Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 October 1892 — Page 7

DEATH CALLS.

The Grim Speoter a Visitor at the White House.

HE LEAVES WOE OS HIS DEPARTURE.

Xucl of Mri. Hnrrlnon'* Struggle for IJfe— She KxplrcH in the Early Mornlnjj— To Be Burled at lurilanapolU.

ASR.EF.I' IN DEATH.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Mrs. Harrison is 110.more. The end came at 1:-10 a. m. For tlie second time in the history of the white house a president's wife has died within its walls. Mrs. Harrison met death with the patience and 1 'crnati'-'" Mf a devout Christian, and he« ...ys were comparatively free from pain.

I'unor.il ArmiiRcmrntK.

The funeral arrangements were completed as follows: Religious services will be held at the white house Wednesday morning, after which the body will be taken to Indianapolis, where the interment will be made at Crown Hill cemeter- 'i '.ursdny. licr llours.

For wenty-four hours the president and family had been almost constantly at her bedside. Sunday night. was without special incident, but late and early —so frequently that iie could have slept but little if at all—the president was in and out of the sick chamber, and was never away for any length of time. Dr. Gardner was at the patient's bedside nearly the entire forenoon Mondav. lie went

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away t\»o or three times to attend to other professional duties, but at no one time was he absent more than half an hour. At noon Mrs. Harrison was still conscious. A little before that the president leaning over her asked if she wished for anything' With the old time smile that the approach of death only made more tender and trustful she answered low but distinctly: ''No, dear."

Just after 6 o'clock Mrs. Harrison Buffered another sinking spell and messages were sent by Mr. llalford to the absent cabinet officers asking them to return to Washington immediately. Hut the sick woman still had sufficient reserve strength to rally once more and to repulse the attack of the dread visitor who hovered at the threshold.

It could hardly be said that the patient was unconscious during the evening hours, for she betrayed some signs of understanding the attempts made to relieve her last moments by partially opening her parched lips to receive the stimulating fluid applied to them from time to time. Uut not a drop could she swallow, and the power of speech had apparently left her frame forever. In addition the physician's experienced eye noted as the evening wore on an increase in the difficulty of breathing which was regarded as an ominous sign. Hour after hour slipped away, each leaving the patient weaker in turn, yet so gradual was the decline that it could not be said positively at any minute that she had materially failed. The measure of the ebbing tide was the respiration, which slowly sunk from about fifteen at nightfall to twelve at midnight.

The liiul Near.

About 12:"0 o'clock, while Dr. Gardner sat by Mrs. Harrison's side with his fingers lightly pressed to her pulse, his practiced hand discerned a noticeable weakness of the heart's action, followed almost immediately by a slight decrease of respiration. He notified the grief-stricken family grouped around the couch that the end was near and that unless she soon rallied from the stupor into which she then was drifting she could scarcely live half an hour longer. This intelligence had a most depressing effect upon the president, who had been in constant attendance upon his wife for over nine hours, and he sustained himself with the greatest difficulty.

If it were possible to add to the sorrow of the situation and to stimulate the agonized apprehension of the family gathered about the scarcely animated form of the beloved wife and mother those results were attained when Dr. Gardner, after narrowly examining the countenance and feeling the pulse of the dying woman, announced that all the indications justified the belief that she could not survive more than half an hour. This was at a quarter to 1 o'clock. The minutes passed .with frightful rapidity. The almost helpless form, however, still retained the sacred spark. The resistance offered by the constitution of the patient was marvelous and surprising to the physician and all at the bedside. There was no struggle, no exhibition .of pain, but. a simple passive resistance that was baffling in its quiet intensity.

In a few minutes Dr. Gardner again took up the feeble hand and felt the wrist. The blood still crept through the contracting arteries, but how slowly! lle shook his head and said that a brief fifteen minutes must surely finish the struggle. The agitation of the family oould no longer bo controlled, and realizing his utter helplessness to longer cope with her formidable foe, and from consideration for the sacredness of such grief as this, I

the devoted physician and friend bowed his head and passed out of tha door.

The End Ilnd Come.

Outside of the threshold he took his station and waited. It was not along time. The minutes flew like seconds, aud suddenly there was an expression of heart-stricken woe and the end had come. The president was beside his dying wife, as he had been for nine hours continuously, and his was the last of the loved features her eyes had dwelt upon. He*- breath was labored and slow. As the hands of the clock crept toward the next hour it grew fainter and yet less frequent, and as the timeI piece marked the hour of 1:40 o'clock there was an interruption of the feeble breath, a resumption and then a stop, this time to be eternal, and the life of

Caroline Scott Harrison had gone out peacefully and quietly and without pain.

