Show G deshal IS DEAD ahe be secretary passed away gusday ll Mor orning Ding acu acute to pleurisy tho tha immediate cause although he had suffered many years aiom 13 stomach troubles 1 sketch of his life washington agton may 23 28 secretary gresham died at this morning at his looms at the arlington hotel although his ze le covery was practically abandoned w when ben his spell occurred shortly before 6 last evening the most powerful heart stimuli stimulants tats known to medical science were injected periodically and an anfu infusion ion of normal saline solution mas as made through an open nein ein in n the arm he recovered slightly but owing t seere rigors shortly beffie 11 he be legan to fail rapidly began to ebb the three physicians saw that the end was near and at 12 withdrew to the anteroom ante room leaving in the sick room only the members of his hir family an ani and I the nurses up to that time he be had heen conscious and tallied talked at intervals his words here full of bravely ire fully appreciated precia ted his condition and spoke words of hope anti and cheer to his hii stricken wife and daughter time limes chis mind land wen e to abe days ago ago recalling incidents of b his life and happiness iu in the spring time of his life ile he spoke too of his hi absent son and his private secie tary mr laudis landis whom he be loved as his hi g son on and who like his son eon was s speeding p eding to his bedside all too late mrs Gr greaham ebana sat bat by the bedside bedr bed sido idt smoothing his fevered brow and occasionally reading to him from bible passages passages i which aich he lo 10 floied ed A a theand the end approached approach edbis his pulse became hardev perceptible gradually flat his hia eyes eves g glazed lazed and closed I 1 mis greba cresham Ur esham in with noble and heroic fortitude continued to re read ad the words of the gospel to her departed parted I hustind hus bind iter her daughter and son in law tood stood nith ith bowed heads at the aide of the couch L K I 1 IV WALTER Q GRESHAM at 1 15 his breathing ceased a peaceful shadow passed over his pale countenance his pulse flickered and the sorrowing farnoly gerein the presence of death one of the nurses conveyed the news that the end had bad come to the physicians in the next room and they in turn brought it to the watchers in the reception room in the hotel lobby outside were a half hundred of the alie secre secretary i friends no arrangements will be made mad the funeral until the arrival of hi liis son un tot toil ly 13 ills alis Gresi hains devotion to her husband during his illness lias been of the tender patient and faithful cha character she see seemed ioel determined to light off leall death if lie dies she said many 1 I lose all the utmost persuasion ewe was inquired even een to induce in her to lie do 11 Yeste yesterday iday ablio diew be faint froni from exhaustion 0 that t she afe reeled and bould have fall fallen n had 1 I 1 0 not o t 0 one lie of lier her caught her in her arnis anus mr illness betsan 1 I A slay may 1 when lie was attacked with acuto acute pleurisy the physicians clela dial diagnosed his ease as galls gallstone t in I 1 the is bladder it at first his hia i pleurisy i amp tolus being overlooked 16 for alaio almost thirty six hours As AB soon as ah di V W johnston John slon ubo is ia now the attending physician was called lie he discovered that the secretary was suffering ering front from an acute ease case of p pleurisy euri sy probably caused by ex nobui e while riding out outto to woe woodley houd ley tile the presidents country home ili at night in tile the me meantime wilme lie iho gallstone had passed the secre right lung was affected tile the cavity being already filled with plew itie fluid his respiration rov to 43 T the e physicians decided not to ta tap I 1 the the cavity but tu to rely upon absorption to rid it of the exuded fluid gradually irad nally secretary gresh am grew greil better the respiration was reduced to almost normal lasit saturday when dr johnston thought all danger was past the left lung suddenly became affected and tilled filled r rapidly since then either dr johnston or the consulting physician have been fit at his bedside constantly as have sirs mrs I 1 gresham and the secre son I 1 inlaw in it 1 law 11 mr r A andrews n d r e w s lie e p passed a a s e d a 3 very bad night on saturday and a bad day sunday suffering so much pain that last night he was placed under the influence of opiates ile he has been kept more or less under their influence all day his long illness had weakened the secretary greatly and his physicians decided that in his exhausted condition he be could not undergo an operation for the removal of the fluid the fact that the secretary has baa had stomach trouble trouble for foz jears years and has been obliged to diet militated against any rapid recovery of strength secretary gresham had an attack of pleurisy years ago lie has also suffered much frow from his wounds being at one time bedridden bed ridden for overa over a year secretary gresham was conscious almost the entire evening many times he inquired for hibson his son otto who w he is on the way from chicago meanwhile the anxious anious watchers at the bedside about saw the giant framo frame of the secretary convulsed by