St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-21
Judge David A. Secombe Fol-
lowed to His Grave by
Brother Lawyers.
Minneapolis Engineers De-
clare the North Side
Pumps insufficient.
L. w. Smith Searches for His
Brothers Murderer in
Minneapolis.
General News Of the Day
Gathered by Reporters
for the Globe.

The Judge Secombe obsequies soc
Cured yesterday afternoon at the fam
lily residence. rs Grove street. There
was very large attendance, and many
tear was shed when the last of the
mortal remains of the dead barrlster
were viewed. The members of the Min
neapolis Bar association met at the Mic
ollet house at 1:30 and attended the
services in body. The street on which
the residence faced was lined with
equipages, nearly hundred of which
formed procession and followed the
hearse to the grave. The remains lay
in handsome black casket,
which rested on pedestals in the
front parlor. The floral offerings
were many and there was an almost OPP
pressive odor of dying roses i'll the
room. On the mantel piece was a vase
filled with new spring lilacs, also sew
eral huge bouquets of white roses and
chrysanthemums. A clock of unique
design stood on the mantelpiece, but
the ticking had been stopped and its
shining face hidden under confusion
of delicately hued pinks. BY the size
of the clock was a bunch Of Gala lilies
and little hot house violets. On the
casket rested a wreath of lilies and
yellow and white cut roses interviewer
with smilaX. On table by the side OF
the casket stood floral cross, which
bore the familiar inscription, "Requles-
cat in pace"
Among the many old friends who
were present were two who knew the
deceased especially well, and with
whom there were linked tender asS0cia-
tons. There were Rev. E. ID. Neil and
Dir. James Murphy, of st. Paul, family
pastor and family physician; Rev. Mel
was the pastor of congregation which
held services in an old COW stable on
University avenue. somewhere in the
fifties, and Judge Secombe had been
member. 1t was this old
gray-haired clergyman who spoke
the last eulogy and murmured the last
public prayer over his old friend at the
services yesterday. He was greatly
affected and his voice was trcmulous as
lie delivered the prayer and read por-
ton from the Scriptures. The text OF
his homily he drew from the flowers
and plants that shed their fra
GRANGE over the world. There was a
lesson, he said, i'll watching the deli
cate life of the lily or rose, in seeing
how like the life of man it grew and
developed, blossomed forth in all its
beauty and then died and vanished.
The life of rose could never be
brought back, nor the perfume of the
violet when once departed.
Rev, Mel drew comparison between
the life of rose and that Of man.
The human life was the head Of crea-
ton, yet how mysterious it all was. The
philosophers in all their researches were
only able to say life is mystery and
miracle.
GAS we stand here today" continued
the old minister, 1--WE realize that life
has been taken away; that he whose
self and form were so familiar to US,
has gone from us OH this earth forever.
No man knows when the end will come,
so it behooveS us to prepare for the
morrow. Men do not stop to think their
lives may be taken away suddenly. They
think other men are mortal, but not
themselves. But we are one and all
made of the same clay, and have no
word to say in the work of death. We
are called upon today to sympathize
with a wife who has lost husband,
children VINO have lost father and
friends who have lost a comrade. Let
us take heed, then. 10 our own lives,and
pIOub ny LbC OAuihPlN "a N'ui oS-O'So
brother who has gone before"
Rev. Mel spoke of the deceased's
early life, and how he had watched him
in the beginning of his career, and the
gradual development of noble things.
He also briefly touched upon the de-
ceaseds official life, the success he had
at the bar of justice. ard the service he
had rendered his state when he aided
in forming the constitution. In conclu-
sion he said that Judge Secombe had
never deSpised fame, but he had loved
his profession and dignity more. There
was not man of his profession in the
state who was any more consistent in
his duties than he had been.
At the conclusion of the services
those present were given an opportunity
to view the remains. They were then
conveyed to Lakewood cemetery and in
tered. The gentlemen who acted as
pall-bearers were the following old resi-
dents of the city: r. p. Russell, Judge
l.. BoStwick, q. d. Dorr, nj. b. Hayes,
S. ID. Todd and James McMullen.