Weekly Telegram (Newspaper) - October 29, 1903, Eau Claire, Wisconsin John Alexander Dowie Tells New Yorkers he is Not Son of J M Powie DENOUNCES THE IOWA MAN His Father lie Says Was a British Officer Who was Killed in the Crimean War Array Stirring WAS MONEY FOR OFFICIAL RUN ON BANK WAS SERIOUS New York Oct a broken voice with tears streaming down his face and his body shaking with emo tion John Alexander Dowie stood on the platform in Madison Square Gar den last night before an audience of 10000 persons and announced that in truth he was not the son of John Mur ray Dowie of Essex la from whom Drawn Out In One Day at La Crosse Institution La Crosse Wis Oct ru mors that the officers of the German he takes his patronymic but of a British army officer of high family by a Scotch marriage He heaped and denuncia tion upon John Murray Dowie whom he declared had made his mother be lieve her marriage to Dowies father was shameful and the army officer been taken away by his rela tives his mother in the first flush of her shame had sought to give her son a name by marrying John Murray Dowie The revelation was made at the end f an hours tirade against the press of this city its treatment of his work and himself being styled a con of falsehood the reporters denounced as yellow dogs and poisonous reptiles who have wreck ed thousands of homes and broken thousands of hearts He led up to the publication Mon day morning of extracts from letters passing between himself and John Murray Dowie Indicating Dowies re nunciation of the latter as a parent and which were responsible for the general overseers partial exposition of the great secret of his life Shouting at one moment in a fit of violent rage at the newspapers Mr Dowie would the next moment speak in the most gentle voice of his mother and wife The great audience was moved by his evident emotion Wo men wept and at times bursts of ap plause greeted his declarations Tells of Attempted Blackmail Dowie announced that just one year ago he had addressed a meeting in Chicago at which he had told of an attempt to blackmail by a man writ ing from Boston who claimed to have certain letters which had tween himself and John Mu Dowie That man wrote me said Mr Dowie that the letters if might cause me annoyance and in the generosity of his heart said that for he would turn them over to me Instead to a Chicago newspaper Garbled extracts from these letters were published in a paper in this city this morning I that pa per to produce the original letters what was printed being only mis extracts distorted quo tations and largely pure concoction obtained either man who tried to blackmail me a year ago got ten from John Murray Dowie by him at Essex la or else John Murray Dowie poor wicked man was so far lost to means to sell the letters of him whom he falsely said was his son These letters have come either by rob bery or a sin much deeper and more wicked the basest of all sin Dr Dowie said that he would not care for the injury the elder Dowie had done him but he did care for the sake of the dearest sweetest purest woman that ever mother He said his mother was a man and his father a man of high standing who led one of the great charges of the Crimean war and died at the head of his troops After relating his story Dowie burst into of thp bitterest type against tho press for publishing tho He like a man crazed by thf enormity of injury done him and then as ff spent by thf exertion of his tirade broke down and wept HP was glad his and son were away so that he could the humiliation alone Cheese House Closed La Crosse Wis Oct to an atU nipt to corner the mar ket of the northwest anil inability to borrow money on warehouse receipts on account of in the money market the La Cheese and Butter company is in financial ties the settlement of which depends almost wholly upon its ability to dis pose of cheese stored in warehouse in Chicago Milwaukee St Louis Min neapolis St Paul and otrer cities plant closed yesterday The officers are out of thp city and TO authoritative statement can be obtained American bank of this city were pro a railroad caused a run on that bank yesterday being drawn out Long before the bank opened yes morning crowds Hocked around the door and but for policemen and de many would have been tramp led to death Tellers have been paying out money all day The bank has plenty of money on hand to meet all obligations Mrs Hopkins Body Found Minneapolis Oct body of Mrs Frederick Hopkins was found by Thats tM Rs Alleged Frauds In Intry of Public Lands to Mart Than a in Oregon and Portland Ore Oct Tat United grand jury Monday an indictment against Asa B receiver of the land at La Grande Ore The indictment charges Thompson with soliciting to in fluence his official decision fur ap proval for homestead applications which had been held up for cy of proof J There are three counts In the In and among the witnesses against Thompson is Charles ham a well known stockman of East ern It is alleged that Thomp son approached Cunningham and of to have ten homestead applica tions approved In consideration of The counts concern the alleged dealing with Asa Robinson to whom he Is alleged have offered his services for In the case of each