Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 38, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 January 1898 — Page 2

fclu file Count b f) roocrat It HeC. ITOOPK, Editor ud Ptoprlolor. PETERSBURG. • • • INDIANAOa Ui« Slat the senate confirmed the AontWetion of Joseph McKenna, of California, to be associate justice of the supreme court of the United 8tatea. During the week ended on the 30th, j deaths from the bubonic plague in Bombay, numbered 851. The ezodns was increasing and business was stagnated. Bwin riots, with damage to property and 60 arrests, were reported from Ancona, Italy, on the 18th. The military bakers were distributing bread to j persons without food. Lohd Salisbury's early retirement from the secretaryship of state for foreign affairs in the British cabinet is foreshadowed by information received In Washington on the 21st. Failures for the week ended on the 81st, as reported by R. U. Dun «fc'Ca, were, for the United States, 874, against 40# for the corresponding week last year, and for Canada, 58, against 65 ‘ last year. Capt. Murpht, who was on trial in the United States district court at Wilmington, Del., charged with filibustering in connection with the Laurada, was. on the 19th, declared not guilty by the jury. The Japanese cruiser Kasagi was successfully launched at Cramps’ ship i yard, Philadelphia, on the 20th. | The vessel was christened by Miss | Helen Long, daughter of the secretary of the navy. A call was issued, on the 18th, for a , pure food and drug congress, to meet at the National hotel in Washington city. March 3J. for the purpose of urging congress to pass a pure food and anti-adulteration law. The government Alaska expedition, under the immediate charge of Ueu. Merriam, commander of the department of the Columbia, is fully equipped to leave Portland, Ore., February 1 by the steamer tieorge W. Elder.

Tint French have finally begun the construction of a railroad to conuect their east African possessions in the Somali protectorate with Abyssinia. The road is expected to drain one of the most fertiIp countries in Africa. Mila da tWitxr.the Chicago child pianist,has lo/t her eyesight.Trouble she had with her eyes ever siuce her birth took a torn for the vjorse a few months •go, and now the talented girl, who is. not yet five years old, can see nothiug. The national guard of| Missouri will collect rnouey to aid iu relieving suffering in Cuba. On the 19th AdjutantGen•ral Hell appointed a committee from the N. G. M., and issued an appeal to the people for subscriptions. Gen. Milton Moore, of Kausas City, will receive all subscriptions. TmtRK is a prospect that the prisoners in tht West Virginia state penitentiary may have to be turned loose or kept in the institution and starved. All the money appropriated for the maintenance of the prison was exhausted January 1, and the supplies then on haud have been exhausted. Tux German Missionary, llomeyer, of the Namjuug station, iu China, who was recently robbed and wouuded near a place called Laugthen, has returned to Namjuug and is now out of danger. The Chiuese authorities have taken measures to protect the missionary station and have promised satisfaction. Ox the 18th the students of Lyons, Frauce, made a riotous demonstration iu front,of the svuagogue and the Jewish shops, breaking shop windows aud raising menaciug shouts. The police hul great difficulty in dispersing ; them, liaud-to-haud encounters were frequent aud there were many arrests. Diking the 48 hours ended on the j list, IT vessels, carrying in the aggre^gaie more than 4.U0J.oo*) feet of lum- j her, passed in through the Golden * Gate at Sau Francisco. This arrival of So many lumber-laden vessels is due j wholly to tue unprecedented demaud. J for touuagc to eugage in the Aiasaau trade, r Gxn. Ll'qi’X reports that while reeouuoitenuguuriug teu da,siu the Sail Marlin district of ilolguiu, Cuba, he indicted a loss of 8b men Killed on the insurgents, captured seven prisoners. rides and a quantity of ammunition. The Spanish column, according to Gen. Luque had oue matt killed and ill wouuded. Tux annual commemoration of the dealtt of Prtuce lieury of Batten herg took place, on the noth. at Whippingham church, Osborne, lsie of Might, where his rematus are resting. The ceiemouy was attended by Queen Victoria, Princess Beatrice, iFriuoeas lieury of Ualteubeig.) and other rneiuWr» of the royal family. , Gxx. Cuieioruxx Acuta. U. S. A., retired, was buried with military honors at Arlington cemetery, near Washington, on the . 19th. Funeral servioce were held, at Su Jouus church. the remains being borne on a caissou draped with the flag under which be had fought through two wars aud a score of iudiau campaigua AT the exposition grouuds at Omaha. Keb.. on the uight of the 18th, where there, was not enough ice to cool a Cocktail, Miss Mildred Stephenson was •rowued Queen Polaris and the ice cat nival was formally opened. Everything was there but the ice, and the carnival programme was carried out so far aa coaid he under the weather eonditious. ,

