Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1899 — DOWIE SEEKS REVENGE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DOWIE SEEKS REVENGE.

Head of Sion Fcoreo Chicago News* papers and Doctors. John Alexander Tlowle vented his wrath against the doctors and the newspapers jpf Chicago Sunday in an address before a large meeting at Zion Tabernacle. The fierce abuse, in language most foul, had for its purpose revenge against the doctors because they caused the arrest of one of the elders of his church and one of its members for malpractice and criminal negligence in the ease of Mrs. Flanders, who died recently. The newspapers and their employes were scored for reporting the affair. He mentioned one after another of the news* papers and told of wrongs they had done to him. He accused all of lying and called reporters as a whole a disreputable set, qualifying the term with numerous foul adjectives. Of Joseph Medill he said: “Joseph Medill was a wicked man. He was a bad man. He lied about Zion.” < . Of Mr. Flanders, the husband of the

woman who died under the care of members of Zion, who was in the audience, he said: “You should have committed suicide when you said you would. Then there would have been one dirty dog the less in Chicago.” Of Lawyer Stevens, also in the audience, he said: “Stand up, you scoundrel. In the name of the most high God I brand you as a liar, a traducer of a widow and a scoundrel.” One of his remarks was the prophecy that before long all the wicked Chicago papers would be driven from the field by the Zion Morning Sun and the Zion Evening Star, and another was a threat that Gov. Tanner and the State Board of Health, or “death,” as he called it, wbuld be held financially responsible for the arrest of the Zion workers in the Flanders case.

DOWIE’S HOTEL AND HOSPITAL.