Sunday Didn't Come

Big Crowd Waited in Vain at the Methodist Church.

SAYS HE WAS ASSAULTED

Harvard Independent Says that He Is Sick As the Result of Rough Handling by A Crowd Which Did Not Like His Preaching.

A big crowd gathered at the Methodist church Wed. evening to greet William A. Sunday , and he came not. The big auditorium was filled, there being many sores of his converts in the big audience and they waited anxiously for the evangelist to appear.

Nothing was heard from him, no telegram, no message was received, and the crowd was much disappointed. It was learned, however, that Mr. Sunday is probably sick. H. J. Wells was at Marengo yesterday and there he heard that Mr. Sunday is very sick with a fever in Chicago, a lady coming from Chicago bringing that report. R. C. Fritz informed the audience of what was known regarding the non-appearance of Mr. Sunday and after a little music and singing the audience was dismissed.

Sensational Statement.

The Harvard Independent says that William A. Sunday is sick from the effects of violence at the hands of certain persons in a town where he has been preaching. The Independent says that some of the people in an Iowa town took exceptions to some of the things he said and that they seized him and gave him a ducking, that he contracted a cold and as a result is seriously sick.

The paper does not state on what authority the statement is made and friends of Mr. Sunday here are inclined to think it is some idle gossip. It is known here that Mr. Sunday had a hard row to hoe in one Iowa town a few weeks ago, one of the newspapers waging war on him declaring that his talks to men were not fit to be listened to, but that his sickness is the result of violence can scarcely be believed. Mr. Sunday is an athlete and fully capable of caring for himself against any single antagonist, and it can scarcely be believed that in any respectable community there would be found a crowd with the hardihood to commit an assault upon a man for preaching against what he believes to be evil and lie in wait for him to inflict punishment for his utterances from the pulpit. Such work always makes the injured person stronger and more popular.