The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-06
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4 There was an immediate rush on the
part of all hands toward Mr.. Windows S
chair, but several doctors who Were
guests at the dinner got there first and
drove the, others back. They were
doctors s. A. Robinson, Durant, Whit
ney, Fisher and Bishop. DIR. Robinson
bent down and making close examina-
ltion of the prostrate form, discovered
that the heart was still beating. By
his orders the dying Secretary was car
rieds into the dish-room adjoining the
banquet 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 at exactly 1905 p. m, and
for six minutes the electric shocks were
applied necessarily but without success.
At 10:11 p. IN. Judge Arnoux came out
of the dish-room and announced to the
diners that Secretary Window, whom
they had had the pleasure of hearing
only few minutes before, had breathed
his last.
s"He is dead" This was the fearful
announcement that was sent through
the gaily- -bedecked banquet hall, around
which still hung, like a 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 before,
future policy in the Treasury, was only
a mass of clay. His voice was forever
silenced, and his last words were for
his country.
Every man looked at his neighbOr
with blanched checks. Death, that
awful messenger, had descended upon
their feast and taken from the crowd
one of the Nations chief officers. A
silence fell upon those who only a few
moments ago were clamoring for news
of Mr.. Window. Judge Arnoux on re-
tiring had announced that he had only
tainted and it was not thought by the
outsiders that it was so serious as it
proved to be.
The Secretary had succumbed to an
attack of the heart. He had for a. long
time been a-sufferer from heart dis
ease, and only last Monday was visited
by shock which, however, passed
away without causing much inconven-
ience. - =-t
When itwas officially announced that
the Secretary was dead, Secretary Tracy
at once went to the nearest telegraph
Office and sent a message to President
Harrison, informing him of the sad
event, and requesting him to commune
cate with Mrs. Window and have her
start on the '11:1O p. m. train for New
York. 1atfI +
[William Window was born in Belmont
County, o., May 10, 1927 He received an
academic education, studied law at Mount
Vernons o., and was admitted to the bar in
1850. in 1852 he became prosecuting attorney
for Knox County, but in 1855 he removed to
Minnesota and soon afterwards was chosen
to Congress from that state as Republican
serving from 1859 TO 1882 In that BODY he
served twoternis as chairman of tho COM
rnittee on Indian affairs and also was at
the. head of the specIals committee which
visited the Western tribes ingI865 and of that
which investigated the conduct of the Com
missioners of Indian Affairs In 1863. In 1870
he was Appointed TO the United States Senate
to fin the unexpired term of Daniel 6. Nor
ton. d deceaSed, and was subsequently chosen
for the term that ended in 1877. He was re-
elected for the term that expired in 1888, but
resigned In 1881 to enter the Cabinet of Pres
ident Garfield as Secretary of the Treasury,
but retired on the accession of President
Arthur in the same year, and was elected by
the Minnesota Legislature to serve the re-
mainder of his term in the Senate. In that
body Mr.. Window acted as chairman of the
committees 7on appropriations, foreign af-
fairs>and ranspoFtation.
A: the expiration of his term Mr.. Window
came to New York and engaged in business
in Wall street. He was in the midst of a
prosperous business career when Benjamin
Harrison was elected President and called
him to his old position in the Cabinet. He
hesitated to respond, but was finally pre-
vailed upon to leave New York and go to
Washington.
Since his resumption of his duties of the
of1ce of Secretary of the Treasury Mr.. Win
dom has been constantly before the public
because of the late unsettled financial affairs
of the country. He has shown himself equal
TO all emergencies and was found never to
be wanting on occasions that demanded
prompt and decisive action In the time of
Wall streets latest trouble Mr.. Window
acted with such Judgment that the Street
was saved from panic and many firms from
r1in.l
The doctors who were present, after