Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-05
AN UNBIDDEN GUEST.
Death Closes the Banquet Of New
York's Board of Trade.
He Touches Secretary Windon, and the
Noted Financier Suddenly ExL res
Brief sketch of the Deceased
Statesman.
HIS LAST SPEECH.

| lfdue dtIiltr ne grew deathiy pale. MS
eyes shut and opened spasmodicallv,
and he fell inert on his chair. Thence
! he slipped 10 the floor where he Law I'M
conscious The most intense excitement
Immediately ensued Judge Arnoux. ex-
/ Secretary Bayard and Captain Snow
were the first of several who ran to
+ Mr.. Window aid. They found him APP
/ parently unconscious. They lifted him
gently and carried him into an ante
/ room, where several physicians pro-
ceeded at once to his assistance. but it
/ was found that he was dead His had
4 been the first toast of the evening He
/ had finished his response, had seated him
! self, swooned at once and died almost
+ instantly. Every effort to restore him
was made, but in vain. He died of
i heart disease. The great assemblage
i at once dissolved. Mr.. Window had
been the only speaker, and the senti,
ment to which he responded was: Our
Country's Prosperity Dependent Upon
/ Its instruments of Commerce.
When 1t was officially announced that
/ the Secretary was dead Secretary Tracy
/ at once went TO the nearest telegraph
office and sent message to President
Harrison informing him of the untimelv
event and requesting him to commune
cate with Mrs. Window.
THE NEWS At THE CAPITAL.
WAsHINGroN. Jan. 3O-The an
nouncement of the sudden death OF Sec
rotary Window in New York gave al
most as great shock to his official
friends and associates here as did the
shooting of President Garfield to the
members of his official household 1t
was so terribly sudden and unexpected
that all who heard the news were pro-
foundry shocked and so overcome as to
be unable toeXpress the grief they felt
As soon as the telegram bearing the
sad intelligence was received by the
Associated Press ITS contents were i'm
mediately communicated to President
Harrison at the White House
He was in the library at the
time, talking with Mrs. Harrison,
and when the message was read TO
him he was greatly distressed and
almost completely overcome He ina
mediately ordered his carriage and
went at once to the house of the Post
y =
where a Cabinet dinner had been in
progress and from which he had re-
turned but a few minutes before
reception had followed the dinner. SO
the guests had not dispersed.
Mrs. Window and her two daughters
and Mrs. Colgate. of New York, who
is visiting them, were among those
present at the reception. As soon as
the President arrived he had Z hurried
conversation with Secretaries Blaine
and Proctor and the Postmaster
General and told them of the
grief that had befallen them
They then privately informed Mrs
Colgate of Mr. Window death, and she.
without exciting the suspicious of
Mrs. Window and her daughters, sue
ceeded in getting them TO their carriage
and home. The President, Secretary
Proctor and Postmaster General Wana-
maker entered carriage and followed
directly after. When Mrs. Window
and her daughters reached the house
Mrs. Colgate gently broke the dreadful
news Mrs. Window was completely
overcome and had to be assisted to
her chamber, The shock was a terrible
one, as when the Secretary left Wash
ington in the morning he seemed in the
best of health and spirits. The Presi-
dent and the members Of his Cabinet
who We're present extended their
/ sympathy to the stricken family and
offered their services to them.
/ SKETCH Of HIS CAREER
William Window was born in Belmont Coun-
Z " q fowl L. an don. so
/ education, studied law at Mount Vernon, O..
i and wa, admitted 10 the bar in 1870. In 1882
i he became prosecuting attorney for Knox
/ County, but in 1885 removed TO Minnesota, and
was chosen to Congress for the term
beginning March 4 1888 He was re-
] elected thereafter every two years until 1859
serving with credit to himself and his State
through the period Of the civil war and recon
structiou. Ia the lower House owing to his
/ familiarity with the red men he served two
terms a. chairman of the committee on Indian
/ affairs and was also at the head OF the special
| committee TO visit the Western tribes in 1855
and OF that on the conduct Of the Com.
/ missioner OF Indian Affairs in 1867. In
| 1870 he was appointed 10 the United States
/ Senate TO I'LL the unexpired term Of Daniel s.
| Norton, deceased, ana he subsequently
chosen for the term that ended
| In 1877. He was reelected for the
one that closed ia 1883. but resigned in 1881
TO enter the Cabinet OF President
Garfield as Secretary - the Treasury but, re-
tired on the accession OF President Arthur in
the same year The vaeancy was filled during
the called session of that year by Alonzo J.
Edgerton, under executive appointment In
October OF the same year after Mr. Window s
withdrawal from the Treasury the death of
President Garfield he was elected by the Min
nesota Legislature TO iii the vacancy caused
by his resignation early IN the year and he
served until the close OF the term in 1871
Mr. Window was a candidate for the Presi-
dency before the Republican convention Of 1880,
the Minnesota delegation casting their ten
votes for him until the twenty ninth ballot,
when some of the votes were transferred TO Mr..
Blaine Three delegates voted for him until
the close Of the balloi,ng After his retire
menI from the Senate in 1853 Mr. Window
spent his time between Minnesota ana New
York practicing law and attending To business
interests until called 20 the Treasury portfolio
by President Harrison,
Since his resumption of the duties II tho
ONCE d Secretary OF the Treasury Mr. WIN
dom has been constantly before tae public be
cause Of the late unsettled isuaauia, affairs OF
the country. He had shown himself equal K
i all emergencies and was souad ueyer to be