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Show A STRANGE SPITE. Solitary life of a man who opposed Rock Island. Chicago, Jan.[January] 1. Dennis Warren died yesterday in this city at the residence of his sister, at 489 Bowen avenue. Warren was eighty-two years old and for the most of his life lived as a hermit in a thatched cabin on the Rock river bottoms, where he accumulated a fortune of $20,000 by systematic penury. He invested his hoarding in Rock Island real estate and years ago got possession of some of the most desireable [desirable] lots in the business portion of the city. He was arrested and fined one day for breach of peace, and there and then swore vengeance on the community. He built high board fences about his downtown property and spared no efforts to make the lots and surrounding buildings look as ugly as possible. No appeal or remonstrance could alter his determination to get even with the town that compelled him to pay a fine. A year ago a conservator was appointed to care for Warren's estate, it being claimed that he was incompetent to manage his property. Not long after some of the most desirable lots were sold and one of them a post office building is to be erected by the Government. Shortly after he was deprived of the management of his estate his friends in Rock Island sent the old man to his sister in this city, where he has been living ever since. He died of old age. |
