Show DEATH OF SECRETARY GRESHAM washington INGTON D C may 28 secretary Ures haai died at ai 0 clock this momin at his rooms at the be arlington hotel Altho although uga his hia rt recovery was practically abandoned wlben his spell apell occurred shortly before 6 last evening the be moos moat powerful heart stimulants known to medical science were injected periodically and an infusion of normal saline solution was made through an open vein in the arm he recovered slightly but owing to severe rigors shortly before 11 oP tie he began ito to fall rapidly anu his vitality began to ebb the three physicians saw that the end and was near and at 12 withdrew to the ante room leaving in the sick room koom only the members member of bis big family and the nursed up to that time he had been conscious and talked at intervals intervale his words word were full of bravery he fully appreciated his condition and spoke words of hope and cheer to his hia stricken wife and daughter sometimes his bis mind wandered slightly and went back to the days or of long ago recalling incidents of lite life and happiness in the be springtime of his life he spoke too of his bis absent son and his private acore tary mr landis andis Li whom he loved as a sou lou and who like his son was speed edg log to his bis bedside but all too late mrs gresham sat by the smoothing his levered evered brow and occasionally casio nally reading to him from bible pas passages which he loved As the end approached his bis pulse became hardly perceptible gradually his eyes glazed and closed mrs gresham with noble and heroic fortitude continued to read the words of the goaper to her bar departed husband her daughter and son in law strod with bowed heads at the side of the coleb at his bis breathing ceased a peaceful shadow passed over his pale countenance te nance his bis pulse flickered and his bis tor sorrowing rowing family were to in the presence of death mr groshams Gre shams illness ill ness began may lot when he was attacked with acute pleurisy the diagnosed his case as gallstone in the bladder at first his pleurisy symptoms being overlooked for almost thirty six boure As soon as dr W W johnston Jo hoston who is ie now the attending physician was called he discovered that the secretary was waa suffering from an acute case of pleurisy probably caused by exposure while riding out to woodley the presidents President 8 country name home at night the secre secretary right lung was affected the cavity being already filled with fluid his respiration rose to 48 the physicians decided not to tap the cavity but to rely upon absorption to 10 rid it of 0 the exudes fluid gradually secretary gresham grew better the respiration was reduced almost to normal last saturday when dr johnston thought all danger past the left lung suddenly budda aly became affected hod and filled rapidly about this evening he sank rapidly and death was momentarily expected restoratives Restora tives were applied and hypodermic of nitroglycerine the mota mom powerful of all heart stimulants and strychnine were i made and about 9 the at ricken statesman ta had bad revived soine somewhat what the news which came later that secretary gresham was dying spread like wildfire through the city president cleveland who was at woodley was telephoned to and kept constantly informed ai as to his premiers condition he too roo had been con to his boru it is said for two days by a bilious attack secretary gresham was conscious almost the entire evening many times he inquired for his son otto who is on the way from chicago by midnight the signs of dissolution were crowding thick and fast and the watchers waited in went silent agony of spirit for the going out ot or life walter quintin gresham was a soldier a judge aal a statesman prominent and distinguished in those three great fields ol of human endeavor endea he rose to the rank ot major genera at a volunteers during the rebellion he was lor for f fourteen years united states circuit judge for illinois and held three cabinet portfolios postmaster master general and secretary lf if the treasury under arthur and secretary of state under cleveland mr gresham came of english stock his ancestors moved to virginia and later to harrlson harrison county indiana where he was born on n st patricks patrick lo day 1882 1832 august 11 1863 he was appointed general on the recommendation of grant and sherman and placed in command ot of the natchez division in tile the following spring he be was placed in command of the division of the seventeenth corps of the Tennee tennessee see which took part in the campaign against atlanta at leggette leggetts Leg getts hills hill before atlanta he be wasat was struck ruek with a bullet just below the knee to the day of his bis death he never recovered the lull full use of his bis limb the war over general gresham returned to his bis at now new albany ind in 1866 he was nominated for congress but was defeated when general grant became president he be appointed mr gresham gressam united states district i judge for indiana when postmaster general howe died in april 1883 was tendered the cabinet position by telegraph and accepted near the close of arthur arthurs a term on the death of secretary folger he was appointed stere secretary tary of the fea treas sury a position he hold held until aoto ber bar 1884 president Preal dent arthur who bad taken him bim from the bench beach had bad the satisfaction of restoring him to the banou at the close of his service by appointing him to succeed judge drummond after mr cleveland was wag elected la in february 1893 be summoned judge gresham to lakewood N J where after a consultation be tendered him bim the position po of premier of the cabinet he be was forming judge gresham accepted the trust march ath the secretary was a hard worker he was thorough in all things and insisted upon reading up every aspect of a case which came before him bim this involved long hours boura spent in study and it ills is now clear that secretary gresham was brought to his last illness by the great exertions exertion he was obliged to put forth to discharge dis charee his bb off official loial duties to his bis own satisfaction in 1858 mr gresham married miss matilda mcgrain the daughter of thomas mcgrain a mau of scotch irish descent A son aon and daughter were born to thern them who live in chicago lie he was devoted to wife and children this side of his lite life the pub lie ft know knew nothing of but it furnishes the best key to his nature and char actor acter |