Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 5, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 June 1899 — Page 2

$Uc f iIt Count jj 3fmocr.it M. UeC. STOOPS, editor ud Proprietor. PETERSBURG. : * INDIANA. Lord Kitchener, of Khartoum, has bteu detained in quarantine at Trieste, Austria, on board the steamer Sexnixamis, from Alexandria, Egypt, where deaths from the plague had occurred. In a speech from the throne at the opening of the Spanish cortes, on the 2d. it was announced that the Mari* ana, Caroline and Palois islands had been ceded to Germany by the late Spanish cabinet. Arguments wqre concluded in the Dreyfus case before the court of caseation, in Paris, on the 1st, and the president of the court announced that the decision would be delivered at one of the approaching sessions of the court.

At Zanesville, O., on the 31st, Henry Hiller filed a petition in bankruptcy in which he gave his liabilities as $358,787, end assets nothing. This great liability comes from his connection with an abandoned project known as the “Old Calico” railroad. A tin can containing $20,000 in gold •wa.i JFcund by workmen engaged in tearing down the meat shop belonging to the estate of Philip Multer, of Plymouth, 0M who died over a year ago. The family decided to tear down his old place of business to erect a new block. The tenth annual session of the f Transmissis&ippi Commercial congress opened at 'Wichita, Has., on the 31st, with 30C delegates in attendance. Every state and territory west of the Mississippi, with the exceptions of Washington, Nevada and Idaho, was represented. Lieut.-Col. Robert Craig, of the signal corps ifils been ordered to accompany a detachment of signal men from San Francisco, to Manila, P. 1., and report for assignment as signal officer of the department of the Pacific to relieve Maj. Richard E. Thompson, ordered to San Francisco. The Physicians’ National Reform league, was organised in Toledo, O.. on the 31st, with Dr. A. F. Kahlkoff as president. The league, will be national in scope and will be for mutual benefit. It is understood to be an association of socalled “advertising doctors.” It has been decided to allow the company of Filipino actors now detained *t San Francisco, to enter the United States for the purpose of giving exhibitions. They will be required, howl ever, to furnish a bond that they will return to their homes after the expiration of their engagement. The steamer Humboldt, arrived at Seattle, Wash., on the 2d, from Alaska, reports that navigation had been returned in the lakes and upper Yukon river. The transportation companies ire engaged in a rate war, and ths } fare from Lake Bennett to Dawson has been cut from $100 to $25. Lieut.-Col. Du Paty du Clam, seriously implicated by the recent proceedings before the Paris court of cassation and the probable instigator of some of the forgeries that have figured in the Dreyfus affair, was placed under arrest, on the 1st, and taken to the Cherche Midid Military prison.

Maj. Marehund, of Fashoda notoriety, arrived in Paris on the 1st, After a triumphant progress from the railway station to the l*laoe de la Concorde, he attended a state luncheon at the ministry of marine, where he received a gold medal and a sword of honor, and, later, was received by President Loubet. Bequests have come to the war department that no persons dying on transports coming.to or going from the United States to Manila shall be buried at sea. The secretary of war has taken the matter up, and an order to that effect has been issued, an expert embalmer being detailed for duty on each transport. There was incorporated with the secretary of state at Albany, N. Y., on the 1st, “The Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American War,” with the principal offices in New York city. Gov. Roosevelt is one of the directors. Its object is, briefly, to cherish the memories and associations of - the war waged against Spain. During the recent cyclone in Adair county, la., where a number of fatalities occurred, the house of A. J, Decker was torn to pieces and completely wrecked, together with outbuildings. Decker’s wife and two children were ■lightly injured. Their baby was found 300 yards from where the house bad been, wrapped in a blanket, fast •sleep and uninjured. United States Fish Commissioner Bowers has informed the president that he is about to send out the most scientific expedition ever arranged by the commission. The expedition will ■ail on the Albatross, in charge of Prof. A. A. Agassiz, to explore portions of the Pacific ocean. Among the islands to be visited are the Marshall, Society, Fiji and Gilbert groups. A Pittsburgh (Pa.) special, of the 1st, says: “Prices on all kinds of fresh meats are advancing, and local dealers claim the Chicago packers are squeezing the cost of their embaijned beef vindication out of the public. Dressed beef has advanced $1.50 per hundred; live beef from 75 cents to •1 per hundred; sheep from $1.50 to $8 per hundred, according to. grade, #nd yearling lambs from $1 to $3.’*

