Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-29

three wears OLD, Is said TO have been married
10 her fourteenth husband the other day,
after having been divorced thirteen times.
Olean, Kan, is minus its mayor, T. G..
Lewis, who has eloped with the daughter Of
a prominent merchant and gone to Boston.
He left behind a wife and two small children.
Wilson Winter, of Oshkosh, WIS, was mar.
ried Tuesday to Miss Ella Spring. In this
instance the usual order of things is re-
versed-Spring fingers in the lap of Winter
A German who walked most of the way
from Texas to Boonville, Ind, where he was
to marry a young woman, was nearly six
months IN reaching his prospective bride. The
couple are now welded and have gone 10 Kan
sas.
The Minneapolis Journal says two of the
most prominent bankers of that city are mar
ried to half-blood Sioux, and that their de-
scendants promise to be as proud Of IL as are
the Virginians who trace back TO Pocahon-
tas.
A Pacific coast missionary relates that
after walking fifteen miles to perform a mar
riage ceremony, he received in payment a
sack of fine cabbages, and lugged them
home on his back for fear of offending his
pensioners.
= Thomas Stanley, n gypsy, lies in the
Greenbush, IN. VI lock up for having sold
his wife TO his cousin, in West Troy, re-
Gently, for 81. 1t is stated the wife cheer
fully acquiesced in the transaction, and that
an agreement was signed by all the parties.
Daniel Webster's great grandson is to
marry a great granddaughter of Benjamin
/ .ankl,n in June next, the ceremony to take
place in Washington. The youth is Webster
con Bonaparte by her first marriage. She
was Miss Appleton of Boston, q granddangh-
ter Of Webster. The girl is the grand
daughter of the late General Emery.
Recently a young milliner of Paris, wishing
to receive her lover in her room at the par.
entail rpcidpnpp tit.1 chnafo tnnathar Inv
which to pull him up through her window.
The lover seized the rope, but the girl, being
unable to retain her hold, was drawn out OF
the window and fell from the third story OF
the house. The young Romeo broke her fall,
but the PAIR sustained serious injuries.
James McMorris and Kate Simpson eloped
last week from the home of Katie's parents,
and were married at Jacksonville, Ky. Mr..
McMorris is q young merchant in Wyoming,
and on a previous visit to Kentucky he be-
came acquainted with Miss Georgia Simp-
son. They corresponded until a few weeks
ago, when McMorris arrived here and made
the acquaintance of her sister. Katie made
it so agreeable for the young man that he
fell deeply in love with her. and when he
proposed an elopement she consented.
There comes a story from Clinton, Ia, to
the effect that Franklin X. Peck, an aged
citizen of that place, had prayed that his life
might be prolonged until the fftieth a%nniver.
sary of his marriage, which occurred on April
20. Though the end was thought to be near
many times, the old man rallied, and when
the day arrived he eemed overjoyed to know
that the looked for time had come. He
clasped his aged wife's and Soon after his
strength failed and he passed away at 8 80 in
the morning. He had lived in the vicinity Of
Clinton since 1887.
A romantic incident occurred in South
Nashville q few days ago. Two young
SWANS, aged about sixteen, and the sons OF
prominent citizens, have long been suitors
for the affections Of a certain south side
belle, also a daughter of prominent and well.
TODD parents. Bad blood was engendered
between the youthful lovers, who last week
concluded that the south end of the city was
too small to contain them both. A battle
was agreed upon. The engagement was to
have been fought under the marquis of
Queensbury rules. No one present, how
ever, was sufficiently posted on the details to
render impartial judicial service. The prin.
cipals in desperation discarded civilized
methods and went at it in the good old way.
After a prolonged and severe contest the
fight was declareda draw. The names OF
the beligerents are known, but are not given,
inasmuch as the color of their eyes render
recognition easy within two blocks. The
young lady is said to be in great distress.
and also admiration, over the conduct of her
adorers. =