Davis County Clipper | 1899-09-15 | Page 3 | Silenced Ingersoll

silenced ingersoll london mall mail A correspondent tends sends to the dally daily mall the following story of an incident which happened some twenty years ago in toronto colonel ingersoll the celebrated inn del orator was delivering a lecture in the theater on a sunday night the house ot of course was crammed and ana he h went vent on with his clever and humorous speech reech till he gave utterance to some eoma particularly blasphemous comments which proved too offensive for or his audience in the midst ot of his brilliant speech a fine voice in the gallery rang out in the well known hymn hold the fort for I 1 am coming instantly the words were taken up by others until the whole concourse joined in and colonel ingersoll had to retreat ignominiously without belne being allowed to ator attar ward