Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-02-11
MURDERED ROYALTY
ARE Laid TO REST
FUNERAL OF KING CARLOS AND
PRINCE LUZ SIMPLE BUT
IMPRESSIVE.
NEW MONARCH STAYS
AWAY FROM SERVICES
obeyins Mandate of Cabinet officers
Neither He Nor Queens Attend
Final Rites Over Victims Bodies
at Lisbon,

, Lisbon, Feb. 10.-The funeral sery-
ices over the bodies of King Carlos
and son Luiz, crown prince of Portu.
| gal, who were shot to death a week
ago on the Praca do Commercio in this
city, were held in the church of San
Vincente Saturday afternoon. The
ceremonies were simple but impress
sive, and the final act in the bloody
tragedy of February was carried to a
close without any untoward incident.
The line of the funeral procession from
the royal chapel in the palace to the
church was guarded by troops, several
additional regiments having been
brought into the city for the purpose.
! All the governments of Europe and
America were represented by special
missions.
People Unite in Prayer.
The day was one on which the
Portuguese people united in prayer
for their murdered king and prince.
Oppression real or fancied, the restric-
ton of liberty, the bitter clash of
party, sinister intrigue, merciless ven
geance seemed all to have been aban-
doned for the moment at least as the
| nation prepared for the funeral. This
was the day of the burial of their royal
dead-the day also of the burial of
fellow Roman Catholics -and following
the custom of Roman Catholics the
people wished to join in some way in
the solemn mass which was offered up
for the spiritual welfare of Carlos and
his son. The streets were thronged
with people. They poured in from the
country, from towns of the provinces
! and from nearby cities, some by train,
some by carriage or by cart and many
on foot.
Streets Suggest Fete Day,
Bits of crepe futtered from the arms
of many persons in the city, yet IN
spite of these general signs of mourn.
ing the crowded streets suggested to
some observers a general fete day
which the talking throngs were all
bent on observing; but to others the
presence of large bodies of infantry
men and cavalrymen at various points
! of prominence had sinister signifi-
canoe. The route of march between
the palace and the church was dense
/ ly lined by the mourning people, One
point, however, was carefully avoided
by the superstitious Portuguese; this
| was the spot on the Praca do Com
mercio where the cold-blooded muir
| ders were committed. All the business
houses and shops of Lisbon were
closed, and the ministerial Offices sit
uated in the Praca do Commercio
were closed as a measure of precau-
ton. Furthermore, all the windows of
these buildings were carefully shut
tered
| Queens and King Absent.
The funeral procession left the
Necessidades palace on its long march
over three and half miles to the
chr.ch of San Vincente, which is at
tached to the Royal Pantheon where
the bodies of King Carlos and the
crown prince finally will be laid at
/, rest Yielding to earnest solicitations,
King Manuel did not take part in the
procession. He and his mother, Queen
Amelie, and the mother of the late
| king, Queen Maria Pia, were present
at the services in the mortuary chapel
| and followed the collins to the door of
the chapel, whence they returned to
! the palace. During the morning King
Manuel received the missions sent to
Lisbon by the sovereigns and chiefs of
state of foreign countries. Neither
| queen was present at this function.