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Show ANNIE DICKSON. Wilkesbarre, Pa. Feb- a7-The people of the Wyoming valley were shocked this morning when they read in the columns col-umns ot the Scranton Republican that Miss Anna Diekson was intane and had been taken to the DanviU insane asylum byUf.Hilc..r of West Pittsoti, The fact that tlio story was published in the kefiubtisam the sapposition was the article ar-ticle wis founded on (act as the Dell of the Dickson mansion was ringing all day. - Clergymen, lawyers, business men and reporters Hocked to the house early, the farmer to console with t:ie family and the latter to learn the latest particulars particu-lars about the case. Miss Susan Dickson, Dick-son, Anna s sister, went' to the library and dictated a note to the reporters. She said the report published in the morning paper was cruel and greatly exaggerated. ex-aggerated. Her sister was not insane, It was true she was ill and had been ill for sorae time, but she was not out of her mind and she wanted the reporters to make a particular note of tbat fact, "Whet is the nature of your sisters illness ill-ness f" was asked. "She is suffering from insomonia, but her physician says a change of climate will bring her around all right again. |