The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-11-01
HON. JAMES S. SHERMAN DIED
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT HIS
HOME IN UTICA.
BODY WILL LIE IN STATE.
To Be Buried in Forest Hill Gene
tery-He Selected His PalIbearers
Before Deati, Naming Prominent
Citizens and Personal Friends.

Utica, N. Y, Oct. Claiming to
| OBTAIN large auditorium. the first
decision to have the funeral service
OF Vice President Sherman. who died
last night, in the Reformed Dutch
church has been abandoned, and the
First Presbyterian church will be
used for that purpose. The service
Will begin at 2 o'clock Saturday, and
will be conducted Jointly by DR.. Hol-
den, pastor of the Dutch church, and
DIR. M. w. Stryker, president of Ham
ilton College.
1he body of the vice president will
lie in state at the Oneida county court
house Friday, from 8 p. M to p. m.
1t will be returned to the Sherman
residence for private services there
Saturday morning.
Mr.. Sherman will be buried in For
est Hill cemetery, where many mem
bers of his family have found final
resting place. He selected his pail
bearers before his death. They con
sist of prominent citizens and inti-
mate friends.
Utica, with the nation, today
mourns the death of Vice President
James S. Sherman.
Mr.. Sherman's death occurred at
9.42 o'cock last night, at the family
residence, of Bright's disease, compli-
Gated with a malady of iae heart and
hardening of the arteries, following a
period of more than twenty-four
hours of almost total unconscious.
ness.
Exalted public funct;onary though
he was, he was known to the people
of Utica as Jim" Sherman. Indeed
in most cases the surname was drop
ped, and a common exchange of sal
utation among the older residents to-
day was Poor Jim is gone!"
All city flags were lowered to half
mast at the beginning of the day and
by every other possible way the vice
presidents home city indicated it's
grief over his demise.
Mr.. Sherman was a prominent fac
tor il many business enterprises in
the city and the Offices of all such
colt erns were c,osed.
Arrangements ale being made for
the funeral, which, it is anticipated,
viii be simple, rather than preten-
t.Ous
Nor1 with tLtir manly hours Of
watching, the men hers of the family
were slow in taking up the details
If tie obsequies, but so far as there
was expression, it was favorable to
the quietest possible proceedings
commensurate with the vice presi-
dents official position. The expec-
tation here is that President Taft
and many members of the cabinet
and both houses of congress will de-
sire to attend, but it is not probable
that the presence of even the ma
tons greatest dignitaries will shake
the determination of the family to
devoid all ostentation.
Mr.. Sherman was a member of the
DutCu IeSIOi ulcu ChulCA, anu INC uiA
derstanding early in the day was that
the obsequies would be conducted in
accordance with the forms of the de-
nomination.
Many messages of confidence were
received here during the night and
they continue to pour in today from
all quarters of the country. They in
clude kilograms from President Taft,
Colonel Roosevelt, Champ Clark, Sen
ator Bacon, and most of the men in
public life. These messages of SYM
pathy began to arrive even before Mr..
Sherman had actually passed away,
but all of such were for the time
withheld from the family