Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-23
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE LATE VICTOR HUGO To Receive A State Flu
 neral. AN INVASION OF THE CONGO. Gladstone Brings Italy
 To Terms. REEL TO PLEAD INSANITY. Another Victim Of The
 Cincinnati Fire.
VICTOR HUGO DEAD.

Cincinnati Fire.
 VICTOR HUGO DEAD.
 France In Mourning For the Great
 Poet And a Monster Funeral IR
 Prospect.
 PARIS, May 22-victor Hugo died at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. His condition was manifestly worse this morning that his death was regarded as certain to take place within 8 few hours When this fact became known, Cardinal Guibert, the Archbishop of Paris, sent specially to Hugo,ss residence offering to visit him and administer spiritual aid and the rites of the Catholic church. M. Lock roy, the poets son-in-law, who was in attend ance at the death bed when the Cardinals proffer came, replied for Hugo, declining with thanks the Archbishep's tender, and saying for the dying man: "Victor Hugo is expecting death, but he does not desire the services of priest"
 The evening newspapers appear in mourn ing for the dead poet. It is believed that Hugo's funeral will be the grandest seen in France for a century. The celebrated painter Bonnat made sketch of Hugo as he lay on his death bed, and will paint DOT trait from the sketch.
 In the Senate this afternoon M. Le Rover, the venerable states man, pronounced a eulogy upon the dead poet. M. Brisson, the premier, also eu1ogized the deceased and moved that the funeral be conducted by the State. The mo- tion was unanimously adopted. The Senate and the Chamber of Deputies after listening to addresses adjourned as mark of respect to M. Hugo.
 It is proposed to inter the poets body in the Pantheon. The day of the funeral will be observed all over France as one of mourn ing. All the government offices, the schools and the theaters will be closed. The State will defray all expenses of the funeral. It is stated that M. Hugo suffered terribly for several hours before his death.
 The funeral of Victor Hugo will probably take place next Wednesday. It is proposed that the body be inferred under the Arc. de Triomphe. Unprecedented preparations both public and private are being made for a grand demonstration of respect. The great poets death was peaceful. He refused to the last to receive priestly ministration. His addressed to his favorite granddaughter. ROME, May 22-The Chamber of Depu- ties has adopted series of resolutions eulo- gizing Victor Hugo and condoling with his relatives.
 Victor Marie Hugo was born on February 26, 1802, at Besancon. He was the youngest of three sons, and their father, General Hugo, being engaged in the various campaigns in Italy and Spain up to the time of Napoleon's defeat and exile, Mime Hugo and her chil- dren followed him into both countries, and thus their early years were spent amid strange sights and scenes, following the for tunes of war After the fall of the Emper- or, General Hugo was deprived of his com mand, and he then came to Paris and placed his two younger boys in preparatory school in the Rue Sainte-M Marguerite, 'elEcole-Polyt ytechnique'' later on. Here, in the intervals of study, young Victor organ ized dramatic representations among his schoolfellows and filled volumes of copy books with poetry. He was fifteen years old when he aspired to the prize offered by the academy for the best poem on the advantages of study, and the prize was only withheld be- cause the dignitaries of that hot-bed of old fogyism took offense at one of the passages in the poem which they considered to be too presumptuous. However, two years later he carried off two prizes at the Academy of Floral Games and in 1929 his first volume of lyrical poems ap- peared, which not only confirmed the high regard in which many of the most eminent men in France held his genius, but also ob- ! tained for him pension of 800 francs from | Louis XVIII. This pension enabled him to marry the young girl for whom he had con- ceived romantic affection at the tender age of five, and who, at the time when poverty ] and other difficulties stood in the way of mar riage, never faltered in her affection, but en- ! couraged and inspired him to write TO- nance ssHan d'Islande," the Ogre Han rep | resenting their difficulties, the hero (Oadeues Victor) himself, and the heroine (EtheD his | true little sweetheart.
 Space would fail to record in detail the vicissitudes of our authors career; weary ! wranglings with actresses, misunderstanding ! of managers, devoted little bands of admir- ! CTS, with Theophile Gautier and Balzac at ! their head, smuggled secretly into the thea ter before the doors were opened to the gen. | eral public, that they might post themselves f at intervals among the audience and lead \ applause. And in spite of 1t all his | dramas did not succeed. Cromwell, |" "Amy Robsart, 7" 'Hernani, |" 'tMarion de POrme"were one after another rejected by the public, though sustained by the first actors of the ! day. 'Lucrece Borgia," the first of M. ! Hugo's dramas which appeared in prose, ! came cut at the Theater du Porte Saint Mar I tin, and was pronounced success. Less se- rious studies, though not less valuable in ! their way, were the lyrics which he publish ed from time to time: s'Les Rayons ct les | Ombres," ''Les Voix Interieures," 'fLes ! cule," etc.; and while weaving revolutionary
 sentiments into exquisite odes, he addressed some delicately generous lines to the fallen King Charles K, which the paper that pub lished them described as ''the poets sad
 farewell to the past" It was so, in truth. Gradually his royalism faded and with the | whole youth of Paris he and Lamartine to-
 gether espoused the cause of republicanism.
 On his fathers death in 1928 he became Count Hugo, but he never used the title. However, being anxious some time
 later to take more prominent part for admission ito the Academic Francaise,
 from which august body the King sometimes
 chose his new creations for the chambre des Paris. Deputy he could not be, as he did not
 possess one single sod of land or property | so he presented himself for election to the
 academic, and after having been reelected for three years in succession he obtained ad- ' mission into it's ranks in 1881, and was raised
 to the peerage some time later by Louis Phil
 lippe. ter the coup d'etat in 1851 he refused the
 amnesty offered by Napoleon III, rejected with passionate scorn the triumph of imperi- alism, and went into voluntary exile for 19 years. In this time of exile (from Jersey ! first and afterward from Guernsey his most | brilliant successes were achieved. His
 prose works during this period include: ' -'L6S H1SeT6DloS, A4OS 4AoN AA4AOOAS eeO A6 Mer," "L'Hommequ Rit," and "Quatre- vingt Treize;'' his poems, Napoleon le Petit" s'Les Chatiments," La Legende des
 Siecles, :" ssChansons des Rues ct des Bois, " and tsLes Contemplations. They were all published in Belgium, their sale being pro hibited in France under the empire.
 In his domestic life, M. Hugo has passed \ through many sorrows. His wife, the faith ful 'sAdele" of his youth, lived long enough to know him hailed as master mind by the
 whole literary world, but the hand \ of death was laid on her
 just two years before the end of his long exile. His idolized eldest child, the
 ssLeopoldine, i" who inspired some of the most
 exquisite of his "Contemplations' was taken from him by an early and sudden death, and both his sons died in the prime of manhood.
 The elder, Charles Hugo, former editor of Le
 Rappel, has left two children, the Georges ' ct Jeanne' of latir poems.
 Hanged And RfddIed With Bullets.
 NEW SrRArrsvn4LE, O., May 22.-Afte1
 Albert Guess, who shot Henry Ayers al
 Hugh McFaques yesterday, as..taken out ot | iail and hanged to 8 chestnut tree twenty
 shots were fired into him. He was left hang ing all night in the rain. From dayligh until he was cut down crowds of people cam