Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1898 — JOHN SHERMAN RESIGNS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOHN SHERMAN RESIGNS.

Venerable Secretary of State Steps Oat of Cabinet After Long Public Service. Washington, April 26. —Another resignation from the cabinet occurred Monday, when the venerable secretary of state, Mr. John Sherman, handed his resignation to the president. The resignation is to take effect at as early a day as may be convenient to the president, and with it Mr. Sherman retires from public life after a service of over 40 years, embracing the house of representatives, the United States senate, the secretaryship of the treasury and the secretaryship of state. The reason for the resignation is the condition of the secretary’s health, which is now impaired as the result of j’ears of devotion to the pub* lie service and the arduous labors of a* lifetime, added to age, the venerable secretary now being within a few days of 75 years of age. W T hile no definite announcement can be made at this time as to who will succeed Mr. Sherman, It is altogether probable that the next secretary of

state will be Mr. William R. Day, at present first assistant secretary of state. John B. Moore, processor of international law of Columbia university, New York, and formerly second assistant secretary of state, has been choseD to