ZION CITY FRACAS.
PRAYER MEETING ATTACKEDMANY SERIOUSLY INJURED. DOWIEITES AND TOBACCO. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. April 30, 9.30 a.m.) New York, April 30. The employees of independent manufacturing concerns in Zion City, Illinois, attacked a group of three hundred men ami women engaged at prayer meeting, and clubbed them. Aluuy were seriously injured. 111-feeling had developed for weeks past in consequence of the establishment of the independent concern in the midst of the Dowieites, who sought to keep the city to themselves. As a protest against tho employees using tobacco, the Zionists had been holding prayer meetings in the factories, thus infuriating the workers.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1428, 1 May 1912, Page 5
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104ZION CITY FRACAS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1428, 1 May 1912, Page 5
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