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Show Woman is Taking With Her the Remains of -Her Dead New York. Dec. 24. After IKIng forty-nine years in Americn, Alma L. Schmidt of Terre Haute, Ind., Is Journeying Jour-neying back to Germany. In deserting desert-ing the country which had been for so long her home. Miss Schmidt took wltii her the remains of all her relatives rel-atives who have died in this country. This she did because she did not want to be separated from them in death. On board the liner with her. placed in a large coffin, are the bodies of ber fither, mother, brother and sister, which will be burled in a plot close to the old home in Germany. Miss Schmidt's father was Carl F. Schmidt, who went to Terre Haute as a pioneer, and accumulated wealth in real estate. After his death and the death of her other relatives on this Plde, Miss Shcmldt became lonesome ami decided to return to her natlv land. |