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LAID TO REST,
Funeral of the Late Judge Lev
Nj. Villas.

Special to the Globe.
MADISON, WIS, Aug. 27.-At2o'clock
this afternoon the last sad and impress
sive funeral services over the remains
of the late Hon. Levi M. Villas, district
judge of the second judicial district of
Minnesota, were solemniZed at the resi-
dence of his mother, Mrs. Levi B. Villas,
Langdon and Henry streets, in this city,
Rev. DR.. Durlin, of the Episcopal church.
officiating. The friends and former as
sociates of the dead juriSt were gathered
about his bier to a large number. Fame
and distinction, position and station, all
paid tribute to the beloved man who had
lived in Madison as boy, who grew
with it into the respect and esteem OF
its people, and who returned but few
few months ago to the city of
his childhood to lay down the
wand of his already brilliant and
now promising career, and found sad
peace and resting beside the tomb of his
father, the late Hon. Levi B. Villas. and
that of his deceased brother and sister,
Henry Villas and Esther Villas. The
floral offerings were numerous. rich and
beautiful, and the casket containing his
remains lay buried in bower of floral
sentiment. Early this morning the
delegation of the Ramsey County Bar
association arrived, represented III the
persons of Judges Kerr and Brill, Gen.
j. b. Sanborn. John W. Willis, County
Attorney j. j. Egan, James W.. Lusk,
B. w. Armstrong, James M. Hutchinson,
s. l.. Perrin and the two former law
pupils of the deceased. John B. Flem-
ing and Henry W. Wack. These were
OF fl,a nr (Nhor1nC II
Villas, of Chicago, and escorted to
PLACE OF CONVENIENT MEETING.
The Madison bar turned out in a body
and attended the cortege to the grave.
A large contingent from Chicago and
Eastern cities, as we'll as many friends
from Eau Claire paid last visit to the
Villas home and viewed the remains OF
the widely lamented jurist. The pail
bearers were Judge j. B. Cassidy, of the
supreme court of Wisconsin: Judga
Romance Bum, of the United States
court; Judge Ed. E.. Bryant. Hon. }. c..
Gregory and Col. George w. Bird, of
Madison; Peter Baldy. Judges Bull and
Kerr, Hon. J. w. Lusk and DR.. u. w.
Day, of st. Paul. Hon. William F.
Villas, late secretary of the interior,
arrived shortly after his brothers
death last Sunday morning, and made
whole the immediate family, which
anXiously watched the life tide ebb
from the flesh of it's member. Besides
him all the family we're present, COM
posed of Hon. William F. Villas. Ed
ward P. Villas, of Milwaukee: DIR. A. F..
Villas. of Chicagor Mrs. Levi b. Villas,
mother of the deceased, and Mrs. Levi
NJ. Villas and four daughters, Jessie,
Elizabeth, Kate and Margaret AS the
lcng train of carriages wound its way to
Forest Hill cemetery, the concourse
was augmented by voluntary escort
from the citizens of Madison. The'en-
tire city is III mourning, and many
places of business and the places of
court and capitol were deserted. The
grief-stricken community is but too
sensible to the loss it has sustained in an
untimely dissolution of life so noble,
SO conspicuously grand and so honored.