CURRENT TOPICS, THE EIW8 H BBIEP. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. In the senate, on the 17th. Senator Wolcott delivered his long-delayed speech, embodying a report of the bimetalllooommissloa'a negotiations In Europe relative to international bimetallism. Ur. Foraker presented the credentials of Senator-elect Hanna and the oath of office was administered by the vloe-president. The Immigration bill was taken up and discussed until three o'clock, amended and passed.In the. house, it being district of Columbia day, a few bills of local importance were passed and the remainder of the session was devoted to consideration of the army appropriation bill. In the senate, on the 18th, at the conclusion of routine business, the urgent deficiency bill, carrying *1.913. 819, was taken up and passed, soon after which the senate went into executive session.In the house a resolution was oflered by Mr. De Artnond (dem. Mo.) as an amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill, recognising the Cuban insurgents as belligerents, and for a time it looked as if the resolution would be adopted. But party discipline, and an appeal to preserve the rules of the house prevailed. The army appropriation bill was passed. In the senate, on the 19th, a resolution offered by Mr. Hoar (Mass.) providing for an inquiry into the reduction of the force of letter carriers was the subject of an animated debate. The resolution was still Jpending when the senate adjourned .... In the house the question of granting belligerent rights to the insurgents was argued in an attempt by the minority to force the passage offer senate resolution, whioh was defeated by a strict party vote. lx the senate, on the 30th, Mr. Morgan finished bis four days’ speech on the Hawaiian treaty, closing to empty benches. The Teller resolution providing for the payment of bonds of the United States in silver, at the option of the government, was then taken up by the decisive vote of 41 to 25— in the house the question of reduction in wages was warmly discussed and the cause explained by Mr. Ulagley as due to the sudden and unexpected fall in the price of cotton, catching almost all of the large manufacturers with many mouths' supplies on hand. c lx the senate, on the 21st, an agreement was reached to take a final vote on the Teller resolution. providing that the bonds of the United States may be paid in silver dollars, and all pending amendments thereto, should be taken on the 27th before adjournment The greater part of the day was spent in executive session .In the bouse the biil to extend the public land laws of the Uulted States to the territory of Alaska and to grant a general railroad right of way through the territory was passed. The urgent deficiency bill was sent to conference with the senate amendment striking out the provision requiring the depositors of bullion at government assay offices to pay the cost of transportation to the mints eliminated. >

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The great strike of machinists in Great Britain has ended in failure for the workmen, after a struggle of six months. Many millions in wages have been lost and English trade has been seriously injured. There is nothing > whatever to show on the credit side for this loug and wasteful conflict. A special dispatch from Pekin says China is ready to open three new treaty ports, and to agree to an extension of railway into Yun-Nan province, but declines to consent to the exclusion of other powers than England* from the Yauk-tse-Kiang valley. SrsciAL advices from Egypt declare that Prince Said Ben .Bbussoo died recently under mysterious circumstanoes which have led to the belief that he was poisoned for marrying an American lady, to the annoyance of the khedive. He died in great agony, in the arms of the bride. * J. J. Hill, of the Great Northern, has notified President Brigeman of Hamline university, St. Paul, Mian., that he would give $20,000"for the purpose of raising the f35,000 debt against the college, provided other friends of the institution would collect the remaining f15.000. Tux