THOMAS B. REED DEAD Ex-Speaker of House Expires at Arling- ton Hotel, Washington. WAS ILL LESS THAN FIVE DAYS. And Which Give Autocratic Power To The Speaker From Farmer's Son To A Mighty Power in Shaping of Our Legis~ lation. Washington, ( Speciad )v—Ex Speaker of the I House of Repre sentative Maine, died at 12 loch Hotel, lay gton where Mi: Saturd poisoning he was < take: had Reed's was knew meant lution times Mr. Reec spoks and seemed to be mm a cheerful frame of mind but it was easily seen that At midnight a Drs Donald, Bishop and Goo participated in Dy Gardner, an.expert matters Court visit ciates vening of the se seventh mpers: toms his £ : alarming hin patient 1 which and the Nature 1 eof his ampl histor a Reed rules deliberat: won for “Autocrat He w Portland mains that angle strects Wadsworth 4 Brackett Reed first and in the frst | i Fng of settler seven ge Speaker KILLED BY PRACTICAL JOKE. and Thomas the light of day, 15 the { Lh W rare A Boy's Results. New York (Special) employe of a lox som, N. = died joke played on him by five of his fellow employes hey were arrested charged with causing his death. It is alleged that they "blew Ruit with a pneumatic atr pump having a pressure of 110 pounds to the inch. The boy's stomach became greatly d }, and after several hours of great suffering he died When the men accused of having caused Ruit's death arraigned in court in Paterson the dead boy's father rushed at one of named Dorn, knocked him down and started to kick him. The father wag restrained by the court officers fhe men held without bail on a charge of slaughter, Dr. Cuties, Composer, Dead. Mass CO nots ater as a ult of a practical * up istendec 3 were them, accused were nan Swampscott Dr Henry S. Cutler, nposer and musical conductor. credited introducing vested male choirs in this country, died here and choirmaster of Trinity Church, in New York city. When the Prince of Wales, now King Edward VIL, visited this country m 1860, Dr. Cutler con- { Special) with in Trinity, similar to those in the Eng. lish churches, becanse the Prince of SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS, Domestic. The Canadian Pacific fast expres which left Halifax for St. John Montreal, was wrecked on the Inter- | al Railway near Belmont Station. | por killed and seve brake njured colon son were and man & Al one Swif: stock of Ferminal ter of land or Aty, The re tomobile fatal muri : } and the Fort Payne : the county, Ala capital been mour have non De mpany, which acquired the dridge own and | valu Hot able sas A placed in the ha At the schooner the rocks and sunk wis taken off and Lewes (Del) life-savers Fred A. Smith, burned 1 Hote h 14 lost their Live Delaware Virginia Rul Propri¢ 1 is ATCO rOrge Sher wagon confused into 3 I fie ashore fal i witeved Dr ror William, nn of worl ared had to ‘rely for a betterment ihe British B the iid ports Move embarg soon as th f of Agriculture the outbreak is suppressed Fhe British t) partment fei citey rived at eens Own irom cantam 3 nen had mu fficer dead Her rebar CI8CO American ses the sec Prem French the Con Seer salaries and of the Bish Witham has andmaster, having le Regiment in cold prevails throughout Islands and in heavy seas interfere nel trafhe The has approved Archbishop Chapelle's suggestions for the i administration of Cuba and Porto Rico United States Ambassador Choate left London with his wife and daughter for a tour of Egypt The French Chamber of Deputic opted the new sugar law A revolutionary movement ed in Honduras A general strike has been ordered at Amsterdam by the dockers’ union The French Chamber of Deputies rat ified an additional monetary convention of France, Italy, Belgium and Switzer land authorizing each country to issue additional silver comms to the Earone Cal and vith the « Pope ad is threaten 3 ; vane ol there, mm this country and became general Dr. Cutler's setting to the hymn, “The Son of God Goes Forth to War.” is the best known of his compositions, All the Dead Were Insured. St. Louis, Mo. (Special). Deputy Coroner Boogher, in an official statement made, declared that the result of the in- aquest held over the body of Mrs, Kate Smith, whose death was the sixth oc- curine during the last 11 months of per- sons nearly related revealed the fact that all of the dead, excent a baby, had heen insured. Nearly all of the six persons died suddenly. The fact that they were insured and that they all exhibited simi- jor symptoms caused he inquest to be i The note of President Castro present ed to the German minister at Caracas is inadequate by the German and it is likely an ulti matum will be presented to Venezuela in a few days Financial. Morgan has been absorbing steel stocks. American Snuff has gone upon a 10 per cent. basis, } Hard work for Baltimore & Ohio to kéep above par. There are above ground and unsold 135.000 tons of copper { yew York banks are losing about | $500,000 daily through Subtreasury | transactions, i Standard Oil has raised the price of Pennsylvania crude 3 cents, inaking " $1.45 a barrel : BIG CHICAGO HOTEL FIRE Fourteen Victims Perish in the Lincoln Hotel. THRILLING RESCUES AND ESCAPES. Thirteen of Those Who Lost Their Lives Were Stifled While Lying in Their Beds One Was Taken From The Building Before Life Was Extinct, But Died in the Ambulasce on | the Way to the Nearest Hospital. LIVES LOST IN A FURIOUS STORM. Vessels Wrecked, Wires Crippicd and Roads Blocked. Plaything Killed Child, i Spe i Wood img in the road near go. He gave it to ! with Lhey it about and with the nba y f hour to See eldest, 8 years yard and was [ol and 3. She put it hammered tt with an other plaything wag a rail road torpedo. liz explosion instantly killed