Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-28
INCIDENTS OF THE ALTAR.
Quotations of the Matrimonial
Markets Of the World.
EARLY DAYS OF LESTER WALLACK
They Will Marry Asain-A jewelers.
Peculiar Honeymoon-Maddened
by Unrequited Love-M Miss
Drexei to Wed.
A Sweetheart is Not Next OF Kin.

A Sweetheart is Not Next OF Kin
Chicago Herald: w. ID. WEIGH, q
travelling man, insured his life in h
Royal Arcanum for SO, 600, and made the
money payable to his afianced bride,
Miss Hottie Parke, now Mrs. Palmer.
The Arcanum wrote Miss Parke as the
beneficiary although its bylaws special
ly limited beneficiaries to ext OF kim,
blood relations or actual dependents, to
neither Of which class did Miss Parke
belong. A year ago WEIGH was frozen
to death in Minnesota, and Miss Parke
and his two brothers. Seymour G.
WEIGH and l.. G. WEIGH, claimed the
insurance. 1t was argued for the WEIGH
brothers when suit was brought that the
Royal Arcanum, having no power under
its bylaws to make Miss Parke the bene-
ticiary, the policy vas void, and that
they took the insurance money as heirs.
For Miss Parke. Miller Case, Judson g.
Hogan, argued that in insuring WEIGH,
with the understanding that the money
should be paid on his death to his sweet
heart, the institution contracted a La
Nbility, and despite it's prohibition by
laws it was estOpped from refusing to
carry out his obligation. Judge Shep-
ard decided yesterday that under the
bylaws and a decision OF IL conrt Of Mas
sachusttes, Miss Parke was not entitled
to the insurance money, and it should
60 to Welch's brothers. Miss Parke
will appeal the case.
COurtship by correspondence.
Chicago Tribune: About the first of
last July Miss Annie Doefer. the twenty
year-old daughter of William Doefer,
al industrious farmer near Pomeroy, O.,
read an advertisement in which Bern
hardt Dettermann Of Long Prairie,
Mimi, advertised for a lady cOrre-
%spOndent. Miss Annie answered for
amusement. The result was that Mr..
Dettermann sent on his photograph,
and the next mail westward bore her
picture to him. Then he proposed mat
rimony. The girl carefully Investigated
that he was a merchant at the
county-seat of Todd county, Minnesota,
13l miles northwest of ST. Paul. She
forthwith sen him word that, as her
parents we're willing, she would be his
forever. He asked her to come to him,
which she agreed to do, and Saturday
he forwarded a check for $40, a wedding
dress, and some jewelry.
She left alone Tuesday morning to
meet and marry a man she never saw,
and she seemed cheerful and light
IlCuTICu, Will IL iouCSOilC EUllTOuu Tluc
Of ,042 miles before her. She expects
to meet her intended husband at st.
Paul, and they will proceed together to
their new home, where, il all is satisfac-
tory, the wedding will take place.
Before taking the train she said that
II she did not like Mr.. Dettermann and
and the bleak winds OF the northwest
she would come back.
Left the Nunnery to Marry.
New York World: Antonio Betz, for
merly ambulance driver for St. Cathe-
rine's hospital, Williamsburg. was mar
ried not long ago to Sister st. Mary, OF
the Litany, Of the same institution.
Mrs. Betz was married under her maiden
name Of Julia Holley. Who married
them is not known, but it is known that
Rev. Sylvester Malone, of st. Peters
and st. Paul's church, on Wythe ave.
nue., refused to perform the ceremony.
Sister st. Mary, or Mrs. Betz, as she is
now, is u tall and stately woman twenty
five years old. She who born in Munich,
whence she was sent to this country
seven years ago. When she
reached here she was taken in
charge by relatives, and by
them placed in the Convent Of the Sis
ters OF st. Dominic, in Brooklyn. There
she remained five years and was then
transferred 10 81. Satneflne \ hospital.
1t was in this institution that she me,
Betz, who was ambulance driver of the
institution. Sister st. Mary took the
customary religious vow and became O
professed nun. Last June Betz left the
hospital, and about three months age
secured employment in Havemeyer',
sugar refinery. He rented rooms where
he now lives, and continued living there
until Sister st. Mary joined him. She
had left the institution unobserved ant
in her nuns raiment. Mrs. Betz say
in explanation OF her course that sh,
did not like the seclusion of a conven
and was untitled for n nuns life. Sh
wa only sorry hat she did not nave thu
courage to say SO before she entered thu
institution. The work she had to d,
was hard, and the hours were very long
She believed she would be happier il
her married life, as she loved her hus
band dearly.
The Sister Superior st. Agnes, of st
GATHERINGS hospital, said: "She is gon'
and that is all there is OF it.. She wa
at liberty to go where she pleased ant
we could not stop her. We are all pro
fessed nuns here, but we do not maxi
our final irrevocable vow until We ar
thirty-three years Of age. We are fre'
TO go where We please, but must Civ
notice.. Rev. Father Malone said tina
sisters intending to marry would hav'
TO get q dispensation from the bishop
and that any sister could leave the rde
II she pleased. She could not cave