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Show 3 NEGRO BLOOD SHOWN BY BIRTH SHATTERS TWO COUNTRY HOMES . Mrs. John B. Collins and the Negro Child. A' ;t ST LOUIS. Mo.. Juno 23. Two '"wrecked homos, pupils banished from 5 schools, a church toru by dissension 5 Sand doubt, and society of two popu-B popu-B 1oub commuultlcs In the western eec- , tion of St Louis and in the eastern J 'j section of tho county shocked by tho W t (declaration that two families, one pos-m pos-m ) lug as descendants from tho old Span-aif Span-aif '- ieh grandees and the othor aa descend-Q descend-Q f anta of the orlglual inhabitants of ijb, Amorica, were negroes, have wrought (IK conBteratlon in Maplowood and Ellen-S Ellen-S j dulo fr i ' As a result a war that promises to yH bo confined exclusively to the courts HI ;has been Inaugurated. itlf s Tho first stop was when Johu B. f U i CollinB, eon of one of the wealthiest l ill-' ,, 1 men in Ellendalc, appealed to the courts to have bis ammiage with a woman he supposed to bo white when he married her annulled Tho discovery of the fact that tho Clamorgans aro negroes has created a sensation in Ellondale and Maple-wood Maple-wood The Clamorgans had tolcf everyone ev-eryone thoy wore of SpanlBh origin. TIiIb acconntod sutlafactorlly enough for tho unusually dark comploxion of the Clnmorgan girls, and for their wavy hair, which bears but little resemblance re-semblance to the "kluky" hair of tha full-blooded negro, Collins Is one ,of the leading citizens citi-zens of Ellendale, Is wealthy and lives In a handhomo home at No, 2931 El-lendalo El-lendalo avenue. |