Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — STUDENTS MOB DOWIE. [ARTICLE]

STUDENTS MOB DOWIE.

Vi—eat Sc—■ ttc K— l lt off I—rite—g Medic* to Mis lattes. John Alexander Dowie, tike maseSd, who claims to be able to effect nmacmloaa cures by divine dispensation, was routed at his West Side £IOO tabernacle in Chicago Wednesday night by than 1,500 angry medical students armed with offensive chemicals, and had So be escorted to his carriage by the pntire The young men who clacked the faith apostle while be was on his way te bin tabernacle to deliver a lecture on “Doctors, Drags and Devils,” care out of the encounter only partially victorious. Twice the police beat a tattoo on their heads with stout dobs before they were content to remain outside of the besieged auditorium, and a dozen were arrested and sent to the police station to think over their temerity. Throughout the feetore the howls off the enraged students of the several medical schools in the vicinity coaid be heard and unpleasant reminders that they were still on hand came through the windows from time to time in the shape of bottles of nitrate of ammonia, which, as they broke, exhaled a smell, compared te which the odor of Yorick's skull might be considered a perfumed breeze from Arabj the blest. Hardly a pane of glass was left in the Dowie sanctuary and when the exponent of a new gospel was finally led forth by a back doorway to his costly carriage and helped in by two quaking footmen whose once rich attire reeked of the laboratory he was in a state of perturbation that belied his confident assertions inside the brick walls which no longer protected him. Twelve students, more demonstrative than others, were placed under arrest, but upon recommendation of the city prosecutor they were discharged upon payment of costs.