The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-06-02
THE BOYS WHO FELL.
Graves Of Soldiers Who Died for
Country Decorated by Friends.
Impressive Services AZ the National Capt.
tai and Grants TOmb-Cien- wheeler
Speaks At I5oston-Day Observed
at Manila and Havana


Washington, May 81 The national
capital devoted itself 20 the observance
Of Decoration day. The departments
were closed, private and public bust
ness was suspended, the streets were
filed with marching veterans, national
guardsmen, military and civic Organi-
cations, ali 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-
bic 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 promin ent IN
public life.
Ceremonies at Grants Tomb.
New York, May 3I.-Tne sarcOphagus
Of Gen Grant In the tomb at CIaremOnt
was covered with flowers yesterday
afternoon after impressive ceremonies
By L. ;. Grant post. G.. 4. R., Brooklyn,
an address by Gov Roosevelt and
presidential salute OF q guns fred
from the United States cruiser Brook
Ign. which lay In the Hudson Just be
flying. There Were several professions
in honor Of the day, but the more i'm
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
FiFst Memorial Day at Manila
Manila, May 5I--AlemoriLl day was
celebrated at Battery knoll, where
SCOTS guns were planted against the
Filipino trenches IN the first DAYS
fighting at Manila Nearly 600 soldiers
lie buried there on a bleak mound sur
rounded by rice fields, rough boards
marking the graves, which are ranged
in five unbrOEzen rows Beyond these
are Spanish blOczhOuses and bamboo
hedges, which were mOyvn by shells
from the American guns Col Charles
DENLY, OF the United States Philippine
commission presided at the exercises.
Gen. WheeIsr's EuIogy at Boston O.
Boston, May 3i.-EOr the first time
an ex-Oficer Of the confederacy deliv-
cred the Memorial day address before
a New England Grand Army post.
Gen Joseph Wheeler, the cavalry lead
en- who led the boys In gray at the IA
nous charge at 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 rs, G. A. r, at the Boston theater.
The Day Observed at Havana
Havana, Nay 31.-DeeOratiOn day
was observed here yesterday in a nota-
bic manner. Mrs Estes G. RathbOne
and a committee Of women who had
been selected for the purpose were
taken into Rear. Admiral CrOmwell's
launch and escorted by a 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 at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tenn, Nay SI--With
elaborate exercises the graves Of the
13, 900 union soldiers buried IN the na-
tiOnal cemetery here We're decorated
yesterday. Resting beside the dead of
the civil war in this cemetery are sew
eraI hundred volunteers Of the Spanish
war who died at Chickamauga, and the
decoration was joint affair partici-
pated in by the veterans of both wars
Fallen Soldiers at Gettysburg.
Gettysburg, Pa, May 31.-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 I
g. A R.