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All of the family in Washington were present at the deathbed except the three litt'e grandchildren and the venerablc Dr. Scott, the father nf Mrs. Harrison. 'I hey were: 1'resilient. Ilarrisou, Mr. and Mrs. MeIC.ee, Mr. anil Mrs. Russell 11 arrison, Lieut, and Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Dimmick and Mrs. NewI coiner. In addition, Mrs. Harrison's faithful maul, .Josephine, and Mi:«s

Davis, the trained nurse, were in the room. '1 lie members of t.tie family spent a few minutes around the lifeless daw and let a veil be drawn over their deep grief. hen they emerged with surrowful faces the president retired immediately to his roui.i and closed his door. 1 he other members of the family, respecting his evident wish, allowed him to remain unmolested to contemplate his great bereavement and commune with his Maker. They also retired and gave place to Dr. Gardner. One glance of his practiced eye told the story and he knew that science had again yielded to nature and that all of man's effort had been in v^iin. He passed out and then the last sad offices for the dead were performed by the nurse, Miss Davis, who composed the body for the hands of the undertaker.

Dr. Uiirciiier*g Statement.

Dr. Gardner said that Mrs. Harrison inherited tuberculosis, there having been some cases in her family. Her brother and sister, lie was informed, died from the disease. The primary cause of Mrs. Harrison's death was pulmonary tuberculosis and the immediate cause was acthenia that is, exhaustion. Mrs. Harrison was perfectly conscious to the end. The end came quietly and peacefully, and she passed away without a struggle. It was like the snuffing of a candle. Her breathing was scarcely perceptible to those around her bedside and her life went out before they had fairly realized it.

Mrs. Harrison's I.ife.

[Mrs. Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison was born in Oxford. O., on October 1, 1835, but the friendship which resulted in making her the wife of the future president of the United States began at College hill. Cincinnati, when young Ben was 10 years old and was attending a school in which Carrie Scott's lather, Rev. John \V. Scott, was a professor. Miss Carrie was just about young Harrison's age and a warm and earnee* friendship sprang up between them. Dr. Scott removed to Oxford, O., to become president of the Oxford female seminary, and in the fall of 18o(J Harrison entered the Miami university at the same place. Possibly the fact that Miss CaAe was in that town had something to do with turning his steps thither. At the numerous social entertainments which took place at Oxford Student Harrison had a chance to meet Miss Carrie, and tho friendship born back »i College hill continued. She was one of the brightest anil most intelligent of the young lady students there. She had dark brown hair and eyes of the same shade, while her features, of a brunette cast, were firm, but pleasing, winning and beautiful. She had the faculty of making everyone easy in her presence, and so the pathway of the rather modest young man was not a rough one. So they were engaged. Two years rolled awav- Student Harrison graduated and began the study of law in Cincinnati. In October, 1K53, the marriage of Carrie Scott ana Benjamin Harrison took place, and during the winter of 1853-4 the happy couple lived at his home near North Beuil, not far from Cincinnati, preparing meanwhile to begin life's battle alone in the spring. When spring came they removed to Indianapolis, where they have since resided with the exception of the time passed in Washington. Her married life was naturally in a measure a refiec'.ion of her husband's. She nover hindered him in any duty of life, and when ho told her of his enlistment for the war she did not hinder him. She gave him her blessing, and when he left her for the field the tears and words at parting showed what a saerilice she had made. Upon the election of Mr. Harrison as United Stale s.senator and the breaking up of the home at Indianapolis fur the one at Washington, Mrs. Harrison vias loo true and typical an American woman lu have her head turned or manifest any nidation at the new social responsibilities she must assume. This was in yet she was as beautiful as in lfr3. She was hospitable, cl.ai'italj.r, cheerful, and had always a pleasant word a ml smile ready for those in her pi\.s.-ui-e. At Washington the same qualities distinguished her as at Indianapolis and she woe a social triumph. Fol.owiug her experiences as the wife of a senator ca'nle the duties of mistress of the white house. As such she proved herself a harming host, being ably ass:si"d by her daughter, Mrs. Mary Scott McKee. Aside from her daughter and the latter's little son, Mrs. Harrison had one son, ltussell B. Harrison. Having graduated at th: Oxford seminary in the same year Mr. Harrison took his degree at the university, Mrs. Harrison was always devoted to literary matters, and at Indianapolis was a member of several literary clubs. She was also a musician and devoted to painting and was manager of one of the Indianapolis orphan asylums. As the daughter of a minister of the gospel she was always an active Christian, and was a member of the Presbyterian church. Anions the many noble women of Indianapolis whose zeal in good work is their glory and a benediction to the city Mrs. Harrison stdod in the front rank. Intelligent, refined, educated and devoted to God, she helped to make her home as much a sanctuary of religiou as of domestic love and happiness.]