situation in Cuba has reached that point now where, the safety of the Spanish government officials appears to depend solely on the possibility of American interference. If it were not for this possibility, it is said, the volunteers and regular army officers would run Blanco out of Havana inside of a week. The United States supreme court has handed down a decision declaring that where a suicide is shown to be of souud miud when committing the act of selfdestruction no recovery could be made upon a life insurance policj carried by the deceased. lx the trial of Capt. Edward Murphy, at Wilmington. Del., on the_l»th, on the charge ot filibustering. Senator Gray addressed the jury for the defendant, making a strong plea for acquittal. District Attorney Vaudergrift made the closiug argument for the government Forty persons were killed and IS injured, on the 18 th, by au explosion of gas iu oue of the mines of the Doaetraer company, in the Tagenrog district of Russia, on the north side of the sea of Asoy. Scott LeIoutox, the well-known Boston artist died at the McLean assylum, Waverly, Mass., on the ISth. Leighton's fame rested on his talent iu animal paintiug. Amono the arrivals in New York city from Cuba, bn Jthe )?lh. was Augustin Cassio, the father of Angelina Cossio y Cisneros. Cossio was released by Gen. Blanco ou January 9. The great fight of the New England cotton mill operatives against reduction of wages began on the 17 th, and where it will end no one can foresee. Maine. Massachusetts, Rhode Island aud Connecticut are involved. Speaker Mason of the Ohio house of representatives, on the 17th, appointed a committee to iqvestigate the alleged attempt to bribe Representative Otis, of Hamilton county, to vote for Marcos A. Hanna for senator. Bicycle Policeman Frederick N. Lincoln, of New York, aged 33 years, was inslauLly killed, on the 13th, in a collision with a pedestrian, Julias llirschberg. Uirschberg was so badly injured that he was removed to his home unconscious. Thr steamship Normandie, from Havre for New York, brought fT30.0Q0 in gold, on the 18th, consigned to New York banking houses, in transit to Cuba. At a conference of the Federation of Engineers, called in London, on the 19th, in view of the withdrawal of the eight-hour demand, it was resolved to reopen the works on the 34th.

The Island of Jamaica was, on fha lSthj declared free from yellow ferer. Senator Tdrpie introduced a joint reeolution in the senate, on the 19th, for the appointment of a commission to make a surrey for a ship canal from the lower shore of Lake Michi|{*n to the Wabash river. Exports to America from north Germany showed a falling off during the last quarter of $8,331,813, principally in sugar. Thk funeral of Logan Carlisle, son of ex-Secretary John G. Carlisle, took place from ttu South M. E. church in Covington, Ky., on the 19th. Notices were posted at the Centerville, (R. L) cotton mills, on the 19th, announcing a reduction of wages, to take effect on the 24th. -f Mb. Gladstone was reported, on the 19th, to be critically ill at Cannes. James Murphy, George Woodruff and George Gordon, post office burg* Jars, made their escape from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kaa., on the 19th. They dropped behind the other prisoners in coming out to breakfast, and, taking advantage of a heavy fog, scaled a 20-foot wall by means of a rope ladder, and were gone some time before they wereunissed. Advices, which come through diplomatic channels, represent toe situation in Madrid to be grave. Trie Spanish government has been1 obliged to resort to the same precautions that Blancc has employed in Havana to restrain manifestations of popular dissatisfaction. The seven transportation companiei which control nearly all the business ' to Alaska have agreed to raise the passenger rate to Skaguay and Oyea SIC per head and freight from $10 to $1.4 I per tou. Captain-General Blanco of Cuba wants to disarm the volunteers, as with that body armed autonomy in Cuba is not possible, and the attempt to dis- I arm them is likely to precipitate a revolt. Tub fate of the territories now pressing for statehood already has been practically settled. Unless the unexpected happens, there will be no territorial legislation by congress at this I session. Charles E.- Everett, chairman of the republican county central committee at Fort Wayne, Ind., was arrested at his home, on the 20th, on the charge of embezzlement, Editor E. W. Miner, of the Uarret (Ind.) Herald, a republican paper, chargiug him with appropriating $50 sent to him with which tc take up a note.