the eldest child and prabably fa tally ma the others 1 1 q id, fOIK lowed by tots of 8 rock of sine i he On AK ined Gieorgia Town Terrorized. Nicholas, Ga. ( Soecial) white man, ran amuck here, killing Mar- | shal Holton and seriously wounding a hoy, the engineer of a train and a mer- chant named Hart. Cribb was captured | after much difficulty. There was talk of | lynching, but the man was hurried off to | the jail at Dougles. No reason is as- | signed for his murderous craze. Lee Cribb, a Accutad of Sixly Robberies. Viiladelpiia (Special) Geo, Dick: was arrested about 10 days ago alter a desperate fight with a policeman and who was discovered by detectives to be a robber by night and business man by day, was tried and convicted and sen- tenced to 18 years in the penitentiary. The police accused Dickinson of nearly 00 robberies, but could secure legal evi dence in but 25 cases. It is suid near- vr $10,000 worth of Dickinson's loot was recovered by the police. ~ NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Iron and Steel Imports. figures o Trea show that the ron and steel manuiacture Cictober, import f the of Statist 01 ith 1 with Annapolis Middies. Committes erty iy ie Bacteria by the Million. of i err iriich, German th 11 O00 O00 10 apes pext i ag wit count of these exper transmitted to the State i States t kf Dr. Ehr leansed by Anti-Trust Legislation. resentative Charles i Little Tudiciary Ww Fi subcommittee of the House harged with the consideration of trust legislation, held and ti was a gen ¢ of the h has roposed anti there sublet meeting CHsSsion « i the nile the tieett th jhestion which introduced the com- tubcom hills i ivy AYN before referred to this as all pending 5 well Barrett to Be Minister. White House it was saul that Roosevelt will nominate Mr Barrett. of Oregon, to be Minis Japan The appointment will be made to fll ancy caused by the death of Mr Alired E. Buck, which suddenly oi pa- ralysis’of the heart while hunting ducks At the John ter to perial preserves, near Tokyo Would This Check Saicides? A bill introduced by Representative Jenkins, of Wisconsin, by re- guest, makes newspapers or other pen- odicals unmailable which contain any pictures of sticides or details relating to ancides beyond a simple staterrent of With the Lawmakers, The York by the immigration authorities pending an investigation of the Univer: sal Brotherhood School, in California, were ordered to be released, The House Committee on Insular Affairs reported the Philippine Con. stabulary Bill, provides that army of- ficers shall be detailed as chief and as: sistant chief, In the House Mr. Wachter argued in favor of the bill to prevent the arm and navy band from competing wit civilian bands, Yellow Fever, HIS SATIRIC PENCIL WAS FAMOUS. STEAMER TORN ASUNDER | Eleven Lives Lost and Many Men Were Hurt : Vessel Broke In Two. Roosevelt, Who Once Said That He Learn. ed Politics From Nast's fartoons impor. Played In Political Campaign. SILVELA THE NEW PREMIER. Conservative Cabinet Secceeds the Liberals in Spaile. DAILY EARTHQUAKES IN UTAH. Feared that Old Volcanoes Are Showlag Fresh Activity. Han ot un hat at lea not «I Le passeq earthquake been felt Serious alarm I YEery cracked safety the place has : Pins +} hoel ta bes og Pinto the shocks have been so severe that the public school | been been aban al days miles south are hve or and the whi sever About 15 Ix continuance of the strengthened been a fresh activity in the seks there CAN earthquake the that outbreak of vol Ornate thant 4 y ) belief From Washington to ilenry. Bost |S sul ’ i George rick Henry ten October 20, 1782 n 1 ' il simvernos lector’s sale by auction New York man ng letter is given an fall in Spark Washington and 1s of ss length subject matter relates grant Virgisia Legislature Washington in rewars His sevice the Revolution ar i $5 add Ye f4% 3 ¥ & : 407 I hie rem She's has Oaly 8) Lf Vienna (By Cable)~=lhe 1agblait states that Shah Muzzaffar ed Din of Persia has caused great agitation in Persian court circles by reducing his ever accomplished in Persia and nas provoked a formidable against the Shah. It is charged, says the Tagblatt, that he has been convert: ed to the reckless Western revolution. ary ideas by his European travels. JOHNSTONE DIES OF HIS WOUND Actor Who Killed Kate Hassett Succumbs to Self-Infficted Wound. i Twe Killed Blizzards in the West, Ws Special Milwaukee Heavy of has of of the telegraph svs ¢ the LHOW-storms 3 Wisc beens seriously western part nsin ariroad froght traf ered account pad CON At Dodgevill 8 1 he SNOW 1S two eet ouston, are of Rex is a Central in North 1 a blizzard far south and a bw he Ax d - YAaxXa Ze £ Xcite mn the which would = LE ps fate ODDS AND ENDS OF THE LATEST NEWS, Owing to a = of cadavers fos legitimate use in the medical colleges of Indianapolis and Louisville, the prices have risen to very high figures Fourteen pessons Jost their lives by suffocation from smoke or in leaping from the burning Lincoln Hotel in Chicago, which proved a veritable fire rap Horace E Keilig, superinten dent of the Germantown (Pa) Cre matory Company. dropped a bundle of dynamite antl was blown to pieces The Lucy Wharton Was awarded by the University. of | Pennsylvania to Profi. H. VV. Hil precht, the distinguished archeologist. Harry Ruit. the victim of a practical joke played by comrades, who distend- {ed his stomach with an air pump, died | from the ceficrs. There are, still Less afi an en | Ninth ATC or Drexel medal between Booo and ant of work in the district of the anthracite region, Sir Thomas Lipton's new challenger, | Shamrock 111, bad a narTow esca from being buted i a re which did great gamage to Denny's shipbmiMing mad I aor,