The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1891-02-06
DIED IN HIS CHAIR

LIED mn HlD CUAlN M
Secretary Window Quietly Passes
Away alta Banquet.
The Sudden and Unexpected News
Profoundly Shocks His Many AS
sociates, and the Whole Nation.
NEW York, Jan. 30.-Hon. William
Window, secretary OF tho treasury of
tho United States. died last night at
1905 o'clock in the banquet hall at Del
monico's, where he was the guest of the
New York board OF trade and transport
alton. His had been the first toast of
the evening. He had finished the re-
Spouse, seated himself, swooned at once,
and died almost Immediately. Every
effort to restore him was made, but In
vain. He died OF heart disease. The
great assemblage at once dissolved. Mr..
Window had been thu only speaker.
In the early evening the members of
the board Of trade and transportation
gathered in the reception parlors at
Delmonico's and welcomed the guests
and friends from near and far.
Perhaps the most prominent were
Secretaries Window and Tracy, of the
treasury and navy respectively. Nova
Scotia had q representative present in
| tho parcCp pf how ottnr,a,, ,,opo,,j NJ,
i.ongley. Canada. too, was there. in
the person Of Hon. MILFORD Laurier.
Mr.. Window. digniIiel OF micn. as us
uai, was apparently in perfect health.
All formed a jolly procession to the
banquet hall. where the members and
guests were seated, the members at tho
tables upon the floor and the guests
Mt the long table upon tho raised plat
form. The aged Captain Ambrose
snow, president OF the board, was in
tho center place. At his right he
seated Mr. Window and upon his left
Mr.. Bavard.
The dinner was completed shortly
dnced by Judge ArnOux. responded to
! the toast: Our cour try's prosperity
dependent upon its instrument OF com.
~ ''s'hS "'o 'pNNSu ~ s.'st
O'Clock. 1t had been remarked that he
was reading il oil hurriedly from printed
q py. going faster and faS,er AZ he
naarrd the end. and nt the last he
bal requested the audience not to an,
piaud.
y CULVER of fear shot through tho
aSsemhia.e like an electric shock as
The speaker finished. Mr.. Window was
standing erect under the glare of the
g%aslights, with the faces of all turned
toward him. For q moment the secre-
tary stood silent while the ba%nqucters,
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 Master Arnoux arose to in
troduce ex-Secretary of State Bayard us
the next speaker. He began a short
speech, but had not proceeded far when
Mr.. Window gave n short, sharp moan
of anguish and fell back in his chair.
His face grew purple. His lower limbs
stiffened and stretched out under tho
table. His eyelids opened and shut
spasmodically, bnt there was no CLEAN
OF intelligence in the ayes which were
rapidly losing the luster of HE. The
cigar which no had been smoking was
held between the grim clinch of his
teeth. For only a moment hi appeared
thus. A cry went up from those sitting
near the guest table, Look, look at
Nh. Windom!''
Every eye was turned to the man
whose voice had just ceased. AS they
looked he collapsed in his chair, and
was falling to the floor. His face was
CHASTITY and a cry OF horror arose from
the late festive b%anquetters. There
was an Immediate rush on the part of
all toward Nh. WINDOWS chair, but
several doctors who were present at the
dinner got there first and drove the
others back. They were Drs. Robin
son, Durant, Whitney, Fisher and
bishop. Dr. Robinson bent down, and
making a close examination of the pros
trate form, discovered that the heart
was yet beating, and with tho assist
ance OF Judge Iruax, Captain Snow and
one or TWO others, carried HIM into the
room behind the banquet hall and every
thing was done to resnscitate him. Mes
sengers were hastily dispatched for
eiectrlc batteries, ana as many as four
were appileu 10 ms body, which was
rapidly growing cold. This was at OK
actiy lo:o3 p. IN. For six minutes the
SASSetAo SuoShs "SiS aPPtAeu llCeoSaHtly
put without SUCCESS. He was pronounced
dead.
u would say that the cause OF death
was apople&y. SAID Or. Roblnson, 'If
IL were no Tor the history OF heart dis
ease. am inclined to think that heart
disease killed him. Mr.. WINDOW was
SUBJECT to hts OF heart failure. On
tuesday last, he was siezed with an at
TACK Wnllg on tho St9HS OF the treasury
at Washington, but he did not lose con-
sciousness and was able to take care of
himself,
Az OH p. m. Judge Arnoux came
! ,nt OF the room, wher lay Mr.. Win
dom, and announced to tho diners that
Secretary Window, whom they had had
the pleasure of bearing only a few min
utes before. had breathed his last
Judge Arno" on retiring with the
unconscious man, had that
WAS not thought by those remaining
that it was as ser Gus as 1T proved 10 be.
@ IL WAS officially announced that
tno seera.als was uaNi' sncte.tSy