Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-10-22
The Man, Prominent In Public
Life for Forty Years, Is
Now no More.
PoTTsvILLE DEMONSTRATION
The Striking Miners Turn Out In
Force-None Return
to Work.
LIGHT ON CHINESE PUZZLE

Washington, Oct. 22.-John Sherman
who for forty years occupied so promi-
nent place in legislative and admins
trative branches public AFFAIRS, died
at GAS this morning, of brain exhaus-
ton. Death came to the aged sufferer,
peacefully, after almost thirty-six
hours of nearly complete unconscious
ness. During the last fifteen hours of
his life he was all the time uncon-
scious. The number of relatives and
friends who assembled in Washington
in response to summons were at the
bedside when the end come. Mrs. Nc
Callum, adopted daughter of Secretary
and Mrs. Sherman, remained constant
ly at the bedside during the last hours.
The funeral services will be held in
this city and in Mansfield, Ohio In
terment will be at Mansfield. Mr.
Sherman was in his seventy-eighth
year. He leaves property estimated
worth a million. His wife died last
summer, he never fully recovered the
blow.
Flags on the public buildings in
Washington were lowered at half mast
so to remain until after the funeral
President Mckinley as a mark of spe-
cial honor to the deceased resorted to
the unusual course of personally pre-
pairing on expression of the nations
grief in the shape of a proclamation
descriptive of the personal qualities
and civic abilities of the deceased
statesman. At the state department,
also, a message was framed to be
transmitted in multiple to the United
States ambassadors, ministers and |
charges abroad officially notifying |
them of the demise of exsSecretary |
Sherman.
President Mckinley directed the |
white house to be closed to visitors. |
After ordering some beautiful flowers
from the white house conservatory he
went in person to Sherman's late res
idence to express his grief and offer
what consolation he could to the be-
reaved family. Mrs. McCallum in
formed him of the provisional funeral
arrangements and the president decid-
ed not to delay his departure Tor Can
ton tonight if adhered to,but to at
tend tn funeral services at Mansfield
Wednesday. Mrs. Mckinley later
drove to the Sherman residence and
left her card. The funeral will be
held from the Sherman residence
Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Alexander
MacKay-Smith, rector of st. johns
church, officiating. The body will be
taken to Mansfield, Ohio The ser
vices will be held at Mansfield, Thurs
day which President Mckinley will at
tend.
Senator Sherman was a prominent
candidate for the presidential nomina-
tion in 1880 when Garfield was nomi-
mated, and also in 1888 when Benjamin
Harrison was nominated When Pres
ident Mckinley entered upon his pres
ent term of Office Mr.. Sherman was
his secretary of state. In about a
year his health became so broken that
he was compelled to resign. He was
succeeded by his first assistant, Judge
Day, also of Ohio.
Senator Sherman was a brother of
William Tecumseh Sherman, the late
hero of the civil war. While one was
in the senate the other was in. the
field
President Hayes appointed asMr.
Sherman secretary of the treasury in
1877 and it was due to his manage
ment while at the head OF thetdepart-
ment that the resumption of specie
payment was effected in 1879 without
disturbance to the financial or com
mercial interests of the country. In
1881 he re-entered the senate and re-
mained in it until 1897
John Sherman was born in LaIcas-
ter, Ohio, May 10th, 1882. After re-
ceiving an education he studied law
with brother at Mansfield. where. he
afterwards practiced for ten years,
In 1856 he was elected to the thirty
fourth congress in the interest of the
free soil party. and was reelected te
the three succeeding congresses. He
became a power on the floor and in the
committees and was recognized as the
foremost man in the house particular
" in matters affecting finance In
1861 he was sent to the United States
senate, where he at once became a
leader. Possessing in an eminent de
gree the essential qualifications Of Q
statesman. combined with a positive
genius for solving the problems in the
affairs of government. the senator
presented one of the most imposing
figures in public life. After the close
Of the ciyil war he and Thaddeus
stevens prepared the bilIfo the recon.
struction Of the southern states, which
vas passed By congress IN the winter
Of 1867. While in the senate he wa.
the father Of number Of bills mostly
relating to questions Of finance. k
introduced and carried through tn