The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-23
From the Peoria Democrat.
The Most Mysterious Disappearance
ever heard of.

Doubtless our readers remember the |
particulars Of the Yinger disappearance,
and if not, the following will recall them to
their recollection:
$500 REWARD.
I will pay reward of five hundred dol
lars for information that will lead to the
whereabouts and production of Mrs. Jane
Yinger, aud her daughter Cara Yinger.
Mrs. Yinger is a widow about SIS years
Of age, her daughter Cara about l6 or II.
They owned farm of about 40 acres in
Logan township, Peoria county, Illinois,
about 16 miles west of the city Of Peoria,
on which they lived for several years
up to the time of their mysterious depar
ture.
On the night of August IL, 1873, after
IL o'clock both secretly left the premises,
leaving behind their personal property,
cattle, hogs, chickens, crops and house
hold goods, apparently without any in
structions TO or knowledge Of any known
person, taking with them only an old car
pet sack filed, small bundle and an old
umbrella. The night was dark and roads
muddy. They walked IA miles to Elm
wood, station on the G., b. Il q. X. H.,
where it is thought they bought tickets to
Chicago They stated at Elmwood that
they were going to Pittsburg, Pennsylya-
MIA, and might be absent two or three
weeks, perhaps two years.
They took the afternoon train going
west on the G. B. & Q, r. R., August
18th. Since then nothing has ever beer
heard of them. They had about $3.50 il
money with them, and were unaccustomeC
to travelling. II is generally believed tina
the old lady must have been insane, anC
may have been picked up by some county
authorities and placed in an asylum or aim
house, this, however, is mere supposi
tom Send information or correspond
with Frank Hitchcock, sheriff of Peori
county Illinois. JOHN. G. YATES,
County Judge.
Peoria, ILL.,, March IL, 1876. --'
The above is printed on the back of {
card 3x6 inches, on the front of which ar,
accurate photographs of Mrs and Mis-
Yinger. These. to the number of nearl,
1900 have been circulated all over thu
country; in every public or private asylum
or retreat for the insane, in scores of aims
houses, and numbers of railway offices
1t must be remembered that the card
were sent out only after every othe
means had failed. Some of the mos
skilltul detectives have been at work OF
the case and hundreds of dollars have bee
spent
Mr. John Mckinney, brick-maker O
the Knoxville road, is Mrs. Yinger'
brother, and she has step-son, job
Yinger, in Logan township. Both Q
these have done all they could to solve tn
mystery.
Suspicious that there has been foul play
are natural One would imagine that tw
such peculiar looking women, trayelin
alone, would have been noticed by hur
dreds, and therefore there are not a fe'
who insist that both arc dead. while som
believe that they never lett their farm
Mrs. Yinger has a daughter in Iowa, maj
ried against her wishes, to whom he
property will revert, in part, should sh
be dead, or in any event, if she is III
heard of before seven years from the dai
of her departure have elapsed.
The case is one of the most mysterlou
on record, and solution of all the que
tions arising therefrom would be halle
with relief by all cognizant Of the affair.