The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05

| \MI9e&N York Board of
| w Trade and Trans
| portat;on was to sit
| SEC RETARY VIM WINDOW. a + its nineteenth
| annual dinner, and the great gold hall was
| bright with light and color. And feasting
| there was happy and unrestrained, but
| death too, sat at the board, and the only
| soul that flowed out was that of the ma
| tion's financial head. His spirit fed away
| at the close of his speaking, which was the
| first of the night, and tn last.
The dinner, which began at o'clock. was
| completed shortly after o'clock, and Mr..
| Window, introduced by Judge ArnOuX,
arose to speak, being the first speaker of the
evening. He responded to the toast: "Our
| Country's Prosperity Dependent Upon It's
| instruments of Commerce"
| He finished his speech at 9:5 o'clock. 1t
| had been remarked that he was reading it
| off hurriedly from the printed copy. going
| faster and faster as he neared the end,
| and at last he requested the audience not
| to applaud.
A culver of fear shot through the as
| semblage, like an electric shock, when he
| finished.
| Mr.. Window was standing erect under the
| glare of the gas-lights, while the faces of
| the most famous body of men in the cOun-
| try all turned toward him. Something was
| the matter, they knew not what. For
| moment the Secretary of the Treasury
| stood silent, while the banQueters, equally
| silent, watched him. 1t was a moment that
| no one who was present will ever forget.
Then Mr.. Window sat down quietly, too
| quietly many thought, in his seat.
| and Toastmaster Judge ArnOux arose
! to introduce. eX-Secretary of State Bay
| ard ass the next speaker. He be-
| gan short speech, but had not pro-
| ceeded far when Mr.. Window gave short,
sharp moan of anguish and fell back in his
| chair. His face grew purple; his lower
| limbs stitfened and stretched out, Of their
| own accord apparently, under the table;
| his eyelids opened and shut spasmodically,
| but there was no CLEAN of intelligence In
| the eyes, which were rapidly losing the
| luster of life.
For only moment he appeared thus
| cry went up from those sitting near the
| guest table.
"Look! Look at Mr.. Windom!"
| Every eye was turned toward the man
| whose voice had just ceased upon the air.
| At the rear of the hall many stood, and
many echoed the cry that Mr.. Window had
| collapsed in his chair and was falling to the
| floor. His face was CHASTITY, and cry OF
| horror arose from the late festive ban
| Queters.
| There was an immediate rush on the part
| of all toward Mr.. WINDOWS chair but sew
| eral doctors who were present at the dinner
| got there first and drove the others back.
| They were Drs. S. A. Robinson, Durant,
| Whitney, Fisher. and Bishop. DR.. Robinson
| bent down, and making a close examination
| of the PROSTATE form, discovered that the
| heart was yet beating, and with the assist
| ance of Judge TruaX, Captain Snow, and
| one or two others, lifted him to his feet,
| deathly pale. He was carried into the room
| behind the banquet hall, and everything
| was done to reSuScitate him.
Messengers were hastily dispatched for
| electric batteries and as many as four were
| applied to his body, which was rapidly
| growing cold. This was exactly at 1000 D.
| m. For six minutes the electric shocks were
| applied necessarily, but without success.
| He was then pronounced dead by Drs. Rob-
| inson and Durant.
| "I would say that the cause of his death
| was apoplexy.n said DR.. Robinson, "if it was
| not for the history of heart disease. [ am
| inclined to think that heart disease killed
| him. Mr.. Window was subject to fits OF
| heart failure. On Tuesday last he was seized
| with attack while on the steps OF the
/ Treasury at Washington. but he did not
| lose consciousness, and was able to take
| care of himself"
| At 1911 D. III. Judge Arnoux came out OF
| the room where lay Mr. Window and an
| nounced to the diners that Secretary Win
| dom. whom they had the pleasure of hear
| ing only few minutes before, had breath
| ed his last
~IIe is dead" he said.
This was the fearful announcement. ut
| tered in a voice midway between sob and
! a whisper that flOated through that gayly
.
hung, like funeral pail, the smoke OF the
| after-dinner cigar.
! ale is dead!n The words went to the
heart of every man who heard them.
| Could they believe it?
| That the brilliant orator of few minutes
| before that glowed with enthusiasm in pre-
dieting his future poll " in the Treasury,
| was now only inanimate clay.
His voice was forever silenced, and his
| last words were for his country.
Every man looked at his nelghbor WIN
| blanched cheeks Death had indeed Deen
with them at their feast, and taken from the
| throng one Of the nations chief officers.
William Window, Secretary of the Treas
| ury, was born in Belmont County, ONO,
| Nav 10, 1927 His parents had lmm1graCe0
| to that region from Virginia. He was
| brought up on a farm, was educated In Uhe
| academy at Mt. Vernon. Ohio, studled laW'
| and was admitted to practice IN 1901: lie
| became Prosecuting Attorney for Knox
| County in 1852.
| Tn 1855 he settled in Winona, Mimi. Join
ing the Republican party, he gained repu-
| tation as an orator. and in 1885 was SEM 10
| Congress. He was a member OF the house
| Of Representatives for ten years, serving
| on the Committees on Public Lands and
| Expenditure, and on the special committee
on the rebelliouS States, and FOR
three years as Chairman of the Com
| mittee on Indian Affairs. He was ap-
| pointed United States Senator in 1870 to
fill an unexpired term, and was afterward
| enacted for a new term and reelected in
1877. In 1881 he resigned on being selected
by President Garfield for the post Of Secre-
tary of the Treasury. He resigned when
| Vice President Arthur succeeded to the
| Presidency, and engaged in railroad and
| other financial enterprises, making his
home principally In New York, until he was
appointed Secretary of the Treasury by
| President Harrison March 4, 1889.
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