Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-29
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

According to the estimates of the publish
ers of the city directory for 1889, about to be
issued. the present population of Chicago is
over 100000.
The Presidenthas made the following ap-
pointments: John G. Watts, of Virginia, to be
United STATES Marshal for the Western district
of Virginia: James A. Connolly. to be United
States Attorney for the Southern district Of
Illinois.
The north-bound passenger train on the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad struck a COW about
20 miles below Cairo. ILL.,, yesterday and was
ditched. All the coaches left the rails and
were overturned Six passengers were slightly
hurt and an old negress was fatally crushed.
Customs officers have been informed that a
parcels post convention has been concluded
with the Republic of Salvador, and are in
structed to treat dutiable merchandise arriv-
ing from that country BY parcels post the same
as similar importations from the British West
Indies colonies.
The Republican State Central Committee
yesterday afternoon issued call for Republi-
can Convention to nominate officers for the
new. State of South Dakota to be voted for in
October. The first convention will be held at
Huron on August 2, and will be composed of
44S delegates.
All efforts to check the forest fire which
started in Cascade county, Montana, near San
Coules, two days ago have proved unavailing.
Advices up to last night show that it has COW
cred an area of over 100 square miles, and has
destroyed the best hay ground in the vicinity.
that the dry season had already greatly re-
duced the hay crop. No such prairie fire has
been known in Montana in recent years. So
far no lives have been reported lost, though
several ranchmen have been burned out.
Some days ago the city marshal of Leaven-
American Express Company that contained
beer and whisky addressed to private resi-
dences in the city. The stuff was taken from
the express company's Office before an attempt
notice was given that all four express compa-
nies doing business In the city would bring suit
for $4,000 each against the city marshal and
police commissioners for goods that had been
confscated at various times by them.
The following promotions were yesterday
made in the Patent Office as the result of
recent examinations RobertF Rogers, of Penn.
Charles 81. Lane, of Indiana andEugene M.
Harmon, of Ohio, Third to Second Assistant
Examiners; James A. Carr, OF Missouri. Fourth
to Third Assistant Examiner. A. Mckinney.
of the General Land Office. Fred II. Newal,
of Pennsylvania, has been appointed Assistant
Hydraulic Engineer of the Geological Survey,
and Timothy w. Stanton has been appointed
Assistant Paleontologist in the same office.
Yesterday morning c. M. Morgan, cashier
of the StateBank, of Sidney, Neb., was found
lying in bed with the top of his head blown of
and a 45-caliber revolver in his hand. The
bank, it is said, was not making money. Six
years ago Morgan eloped with the daughter of
II. w, Yates, President of the Nebraska Ma
tional Bank. of Omaha. He was the son of
groceryman and young man Of ex.
emplary habits, but the lady's parents opposed
the union. On the same day Frank johnson
eloped with the daughter of an Omaha mil
lionaire and married her. johnson and Morgan
shortly afterward started the State Bank, Of
Sidney, Of which Johnson Is now President.