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Show THOMAS N AST IS DEAD. Vaaaon CsrltMinUI aateetiaaha te aa Altar ot V allow revsr. Connut (leneral Thomas Nant died Sunday noon at Guayaquil, Ecuador, after three days' Illness from yellow fever. He was Interred at I p. m. Th funeral was attended by the governor, the conBular corpa, the American colony col-ony and by many frlenda. Tha coffin waa wrapfssd la the elere and stripes. Tha British consul recited a prayer In tha cemetery. The death of Mr. Nasi Is deeply lamented by the natives, who held him In It I Kit esteem. Mr. Nast was appointed consel-gcn-ral at Ouayaqull thla year, leaving New York for hi post July 1. He waa bom In Lnnilau. Itavarla, Heptem-her Heptem-her !7, INtu, and came with bis par-ents par-ents to the Unltc.l Hiates six years Inter. A a caricaturist and cartoonist ha becamo fntmms. |