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Show PROPHET'S SON IS ILL i David Smith, Aged Scy-. Scy-. enty, Confined in Illinois Illi-nois Asylum. ELGIN. HI., Feb. 24. David Smith, aged 70 years, a son of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, who was assassinated assas-sinated at Carthage, Mo., in 1844, and one of the oldest patients at the insane asylum, is ill. David Smith ' was a strong anti-polygamist, anti-polygamist, and early joined, the Reorganized Reor-ganized Church of Latter-day Saints of Jesus Christ, of which Joseph Smith, Jr., was chosen president in 1S60. |