Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-03-09
Tahor'S Double Marriage.
A QUEER CASE.

been present at the Tabor Wedding,
but who were not there, are much an.
noyed at the statement that they were
present. Senator and Mrs. Hill de-
clined TO go, and Mrs. Teller and Mrs.
Beltord were opporiunely i'll Thursday
night. The wedding was about the
thinnest society event on record.
Plates at the wedding supper were laid
for twenty-five or thirty persons, but
not dozen were there. The bride
was half an hour late, which may be
good style in Oshkosh, but is not in
Washington. The president went, but
remarked to another gentleman that
he thought he had come to wedding,
but the affair seemed much more like
3 funeral. There were none present
except few relatives of the bride and
half dozen official gentlemen who
went because Mr.. Tabor was in the
senate The brides relatives did not
shine in conversation, and the whole
thing was a bore. At midnight the
| bridegroom was found in his wedding
suit alone in the banquet hall, moving
the sofas and chairs back into place,
and now Father Chapel says that if
he had known that either of the par
ties to the marriage had been divorced
he would not have married them, and
he intimates strongly that somebody
lied to him. Mr.. Tabor appeared in
the senate little while to-day.
| HOW IT Is REGARDED IN DENvER.
DENVER, March 5-The marriage of
Senator Tabor to Mrs. Lizzie McCourt
Doe, caused comparatively little com.
ment, and excited less surprise. 1t is
| what has been foreshadowed for some
| time, and was expected to have oc-
Cured earlier in the fall, when the
| groom procured divorce from lis
late wife, whs resides in Denver. The
bride is the divorced wife of Harvey
Doe, and accompanied her husband
hither about two and q half years ago.
At the expiration of years residence
| Doe became member of the legisla
ture, and Mrs. Doe an aspirant for the
| admiration of gentlemen whose mar
ket matrimonially had not vet been
made. The grounds of the di-
vorce have Keen variously stated, but
the generally accepted belief is that it
arose from her too enthusiastic sdmira-
ton for Senator Tabor. That the ad-
miration she Is said to have manifested
was reciprocated after the most pro-
| found fashion, general rumor asserts.
1t even goes further, alleging condi-
ton of affairs which can only exist un
der regulations specially provided for
| by statute. During last year the sem
ator journeyed to one of the interior
| counties Of this state and procured a
divorce from the wife of his youth, up
on grounds which public sentiment and
the district court of Arapahoe county
| declared to be without existence. The
proceedings were uncontirmed, but Ia
Dor procured Mrs. Tabor's consent to n
| divorce for valuable consideration.
! LEGISLATIVE RuMoR
Just prior to the conveuing of the
| legislature last January the report was
circulated that Tabor, who was then
actively canyassing members for his
nomination to the United States sem
| ate, had been married to Mrs. Doe in
the preceding fall at Las Vegas, and
she was then installed at the Windsor
as his wife. So notorious did this be-
come that one of the daily papers as
signed reporter to interview him on
the subject. The senator denied 1.-THE
fact, also, that he contem plated a
union With the lady, or that she was in
the city. He related that his affairs
with the divorced Mrs. Tabor would
be amicably disposed of, after which
he should take counsel from no enc as
to tho policy he would adopt. The pub
lie has siuce become familiar with
what that policy was.
THE ST. LOUIS MARRIAGE.
| ST. LOUIS, March A secret which
will no doubt cause much surprise, not
only to those concerned, but to society
generally, has just been revealed here
1t is that Senator Tabor, of Colorado
and Miss Elizabeth McCourt, of Osh-
kosh, Wis, were privately married here
on the Both of last September. The
ceremony took place in the law office
of Col. ID. P. Dyer, who is an intimate
friend of the senator, and was perform
ed by John M. Young, a justice of the
peace, and witnessed by the father ol
Miss McCourt, who accompanied hel
to ST. Louis for that purpose. 1t is said
on the authority of Col Dyer that the
ceremony was kept strict secret, be
cause at that time, although Mr.. Tabor
had been granted a decree of di
vorce from his first wife, she haC
quit against him for alimony, and i
was feared the announcement of thit
marriage during the progress OF tha
suit would complicate matters. Mr.
Tabor's visit here was ostensibly to at
tend to some law business, but it il
pretty clear that the meeting was pre-
arranged, and for the sole purpose Q
: being married. He returned at once
, to Denver, while his wife went back tc
her home in Oshkosh. Why the mar
riage should have taken place when /
did, or why there should have been ;
second ceremony at Washington las
week, unless it was to satisfy the pa
rents of Mrs. Tabor, who are Catholics
Col. Dyer does not pretend to kLow.