Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-07-25
Church Dignitaries and Other High
Personages View Remains
of Dead Pontiff.
FIRST OF GREAT Ceremonies
OF FUNERAL Is BEGUN
large Crowds Watch Procession Of
Privileged MOurners-Doctors' Re-
port of Autopsy DisprOves Theory
OF Cancer-More Messages Of SYM
Y1thy Received.

lean from $3.50 a. m. until p. m. All
the diplomats accredited to the vatican,
the Roman princes, dukes, barons and
other representatives of ancient fam
tiles remaining faithful to the papacy,
MI the high dignitaries of the church,
the archbishops, bishops, patriarchs and
heads of the religious orders, passed in
Boaemn procession before the bier of the
late pontiff. The papal throne had been
rem0ved and in its place, under the IA
NOUS red silken canopy, on small bed,
lay the body of Leo XIII. Over the bed
was thrown a red damask covering,
ON which the body reposed, robed in
white vestments, with the red rochet
and camauro hood and on the feet Slip
pers embroidered with gold. The thin
hands, clasped over the chest, held
eighty small ivory crucifix Around
this was entwined rosary of mother
of-pearl set in gold.
The silence was only broken by the
solemn chanting of six Franciscan
penitentiaries who. kneeling or stand
ing at a bench at the foot of the bier,
continued their incessant supplication.
Outside the vatican an interested
crowd, including number of Italian
soldiers, watched the coming and 60
ing of the privileged mourners.
In the meanwhile the congregation of
cardinals met in the hall of the con-
sistory, under the presidency of Car
dinal Oreglia. 1t was determined to ar
range for the accommodation of the
cardinals during their enforced seclu-
sion at the conclave in exactly the same
manner as when Pope Leo was elected.
Mgr. Merry del Val Wednesday took
up the duties Of secretary of the con-
sistorial congregation.
During the latter part of the after
noon minor ecclesiastics and laymen
less distinguished than those who were
admitted in the morning were allowed to
enter the vatican and view the body of
the pope.
At five O'Clock in the afternoon the
doors of the throne room were closed
and the Franciscan penitentiaries, as
sisted by the attendants of the late pom
TIN, began dressing the body in full
pontif1cal robes. At eight o'clock pro-
cession was formed and the body taken
70 St. Peters.
No Cancer Present.
DR.. Lapponi Wednesday morning pre-
scented to Cardinal Oreglia, dean Of the
sacred college, the official report of the
autopsy performed Tuesday on the body
OF Leo Kill. which was conducted so
tar as permissible in connection with
the embalming. The report is chiefly
important in disproving the presence of
cancer or nephritis. The report was
accompanied with an anatomic dag
nosis made by all the doctors participant
ing in the embalming, which says there
was found round gray Repatriation of
the right inferior pulmonary lobe with
much pleuritic liquid of serum flbrine
character, partly hemorrhagic, thus
confirming the clinical diagnosis.
Telegram from King Edward.
Cardinal Oreglia has received the fol-
lowing telegram from King Edward:
London, July 81, 19O3.-His majesty
received the news of the death of the
pope with profound grief and orders me
to transmit to your eminence assurances
of his sincere sympathy. His majesty
will always preserve grateful recolleo-
ton of his recent visit to his holiness.
(Signed) ''LANSDOWNE."
Irish Express Their Sorrow.
Cardinal Oreglia has received the fol-
lowing telegram:
blouse of Commons, Westminster.
July Fl, 1903.-At to-day's meeting of
the Irish parliamentary party, on the
motion of John Redmond, president.
supported by John Dillon, as representa-
uves of a people who by so many CEN
turtles of suffering has attested its f1del-
dty to the holy see, we hasten to asso-
ciate ourselves with the people of Ire
land in their sorrow for the event which
has agitated the Catholic church, throw
Ing the entire civilized people in mourn
Ing. If anything can alleviate the pain
which every Catholic roof supports in
the loss OF our glorious pontitf, it is, the
consoling remembrance of the noble,
sanity life Of tho holy father, his seren-
4ty In the midst OF continual anxiety,
his 1ndom1table devotion to duty, and
his marvellous life, which has rendered
the influence Of religion stronger
throughout tho world. thus elevattag
human life. r. ~ ~2st] =
We pray Sir Thomas Esmonde and
Capt. Donelan to be the interpreters OF
the profound and respectful condolences
of the party on the occasion Of the fu-
neral of his holiness. 2e
(Signed) JOHN REDMOND.
Casstus II. Clay Reported Dying.
Il Lexington, Ky, July ga telephone
from Richmond, Ky. from his
after ding physicians says that Gen.
cassi,1s n Clay. an baesador to Russia
Gnde1 Lincoln. abolitionist and author,
Is diving at his home at Whitehall st tie /
rxtreme age Of So. The physician says