Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-02-18
wsI. NlcCLELLAND's FUNERAL.
Imposing Ceremonies During the
Last Sad Kites. Harrisburg and
Pittsburg Honor the Dead.

William McClelland were conducted in
an unusually imposing and extensive
A dispatch from Harrisburg
states that Major General Geo. r. Snow
den directed General John A. Willie, com.
Of the Second brigade, to detail
two regiments and battery to act as an |
escort for the remains OF Adjutant Cen
eral McClelIand in Pittsburg. General
Willie was also ordered to report, assume
and take charge of the military
ceremonies in that city An official order
was issued from the headquarters of the
National Guard at Harrisburg annonnc-
ing General McClelland's death. ordering
minute guns to be fired at the
state arsenal ut noon on the day of the
funeral, the flags TO be placed at half
staff and the usual badge of mourning
to be worn by the governors staff.
General McClelland's remains lay in
state in the rotunda Of the capital from
II a. III. until p. m. the 9th inst. We'd
nesdsy morning they arrived at Pitts
burg, and were met by the Loyal Legion
Services were held in the Presbyterian
church. Afterwards the body was gwen
in charge Of military escort, and taken
to the City hall, where it lay in state
until p. m. when it was conveyed to
Allegheny cemetery.
It was probably the largest military
funeral that has been witnessed il Pitts
burg since the war Besides the military
escort of the Eighteenth and Fourteenth
regiments and battery b, the Grand
Army of the Republic, Union Veteran
Legion. Loyal Legion and members of
Cooper's battery we're in line, and Cover
nor Pattison and staff, Major General
Snowden and staff, and Brigadier Gen
erals Goblin, Dechart and Wyle and
numerous CIVIL bodies also participated
in the last sad rites.
Meetings we're held by the Grand Army
of the Republic, Union Veteran Legion,
Loyal Legion, and Chamber of Com
merce, and resolutions of coincidence,
adopted. The armories IN Pittsburg
were draped, and at a meeting of the Off
GERS of the Fourteenth regiment an ap.
propriate minute was passed.
The memory Of Capt. McClelland was
sienally honored by the members of the
Worlds Fair commission who sent from
Chicago numerous elegant floral tributes
on the occasion Of his funeral.
THEY MOURN HIS DEATH.
Resolutions Adopted by the Demo.
cratic Club Upon the Death OF Gen.
McClelland.
JAMESTOWN, N. D., Feb. II, 1892.
At q regular meeting Of the Young
Mems Democratic club of jamestown,
North Dakota, held on the above date,
the following resolutions were unani-
mously adopted:
Whereas, it has pleased an All Wise
Providence to remove from among his
earthly associates, Gen. William Nc
Clelland, adjutant general Of the state Of
Pennsylvania, and
Whereas, The deceased was ever q
firm and faithful friend OF this club, q
wise counsellor in the directing of it's de-
liberations, kind and genial gentleman,
beloved for his manifold traits of manli.
ness toward his feliowmen, therefore be
1t
Resolved, That, in the death of Gen.
William McClelland. the Young Mens'
Democratic club OF jamestown, North
Dakota, and the democratic party of
North Dakota, have lost true and tried
friend, who in his frequent visits to our
infant state, ever solicitons for the well
fare of the democratic party, endeared
himself in the hearts of all with whom
he came IN contact; and, the individual
friendships formed, stamped him in the
heart of each, as man who in his daily
walks exemplified IN the highest degree
those traits of character that shine forth
IN trne manhood and citizenship;
Resolved, That we extend our sympa-
thy to the democratic party OF our sister
state of Pennsylvania, more especially to
the deloocr. tic society of which he was a
member and held close relationship, in
the loss from their ranks of one 90 noble,
ever true to the principles of democracy
hUu kOOA &OVoI "tV0 VIC 00oub OuCO
that this club will ever cherish the
memory OF the deceased, who from their
ranks came so often to the assistance of,
and lent timely aid to, the struggling
democracy of North Dakota.
Resolved, That these resolutions be
spread upon the records Of this club as
tribute to the deceased. and that they be
published in the jamestown Daily Alert,
North Dakota Capital and The Pioneer,
Of this city, and the daily papers Of Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania.
Resolved, That as q further mark Of
esteem an engrossed copy Of these reso-
lutions be forwarded to the local demo-
cratic club OF PittsburR, Pa, Of which
the deceased was 9 member.
ANDREW BLEwETT.
M. II. SCHM1TZ, conn;tta.
RODERICK ROSE,
j. PURCELL BAKER.
Democratic Committee Meeting.
GRAND FoRKs, Feb. 11.-JudRe Quits
secretary, has called meeting of the
democratic state committee to be held in
this city on the eighteenth inst, when