Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1890 — People We Read About. [ARTICLE]

People We Read A bout.

Joseph Purcell, the well-known base-ball pitcher of San Francisco, is going to study for the priesthood at Elmira, N. Y. Jerry Simpson, the sockless Kansas Congressman, threatens to go to Washington in the exact suit of clothes inwhich he made his campaign. F. H. Furnessi, who died at Waterloo, N. Y., a few days ago, had two distinctions. He invented the Pullman car and was once a suitor for the hand of Red Jacket’s daughter.