Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-01-07
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RIVER NEWS.
Daily Chronicle of the Movements or TN
Goats and Boatmen.

Daily Chronicle of the Movements or TN
soats and Boatmen.
YESTERDAYS DEPARTURES -
Charleston. Kanawha. $3.50 a. m; Pitts
burg. Ben Hur 4 p. m; usual locals.
TO-DAY'S BOATS.-Pittsburg, W. X.
Bedford. a. m; Cincinnati. Hudson, $
a. m: Parkersburg. Argand a. M; Lee
row. II a. m: New Matamoras. Lexington
II a. m: Sister. lie, Ruth, $3.50 p. M;
Darlington, Jewel. $3.50 p. m.
The Ohio has reached fair stage OF
water. The marks at the wharf last night
were s feet, inches and rising. A rise
of nearly two feet was expected ny morn
ing. Very few towboats will so south on
the present rise. There is no great de-
sire on the part of Pittsburg operators 10
shin any coal as the market is overstock-
ed Ninety per cent of the rivermen DO
not care for a rise. The packet men are
well pleased. however, for it comes at an
onertune time for them. The only boats
that left Pittsburg yesterday with tows
were the Johr Moren and Ida Budd.
The wharf is very slippery and very
dangerous for horses to travel. AT Its
best it is hard travelling for them.
Cant. W. w. Moore, an old river man
died at his home on South Eotf street
Tuesday.
The Hudson will be down to-day with
big trip from Pittsburg. A message re-
celved from the captain yesterday after
noon stated that he was refusing more
freight. The La belle mill has big ship
ment of nails for her. TO go south.
The freight business on the river has
picked up wonderfully since the holidays
and if the river keeps at fair stage and
sufficiently free from ice. the packet men
will have an exceedingly prosperous Win
ter
The Steubenville and Cincinnati bridges
are to be inspected by Maj Houer chair
man of the Board of Bridge Inspectors.
Both of these bridges are dangerous to
navigation.
The Lorena IS the only packet that has
not resumed. She is tied up at GAINESVILLE
and no word has been received from her.
She will. no doubt, miss this trip.
Capt. w. w. O'Neil has returned from
New Orleans. where he has been looking
after his coal interests. The stock of coal
on hand in the Crescent City, he reports,
is unusually large.
George Henderson, a son of Capt. James
A. Henderson, who has been acting as
| third clerk on the steamer Hudson, does
not like the river and has decided TO re-
main on shore.
The big Mississippi river towboat James
Y. Lockwood was completed at Marietta
yesterday. and left at once for st. Louis
with Captain Lyhein in command. She Is
a very large steel hull boat with tandem
/ compound non-condensing engines of one
thousand horsepower. The hull was built
at Pittsburg and the machinery at Ma
rietta
Pittsburg, Pa, January 6.-River s
feet 4-1O and stationary at the dam.
Clear and cold.
Morgantown. w. Va, January g.
River s feet. Fair; mercury 26.
Steubenville, o., January 6.-River
feet 10 inches and falling. Clear and
cold. Passed up-The Ben Hur.
Passed down-The Argand and Hud-
son.
Warren. Pa, January 6.-River 3
feet. Light snow; cold.
Greensboro, Pa, January 6.-River
9 feet inches and falling. Cloudy
and cold. The Adam Jacobs is due up
and down Thursday.
Oil City, Pa, January 6.-River 8
feet 10 inches and stationary. Cloudy
| and cold.