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Show OKTOX IIONOKED. Crape And Condolence in ; Clilcuifo. j Cuicaco, 24. Tbe building and offices of the Western Union telegraph company are draped in mourning out of respect to the late President William Orton. Tbe American Electrical society of which Mr. Orton woe a member, to day adopted a memorial reoiting tbe benefits which have accrued to telegraphy and to the couutry at large through his connection with telegraph business, recalling the triumphs of the late president of the Western Union company before congress con-gress and in the courts, in resisting systems of government telegraphy, and extending cordial and hearty sympathy to tbe suflericg widow and bereaved relatives. |