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Show edly expressed the belief that ho would soon be completely recovered, lie evc-u spoke incldontly of sonn; plans for tho future. Hundreds of telegrams of sympathy sym-pathy poured In on Mrs. Dolllvor today to-day from nil pans of the country. Nearly every member of both houses of congress tent condolences. Mc-.v sages also came from most of th governors and from the president, cabinet officers and public men. OOLLiVER FUNERAL SEI FOR THURSDAY oooocoocoocoooooo c o O TAFT SENDS TELEGRAM. O O O G BEVERLY, Mass., Oct. 16. O O President Taft today sent the fol- O O lowing telegram to Mr. Dolllver: O O "Mrs Taft and I extend to you O. O our heartfelt sympathy in your O O great sorrow. The senate has O O lost one of Its ablest debaters O O and most brllllaut statesmen. O O ''The country has lost a faith- O O ful public servant." O G O ooooooooooooooo FORT DODGE, la., Oct. IT.. Funeral services for Senator Jonathan P. Dol-. Dol-. liver will be held on Thursday at 2 o'clock, it was announced toduy. The suddenness of Mr. Dolllver's death yesterday from heart disease while a physician was listening to the Irregular Irregu-lar beats ot" the organ with a stethoscope, stetho-scope, it took everyone so much by surprise that some of the funeral arrangements ar-rangements were only tentative. According Ac-cording to present plans, the obse- quies will be in charge of Rev. W H. Spence. pastor of the Firft Methodist Episcopal church at Fort Dodge.. Bishop Bis-hop Luther li. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, Dr. Frank Oonsaulus of Chi, cago Dr. Newell Dwight Hillli of New-York New-York City and Governor B. F. Carroll Car-roll of Iowa have been Invited ro make funeral orations lo; the senior senator of Iowa. Jt the wealher is goo. on Thursday, the services will be held on tho lawn of the Dolliy, ,- home, if this is not feasible, the orations will, be delivered ir. the First Methodist church. Ilurial will be in Oakland cem try, Fort Dodge, by the sido of Senator D-d-liver's parents. Senator A. H. Cummins -irrived today to-day to assist the family m its bereavement bereave-ment and to aid in earning out tho arrangements for th funeral I Everybody , in Fort Dodge is In mourning today for the los of the town's most noted citizen. Tne Ht:d-clenness Ht:d-clenness of the senator's demise caused a shock rroIM which the people peo-ple have not yet recovered. East evening a little more than an I hour before death enmc, Senator Dol-j Dol-j JivJr chatted cheerfully with Mayor S J. Rennet, a lifelong friend. Only an hour before his demise Mr. Dolllver Dolll-ver spoke hopefully of his recovery to District Judge R. M. Wright, who called to ask after the senator's health. During the afternoon, Senator Dolllver took a walk In hi3 garden, which had been one of his pleasures. He seemed normal in appearance and talked to several callers in tho shade or a large tree where he had formerly rehearsed many'of the speeches that had been made by him which made him famous as an orator. To those who called, the senator talked ideas-, ideas-, antly and optimistically. ne repeal- |