MOURNING FOLL MHS. LLAKHISON. WASHINGTON*, Oct. 'M.—The news of Mrs. Harrison's death gave rise to universal expressions of sympathy here, but caused no surprise as every one in Washington-had been fully prepared for it. There were signs of mourning about the city at an early hour in the flags which were at lialf-mast on the public buildings and on hotels and private houses. But because of the non-official position of the president's wife these demonstrations of sympathy were purely voluntary. Funeral services in Washington will take place Thursday morning. It is the special wish of the family that the services shall be as private as possible. The funeral

will be a personal and not a public one. As far as the official position of the president wil) permit the services will be the same as those customary in the case of a member of a private family. Invitations will be Btrictly limited in number, and no person will be allowed to be present without them. The funeral services will undoubtedly be held in the east room. This is the largest room in the building, and in fact the only one at all adapted to the holding of services even as private as those which the family desire. They will be conducted according to the l'resbyterian forms by Rev. Dr. T. S. Hamlin, pastor of the Church of the Covenant, on Connecticut avenue, of which the pros ident and Mrs. Harrison have been regular attendants. Tho bo.ly will not lie in state.

The Futtcrsil Train.

Arrangements for the special train which will bear Mrs. Harrison's remains from Washington to Indianapolis liave been completed by Vice l'residont Frank Thompson, of the Pennsylvania railroad. Accommodations will be provided for the president, with his family and a few personal friends, including the vice president, members of the cabinet and their families.

At 11 a. m. Thursday the train will leave Washington, reaching l!altimore. at ]2: 5 p. in. Ilnrrisburg, Altoona, 7 o'clock: Pittsburgh about 10:• J0 eastern time Columbus, and Indianapolis at Friday morning. The return will be made as soon as convenient after the funeral services on Friday evening, and the mourners are expected to be in Washington again by 0:10 p. m. on Natunlay. An engine, combination baggage and drawing-room car, a dining car, three sleepers, the president's private car and an observation car containing the remains will comprise the train.

Services at Indianapolis.

The services at Indianapolis will be very simple. The president's wish in this respect has been conveyed to Dr. Haines, to whom the details of the arrangements will be left. The body will be taken from the station to the church and thence to Crown Hill cemetery. The cemetery is north of the city, about two or three miles from the city limits. It is one of the few really beautiful spots about Indianapolis, whose location is too flat to admit of the picturesque. The cemetery is a tract of rolling country wooded with fine old trees. ICo streams border it, but not far away flows the White river.

The Casket.

About 1 o'clock Mr. Russell Harrison, Mr. McKee and Mr. Halford visited the establishment of Undertaker Speare and selected a casket. The one finally decided upon was made of Spanish red cedar covered with fine black broadcloth. This casket has a copper metallic inner case hermetically sealed and lined with cream-tufted satin. The exterior of the casket has no ornamentation whatever, except the oxidized bar handles, which run its full length, and a solid silver oxidized plate bearing this inscription:

CAROLINE SCOTT HARIIISON, W1FK OF .. BENJAMIN HAltRISON. I

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A view of the casket impresses one with its extreme simplicity and elegance. The traveling case is also made of Spanish red cedar, highly polished, with brass handles and corners.

Will Act HH Honorary Pall Bearer*.

Postmaster General Wanamaker and Secretary Noble, who with the attorney treneral and Secretary Tracy are the only members of the cabinet in the city, called during the morning and each passed about half an hour with the president. It was the expressed wish of the president to the members of the cabinet who called that the affairs of government be proceeded with as usual, and in deference to this request the heads of the several executive departments were at their desks during the greater part of the day, and the departments remained open as usual. It is expected that such members of the cabinet as can safely leave their official duties will accompany the funeral party to Indianapolis, in the capacity of honorary pall bearers.

