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Show Vice-Pres. Sherman Succumbs Suc-cumbs to Blight's Disease . After a long illness, Vice-President James Schoolcraft Sherman, died at his home in Utica, N. Y., at 9:42 o'clock o'-clock Wednesday night of uraemic poison caused by hright's disease. He had been sinking since early morning and it was realized that de th was only a question of a few hours. At 9 o'clock the patient's temperature rose to 106. From that time his condition rapidly passed from bad to worse until the end. All the members of the immediate family were witnesses to the final scene. Dr. Peck said the vice-president apparently had not worried over the outcome of the campaign. |