Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1903 — INDIA HAILS EDWARD. [ARTICLE]

INDIA HAILS EDWARD.

Hia Accession to 1 lirone Celebrated in Magnificent fc-tylc. The viceroy. Lord (’urzbn of Kedleston. made his state entry Monday into Delhi, the capital of the Moguls. This constituted the official opening of the Durbar held to celebrate the accession of King Edward as Emperor of India. It was a splendid pageant, probably unparalleled in its magnificence. At the head of the elephant procession rode Lord and Lady Curzon on the state

"grand tusker” twelve feet high, the largest elephant in India. Their howdah was decked with gold and silver, and the elephant itself was almost hidden under a gold worked saddle cloth. Surrounding them were footmen in scarlet and gold liveries bearing massive silver staves. The Duke of Connaught, who represent ed King Edward, ami the Duchess of Connaught followed. Their elephant was equally gorgeously caparisoned. Then, in order of precedence, came the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Manajarnh of Travailcore ami other ruling chiefs, seventy in all. their huge elephants forming a line n quarter of a mile in length. This glittering procession started from the railroad station preceded bv dragoon guards ami artillery, the viceroy's escort and by heralds and trumpeters. The route was lined by British and native troops. From the saluting battery, posted at the fort commanding the Lahore gate, guns thundered out a royal salute as the viceroy passed. The cortege passed in front of a line of 150 elephants carrying the brilliantly dressed retainers of the ruling chiefs. The colossal beasts saluted by trumpeting and throwing their trunks in the air, and afterward- fell in line behind the official iirocession. Huge crowds of onlookers witnessed the spectacle.

New union railway station will lie erected in Washington, to cost St.(XXJ,(XH). It will he located at Massachusetts and Delaware avenues. There will also be a plain park. The government will pay the Pennsylvania Railroad $1,500,UOO and the B. & 0- SS<X),OOO. All possibility of another general strike in Havana, Cuba, has ended, as the cigarmakers have voted to return to work nml the factories were running as usual. Mateo, bad Indian, Arizona, killed by offlem*. »