NEWS IN BRIEF. OompilM from Various Source*. > PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The British Medical Journal says it has the beat of authority for stating that the alarmist reports in regard to Queen Victoria’s eyesight are erroneous, and that the rumors of a contemplated operation on her majesty’s eys are mere invention. Maj. Comte Ferdinand Waslin Esterhazy called at the office of the London Chronicle, on the 2d, and acknowledged the authorship of the notorious bordereau, but declared that he wrote it upon orders front his superiors, whom he denounced a set oi scoundrels and liars. James Cannon, a young man, was killed in a bicycle race at Waterville, On on the 30th, by his wheel breaking down. Gannon was running at high speed when he struck a crossing and his bicycle went to pieces, throwing him on his head. He died iu an hour. Sioux City, I&n was in the center of five tornadoes, on the night of the ?0th, which did muph damage in Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska. One storm struck near Kingsley, la.; a second near Jefferson, S. D., and three across the Missouri river in northeastern Nebraska. No lives are reported lost. In a storm of wind, rain, thunder and lightning, at Marietta, O., on the 31st, Mr. C. P. Cochran, a prominent insurance agent, was struck by lightning, and fell dead on his veranda. Many houses were damaged,* including the schoolhouse, containing 600 children. On the 31st the Chicago A Northvesttrc Limited train, west-bound, crashed into the engine of a suburban tra:n at Desplaines, 12 miles west of Chicago, demolishing both engines, killing one man and injuring three tieinmen. Sixty striking machinists returned to work at the Rock Island (111.) arsenal on the 31st. : Eighty other strikers were left without work, owing to their places being filled during the strike. Miss Eva Shontz, president of the Young People's Christian Temperance union, of Chicago, has started out to tour the country preparatory to calling a convention to perfect u national organization which will meet in Chicago September 28. The work on the new commissary warehouse, 400 feet long,at Santiago de Cuba; the extension of the government wharf a distance of ISO feet to 30 feet of water , and the dredging of the harbor was begun simultaneously

on tne 1st. Lieut.-CoL Panizztmli (military at* tache of the Italian embassy in Paris when Dreyfus was condemned), says that the Italian embassy always knew that Esterhazy wrote the bordereau. The university of Colorado, on the 1st, conferred the degree of LL. D. upon Brig.-Gen. Irving Hale, U. S. V. The Hong Kong daily press reports that the claim made upon the Hong Kong and Shanghai bihk by Aguinaldo for $200,000 deposited with the bank, has been settled, and the money paid over to Aguinaldo’s representatives. A special dispatch from Manila, on the 1st, said that the insurgents had attacked the outposts of the Fiftyfirst Iowa Tegiment at San Fernando, and that two Americans were wounded. Replying to the inquiries of the secretary of war, Gen. Otis cables that he is still of the opinion that 30,000 troops will be necessary for the effective control of the Philippines. It seems altogether likely that a call will soon be made for 10,000 volunteers for foreign service. The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business;, May 31, 1899, the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $1,168,891,407, a decrease as compared with last month of $3,659,857. This decrease in the debt is accounted for by an increase in the cash on hand. Ex-Gov. Elisha Baxter, of Arkansas, died at his home in Batesville, aged 73 years. He was one of the foremost figures in ? Arkansas’ history. His death recalls the exciting gubernatorial campaign in 1872, and the BrooksBaxter war that followed. A shook of earthquake, on the night of the 1st, was the mast severe "San Francisco has felt for 30 years. Though it lasted only 30 seconds the movement was very pronounced from east to west and then half way towards the north, giving a twisting motion. No serious damage was done. Little Marion Clark, victim of the most mysterious abduction since the kidnaping of “Charlie” Ross, was restored to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Clark, of New York city, on the night of the 1st. She,was found secreted in a mountain farmhouse, at Sloatsburg, 19 miles from Haverstraw, n. y. : At 4 a. m., of the 2d, Union Pacific moil and express train No. 1 was held up one and one-half miles west of Wilcox Station, Wyo., by six masked men, evidently professionals, who blew open the safe of the express car and carried away all th? contents. The mail .was not touched.

