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Show irarirur im Canada. Leasts la Message Kspraeaes Horror at sliKljil.j-i Ueeth. Sir Wilfrid Laurlar, th prsmler of Canada, has sent th following to Mr. Lowther, flrat secretary of th British mbaaty at Newport: "I bar tha command of hi excellency the governor-general of Canada to aak you to convey to the secretary of stats th xpreailon of grief snd horror which terms of th dreaest Indignation and ofercd a prayer for Mra. McKlnley. The dowager empress of Russia, who la visiting th king of Denmark at Fred-eisborg, Fred-eisborg, sent the Russian minister In Ctpenhsgen to th United Bute legation lega-tion to exprsu her sympathy with Mr. MrKlnley and the American gov erament and nation. The legation received re-ceived many callera and numerous telegrams of condolence from th provinces. prov-inces. Came Nasi to Mamie. Rev. William B. Leach, paator of Wicker Park Methodlat Episcopal church in Chicago, held memorial aer-vlces aer-vlces Sunday morning. Th church waa appropriately decorated. Dr. t'.ach laid: "The nation bides her fice today In sorrow snd ehame. Sorrow Sor-row became th greatest and beat loved of all bar sons Ilea cold In death at a tlm whan we could leaat spars him. Sham that In this 'land of lands,' guaranteeing to all 'life, liberty liber-ty and happiness,' there sould ba such a thing a anarchical plot consummated con-summated Into aatasslnatlon. Today our hearts are aobblng out our lov, our sympathy, our regret. Ixve for th noble ruin, sympathy for tha bereaved wife, regret for the nation. Never sine Lincoln did Ood make a man better fitted for the place than McKlnley. Never a man ao loved because be waa not of cast or class, but from and of and for th people. Loyal to hi Ood, he could not b otherwise than loyal to manhood, to bom and to hi country. coun-try. Oreat a aoldler and (talesman, he wat greater atlll at the exemplar of Chrlitlan life and cltlienthlp." Victoria rises llslf Masted. Plage all over the city of Victoria are flying at half mast, and many busluem plncre and offices are draped In mourning a a mark of reapct to th late Prealdent McKlnley. At Esquimau!!, tha headquarter of th British navy on the Pacific, tha American Ameri-can flag waa flying at half mast from the cruiser Waraplte, the flagship of Admiral Blckford, and In many way (he resident of the city showed their grief at the death of the president. Abraham Smith, the United State consul, haa been th recipient of many expreaalons of -condolence from cltltent of all clatsea which were collectively col-lectively transmitted by him to hit government. eiewa lUerd el Ulbraltar, The British squadron at Gibraltar half-masted flags on tbe announcement announce-ment of the death of Prealdent McKlnley McKln-ley and the garrlaon flags wars also lowered to half-mast, Itear-Adnilra Wilson sent condolsnoes to Contender Conten-der Oomly of tb United Btatea training train-ing ship Alliance. The fallt of Women. In Norway, art to be utlllied for the operation of an electric generating plant almost as large as the one at Niagara. |
