Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1901 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Henry Clay Evans, who, it is said, is slated for appointment as Comptroller of the Currency in place of Mr. Dawes,

went 1 to the South from Pennsylvania several years ago, and grew quite popular in Tennessee, the State of his adoption. He has a strong political following and his friends have always claimed that he was elected when he ran for Governor, but was counted out. , Mr. Evans has a good war rec-

ord. He is about 57 years old and one of the live, pushing men of Dixie. So well was lie thought of by all classes of persons in Chattanooga that he was twite elected Mayor of that town. In 1890, when he ran for. Congress, he had a strong Democrat for an opponent, but althoiigh-.it was a close race Mr. Evans was elected by 18,(541 votes to his opponent's 18,353. His administration of the pension oilice has brought sharp criticism from people favoring a more liberal policy.

Theodore J. Shaffer, tlie directing head of the mill men in the great steel strike, was formerly a Methodist minister. In

his early years he was employed in the Pennsylvania rolling mills. While thus employed he studied privately and took up alone the study of Latin. Greek, Sanscrit and the modern languages. He worked his way through the Western University of I’ennsyl-

vania and in time entered the Wesleyan Theological Seminary. He became a Methodist minister at Connellsville, Pa., and later at Brownsville, the birthplate of James G. Blaine. Unfortunately he was one of those brilliant men whose physical resources were unable to maintain the drafts made upon them by his versatile mentality, and physician after physician asserted that unless he gave up mental work he would die. Reluctantly he abandoned the ministry at Monongahela City, in 1889, returning to the sheet mills. In 1896 he became president of the Amalgamated Association.

Ogden 11. Fethers, Supreme Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias.

who has been at the head of the investigation of the Endowment Rank of the order, has been conspicuous in Pythian affairs for several years. He is also a prominent citizen of Wisconsin. whi 11 has been his home ever since he settled in Janesville in 1877. Before he came West he was a practicing lawyer in New York. He is an ardent- Pythian, and

for more than twenty-one years has been a member of Oriental Lodge. No. 22, of Milwaukee. He was made Supreme Chancellor last year. Princess Hatzfeldt is the adopted daughter of the late Collis P. Huntington. She was married to Prince Francis

Von Hatzfeldt in London. Oct. 28, 1889. The marriage aroused intense interest in the United States. The prince, though tlie bluest of German blood flow e d through his veins, w a s pra-ti aliy without fortune. Upon the death of tlie railroad magnate it was found that he had bequeathed to Princess Hatzfeldt sl,(K)0,000. The lintz-

feldts are now in frinckss H4Tzfsi.dt. San Francisco, and, it is alleged, will ask for a larger share of the Huntington money.

At Brattleboro, Vt„ Morton Starr Cress.v, n Harvard law student, awakened at 3 n. in. to find himself in the grasp

of a num. He struggled until free, and, snatching a revolver from the bureau, he tired four shots nt his assailant. On lighting his lamp lie was horrified to find that he hnd shot his friend and classmate, Sidney Bristol of Battle Creek, Mich., who had been invited by Cressy to stay over night at the home of Mrs. P. Starr, Creasy's grand-

uourox ». c-K«-Y. mother. Bristol was killed almost instantly. lie lived only long enough to gasp: “You have shot your friend.”

H. CLAY EVANS.

PRESIDENT SHAFFER.

O. H. FETHERS.