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Show T1IE"NITRATE KiilG." Had IaTei:moDts All Over itu World and Xade Hitliou5. 10U JO H.1 A. MlllTMM tAKl.tlt. Ererytblng lie Tost h-d fexcrpt I'vlltLi Hstmcd to lUcomo lurard Jato fjuld. 1w)Mxm, May 0. Col. John A. North, wbo died last eveulnir, waa 63 years old. Ho was universally known as lha Nitrate King.' Ha was vary wealthy. He had ventures In nearly aver? part of tbo wurld aod his nitra'e fields are better than any gold mine In exlsteuio. Hla expenssa every year, outside of his business, was more tbau I'iOo.omii, and Ins Income ia iiippnted to be more than ',0H,MKt a year. He bad cemeiit worka In BwIkIuiu which brought It tin a fortune an I which were, until he aaw them, nothing but a brick yard. He waa an Eoffll-hmen by blrlh aud became from Yorkshire. His father was a ooal merchaul, who brought him up as a oivil engineer and put him Into In-to biialavss aa soon ea bo wa ehla to do anything lor himself. Ha waa connect-ej connect-ej as u employe lu a Uampluw works wneii his lather die I, ring atoul .H,oiKl to his family. Young North, th .u,fh ho waa then married, at ur.oe kbvo hla share of his elate lo uis mulhr, aud shortly ofter Mile ue wcut Id Houth America with bis wife to seek his for I una. 1J went mere as a olvll engineer and soon saw the Immense possibilities fur fortuue uukiug which rxiat on the wcatera coast of that euntry. He Invested in a number nf dlllrent specultioiiS and made money. He then ttegan I t buy nitrate and kept buying Horn time lu lime until be at lel got oonirul of the blgf.es! nitrate fields lu lha world. He auBOe millions by buying guano aud It seemed that everytblug be touched turned Into gold. From Moudar mjrulug III! Friday every week ha devoted hla whole at-leullun at-leullun to business. But at tha end of the wetik be a.uuhl lu obialu euloy-meul euloy-meul irtn his vast wealth and opened his country house to guettsaud friends, entsrtBiniug lavishly Ha was never ahamvd of bis bumble heKlnninga, aod he secured social recognition through tbelrleitdatilp ol the Triune ut Wales. lu 1HS4 ha ran for 1'arllamenl and was defeated. He had never before Interested himself lu politics, aud was not seriously dialurtisd by tiitt rebuff. His opponent wss no a rs tuage than Uladslnna himself, au't yet he exiiecled tu win. He told the voters thai ha did nut aiuw mooa about pollflra end that anything propose J by Lord tielisbury waa good ejiougu for blm. Colonel Norlb was Impulsive, liberal and geueruus. lu tertun he wee ol medium height aud moderately sietit. lu manner be waa biuli and hearty. He leavea a widow aod one daughter. Kia DUATIl BOIIDKN AND MVHTKHIUUe. I.ONimjN, May A. The death ol Col, Jehu .homes North, known throughout through-out Ilia wurld as the "N itrate King" is Ihe subject Ulsouased here Coiouel I North died laelavsnliig In tho ufBce uf tua guauu syudicaU, In Ibla city. Fur i soiiie reasons Ihe oDlatals of Iheooiit i pauy were extremely retlueul about j giving out the fee la In tbe cast, tbe luuiurel the death of Culuoel Norib ; having been empballoally Oeuled by i pereuus wbo kuew the details uf his I suddeu Illness in the uflloee ot Ihe IjBkuuos company. He had not beau III up to wltbln a vary ehort lima be- I fore bis desth, and as the fetal slckuess ! occurred shortly after ba bad ealen aome oystaia, which bad been aenl lo blm from a neighboring reetauraul. It Is believed puesible thai his death may have resulted frusn aooldeutal pclsou-lug. pclsou-lug. There have beeu suggestions that luison might have been placed la lha bivalve by gome uukuuwo eueuy, tut (his la net oousidered pnrslhle lo view ot the tact that Coiouel North waa a man of mauy irieuds and apparenlly no ouerulva. Tue polios bava taken charge of tbe oyster shells lu order that an investigation investi-gation may ba ououucled, hut a general belief prevails that Col. North's death waa due lo some orgaulo trwubln, A post murleiu exaiutuaUon will ba made at oaoe. Col. North's racing borsee, Clwyd aod Hebron had been nominated la Kemplsud 1'ark Jubilee stale, but owing ow-ing to his dtatu the Louilustlou will be cancelled. Owing lo tbe reticence of bis associate, associ-ate, It is irnpusslble lo ubialo a da. tailed statement of the Incidents surrounding sur-rounding the death of Col. Norih. Arrangemeuta lor tat luueral have uut yet boon perfected. One af tho rumors discussed at Ihe rlub and tho theaters luulghl Is the rumor that tu spile of Ule reautaikn of belug one or tha half dosu wealthiest msu In tbo world, Col. Norlh did uut posseta the wealth Which butluess turn as well as the social world credited blm, H uns of bis European luveslmeuta turned uut badly, hla expauies were enormous, aud 11 ia kuown that his l Uiiut-s Invest In-vest msu ts in houtU America during recent years have not paid aa well as prlur to hla removal tu this oouutry. TIIK UAKSK ur IthATII, IjONIKiN, May 6. As a rraull of ao Inquest today upou tne rt iualoauf tna Ule Colonel Nurtu, a verdict ,uf Uvalh Irom natural onuses was returned, ihe physlolan lestldrd tbat ba previously bad noticed symptoms of teatl disease wbloh he ssserteU was tbe uause of the osluuel'aUewlu. |