a severe chill lie ile sank rapidly but the chill passed away and rid lie recovered slightly and then doz dozed e d for a few minutes the physicians continued to give hypodermic injections of nitro glacer ine at 1210 he suffered another rigor at 1130 secretary herbert came to tile the hotel ile he had arrived in washington about hiat hastening ening at once to join the little party of watchers by midnight the signs of dissolution were crowding thick and fist fast the members of the secre family who had been excluded earlier in we th 0 evening acorn fi om a fear that their presence might arouse tile she apprehension of the dying man had bad been admitted for it was waa plain that Secie secretary tary gresham fully reali realized Led his bis position and desired to spend his last moments 5 with his loved ones ile he lad bad been conscious and even conversed calmly with those about him but as aa tile the midnight hour bour drew near the waning forces of life wele no longer equal to the effort and he sank bank into silence although almost and without signs of life othe otherwise his hia eyes still showed the gleam of intelligence and appreciation of what was going on around him and the watchers waited in silent agony of spirit for tile the going out of life 1115 LIM walter quintin gresham was a soldier a judge and a statesman prominent and distinguished in thoo thoe three great fields of human endea endeavor or ife he ruse rose to lo the rank of M major aj orgen or gen general oral of volunteers os during the rebellion ho was f fourteen years united stairs circuit judge lor for illinois awis and held tb ree cabinet iriti postmaster general and I 1 I 1 beci Secie tary of the treasur v dundei arthur and secretary of state under cleveland i mr gresham crime of english stock his anc ancestors esters move moved I 1 to Virgi V nii ia and liter later to claril on g tu county indiana where lie he nas born on in st patrick s g day 1132 in I 1 mi G re father N basl as I 1 elected sheri offard and the next dext yearl year I 1 was murdered by a noted desperado whom be had gone to arrett arrest I 1 ilia mother was left a widow nith ith J five small children waller valter Q was then but two of age Us lie grew up with but bui two or three winters schooling until he was 16 1 i years office of age cy by dinhof hard and th the c as assistance sistan ce of his bi biellier bio lher ollier he in en entering anterino terino the seminary n I 1 at corydon I 1 two years litre and 1 I Isted at university comp completed his education so far as school schooling was concerned ile he took up the law in 1855 the republican party was formed and with it the first note of war var was sounded gohei nor morton morion a appointed ted hi him in lieutenant of the thirty eighth indiana but before he it e saw active service he was appointed colonel of the fifty third indiana in ili ibri mr regiment was ordered to join general grant at fort donelson august 11 1118 ti i lie he was appointed general on the recommendation ommen dation of grant rant and sherman and placed in command odthe of the natch isi divi division bion in ili the following spring lie he was placed in command of the division of the seventeenth corps of the tennessee which took part in the campaign against atlanta at leggetts leggette Leg getts hill before atlanta he was struck by a sharpshooters bullet just below the knee to the day of his death he never recovered the full use of the limb the war over general gresham returned to his profession at new albany ind in he was nominated for congress against M C kerr but the di district was democratic and lie be was defeated when gereral G grant rant became president he be mr gresham united states state di arct jude for indiana when postmaster gen eral cral howe died in april 1883 1863 mr gresham was tendered the cabinet position by telegraph and accepted near the close of arthurs term on the death of secretary folger he was appointed secretary of the treasury a position he be held until october resident president arthur who had taken him from frolin the bench had the satisfaction sails faction of 0 restoring him brai to the bench at the close of his service by appointing him to succeed judge drummond in 1888 judge gresham was made a prominent candidate for the republican nomination for the pi Ilesi residency esi dency at the chicago convention ilis his liberal views on the tariff created 1 against him the ants antagonism of the extreme protection ests at chicago judge Gres gresham nant openly dissented from the mckinley law and in 1 1892 after the nomination of mr cleveland by the democrats lie he once republican republic tin renounced his allegiance to the republican party and advocated advocat pd mr Clev elands election after mr cleveland was elected in february lie he summoned judge gresham to lakewood X N 1 it hole after A i consultation lie he tendered him the position of premier of the he cabinet lie he was forming judge gresham Gres liam accepted the trust march ath during his silent term us as postmaster general judge gresham accomplished age much let letter im poi t h age to canada was 1 deduced leduce dand t the postal contract with mexico aioo 7 was as signed another important t t ervice I 1 e he rendered to the country was the re went of the fast mails As