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Show Will Attend Funeral of Mikado. Washington. For tho first tlmo In tho history of the United States, tho secretary of stnto bus been designated ns n spoclul embassador to a foreign power. President Taft on Saturday assigned Secretary of Stnto Knox as spcclul embassador to Japan to attend tho funeral of tho Into emperor, Mut-suhlto, Mut-suhlto, on September I, with tho statement state-ment that tho mission wnB given to tho premier of tho cabinet ns nn ovl donco of Amorlcun friendship for Jupnn. |