Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1891 — MORMONS IN MICHIGAN. [ARTICLE]

MORMONS IN MICHIGAN.

A Proselytor Meeting With Great Success at tho Town of Millis - Convert* Being Made by the Score and the Town Threatened With Depopulation. A special from North Branch, Mich., says; A Mormon elder by the name of Taylor s converting the people of Millis, a small place seven miles southwest, by the score. An exodus of tho population is in progress. Millis Is an old Inmberingtown.hulfabandoned, and inhabited by a class*of people peculiarly susceptible to to tho influence of the Mormon. Taylor held meetings in the open air most of the time, and his success has been great, tho whole country for several miles around being greatly ex r cited. Hard-headed stolid farmers are among the enthusiasts, who announce an unalterable determination to repair to Salt Lake City, there to be enrolled among the Latter Day Saints. The people affected are mostly quite poor, and the vivid descriptions of the wealth and luxury of the Mormon life has had its effect, as well as the promise of spiritual salvation. Communication with Millis is difficult, and full particulars are not obtainable. A TarmerLy’thaßanie of GiuTfer, living In the Mormon-infected district,was in North Braneh to-day, and brought the first news of the remarkable furore. According to his story, the people are beside themselves, and the poorer classes are arranging to emigrate to Utah in the spring. Taylor 1 figuring to stay all win ter tosustain the courage of his followers, and will head the small army of crusaders to the far West Coulter relates that the women seem telxf more excited than the men. They have tost sight of the polygamy question in their haste to be purified of their sins.

Francisco C. Concha,one of Balmaceda's ministers of justice, was shot on the 24th, by government pickets In Cordlllers pass, whila he was endeavoring to escape into l the Argentine Republic. Senor Concha applied to United States Minister Egan two weeks ago for an asylum in the American Legation. His application was refused on the ground that the list of refugees in the legation had been ftvrnished to our Government and Chili, and that the minister did not fe‘l justified in admitting him to the uumb’r of refugees already under the protection of the American flag. Thereupon. the fifffortnnate man made the attempt to escape, with the above faial result.