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Show WAR'S VICTIMS. Over Three Humlredof I'nele Sam's Heroes Laid to Kent. Washington, April S. With full honors of war, upon the crest of the southern slope of Arlington cemetery, the nation, represented by President McKinley, his cabinet and other high dignitaries of the government, the commanding general of the array and other distinguished officers, all the regular and militia organizations of the district, and a vast concourse of 15,000 people, paid the last tender tribute of honor and respect to the bodies of 330 officers and men who gave their lives on distant battlefields for their country during the Spanish-American Spanish-American war. The scene was a most imposing one. After the last religious and military rites to the dead heroes was over the work of actual interment began. As each of the caskets weig'hs almost 500 pounds and requires eight men to handle It, it will be two or three days before all the bodies are in their graves. |