Show DOWIE DOVIE DEPOSED VOLIVA REIGNS Wife and Son of Elijah IH UI Cast Him HimOff HimOff HimOff Off and Follow the New Hew leader Chicago April 1 At a meeting to today today day of adherents of the Christian Catholic church at Zion City of h hJohn hJohn John Alexander Dowle Dowie Is the founder rounder and first apostle Dowies Bowies authority was repudiated and Wilbur Glenn Vol Vo Voliva VolIva iva who for some sonic time has been beon con conducting conducting conducting ducting the affairs affa rs of the church elect lect elected elected ed cd in his stead Mrs Dowie Dowle also re repudiated repUdiated repudiated her husband and leir t son Gladstone Dowie Dowle cast his lot wIth Ith his mother and the new loader leader lead r Volita Most of the officials of the church were present at the meeting an anal l Do Doie Dole Don ie le was denounced by many of th these se s as having haYing deceived the people and hav having having ing lag wasted their money in extravagances gances Declared Dowie Insane The rhe meeting however r fus d to hold that he had knowingly erred and John G Speicher the former seer and once second sec nd in command to Dowie who was recently deposed de ns tl per Pt peremptorily declared Dowie to be in iii insane sane Mrs Mr Irs Dowie Dowle in her address also upheld that declaration The ca off of the authority of John Alevander Al xa dr Dowie followed the receipt lec today of an telegram from Do Dowie ie A who ho hois is In Mexico in which he peremptorily ordered the immediate discharge of Deacon Alexander Oral Grat oger lJ r financial hal manager of Zion who his hs beets beer one of the most aggressive leaders in the ef of effort fort to place the affair a of f the church churchon on a secure foundation Dowie also announced in iii the tele that t a let letter letter letter ter would follow in which other ol i dais were vere named for deposition A meeting of the Zion city council if of twelve followed immediately and it was decided to place the affairs of the church before the members and set settle tlc the for all time the question of leader leadership leadership ship shiv Cheers for New Leader The meeting was held lucid a t and Overseer Volivia read long Ions Ion tel tl telegram from Dowie Dovie A tew rt few W faint ef pr efforts forts at applause greeted the reading which was followed by a storm of cf cheers for the new leader lealer of Zion Zi n as ashe asbe ashe he be arose from his chair an anal l advanced a to the front of the Ho He II in invited invited Dr Speicher the r r over overseer overseer overseer seer to come to the platform and take a seat scat Voliva then amid dead silence sil nce announced that he lie refused refu to tl re nove Alexander Alex Grainger from o This Th was the first publicly announced de defiance defiance defiance fiance by Voliva of the authority of Dowie The completion of 0 c Dowies Doi s overthrow as a leader followed imme immediately immediate Immediately diate One after another John G 0 Speicher Mrs Mis Jane Dowie Dowle wife of the first apo tie Deacon Terser Yerger Yer er of Cincin Cincinnati Cincinnati nati Overseer O P Cantel and others denounced and repudiated re 1 the author authority ity and leadership of Dowie Donic Although Dowies Dowles authority In the tIle church has thus been beon scores of the Industries and homes hom s of Zion City stand upon land th thi titles of which read in Dowies Dowles name Wilbur Glenn Voliva the nf new v leader of the church was born in In liana in 1870 1570 and has been in the ministry of the church since 1889 He was ordained an overseer in 1901 and soon SOOl afterward was sent to Australia Au |