The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04
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rev days VIslt'
Capt Gordon o Green fell from
street oar in GCincinnati several
days ago Was slightly injured
The wharfboat at New Martins
Vile sunk on last Wednesday morn
ing, causing considerable damage
to the boat and the goods on it,
The steamer Emerson which has
been looked here and given gem
eral overhauling, reprinted, 60,
made trial trip yesterday and
oame around to the wharf in the
Ohio. The Emerson was the Mo.
line whom bought by Capt r p
Cache last year down south, he
having changed her name since she
has been repaired. The boat is q
fast and powerful one and is used
to tow the showboat. The Emer-
son Floating Palace, Capt Caches,
is now gathering his company to.
gether and will leave in week or
so for Pittsburg to start showing
Lewis Sayre, of Antiquity, en-
terd suit in the court at Pittsburg,
through his attorney, o. 3. Hogg,
against the River Combine of
Pittsbnrg. for $4,000 for the loss
of his son. WILDER Sayre, drowned
off the Iron Age, just below Raw
enswood, in February, 1906. SaYre
was about 20 years of age when
tho accident happened. The boat
lay at the banks at Antiquity for
several days and when che left for
Plttsburg her Grew was composed
mostly of young men of that place.
The accident happened the first
night out. The unfortunate young
man was in Wheeling GOAL and /,
blinded by a glaring light, he
walked overheard. and the body
Was not recovered for several
months. = Pomeroy. Independent,
Fob %.
The Convoy passed down from
Pomeroy bend last Wednesday
night with a large tow: Six barges
of salt, three model barges of bulk
aud three of barrels. and thirteen
bArges of GOAL.
A packet company with oapi-
talization 100000 has been or
genized by prominent rivermen,
and was chartered at Charleston
last Wednesday under the laws of
West Virginia The company will
bs known aa the Ohio & Kanawha
Packet Company. and the inoorpo
rators are w e Roe, M # Noll,
Ed Maddy. B s Pope and f. Fl
Wolfe. The inoorporators are we'll
known rivermen and their wide
experience gives assurance of the
SUCCESS of the enterprise. The
O company will enter the Pittsburg-
Charleston trade and will imme-
diately take over the steamers
Kanawha and Avalon. The latter
b pat is being remodeled with an
cabin, and as soon as
the work is completed she will be
reohristined the Ohio. The boat
will be one of the best of her class
on the river. As soon as the Pa
pers of incorporation are received
the stockholders will organize and
it is understood that some extern
sive purchases will be made.
An unusually large shipment of
great gobs of sweetness passed here
on the Ohio last week from New
Orleans to Pittsbnrg. The towboat
Ironsides had one large barge fill
ed with molasses, 1900 barrels of
it, enough to fill dozen or more
large freight oars. The Henry
Lowry bad two barges of molasses,
about 5000 barrels. Every spring
a shipment of this character ia
made by the New Orleans meroh-
ants, as the cost of transportation
is 80 much less than by rail.
A 100 foot yacht is being built
at Antiquity, o., for A. SCOTT, the
Pittsbuag millionaire shoe man.
SCOTT expects to cruise around the
world with his family in his yacht
which will be elegantly furnished
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