Show DEATH OF SECRE SECRETARY TAny die dies of heart disease at the cioto or a speech at A banquet Socrat secretary ary of the treasury lied died suddenly at the dinner of the new now york helard of trade and transportation at thursday night tho the secretary was tho the first speaker of the evening tho the dinner which vas was begun at was completed shortly after attar 0 9 rod and the secretary arose to peak speak iio flo entertained the diners with times a most elaborate oration and mat at down amidst the loud lond applause of hia his auditor auditors judge arnoux then tot got up sod was in the midst of hi his speech introducing ox ax secretary bayard lla yard whoa when cried look at secretary Windo mill tho rho speech wa was broken short and every eye wae wan turned in the df direction of allt gentleman lie ile hod bad collapsed colla pied in his hi lair and was falling to the floor ilia fuce face WA was ghastly and a cry of horror borror arose from the lute lato festive revelers there was an immediate rush en ca the part of all hand bands toward mr Win doma ubaid but bayl al doctor doctors who were guests at the dinner cot got there trot and drove the others back they were doctors robinson durant whitney flaher and bishop dr robinson bent beat down anu and making a close CINO examination of tho the prostrate proa form discovered that the heart was till still boating uy by his orders the dying secretary was carried into the room adjoining the banquet banquot hall and ard there placed on a table messengers were hastily dispatched for electric eloc batteries and va n many as four were applied to his body which was rapidly becoming cold this was exactly at p m and four minutes later the electric shocks were applied incessantly but without success at 10 10 p m judge arnoux came out of the room and announced to the diner diners that secretary windom whom they bad had the pleasure of bearing only a few minute before had breathed his last therom the company slowly dispersed the secretary had succumbed to an attack of the heart he bad had been for a long time a sufferer from heart disease ana sun only last monday was visited by a shock which however passed away without causing him much when it was officially announced that the secretary was dead secretary tracy at once went to the nearest telegraph office and sent a message to president harrison informing him of tho the sad event and requesting him to communicate with mrs windom to this the president replied that hi wa was greatly shocked and asked then them to take charge of the body and bring it to washington as early as possible As soon as the tete telegram gram bearing the sad intelligence was received at washington by the associated press its contents were immediately communicated to the president at the white house he ile was in the library at the tins talking to mrs harrl soa sea and when the message was read to him he was greatly distressed and almost completely overcome he ile immediately ordered bis his carriage and went at once to the house of the postmaster general but a few blocks awat awal where a cabinet dinner bad been in or progress ogress and from which he bad returned but a few minutes before A reception had beau given after dinner and the gueste guests had bad not all disappeared mrs windom and her two daughters and mrs colgate of new york who Is visiting them were among abse present at the reception As soon is s the president arrived be had a is hurried conversation with secretaries blaine and proctor and postmaster general wanamaker and told them of the grief that had befallen them they then privately informed mr mrs colgate of mr bir and she t the suspicions of mrs its windom and her daughters succeeded in getting them into their carriage and home the president Se secretary creary proctor and postmaster general wanamaker entered a carriage and followed directly after when mr mrs windom and her daughters reached the house mr mrs colgate gently broke the dreadful newa news to the bereaved widow and daughters mrs windom was completely overcome and bad to bo be assisted to her chamber the shock was a terrible one as when tho the secretary soc rotary left washington this morning bo be seemed in the best of health and aud spirits the president and the members of bis his ca cabinet binett aho vho were present extended exten dod their res os to tho the stricken family and offered tr r 9 to them |