Show SUDDEN DEATH DATH O OF lEADING DIPLOMA I T LONDON Oct Od 18 18 13 William B. B Buchanan of or Buffalo alo N N. Y V who has hern in Europe for some limn Hmo in c connection con con connection with nn an important diplomatic e dout ion for Ih time the department at Sit Washington Wash i n gt ton on was wt found t nm-I nm tin cious momma near tho American embassy I Y Sunday da tiny day and died diff he before Ot mf medical Rid marl could courLl ho bo r rendered Tho n o of death th ji i is not 4 known thu HilI it is if that it resulted fro front from heart n or Pr apoplexy Buchanan hall hail been Iuen lucre here for several r w weeks Ho lIe took up lip quarters it nt the he c hotel nn one of the thc most t in III the city He lie loft left the hot hotel 1 Saturday ni night hl for dinner and il it is iH supposed he was walking walking walk walk- ing when Rt stricken Mentis Means of Identification The Tho name II W V. V f r Bur hanan was fas on th the clothing as TCo recognized rec TC- o to American make Tho Th initials were en engraved on tho the jewelry Tho police circulate l I f hose heso particulars Particular and the tho managers of flirt Bin hof hotel l and of officials or- or ficia of or tho the eri American an embassy y Cieri mcd limo tho bod hOll A J cn cablegram was sent t to Mrs I Bu Buchanan at Buffalo asking for or in m. m st at met ions Tho The American embassy and tho the cornner cornnor corn coro ner nor took charge of or Mr of of- which are arc supposed to include papers of or great value yahoo it Jt ig is customary in Iii such audi cases in J England n to perform an nit autopsy rr hut but the American embassy has halt requested that this be beTa Ta waived i WASHINGTON WJ Oct IS N lS-N rS of or Mr 11 Buchanan Buchanan's death eath came callie as fiB a great shock to official Washington ton President Cleveland's last tion Mr r. r Buchanan laid had h excepting short intervals ls been connected with will tIme tho department of or state stain in important diplomatic work and his success ha had caused him to be rc regarded as a a. foremost fore foro most American diplomat Eminently Successful Ho was remarkably successful in in Latin American activities not onI only because be cause canse of or his mastery of tho time Spanish Jan language ua c but al also ilso because of his ability ability abili abut ty to enter into the peculiar mental processes of tho time S South uth and an Central Centra American can people Mr Ir Buchanan was horn born in Covington Coving Govine- ton O O. September 10 He Ic was appointed United States minister to the Ar Argentine republic b by 11 Pre President dent Cleveland CJe in in lS ISO i J I. I Ho Ilo devoted himself to extending and improving American trade with South America an and aull with wit t tho ho Ar Argentine republic especially Incidentally ho hI ne negotiated ot a reciprocity reci- reci treaty between Ar Argentine nm and America that gave ae promise of benefits bene- bene fits to tho the business interests of the tho two countries but this failed faile of or ratification ratification ratification tion I- I the tho United States senate One of his important achievements while in Buenas Ares was his settle settle- mont ment of boundary dispute between Ar Ar- and Ch Chile lo which threatened to involve in the thc two countries in war Mr Buchanan l as ai director general managed tho the Buffalo Pun American rican exposition Man of Great Tact Scarcely Ii had he finished lii hi his service as a delegate to tho time second Pan Pan Ameri Ameri can caim conference in iu Mexico Cit in 1902 before ho was a again ain drafted into the tho diplomatic service to become tho the first firs United States minister to Panama where owing to his tact ho he was able abl to adjust many difficult issues Y Voluntarily relinquishing that poe post poet when his work ork was done c Mr l Buchanan went later to Europe as representative of largo large business concerns But soon another call came from the state de lle- and nna ho lie went first to tho the Rio Eio conference and anti then to Venezuela American concessions a and ld diplomatic business generally were in iii bad ad shape in this thi country and Mr 1 Buchanan sue suc c in arran arranging ill for a private uto set set- of four of time the o five great reat American cl chums ims n against V Venezuela and anti for fol tho the reference to Tho The Hague tribunal of tho fifth Ho Ito had bad been named mimed as an agent for America in the presentation of this case that case that of the Orinoco Steamship to company to Tho The Thona na Hague o tribunal when ho no left New NewYork NewYork NewYork York for London recently and was in in- with the tho state department almost to tho the day lav of f his death in re regard re- re gard to that business To no official of tho government perhaps er ps did tho news nos of the tragic lentiL death ot 01 Jar air Buchanan como come as a greater great reat cr er shock than to Assistant Secretary of State Adee Entertaining tho the highest regard for Mr rr Buchanan as a personal friend for his great reat chic Achievements in tho field oJ of diplomacy and nd his bis bi high h character time the assistant secretary of state was dc deeply pJ affected f over o cr tho the untimely ending ol ola of ofa a n treat great career carcer |