The pall-bearers who will officiate at Indianapolis have been selected. Thev are Dr. H. R. Allen, .John B. Eluni, Hugh lianna, E. 15. Martindale, (!en. Lew Wallace, of Crawfordsville William IS. Xiblack. of Yineennes: John K. Elder and Theodore L\ Haughev.

The active pall-bearers in this city will be the attendants at the white house, whose sorrow over the death of Mrs. Harrison is sincere and deep. '1 hev have lost a friend who took an active personal interest iti the welfare of each.

All Will Attain!.

All the members of the president's

family, with the exception of his three grandchildren, will accompany the remains of Mrs. Harrison to Indianapolis. This, of course, includes Dr. Scott, the venerable father of the deceased. It was at first felt that his advanced age would prevent his making the trip, but when the mat ter was broached to him lie announced emphatically that he proposed to go and would not listen to a proposition to the contrary. It is also likely that Vice President Morton and family, Chief .Justice Fuller and a few others will be specially invited to accompany the party.

Grief of Her Husband anil Father.

Postmaster General Wanamaker was one of the first of the members of the cabinet to arrive at the executive mansion. He had a half-hour conversation with the president and found him stronger and braver than he had expected. His tear-stained face showed unmistakable evidence of intense suffering. and yet he seemed to have been gathering up his strength and nerving himself lor a month past for the day that must come. Mr. Wanamaker also saw the venerable Dr. Scott, Mrs. Harrison's father, now in his 03d year. He tearfully told his friends how he spent the evening beside the bed of his stricken child, and finally

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retired, leaving her peacefully sleeping. When he awoke Tuesday morning they told him that his dear one had passed on before. He could hardly realize, he said, that she should be taken and he left, and he could not understand why it should be so, but his faith in the wisdom of the Master sustained him and gave him strength to bear this great sorrow.

DiplomatOH l.t'Hvn Their Card*.

Punctilious to a degree in all matters pertaining to social and official functions, many members of the diplomatic corps—whose frequent calls during the critical period of Mrs. Harrison's illness made them seem to take more of a friendly than a purely official interest in the welfare of the afllicted lady —hastened early to the white house and left their cards.

VuhlK* Dinners Postponed.

At the requestor Karon ilu Struve, minister from Russia, a dinner which was to be given in his honor this evening b.v some sixty prominent, fellow me. nbers of the Metropolitan elub as a parting evidence of their esteem (ju-t prior to Ins departure for Europe),, has been indefinitely postponed. Mr. de rttve made this request because of the death ol Mrs. Harrison. The University elub announces that, in view of Mrs. Harrison's death the reception to Mr. Justice Shiras of the supreme court, which has been fixed for the Hist inst., has been postponed to some date next month.

Official Sympat liy.

Although the wife of the president is held strictly to be a private individual, the death of Mrs. Harrison will be made the subject of a good deal of the formal notice that ordinarily accompanies the death of a president. In all foreign countries where we have representatives the ministers of foreign affairs will at. once call upon the heads of our legations and express their sovereign's sympathy. In this city the foreign ministers will call on the secretary of state and extend to him for transmission to tbg president messages conveying their own personal sympathy as well as that sent them by their home governments. Later these messages will be more fully and formally expressed in writing and so placed in the files of the state department. It is thus understood that whatever official honors will be paid to the memory of Mrs. Harrison will come from the indirect channel of sympathy for the "blow that has fallen upon the president, It is the only way to express personal or official regard for him. The supreme court, through the chief justice, will also tender its collective sympathies.

Dispatch from Grover Cleveland.

Mr. Cleveland sent the following dispatch to President Harrison Tuesday morning: "To Benjamin Harrison. Executive Mansion. Washington: 1 hasten to assure you or my sin-cer-j sympathy in the hour of your terrible bereavement.

GHOVEH CLEVELAND."

From Queen Victoria.

The following cable message from Balmoral has been given out: "To Gen. Harrison, President of the United States, Washington: I have heard with the deepest regret of your sad loss and sincerely sympathize with you in your grief. "VICTORIA,

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The I'opo Sends Condolence.

Cardinal Gibbons has sent the following message: "CHICAi o, Oct. 25.—To President Harrison, Washington: The pope through Cardinal Rampolla sends you his heartfelt condolence in your present affliction. "CAIIDINAL OIUDONS."

Messages of Sympathy.

All night long telegrams of condolence with the president and his family in their affliction arrived, and in the early hours after dawn messenger boy after messenger boy passed through the gates bearing telegrams of this nature.

