Washington, Aug. 3.
Secretary of State Hughes ordered that all Government departments and bureaux should be closed for the remainder of the day in token of mourning, following the precedent of Mr. Hay. who was Secretary of State when President McKinley was assassinated. Stock and mercantile exchanges throughout the country and many private banking houses also closed.
No details of the funeral can be obtained until Mrs. Harding wishes them learned, but, if precedent is followed, President Harding's body will be taken to the White House and placed in the historic East Room, where the bodies of Lincoln and MeKinley lay. Afterwards it will he taken to lie in state like the matured Presidents.
Ex-President Wilson sent his condolences to Mrs. Harding today. When the sad news reach-¢x-President Wilson's re-once yesterday night, Mrs. Wilson refused to waken him wing to his condition of his health.—Reuter.
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