! The funeral of Col. John M. Stot senburg, of the First Nebraska regiment, took place at Arlington cemetery, across the river from Washington, on I the 1st. President McKinley, Secretary ! Alger and Adjt.-Gen. Corbin were present at the exercises. Ed. E. ILirdan, of Liberty, Neb. hanged himself at his home on the 2d. ; He was formerly cashier of the Bank of Liberty, and was a prominent man in Gage county politics and society. Loss of property and drink is as* signed as the cause of the act. The United States weather bureau, which was opened in Colon, Colombia, I last September has finally been dosed, its site being out of the track of the hurricanes. The instruments arc to j be transferred to Jamaica. The New York World says: “Carrie Jones, the nurse who had charge of little Marion Clark, was arrested a* Summit. N. J„ on the night of the 2d." -The Chicago Record is authority foT the statement that a combination of soap manufacturers is being formed, j the capital stock to be $25,00,000.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. President Loubet, accompanied by Premier M. Dupuy and the chief of the military household, Gen. McBaillour1, drove to the Auteui races, on the 4th. At Aiiteuil they were met by a violent demonstration, evidently organised, and directed against the president. Such epithets as, “Panama,” “Abas Loubet,”” and “Viva rarmee,” were hurled at him, and he narrowly escaped a blow on the head from a bludgeon in the hands of Count Christino. Speaking of the purchase of the Caroline, Ladrone and Pelew islands from Spain by Germany, the Tagiische ltundschau, the leading organ of the German expansion policy, says: “Germany obtains the remnants which America, in her superior manner, despised. The value is small, and there is no need of joyous transports.” OtIter German papers speak in like slighting terms of the German government’s late purchases. - The bonds issued by the city of Toledo, O., amounting to $150,000, which were sold to the Northern nations', bank and refused on the grounds that the act of the legislature permitting the issue was illegal, were sold, on the 4th, to Spuitzer & Co., the city agreeing to refund them at 3y3 per cent. In view of the publication of inflammatory editorials in the press of Santiago de Cuba, Gov.-Gen. Brooke issued an order, on the 4th, directing the appointment of a press censor for Santiago. The editors were indignant, but the public generally were pleased. The American liner Paris, still on the rocks near the Manacles, was, on the 4th, handed over to the underwriters and salvagers, who will make other attempts, to float her. There had been no change in her position since the last attempt to tug her off. Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, and Comptroller of the Currency Dawes, with their wives, left Chicago, on the 4th, for Seattle, Wash., where they will embark on Admiral Dewey's former dispatch boat, McCulogh, for a visit to Alaskan points, l Several sewer pipe manufacturers of Steubenville, 0,, who returned from New’ Ycxk, on the 4th, reported tht trust unorganized. They said the prospects for its formation were poor.The queen’s birthday was officially celebrated in London on the 3d. The chief event was the trooping the colors on the Horse Guards’.parade.

CURREN1 NEWS NOTES. The Yukon river is open for navig*. tion from Lake Bennett to Dawson City. Carl Wagner, a lineman in the em* ploy of the eity, was electrocuted at St. Louis Friday. Harry Campbell, of Carlyle, 111., was caught in a pulley wheel and wound to a horrible death. Co. I of the Fifth Immune regiment was warmly welcomed home by the citizens of Grayville, 111. The French ministry has- decided to prosecute all officers found to have been concerned in the cabal against Dreyfus. Friends of the Illinois Wesleyan uni* versity have subscribed liberally to the fund for the raising of the institution's debt. Mary Jane Williams, aged 102, and James Morgan, aged 70, were married at Galena, Kas. The bride is a sprightly old lady yet. Two companies of the Kentucky mi* litia will guard the courthouse at Manchester during the trial of partisans of the Howard-Baker feud. The official medical report of the First South Dakota volunteers shows that 60 per cent. ?f the men of the : xegiment are unfit for duty. | Two large buildings of the IIline is asylum for the insaue, at Kankakee, used for barn and storage purposes, was totally destroyed by fire Friday night. Maj. Bell surprised and routed a party of Filipinos, near San Fernando, who, being reinforced, turned upon the Americans and chased them to cover. A box containing 5,006 sovereigns was found to be missing from the treasure room of the steamer Alameda on her arrival ax San Francisco, from Australia, Friday. The Hague peace conference may adopt the American plan of arbitration, but no other result is expected. It is found impossible to agree upon a method of checking armaments. Frank Modlin. aged 19 years, late private of Co. E. Tenth United States infantry, and a son of& B. F. Modlin. an old soldier, committed suicide at Xenia, 111., by taking morphine. The Philippine commission a t Manila gave a gorgeous ball with the purpose of fostering the good feeling between the Americans and the natives in that city. It was a brilliant success.

