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Show '-.His; -ASHES' Strange-HiJntlit-' Ccrc-' Ccrc-' mony Follows . 'Cremation 'Crema-tion of Kcntuckian. LOUISVIIXE. Ky., April t-The ashes , df Col. C. M. Strader, formerly of Louisville, Louis-ville, who died In Philadelphia, will be 1 thrown Into ' the Ohio river at midnight in vthe presence of a number of old friends named.. In his will. The ceremony will take place on the center span of the Big Four bridge, and the ashes will be cast into the water by H. M. Strader, a neph-. ew, who received them by express yesterday. yester-day. In his will Col. Strader' requested that his ashes be cast on the beautiful waves of the Ohio, and that if the Angel Gabriel could find them after this performance per-formance he weuld greet his friends on resurrection morning. Col. Strader wn a Free Thinker and a 1 veteran of the Civil war. He fought-agalnst fought-agalnst the Indians with Custer. For the past few years he had been employed In the Philadelphia arsenal as a clerk. He was (6 years old. |