Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1891 — FUNERAL OF VON MOLTKE. [ARTICLE]

FUNERAL OF VON MOLTKE.

Crowned Heads Bow Before the Remains of Germany's Great General. The funeral services over the remains of Fie'd Marshal Count Von Moltke took place in the ball-room of the general staff building, in which building the veteran died, and where his body had been lying in state. Emperor William, ♦ho King of Saxony, the Grand Dukes of Baden, Saxe-Weimar, and Hesse, the principal members of the royal families qf Germany, together with the leading German Generals, were present. The services lasted forty minutes. The casket containing the dead Field Marshal's remains was then carried with much cersmony to the hearse, which was drawn by six of the Emperor’s horses. After passing through streets’lined with troops and packed with spectators, the remains arrived at the Lehrte station and were placed upon a railroad car draped in black, which was there in waiting.