Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-09
ECHO OF A CRUSADE
The Anti Saloon War at lath-
rop, Mo.
A PREACHERS FAMILY BROKEN UP.

Divorce of Rev. Carmichaeps Wife Ipdi-
rectly the Result of the Outbreak of
the Ladies-A Young Mans Letter and
Scandal, Finally Getting Into the
Courts-The Divorced Woman Be-
queathed $50. 600 to Clear Her Name.
ST. LOUIS Nov. "A romantic story
was brought to light here yesterday, which
will be piece of good fortune to Mrs.
Anna Brown, n nurse in a local charity
hospital. About year ago central Mis-
souri, was agitated over the crusade
trouble at Lathrop and the subsequent
divorce of Rev. J. NJ. Carmichael from
Mrs. Anna Carmichael. Mrs. Carmichael
went to Clinton and there obtained the
right to change her name to Brown, ST at
ing in her petition that the name of Car
michael was a source of sorrow and was a
detriment to her success in obtaining a
living. She then came to St. Louis and
obtained her present position.
Left Money to Clear Her Name.
A few days ago John Morris, a wealthy
bachelor of johnson county, died, and
when his will was opened it was found
that he had left his entire fortune,
amounting to SCI, 900, to Mrs. Brown, for
the reason that he thought she was a
wronge1 and prosecuted woman. He had
never met her, but as he knew her family
he took great interest in the case and lett
the money to her for the purpose of fight
ing the case again in the courts and clear
ing her name Mrs. Browns troubles, so
far as the public knew. began two years
nfyn hota he do fnrS rod of
Lathrop, little town in Clinton county,
where her husband, Baptist clergyman,
was stationed.
The whisky War at Lathrop.
The facts were all printed in these dis
patches at the time, and briefly recounted
are as follows: The town was local op-
ton place, but certain saloon keepers
continued to sell whisky. The officials
would not enforce the laws so the w. c.
L. Q. women got together one day and
proceeded to mob the saloons, rolling the
tanglefoot into the street and emptying it
into the cutters. They also smashed the
furniture, and generally did up the bust
ness as well as their male fellow citizens
can do when they conclude to have little
fun with mob law as basis.
Men Were "Not in IT, That Time.
1t was noticeable during the progress of
thC TIOb-lOT SuCL IL surely WdS-tudI IleN.
Mr.. Carmichael, Bouker, Green, and other
men who had fomented public sentiment
lent only moral support. They stood in
the crowd and urged on the work of de-
Struction. Many arrests followed, more
than hundred of the temperance people
many who were merely spectators-te
Ing arrested at the instance of Salookeeper
Ward. After repeated adjournments the
cases were finally dismissed, though the
trials were bitterly fought and created
much i'll feeling
TROUBLE IN THE PARSONS FAMILY.
An Open Rupture Between Rev. Car
michael and Wife.
1t was about the time that Mrs. Car
michael was being praised by her friends
for her vigorous work in the crusade that
rumors were circulated that there was an
open rupture between Preacher Car
michael and his wife. Enemies forced to
public issue what might have been settled
quietly. ending in the separation of hus-
band wife, sparing a woman great shame
and concealing from public knowledge
the cruelty of m an supposed TO be- from
his calling, OF a meek-aud forgiving spirit.
A letter to Mrs. Carmichael, written by a
Sunday school class, was discovered by
the pastor.
The Letter That Worked the Harm.
The letter, though not criminal, nor
particularly suggestive, should never
have been written. Nothing, save the
letter, was ever shown to indicate other
tnan friendl y feeling between the young
man and his Sunday school teacher. But
this letter letter led to the revival of or
les of which Mr.. Carmichaels congrega-
ton had never heard. A church trial was
entered into, and the controversy was so
warm that even the legal points of a
charge not yet proved were discussed by
the congregation, which was almost
equally divided in sentiment between the
pastor and his wife
Testified Agai INST His Mother.
Finally the matter got into the civil
courts, and Mr. Carmichael was granted
a divorce. The principal testimony-in
fact the discriminating evidence-was
given against the wife by her own son.
Even then Mrs Carmichael's friends re-
fused to believe in her guilt, and when
she went to Liberty, Mo-. to live with her
relatives, she was accompanied by her
only child and many substantial tokens
of the interest taken in her by Lathrcp
citizens. Mr.. Carmichael's field of use
fulness in Lsthrop WAS ended.
Not a Grateful Patient.
WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, Nov. 9-After a
collaya of Dhvsicians had onaratad IN