Ex-Secretary Blaine sent over a message to the president during the morning. It was contained in an envelope, directed in Mr. Blaine's own handwriting, and was sent upstairs to the president. Among the many telegrams of condolence which have been received are those from the following:

Ex-President Grover Cleveland, Vice President Morton. Hon. V/hileluw Ried, Hon. Thomas II. Carter, Gov. Chase of Indiana and state oUlcers, Hon. Robert T. Lincoln. Hon. J. H. Manley.Hou J. N. Huston, ex-treasurer of the United .States: ex-Congressman J. H. f'headle, of Indiana: Francis Murnhy, Rev. John R. l'ax ton. of the .Madison Avenue church of New Yor'u: Hon. 1J. M. Ramsdell, United States marshal for the district' Mr. and Mrs. P. Stuilebaker, of Chicago: Gen. Charles II T. Coin's, of New York: Hon. Hamilton Disston. of Philadelphia: Gen. K, S. Foster, of Indiana: Senior Allison, Judge U. Martin lale. of ind anapo'.is:

Pennsylvania: Hon. S A.

Wliitiiild. ex-tirst assistant postmaster g-n-a S a to a ii Johnson, r.f Indima: St. Cla'r McKi hvav. editor af Die iSrnoMvn lO.igl-: Hev. l.r.

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of All :. iy: Hon. John A. Kii. .', of !J 1timore Gov. and Mr*. Che'.njy. of S I' IJI'I shire: Hon. \V. P. r.f Hon. K. Pheli.s. ,.r Vr- ij-',-.. Brown, of Rhode isU.ii-1 Newman. r.ov. 1William Ci.g.-1 ru,

John Dalzell, of Pennsylvania: lion. Clmrlts S. Baker, of Rochester Col. W. R. Holloway, of Indiana Hon. I,ogan II. Roots, of Arkansas Hon. John C. New, consul general to London T. E. Mackenna, ex-secretary of state of Chili Gov. Flower, of New York: Gen. It. A. Alger, of Detroit George H. Roberts, of the Pennsylvania railroad: A. J. Drexel, of Philadelphia Hon. T. W. Palmer, of Detroit Hon. J. S. Clarkson, Senator Hiscock, and Hon. Hilary A. Herbert^ of Alabama. A great many other persons sent telegrams of condolence, and also numerous organizations.

Society Will Be AflTerted.

The death of Mrs. Harrison will interrupt for some time the social functions at Washington. The vice president and Mrs. Morton and the members of the cabinet and their wives being, in a sense, the official family of the president, it is understood, will go into mourning, and will therefore withdraw from all participation in social events for one month. This custom obtains in foreign countries upon the death of a queen. There seems no other way for them to publicly express their sense of personal loss and sympathy with the great grief which has come to the chief executive. The effect of the death of Mrs. Harrison on general society will be marked. It has come at a quiet season, but if it liad been at any other period it would have been similarly observed. •?. ••««.•,« •.•,*?.•,

Thirteen Deaths.

Mrs. Harrison's death is t.bo ihir-

teenth in the president's private and official household since the beginning of his administration. The list is composed of Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Scott Lord, her sister Mrs. Halford, the private secretary's wife Mrs. Pruden.Mrs. Tracy, Miss Tracy, Walker lilaine and his sister, Mrs. Coppinger,and'Emmons Blaine, Secretary Windom Executive Clerk Cox aud his daughter. Miss Cox, and John Overhall, the president's oldtime servant. Another interesting fact is that the president, his private and assistant secretary and Secretary Tracy have become widowers within a short time of each other.

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INDIANA I'OI.IH, Ind., Oct. 20. All about Indianapolis are to be seen emblems of mourning for Mrs. Harrison.

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Hags of all the public buildings have been at half mast all dav anil hundreds of pictures of the president displayed in public windows have been draped in mourning. Rev. M. L. Haines, pastor of the I'irst Presbyterian church, was notified this evening that the funeral train.would reach here about U:30 Friday morning. The body will be taken at once to the First Presbyterian church, where, simple services will be held, probably about an hour in length. After this the body will be buried at Crown Hill. Mr. RansdHl. marshal for the District of Columbia, is attending to many of the funeral details. He says that President Harrison will return to Washington very soon after tlie funeral. He will remain over night, but, his official duties, greatly iuterrupteil during Mrs. Harrison's ill ness. arc demanding attention. The survivors of the Seventieth Indiana, (Jen. Harrison's regiment, will at.ten.1 the services in a bi»'y. i'ril.uti' Iriim I lui I'oct.

