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Show WAS WITH BROWN F " 1- r Claiming tliat as long as he is alive, the last of the John Brown band is not dead, Charles W. Keesler, ninety-three, ninety-three, of Danville, 111., disputes a dispatch dis-patch stating that Luke Parsons, who died recently at Salina, Kan., was the last survivor of the Brown antl-slavery antl-slavery crusaders. Keesler, joining the band In Kansas in 1S53, participated In many skirmishes. lie enlisted In the Union army and continued to fight for the principles of his dead leader. |