wITen-RivGr 3 feet 3 inches and
rising Rain md snow.
Greenaboro-River II fcct inches
md stationary. Rainfall 40. Weather,
raining.
Morgnntown-Rlvcr 10 feet inches
and falling. Raining most Of the day,
mixed WITH snow, Getting colder Their
momctcr 40.
Pittsburgh--RIvcr 1l.0 feet and sta
tioHaFy at the dam. Weather, rnlDlnR.
| Stcubcnville-River II feet Inches
and falling Cloudy and cold. Down.
Frank Gilmore. Thomas LyBle, George
Wood, Adele. Bon Hur. up-Tlcsolute.
Fl. X. Bedford, ISoreHa, Percy Kelsey
Parkcrsburg-Rivsr 2l.6 feet and ris-
Ing. Both the Little Khnnwhn und
Ohio rivers IRE nj n very high stage.
Thousands Of dollars worth OF timber