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Show BODY OF GEN. GRANT NOW LYING IN STATE By International cws Service. 2s EW YORK. April 13 In spito of the many denials it was learned from an authoritative outside source today that ttcueral Frederick 1). Grant died from cancer of the throat like his father. fa-ther. An operation was performed by Dr. Abbe, ono of tho greatest operating operat-ing surgeons in tho east, who was iu constant attondauce upon the general, and Dr. Douch, whose specialty is cancer can-cer of the throat. The body of General Grant will be buried in tho Memorial cemetery on tho government's military reservation at West Point. Details of the ceremony have uot been arranged, but tlio ceremony cere-mony will be delayed tun days to givo General Grant's daughtor, Princess Cautaciizeue, time to reach this country coun-try from Russia. The remains were taken from the Hotel Buckingham to Governor's island this afternoon aud placed on a catal-fnlquc catal-fnlquc in tho chapel of Cornelius tho Ceu-turion. Ceu-turion. The hearse bearing the casket was accompanied by three carriages containing Mrs. Graut and her son, Cuptain U. S. Grant third, Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr., and Mrs. Hon-oro Hon-oro Palmer of Chicago and Lieutenant llowse, aide to General Graut. |