application Tho Interior department has had agents In this state for many months past investigating alleged frauds in the entry of public lands and the in of Thompson is the first re sult of the Investigation Rumors of government frauds against the public lands have been in circulation for the past year and it has been said that fraudulent entries in the states of Cali fornia Oregon Idaho and Washington within the past three years will ex ceed 1000000 acres Much of the land has valuable tim ber on it though large tracts of pas ture lands in the eastern parts of Ore gon and Washington are said to be included in the fraudulent entries It Is understood that other indictments will follow W L ELKINS IS NEAR DEATH POU v POLONY a searching party yesterday morning in the waters of Lake Minnetonka Mrs Hopkins left her husband early Saturday morning at and started in a gasoline for Feets dock Nothing more was heard of her until the launch was found late in the afternoon bumping along the shore The body was found near Feets dock which was Mrs Hopkins intended destination when she left her husband Saturday morning Coroner Williams made a detailed examination of the body and the indications were she had fallen into the icy water and been seized with cramps MR ESCH IS PLEASED Congressman Will Do All Possible For River La Crosse Oct J J Esch and other delegates to the Mis River Improvement Associa tion convention just closed at Daven port have returned to this city Mr Esch is much pleased with the work accomplished and declares that he will use his utmost influence toward carry ing out the plans of the association in congress One of His Legs Amputated to Check the Spread of Gangrene Philadelphia Oct to telegraphic advices received from Ash bourne the country home of William L Elkins Drs White and Keen have amputated one of his logs at the knee in order to check gangrene resulting from blood poisoning Mr Elkins is said to have failed to recover con since the operation and is very low Winnipeg Man Oct Ward wu received Monday of a terri ble riot which took place fn hobor colony to the north of Lake in which three of people were Wiled and another so severely injured that be in not expected to live Peter Veregin antiChrist of these people went on a Tiait to the Yorkton colony last Friday and before he went called his followers before him and while they lay prostrate he told them to follow his doctrine dur ing his absence and to pay no heed to any socalled missionaries who might visit them during hia absence For a day all went well until a Methodist minister named Perkins arrived at the settlement on Saturday and tried to preach the word of God to them The community divided itself and one faction of the women stripped to the akin as they had done on several previous occasions and started to look for Peter Veregin their leader and Christ The other faction tried to prevent them and the men interfered and a pitched battle en sued in which the contestants used the first tools which came in their haLda Wasyl Kyryk was almost cut to pieces with a reap hook in the hands of One of his fellows and died on the spot Paul Selenko had hia split in two pieces with an ax in the hands of one of the opposing fac tion A hay fork was run through the body of Jean and he died in an hour or so and Andrew Bey was so severely injured about the head and body that he was not ex to live for many hours Several of the peo ple in the neighborhood who saw the affray from a distance telegraphed for the Northwest mounted police and it has since been learned that a num ber of them will arrive there soon RACE PROBLEM AS AN ISSUE Batty Electric faa daylight twilight all kinds of everything from starlight to I of foe robbers ie now aty the talk la municipal mpn cles light is pushing A meeting of the electric light com of the city council Aids Oster man and Mclnnis two out of the three present was held at the city building last night with a view to pre paration of a new call for with having killed two men In his FESTAL BOARD WILL BE AT PRESBYTERIAN PARLORS Blair at Point of Death St Louis Mo Oct L Blair former counsel general of the Worlds Fair by Attorney James T Roberts of embezzlement forgeries and defalcations aggregating almost half a million dollars lies at the point of death as the result of an overdose of morphine but whether taken with suicidal intent or by error the physician in attendance refuses to say Dies of His Wound Florence AVis Oct re mains of James Corhett of Mansfield Mich who died as the result of a bv the accidental dis Committees For the Occasion Have Been Toasts and Reminiscences of the Olden Times From Mondays Daily The committees for the Eau Claire County Old Settlers banquet takes place the evening of Oct 29 at the Presbyterian church parlors are Meggett chairman B J Churchill A R Blake B A Buffington C A Bui lers Mesdames F R Skinner A W Munger Jenny Kneeland Emmet Horan Printing and and secretary W Allen chairman C L Allen E H Playter Nellie Palmer Mary Murray R Farr chairman C W Geo C Teall F W Wood ward Mesdames W K Galloway Jen nie Kneeland Nellie Palmer C Barland chair man H C Putnam Milo B Wyman H C VanHovenberg Mesdames Leti tia Withers Mary C Jackson C W Lockwood