Show GJ N THOMAS DROPS DEAD DEAl Old Ol t Sar Veteran Recently Ousted front mill 1011 Federal Office Chicago March J Jn 11 II Thom Thomas as who was recently ousted as fill federal appraiser at lit tho time port of ot Chicago dropped I dead deat today Heart disease Is I supposed to be bo the time cause Uge Tho The removal of ot Gen Con Thomas from cHico n a i tow tel weeks I colt ego ago SO wn one on of ot tho the most picturesque Incidents known knowis In Iq II polities politics here III re Seated Heated under time tic folds of ot ft United 1 States Stales ling lag Gen Con Thomas ro nt at his hili desk de k refusing to gl l way wa until dispossessed 1 by b tho ar arrival arrival rival of or his hili successor Lyman T Hoy who was the tho manager of 07 the thu campaign that resulted In li the tha election of or United Senator Albert J Hopkins Tho The reason renson assigned for tho tim removal was al tho the desirability ot of securing scouring a I more moro vigorous administration of oC the office hut but Gen Chen Thom R maintained that the tho motive moll for tor the tho change chango was wan purely po political utica and that time the affairs of tho the an ap appraisers were we being handled with an efficiency above the average The was wall made mado the subject of an appeal to President Roosevelt and a 0 controversy with Shaw Tho death of ot len lea Thomas watt was as RS dramatic us liB his Imi removal He lIe had served nerved In 11 tho the war Will but had never made madean an 1111 ft I application a pl ira tion for tar s 1 v pension J while Shi io In Iii receipt of other othel Income Today after Ineffectual efforts to secure other work orl ho was lit n a lawyers r preparing a application It was wall while thus engaged that Oon Ge Thomas fell rell dead Ho wax TO 70 0 old Gen lou Jell Thomas was IM appointed appraiser of or tho the port of or Chicago by President l Mc several years ago alO awl and he served continuously until removed from the position by h President Roosevelt within tho the last month Deceased was ng adjutant general under Go los of Ten during tho 1110 Civil war and wan san subsequently speaker sneaker of at the tho Illinois legislature Upon arriving at nt the tho law lawyers lawyers ers office today ion Gen Thomas sank Into a I chair panting and out of breath Ho lie was unable to speak for a 1 moment but seemed to recover I have hao come to Inquire about a pen pens slon ho said at nt In st Ills chair was wan drawn up to a n and he wits was lIl to speak again when ho he was seized by a 1 second fainting spell Ills His head fell nn on time the table and a n moment later ho lie was W 9 dead S |