The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-05-31
Gen. Harrison.

countries. The following are from the
large number received:
Gen. Harrison.
New York
] beg to tender to you and YOUR chill.
dren my sincere sympathy In your great
sorrow. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Detroit
Please receive the heartfelt sympathy
Of Mrs. Alger and myself in your great
sorrow K. A. ALGER.
Buffalo, N.
Let us assure you, dear friend, of our
profound sympathy with you in the loss
OF your noble husband. He had much to
give his country and he gave it all
NIX. AND MRS. w. S. BISSELL
Ambassador Bayard.
London, England.
Our tears fall with yours for the
noble dead BAYARD
Indianapolis
From Governor Gray's widow: Wa
send heartfelt sympathy in this hour Of
inconsolable grief. In the family's loss
OF q nsble husband and Kind father. ths
country loses staunch patriot and wise
statesman. MRS. ISAAC p. GRAY.
Mrs. U. g. Grant.
New York.
Would that l could offer yeu sonsola-
tieA In this hour. 1 can only say nv
heart Is full OF sympathy
JULIA D. GRANT.
New York.
Nay the Ged Of mercies temper your
heart in its bereavement with the re-
ward that Is yours for having shared
with wifs's deepest love and devotion
the unselfsh life, the SACRIFICES fer che
public good, thet patriotism and the
glorious services of one Of the pSresk
nosiest and greatest men Of our genera
ttsR. OSCAR 8 STRAIyS
Now York
From ex- Governor Hoadley, of Ohio,
Twenty-Five years of friendship between
your husband any myself emphasizes nay
grief and sense Of loss Yours is ire
parable. Please accept nay warm SYM
pAthy In your sorrow.
GEORGE HOADLEY.
Vice-President Stevenson.
Bloomington, Ill.
beg to assure you of the heartfslt
sympathy of Mrs. Stevenson and myself
In your great sorrow.
A. e. STEVENSON. :.
Philadelphia
This from ex-senator Edmundst
Please accept our deep sympathy with
yea In your affiiction. A brave soldier
aAd an upright judge and statesman has
gone to the reward of the pure in heart
GEO. F. EDMUNDS.
Wilmington, Del.
Senator Gray sent the following: You
have my heartfelt sympathy In the loss
OF your noble husband. Tho announce
Aent Of his death inexpressibly shocks
aad grisves me GEORGE GRAY.
Ambassador Runyon.
Berlin.
From Ambassador Runyon: l beg to
send respectful coincidence in your great
affection in the death of yeur distin.
guishsd husband in whom the country
lssss one Of its most eminent and valus-
bic citizens. THEODORE RUNYON,
Washington, d. C.
You have eur heartfelt and deep sym-
pathy Ia your great afflictien. May God
% Rfort and console you.
MRS. EDWARD J. MURPHY, JR.
Don NJ. Dickinson,
Detroit, Mich.
No purer patriot ever lived than your
nsble father l know as we'll that self
ana private interests weighed as nothing
against his devotion to his country and
70 high principle. pray that God will
continue to sustain the brave true wife
who has known his sacrifices and has
shared them. DON NJ. DICKINSON.
The Presidents Proclamation.
Washington, May 29.-The following
10 the proclamation issued by the presi-
dent yesterday:
walter Y. Gresham, secretary of
ssato OF the United States is dead The
president in making this distressing an
nouAeement TO his fellow countrymen
speaks from the depths OF personal
aMiOtion to remind them that they too
have lost pure and able public servant,
a wise and patriotic guardian Of all their
tights and interests, a manly and loyal
American and q generous and lovable
man. AS asuitable expression of national
bereavement, direct that the diplomatic
representatives OF the United States in
all foreign countries display the flags
over their embassies and legations ut
half mast for ten days, that for like
period the flag Of the United States be
displayed at half mast at all forts and
military posts and at all naval stations
and on all vessels Of the United States. /
further order that on the day of the
funeral the executive departments in the
city Of Washington be closed and that on
oil public buildings throughout the
United States the national flag be dis
played at half mast.
GROVER CLEVELAND"
No Anarchists or Socialists Wanted.
Berlin, May 26.-The socialist news