Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1894 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

An Indian named John Barney died on the Siuslaw Agency in Ore • gm, recently, at the reputed age ot 110 years. Postmaster-General Bissell has shown himself to be strictly temper> ate in discontinuing the office at Gin, W. Va. David K. Peck, age seventy-four, died in Bridgeport, Conn., recently, in the same house in which he was born and lived all his life. John Allen, of Flemington, W. Va., fought with Wellington at Waterloo, and went through our civil war. He is 104 years old and draws a pension. The composer Auber was so greatly afraid of death that in his last years visitors to his house were cautioned not to use the word, so that he might not be reminded of his approaching end. Last year to stimulate student tendencies toward journalism as a profession James Gordon Bennett instituted a special fund at half a dozen of our leading colleges. The subject for the Bennett prize essay at Yale is “The Expediency of the Income Tax.” Jesse Pomeroy, once known as the boy fiend, who was sent to the Massachusetts State prison for life for his atrocities, is now a man of forty. He is not allowed to §ee any one but his keeper; the front of his cell is blocked by a granite wall cutting off all view. He has read and re-read tha prison library, and with the aid of grammars has acquired three languages and has a comprel en ive knowledge of law. He has wuat is known as a wall-eye and looks the monster that he is.