Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-15
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Heavy snow storms prevailed all over the
Northwest yesterday. At Neche, Grand Forks
and Pembina the mercury dropped to 100 below
zero,
storekeeper and gauger at Kansas City, Mo-,
and Garland B. Hale storekeeper at Lexington,
KY.
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas F. Barr has re-
ported to the War Department and assumed
the duties of Military Secretary to the Sec
retary of War.
The jury of inquest in the Dawson murder
case, at Charleston, found verdict to-day that
DR.. Mellow was guilty of felonIous killing, and
that his colored butler was an accessory.
Secretary Window yesterday appointed
in the State of Louisiana, vice Mr.. Bradley, re-
moved.
The funeral of Rear Admiral John Lee
Davis took place from the Ebbitt House,
Washington, at 10 o'clock yesterday morning,
and was largely attended by many department
of1cials, officers and friends.
The officers of the Buffalo Athletic Club
yesterday morning received brief letter from
ex-Presidenr Cleveland, in which he states that
the signature to his supposed application for
membership was a blundering forgery.
Mr.. Eugene Schuyler. the nominee for AS
sstant Secretary of State, is at present in Italy,
and is not expected to arrive in Washington for
at least month. Meanwhile Mr.. Walker
Dlalne, whose nOm1naLlOn as SOllclCOr OF state
Department was confirmed yesterday is occu-
pying the Assistant Secretary's desk vacated
by Mr.. Rives.
"A large delegation from Georgia waited on
Secretary Window, at the Treasury Depart
ment yesterday, and urged the appointment of
Colonel James Atkins, of that State, as Solici.
tor of the Treasury. The Secretary promised
to consider the matter. The office is under
the Department of Justice, and is now held by
Judge Carey, of New York.
yesterday morning at Utica, N. Y. He was
perfectly calm, and the execution passed of
smoothly. The crime for which jackson was
hanged was the murder of Norton Metcalf, in
Augusta Center. The crime was committed
Sunday afternoon, January 20, 1888, and grew
out of the relations between jackson and the
wife of his victim.
Reports from Newfoundland say that the
issue of licenses to American vessels for the
purchase of bait and other necessary outfit will
be refused this season, and that the Govern.
ment will coincide with the Dominion Govern.
ment in its policy. The reason alleged is that
American vessels last season violated the
licenses given them, the bait purchased in New
foundland was sold to the French at ST. Pierre
The verdict in the Coroner inquest on the
recent Park Central Hotel disaster, in Hart
ford, Conn.,. in which % persons were killed
was to the effect that the explosion was caused
by the willful negligence of Alexander Thuel
and Amos Risley, and that said Thuer and
Risley did, ON the 18th day of February, 1889
thereby willfullly and negligently cause ;the
death spoken Of Thuer and Risley are now
under bonds of 81, 500 each for trial.
The colored people of Springfield, ILL.,, held
a meeting last night and decided upon the cree
ton of monument in this city to the memory
of Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward
Charles Sumner Wendell Phillips. Johr
Brown and soldiers of the late war. The pro
posed cost of the monument is about S200, 600
and the funds will be raised by donations from
all the colored lodges and churches throughout
the United States The association will secure
articles of Incorporation.