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Show EIOBBI HABUCO lit:: IB WASHINGTON Representative of Brazil to the United States Passes Away Very Suddenly. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. Senor Joaquin Nabttco, Brazilian embassador to "Washington, died this morniug at the embassy here. Ho was 00 years old. Tho immediate cause of death is said to havo boon tho rupture of an artery in tho brat'i. For several months the embassador hsis been in failing health, and ten days ago bis nihront was diagnosed diag-nosed as artcrio-selcrosis. Tli is morning ho professed to foci much bettor, but was soon overtaken .bv t sinking epcll. When a priest was administering the last rites of the Catholic church the embassador passed away. Within an hour after the embassador's embassa-dor's death President Taft called in person at the embassy to convoy his condolence. Mr. Nabuco left a wife, two daughters daugh-ters and three sons. runcral Arrangements. It is exported the funeral will be licit! at. St. Mathews' Catholic church in this city, when high mass of requiem re-quiem will bo celebrated in tho pros-enco pros-enco of President Taft, the cabinet and the entire diplomatic body. If procodenls are followed tho body will bo convoyed to Brar.il in an Amoriran warship as an evidence of the esteem in which the embassador was held hy this government. Embassador Nabuco was a son of the Into Senator Nabuco. chief of the Liberal parly in Brazil, in a period of lom Pedro's reign. Both his grand father and- groat-grandfalhor wera senators, sen-ators, so that, he represented in the Brazilian parliament, when he enterod t. tho fourth generation f his name, the oni3' such instaue.,' uudar the empire. em-pire. For years ho devoted himself iu parliament par-liament to the caiiKo of abolition of slavery. Tho aboliiion of slavery in 1SSS attached Mr, Nabuco t-.t the imperial impe-rial (lynasly, for which he risked all. and when, on November 15, 1SS0, tho republic was proclaimed, he kept apart from tho general movement that led both tho monarehial parties to accept tho new regime. |