Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-09

Signal Office Yesterday has disappeared, and |
hopes OF freeze have been dissipated. No |
relief is expected now on that account. In
Newport, KY. early this morning, William |
Berchart, a bugler Of the United States |
| troops at Newport barracks, fell from skiff |
while trying to reach the second story OF the |
barracks Building ana was drowned. Mrs. |
Wsddle, widow living at Newport, hiss be- |
come rsving maniac on account OF the flood. |
! She was q poor woman with several children, |
living in the flooded district. The neighbors
took charge of her children and of her, but
being unable to see her children, she imsg-
ined them drowned, and to-day is hope
lessly insane.
SLOWLY CREEPING UP.
CINCINNATI, February Ssh.-The river at
o'clock marked 60 feet 10l inches. At 8 it
reached 63 feet-hsving risen half an inch an
/ hour The militia are on duty tonight, as
sistipg the police. The gas is still burning,
but it is not expected to continue till morn.
ing.
THE DANGER PAST FOR THE PRESENT.
| PITTsBURG, February S.h.-The rivers are
again within their banks and steadily reced-
| ing. The Moaongshels marks show &c feet
| II inches at noon, with about one foot more
| in the Allegheny. The streets of the city
are almost entirely clear of water, and the
people in the submerged districts are busy
to-day cleaning houses and streets of the
yellow, siimy mud and debris left behind as
unpleasant momentos of the greatest food in
fifty years.
GREAT LOSS IN PRIVATE PROPERTY.
STRUBENvILLE (O), February Sth.-The
highest point-49 feet-wss reached by the
river yesterday at A. M.-two feet higher
than in 1882. the greatest previous food. 1t
has since receded Is inches, and continues
falling. The loss to private property here
will foot up $50, 900. and to the railroads it
is incalculable. No lives were lost.
ENGINE.sHoPs CARRIED AWAY.
WHEELING wv. Va, February Sth.-The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad engine. shops
have been carried away. Two unknown men
were upset at the head of the island from q
skif, and chung TO the willows for two hours.
| A crowd were watching them, but were pow
erless to save them. Wheeling is in danger
of famine, nearly all the bakeries and many
groceries being beneath the water. The milk
supply is exhausted, and there is no meat tx
| cept sslt meat.
SUFFERING FROM FAMINE.
! WHEELING wv. Val February Ssh.-
Word hiss been received that the people at
Wellsburg, twenty miles up the river, are
absolutely suffering from famine. At Ben
wood the situation was as bad, but a relief
party visited there on the steamer Regular
and left a liberal supply Of provisions. Win
dow glass works, believed to be from Wells
| burg, are lodged ct the south end of the city.
PEOPLE STILL DESERVING THEIR HOMES.
IRoNToN (Ohio), February Sth-Tne river
| is still rising two inches an hour. All of
West Ironton is under water. In most Of
the villages along the Ohio river the people
have left their houses and gone to the high
lands. Great distress is reported at various
points.
HIGHER THAN EVER KNOWN.
CosHocToN (Ohio) February Ssh.-The
food reached its highest point at midnight,
being y inches higher than ever known. No
trains from the East have arrived since
| Wednesday. While crossing a swollen creek
near Otsego, lady, whose name is unknown,
missed her footing, and was drowned. Three
Nelson brothers, out boating, were struck by
driftwood, and all three drowned. All were
under 20 years of age.
THE SITUATION DEPLoRABLB.
CATLErTsBURG (Ky.), February Sth-The
situation is deplorable. only one hotel and one
grocery being open. Three hotels and thirty
or more business houses have been closed by
the food. People are occupying the Court.
! house and school houses. The river is rising
at the rate Of two inches an hour.
HOUSES SWEPT AWAY.
RIPLEY (Ohio), February Ssh.-The loss will
be fully equal to that of last year. Many
houses have been swept from their feunda-
tons, and 200 families are homeless. The
river is rising one and half inches an hour to-
/ night.
NO TELECRAPHIC COMMUNICATION.
! GALL1PoLIs (Ohio), February Shat
NJ. the river was rising two and half inches an
hour, and was then % inches above the high
water mark Of last year. The Western Union
| Telegraph has connection with its Offices
at Psrkersbusg, Marrietta, Pomeroy, Hunt.
ineton. Ashland, Riverton, Buena Vista and
West Union.
| ICE GoRGES FORMED.
! TOLEDO (O(, February Sth.-The latest
advices from towns along the river above this
| city are that the water has passed the highest
| point reached last year. a gorge has formed
between this city and Perrysburg, which thus
far keeps the flood back, preventing any un.
usual rise OF water hsre. Between Toledo
and Fort Wayne several gorges have also
| formed.
THE SITUATION AT MEMPHIS.
! MEMPHIS (Tenn.) February 8th. - The
river at noon to-day is ) feet inches below
| thu danger line, and rising at the rate of an
inch an hour. From the present outlook, I'M
less the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers COM
mence raising and add to the floods which are
now pouring out of the Ohio and Cumberland
streams, the Mississippi valley will not be
| subject to dangerous overflow. 1t is thought
the danger line here will be reached by
! Wednesday.
The Nebraska NisIIanles.
SIOUX CITY ia J. February Sth.-The dig
| patch sent from here yesterday relative to
" Kid " Wade and the Nebraska vigilantes
is confirmed by citizen who arrived to-day.
| be says the man hanging at B lssett YVES not
Kid" but large, full grown man, while
" Kid Is small. and boyish. looking. It was
true. however, that the Sheriff of Brown
county had possession Of kid" for short
time, having taken him from two vigilantes,
who took him to Long Pine but the vigil
lsntes were soon notified, and came in force
and retook him. 1t is claimed that the
| vigilantes did not hang kid until they
endeavored to compel him to diVulge the
members of the gang of horse-thieves with
/ which he had been training The man
hanged at Bsssett ia believed to have been a
victim Of vigilsnte vengeance, and q horse
thief. The people at Bassett station knew
nothing of the affair till they saw the body
dangling from the whistling post. They even
feared to cut the body down. The whole
| country is terrorized, and people are afraid
to say a word.
End of the Ribbon WeaYers' strike.
NEW YORK, February S.h.-A few days
after the strike of the silk ribbon weavsrs at
Paterson began, at Dexter Lsmb & Co.'S,
the meH, who had declared themselves per.
iectly satisfied with their wages, which were
higher than the Strikers Committee asked, |
withdrew from the mill, in order, as they
said, to give c0untenance to the movement to |
secure q uniform schedule of prices. Yes.
te-day they all returned to work in body at
the old prices. DuIing ths two weeks they !
hay. been out they could have earned from !
$500 to 81, 900, and in the same time they !
have kept other hands in the mill from earn.
ing upward Of 81. 600. They admit they |
don't exactly see what they gained by their |
action. There are now scarcely 200 silk |
wesvers on strike in Paterson of 7U0 usually |
employed.
Consideration Among the New York Pei
son Vendors
NEW YORK, February Sth.--The Excise |
Commiss oners have sent oat the following !
circular 70 LOO liquor dealers in this CITY, |
where convictions for violation Of the ex- !
else law have been obtained:
As you have been convicted in tie Court of Spe. |
cih Sessions c. violation Of the excise law the
Inspector o. the Bureau will call for yeur license |
and, according % law, you viii be reported to the |
police as unliceEss1.
CONSERVATION among the liquor dealers |
prevails, as a natural consequences.