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Show WAS WITH JOHN BROWN. Dr. T. D. Enncroft Will Lecture at First Congregational Church. Dr. T. D. Bancroft, "the busy man." will Speak at the First Congregational Church Sunday night. Dr. Bancroft was rith old John Brown In the border ruffian war. and had much to do In creating th" circumstances that caused Abraham Lincoln Lin-coln to free the pUwi?. He WAS In Ford's thrntcr, Washington, D. ('.. when Abra-Tham Abra-Tham Lincoln wa SSSSSSlnatSd by J. Wilkes p.ooth, and i:'s personally acquainted ac-quainted with Poston Corbett, who shot and killed the assassin He saw a lror of Mr Lincoln! life blood on a piece of the programme, and picked It up, and oa Jnnuary IS, 1&01. presented this great rnii-. rnii-. -.Ir ind relli- to (" Kansas State Hl torlcal oclety at Topeka. Ho nerved through the war of the rebellion and was in twenty-seven battles, in 1$H he built the "Bancroft TabSniSOlS" in Kansas City, It WSS the largest charitable lii'.tt-tutl'in lii'.tt-tutl'in west of Chicago and he maintained It for elgiit years. He raised tho first Company for the Spanish-American war. and Is now founding the absolutely free home for poor consumptives at Salkla. Colo. His subject 8unday night at tho First Congregational church will be "The Highwayman." |