Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-26
MARKS FROM ABOVE.

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rising az the dam. Cloudy and cool.
OIL ClTY-River + feet inches and
falling: Weather cloudy and cool
BROWNSVILLE-R River Is feet inches
and rising.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 1s feet inches
and falling Weather raining
GREENSBORO-Rive IA feet inches
and rising Cloudy; rainfall 30
u e a,. !; 9 feet 10 in
WARREN-River feet 8 inches. Cloudy
and cooler.
MARKS FROM BELOW.
PARkERSBC RG-Ohio river feet and
rising, Raining for the past "a hours.
Passed up: Barnsdall, Queen City. Pass
ed down: Virginia, at midnight. The Lit
tie kanawha IS falling
Last evening at six o'clock the river
registered a stage of 10 feet inches
and rising. This indicated rise of
feet inches in eighteen hours and
rise Of feet 7 inches on the present
swell. Advices from Pittsburg last ev-
ening stated that the river at that
point was rising at feet l inch.
Local rivermen believe that sufficient
rain has fallen at upper pl..ces to cause
a stage of from Is to 20 feet at this
point, although this estimate may be too
large. Nevertheless an excellent coal
boat stage will certainly be reached in
the Ohio which will allow the Pittsburg
shippers to send every lump of the
black mineral that is now on hands to
southern markets.
All the side streams were putting out
heavily yesterday and are aiding con-
siderably in the rise. The rains came
at very opportune time as the river
was gradually receding to pretty low
marks.
A stage of eleven or twelve feet is
expected to be reached in the Monon-
gahela river at Pittsburg to-day Up the
Allegheny valley heavy rains fell Sat-
urday night and Sunday, and in the
Monongahela valley and throughout
the Cheat river districts additional
rains fell Sunday night. The rise out
of the Monongahela is meeting that
coming out of the Allegheny. A
number of towboats with empties now
ascending the river will likely reach
Pittsburg before the present rise
passes out. A few boats will be sent
from Pittsburg to-day, but a majority
of the boats will fail to start south
until tomorrow. The towboats to be
started south to-day will be the Res
cue, George Shiras and Belle MCGOWAN.
The latter will tow twelve barges and
two coalboats.
The City of New Orleans has been
sold at auction sale at Birds Point,
Mo-, and the purchaser was Captain
Dana Scott, of GAINESVILLE, O., who is
an intimate friend of the local river
men and commander of the Lorena.
The boat will be taken to Marietta,
where she will be wrecked and her
hull used as a wharfboat The cap
tain will use the New Orleans's ma
chinery on a new boat. This steamer
being an old one, was crossed off"
some time ago.
The towboats Ed Roberts and Fallie
passed up yesterday the former at 10
a. m and the latter at / p. M.
The coal market at Cincinnati has
been doing much better of late The
prices have advanced to u to Il of a
cent a bushel by the barge. The stock
at that city is said to be very light,
! Notwithstanding the heavy shipments
that have been sent to that market
Shipments are being made by rail to
interior points.
| Capt Lee Anshutz, who has been ly-
! ing i'll at his home at Moundsville, W.
Va, for some time past, is improving
His many friends will be pleased to
+, learn Of the fact
| Capt. Jim Mcdonald, one of the old
! est and most widely known rivermen
, in this section Of the country, is lying
| seriously i'll at his home in the North
| End. and his life is despaired of. Capt.
| Mcdonald has been connected with
| steamboats, for quite number of years.
| He is in his eighty-frst year, and the
news of his illness will be learned by
rivermen throughout the entire valley
with regret.