Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-11-22

early hour Sunday morning. There
were no marks of violence, and the
cause of the girls death is a mystery
Miss Decker was the daughter of a re-
spectacle German family and bore an
excellent reputation. She kept COM
pany with no one, as far as her family
knew. The Decker home is in the edge
of the woods northeast of Hartford
City. Miss Decker was at home last
evening, and when the family retired
she was seated at the organ singing
sacred songs. They did not know that
she intended TO leave the house nor
when she went out. Sunday morning
the family arose at the usual hour, the
girl remaining, as supposed at the
time. in her room. Her brother started
for his days work and found her body
in the orchard. The dead girl was
neatly dressed and over her head wore
white fascinator. 1t was then dis
covered that the girls bed had not
been occupied. In her room was found
nothing to indicate that she contem-
plated self-destruction.
Oh Klinger, farmer near Winamac,
is disciple of John Alexander Dowie,
and acting on the advice of Mr.. Dowie,
pork that he may recover from con-
sumption Klinger has been i'll for
some time, and went to Chicago to con-
suit Dowie, who gave him to under
stand that he could be cured if he
would kill all the hogs on his place and
bury them. Klinger tried to get the
neighbors to kill and bury the animals,
but they refused, as the Klinger fam
lily is in straitened circumstances and
needed the hogs. They offered to kill
the porkers if Klinger would pack the
meat, but he refused. Mrs. Klinger
then hunted up William Whitaker a
prophet of Zion, living near Star City,
walking the entire distance, and be-
sought him to fill the Dowie prescrip-
ton. Whitaker came to the Klinger
home, prayed with the sick man, and
then went out and killed and buried
the hogs. Ringers health is not i'm
proved.
Latest Investigations into the
strange cases of Mrs. Rainier and Lena
Renner, who were murdered at Evans
vile, apparently by the same man,
only serve to show that the circum-
stances of each death were all but
identical. 1t is worthy of comment
that a murder occurred at Evansville
last May and which was very similar
is marked by the fact that the body
was laid within a few feet of the place
where Miss Renner was found dead.
The idea that the murder was commit
ted by one of the inmates of the lu
matte asylum near by is disposed of by
the fact that it has been proved that
at the hour when the crimes were COM
mitted none of the inmates was out
of the building
Miss Floy Gilmore, formerly of Ell
wood, opened a law Office in Manila.
The Wooley coal mines, at Peters
burg, idle for a long time, are again
running full-handed
Mr. and Mrs. Ratio Smalley of Cam
bridge City have celebrated their gold
en- wedding day.
Congressman George w Steele of
Marion states that the government has
taken up the case of Lemon Porter
who is aboard a British ship, bound
for Cape Town, South Africa. where
the British will compel the lad to take
up arms against the Beers. Major
Steele says that the United States con-
sui at Cape Town will take charge of
him as soon as the ship arrives there
Major Steele says the state department
is of the opinion that the forced enlist
ment part of the story is without foun-
dation.
Mrs. Sol Hoover of Kokomo was re-
Gently stricken with paralysis, and
then her sister, Mrs. Fred Hoover, died
Of internal tumOr. Sol Hoover has
just died of a peculiar malady. large
kernels appearing over his body Ben
jamin Tucker, brother-in-law. is ia
tally i'll of cancer. The family is veal
thy and well known.
A new swindle was worked in Frank
fort, and the man who taught the peO-
pie that there was something new I'M
der the sun got away with his peck
cts bullying with silver. A number of
his victims are searching for him
The graft was advertised as an auction
sale of uncalled-for express packages.
The man who boosted the scheme
claimed to represent the Western Ex-
press Company, of Missouri. At the
the packages represented by numbers
previously bought, and then a howl
went up. They saw how they had
been swindled. The CRATER had wrap
ped up old rags, cast-Off hats, worn
out shoes or anything that would make
a bundle.
A midget was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Seidling of Upton county. The
midget is perfectly formed and weighs
but 8 ounces. A ring worn by the
mother was easily slipped over the foot
nearly to the knee. The physicians re-
pert that the little boy will live The
parents are of German descent The
father weighs 1875 pounds and the
mother $50.
Miss Nina Savage. the honor grad
uate of the COvington high school,
class 1901, is dead of consumption. She
was the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Savage, and during her entire
time in school she was neither absent
nor tardy