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Show JOHN aiturtMAN HEAD. Ill I at lie Uarrrr I lu.l.l liter rrlo.1 r lirlr tmra-lxlreln V'Mntt John Sherman, former repreeenta tire In the houtc for a long term a aenator for year and twice a member of Ihe cabinet, died at bit realdenee In Unihlngton at 0 13 oilnek Monday morning, aged 79 III death bad tn-cu canceled for tome day and loving frlenda gave him llitlr unremitting care and attention to tha end. Hie Immediate caute of death wa detcrlbed a brain cxhaualtou Incident toexlreuie weaknett, due to old age and (o tevernl attacka utalckne from which he bad aulTered for the patt year and a half Since Saturday afternoon .Mr Sherman had been raott of the time uneontelout, rallying partlall at Interval when alight nourlthmrut waa given him The newt of Mr Hherman'a death wa communicated In the atate department depart-ment by Ii. J llabcock, for many year private tecretary and clerk to Mr Sherman In hi varlnu ca acltle ua aecretaryof tho treatury. United Stale tcnalnr and aecralary of atate and pretent private accretary to Mr Ha Ihe prctldrtit waa at once Informed by the department aud the Hag on public bulldlnga In Uathlngtnn were loitered to half matt, to lu remain until after tha funeral Ihe president, aa a mark of ipeclal honor to thedeccated who wa not at the lime of lilt death con neclcd In any iidlcUl captclty with I lie government of the United State, re tortcd to lliu unutual couraeof nrkou ally preparing an exprrailou of tho nation a grief hi the ahnpe of u procla matlon dewrlptlvo of the prrtonal quallttr aud clvlo abllltlce of tho de ciatul italMiiian At the tin to department alto a met-tage met-tage wat framed to xt trnnmltteil In multiple lo the United Statca ambatta-dura, ambatta-dura, mlnltlrra and charge Abroad ofllelally notifying Ihcinof Ihedcmlto of ex Hrcretarir Sherman Johu Sherman wa born nt Lancaa-ter, Lancaa-ter, 0 . May 30. HI) Ho aludled law and entered politic a it Uhlg In HH lie wa made accretary ot the Whig national convention purllr.ll aa a Jokr, a ' a young man who lived lu it dlttrlct to atrongly Democratic that ho could never bupa for nn olllce unlet the convention gave him one " He waa nominated and elected In congrrt In 1MI on the "anil No brutkn" ticket, wa pretldeut of the Urtl Ohio tlata Itcpubllran coiivrntlnn In 133, and helped to urganlto the national Itcpiibllcaii party. In 1935 a conventional commllteo wat apH)lntcd to Invettlgate Ihe condition con-dition In K'autaa aa rrgardtil the ex trntlon of tlavery Slunnan i repand a report ao clear and loglcJl that it brought Mm Into great prominence, and wa Ihe turning point In hi politic! polit-ic! career Tha Unit movo In con-gn con-gn for a I'aclllo railroad wa made by Shirinan, nnd In IftGOho became tho father of Ihe United titatca treatury unlet After Lincoln' Inauguration hher man became hi clntc frlind When Salmon 1' Clmto retlgncd from Ibo teualo In taka a placo lu Lincoln aeal luet. Sherman wu elected to the vacancy va-cancy In the aenato lu mot huacrvtd for tevernl mouth aa (Inventor Patter-ton Patter-ton a aldc-dt-oamp returning Ida teat lu thetrualeat tho rrfiiirtlof Lincoln lie raited aud equipped at lilt own ex pente two regiment of Infantry, n aiMtadruii of cavalry and a battery of arlllltry Blicrmau wat prominent In the financial finan-cial legislation nt tlio time of tho war lie Initiated the movement for tho re. auiiiplhiu ut tpcclo paymcnla, nnd In 1B77 waa appointed tecretury of thu treatury by I'mldcnt Heyet, In whlit capacity ho carried out the reimupttou lu IKiO Sherman wa n candidate for president, being nominated In the republican re-publican couviutloii L. Jamei A Oar-Held Oar-Held who hlmtelt watglvcu the honor He wa a candidate at tucceatlvo convention, con-vention, but died dltappuliitnl In Hint ambition He retained hi aeat in the United Statca tcnale, and waa the parent of thu Sliirmaii ellver purchasing purchas-ing net Henna nppolutrd tccretnry ol atato by l'retldcnt .McK'Inlcy, but ritlgned In 18US owing to feeble health |