Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-06

Mississippi river under the management of
one company, similar 10 the Southern Pa
citc Company west of the Mississippi.
The name of the new company will be the
Newport News and Mississippi Valley Rail
road Company | do not know vet what
roads will be included in the consolida-
ton. So far. there is no doubt that the
Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern and
Elizabeth, Lexington and Big Sandy will
be included. | do not know when
the scheme will be perfected. We
worked three years to perfect the
Southern Pacific Company. This consoli-
dation is made to cut down the operating
expenses. 1t will also enable us TO carry
on business at low rates. lam not seeking
to get control of the Louisville, Evansville
and st. Louis road, although it would
seem TO be natural connection to ST
Louis. There are, however, two other
lines over which we could get to St Louis
either of which would answer equally
we'll"
Pennsylvania Streams on the Rampage.
LocKHAyRE, January 5th.-The flood in
the Susquehanna river at this point is
within two feet of being as high as it was
IN 1865. The greater part of the city is
flooded, but the damage cannot be esti-
mated Large quantities of saw-logs have
broken loose in the creeks above and are
passing here. as the boom cannot be hung
damaged. The thermometer is still rising
SHENANDOAH, January 5ih. The rain
storm throughout this section yesterday
and last night was the most severe for a
number of years. No less than twelve
collieries in the Mahon valley are flooded
and thrown idle by the rains, and trains
on all the railroads have been delayed from
two to eighteen hours There are three
washoutS between Delano and Ashland. on
the Lehigh Valley Railway Some of the
Hooded collieries will require some time to
remove the water, so as TO b. able to resume
operations.
WILLIAMsPORT, January 5th.-The river
IS still rising slowly, but it is believed that
IT has commenced falling at the head of the
stream. All the booms west of Remove,
holding several million feet of new logs.
went down this morning, Chiefly of the
nail firms Of this city. The water is now
surrounding the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad station in this city. and the tracks
are covered both above and below the sta
ton. No trains have gone out on the Pine
Creek or Beech Creek roads to-day A
train from the East on Philadelphia and
Reading, is detained below Royal Rock
creek, where the bridges are impossible \
train was sent down from here to transfer
the passengers. and il has not been able to
return. Cars have been placed on the
track, loaded with iron, to prevent the tres
tie work froni going. Almost the entire
!. territory between the canal and the river,
III this city. is submerged, and great damage
has been done.
HAzLEToE, January 5th.-Last nights
rain storm did a vast amount of damage
throughout this section. In the anthracite
coal region, the five collieries OF a. Pardee
d Co. are completely drowned out, the
water having entered the mines from
large creek, which burst into an old breast
of the Laurel Hill workings, and poured
steadily through this opening from -
O'Clock last night until 6 o'clock this even
ing. Twenty three mules were drowned,
and all the pumps are submerged. The
Crystal Ridge, Sugar Loaf, Sandy Run,
Auderied, Honey Brook and Stockton slopes
are also flooded. The water again broke
into the Harleigh and Ebervale mines,
which were recently flooded, and the situa-
ton now is more serious than before. All
the pumps are lost, and the water is rising
rapidly. 1t is impossible to say what the
losses will aggregate, but it must necessari-
ly be very heavy.
IN OTHER STATES.
RoSDoUT IN. ", January 5th.-The
rainfall this morning was the heaviest
known here FOR many years. The snow on
the Catskill mountains, together with the
rain, caused food in Esopus creek, which
rose RAPIDLY, imprisoning number of
families on the flats near Kingston. The
current was so strong that row-boats in
attempting to reach the houses, were
.Swamped, and one man drowned. The
water was as high as the windows of the
first stories in a number Of dwellings.
SPRINGFIELp CVt.), January 5th-The
high water in Black river carried out fifty
feet of the dam of the Vermont Novelty
Works Company to-day. The water is the
highest since the great flood of 1869.
PoRT DEPosIT (Md.J January 5th-The
recent heavy rains have caused a rapid rise
in the Susquehanna river, and the water is
now three feet above high-water mark, and
gaining steadily. Large quantities of logs
and driftwood have been going down all
day, and reports from up the river tonight
indicate general flood; but the rush of
water will not reach this point before to-
morrow morning.
The Paso lei Norte Murder.
Ell PAso Texas, January 5th.-The ap-
palling murder of jules Boisseier last
night, while sitting in his store at Paso del
Norte, by four masked burglars, who sue
ceeded in making their escape, has thrown
the whole country around here on both
sides of the river into the widest excite
ment. The Mexican authorities are thor
oughly securing their side of the river, but
so far without success, and it is thought
that the murdercrs escaped Immediately
after the dastardly deed TO the American
side of the river. Some SIX months ago a
bold attempt was made by four masked
men to rob one of the leading gambling
saloons il El Paso while big game was
in progress. They fired a shotgun at the
dealer. while the three companions of the
leader were armed with revOlvers. Atthat
time the four desperedoes made their es-
cape without securing any booty Ii is
surmised that the four burglars who killed
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band of outlaws. They were disguised in
the same manner, and carried the same
weapons. They were also similarly unsuc-
cessful in securing any plunder. They are
evidently bungleTs at their business, but
nevertheless they are ferocious and blood
thirsty, and the whole community hopes
that they will be ferreted out and caught.
The murdered man was leading merchant
OF Paso de- Norte, and generally esteemed.
He was prominent member of the Order
of the Knights of Pythias, and the Knights
residing in FL Paso have taken charge of
the funeral ceremonies, which will take
place tomorrow on an imposing scale.
New Yorb's New Board of Aldermen
NEW YORK, January 5th. - The new
Board OF Aldermen, organized yesterday,
consists OF seventeen County Democrats
nine Tammany aud Irving Hall men, and
four Republicans. There are nine liquor
dealers, live dealers in food, two lawyers,
one painter. one shoe dealer, one under
takei, one ieweler, two contractors, one
iiyerystahle keeper, one dealer in stone, and
one saddler. Nine were members of the
last Board. The St5l (Tammanyl says:
The fact that the County Democracy men
and Republicans had formed a union to
control the Board was first made manifest
by the reelection of Alderman Jaehne as
Vice-President. Tammany brings up the
rear on the committees.
Final DEGREES In the Telephone Cases.
PHILADELPHIA, January 5th.-Final de-
crees were entered in the United States
Circuit Court to-day in the suits of the
American Bell Telephone Company ct al,
against the Baxter Overland Telephone
and Telegraph Company, the Pennsylvania
Overland Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany and the Overland Telephone Com
pany ct al. 1t is decreed that the letters
patent granted to Alexander Graham Bell