ihe central unaergrouna railway or London, England, has placed with the General Electric Co., of Schenectady, N. Y., an order for S3 electric locomotives. The directors of the Pullman Palace Car Co., on the 30th, declared the regular quarterly dividend of two per cent., payable February 15. Gold was quoted at Buenos Ayres on the 30th, at J6S.60. Tukkk is a glut in the labor market at Juneau, Dyea and Skaguay, with the result that wages are falling and many men are now eating up their supplies and earning nothing. M. Eknest Bazin, the inventor of the roller steamer, died in Paris on the 21st. In the case of Chris. Merry, the Chicago peddler, charged with wife-mar-der. the jury returned a verdict, on the 21st, finding him guilty.' Smith, his alleged accomplice, was fouud not guilty, but was immediately rearrested on a bench warrant charging him with being an accessory after the fact The jury was put all night. LATE NEWS ITEMS. In the senate, on the 33d. an amend meat to the pensioa appropriation bill was offered providing that hereafter no person shall be paid on power of attorney from pensioners residing in foreign countries. The Teller resolution. providing that the bonds of the United States may be paid in silver dollars, was then taken up. ..^.lu the house, after the clearing up of some odds and ends of legislation, and the passage of several unimportant measures, a resolution was adopted calling upon the state department for information relative to the military execution of Col. Ruiz, aSpauish envoy to the insurgent camp. Jr was reporte l from Algiers, on the 24th, that serious rioting and pillaging had taken place at Mustapha, a suburb of the city, on the 35U. Ten Jewish shops Were looted aud a number of policemen injured. Troops were summoned, but order was not restored until two o'clock iu the moruiog. Forty arrests were made. A dispatch from Constantinople says: “Russia is about to present a note to Turkey demanding payment of the wtioiedralaoce of the iudemnity of the Russo-Turkish war, amounting to (SL.40dy4MU.0U0), with a view of making the sal tau more docile in the settlement of the Cretan question.” . AT R^ub&y. tfn the 23J, the eclipse of the tun was accompanied by a rapid fall of temperature. Au earthy smell pervaded the air, and the scene resembled a landscape under a wintry English sun. The duration of totality was two minutes, with a marvelous corona of pale silver and blue. In consequence of the police prohibition qf the wearing of party badges and elub uniforms in Prague, the senate of the German university resigned. on the 2Sd, and the-students decided to attend no more lectures. The whole university has thus gone on strike. Tbk report that American war ships had been ordered to Cuban waters caused great excitment in Madrid on the 23d. The Imparcial, in the course of a violent article, said: “We see now the eagerness of the Yankees to seise Cuba.” Tbk Luetgert jury in Chicago celebrated the beginning of the ninth week of the second trial, on the 23d, by taking a sleigh ride. The trip lasted from one to five o’clock. Kino Hcmbkkt signed a decree reducing the customs tariff on cereals from 7X to & lire, until April 30. It went into operation on the 25th.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. ANOTHER SHORTAGE Itaai In tb« AoeonnU of Bookkeeper Soki* Who Is Missing. Nftnr.Mvnj.it, Ind., Jan. IT.—The shortage of Aaron Sohl, who was book* keeper for the J. L Evans Elevator Co., continues to grow as the investigation proceeds. It was- announced that the total amount of his shortage, so far as ascertained, was SI,894.59. This only extended over a period of two years, from November 1895 November 1897. An investigation of his books prior to November 1895, shows that he is short nearly $2,000 more, making a total shortage of almost $4,* 000. Late Saturday afternoon Dr. A. D. Booth and ex-Congressman James L. Evans, who composed the J. L. Evans Elevator Co. prior to November, 1895, commenced suit in the circuit court against Sohl to recover the amount of the last shortage which has been unearthed. They also ask that the property, including several notes for large sums, be attached to satisfy their claim. Sohl has been gone for a week. The last heard of him he was in Toledio, O., looking for employment. Miss Smith's Body Arrives. Seymour, Ind., Jan. 18.—The remains of Miss Frances Smith, daughter J of Rev. T. CL Smith, pastor of the Baptist church of Alexandria, and sister of Mr. Jay C. Smith, of the Seymour Republican, were brought here "Saturday evening and were taken to Franklin Monday morning for intenhent. j Miss Smith was 23. years old and has j been engaged since 1894 in the Baptist missionary universities of Selma, Ala., and Nashville, Tenn. Her death was cam ;d In' congestion of the lungs. She was a gradute of Franklin college. Plate Glass Strike Ended. Elwood, Inu., Jan. 17.—The plat* glass strike inaugurated December i, the employes refusing to work under j the piece system, lias come to an end j and word is given out that the big fae- j torv here will resume work in all de- I partments February 1, The piece sys- j tem has been adopted in the oight oth- ; er plants controlled by the Pittsburgh j Plate Glass Co., and the employes of | the Elwood factory will give it a trial. I The system makes the men stand good j for breakage, and this was what caused j their objection. ,

