The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-18
JOAQUIN NABUCO
 AMONG THE DEAD Brazilian Ambassador to Wash ington Dies Suddenly BRAIN ARTERY RUPTURED Body Will Be Transported by an Amer ican Warship as Mark of Es-
 teem in Which Deceased
 Was Held.
BRAIN ARTERY RUPTURED

| Washington, January 17.-Senor Joaquin Nabuco, Brazilian ambassador to Washington, died suddenly this morning at the embassy in this city. He was so years old. The immediate cause of death is said to have been the rupture of an artery in the brain. For several months past the ambassador had been in failing health and about 10 days ago his ailment was diagnosed as arterio sclerosis. Notwithstanding the gravity of his condition he maintained his activity to some extent to the end. This morning he professed to feel much better, but was soon afterward overtaken by a sinking spell, caused 1 by the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain. His physician, pr. Harding, seeing that the case was hopeless. sum moned Madame Nabuco, Mile. Nabuco, the ambassadors daughter, secretary and MT. Devianna Kelsich, second sec- retary.
 At the moment a priest was admin istering extreme unction of the Cath ollie church, the ambassador passed away while unconscious.
 The news was immediately communi- cated by cable to the Brazilian govern ment and also to President Taft and the state department Very soon Sec retary Knox, through Assistant Secre- tary Hale, sent his formal regrets to the embassy, and within an hour Pres ident Taft called in person at the em- bassy to convey his condolences.
 MT. Nabuco left widow, two daugh- ters and three sons. It is expected that 8 funeral service will be held at St. Matthew's Catholic church in this city when a high mass will be celebrated in the presence of President Taft.
 The cabinet and the entire diplomatic body will be present If the precedents are followed. as they will probably be. the body will be transported by an American warship as a mark of respect and esteem in which he was held by this government.
 Ambassador Nabuco was born in Recife. Brazil, in 1S49 He was son of the late Senator Nabuco, chief of the liberal party in Brazil during a period of Dom Pedro IIs reign.
 In 1871 MT. Nabuco received his de- gree from the faculty of law. Tn 1878, upon the death of his father, MT. NaS- buco was elected to parliament and for years devoted himself to the cause of the abolition of slavery.
 After visiting Portugal and England he went to Rome in 1888 and won Pope Leo XIIPs moral support.
 The abolition of slavery in that year attached MT. Nabuco to the imperial dynasty for which he risked his all and when, November 15, 1889, the re- public was proclaimed, he kept apart from the general movement that led both the monarchial parties to accept the new regime.
 Mir. Nabuco was the author of sew eral books treating with constitution al subjects and history, and in 1895 expressed a wish to reconcile himself with the republic. His proffer was im- mediately accepted. He first was sent as representative Of Brazil in the ar bitration of her boundary dispute with Great Britain and in 1901 he returned to the diplomatic service as Brazil ian minister to England. He was pres- ident of the third international confer ence which met in Rio de Janeiro in 1906 and was a member of The Hague court of arbitration. He came to Wash ington as ambassador from Brazil May 24, 1905.