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Show JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN DEAD. Eminent British Statesman Succumbs to an Attack of Paralysis. London. Joseph Chamberlain died here Friday night. His death, removing one of the most striking figures ol British politics in the past genera tion, came as a surprise as the condi tion of his health was not publicly known to be any worse than at any time in the last two or three years The Right Honorable Joseph Cham berlain was the pioneer in Great Brit ain of tariff reform, and the great ad vocate of imperialism. For thirty eight years, with a brief interum, he represented Birmingham in parlia ment. In 1906 his career of stormy activities was ended by a stroke ol paralysis. The blow fell when he was in the midst of a strenuous campaign cam-paign for the establishment of a pro tective tariff with preference for the British colonies, and just after his constituents had celebrated the thirtieth thir-tieth anniversary of his first elec tion. |