Reception J T Tinker chairman W P Bartlett J C Neher A J Suther land Chas R Gleason Ira TV Bradford A D Chappell Mesdames Chas New ell Sarah Moon Frank Annie Swift Senator Gorman Believed to Have Out lined Plans of Democrats Washington Oct Gor mans speech in Maryland recently in which he so severely attacked Presi dent Roosevelt on the negro question is regarded by the leaders of both parties in Washington at a pacemaker for the Democratic national campaign next year President clos est personal and political friends re gard it as the beginning of the execu tion of a plan to make the race prob lem a great issue against the Republi cans in the presidential election Incidentally the speech is regarded here as placing Mr Gorman squarely in the race for the Democratic nomin ation and bidding in the most promin ent manner for the support of dele gates from the south It has developed that it is a well determined plan on the part of the national Democrats to force the race issue to the front not alone in the south and the close states of Mary land Delaware New Jersey and West lighting in accordance with action of the council at its last meeting It appeared that the committee was dis posed to make specifications quite dif from the previous call for bids and would call for bids not only on allnight 2000candte area but allnight 1100candle ares and a moonlight schedule and an allnight schedule for both also the committee would calk for bids on furnishing street gas lamps The Eau Claire Gaslight Co has had six street lamps shipped in for the demonstration authorised by the coun cil These lamps will be put up when the committee on Drum mand Lang Schmidt Mclnnis Evans Lange Joyce Kosmo Dickson and the location This committee will probably meet tomor row at the city building and decide this matter It is said an East Side street will probably be chosen and that It may be Farwell St President Douglas cf the Gaslight company has been in Chicago sev eral days and returns tomorrow It is claimed in some quarters that the committee has no authority to ask for bids on gas lamps The tions in the first place related to elec tric lighting only and have not since been modified long time oppor presented for the public to see prisoners hundreds and thousands of people are on hand The younger man has been identifi ed as Fat Flaherty and is charged time He is the main that opened the firing on at as soon as the officers appeared inside the door The man giving his name as Olson has been identified as Charles Den nis With Flaherty he has been arrest ed twice before and the records show that they are old time safe blowers and They were arrested In Illinois on of robbing a bank in that state Dennis has in Jail at on the charge of horse stealing and there he broke Jail and has been wanted since Inspector Fraser of Hie de and the local officials are weaving a chain of evidence around the men who are the biggest In the criminal line that the local police or sheriffs force has ever handled They are sure that they will be abte vict them SEEKS DEATH ON GIRLS GRAVE but also in th of Ohio Indiana Illinois and Iowa where they think it possible to stir up the foreign born voters on the ne gro question Indiana Man Wishing to Follow Dead Love Swallows Poison Brazil Ind Oct R Moore was found poisoned aad unconscious lying across the gravo of his sweet heart Lizzie Lehr at Cottage Hill cem etery Sunday evening No hope of his recovery is entertained The girl died eight months ago since when Moore has worried himself into partial insan ity WANTS DIVORCE AND Lottie Klein a Bride of Four Months Accuses Husband and His Father Beloit WiB Oct Lottie Baldwin Klein of Louisville Ky a bride of four months and formerly of this city whose father Almon Bald ALICE ROOSEVELT IS IN Presidents Daughter is the Guest of Mrs Preston Gibson Chicago Oct this is Chi cago With this exclamation and a little ripple of laughter Miss Alice Roosevelt made her initial bow to Chi cago where she will visit Mrs Preston Gibson for several days No commit tee awaited her A colored porter cap in hand the conductor of her car and two or three loungers stared openeyed Before her presence was known Pres ton Gibson had whisked her away IB his carriage and they were being driv en rapidly to his home Misa Roose velt was the picture ot health She robed in black from the tip of the nodding plumes on her Gainsborough hat to the points of her boots Evi dently the daughter of the president of the United States is looking for ward to a jolly visit for her laughter was infectious and her manner eager It is understood among Mrs Gibsons acquaintances that a first night at the horse show was one of the allurements offered to the presidents daughter by Mrs Gibson EATS SILVER POLISH Girl Kills Herself Because Not Permitted to Attend a Dance Wis Oct week ago Miss Pearl aged 15 years asked permission from her parents to attend a dance The request was re fused and today the girl is dead the result of having taken an ounce of silver polish with intent to commit suicide because of her disappointment husband Garrett Klein from her She has also charge of were 1urU his s here while hunting Stanley House Caught Fire Chippewa Falls Oct 2fiThe