Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-08-04
|EMPEROR WEEPS At
| Won PLEHVE'S BIER
all Russia Honors Her Murdered
Minister.
WAS BURIED ON SUNDAY
Funeral Services Were of an im.
pressive and Imposing Char
acter--Widow of the Murdered
Man Faints Mt the Alter.


st. Petersburg, Aug. IN. Won
Plehve, Tie minister or the interior,
who was assassinated Thursday
morning last, was buried Sunday, and
In. every city and hamlet of this vast
empire, church bells were tolied and
masses and prayers said for the repose
of the soul of the murdered minister.
The services here, which were ac-
cording to the rites of the orthodox
church, were of an impressive and i'm
posing character. At IL O'Clock Sun
day morning high mass was said in the
stately chapel adjoining the ministry
of the interior. Emperor Nicholas and
the dowager empress stood with the
broken-hearted widow and the children
of the minister at the foot of great
mound of flowers on which rested the
casket. To the right, on gold en-
broidered cushions, before a mass OF
wreaths banked to the ceiling, were
ranged the decorations which had been
won by the statesman during his nota-
BILE career. To the left were the metro
poiitan of st. Petersburg and the Of
ficiating bishops and priests in their
gold emblazoned vestments.
Among those present were other
members of the imperial family, the
foreign representatives, including
Spencer Eddy, charge d'affaires of the
American embassy, ministers of the
empire, generals, admirals, mobiles,
governors of distant provinces, like
those of Astrakan a1i Irkutsk, in fact
all high officialdom, not even emitting
Genghis Khan, iineal descendant Of
Napoleon, Of Asia, who is now major
general in the Russian service.
The entire assemblage was in full
uniform, and on the arm of each one
present was badge of mourning. All
service, and the air was heavy with
the perfume Of flowers and incense
from the censure.
At the most solemn moment when
all knelt, and many were affected by
tears, the widow was overcome and
tainted. The emperor came to her as
sistance, and she was carried out by
gentle hands.
The emperor was visibly moved, and
upon the conclusion of the mass, he
followed the casket, which was taken
up on the shoulders of the ministers
and borne down the broad marble
staircase to the street. There the fu-
neral procession was formed, and the
body was placed in a great white open
t1earse, drawn by six coal black horses,
which were blanketed from their cara
70 their tails in sombre trappings. A
black-garbed groom stood at each ori-
de, and in advance went 16 similarly
clad lantern bearers. Behind the
hearse walked the members of the
min ster's family, and then care a
long and distinguished body OF mourn.
ers, it being the Russian custom to
follow the dead to the grave on foot.
The emperor himself walked short
distance, but as the Novodevicky
monastery, where the burial took
place. was over five miles away, and
also because Of the condition of the
empress, his majesty soon entered his
carriage and returned to the Peterhof
palace.
At the end of the procession came
four white chariots filled with the
floral offerings. The cortege proceed
ed slowly through the avenues and
streets, preceded by squad OF
mounted police, and passed within
sight of the place where the tragedy
occurred.
The monastery stands on pain be.
yond the Narva gates. and at these
gates fully $4,000 persons were gath.
cred.
After a burial service in the church,
the body was inferred in the adjoining
cemetery, where repose the remains of
many of Russia's greatest men, and at
a point withing stones throw of the
grave of NJ. Sipiaguine. who was NJ.
Won Plehve's predecessor, and who
also fell by the hand of an assassin,
less than two years ago.
The murderer Of NJ. Won Plehve has
been removed from the hospital to the
Wyborgsky prison. The police know
the alias under which he Travelled, but
say that they are not yet satisfied re-
garding his identity, and decline to re-
veal the alias, on the ground that 1t
might defeat the ends of justice.
There is no longer any doubt that
the police for some time have had
knowledge of the existence of plot
by band of international anarchists
in Paris and Vienna. The leading con-
spirator, it is said, was a man whom
the Russian government tried to ex-
tradite from Paris last fall. Some of
these conspirators arrived here week
ago, and the police thought that all Of
them had been taken into custody.
Lou Dillon Ont of Danger.
Cleveland, O., Aug. 1.-The condition