Secie tary of state in the present presen t administration mr Gres greshom hoin has had to deal aith perhaps more vexatious intricate and delicate dillom itic affairs than have hae fallen to the share of most secretaries of state from his long judicial experience he was disposed to view every question from the standpoint of exact and equal justice and the first r We ration with liim him vans nas always s absolute fairness if hi his on t ra coal country ri try occupied a falbo falbe position in the I 1 he he thought it was nas hi bi duty 10 0 set eel it il right even at a sacrifice of 0 f material tuat erial interests as it might ap pear at the time uch such S a course was eel tain to subject hint to public criticism and ile he fulla iea ic alicd lied this in la dance lint was in no inspect bioni doing what lie he thought was right this brought him fice face to face with the great ot of the bour at that tine time the annexation of hawaii ile he had bad beis on oil this matter even before lie be came nine into the cabinet and it was upon his hia recommendation that president CI evelind performed almost his hig first official action by withdrawing from tile the senate in which it was inas pending pen din the annexation treaty negotiated by Secie tary roster poster then mr blount was sent to tile the islands I 1 lit rids to make a special investigation bation ia tion and uron iiron his the secretary made his now celebrated recommendation that the quen queen be restored inasmuch as she had later deposed by bv tile the action of theofil the officers cers of f tile the united un 1 ted states when congress finally made loo econn i it its vie viens 8 t the lie societal eel atai y accepted them for his government dent but bul it 11 cannot be discovered that he ever changed his views as originally announced as ag to the justice of I 1 tile the action be 1 had ad proposed while he was deep in ili the hawaiian ne negotiations secretary gresham Gre siham nas obliged obliged suddenly to gie cheim im tile derling berling seal fisheries the at titration bit ration arranged by his predecessor i n as in full swing here was another matter with in which bich he be was not in harmony lie ile did not believe that the ar would be successful success lul in the object claimed aimed at by the united state fc tates nar namely nely the protection of the seals but reg regardless r adless of the outcome lie lias ic forced orce to bring the british government to a of the modus or some other quick notion action to carry out the award when it was as order to lo guard against the annihilation lation of the seals feals the british were unwilling to do the first it was only by an all exhibition cfall of all tie the strength of his cliar character acter and nd purpose that lie succeeded it in hurrying through the british parliament an act to give effect to the and then securing the tha adoption ot of regulations ions to keep off the poachers by a clause in ili the wilson tariff act congress had swept away in ili a liue line all the carefully constructed reciprocity e cip apro rocity ity treaties negotiated by the prece preceding administration this cause caused I 1 gi gibat eat anger among the nations with which the united states had bad such ti it etie sand the storm fell up upon on secretary Gre groshams shams head immediately there was talk of retaliation sod and tariff wars and in some cases this was realized to a ce cei tain extent it was task to plicate the european pow arsand how skillfully he did so BO the printed tells ile he fairly amazed the germans and austrians Aust kest rians used as they nere i ere to the devious ways of diplomacy by fran frankly 1 ly admit ad milting ting that they were right in claiming a remission odthe differt differential filial duties upon beet sugars t that h at justice seemed to require this he would do all that could coul I be done to make lepai abiona proul ibe w aich he faithfully laith fully endeavored 1 to redeem to the la stand thereby strengthened strengthen cd his own hands in the ofle vexatious negotiations negotiation si looking to the removal of the unjust and onerous restrictions placed upon t the it e an poi tation of american cattle a and I 1 meats eats another le legacy pe is y from it his is sor r which mr gresham found nery ery little to lo his hii liking was the necessity I 1 1 for ca cading I 1 i ng for the Sali samoan loal king held imprisoned on sunday island by the germs ns lie ife wanted to le ie pud late the v hole arran arrangement gemen t by which the united states assumed a part of the tripartite protectorate over samoa and he be worked hard to this end and finally succeeded in in d president Pies ident cleveland to le commend to congress that the united states slates withdraw front from all I 1 further participation in iii samoan al af airs airs then in the side of diplomacy mr gresham had much to his credit he did all that a foreign officer could do properly propel prop eily ly to present the atrocities odthe of alie japan ese war lost no opportunity at any aall any stage to baing it to an all end and ultimately when peace was le is stored it nas the ibe good ollices of the american Amei ican Min in china and japan acting under tinder secretary gresham s instructions that tho the peace negotiations were e |