Show DEATH OF SECRETARY WINDOM did dies of heart disease at tho of it at a banquet secretary of the treasury died suddenly oud donly at the tb bf the now york luard of trade and transportation at thursday night tho the secretary was the airet speaker of tho evening the dinner which wa was bogun begun at 0 6 wa was complo compla tod sho riLly af after ter 9 and the Secretary arose to speak entertained the diners with a amot most elaborate oration and sat at dona down amid amidst at the loud applause of hie his auditor auditors judge arnitz then got up abs was wala in the midst of bis his speech introducing ox ex SeL secretary rotary bayard when someone cried 4 look at secretary Windo milt the speech was broken abort and every eye was turned in the direction of that gentleman ile had boa collapsed in hia his chair and wa was falling to the floor hia ill face was ghastly and a cry of horror arose from the lato late festive reveler revelers there was an immediate rush on the part of all band hands toward mr Win doma chair but several doctor doctors who were guests at tho the dinner pot got thero first and drove the other others back they were doctor doctors robinson durant whitney fisher and bishop dr robinson bent down and ma me ing tog a close clots examination of the prostrate form discovered that the heart was still boating beating uy by his hi ordera orders tho the dying secretary wa was carried into tho the room sid adjoining joining the banquet hall ball and thero there placed on a table wore were hastily dispatched for electric electr lo butte batteries and as a many ai as four were applied to his body which wa was rapidly becoming cold thi this was wits exactly at 10 05 p m and four minutes later tho the electrio lo shocks were applied incessantly but without at 10 10 p in judge arnoux camo came out of the room and announced to tho the diners that secretary windom whom they bad had the pleasure of hearing only a few minutes before had broat breathed baill als his laet last therom the corn pany slowly dispersed the secretary bad had succumbed to an attack of the heart lie ile bad been for ft a longtime long time a sufferer auf forer from heart disease and only last monday was visited by a bock shock which however passed away without causing him much inconvenience when it was officially that tho the secretary was dead secretary tracy at once went to the nearest telegraph officio and bent sent a message to president harrison Harrt son informing him of the sad event and requesting him to communicate with mrs window windon to this the president replied that be he was greatly shocked and asked then them to take charge of the body and it to washington as early carly as possible aa As soon as the telegram bearing the sad intelligence was received by the associated press its contents were immediately communicated to the president at the IN hite house ho was la in tho library at the time talking to mrs ilarra fic afu U and when the message was read to him be he was greatly distressed and almost completely overcome he ile immediately ordered his carriage aud went at once to the house of the postmaster general but a few blocks away where a it cabinet dinner had been in ogress or tw and from which he bad returned but a few minutes before A reception had been given after dinner and the guests bad had not all disappeared mrs windom and her two daughters and mr mrs colgate of new york who Is visiting them were among those present at the reception As soon as tho the president arrived he be had bad a hurried conversation with secretaries blaine and proctor and postmaster ost master general wanamaker an ani told them of the grief that bad had befallen them they then privately informed mrs colgate of mr windola Win doma dome death and aho she without exciting the suspicions of mrs airs windom and her daug daughters liters succeeded 1 in gotting them into their i arriago arric go and home the president tary proctor and postmaster general wanamaker entered a carriage car riago and followed directly after when mrs windom and her daughters reached tho the house mrs colgate gently broke broket the he dreadful a adful n news e VVS to the biro baro aved widow and daughters mrs windom was completely over ruo and had to bo assisted to her chr the shock was a temble terrible one as v a secretary left washington this morning bo he seemed in tho the be best a of health and spirits the president and the members of his cabinet who were present extended sympathies to the stricken family an ani I 1 offered their services to them |