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Show .' CONDOLENCES. Message of Secretary Hay to Cardinal - Rampolla. Washington. July 20. The state department. depart-ment. Upon learning of the death of the pope nt he following cablegram to Cardinal,-Rampolla: n "The. presidept desires me to express his profound sense of the loss which the ' i- ' ' 1 I - I ! ii w , !,,, mm m M linn... Christian wbrld has sustained in the death of his holiness. Leo XIII. By his lofty character, his great learning and his comprehensive charity he has adorned his exalted station and made his reign one of the most illustrious, as ifnas been one of the longest, in the history of the Catholic church," (Signed) "JOHN HA1. Masses For Leo. Washington, July 20. Tho bishops of the Catholic church will celebrate pontifical ponti-fical mass for the repose of the soul of the pontlfr in the ertithedrals of their respective re-spective dioceses, and funeral masses will be said in all Catholic churches. After the intarment prayers will be held in the Catholic churches asking that divine guidance may attend the labors of the consistory In their election of a successor to Leo XIII. |