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Show J"--" ' " ' "' , A MI5-RA3LE LIFE ENDEO. Camm.Dts of h. Kr.noh I'rsu on th Kuild ot UouUtfir, rAHU, Oct. 1. The wife of General j BoulaDger, who is living at Versailles, was overcome with grief when informed of her husband i tragic death in the cemetery near lirnsseils. The iu.iu, in fact practically the only, newi feature of the newspapers today is the suicide of (ieueral HotlUnger. .All the newspapers agree in thii expression ex-pression of the opinion that the death of ltoulanger wi!i uot affect the political polit-ical situation. The papt.rs all contain obituary obitu-ary articles on the Into Generi Iioulanger, whose suicide caused such a sensation yesterday, but none, with the exception of Lc Jour, redacts upon the political aspects of the general's lifo. La Junr says that he uad not the courage to survive Jionnemain. It was i bor vviio acririced herself for him. I.e. Itnir',1 article concludes with a scathint poitiparisnti between the mauner of his death and his imperialistic preteuse. . J it .s.tys- ' 1'erhaps lt.)tilancr thought to be a (')i'sar or a Xspoleun, though he had none of their genius. Harsh words are needless. His miserable miser-able life ended it a death which was aiso miserable.'' l.c s!i,l remarks: "It was a strange destiny; after living like Vitellns, to (be like S ei ther. Yet what a splendid career Boulanger might have bad as a s mple soldier." . UnuloU says: "lioulanger's death was bis last blunder." blun-der." La I'ulru: says: "The deed was like that ot a hero of a novel, and not like a heroic soldier. It is known that shortly after Mot, DeBouuemain's death Geueral Boul-anger's Boul-anger's wife wrote, ottering to forgive i the general and xhare Ins exile, but her letter remained unanswered. Rome, Oct. 1. The news of the suic.de of Boulanger has caused considerable con-siderable excitement iu Italy, where he was regarded as a national enemy. When Cardinal lUmpolia, papal secretary secre-tary ot state informed the pope of the general's suicide, the pope uttered an exclamation of sadness and prayed silently. The general's private Ufa placed him on the black books of the vaticaD, yet his career was watched with feverish vigilance. London, Oct. 1. The Berlin correspondent corre-spondent of the AV', telegraphs, ' tier-many tier-many has lost her greatest foe, for he knew that the possibility of recovering power lay in a war with Germany." But sskis, (let. 1. It is decided that the funeral of Geueral Boulanger will take place Saturday afternoon. |