The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-25

anese ambassador at Washington:
Greatly shocked by sad intelligence.
l hasten to tender very deep con-
dolences and sincere sympathy for the
great bereavement that has befallen
you and the country"
From w. ]. Bryan: Mrs. Bryan
JOINS me in spending sympathy and
From Booker t. Washington:
please accept deepest sympathy of
my race and myself. Mr.. Cleveland
was one of our lest friends
The governor Of Mississippi: "Our
people extend to you our heartfelt
sympathy"
Cardinal Gibbons: ACCEPT my sin
cere coincidence in your great be-
reavement by the death of my honored
friend
Governor Of Wisconsin: wisconsin
which has come to you. The passing
OF Grover Cleveland is a great loss to
the country he served with fidelity"
Prince Roland Bonaparte, Paris: II
beg leave to express to you my most
respectful condolences for the misfor-
tune which come to you"
Princeton club Of St. Louis: 1.-THE
university has lost by his death one
of it's most respected and beloved trus-
tees"
Selectmen and citizens of Tyring-
ham, Mass, where Mr.. Cleveland spent
to express our sympathy for you and
your family and their sorrow in the
loss Of a great and good man.
Messages Of sympathy were also re-
ceived from A. W. Terrill, former min
lister to Turkey; c. r. Breckenridge,
Stuart Of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Mary
Lloyd Harrison, widow of President
Harrison, and Allen Marquand Of
Frankfort, Germany.
| ! Governor Hughes, Governor Fort of
New Jersey and Governor Hoke Smith
of Georgia, have wired Mrs Cleveland
asking permission to attend the
| funeral.
Governor Smith stated that he had
| been member of Mr.. Cleveland's cabi-
| net and desired to pay in person his
| respects to his dead friend. Mrs. Cleve-
| land replied to the three governors that
| she would be glad to have them pres
| ent.
The Pail Bearers.
While no list of pallbearsers has been
| given out. it is said that the following
| persons have been asked to serve:
| dict, DR.. Henry Vandyke, Prof. John
| G. Hibbins, Prof. Andrew F. West and
DR.. John F. Finley.
! 1t is understood that the Rev. DIR.
Richards. of New York. a Presbyter-
! ian minister and friend of the family,
| has been invited to conduct the SER
| vice tomorrow. If he is unable to come
| to Princeton. one of the local Presby
| terian ministers is likely to have charge
| of the services.
According to present arrangements
President Roosevelt will arrive here
| about o'clock tomorrow and return
| to Oyster Bay Immediately after the
funeral.
| Cleveland Death Mask.
| The death mask Of the former
president was taken yesterday. Soon
| after death had occurred Mrs. Cleve-
land sent for Edwin Wilson, a sculptor
| connected with Princeton university,
and requested him to make the mask.
Mr.. Wilson is working en- 1t today. =
Mrs Cleveland. accompanied by
| ton cemetery at GAO o'clock this
morning to look over the burial place.
| Princeton cemetery is located in a
| pretty portion of the town close to the
| university building and about half a
4 mile from the Cleveland home. Many
of the honored dead of the Princeton
university are buried there and the
| burial grounds are known to the
graduates and undergraduates of the
/ university as ''the Westminster Abbey
| of America
| The Cleveland plot is near a small
chapel which stands not far from the
| entrance to the cemetery. There is
one grave in the plot, that of Ruth
| Cleveland, and it is covered with ivy.
Mrs. Perrine Hears at Last.
| Tamworth, June 25.-Mrs. Perrine re-
| ceived the announcement of Mr. Cleve-
| lands death by long distance telephone
| from Princeton in the afternoon. The
news came as a great shock both to
| the children and Mrs. Perrine, as 1t
was evidently unlocked for. Mrs. Per-
rine Immediately made arrangements
| for returning to Princeton and she and
I I'D 1,- o.
| today.
| Military Escort Declined.
| Princeton, June 25-Colonel F'reder-
| ick Gilkyson, assistant adjutant gen.
| era1 of the national guard of New
| Jersey, representing Governor Fort
called at the Cleveland residence this
| afternoon to extend the governors
| coincidence and also to offer on behalf
of the governor all or any part of the
national guard as an escort at Mr.
| Cleveland's funeral Mrs. Cleveland
sent word to Colonel Gilkyson through
| Prof. Hibbin thanking the governor fol
his thoughtful courtesy, but declining
the offer of a military escort, saying
that the funeral will be private.
Paul Morton and Richard Watson Gil.
der of New York, came to the Cleve-
| land home to confer with Mrs. Cleve-
land and offer their condolences. Both
| are personal friends of the family
Sister Won't Attend Funeral.
Omaha, Neb., June 25.-Mrs. Mary
Cleveland Hoyt, sister Of Grover
Cleveland, who is now living in Oma-
ha and who is reported as being ex-
pected in Princeton, N. j., at the fu-
neral of her brother. has decided not
to attend the services, but will remain
| in Omaha at the home of her SON.
| with whom she lives.
STURDY AND HONEST.