Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-09
ConSressional.

| phis Society of Cincinnati.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole on the tariff bill, the pending
amendments being those offered by Tucker
and Morrison fixing the duty On stee; rails at
| seven.tenths OF cent per pound and SIS per
ton, respectively.
Tucker withdrew his amendment and ac-
cepted Morrison's, fixing the rate at SIS per
| ton.
Several amendments were offered and re-
| jected. and after discussion Of come length
| the committee fixed the duty on steel railway
bars and railway bars made in part of steel,
weighing more than twenty. fl ;e pounds to the
| yard, at Sl5 per ton, by vote of ITO to 80.
The committee rose, and Kelley made an
attempt TO limit the discussion OF the next
paragraph TO five minutes. / his was opposed
by the Democratic side, and after roll call a
| compromise was agreed to, haiting the time
to thirty minutes, and the House again went
| into committee.
Without acting on the pending amend.
ment, the committee ross and the House took
| a recess.
At the evening session the legislative bill
was read by sections for amendments.
The item appropTiating S11, 700 for the
maintenance of botanic garden in Washing.
ton having been reached, LeFevre moved TO
strike it out.
After discussion the vote resulted Ayes
33 noes 83-no quorum.
The committee rose and the House sd-
journed.
Flood Reports.
WILKEsBARRE (Ps.), February Ssh.-The
water is gradually falling, and travel has
been resumed between here and Kingston.
The ice is firm from hsre to Nanticoke.
WHEELING wv. VAL February Stb.-The
river here has again reached thirty-seven and
half feet, about the highest it was yester-
day, and not more than two feet more is ex-
pected. 1t is rising abou. two inches per
hour.
PITTsBURG, February 6sh.-Tae food in
the Monongahela river has reached it's high
est point-2S feet at 8 o'clock this morning.
Soon after that hour it began to recede
Owing to the cold weather, which shut off
the small streams, the water did not get as
high as was anticipated by several feet. The
damage here is almost wholly from inunda-
tons, but the losses from these are consider
able. All mills along both rivers are sub.
merged and operations are suspended Many
of the stores in the lower portions of the two
cities are under water, and hundreds of fam
lilies on the south side and in Allegheny have
been compelled to leave thsir homes until the
food subsidies.
PIrTsBURG. February S.h.-At 10 o'clock
bO-ufRiib tuc N4fcL5 dtt trtcdQliyhEcCCulhSs
twenty -four feet Of water in the MonoDgz-
bella and abuut the same in the Allegheny.
The bottom lands are still submerged, but at
the rate the water is falling the rivers will be
within their banks by morning.
CINoINNATI, February Stb.-Specials re.
port the Olio river reeeding two inches at
Marietta, but the city is in darkness. the gas
works bsing flooded. The water is within
two feet of the great food of 1860. The loss
in the city is very great, the merchants not
having time to save their goods. Miss Groves
was found drowned in her house.
PORT DEPOSIT Md, February Ssh.-
Heavy ice gorges threaten to break and hocd
the town. Other points along the shore are
endangered.
HARRISBURG wv. Va.l February Sth.-The
highest food prevails here since 1869. This
morning the river stood A feet above low
water. Houses on the Ohio aide are inun.
dated, also on the Ksnawha side. Three
hundred persons are homeless. Every mill
in the city is under water. The. pulp mill
holds only by frail boom. The loss is fully
100000. No lives have been lost. The
Kanawha river ia rushingout at tremendous
rate, and unless the back water can check it,
it will carry away the iron bridge. The
water is within foot of the furnace fres OF
the Postoffice.
Frozen TO Death.
RAwLINs (Wyo.), February Sth.-A cosca
which left Pacific Springs, on the Sweetwater
stage line, last week, was caught in the storm
of Friday. The coach was abandoned and
the party started back on foot to the station.
The driver, w. J. Stewart, was found frozen
to death. standing in the snow, and Thomas
Scott, the Superintendent, was found stand
ing up 10 the snow frozsn SO that he could not
move. He will lose his hands and feet w.
V. Clark, passenger, has not yet been fund.
They were out three days and nights. An
other stage driver was badly frozsn. He re.
ports two feet of snow on the level, and the
cattle starving. This stsge line ru1s from
Green river, on the Union Pacific Railroad,
to Fort Washakie. Wyo., through the South
Pass of the Rocky Mountains.
Miners Buried by Cave.
NEW YORK, February Ssh.--A Herald spe-
cial from Pottsville, Pa, says: A dozen
miners at work in the Logan Colliery yester-
day were buried by the caviDg in of mine.
Two were killed. and FIVE fatally injured. All
were Polish miners of considerable expert.
ence, married and living in and about the vi
cinity of the mine. The accident was caused
by the firing Of pistol, the conclusion loos.
ening ths walls. of the mine. The bodies
were frightfully mutilated.
The lateft report is that four Poles were in
jured, and one Of them will die. The others
will recover.
Affairs I'm Indian Territory.
ST LOUIS, February S:b.-Unless all signs
fail, there is going to be a very bloody war
between the factions in the Creek nation. A
correspondent has received from Ohmulke the
following: "I have it from headquarters
that battle will be fought in few days if
Spioche does not come to terms, but I dare
not send a detailed dispatch for fear Of trouble
to myself"
The Oklahoma s.Boomers Taken Into
Camp.
LEAvENwoRTH (Ks.), February Ssh.-The
headquarters Of the Department Of ths Mis-
souri, have received official notice of the
capture of Captain Payne, the Oklahoma
boomer" south of Cimsrron river, by Lieu.
tenant Stevens. The party were on their
way to Oklahoma, outftted with 100 wagons.
The entire party was taken to Fort Reno.
Boiler Explosion.
DIS MONIES 1a.), February S.h.-A boiler
exploded at Boone last night, instantly kill.
ing George Fleming, the engineer, and Joseph
james, and fatally injufing John johnson.
Two horses were killed. The engine-room
and the company's coal office were blown to
atoms.
Horrible Tragedy In Sc. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, February 8.h.-In tenement
house this morning Henry Dress, a German
teamster, cut his wife's throat with razor,
and then his own. Five little children slept
in the room, one ia bed with the couple. One
of the children got up, took the baby out OF
The bloody bed in " hich its mother lay, into
his bed, changed its dress. and then went 20
sleep The cause was jealousy.
Hartman, the Russian NihiIfsf.
PHILADELPHIA, February 8sh.-Leo Hart
man, the Russian Nihiliss, who has arrived in
this city in company with six other men, four
of whom are known TO be Russians, speaks
freely of the revolutionary movement in bis
native country. He denied that the Nihiiists
have been suppressed, and declared that the
coronation of the Czar would not take
place on the 9th Of May. The reason why