Show IJREIF TELEGRAMS Prof O H Mitchell an eminent mathi maticianof Morietta Ohio died yesterday Charles H B Patey chief of the English Eng-lish postal service is dead The chess tournament in Xew York ended yesterday with the defeat of Gossip and Slowalter At San Diego California no details of the reported trouble between Mexicans and Americans at the mines in Lower California fornia have been received The story is discredited there The Melbourne elections for members of the legislative assembly resulted in the return re-turn of sixtythree supporters of the ministry min-istry and thirt two members for the opposition oppo-sition The Jmtrnnl I tic SI 1etcnHmru denies the report circulated on the European bourses that Russia is massing troops on the frontier fron-tier of Afghanistan Murat Halstead is suffering from an attack at-tack of erysipelas which confines him to his room and incapacitates him for business busi-ness His friends are not alarmed for the result however A gentleman in Baltimore has received a letter from a member of Robert Garretts party stating that the proposed trip to Mexico was really abandoned because of information in-formation which led them to fear an attempt at-tempt to capture from Mexican brigands At ti < aunuil meeting of the American Waltham Watch company it was voted to increase the capital stock 1000000 making it I 0000 J A dividend of 50 per cent was declared I A decision was reached in the Ottawa house of commons at 145 oclock this morning morn-ing on Colonel OBriens amendment on the Jesuit estates act and it was voted down yeas 13 nays 175 The singing of God Save the Queen terminated the pro ceedings OBriens amendment protested against the action of the government in regard re-gard to the settlement of Jesuit claims Its defeat is a victory for the government Lieutenant Harry C Batcman who was suppose to have been killed on the railroad track near Muncie Indiana yesterday has heed in trouble for some time He had tme overdrawn his pay accounts several times and had been guilty of other loose practices Final he disappeared from his post He was recorded as a deserter It was supposed t the war department upon the receipt re-ceipt of the news of his death yesterday t1at he committed suicide Captain Pcdrick of the schooner Charleston reports that on March 24 seventy five miles off Cape Henry a school f sperm whales was met They came so close t the vessel that pieces of wood were dropped on their backs At one time the sea appeared like a mass of confused fire from the gamboling of the creatures I is supposed they were attracted in shore by large schools of mackerel now off the coast |