* The French Court of Cassation Hakes Known Its Decision in the Dreyfus Case. 4 IT DECURES FOR A NEW COURT HARTIAL Who r««rt Will Xot Sit ia Pa rli, | WMero It Ml«fct ba l» Dmsci of j Molestation. Bat at Renaon-VSe i Coart Indicate* tike Sense of tha | • Trial Caart. \ Paris, June 4.—The court of cassation rendered a verdict in favor of a revision of the Dreyfus case, and ordering a new court-martial, to sit; at Rennes, 60 miles from Nantes, for the trial of the prisoner.

OAFT. DREYFUS Previous to the announcement of the verdict, crowds of people assembled at the palace of justice and in its neighborhood awaiting the decision. Perfect calm prevailed. The decision, which was pronounced at 3:40 p. m., says the prisoner is to be retried on the following question: Is Dreyfus guilty of having, in 1894, practiced machinations or of having had communication with a foreign power or its agehts with the view of facilitating acts of hostilities in the case of a war with France, or having furnished the means therefor by furnishing notes or documents retraced on the bordereau? The audience received the decision with cries of “Vive la Justice,” “Vive la Loie." The court quashes and annuls the verdict of condemnation of December 22, 1894, against Alfred Dreyfus by the first court-martial of the military government of Paris, and sends the accused before court-martial at Rennes, to be specially appointed to conduct the new trial. This judgment is to be printed and transcribed on the docket of the first court-martial, alongside the decision which is annulled. The court then adjourned.

PRESIDENT LOUBET HOOTED. Insulted and Assaulted by AntiSemites at the Antenll Races— Will Aet Vigorously. Paris, June 5.—President Loubet, accompanied by Premier M. Dupuy and the chief of the military house* hold, Gen. McBailloud, drove to the Auteuil races yesterday afternoon, closely followed by Madame Loubet in a second landau. As they drove along the Avenue des {Thumps Elvsse, the crowd bowed respectfully; but on arriving at Auteuil, they were met by a violent demonstration, evidently organized, and directed against the predident. Insulted the President. There was a storm of hoots, yells and cries of “Panama,” “Abas Loubet” and “Vive l’armee.” A few shouts of “Vive Loubet” were drowned in the clamor. A strong force of police kept ordei and arrested many of the disturbers, including a man who tried to force his way to the president’s carriage. Clamor Increased to Violence. During the second race the clamor increased to violence and was plainly directed by a committee of the League of Patriots, collected with their supporters both before and behind the presidential stand, around which a formidable array proceeded. During the grand steeple chase many blows were struck, and several policemen were injured in their endeavors to prevent an invasion of the presidential stand. Aimed a Blow at the President. At the crisis of the excitement, while shouts of “Vive l'annee” and “Vivo Deroulede” were heard on all sides Count Christino rushed toward the president, brandishing a stick, and directed a blow against him, striking his hat. The crowd rushed upon Christino. who only escaped severe handling by being taken under police protection. President Loubet remained all the. while quite unmoved, talking to tho premier, while the officers of his military household were defending him against violence. , Guards Surround the President. Finally, after 30 arrests had been made, the prefect of po|ice ordered the republican guards to surround the presidential stand. The principal leaders of the demonstration were Joseph Lasies, anti-semite and nationalist, deputy for Gers, and M. Firmin Faure, anti-semite and nationalist, deputy for Oran, Algeria. «

HOOSIEft HAPPENINGS Told in Brief by Dispatches from Various localities. Pasted Away. Jeffersonville, lnd., June 2.—Col. James B. Merrivreather died at his home here. He was born in Virginia, but located in Kentucky and was a member of the convention that drafted the constitution of that state in 1S49. He was a major in the Thirty-eighth In- ] diana regiment under Col. Walter Q. j Gresham, and finally succeeded CoL j Gresham in command. In 1S63 he was provost marshal of this congressional district. letter he was appointed warden of the Indiana prison, south, and served several years. He was 67 years old. _ Aalta far Funds. Anderson, Ind., June 2.---John D. Rockefeller has been notified by Rev. | Mr. McGuire, of this city, to forward his promised check for $15,000 for the Franklin university fund, Indiana Baptists having fulfilled the conditions of j his pledge by subscribing $60,000 for j the completion of a $400,000 endowment I which Rev, Mr. McGuire has raised in j Indiana in the last two years. Franklin i college is the Baptist higher educa- j tional institution in Indiana. The $400,000 will be placed out in loans.

