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ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. / General Alger has arrived in Washington and is quartered at the Arlington hotel. The striking tanners and employes of Chicago have agreed to leave their differences to be settled by the state board of arbitration. The men will return to work Monday at the old wages and hours. Obituary: At Lancaster, Pa., Miss C. W. Cassaday, 101. At Colon, Mich., Andrew Baird, 101. At Kaukauna, Wis., James Madison Boyd, 81. At Belvidere, Ills., Frederick Sands, 64. At Mount Sterling, Ills., Dr. J. R. Rickey, 56. At Jefferson, Ia., Mrs. Susan Russell, 81. At Greenup, Ills., William T. Ryan. Platteville, Wis., has passed an ordb nace forbidding the sale of cigarettes within the city limits. An epidemic of grippe has broken out in Janesville, Wis., and local physcians report that 300 people are suffering with the disease. President Cleveland yesterday received his last full month's salary, amounting to $4,166.67. The payment for the last four days of his term probably will be made about the 3rd of March. Marcus A. Hanna. chairman of the national Republican committee and successor to John Sherman in the United States senate, left Cleveland yesterday for the national capital. The Security Loan and Trust company at Des Moines has assigned. It is believed that none but the stockholders will lose. Monday next the large rubber factory of the L. Candee company at New Haven, Conn., will resume operations after an idleness of several weeks. The factory employs 1,000 hands. Vice President-Elect H. A. Hobart will leave his home in Paterson, N. J., on Tuesday next to take part in the inauguration ceremonies. Senor Morote, the correspondent of El Liberal, of Madrid, has sailed from Havana for the United States for the purpose of being present at the inauguration of President-Elect McKinley.
