Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1901 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

John G. A. Leishuiun, United States minister to Turkey, who collected th« long-outstanding debt of the Sublime

Porte to the American government, was recently transferred from his post of minister to Switzerland to the mission at Constantinople. He is a native of Pennsylvania and a resident of Pittsburg. His wealth, which is very great, was accumulated in the iron and steel industry, from which

he retired a few years ago. This successful diplomat was reared in un orphan asylum at Allegheny. He began his business career as an office boy with the Shoenberger Steel Company, in twelve years he was cashier of the company and later formed a connection with the Carnegie company and remained with that concern until 1897. “Elijah'' I)o\vie and the healing hosts of Zion hnve a formidable rival in “Bishop” Eastman and the “Holy Holl-

ers,’’ who are now causing great excitement in central New York. The “Holy Rollers” are so called from their practice of rolling upon the ground in spusins of -religions' ecstasy. Often the "saints'’ of the church. after so rolling, become apparently lifeless

and lie for hours in a cataleptic state. “Bishop” Eastman, the head of the “Holy Rollers,” was a country teacher when, ten years ago, lie became a religious devotee and organized the strange church which now has several thousandmembers, Their services are usually held out of doors, and preferably on a hill top, and are marked by much shouting, leaping, and kissing among the men. They practice “divine healing,” and claim tohave made most remark a hie cures. Alfred B. Kittrodge, a promim nt attorney of Sioux Falls and ex-national committeeman for South Dakota, has-

bee n appointed to fill the anexpired term of the lute United States Senator Kyle. He is a native of Cheshire County, New Hampshire, and was born March 28, 18(11. In 1880 he located in Sioux Falls and engaged in the practice of law. He was eleet-

ed State Senator from Minnehaha County in 1880, and in 1891 was re-elected. At the Republican national conventions of 18!*2 and 189 d he was elected as South Dakota member of the Republican national committee, lie is the local attorney of the Groat frerthern and Chicugo, Milwaukee and St. I’aul railroad companies. Myron T. Herrick, who has been selected for the post of ambassador to Italy in succession to George V. L. Meyer of

Massachusetts, is best known for his connection with the Society for Savings, of which he has been president since 1894. and which has deposits aggregating upward of $35,000,000. The prospective ambassador was educated at Oberlin and Delaware colleges. Iu

1875 he located in Cleveland with the Intention of reading law, and three years thereafter he was admitted to the bar. One of the most remarkable of thi» year’s crop of college graduates ia W. Duff Piercey, the valedictorian of the

elass of 1901 at McKendree College at Ijehiuion, 111. Mr. I’iercey graduated! from the classical department after five years’ study, during which time lie has earned enough money to pay not only his own expenses hut those of hia wife us well. M rs. Piercey

will.graduate in the class of 1902. Mr. Piereey has made his money as a newspaper correspondent and us a school teacher. Mr. Alexander Anderiek. 78, of Sandoval, 111., has u wonderful church-going record. He located at Saudoval in 1838,

at the age of 5, with his parents. His curly playmate's were' Indian children. Nearly seventy years ago he took his first Bible lessons iu the little' Baptist Church, and has bee-n a member of the same e on greg.it ion ever since. For fiftytwo years he served as

treasurer of the Centraliu Baptist Asso •lotion, retired from that otflre, and was •lected honorary treasurer for life. Australian papers state ihut the experiment of the West Australian government in turning domestic cats loose in the southeastern districts of the colony, o check the invasion of rabbits from .4outh Australia hits he, u a pronoun ed IUCO-SS. Dope Leo will investigate the acandalxia charges of immoral eonduct against Mexican uriesia. James K. Yeatman. 84, philanthropist, and founder of the Krcediuau’s bureau, lied in Bt. Louis.

J. G. A. LEISHMAN

“BISHOP" EASTMAN.

A. E. KITTREDGE.

MYRON T. HERRICK

W. DUFF PIERCEY.

ALEX. ANDERICK