Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1901 — DOWIE WEARS WINGS. [ARTICLE]

DOWIE WEARS WINGS.

Although Claiming Immortality He Fear* Kidnaper*. John Alexander Dowie appeared before his Chicago congregation Sunday with wings attached to his clerical robe. He announced that certain physician* had formed a plot to kidnap him, lock him in a detention hospital and beat him till he eould lose all his reasoning powers and come really insane. He *aid that the kidnaping might take place any time, and after the service he called a special private meeting of the male member* to help the Zion guard in protecting him. He also made threats against the physicians that he would do to them as he thought they were trying to do to him. unless they shall let him alone and stop calling him a paranoiac. With all this, Dowie repeated his pretensions to be Elijah reincarnated, making way for the end of the world, aqd he incidentally laid claim to immortality. "I have special information,” shouted the general overseer to his followers, “that a law has been juggled with special reference to me. These doctors have fixed it so #at an insanity complaint does not have to come from a relative now. but may come from any man tjrho says lie acts in public interest. Do you know what this means? It comes from the Mine men who are calling me a paranoiac.” Dowie also declared his intention of having the editors of Chicago newspapers indicted for inciting murder.