The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-25
SENATOR HANNA
IS LAID At REST
Funeral Services Over Remains of
Distinguished Ohioan Held
at Cleveland.
Great Throngs Take Last Look at Dead
Statesman While Thousandx of
Others Are Unable To-Many Noted
Persons I'm Attendance-BOdy De.
posted in Chapel.

by detail of state militiamen, the re-
mains of Senator Marcus A. Hanna lay
in state and were viewed by $4,000
persons yesterday afternoon. The cas-
ket stood on the same catafalque on
which rested the remains of President
Mckinley at Canton. AS his lifelong
friend and companion it was thought
fitting that the same bier should be
used for Senator Hanna.
The Last Rites.
Cleveland, O., Feb. 20-The last rites
over the body of Senator Marcus A..
Hanna were held yesterday afternoon at
st. Paul's Episcopal church. During
this solemn service, Cleveland was a
silent city. Nearly all business was sus-
pended for the entire afternoon. Street
railway and steam road traffic on every
line in the city was stopped for five min
utes from one to 1:O5 o'clock. People
generally in all parts Of the city bowed
their heads in reverence for brief space
of time at that hour. Cleveland mourned
as it never mourned before.
An Immense Throng.
Thousands who were unable to view
the remains of the dead senator, as
they lay in state in the chamber of COM
merce auditorium. Thursday and Fri
day. .focked to the corner of Euclid and
Case avenues. to witness the conveying
of: the simple black easket, bearing the
remains of the senator, into the church.
There they stood with barred heads and
moistened eyes as the cortege moved
into the 'edifice where the last earthly
tribute was paid the dead.
Il s{s q The Funeral Services. &
A few moments before one o'clock
Mrs. Hanna, accompanied by her son,
Dan, entered the church. She was
dressed in deep black and was heavily
yelled, and as they slowly walked down
the aisle to the first row of seats the
stiffness of death fell over those with
in the walls of the church and heads
bowed in token of sympathy. Other
members of the family followed, When
the body had been gently placed upon the
bier and the pallbearers had been seated
the choir chanted the Thirtieth and
Nineteenth Psalms. h President Pierce. of
Gambler college, an institution of which
Mr.. Hanna was q benefactor, read the
lesson, and Bishop Leonard then de-
livered the eulogy.
Body Placed In Chapel.
The service was most solemn and
impressive, and outbursts of sobs
could be heard at frequent intervals
from all parts of the church.
The body, accompanied only by the
family, pallbearers and Bishop Leon
ard, proceeded slowly out Euclid ave-
nue. to Lakeview cemetery where a
final farewell of the dead was taken in
Wade Memorial chapel. The services
consisted simply of a prayer by the
bishop. The body was deposited in
a crypt in the chapel to await burial at
the pleasure of the family.
Honor Hanna's Memory.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Feb. 20.-Yesterday
was generally observed throughout the
anthracite fields as a day of mourning
and all the mines and collieries were
closed, out of respect to the memory of
Senator Hanna. President Mitchell, of
the miners union, had issued procla-
nation that the men cease work at
noon, and the miners and mine en-
ployes SO heartily favored the plan that
they did not report at all for work in
the morning.