Bank Directors Make > Statement. Terre Haute, Ind.. Jan. 15.—The directors of the National State bank of this city made the following1 statement Friday regarding the report that the troubles of ex-Cashier Donaghoe were brought about through transactions with Russell B. Harrison, of the Terre Haute Street' Railway Co.: *'The directors of the National State bank authorize the statement that the causes leading to the-dismissal of Mr. Donaghoe in no wise involved business dealings with Mr. Russell B. Harrison or his road.*’ ___ Receipt of « Letter Kills a Woman. Brazil, Ind.. Jan. 15.—Mrs. Elizabeth Surdah fell dead here Friday. Her daughter resides in Illinois. Mrs. Surdan had a premonition that something had happened to her daughter and eagerly awaited a letter from her child. The letter came and her son, Edward Surdan, took it home and handed it to his mother, who clinched it in her hands, exclaiming: “Ah, my daughter.” The shock broke a blood vessel and she fell dead in her son's arms. _ To Drain the Salamonia River. Portland, Ind.,, Jan. 15.—Next Monday Judge Cox. of Richmond, is expected here to take up the petition for the drainage of the Salamonia river, which has been hangiugfire in the Jay circuit court for a year or more. The proposed improvement will begin near Salamonia. Madison township,, this county, and extend to Montpelier. It will affect 100 acres of farming land and nearly 10.000 town lots. Wanted to Joiu the Spirits. Crown Point, lad.. Jan.* 17.—William Dali, a prosperous farmer and spiritualist, residing near Franceville, Pulaska county, took his life Saturday night by hanging. He gave no reason for committing the deed, bit it is thought by friends that, he wished to join his departed relatives. To Drain the SitUmnuU River. Portland. Ind.. Jan. IS.—In, the circuit court Monday Judge Fox, of Richmond, took up the petition for the draiuage of the Salamonia river. The work proposed, if it goes through,will affect 10,000 town and city lots anc 100,000 acres of farming land. Fairmount. Ind., Jan. 18.—Al G Payne, a brother of tin? late Capu .David L. Payne, of Oklahoma fame,was buried here Monday in ’ark cemetery. He was found dead in btd. Plymouth. Ind.. Jan 17.—John sol Brownlee, a resident, of this city since 1840, and the oldest active business man, died suddenly of heart failure Saturday morning. Albany to Haw an Eteetrie Plant. Albany. Ind.. Jan. 15.—The contract to complete the electric plant was given to the L- C. Olds construction Co., of Indianapolis, by the city coueii Thursday evening. Died Suddenly of Heart Disease. Lagrange. Jan. 18.—Mrs. McManus, mother of State Senator McManus, died of heart disease while in conver cation with friends, aged 87 years. Muncie. Ind., Jan. 18.—While return ing from Eaton on m professional call, Dr. Murray, of this city, was held up by three masked men. He finally escaped by hitting his horse with th< whip. They fired three shots, one bnl, 'at passing through his hat. Narrow Escape for Barber Raw Suluvan. Ind., Jan. 17.—Geo. Bass, who conducts the McCammon house barber shop, had words with Charles Lancaster, a barber employed by him. Lancaster drew a revolver and fired at Bass, the bullet grazing his cheek. Lancaster has been arrested. Found Dead In Bed. Pioneer Brownleo Dead. Dr. Murray’s Close Call. /

LATE NEWS FROM CUBA, Insurgents Fire from Ambush Upon a Railway Train. . / Seat of the Insurgent Government Os, strayed by the Spanish* but the Govern, aseat Removed, Suvlug Documents and Files—Grasping at Straws.. Hat ana, Jan. 34 (via Key West.).— Insurgents concealed behind the railroad station at San Miguel, eight miles from Havana, fired upon a train, killing several animals, in one of the cars. Another band entered the cultivated sone of the town of Las Negasj, near Havana, destroying all the huts and the crops that had been planted. Gen. Pando has sent Col. Domingo, of CapL-Geu. Blanco’s staff, back to Spain under serious charges. The coast line steamer Mortera has left Havana with two ba ttalions of troops and one battery en route for Gibara to aid the garrison at Holguin, w Ihich is besieged by Gen. Calixto Garcia. —« A private report from Puerto Principe confirms the report that Gen. Castellano has destroyed Esperanza (at the extreme west of, the.-»ierr^ Cubit as), the headquarters of the insurgent government, which moved to Kavaj&z, saving documents and files. When the insurgents retired they left 57 of their number dead on the field, but carried away their wounded. The government troops lost 2.7 killed and S7 wounded. Juan Masso, whose surrender to the authorities was recently reported, is a nephew of Uartolomo Masso, president of the Cuban republic, not a brother, as before stated. It is reported here that the governor of llavaua province. who is a stockholder in La Discussion, has secured a subvention of monthly for that paper. Additional troops are to be sent to the province of Sa'utiago de Cuba to carry on operations there. The action of the government in searching certain mail matter before allovviug it to be delivered, is considered by persons well informed upon the subject to be a direct violation of the international postal union treaty. Many persons, including a number of loyal Spaniards, such as SeuorFraueisco Los Sautos Guzman, ex-president of congress and others of social standing iu the city, make complaint of the nondelivery of letters addressed to them. It is reported that in consequence of the government’s action steps will be taken to expel Spain from the postal union.

