Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-06-03
MEMORIAL SERVICES.
Ceremonies Throughout the Country
Id Honor of Dead Soldiers.
Prssidsat mckinley at AriinstSi Cenietsry.
Gov. Roosevelt at Grants Toiib, Gen.
Doe Wheeler In Boston AT
~ Manila and Havana.

capital devoted itself TO the observance
Of Decoration day. The departments
were closed, private and public BUSH
ness was suspended, the streets were
filed with marching veterans, national
guardsmen, military and civic organi-
cations, all moving toward the Airing.
ton national cemetery, Soldiers home,
congressional and other cemeteries,
where appropriate services were held
and the graves of the dead were
strewn with flowers.
The ceremony at Arlington was nota-
BILE by the presence of the president
and members of his cabinet and Of
many leading officers Of the army and
navy, as well as officials prominent in
public life.
Ceremonies ut Grants Tomb.
New York, May 31.-The sarcophagus
Of Gen. Grant in the tomb at Claremont
was covered with flowers yesterday
afternoon after impressive ceremonies
by U. s. Grant post, G. A. R., Brooklyn.
an address by Gov. Roosevelt and q
presidential salute of 81 guns fred
from the United States cruiser Brook
lyn, which lay in the Hudson just be-
low the hill with all her battle flags
flying. There were several professions
in honor Of the day, but the more inn
portant were the military parade in
New York city proper, reviewed by
Maj. Gen. Miles, and the military
parade in Brooklyn, reviewed by Gov.
Roosevelt.
First Memorial Day at Manila.
Manila, May 3l.-Memorial day was
celebrated at Battery knoll, where
Scott's guns were planted against the
Filipino trenches in the first days
fighting at Manila. Nearly 800 soldiers
lie buried there on bleak mound sur
rounded by rice fields, rough boards
marking the graves, which are ranged
in five unbrol1en rows. Beyond these
are Spanish blockhouses and bamboo
hedges, which were mown by shells
from the American guns. Col. Charles
DENLY, of the United States Philippine
commission presided at the exercises.
Gen. whcelcr's Euiogy at Boston.
BOSTON, May 3l.-For the first time
an ex-otiicer Of the confederacy deliv'
cred the Memorial day address before
n New England Grand Army post.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, the cavalry lead
or, who led the boys in gray at the fa'
nous charge ut Shiloh and, nearly 81
years later, beneath the stars and
stripes, cheered on the volunteers at
Santiago, was the guest of honor at the
Memorial day services Of Z. w. kinsley
post l;3, q. A. r., ut the Boston theater.
The Day Observed at Havana.
Havana, May 81.-Decoration day
was observed here yesterday in nota'
BILE manner. Mrs. Estes G. Rathbone
and committee of women who had
been selected for the purpose were
taken into Rear Admiral Cromwells
launch and escorted by detachment
of marines to the wreck of the battle
ship Maine, where they strung the
skeleton Of the unfortunate craft with
ropes of laurel and wreaths Of flowers.
$4,000 Graves Decorated ut Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tenn, May 3i.-with
elaborate exercises the graves Of the
$4,000 union soldiers buried in the ma
tional cemetery here were decorated
yesterday. Resting beside the dead Of
the civil war in this cemetery are sew
eral hundred volunteers of the Spanish
war who died at Chiclxamauga, and the
decoration was a Joint affair partici
pated In by the veterans Of both wars.
Fallen soldiers mt Gettysburg.
Gettysburg, Pa, May S1.-Memorial
day was observed at the national Gem
etery here with the usual elaborate
ceremonies and the graves Of fallen
heroes were decorated by school chill
dren and veteran soldiers Of the civil
war. In the parade Pennsylvania vol
unteers who served during the war
with Spain marched as an escort to the
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