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Show ILLINOIS WILL PAY FUNERAL EXPENSES SPRINGFIELD. 111., May 2. Funeral expenses of Robert Paul Prager, lynched last month at Collinsville because of alleged al-leged sedition, will be paid for by the state of Illinois, Governor Frank O. Low-den Low-den informed Secretary of State Lansing. Lan-sing. Tho German government recently declared de-clared that it "would guarantee all proper and fitting funeral expenses" of Prager, forwarding the offer through the Swiss legation. As a result the bill of $197 wa presented to the Swiss minister in WaslT ington as a formality. Governor LowdiT believing that the authorities of the a5to in which Prager was lynched woul'on-sider woul'on-sider it their moral obligation to give hi in proper burial at their own expense. |