Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-01-30
Sudden Death of Secretary Window

Hoo. William Window, secretary OF Inc
United States treasury, died last night at
the close OF a speech on tie fiscal policy CT
the administration at the annual banquet OF
the New Yusk Board OF Trade and Tfsns-
portion at De mou!co's. New York city.
Tho Secretary YES the first speaker OF The
evening. TIE diouer, which began st Elk
O'Clock, was completed shortly after mae.
end the Secretary arose to speak. be enter
;ained the diners with mos elaborate ora
ZION and sat down aniiat lond applause
Judge Armour then got up, and Wss in tue
midst Of his speech Introducing ex-Secre.ars
B .ya:d wnen SOUS one cried Look at Sec
reta,y Wiodorll
The speech vsg broken short and every
eye was turned Id the direction of hat gen
s!eneu &c had collapsed in bis chair aad
vas filling to 'e A3or. His face was ehast-
IL. aud o ory OF horror arose amoag tGe Late
fes,!Te Jewellers.
Thare was 30 in! mediate rush On the part
Of all hands tc~stds Mr.. Wipdom'5 chair,
but sevsrs doctors, who were guests at the
dinner, GOT there first end drove the others
back. DR. Robinson bent down, and max
ing c. ose examination ofthe proetrate forG
discovered thut the hsaIt wac still bea!iag.
BE- lis orders this dying Secretary wss Car
red into IA adj .iciDg room AID placed on s
,able Mssse0gsre we're hastily despatched
for electric batteries. end es many as ioE.
we're apll I'd to his body, which WAS rapidly
groNlog Geld. For ak miputee the electric
shocks ers eppii"d incesss ntlg, but without
-ucosss a l0li p r., Judge &rnoux came
out o. :be rocm ard announced to the DIG
ere tina. Sacra:sry Window, whom they he'd
the pleasure Of hearing only fe@ moments
before, "ss do5d.
3 silence fsli upon the men who were
opIy fsw rnirUtes before claamOring for
news C: Mr.. Wicdom aud Judge Arnsux in
retiring nsd announced that M-. Windom
had only ia!sted, end 1t was not thought by
the outsiders that 1t was as serious IS Ii
proVaG &c be.
The Seo.slary mad succumbe; to SO attack
Of the heart. he had been for loag time
q suflerer from heart disease and only last
Moposy vas visited by shock, which,
however, pssseG away without csusing him
mach inconvenience. When it was officially
anDoupcpd b It the Secretary was dead, See
rotary Trsav at once vent TO the nearest
telegraph 70 and ssnt message to Pfesi-
dent Ksrrieon, informing him vi tee sad
event aud requesting him TO communicate
with Mrs. Wiudow and beVe Der etsrt frcm
Waahiagicn co he lilo p. NJ. train for New
York. When tie news of Secretary Wind
om's death first reached Washington Mrs.
Wtudom vss attending 3 reception 81 the
residence Of Poe, e aster General Wensmak-
e-. a telegram containing the sad INTEL
gence had arrived 81 her house snd hsd
been opened by socae of the servanie. She
was at once Notified and was almost over
come with grief.
William Win,am was hora in Belmont
county, Onio, May 10, 1877, and was sd-
mitted TO tue bar in 1850 Ia 1856 he re-
moved to Minnesota, snd soon aterwarc
he was chosen to Congress from that State
as republican, serving from 1859 to 1869
In 1870 he was appointed to the Uaited
States Senate to e Ii the unexpired term OF
Danisl S. Norton, deceased. and he was
subsequently chosen for the term that end
ed 10 1877 He was reelected for the term
that closed in 1883, but resigned in 1881 to
enter the cabinet of President Gartisld rs
Secretary OF the Treasury. He retired on
the accession of President Arthur In the
same year, and YES elected by the Mime
sofa Legislature to eerve the remainder OF
his terra ia the Senate. Ia that body Mr.
Window acted as chairman ofths committee
on appropriations, foreign affairs and trans-
poriation. Ga the election of Mr.. Harrison
to the presidency, Mr.. Window was regard
ed ga the man who would be Secretary OF
the Treasury just az Mr.. Blaine was looked
upon as the choice for Secretary OF State.