The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1907-03-15
BOWBELLS, N. D., MARCH Is 1907
ELIJAH SECOND DEAD.
John Alexander DoMe, the Most Stupend-
Gus OF Later Day Frauds, Deserted,
DisgraCed and Atone, Passes to
His Final Account.

US9rdCe0 ana Atone, Passes to
His Final Account.
John Alexander Dowie. he who under
the cloak of religion had duped ane
robbed and rendered homeless and desti
tute greater number of erstwhile
well-to-do people than the next great
est imposter Of whom the world has
any record, died on Saturday last al
Zion City, ILL.,, unattended in his last
hours on earth save by solitary negro
who was placed as watch with instruc.
tions to report to the self-styleo
'prophet's'' dupes when life had be.
come extinct. He died as he had lived,
denouncing the world at large and with
his last breath kissing curses on the
heads Of all who refused to recognize
in him what he prcfessed to be. He
hated the newspapers, he hated minis
ters, he hated doctors, he ehated lawyers,
and he could think of more evil names
to call things he hated than any man
who ever lived before him.
!! Herewith is presented most inter-
esting chronological record Of stir ing
events of MI. Dowie's life. They,
themselves, point unmistakably to the
reasons of his pathetic downfall:
1888.
Released from short term in prison in
Tasmania, lands in San Francisco
with $100.
Arrives in Chicago with not one cent Of
money in his pockets.
1923
breaches in one story frame building
at Stoney Island avenue and Sixty
second street.
1885.
Preaching his doctrines and building up
his following.
Feb. 6-Suspends his paper, The Com
ing City, because he cannot secure
secQnd-class mailing privileges.
Feb. Essays he will fight Illinois
legislative bill and defy examination
into his bank.
Aug. 25-Denounced as a confidence
man by Justice Martin in Chicago
police court.
Oct. 19-Pelted with nitrate and am
monia by medical students.
Oct. 22-Is mobbed, stoned and chased
from Hammond, Ind, after riot.
Oct. 31-Is egged and stoned in Chi
cago.
Nov. 1-Pelted with rotten eggs by
Chicago audience for calling them in
sulting names.
Nov. 21-Appeals for $1,000,000 as a
New Years gift.
1900.
March 7--Sued for $4,000 for slander
by Edward A. Flanders, who alleged
that Dowie attacked him in his SER
mon.
April 3O-Announces that he will build
lace factory at Zion City.
July 24-Asks for all the gold and sill
yer his people can send him, and in
vites them to put all their funds in
his hands as trustee.
Aug. 7-Declares that he is surrounded
by assassins.
Aug. 11-Goes to New York in spe-
cial car with large retinue of servants
and seventy-one pieces of baggage,
and sails on steamer Graf Waldersee,
paying 81, 500 for his staterooms.
Aug. 29-Occupies two royal suites fac
ing the Thames embankment at the
Hotel Cecil, London, with a follow
ing consisting of two Wallets. three
secretaries, a personal bodyguard,
three deacons Of Zion and members
of his own family.
SEPT. 3 3-Purchases 5000 acres of land
lying near Waukegan, ILL.,, on which
he plans to build his Zion City.
Sept. 4-Calls for 81, 200, 900 as New
Years gift to Zion.
Oct. "opens his London campaign.
Oct. 13-Succeeds in making twenty
English converts.
Oct. 15-Four hundr ed medical students
jeer him inst. Martins Town Hall.
Oct. 22- Causes a riot by denouncing
English people for not needing what
he tells them .
Oct. Is jeered and hooted by 5000
people for calling them names.
Nov. 26 Gives up return engagement
in London and goes to France.
Dec. 14-Causes riot in Zurich for de-
nouncing the late Emperor Freder-
;ck of Germany.
Dec. 25-Is mobbed in London at open
ing meeting of his farewell engage
ment.
Dec. 27-Says that the devil has notifi-
ed him that he intends to kill him be-
fore the New Year opens.
1901
Jan. 16- Returns to Chicago after tour
of Europe.
Jan. 81 Orders prayers to be said for
English lacdmakers who defy his edict |
concerning the use of tobacco
May 13 Mrs. H. Worthington Judd
and her newborn babe die under
Dowie ''faith" treatment.
May 10 Denounces Chicago news
papers, declaring they are trying to
end his career.
May q Coroner's jury finds him Grim
inally responsible for the death Of Mrs.
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