The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-04-26
THE COXEY ARMY
Still Marching On 20 Washington. The
"Unknowns" Identity Revealed.

The unknown" in Coxey's army. IL is said
has turned ont to be y. Il. Bozzoro, n fake
lndlan doctor and trance medium who was
located last summer Ia tent on vacant LOT
II Chicago. Bozzoro is the rankest kind Of n
fraud and Carl Browne was his partner and
assistant fakir In Chicago. On the west side
these two are well-known characters. The
spit in the army revealed the "unknown's"
identity.
Last June Bczzorro conducted n regular
Indian medicine fake. Then Carl Browne ap-
peared op the scene In ragged buckskin.
flowing hair and with not enough money In
h:s pockets 90 purchase n bowl OF soup. Boz
zorro used him as a lecturer. and later the
TWO started an office on West Madison
street. Bozzoro's real occupation was a
trance medium" and this scheme ho
utilized to sell his Indian remedies 70
advertise his fakes Bozzoro started paper
called the American Patriot" in which he
styled himself combination doctor, PR
phet, magnetic healer. medium. fortuneteiier
and astrologer.' During the entire summer
Bozzoro and Browne sold medicine and lee
tured on the vacant lot. Finally the people
IN the vicinity, firing Of the tough crowds
that Hooked around Bozzoro's tent. com.
planned TO the police and the Great Tn
known was arrested. When the weather
became too cold for the tent show. Bozzoro
rented an old church. There he spent $500
in reDovating the building. placed stage In
place OF The pulpit and opened variety
show. He still continued 10 sell bis fake
medicines, but business was poor and he
moved 10 "a basement and started society
:alled the Association for the Prevention Of
Cruelty 70 Humanity"
Coxey's Army OF the Commonweai p once
more on land. The S0-mile voyage on tne
Chesapeake and Ohio canal, while II gave 10
the men res. from walking did not improve
their appearance. Al noon Thursday, when
A. A. n al IaI
canal beats at williamsport. Md. II looked
worse than at any other stage OF its existence
not excepting any OF those fearful passages
through mud, slush and ice.
Coxey's army arrived at Hancock, Nd, on
Wednesday afternoon. The reception ac-
corded the army there was anything put
cordial. AZ the boats passed under bridge
crossing the canal Browne ASKED ifthere was
any reception committee or any supply oi
provisions. The populace, who nheu the
bridge shouted with one accord, mo, ana
also the request that the army stay outside
he town. The boa,s lay outside the limits,
out the Commonwcalers swarmed the town.
Willigmsport was reached Thursday ater,
aoou. There the transports were unloaded
he wheels and tops put on the wagon peus,
and the army marched for Washington VIA
Hagerstown and Frederick.
After two days OF inactivity at Hagers.
town, Nd, the Army Of the Commonweal
again moved forward ana reached BOOneS-
borough. where the night was spent in camp
Daniel Boone. The next camp will be at
Frederick. but what the programme will be
after that camp is passed is a matter shrouded
In deep mystery. The army is now two days
behind it, scheduled time. aud Browne H. aI-
parently in no hurry to move with anything
like rapidity.
There were about 800 men in line when the
army marched out OF Hagerstown a larger
force than az any time since the army left
Pr'sburg Where the strange faces came
IRON no one appears 10 know. The only
ones VITO joined are Col. A. T.. Redstone the
Washington agent OF the commonw-al aud
j. ;. Bartlett, private secretary ot Congress
man CONN, OF Wyoming. Eedstone says
thu: TO less than 900 men will march out
from Washington 10 join the army ut Rock
Vile. and that on the day the army enters
Washington there will be AN escort Of 5000
men not including 500 women, 500 wheel
men and some Grand Army men. ~, de.
clines 10 rive out n"v',,, M. NAV know
apou. the other armies joining Coxey in and
about Rockville. AT Hagerstown Jennie
known days sickness, saw the amy and
heard its band, and sank down on the pave
meIt dead