The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-02-06

HON. WILLIAM WINDOW. JectS to be dis
cussed. The list of speakers included
Secretary Window, ex-Secretary Bay
ard, II. Wilfred Laurier, of Canada; At
torney General Longley, of Nova SEQ
tia; Secretary of the Navy Tracy, Attor-
ney General Miller, Murat Halstead,
Maj. Mckinley and Congressman Breck-
enridge, of Kentucky, who sent regrets.
The sudden death of Secretary Win
dom caused the adjournment of the ban
quet a few minutes after 10 o'clock.
The secretary was the first speaker of
the evening. The dinner, which began
at 6 o'clock, was completed shortly after
9 o'clock, and the secretary arose to
speak. He entertained the diners with
an elaborate Grafton, and sat down
amidst the loud applause of his auditors.
Judge Arnoux then got up and was in
the midst of his speech, introducing ex-
Secretary Bayard, when some one cried,
''Look at Secretary Window
The speech was broken short and every
eye was turned in the direction of that
gentleman. He had collapsed in his
chair and was falling to the floor. His
face was CHASTITY, and cry of horror
arose among the late festive jewellers
There was an immediate rush on the
part of al hands towards Mr.. WINDOWS
chair, but several doctors who were
guests at the dinner got there first and
drove the others back. They were Doc
tors S. A. Robinson, Durant, Whitney,
Fisher and Bishop. Dr. Robinson bent
down, and making close examination
of the PROSTATE form, discovered that
The Heart Was Still Beating.
By his orders the dying secretary was
carried into the dish room adjoining the
banqueting hall and there placed on a
table. Messengers were hastily dis
patched for electric batteries and as
many as four were applied to his body,
which was rapidly becoming cold.
This was exactly at 1905 p. M, and
for six minutes the electric shocks were
applied necessarily but without success.
At 1911 p. m, Judge Arnoux came out
OF the dish room and said:
''He Is Dead"
This was the fearful announcement
that was sent through the gaily bedecked
banquet hall, around which still hung.
like funeral pail, the smoke 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
orator OF few minutes ago, aglow with
enthusiasm, predicting his future policy
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. That awful messenger,
Death, Had Descended Upon the Feast,
and taken from the crowd one of the
nations chief officers. A silence fell
upon the men who were only few mo-
ments before clamoring for news of
Mr.. Window. Judge Arnoux in retir.
ing had announced that Mr.. Window
had only tainted, and it was not thought
by the outsiders that it was as serious
as it proved to be.
The secretary had succumbed to an
attack of the heart. He had for a long
time been sufferer from heart diseases
and only last Monday was visited by a
shock, which, however, passed away
without causing much inconvenience.
When it was officially announced that
that the secretary was dead, Secretary
Tracy at once went to the nearest tele-
graph office and sent message to Presi-
dent Harrison, informing him of the sad
event, and requesting him to communi
cate with Mrs. Window and have her
start on the lilo p. NJ train for New
York.
Doctors Whitney and Robinson, who
were present at the examination. issued
the following certificate:
"We hereby certify that the Hon. Will
lam Window, secretary OF the United
States treasury, died at Delmonico's at
N:11 p. m. Jan 20, 1881; and we further GER
tlfy that the cause of his death was. first
cerebral hemorrhage; second, coma.h
1t was decided to remove the BODY to
the apartments in the Fifth Avenue
hotel which had been occupied by the
late secretary. Those who remained