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Show VICE-PRESIDENT J. S. SHERMAN! II PASSES PEACEFDLLY AWAY ! I X 'ill j M Surrounded by His FamilyMrs. Sherman Bore J I Up Bravely Funeral Will be Held Saturday 11 I Afternoon in First FJresbyterian Church at Utica, Ji I N. Y President Taft Will Attend. Jl I Utica, N. Y. Oct. 31. With tho end in vlow of obtaining n larger auditorium, tho first decision to hold tho funeral of Vlco President Sherman Sher-man In tho Reformed Dutch church litis bedn nbamloned and tho First Presbyterian church will bo used for that purpose. Tho services will bo-gin bo-gin at 2 o'clock Saturday and will bo conducted Jointly by Dr. Holden, pastor of tho Dutch church, and Dr. M. W. Strykcr, president of Hnmll-ton Hnmll-ton College, of which collego Mr. Sherman was an alumnus. Tho body of tho vlco president will He in Btnto at tho Onolda county court house Friday from 3 to 9 p. m., and It Is expected that It will be returned to tho Sherman rest-denco rest-denco for prlvnto services there Saturday Sat-urday morning. Mr. Shermnn will bo burled In Forest For-est Hill cemetery, whero many members mem-bers of his family havo found n final resting place. Ho selected his pallbearers pall-bearers before his death. They con-omlnent con-omlnent citizens and Intimate Inti-mate friends. Mr. Sherman was treasurer of tho Reformed Dutch church. Sergcant-at-Arms, D. M. Ransdell telegraphed that DO mcmtiors of the senate will attend. The president's cabinet and many members ot tho houso also aro expected. Telegrams of condolence wero received re-ceived by Mrs. Sherman from Senators Sen-ators Galllnger ot New Hampshire and Bacon of Georgia, who havo acted act-ed alternately bb president pro tem in tho senato In Mr. Sherman's absence.. ab-sence.. , Utica is iriournlng today tho death of Vlco President James Schoolcraft Sherman. Mr. Shorman's death occurred last night nt 9: -12 nt tho family rcsldenco of Brlght's disease, complicated with disease of tho heart and hardening of tho arteries, following n period of V MM moro than 2 1 hours of almost total In I unconsciousness. Si I At 9 o'clock tho patient's tempera- 1 n ' I turo roso to IOC. From that tlmo his rn l condition rapidly passed from bad ill to worso until tho end. Mr. Slier- ' 1 I man wus unconscious when tho end jf I came, and had been In that condition Ij for several hours. B I All the members ot tho immediate jA I family wero witnesses to tho final t I scene. In addition to Mrs. Sherman 8 I there wero In tho death chamber Si I their three sons, Shorlll, Richard U. ( I and Thomas M . Shermnn nnd tholr m I respective wives; R. M. nnd Sanford ! 8 I Sherman, brothers of Mr. Shorman, 1 nnd Mrs L B. Mooro, and Mrs. II. 1JJ I J. Cookinhnm, sisters ot Mr. Slier- II mani II |