Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1903 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Got. James H. Peabody of Colorado, who Is charged with gross abuse of power in connection with the recent miners’

strike, is a native of Vermont, where he was bom in 1852. He got uis education in the public schools and in a business college, and aa a young man had the record of being the fastest runner in the State. For a time Peabody was clerk in « Boston dry goods home, but went west to Den-

ver, where for a time he acted as a fireman, and then to Canon City, where, favored by fortuae, he became a banker. The Governor always has been active In politics, and is a 33d degree Mason. He is married and has a family. He has won esteem for his high executive abilities. Lorenzo D. Lowell, Jr., State’s Attorney of McHenry County, 111., who devoted a year to the now famous Ellsworth

case and succeeded in bringing the boy murderer to justice, was bom in Crystal Lake, Jan. 1, 1867. He was educated in the town school, from which he was graduated in 1887 and took a three years’ course in Oberlin College. After studying in Judge C. H. Donuelly’s office in

.Woodstock, he was admitted to the bar. In 1890 he was elected prosecuting attorney. Mr, Lowell’s work in connection with the Ellsworth case has caused him to be regarded as a man of exceptional perspicacity and shrewdness.

Sir Michael Henry Herbert, who died in Switzerland recently, had been British ambassador to the United States since

the death of Lord Pauncefote. He had previously represented his governed his government at Washington aa charge d’affaires in 1888-89 and secretary of legation In 1891-93. While at the head of the legation at Washington in 1888 he was married to Mias Leila Wilson, the

daughter of Richard Wilson of New York, and eieter of Mrs. Ogden Goelet and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. Besides a widow, Sir Michael leaves two sons. James Lawrence Blair, the disclosure of whose alleged wrongdoings has astonished the country, has figured in St

Louis as a fearless leader of reform movements.' He was bom in 1854, and is a son of Gen. Frank Blair, who helped to save Missouri to the Union. Mr. Blair was educated at Princeton, and is a lawyer whose practice netted him a large income. His life insurance policies arp

said to amonnt to $1,000,000. Hia private life has been exemplary, and he always has been a leader in movements looking to the advancement of St Lonis and the welfare of its people. F. Augustus Heinze, whose victory in the suits involving the ownership of Montana’s richest copper mines has giv-

en the copper trust a severe blow and caused 20,000 employes to be thrown out of work, went to Montana aa an engineer and promoter twelve yean ago after graduating from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He is 88 years old, and almost since hie entry into Montana haa

been engaged in she fight with the copper kings in which he has gained another victory in court. —>- Mrs. Dwight L. Moody, widow of the famous evangelist died in East Northfield, Mass., not long ago. Emma O.

Moody was bom in England, where she !ias a sister now livng. She married Mr. Moody in 1&4, Laving met him when a helper in his mission Sunday school in Chicago. Her three children are all living—Emma, now Mrs. Felt of Northfield; William R. Moody, a Yale graduate of

1881, now business manager at Mount Harmon, and Paul, who is still a student In college. .■ William Dnemeke, a prominent young stockman, residing six miles west of St. Joseph, Mo., was shot and killed while he wee returning from a duck hunting trip. Jnat how the gun was discharged two companions of Duemeke are unable to say. The entire charge of shot entered his breast above the heart, death resulting in . three minutes. While thawing dynamite at the Silver Star mine in Schaeffer basin, Colo., Jack Evans and John Gord were instantly ed.

GOV. PEABODY.

SIR M. H. HERBERT.

L. D. LOWELL, JR.

JAMES BLAIR.

F. A. HEINZE.

MRS. D. L. MOODY.