Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-04
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Henry Cammett, of the Geological Society,
has been appointed biographer OF the census.
y. L. Woodbridge Of Connecticut superin-
tendent of the division Of supplies IN the Post-
ONCE Department, has resigned
"A. Bogardus, of Rochester, N. T.. has been
appointed superintendent Of mails as hocnes-
Ter, vice N. E. Toomey, resigned.
The courts have decided that New Orleans
must pay back taxes on drainage improve
ments to the amount Of s2OOQOO0
From information received from San
francisco it is expected that the new cruiser
day.
William ]. Pollock of Kansas has been ap-
pointed chief clerk to the Second Assistant
postmaster General. vice James 7. Briscoe, re-
&c; L. & I. T. Frye. shoe manufacturers. Of
Marlporo, Mass, have made an assignment.
Liabilities, $4,000. Two hundred hands are
thrown out of employment
William Alvord Terrell, Of henderson,
Tex. and Gordon Graham Heiner, of Kittzn-
nlng. Pa, have been appointed by the Prssi-
dent as cadets to the Military Academy.
About 100 quarrymen in the various quar-.
RES near Joliet Ill. went on strike yesterday
for an advance of % cents per day in wages. II
is believed that the matter will be settled soon.
"A terrible tragedy occurred at Blair La,
yesterday afternoon. A merchant named Mel
wick shot his wife and two children, set fire to
his residence and burned the bO0ies of his vic
Tins with 1t, and then shot himself.
Captain Murrell, of the steamship Mis-
souri,, has been presented with gold medal by
the Grand Lodge OF Masons OF Maryland, in
further recognition Of his services in rescuing
the passengers Of the steamship Danmark.
Captain Murrell Is q Mason.
Commissioner Tanner, Of the Pension
Office, has caused the rolls OF his office to be
searched for the purpose OF ascertalning the
number of ex-soldiers who are drawing pensions
for total blindness at the rate Of S72 per month.
The number is found to be S5S
-Messrs. Camp & Sons have informed the
Bureau Of Construction and Repair, under date
of the 1st instant, that they propose to put
more), on the 9th instant, and TO go on q pre-
limInary trial trip on the 18th of June.
AT meeting of the striking street car
drivers at st. Paul the strike was declared on.
and the men will go back to work at the re-
duced wages. The company made the eonces-
sion Of agreeing to treat the men well, regard
less of their affiliations with labor unions.
Secretary Tracy has determined to give coil
steam boilers practical trial, to test their
value for use in large naval vessels. Secretary
Whitney took the preliminary steps toward
such trial, and some manufacturers built the
boilers for the test, but as the end OF the adj
ministration was drawing near, the project was
dropped
"A two-horse coach containing several per-
sons was struck by train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad at Bridesburg crossing yesterday
Its occupants, +. K. Womrath and James Dun
gan, were killed and three others injured The
coach was filed with local politicians of Frank
ford, returning from jollincatIon-
Postmaster General Wanamaker has in
strueted the postmaster at Arkansas City Kan,
to forward to Guthrie all mail addressed to
Edmond Wharton, Alfred, and other points in
Oklahoma, where there are no post t0hices. He
has also directed the postmaster at Guthrie 70
deliver such mail to the persons addressed,
upon satisfactory evidence Of identity.
Dispatches from Decatur, Galesburg, Mon
ticello and TuscOla, ILL.,, and Wabash, Craw-
fordsvIIle and CoviDgton, Ind, report heavy
frost during the past two nights. In many
places small fruits are reported killed, and
many vegetables and potatoes are frozen to the
ground In some parJs snow fell, and at Cray
louisville ice formed one-quarter Of an mn
think.
The row which was raised at New Yc
over the reported presentation of a Grs
Army badge to Governor Gordon, of Geort
by General j. Madison Drake, turns out to
q tempest in teapot No Grand Army ba
was given. 1t was q veteran zouave brC a,
badge, made from captured rebel eannvn.
General Drake laughed when he read the New
York discussion.
-Lazard, Freres & Co. yesterday ordered
81. .0O0, 900 in gold bars from the New York assay
office for shipment to France. Brown Bros. a
Co. have taken $4,000 in gold bars for ship
ment to England. kidder Peabody Co.
have ordered S500.0OO gold for export to Lon
don. Arbuckle Bros. have ordered $500, 600
Tor export to Europe. Total gold ordered yes
terday, 81. 100000.
The President and the Secretary of the In
terror have called upon United States officials
III Oklahoma, charged in the report of the in
spectorS of the Interior Department with cor
rupt practices in connection with public lands
in that Territory. for any explanation or state
ment they may desire to make relative thereto.
The report of the inspectors will not be made
public at present.
The funeral of Squire Pierce Dewey, an
old Californian, took place yesterday from the
Collegiate Dutch Reformed Church, NewYork
City. Rev. G. B. Coe conducted the services,
and the interment was at Woodlawn Ceme-
terry, Among those in attendance were
Chauncey NJ DeDew. Eugene Kelly, Whitelaw
Reid, William Florence, Joseph ]. ODonohue,
ID. o. Mills and large delegation from the
Union League Club.
Alexander SkilIen who had been under ar
rest at Oswego. N. Y, since Saturday last,
on a charge of being one OF the perpetrators OF
schooner John Sehuette, of Toledo, was yester-
day afternoon admitted to bail in the sum OF
81 900, pending an examination. Mr.Josephs iS
at the hospital and is eonvaleseing. The exam
ination of the other three Union sailors
charged with being participants in the assault
on Mr.. Josephs has not been held.
"A ghastly accident was witnessed in one Of
the principal streets OF Indianapolis yesterday
when team attached to a wagon loaded with
transferred from an old cemetery to a new one,
became frightened and ran away. While dash.
ing down the street at breakneck speed the
tongue dropped and plowed into the ground.
The wagon was upset, and the force of it car
ried it forward. landing it upon the backs Of
street. Ono burst wide open, and the skull OF
the skeleton rolled on the ground. while bones