Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-14
RIVER NEWS.
Daily Chronicle of tho Movements of the
Goats and Boatmen.

DAILY Chronicle OF tho Movements OF the
Goats and Boatmen.
YESTERDAYS DEPARTURES.
T. NJ. Bayne, Steubenville.
Ruth, Sistersville.
Leroy, Darlington.
Argand, Parkersburg.
II. X. Bedford, Charleston.
Lexington, New Matamoras.
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
Pittsburg, Ben Hur, 6 a. m.
Pittsburg, Kanawha, s a. m.
Pittsburg, Keystone State, 8 a. m.
TO-MORROW'S DEPARTURES.
Steubenville, T. M. Bayne, 2:30 p. N.
Darlington, Leroy, $3.50 p. m.
Sistersville, Ruth, 80 p. m.
Parkersburg, Ben Hur, 8 p. m.
The marks at the wharf last evening
indicated stage of feet inches and
falling. The recent swell failed to
meet the general expectations of river
men, and therefore the larger packets
must remain tied up. The w. ]. Cum
minis will for the present remain on
the docks at Middleport, the Queen
City will stay at Cincinnati, and the
steamer Virginia, to have left Pitts
burg yesterday for Cincinnati, will be
held at the former city.
The Ford City started down the
Ohio river yesterday morning from
Pittsburg, but when she reached Duff
her tow, consisting of two flats and a
scow. were grounded. She was bound
for Merrill, the scow to be used in the
work done there.
Captain Harry Browns new tug, w.
7 Dnx
City, Mich, to New Orleans. Captain
Brown is on the vessel. 1t will be one
of the largest craft of the kind on the
Mississippi. The tug cost $4,000 and
will be fitted up for work before the
beginning of the year.
The wreck of the steamer Edna
Adams, which has lain on the bank of
the river above Louisville for eight
years, will this week be blown up with
dynamite The old hulk is lying in
what is known among rivermen as
the "boneyard," says the Evansville
News. Nearby are the ruins of the
burnt Jewel and the sunken Gus Genin.
Capt Caywood Spencer has invented
a motor for supplying power to run a
steam steering apparatus on steam
boat which, it is claimed, is much SUI
perior to the power as now applied. 1t
is much simpler, does not weigh more
than It's or 200 pounds, and is mex
pensive. Capt. Spencer proposes to
place it on exhibition before long at
the social room of Harbor %, at Pitts
burg.
A Washington dispatch says: The
chief Of engineers has passed upon the
bids for the construction of four locks
upon the Ohio river, and it is believed
that he has recommended to the secre-
tary of war the acceptance of the lowest
bid. that submitted by Eigenmann and
Hollenbach, Eichel and Arnold, OF
Evansville, Ind, as recommended by
Major Bixby, the engineer officer in
charge. This recommendation is based
upon the view that the law allows no
discretion with the department in such
cases, provided the firm is properly
bonded.
The bids for the improvement of the
Monongahela river have just reached
the chief Of engineers, and will be taken
up for examination Immediately. In this
case, as in the case of the Ohio river
locks. strong protests have been lodged
against the reception OF the lowest bid
submitted by C. |. Mcdonald.
The Steamboat Captains. and Owners
Exchange, at a meeting Acid in New
Orleans last week, selected Captains j.
V. Higbee, Charles P. Truslow and j.
w. Bryant to attend the conference of
owners and captains with Gen. Jamd
Dumont, supervising inspector of steam
vessels, at Cincinnati. December 9th, in