Mfdlcal AiaiTerurr. Indianapolis, I ml., June 2.—The Indiana State Medical society is holding its semi-centennial meeting. Five hundred physicians, representing every part of the state, are present. John C. Sexton, of Itushville, the president of the association, in his'annual address ealled attention to the society's half century of work. The society now has 1,500 numbers. Four members are present who took part in the organization of the society in 1S49. State Fa Hr Prepare tloaa. Indianapolis, Ind., June !i.—Preparations for the state fair are already under way, and it is expect id that the premium lists will soon lx completed, Although they will not b< distributed for some little time yet. The purses for the races are the same as last year, and it is expected there w:ll be a good list of entries. But one fai - in the state has been set for the same week as the state fair, and that one is a New Castle, St. Joseph county. Wrecked by Wi r t. Marion, Ind., June 2. -A cyclone swept the outskirts of Sure rtser, a small manufacturing town six i dies west of Marion. The whirling clov <1 came from the southwest, passed ? hrough the western part of the town, striking the Brickner window glass factory and wrecking it and a few small dwellings surrounding the factory ai d then raised and passed over Marion, j nuking a tremendous noise. Deadly Meatus t‘a. , Terre Haute, Ind., Juae 2.—Porter Taylor, a young man of his eity, went with his sweetheart to vidn Miss Sims, at Vermillion, 111., whom they had known in the state normal school here. They spent two days happily, when Taylor became suddenly ill and died a few hours later of cerebro-spinal meningitis, with his swe*‘fieart ftt his bedside. The funeral services were held here.

Another Test. Evansville, I ml., June 2.—Arcidas Farmer's airship was given another test in this city and proved successful. The exhibition was given at the tall park and was wintessed by several hundred persons. The ship was sent up about 60 feet and was kept up for nearly an hour. The inventor’s son made the ascension and he moved the shijj up, down, backward and forward at will. Found tn a Creek. Crawfordsville, Ind., June 2.—Wesley Yanardsall, aged 75, a well-known resident, was found dead in Sugar creek. On Monday night he left the house of T. J. liehr, where he roomed, and had not been seen alive since, until some boys found his body in the creek, several miles from the Lehr house. A New Worm. Jonesboro-, Ind., June 2.—Farmers in this section claim that a green worm, about an inch long, is destroying the bark and foliage of fruit and shade trees. It is said that they have been known to destroy the bark of elm trees in a short time. Paris green is being used with satisfactory results. Killed HU Tkree Sons. Thorn ton, Ind., June 2.—A German farmer, aged 40 years, named Alfred Wells, living five miles north of Thornton, suddenly became insane while returning home from a strawberry patch half a mile from his home and killed hia three sons, aged five, seven and 12 years. Idarrled a. Millionaire. Goshen,. Ind., June 2.—A story cornea from the Klondike that Dr. Louella Day Underhill, who went from her* to Chi-, cago and then to the Klondike, has married a man worth $8,000,000, who gave her $50,000 for a wedding present. Dr. Underhill is well known here. Homeopathic Physicians. Indianapolis. Ind., June 2.—The thir-ty-third annual session of the Indiana Institute of Homeopathy, the state society of the homeopathic physicians, was held at the Denison hotel and was presided over by its president, Dr. H. N. Coons, of Lebanon. Boy Missing. Gas City, Ind., June 2.—Oscar Wheeler, the 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Wheeler, has disappeared. He was last seen by his father at the Panhandle station at one o’clock Monday. Killed Ivy Lightning. Seymour, Ind., June 2.—Louis Shulta, a prominent farmer and sawmill man, was instantly killed by lightning on top of a load of hay.