IN I A N A In,l,. '.) t. :jii. M,-. .lames f, s- a Uiley has ei.nin buted thi' follow nit's in memory of Mrs. Harrison uie Indianapolis News:

WE ARE LEADERS in Furniture. New Goods arriv« ing Daily. STOVES.—We

I'tter calm and ret. Hands folded uVr the liuast, in jieai'e tlii' pi icile.M. •.••••', .•.«•:•

All trials |us:: All fiver snoil.v'il: all paui Annulled: in heart ami lir.iin. Never to vex aKain,

She sleeps at last,

She sleeps: but Oh! most dear And best beloveil of her, Ye sleep not, nay. nor st'r,

Save but to bow The closer each to uaeh. With *obs and broken speech :t That all in vain veyeuih

Her answer now.

"Andlo! we woep with you One grief the wide world through Yet with the faith she knew

We see lier still, ,f, *,, Even as here she stood—,.

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BARN HILL H0RNADAY& PICKETT.

All that was pure and good And sweet in womanhoodGod's will her will."

SIIHOCIKI All Mtreet I'aruilen," NKW YOHK, Oct. 20.—Mrs. Harrison's

death has cast a gloom over republican national and state headquarters. The usual routine of \fork was .suspended as f»n as practical and Chairman Carter received but few visitors. Early in the day Messrs. Manly, MeComasand Hahn had a conference, with tlie chairman, and as a result the following telegram was sent to the various republican state, committees throughout the country: "NATIONAI, Kki'I.-HI.ICAN HKAnmr.wnEKs NKW YOIIK.

Oct. Sfi, ISf.'.-Mrs. Harrison, the

devoted wife of the president, died at the executive mansion at 1:10 o'clock this mornini? and will be buried at Indianapolis on l-'riUav the -iith inst. "As a mark of respect to tly- memory of tho deceased, whose noble and pure life furnisher an inspiration to all wives and mothers, and as

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an expression or sympathy with the president and his sorrowing .ramily, tho republican no* tional committee desires that you suspend all street parades and campaign demonstrations until after tho conclusion of tho funeral cere, monies. "THOMAS

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Chairman."

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CHICAGO. Oct The national world's fair commission has decided that except on occasions of evening entertainments, tho doors of tha exposition shall be closed at p. m. There was a vigorous attempt to put the hour of closing at ft o'clock, or even 11 o'clock, but it waa finally decided that owing to tho enormous expense that would thereby be entailed upon the directory, tho rule its offered was aporoved.

Itroku the Kallroud Kocord.

HTFFAI.O, N. Y.. Oct. 2(5.—The ran. road record was broken by the empire express Monday. It left Rochester' forty minutes late and came into Huf^ falo on time. For ten minutes shortly after leaving Rochester a speed of 90 miles per hour was attained and thia over the worst grade on the whole Central system, he run from Rochester to Ruffulo, miles, was made in sev-enty-one minutes. .'Mexico at t.lin .Monetary Coiif'oi'oiien.

MKXICO. Oct. 2(5.—President Diaz, has appointed Antonio Mier, (icn, Mona and Joaqnin (asasus as delegates to the Hmssels monetary conference. Tho first two named are already in Europe. •Senor CU.SM.SUS, who will leave on Saturday, is here conferring with UtO minister of thinned.

HONOR LUTHER'S EMORY,

Impri'KHivr ('ereiiioiiK'H to Atte.iil I lie !{«.» eonueerutloii of lite t'hurcli ut. Wit ten-

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Oct. ••«.—A grand feature of

the rcdedieation of the Luther Memorial church ut Wittenberg, which takes place on October :1, will be the procession into the church through the door to which Luther nailed his celebrated theses against the doctrine of indulgences, in this procession will be Kmperor William and the other sovereign princes of tiermany, anil it promises to be a spectacle of great splendor. Trumpeters will bl* stationed in the steeple of the church, and as the procession crosses the historic threshold they will play "Kin Fcste Jlurg."

The supreme Protestant council of Prussia has ordered that memorial sermons be preached in all the pulpits within its jurisdiction on Sunday next. The greater part of the cost of' restoring the church has been borne by Emperor illiam. At the consecration ceremonies there will be present r«*presentatives of all foreign Protestant sovereigns, who will take part in tho grand procession. The duke of York, heir presumptive to the throne of I!rent Jiritain, will represent Queeu Victoria. ™.v.,

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