The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-28
Launching Spiritualism in Keokuk
Sensational Story of How the Margraves Operated as Early as 1881,
Having for Disciples Men Who Later Became Very Promi
nent in the Affairs Of the State.

synod where the decision was affirmed
and Hummer wal out Of the church
for good. This vas q terrible blow
to the proud man, and to make It
worse his spiritual advisor told him
while at Springfield that Mrs. Hum
mer was too intimate with Gen. Lowe,
and as evidence Of the fact that he,
Lowe. had given her q dress since
Hummer left home OF a particular
! pattern, describing the pattern.
Has on TeiI-taIe Dress.
This statement Hummer fully re-
pudiated, but when he got home his
wife met him with the dress at de-
scribed. Hummer at once put her
from him. Lowe came in to sympa-
thize with him in his great trouble.
| but Hummer would not speak to him.
Lowe made several other attempts to
see Hummer to say a word to him.
Lowe after supper went in to 9
i Hummer and when he met him said:
II came here to talk to you and l
mean to talk to YOU" Hummer jump
ed up and went out the back way and
Lowe returned home in wonder and
modification, not having the least
suspicion OF Runners conduct.
Lowe had to 90 the next day to
Fort Madison to court and from there
he wrote Hummer q very long letter
in which he repudiated all he had
dD~n \or IJr~o-a- orH hour hn hoH
served him in all things and how
much he had reverenced and loved
him, and begging Hummer to at least
let him know in what he had sinne6.
and to allow him to tor for 1t in
his power. To that letter Lowe re-
ceived no answer, and or loves re-
turn home from court he and Hum
mer had a personal difficulty about
! stabling loves COW in their joint
stable.
Lowe In the Dark.
! All Of this time Lowe had not the
least suspicion of Runners quarrel
against him. The following week was
one of great distress to the little
church. On Saturday evening Mrs.
Hummer was about the city and to
all appearances in unusually good
spirits, but when she got home Hum
mer was on his knees praying, as he
had been most Of the week. She at
once went up to him n told him
that she must and would have the
| rights OF q wife; that she was not
! going to be cast of as he had done
since his return from the synod. He
called her a bad woman and told her
Ito go away. She, in a loud voice.
abused him greatly, when he got up
and put his hands on her, as he said
to get her into the back room where
people would not hear her. But the
moment that he touched her she
cried Murder! murder" at the top
/; of her voice, and Lowe. Lyman E.
Johnson and others rushed In and
took her away.
The report was circulated hat she
had, been badly bruised and injured
by Hummer. and the next day there
was every indication of a mob then
the church met, but it was prevented
by a few prudent persons, n on
! MONDAY tHo cAClteuleut iuSlSoSeu. AS
day was intensely cold and the re-
port was started by VIM. j. Cochran
that a little girl about ten years old
that Runners were raiisng was con-
fined in a cold garnet without fire, to
keep her from going to Mrs. Hummer,
who had gone to Cochran after leay-
ing home. Some rowdies called a pub
lie meeting to promote a mob. under
pretence OF relieving the child.
Hold Indignant Meeting.
The meeting was held over the old
market house on Second street. and
was largely attended, and every ef-
fort was made to get up a mob, es-
pec,ally by a man named Crane, a
pork packer, Silas Haight and a few
others, but after a bitter contest in
the meeting a committee composed Of
Col. Patterson, Gen. Reid and Col.
Graham, was sent to see h child.
They found her with the family, and
anxious to stay with Hummer rather
than go to Mrs. Hummer, but the
committee took her to Col. Graham,
the mayor. Hummer, during the day,
anticipating a mob after the meeting