Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-01
SECRETARY HAY IS DEAD
Passes Away Suddenly This Morning at His
Home in New Hampshire,
END COMES WITHOUT WARNING
His Condition All Day Yesterday Was
Considered satisfactory-PrOm-
inent in Politics and
Letters.

NEWBURY, N H., July 1.-Secretary of
State John Hay died at 1925 this morning.
The signs Immediately preceding his death
were those of pulmonary embolism. Mr..
Hays condition during all of Friday had
been entirely satisfactory
The bulletin of Secretary Hays death
was signed by Charles scudder, NJ. D., and
Fred T. Murphy, NJ. d.
Mrs. Hay and Drs. Scudder and Murphy
were at the secretary's bedside when the
end came. The secretary bade good night
to his wife and to his attending physicians
about 10 last night at the end of one of
the best days he has had since his illness
The local trouble was clearing up salts
factorily, according to DR. Scudder
The secretary suffered none of the old
pains in his chest which characterized his
earlier Illness. He had been perfectly com
Portable all day and happy in the antici-
patton of leaving his bed for the greater
freedom and comfort Of a couch.
At II o'clock he was sleeping quietly. A
few minutes after u o'clock he called the
nurse who at once summoned DR.. Scudder
Both DIR. Scudder and Dr. Murphy
breathing with difficulty and expired al
most Immediately afterward at 1925.
sketch of His Career.
John Hay has been secretary of state
| since 1898; he was born at Salem, Ind.
| October 8, 1885; he received a common
school education at Warsaw, ILL.,, academic
| in Springfield, Ill; graduated from Brown
university in 1858 "a. M, LII. D.. also LII
| D., at Princeton and Western Reserve uni
| versities; married in 1874 Clara Stone al
| Cleveland, o. Admitted to Illinois bar
one of the private secretaries of President
Lincoln; brevet colonel, United States vol
| unteers, assistant adjutant general; sec
retary of legation, Paris, Madrid, Vienna
| charge daffaires, Vienna; first assistant
secretary of state, 1S79-s1 president inter
national sanitary conference, 1881; ambas
| sador to England in 1878 AS an author
| he published "Castilian Days" in 1871
Pike County Ballads in 1871; translation o.
| Castelars democracy in Europe in 1877
! (seriaD; Abraham Lincoln" a histor!
| (wth John G.. Nicolay), in 1890; poems IL
1880; "Sr Walter Scott" an address, IL
1897, OF his poems Little Breeches' anC
Jim Bledsoe" in dialect. are familiar t
| almost everyone.
AS secretary of state in the Mckinle!
and Roosevelt cabinets he achieved notabl
success handling the large number on, nd
matte matters arising out of the war witt
Spain, the trouble in China and numerou
other delicate matters with a skill whicl
| stamped him as one OF the most accom-
plished diplomats of his day. His worl
was in large measure responsible TO
the position which the United States occu
pies as a world power and the infiuenc
which 1t wields in the political affairs o
the world.
His labors were so arduous and the strait
so constant that some months ago he wa
forced to take vacation, going to Europe
where he spent some time Only recent
he returned and resumed his duties, bu
was again forced to go to New England I
recuperate. A few days ago he suffered
relapse, which it was feared would end hi
life. He rallied slightly, however, but ha
been in a critical condition ever since.