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Show Hundred Thousand at Funeral. Special Cable to Tho Tribune. ROME. May 7. Tho death of Don Rua, successor of Don IJosco, founder und general of the Salcsluns, stirred all Italy, and his funeral in Turin wan followed by 100.000 persons. Prefect general of the Salesian society since 1874, Don Rua lived In closest. Intimacy with one of the greatest lights of tho church In the nineteenth nine-teenth century. On the death of tho founder In 1888 the Saleslans numbered 800;. today they arc 1000; they had then about 100 houses of cducntion for boys: they have now H00. |