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Show MOKNINO TELEGRAMS CONDENSED' The World's Fair directors yesterday elected Lyman J. Gage president, and Potter Palmer and Thomas Bryan vice-presidents. vice-presidents. The chamber of deputies of Mexico has approved tho bill granting an indefinite in-definite number of terras to presidents. The bill has been sent to the senate. Mayor Grant, of New York, has written writ-ten a letter, aking the legislature to appoint a committeo to investigate the charges against him by Patrick McCann before the legislative investigating committee com-mittee a few days ago. Tho annual meeting of the Union Pacific was held yesterday afternoon at Boston. The only change was the election, elec-tion, as director, of Marvin Hughitt of tho Chicago & Northwestern, to succeed suc-ceed tho late David Dows. At midnight last night the saloons all over South Dakota were closed, the prohibition law having gone into eHect. Tho fact that the druggists can secure no licenses before June 1st, leaves the slate almost absolutely dry. Judgo Dittenhelser, of New York, told a reporter yesterday that formal separation papers had been signed by John M. Ward, the baseball player, and his wife, Helen Dativray. The couple, he said, parted in a friendly manner. Mary Anderson will arrive in Loudon early this month. Her marriage with Navarro will be solemnized at Bromp-toil Bromp-toil Oratory. The rush for seats has already begun. Among her bridesmaids brides-maids will bo a daughter of Lord Lyt-ton Lyt-ton and the bride's sister. Experiments with sugar beet seed from Central Germany " and Bohemia have been very successful in Ontario and a large acreage was sown this year. Should this season's operations bo successful, suc-cessful, 7000 acres will be put under cultivation next year. The yield from this acreage would equal the entire Canadian raw sugar importation. Warden Dunstan made a test of the electrical machinery at Auburn, N. Y., yesterday afternoon for his own satisfaction. satis-faction. A six weeks' old calf, weighing weigh-ing 100 pounds, was tho victim. When the volt meter registered 1,000 the switch was thrown, and the calf died instantaneously, with but a slight tro-mor tro-mor of tho legs. There was a seusational sceno in tho police court of Memphis, Tenn., yesterday yester-day morning, when tho wife of Jack Ackerman, a thief of national notoriety, shot aud fatally wounded him. She had been sitting beside him in court, where ho was awaiting trial for beating her. He spoke to her in a low tone when, without warning, she drew a revolver and fired. An hour later he was dead. The mystery surrounding the disappearance disap-pearance of Joseph Choate, the wealthy Oshkosh lumberman, is cleared up. Mrs. Choate has received a letter from her husband, who, it was supposed, was murdered near Tomahawk last July The letter stated that Choate was iu the lumber business iu Helena and doing do-ing well. Deputy Postmaster Lindsley has had charge of the office ot Helena, Ark., for several months, Postmaster Grant being busy iu his store. Yesterday an' inspector in-spector dropped in to look over the postofliee and Lindsley said he would step out aud call in the postmaster. Ho hasu't returned yet, but a shortage of $3500 has been found in the accounts, which Mr. Grant had to make good, At a session in Baltimore yesterday of the African M. B. Church conference, a heated debate took place over the report re-port of the committee against W. W. Wilson, pastor of Calvary church of Baltimore. The report stated that ho was guilty of flagrant impropriety in making a speech at a banquet in honor of Peter Jackson, the colored pugilist, and recommended that he be reprimanded repri-manded in tho conference. It is announced that tho marriage of Miss Winnie Davis, the daughter of ex-President ex-President Davis of the Confederacy, and Mr. Alfred Wilkinson of Syracuse, will take place early in June, at the home of the Davis family in Mississippi. Mr. Wilkinson aud a party of Syracuse friends will meet Miss Davis at New York on her return from Europe, whence she sails May 10th. Miss Davis has purchased her trousseau in Paris. A revolt lias broken out in a lunatic asylum at Dundrum, a village near Dublin, On Sunday the patients became be-came furiously enraged because their dinner beer was cut off. They threw their dinners at the heads of the keepers, keep-ers, smashed the crockery, and demolished demol-ished things in general. The lire department de-partment was called out to aid the authorities and, water being turned on in force, the lunatics were soon drenched into submission. There is apparently good authority for the statement that the governments of the United Slates and Great Britain are now further apart in their negotiations negotia-tions in regard to the question as to whether or not Behriug sea is a closed sea, than they have beeu at any time smeo the negotiations were begun. The United (States maintains that it is a closed sea and was made so by the treaty of 1825, while the British government govern-ment contends that treaty does not at all cover the case. ' A charge of interference with voters during the recent aldermanic elee-tiou elee-tiou in Chicago was preferred yesterday against General Superintendent Super-intendent Sessions of the Pullman Pull-man Talace Car company. The complainant, E. G. Brown, says that lie was discharged from the employment of the Pullman company by defendant because he refused to vote for Dr. Ohasey, and that other employees were discharged. The election commissioners commission-ers will investigate. A great political sensation has been created in Chicago by arrests of a number num-ber of men charged with complicity iu a gigantic election fraud in the Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth ward in the last aldermauic election. elec-tion. It is understood that warrants aro out for nearly fifty men. One of those arrested yesterday was Mike Corcoran, Cor-coran, a local Democratic leader. It is asserted that over 400 fictitious names were placed on the registry books in the Twentv-foiirth ward and'these votes secured the election of the democratic demo-cratic aldermen. As the east bound fast express pulled out of Engleside, on tho Norfolk & Western road, yesterday, a burly negro named Watkins jumped aboard" the engine en-gine and with one blow felled the fire-man fire-man to the floor aud rolled him out of tho eab. Ho then spraug on the engineer engi-neer and a desperate fight ensued, while the traiu was dashing along at the rate of fifty miles an hour, having scores of passengers. Several times Engineer Morris was almost thrown out of the cab, After ruuniug twenty miles the engine began to slow up. and tho negro was, by a skillful blow, forced from the train. Morris sank down exhausted, ex-hausted, but managed to control his eu-gme eu-gme till the station was reached. As soon as tho negro was knocked off he tired four wild shots at the engineer. He was captured. The fireman was not seriously hurt. The negro was insane. |