The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-03
SUDDEN DEATH
Of Hon. William Window, See
reiary of The Treasury. at
Banquet i'm New York
Last Night.

New York, Jan. 3O.-Secretary of
the Treasury Window died suddenly
last night while at the dinner of the
Board of Trade and Transportation at
DelmOnicO's.
The Secret4ry was the first speaker
of the evening. The dinner, which
began at s o'clock was COM
Peted shortly after 9 o'clock
and tae Secretary arose
to speak. He entertained the
diners with most elaborate Grafton
and sat down amidst the loud ap-
plause OF his auditors Judge Ar
poux then got up and was in the
midst of his speech introducing ex-
Secretary Bayard, when someone
cried Look at Secretary Win
DOM"
The speech was broken short and
every eye was turned in the direction
of that gentleman. He had COL
lapsed in his chair and was falling 10
the floor. His face was Oh: silly, and
a cry OF horror arose among the late
festive jewellers.
There was an immadiste rush on the
part of all hands toward Mr.. Win
dom's chair, but several doctors. who
were guests 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 =
close examination of the PROSTATE
form, disco 5ered that the heart wss
still beating. By his orders the dying
secretary was carried Into the dish
room adjoining the banquet hall, and
there pldc, d on table. Messengers
were hastily dispatched for electric
batteries and as many as four were
applied to his body, which was rap
idly becoming cold.
This was exactly at 1905 p. m.
and for six minutes the electric shocks
were applied necessarily, but without
success. At 10:11 p. m. Judge
Arnoux came out of the dish room
and announced to the diners that
Secretary Window, whom they had
bad the pleasure of hearing only a
few minutes before, had breathed his
last.
He is dead"
This was the fearful announcement
that was sent through the gaily be-
decked banquet hall, around which
of the after-dinner cigars.
"He is dead"
The words went TO the heart of
every man who heard them. Could
they believe it? The brilliant orat)r
of few minutes before, aglow wi b
enthusiasm, predicting his future pol
lev in the treasury, was only mass
of clay. His voice was forever
silenced, and his last words were for
his country. Every man looked at
his neighbor with blanched cheeks.
Death, that awful messenger, had de-
scended upon their feast and taken
from the crowd one of the nations
chief officers. A silence fell upon
those who were only a few moments
ago elamoriDg fo- rews of MIR Win
dom. Judge Arnoux on retiring hs1
announced that Mr.. Window had only
tainted, and it was not thought by the
outsiders that it was serious, as it
proved to be.
The Secretary had succumbed to an
attack Of the heart. He had for 3
long time been a sufferer from heart
disease, and only last Monday ives
visited by a shock which, however,
passed away without causing much in
convenience.
When it was officially announced
that the Secretary was dead, S,creta-
ry Tracy at once went to the nearest
telegraph Office and sent message to
President Harrison, informing him of
the sad event and requesting him to
communicate with Mrs. Window and
have her start ON the lilo p. m. train
for New York. This will bring the
widow to the city at z o'clock in the
morning, and not until then can any
arrangements be made for the remov-
al of the body.