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
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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
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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
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SNOW 1S two eet
ouston, are of
Rex is
a Central
in North
1 a blizzard
far south
and
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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,