ONCE AGAIN WE’RE FRIENDS WITH SPAIN* The \>w Spanish Minl»tpr, |hie I>*A*w cos, Pmcstx His Oedrailiti* <» the Prealtleat—Kxehn«»e of 6mA \VI*he*—\ Similar ^punraeunaWaa Carrie* Oat at Had rid. Washington, June 4.—Diplomatic relations with Spain, broken off April 21, 1504, were formally resumed wheu> President McKinley greeted Due d'Arcos, the newly accredited minister to the United Stages, in the blue parlor of the White House. Simultaneously in Madrid, if the programme arranged was carried out, Bellamy Storer, the new United States minister to Spaint was being presented to Christina, the queen regent, during the legal minority of his majesty, Alphonse XIIIIt was a notable occasion in theworld's history—the resumption of friendly relations between two nations which had been at war, and Ur the brief struggle had changed the map of the world. .Plata Spoken Speeches. The speeches were especially notable. They were plain spoken. and de- - void of -the usual haisy diplomatic phraseology. The ceremoney was exceedingly slmSpanish Minister to the United States, pie. Promptly at 11 o’clock, the hour set, the two carriages containing the Due d’Arcos, Secretary Hajjf, and the secretaries of the new Spanish minister, Senors Riano and J as tor, reached the White House, -fif/y- ■ % . kf Rcnptcndaut Dlploantie Uniform*. The duke was attired in his re splendent diplomatic .uniform. Acrosa •his coat he wore a scarlet sash, and oi* his breast sparkled the insignia of half a dozen orders, the dazzling cros3 of th^JJrder of the Catholic, being th-? most conspicuous. He ;-|wurried his plumed chapeau in his left hand, and the copy of his address in his right. The secretaries were likewise attired in their gorgeous diplomatic uniforms. On reaching the blue parlor, they were presented by Secretary Hay to Col. Bingham, who remained with them while the secretary of state retired for a moment. He immediately reappeared with President McKinley, to whom was presnted the Dac d’Arcos and Senors Riano andl’asTor. The United States Minister Spain, president was cordial, buU dignified >n his greeting. Due d’Ar^^ft^n read his address In Spanish. He stood a little in advance 61 his aides, facing the president, while a litticrto the rear and right of the president stood Secretary Hay. Col. Bingham, and sistant Secretary Cortelvou, stood upon the left. The minister said: Due D'Amu' Speech. Mr. President: I have the honor tc place In your excellency’s bawls the roya> letter by which her majesty, the queen regent of Spain, In the name of tier august son, King Don Alfonso Kill, accredit! me near this govcrnfeeMl, the ea* padty of envoy extrortllnary and min*

lster plenipotentiary. $:• I have come to renew the relations of friendship which have existed from of old between Spain and the United States, and which were interrupted by the war of last yjar. The treaty of peace which Spain has signed put an end to that war, and now. looking only to the future. Spain desires that her relations with this republic may be as friendly as they* were in times past, and from the days In which this country was struggling togain Its independence. It is iny task to* contribute to the renewal of these relations, to strengthen themgaad to draw them closer; and. in the discharge of it, I hope to be aided by the kindness and co-operation of your excellency and ot your government. President McKinley's Response. ■ The president responded as follows*Mr. Minister; I receive with the greetest gratification the letter by which her majesty, the queen regent of Spain, in the name of her august son. King Alfonso* XIII., has accredited you near this government as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary. '-30x.: ’ You will find, Mr. Minister,* cordial welcome in this country, not only from those whose friendship you acquiredduring yout former residence, but from aU our people. who rejoice as I do, at the renewal of the ancient bonds of ammbwhich, with a brief interruption, have united our nations for more than one hundred years. That these friendly relations may be confirmed and strengthened, to the advantage of both peoples, is my earnest wish, and I can assure you that every member of this government will heartily co-operate with you to that desirable end. It was noticeable that Due d’Arcos,. in referring to the gratification with which Spain resumed the friendly relations with the United Si^gs that had existed for over a hundred years, plainly said that these relations had beem broken by war, while the president spoke only of the relations interrupted for a short time. . Cordial Greeting*. ) At the conclusion of the address; the president stepped forward and shook hands cordially with the new minister, and they engaged in con* versation in a low tone for a minute or two. The president gracefully icquired after the health of the queen regnt and the king. He courteously referred to the duke’s former residence in this country and, his many friends here, and repeated the 'assurances of the concluding words of his formal greeting, that every one here would unite in making the minister's stay in this country pleasac^ and satisfactory. The party then retired, and waa driven to the Arlington hotel. DEWEY STILL IMPROVING. giis'Adrairat The Admiral Resatnf&ar ftealth the Peak Hotel Sear Hoag Kora Start* da Taeadtur. Hong Kong, Jnno-999| Dewey’s health i8 still improving, but he is keeping very the Peak hotel, only once having come down ta the city, and accepting ho invitations. He will sail on Tuesday^7According ta his present plans he will not visit England on his homeward journey, but will proceed straight to Gibraltar, and thence to New York* _ 3