Endeavors have been made to induce Dr. Caber a to remain at Siguuanez and to obtaiu the surrender of the leaders Repo and Montguado. It is said that 170.000 has been wired to Gen.. Aguirre for the suriimder of Masso and his party. Senor Lopes, who formerly held a commission in the Spanish army in Cuba, but who was dishonored and sentenced to jail, and who escorted Gomez and Maceo 'during their invasion, but later surrendered, has been appointed by Gen. Pando chief* of guerril las, and is now acting as a government agent, riding through the territory in the Santa Clara province trying to induce the iuaurgents to surrender. The guuboat Galicia has captured a schooner manned by four men, one of whom stated, upon being questioned, that they had been engaged to assist in the landing of provisions, etc., from an English vessel. The schooner was sighted by the gunboat six miles off the coast awl the crew decided to surrender. The member of the schooner’s crew who made x the above statement added that Che insurgents did uot lack clothing, and that he was ignorant of the fact that they were short of ammunition. Several of the local papers comment upou the report of the surrender of Masso with 110 followers, which number. they declare, is exaggerated. El Diario de la Marina savs that the papers which preach loyalty most coidly print the news without flavoring the same, adding that El Liberal, of Spain, declares that there are many Spanish who would see with pleasure t£e failure of autonomy, in order to avoid the triumph pf principles contrary to their own. The Cniou Constitutional replies to the Diario. saying that the autouomists brag of the surrender of Masse and try to credit it to autonomy as a sign of peace. To prove the success of autonomy, the paper adds, it is necessary to obtaiu the surrender of the real leaders with the greater masses of their followers. In their opinion, the surrender of Masso was due to the influence of Marcos Garcia, governot of Piuar del Uio, and money. The paper continues by saying that daring Cen. Weylers administration there occurred the surrender of Col. Cuervo and hia men, who tried \o give themselves np under conditipns of receiving mouey, which proves that the surrenders are not due to autonomy. The same parties, the paper asserts, after peace was restored, would return to the field to ^satisfy their personal ambitions. The cigar manufactories and the offices of El Diario de la Marina and La Discussion are still guarded 4lay and night. The government' yesterday prohibited officers passing through O’Reilly Street, on which are situated the university and the printing office of La Recoacentradu. Attitude of Spanish Property Owners on the Island. Havas▲, Jan. 3i-—Consul General Lee ia receiving very full reports from all parts of the island about the attitude of the Spanish property owners. The disturbances in Havana have increased their lack of confidence in their own government, while their fears of what would happen under insurgent success are not lessened. They want the intervention of the United States.- Private declarations of their sentiments are voluminous. They do not pat theif wishes on record, however.

