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Show yjj h VOLIVA FOLLOWERS BEATEN IN RIOT 1 Zion City, 111., June 15. Four fol- lowers of Wilbur Glenn Vollva, one a woman, were severely beaten in a ' I riot lost night precipitated when the ' . VollvIte8 appeared at the close of the i fj day's work at the Cook Electrical ; plant and jeered the workers. Elder , I S. M Royal was beaten. Into uncon- , g sciousness and is confined to his bed. S Ecclesiastical Secretary Carey, of the church, founded by John Alexander Dowie, was beaten and kicked, C. J. Irwin, an SO-year-old member of the j , church, was struck down ?nveral times, and Mrs. A. A Walker, who came to the rescue of the old man, also was handled roughly. Ringing of the Zlon home bell ; brought 500 men of Zion to the aid of Vollva's followers and the riot ceased, though later a bulletin board erected by the church people, was destroyed and several shots were fired in different parts of the city. Vollva snid'he would lead 1,000 men to the Cpok plant today and con. tinue the singing and derision that havo greeted the electrical workers each morning for several weeks. Hostility Hos-tility between tho factions arose from , refusal of the workers to cease tho use of tobacco. B oo 9 |