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Show PROMINENT NEW YORKER IS STRICKEN IN .LONDON. LONDON'. Oct. 24. John Ennls Searles of New York, well known In American ; financial circles, was seized by a fainting 1 fit while standing on the platform of the 1 Waterton station here last night and died as he was being taken to -St. Thomas's hospital. Mr. Scales, together with his wife, was waiting to take a train to Guilford, about seventeen miles outside of London, when he was attacked- Mr. Searles, who was about SO years old, had been ailing for some time and the doctor who had been attending him certified thai tho causo of death was heart disease. NEW YORK. Oct. 24. John E. Searles was for many years secretary of the American Sugar Refining company and was also famed for his benefactions to the Methodist church, lie went to London Lon-don last January on business In connection connec-tion with several larse financial and mining enterprises. Mr. Searles retired from the sugar company com-pany in 1S9S for reasons never disclosed. He then attracted attention by engaging In an enterprise to exploit the round bale sysLcm of shipping cotton. Considerable Con-siderable surprise was occasioned when, In 1901, he made an assignment In bankruptcy bank-ruptcy and the public, which had been accustomed to consider him a 520,000,000 ' man. wondered what had become of tho great wealth he was supposed to have. Me was discharged from bankruptcy 'within a year and -while since that time little has been heard of him, yet he attacked at-tacked tho problem of rehabilitating hl3 shattered resources with energy, and It Is believed he met with considerable buc-cess. |