Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Henry Tillotson, a clerk in the Des Moines.
Iowa, postofhce, was arrested Friday night by
Inspector Fleming, while in the act of rihing
letters.
-wife-murderer Tunis Labee was yesterday
morning sentenced at Patterson, n, j., to be
hanged on June q, by Supreme Court Judge
Jonathan Dixon. Labee betrayed no emotion.
Yesterday morning the small canoe Dude
was capslzed of Spectacle Island, Boston mar
Dor. and her occupants, two young men, were
drowned while attempting to reach the shore,
which was not more than 400 yards distant
AT the Canada Fisheries Department it is
learned that the receipts from United States
fishermen for licenses granted under the modus
Tivendi this spring amounts to over $6,OOO,
which double the amount received during
the whole of last year.
AT yesterdays session of the Episcopal
Convention for California it was formally de-
cided to divide the State, which has heretofore
formed one diocese into two dioceses. One
will comprise the northern portion of the State
fG2d The oaarSr the senthcT an 1OTt1ons---r7
"A preliminary statement of the Union Pa
eifc Railway earnings for April shows: Gross,
81 l5S.2S7; decrease from same month last year,
S3S5 955; net, S7yl, ,S68; four months TO April 80
gross ST. 92S 733: decrease, S769 3S6; net, s. 579
464; decrease, S59l. .446
e E Rice, the theatrical manager who
was confined at Ludlow Street jail, New York
City, for debt lays all his troubles to the inter-
State commerce law, which he says makes
railroad rates too high to leave any profit in
the business in which he has for SO long been
engaged.
A postofice has been established at a point
nine miles north of Oklahoma City. in Okla
homa, and a miles south of Purcell, to be
called Moore Albert NJ. Petit has been ap-
pointed postmaster of the new Office. An Office
has also been established at a point Is miles
north OF Oklahoma City and Is miles south of
Purcell, on the same route, to be called Nor
man. D. w, Marqusrt has been appointed post
master.
"A bad wreck occurred on tie Erie Rail-
way, near Binghamton, n, Y, yesterday. A
hot journal was the cause of the wreck. FIJI
teen freight cars were more or less damaged,
and four tramps who were riding in a box car
were quite seriously injured. Three of the
men are from Akron, o. Their names are
John Flynn, Abe Williams and Cornelius Lar
kin. The other one, whose name is unknown,
Is from Cincinnati
The expected trouble at the Braidwood,
ILL.,, mines did not occur yesterday, as none of
the men attempted to go TO work. Some of the
strikers threw couple of dynamite bombs
upon the property of the Wilmington Coal As
Bociation, which exploded with loud noise
and startled the Braidwood people considera-
bly,. and it is thought an effort was being made
by the strikers to destroy the mines The men
who are willing to 60 to work at the prices Of
Tered are fearful that If they attempt to enter
the mines the Italians will carry out their
threats Of setting fire to the mines.
The first highway robbery that has taken
Cured last evening as the Langlade stage car
rying the mail between several minor points in
0ntagamie county. Wis, was approaching this
pla,e on its regular trip over the old military
road. Six passengers were in the coach. All
had considerable money, but no firearms
man jumped from the brush by the roadside,
covered the driver and passengers with a re-
volver in each hand and demanded the mail
sacks. When they were thrown to him he or
dered the driver to proceed and kept him COW
cred until out of range. The robber then took
TO the woods with his plumber the value of
which is unknown.
The Rev. Charles Spurgeon, son Of the
famous English pulpit orator, was passenger
on the last Australian steamer which
reached San Francisco fortnight ago. Last
Thursday, at WawOna he narrowly escaped
the vengeance of an irate husband to whose
vile he had paid undue attention. While on a
Visitsto New Zealand, where his brother has a
pastorate, Spurgeon met his old friend, James
Duckworth, of Castleton Hall, Rockdale, Eng.
land, one OF the richest mill owners in England
who was travelling with his young wife,
Snurgeon and Duckworth crossed the Pacific
together, and Duckworth demonstrated ,
with SpurgeOn over the warmth of the
latter's attention to his wife which Greeted
gossip. Her husband became exasperated and
struck Spurgeon. The two men cfinched but
Mrs DUckworth threw herself between the
combatants and Spurgeon retreated to the
hotel DuckwOrth was placed under arrest
but was not detained long.