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Show SPIRAL TOWER PLAN COST FRANCIS COIN Man With a Scheme Lifts the Purse of the World's Fair President. CHICAGO. Jan. 7. Ex-Gov. David R. Francis of Missouri will look with a cold and glaring eye upon promoters of world's fair schemes who come to him. A stranger seized him by the hand in a street car and began unfolding a "spiral "spi-ral tower" scheme. The man talked for ten minutes and then jumped oft the car. An hour later Mr. 'Francis was cashing a check In the Auditorium. The "spiral tower" man had taken Mr. Francis's pocketbook with $1S0. , |