The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-20
Dealing with False Prophets.

The Chicago Tin1es-He publishes
the following dispatches:
Grand Ripple, O., Aug. 6.-Two men
who came 10 this town a week ago and
began preaching that goats have souls
were pelted by a crowd of leading citi-
zens here to-day, and might have been
lynched but for the timely arrival of the
sheriff and a posse who were pursuing a
horse thief from Canal Fulton. One of the
men lost an ear and the other escaped
with a broken arm. AT mass meeting
in the town hall tonight resolutions were
adopted denouncing the Chinese Boxers
for their fanaticism and calling on the
civilized powers to put down Monaghan
intolerance forever.
Wingate, KY, Aug. 6.-Several weeks
ago a strange man appeared here and
engaged a room az che leading hotel He
spent his time looking over the country
hereabouts, but said nothing until last
Saturday, when he began posting up in
public places the following notice:
Heaven is not as some people believe,
beautiful place of which the sky is the
floor and into which men pass through a
sort Of trapdoor that cannot be seen from
the earth. I don't know where heaven
is. or what it's like; but I have good
a blue plane composed of some kind of
solid substance that serves as a found
alton for paradise. The sky, as we see
IL, is nothing but space. If we could rise
to what now seems the sky it is probable
that we should find ourselves in mere
emptiness with no imcediate danger of
humping our heads against anything.
This is my honest opinion, and I am will
ing 20 defend it against all corners.
Obadiah Renfrew.
Shortly after the notices appeared lead
ing citizens began to congregate on the
street corners and before long process
sion started toward the hotel. Some of the
people were armed with clubs many of
the women flourished brooms and roll
ing-pins, and not a few of the cooler
heads carried shotguns. When the mob
reached the hotel Renfrew was dragged
out and ducked in the millrace. He was
then carried out of town on a rail and
warned that he would be lynched if he
ever permitted himself to be seen in Win
gate again. There is some talk of raising
a company here 10 volunteer in China
against the unreasonable Boxers.
Smythesylvania, Ind, Aug. "a mis-
sonary of the Unkerflux sect was burned
at the stake half a mile south of this
city last night The Unkerfiuxites believe
the stars are inhabited by the souls of the
people who have died on earth, and that
after man has passed to the first ster
on the route he starts in to live there
very much after the manner in which he
lived here. The length of time he lives
on the first star corresponds to the mental
grea tness and refinement of soul he at
tanned here on earth. Then he dies and
passes on again TO the next star, living
there as long as his conduct on the first
star warrants, and so progressing until
at last he reaches a star where he can
live forever in sublime perfection. Some
people never succeed in reaching the
highest star because of their shortcom-
ings here on earth or on accounts of
misdeeds on intermediate stars.
II didn't take the people of this sec
ton long to decide that they would have
no Unkerf1uX teachings spread among
their children. hence very short work was
made of the missionary. The Smythesyl-
vania Debating Club has adopted resolu-
lions denouncing Chinese Intolerance and
bigotry, but praying that the Boxers be
humanely treated. when subdued, because
they know not what they do.