Stan ley House caught fire in tho roof last night The blaze was put before it could do much damage CAKE IS EATEN AFTER YEARS Venison Is Confiscated Wis Oct 27Kour trunks with venison wore con at tho depot by Deputy Game Warden Walt They were consigned cake wedd by a ajo Was Baked by Mother When She Was Seriously III Oct 2S wedding years old containing a rtr ritu and a message written several months a feature of the wedding given by Mr and Mrs r Colo in the Town of Pleasant Prairie last night Fifteen years aLn Mr Colo was seriously ill and sle linked a rake and put it away for use at the wedding dinner Two IKO Mr Cole was married to Miss Laura Clark of Pleasant Prairie but tho wedding was not made public until Tuesday The father of Mr Cole at once summoned the friends of the family to the house and tho which had lain In tho attic for so many years was brought out and cut by Rev Mr of tr Methodist church Teachers at Sheboygan Sheboygan Wis an convention of tho Wisconsin Teachers Association is In session in this city who will speak are R C Hushes j resident of Ripon college C E director of the training department of the Mil waukee Normal School Prof S H Clark of the University of Chicago Miss Ellen C Sabin of M Downer college and Prof L D Har vey The main subjects to be considered English and natural MARSHFIELD HUNTER KILLED John Lofty Accidentally Shoots Him self Through the Abdomen Wis Oct farmer living near this city named John Lofy aged 22 single accidentally shot him self through the abdomen while hunt ing Sunday Death resulted in a few hours begun a suit against her husbands father for for alienating the affections of her husband During in Beloit Mrs Klein was a stenographer in one of the large factories She is pretty at tractive and popular Her husband worked in this city for a short time Mrs Klein alleges that her hus bands parents took a dislike to her and prejudiced him against her until PUBLIC BUILDINGS W WISCONSIN Status of Undertakings Provided For by Congressional Appropriations Milwaukee Sentinel 6th Washington Oct are relative to the status of plans for the public buildings provided for Wiscon sin cities at the last session of con gress Supervising Architect Taylor said today that the work of construc tion would begin at Fond du Lac next spring Operations at Superior depend entirely upon the progress made by the j her life became intolerable her fim Q Foul Play Suspected Wls Oct coron ers jury was unable upon a verdict at death of John whoso body was found In woods near It is claimed by some that there are Indications of play Mrs Palmer Doing Well Chicago Oct at the bedside of Mrs Potter Palmer in Paris cabled her relatives in Chicago further favorable tidings as to the progress of her illness The patients temperature according to the cablegrams w is stead ily decreasing all other conditions be ing all that could be desired Sault Ste Marie Cut Off Detroit Mich Oct gale at the rate of fifty miles per hour has disabled all telegraph and telephone wires leading out of Sault Ste Marie and that city la temporarily cut off from communication Vessels are keeping harbor and danger is fear ed to those out on the lake band becoming cruel and depriving her i of money and comforts It is said that at the wedding in this city on June 25 the mother of young Klein who came from Kentucky to at tend the ceremony was so opposed to the match that she all but made a sensation at the church Ensnared by a Widow Chicago Oct Kiolbassa 65 the politician has announced his matrimonial intentions When asked who the young woman is Tie said with a trace of resentment Shes not young shes 45 years old But her name he would not divulge saying Its not settled yet Shes thinking it over for Its a serious business marry ing an old man like me she lives in Lemont 111 Miller Loses Pay Washington Oct of the Treasurer Tracewell has decid ed that W A Miller assistant foreman of the bindery of the government print ing office is not entitled to compensa tion for the days of his sus pension and dismissal from his posi tion Miller took an appeal from the action of the auditor for the state and recently accepted Every effort wilt be made by the supervising architect to start building at Superior next spring In the case of the buildings at Wausau and Green Bay sites have not yet been secured tho papers now being in the hands of the attorney gen eral Nothing can be done in the di rection of preparing plans for the Eatt Claire building until a decision has been secured in the appeal taken to the supreme court by the owner of the property the site at Eau Claire having been the subject of litigation for sev eral months All the details incident to securing title to the property se at Baraboo have not been com As soon as the attorney gen eral makes a favorable report to the supervising architect plans for this building will be prepared Horse Thief Caught Waukesha Wis Oct Den nis alias James Packard who escaped from the county Jail here several months ago was arrested near ing Mich Friday on a charge of hav ing been implicated in the recent post robbery at West Superior A man supposed to have been Packard departments disallows his escaped Davidson may be returned I claim here
