Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-05

The Late UNti0m Uindont.
There was an immediate rush on the
part of all hands toward Mr.. Window s
chair, but several doctors who were
guests at the dinner got there first and
drove the others back. They were
doctors :. A. Robinson. Durant, Whit
ney, Fisher and Bishop. DIR. Robinson
bent down and making a close examina-
ton OF the PROSTATE form, discovered
that the heart was still beating. BY
his orders the dying Secretary was car
ried into the dish-room adjoining the
banquet hall. and there placed on a
table. Messengers We're hastily dis
patched for electric batteries. and as
many as four We're applied to his body
which was rapidly becoming cold.
This was at exactly 1000 p. m, and
for six minutes the electric shocks were
applied necessarily but without success
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.
He is dead" This was the fearful
announcement that was sent through
the gaily-bedecled 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 a few minutes before
aglow with enthusiasm, predicating 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 checks Death, that
awful messenger, had descended upon
their feast and taken from the crowd
one of the Nations chief officers. \
silence fell upon those who only few
moments ago were clamoring for news
of Mr.. Window. Judge Arnoux on re-
firing 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-
fence.
When it 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 sad
event, and requesting him to communi-
cate with Mrs. Window and have her
start on the 11:10 p. m. train for New
York.
William Window was born in Belmont
County, o., May 10, 1927. He received an
academic education, studied law at Mount
vernon, 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 a Republican,
serving from 1859 to 1863 In that body he
served two terms as chairman of the COM
mlttee on Indian affairs and also was at
the head of the special committee which
visited the Western tribes in 1865 and of that
which Investigated the conduct of the Com
misSionerS of Indian Affairs in 1868. In 1870
he was appointed to the United States Senate
to I'LL the uneXpired term of Daniel 5. Nor
ton. 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,
pul ItllItu On the tCteSSlon Oh ITeSiOent
Arthur in the same year, and was elected by
the Minnesota Legislature to serve the re-
of his term in the Senate. In that
body Mr.. Window acted as chairman of the
on appropriations. foreign at |
fairs and transportation.
At 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 |
inn to old in Shn (ah Hn
hesitated to respond. but was finally pre-
vailed upon to leave New York and go to
w Washington.
Since his resumption of his duties of the |
office 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 |
10 all emergencies and was found never to |
be wanting 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
ruin.
The doctors who were present, after
an examination. issued the following
certificate:
We hereby certify that the Hon. William
W indom, Secretary of the United States
Treasury died at Delmonico's at l0:11 p. m,
january -, 1891 and we further certify that
the cause of his death was, first, cerebral
second, coma"
lSgned.J ~ WHITNEY, Nj. ID.
S. A ROBINSON. NJ d.
1t was decided to remove the body to
the apartments in the Fifth Avenue Ho-
tel which had been occupied by the late
Those who remained with
the body all night were Collector Err
hardt, Private Secretary Handley, At
Miller, Secretary Tracy,
Z. b. Thurber, E. d. Harper and DR..
Robinson.