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Show THOUSANDS AT FUNERAL. Haywood and Hilton Address Crowds Drawn by Curiosity. Chicago. Five thousand persons on Thursday paid tribute in ten languages lan-guages to the memory of Joseph Hillstronr, convicted and executed murderer. Police in uniform and plain clothes were everywhere, but there was no disorder along the street. For the most part, the expressions of discontent, bitter as they were, were silent. They were to be seen in the huge red flag that was draped over the casket, in the red streamers worn by nearly everybody, in the buttons but-tons bearing the inscription, "He died a martyr," and in the conscious ah. sence of the American flag. "Bill" Haywood, founder and head of the I. W. W., made a short speech of eulogy, and then Judge Hilton, who was one of the defenders of Haywood, Hay-wood, Moyer and Pettibone in the famous fa-mous Steunenberg case, launched into a two-hour funeral oration. The Mormon church' came in for a general share of his denunciation. |