The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-23
Operation on Republican Vice-
Presidential Nominee May
Be Deferred. S
SICK WIFE RUSHES FROM
UTICA TO CLEVELAND
Leaders Differ as to Procedure
to Name Possible
Successor.
Especial to the Evening star. ]

Especial to the Evening Star.]
CLEVELAND, June 2s.-AItbough
this afternoon the condition of James s.
Sherman, Republican nominee for Vice.
President, was said to have improved.
his family and friends stiIk feel the
deepest apprehension.
He was seized with a severe chill at
daybreak today, and after physicians,
who had been hurriediy summoned, had
held conference, Mr.. Sherman was
rushed to hospital. There he was
said to be resting easily and his con-
dition better than at any time in the
past twenty four hours.
Mrs. Sherman, who was herself sick
In bed, has come here on a special train
with one of her sons, and is now in the
hospital with her husband
The great home reception which had
been planned at Utica for the return
of the nominee from the Chicago con-
| vention was postponed yesterday to
| today, and now it must go over indef-
nitely, as it is not probable that Mr..
Sherman will be ont of the hospital for
some time.
The arrival of Mrs Sherman and her
| son was due to a telegram sent to
| them by former Governor Myron T.
Herrick, who said that Mr.. Sherman
was worse and that he would be sent
to Lakeside Hospital.
| Mr.. Sherman has been sufferer for
two years from catarrh of the gall duct
and also from gall stones. He has had
two severe attacks recently, the last
being on March rs, when he was sent
to hospital in Washington. An oper-
alton was not performed then and he
was out and about in two weeks. The
attack this time is said to be much
more serious.
In an operation for this disease fire.
quently the gall bladder is removed en-
tirely. The operation itself is not
necessarily dangerous. There Is large
percentage of recoveries, though ac-
cording to physicians, there ik always
danger OF complications.
Illness Checks Journey.
On his way from the Chicago conven-
tion to his home in Utica, Mr.. Sherman
was stricken with the old trouble and
left the train at Cleveland. being too Ill
to proceed further.
Former Governor Herrick. who was
on the same train, took Mr.. Sherman TO
his home, and 1t was expected that the
nominee would be able to proceed to
Utica yesterday to be welcomed by his
townsmen and neighbors.
Utica had planned a monster recep-
tion. Special trains had been arranged
to bring excursionists from many miles
around and the city was gaily dec
GRATED in his honor
| When Mr. Sherman realized yesterday
that he was too i'll to go to Utica, he
sent a telegram to the reception COM
mittee, in which he promised to arrive
there this afternoon.
But last night the candidate suffered
! intense pain and the attending doctors
we're unable to relieve him. 1t was
/ about dawn today that he suffered
severe chill and for few minutes those
in the room believed that he could not
survive Heroic measures were resorted
to and the patient rallied. 1t was then
decided to remove him to Lakeside
Hospital and he was taken there in an
/ invalid carriage. He stood the five-mile
Journey with considerable fortitude.
DR.. ]. M. T. Finney. Baltimore sur
geon, attended Mr. Sherman in his pre-
vious attacks, but he is unable to come
| to Cleveland at once. A telegram states
that he is i'll with. lumbago and could
not leave his home today.
| After the sinking spell of the early
morning the doctors reported that the
temperature had receded from 102 to
normal and that the patient was rest
! ing comfortably