Show JOHN HEAD DEAD W his public career exten led over a period of forty years tw tvs ce in CA li it et john bl erman ermall former re presenta ave t ve in the house for a it iong term a snatos foi fol years and twice A member of tt it e cabinet d ed at it s res dence in 11 washington ash ington at 6 45 0 clock A anday morning aged 8 11 a death had bad been expected foi some days and loving friends fi lends give it hm in their unremitting care and attention to the end the dimmed ate c cause lure of death wag was besci descried it ed as brain bibat exhalation stion ion incident tit to extreme weakness due to old age an I 1 to several se cral attach s of si sickness ckner from in i v 1 I 1 cli lit he itt I 1 ad suffered fort for I 1 e past year an I 1 a half bince saturday batur day afternoon mr st ei einnan man had b bien ell most of the time ancon sc ous tally ng p at intervals wien sl bt nourishment was given I 1 im lm tl TI e news of mr nir i sherman s death was communicated to tl e state depart men anent t by E J for many 5 ears pr vate secret cuy and clerk to M mt ba b erman in his var 0 9 s cap capic te ties as un ted states benator senator and secie of state and pi besent private secretary secie cie tary to mr bay ahe I 1 he pi aiesi esi lent WAS at once in informed formed by the depart nenad tl e flags flagmon on public build in W ts binton were nere toweled to I 1 alf in st 10 0 o to I 1 n lnla iua n until after tl e funeral lie I 1 I 1 e president as a marl of si ecial I 1 enoi to the df deceased ceased who was not at the time of I 1 death s con bectel in any off c al capacity with the government of ta tie e united states stater I 1 ie e aborted to the unusual uni sual couise chui coui se of pet son ally ng an express on of tl e nation s grief in tl e shape of a procia nation deser etive of tl ti e personal ners onal es and c vie vic abill abilities ties of the de ceased statesman at tl e st te department also a mea mes saga was framed to be transmitted in malt mutt pie to tl e unitta states arn bassa dois in aisters and chaides offic ally notify n ng them of the dem se of ex be cretai y sia et einnan man john bi er nan was as born at lancas ter 0 may 00 0 1 18 3 he studied la lav v and entered polities politics as a IN I 1 g in 1848 he lie vas n ade secie tary of the NN I 1 ig national convention pai pat f lally 11 as a jol e as us a young man who ho lived in a i district so strongly democratic that he could never hope for an offee off unless the convent on gave him one lie ile was no n and elected to congress in IS 18 4 on the anti he ne braska t ceet was president of the 1 first ohio state republican convention in and helped to organize the national republican party in 1856 a congressional committee was appointed to investigate tl e con editions in h kansas hansas ansas as regarded regard td the ex tens on of slavery bherman sherman prepared a leport u so clear and logical that it bi brought ought him into great prom nence and was tl e tinning point in his ical career 1 e firt fira move in con gress for a pacific ra broad was made I 1 y hl erman and in 1860 he be became the father of the united states treasury notes after L neola a inauguration sher her man became his close friend when salmon P chase resigned from tl ti e senate to take a place in lincoln a cab met inet bherman sherman was elected to the va cancy caney in the senate in 1861 he be served for sovet several at months as governor patter son a a de de do camp resuming his seat in the senate at the request of lincoln he raised and equipped at his own ex pense two regiments of infantry a squadron of cavalry and a battery of artillery artil lerv sherman was prominent in the elnan cial leg station at the time of the wai will he ile initiated the movement for the re BU an aliption of specie payments and in 1877 was appo anted secretary of tt tl e treasury by president hayes in wh wit ch capacity he lie carried out the ie in 1880 shot man was a candidate for president be ng rig nominated in the re can convention b by Y james A gar field who himself was wag given the honor lie ile w m as a candidate at e con mentions vent ions but died disappointed in that ambition he lie retained his seat in the united states senate and was the parent of the sherman silver ing act he vias appointed secie tary of state by president mckinley but resigned in 1898 owing to feeble health |