DOLE IN CHICAGO. Hearty Reception of tb* Preeident of the Hawaiian Islands—Ha is Mat by a Distinguished Party, ltepresenU is tbs Federal Government, and Driven to the Auditorium. Where He U Welcomed by Mayor Harrison-.Mrs. Dole a Favorite. j Chicago, Jan. 34,—President and ! Mrs. Sanford B. Dole of Hawaii, arrived in Chicago at five minutes pash eight o’clock yesterday morning. ' Notwithstanding the heavy storm which delayed suburban trains in th» vicinity of Chicago^ haH an hour, theft rst section of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad train No. 2, known asthe “Overland Limited” from San Francisco, pulled into the depot atChicago within 39 minutes of the schedule time. A distinguished party greeted the presideut of the little island republic* on his arrival. The federal government was represented by Judge Grosscup, Gen. John C. Black, United States district attorney. Mr. Thomas F. MacMillen, clerk of the United States district court and Hon. Thomas W. Cridler, of the state department at Washington. Chicago was represented by MayorHarrison, and the army and navy by Maj. Heistandt and Lieutenant-Com-mander Phelps, respectively, who were.resplendent in full dress uniform and several pounds of gold lace. In addition to these gentlemen, the president, was welcomed by Gen. Brooke and hisstaff, consisting of: Capt. Richards and Lieutenants Dean and McKenna; HonI F. M. Hatch, minister to the United [ Slates from Hawaii. Win. Penn Nixon, f Dr. Henry C. Lyman and the Chicago consul, Mr. F. W. Job. President Dole’s party consisted of himself, Mrs. Dole, Secretary Iaueka and Dr. Ray, his physician. The following ladies were also present: Mesdames Grosscup, Harrison and Brooke. On arriving in Chicago the reception committee entered President Dole’s private car and welcomed him to Chij oago. The> first to shake hauds with him was Judge Grosscup, who said: “President Dole, I am instructed by the president of the United States to j welcome you here. I am pleased to introduce you to Secretary Cridler, representing the president, and to Mayor I Harrison of Chicago.”

| Alter me excnange oi courtesies, and a welcome to Chicago on behalf of the city by Mayor Harrison, President Dole cordially responded to the greeting, and seemed greatly pleased at the hearty^^eption given to him. Mrs. Dole, who won the hearts of everyone present by her unaffected and pleasant manner, thanked the ladies of the committee for coming out so early-in thgt day to welcome her, The party at ouce proceeded in car riages to the Auditorium annex, where suite 1102 had been reserved for the guests. Their- rooms are situated at the northeast corner of the hotel on the parlor floor/ and are the same apartments occupied by President McKinley two years ago, when fxo visited Chicago to address the Marquette ctub. The suite, which was decorated with La France roses and draped with an Hawaiian flag consists of a drawing room and three bed rooms. On arriving at the hotel Gen. Brookeextended an invitation to President and Mrs. Dole to visit Fort Sheridan on Monday morniug, where a parade of the garrison will be given in their honor. The invitation was accepted : and the party will leave Chicago this. ! morning at nine o’clock by special { train on the Chicago & Northwestern ( railway, returning to Chicago at noon. At one o’clock to-day a luncheon will be tendered the distinguished guests | at Kinsley’s by a number of former ; residents of Hawaii and other friends. Dr. Henry Lyman has charge of this J affair, which premises to be a very ■ pleasant reunion of old acquaintances. At three o'clock a formal reception : will be held at the Union League club, I to ^ which invitations have been for- ! warded to all the clubs in Chicago, and which will give President Dole an op1 port unity of meeting a representative" i body of Chicago citizeus. \ Whjie the arrangements are not en- - i tirely completed, it is probable that , President Dole will leave Chicago tomorrow morning by the Baltimore 4k Ohio road, this company having ten- > dered him the use of the finest private | car in its service. I One of the attentions most appre- ■ dated by the visitors has been the offer of Manager Stevenson of the Long Distance Telephone Co. of the free use !*,of their wires while in Chicago. Minister Hatch. Secretary Cridler. Lieutenant-Commander Phelps and Maj. Heistandt were entertained at dinner by Ferdinand W. Peck at the Auditorium Annex palm garden Satur* day evening. RESCUED IN BOATS, Rapid Rise la the Okaw—The Bottom Lauds Flooded. 0 Van DALI A, 111., Jan. 24-—The unusually heavy rains daring the past week have filled the Okaw river and its tributaries to overflowing, and, in consequence, the entire bottom land east and south of here is covered with water. Fencing and bridges have been swept away and much damage has resulted to farm property along the coarse of the streams. The ^water rose so rapidly that several families living in the lowlands had to be removed in boats. The main roads leading into this city are almost impassaabie. A TIDAL WAVE Plays Havoc with the Shipping at Sheboygan, Ifh Shibotoan, Wit, Jan. ‘44.—The fleet >f vessels in winter quarters at this «ity experienced a severe shaking up yesterday, occasioned by a tidal wave, the third of the season. The wave was caused by the northeast gale, and the water swept up the river in such great volumes that the harbor was turned into a veritaipe whirlpool, lee from IS to IS inches thick was ground into •honks as small as hens* eggs, and weasels were torn from their mooring*.