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Show RELIC OF JOHN BROWN. House in Which He Once Lived is Burned. The small cottage in which John Brown, the abolitionist, lived for several sev-eral years in the fifties, in Tabor, Iowa, and which was used as the headquarters for his railroad" for the helping of runaway slaves, has been destroyed by fire. In connection with his headquarters in j Tabor, Brown organized a military school, in which his sympathizers were taught the manual of arms, the knowledge to be used in an uprising which never occurred. The building was small and dilapidated. |