Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1910 — Miss Cordelia Monnett Now in A Critical Condition in Chicago. [ARTICLE]

Miss Cordelia Monnett Now in A Critical Condition in Chicago.

Miss Cordelia Monnett is now reported to. be in a very critical condition in the Chicago Training School for City, Home and Foreign Missions. Following her first stroke of paralysis some weeks ago she suffered a second and more severe stroke but hope for her recovery was held until last night when the physician in charge stated that her condition was very serious. She is-past 70 years of age.

John Ginrich, one of the sub-con-tractors on St. Joseph’s college chapel, stated to the Republican representative that he had been an intimate acquaintance for years of John F. Johnson, the Logansport ex-banker who was found dead last Saturday morning in the WabaSh river. He said that Johnson wrecked the bank by speculating on the board of trade and that after he was convicted and had served in the penitentiary he again began his board of trade speculations and followed them until he was completely ruined. Mr. Ginrich says he was a good man aside from his passion .for gambling and that he never Intentionally wronged a fellowman, but he could not break away from the habit formed soon after the death of his father, who had left a large estate heavily encumbered and which Johnson sought to clear up by board of trade dealings. He failed and became further involved and his ruin and suicide after many years of disappointment followed. -* —