Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-27

between man and wife and Mrs. Lamb de-
cided to return to her home in Ashley. Her
husband wandered through the west. and
the last his wife heard of him was that he
was drowned in the Mississippi river. a
friend sent a clipping from a paper giving an
account Of the drowning, and Mrs. Lamb,
thinking her husband dead, went into
mourning.
A few months ago the widow accepted an
offer OF marriage from John Adams, n we'll
TO do business man. The wedding was to
take place the coming Tuesday, ami all ar
engagements had been completed.
On the Saturday following, TO the great
surprise Of the bride, her long lost husband
turned up. He called at her home, where
she was busily engaged IN preparing her
wedding trousseau. a reconciliation fol
lowed, and this evening the reunited couple
left for the west. Adams is much put out
over the turn affairs have taken.
A strange tragedy, or what will un-
doubtedly prove a tragedy, is reported from
Watson, a village near Jeffcrsonville, Ind.
Nora Balm is a girl with a very pretty, fair
and well rounded form who is considered Que
of the village bellies. Her suitors were many
and ardent. Among them was a young man
of Industrious and sober habits named John
Alstote. Although not 50 attractive in either
form, face or bearing as some of Nora's
other admirers, he was by no means bad look
ing, and endeavored to make up for what he
might lack in other respects by his devotion
to the object of his affections. At first he
was received apparently with the same favor
bestowed on her other suitors. but she finally
grew weary of his persistcncy, and when he
asked her to marry hlm, not only refused,
but most emphatically told him never to
speak to her again. In a very short time he
renewed his suit, however, ard last night
visited her at her home. The young couple
We're in the room at | o'clock when Nora
was heard TO eXclaim: Let me alone, ! tell
youn The next moment a shot was heard.
Members of the family rushed IN and found
Alstote lying on the floor with blood ooziug
from his breast, while Nora stood a few feet
away in a dazed attitude with a smoking
pistol in her right hand. at was an acct
dent. She didn't mean to shoot me-" John
gasped as he was raised to the sofa, but the
girl said nothing and still refuses any ex.
PLANTATION of the startling occurrence. She
is under arrest. John is dying.
A queer elopement, that is a source of con-
siderable amusement, took place in st. Louis
recently. The family involved is that of
Charles Mark, sr, a well-known shoe manu-
f~acturer. He is the father of two boys, and
these two boys planted their affections on the
same spot. They became deadly rivals for
the Iair hand of Miss Eva Berger. After a
hot campaign Charles, the elder, routed his
brother and last May he married Miss Ber-
ger. After that event Albert couldn't stand
81. Louis, so ne sought rellpt IN Arkansas,
where he represented his fathers business.
He returned for the holidays and the sight of
his brothers wife revived the feelings which
he had tried for months to suppress. Albert
had been home only a few days when the
husband found a note in his room stating
that his wife had eloped with his younger
brother and hoped he would forgive her.
The palr started for Arkansas, and the hus-
band says they can stay there and live in
happiness for all he cares.
Captain Charles Reese, of Charleston, S.
G., and Miss Mary Frances Grady, each
somewhat past the meridian of life, met
eighteen years ago. Last week they met for
the second time at the Union depot in GIN
cinnati by arrangement, and two hours later
they were married.
Captain Leese was a guard at Libby prison
during the civil war. Miss Grady's brother,
a lieutenant in the confederate service, was
Reese's messmate, and died away from home
and under his care. Ever since then Cap
tam Reese and Miss Grady have constantly
correspondent, meeting but once during the
twenty-five years intervening. BY CORE
spondence they agreed to meet at the Union
depot in this city and be married.
The captain had his marriage license with
him, and together they proceeded to the
nearest Justice, where they were married.
The couple will probably reside in the future
in Clay county, where the now Mrs. Reese
is the owner OF an extensive farm. Captain
Reese was wounded several times in the
confederate service, and was on the Alabama
when it was sunk off the coast of France.
The other night in the residence of Mrs.
Elizabeth Brown, of Xenia, o., a widow
fifty years old, a wedding was arranged, and
the guests and minister and groom, Frank
Ward, aged twenty-six years, We're present.
Just before the Mr.. George Ward,
fnthar nf tho OrnOm Nvhn f.ncilnc Nnu,
Jasper, came in and told his son if he mar
ried the widow he would cut HIM off with
out a cent. The ungallant man broke up the
festivities of the occasion by gong home
with his father. An effort was made to have
the young fellow make another trial, but il
was no go. His fathers threat to disinherit
him knocks all the romance out of his scheme
to marry a widow twice as old as he is.
An unhappy woman is Mrs $. }. Taylor, of
Boston Highlands. She is at St. John, N. B.,
among strangers, deserted by a ~recreant
lover who flinched from the hymeneal ordeal.
The lady has charms of person and manner
which would tempt an anchorite, but her
second husband that was to be fled from the
fair widow almost at the altar.
Mrs. Taylor was to have become a bride,
the ceremony being announced to take place
at her cosy home in the Highlands. Friends
were IN waiting. The lady, who was, as she
DtllcNcu, oOOh " olou JIG tutlllNpSS Vi
widowhood, awaited the coming of the bride,
groom, but for some unexplained reason that
necessary party to the ceremony failed TO ap-
pear
Sorrowing, but not disheartened, Mrs.
Taylor pursued her tickle lover with the
earnestness born of experience. She learned
that her Ad0nis had sought refuge in st.
Johns. Hot upon his trail, she arrived here,
and singularly enough, the bad fellow was
the first person her eyes lighted upon in the
hotel corridor.
Indignantly demanding an explanation,
Mrs. Taylor threatened TO have the unwilling
helpmate (that might have been) arrested on
q charge of abandonment or something else
"You must marry me, and at once,n she eX
claimed, 'or will make this town ring with
your shameful deeds! Oh! how could you
have done so when | loved you ever sc
much!' Beguiling the widow with u specious
tale, the deserter effected his escape. He is
still free, Officers arrived with warrants
and, spurred by promises of rich rewards
are scurrying here and there looking for tho
false one, while Mrs. Taylor-still Mrs. Tay'
lor-mourns in the seclusion OF her
Newell Guild, an elderly Milford, Mass.
resident has become entangled in a $1,000
breach of promise suit in a peculiar way
He recently met a young lady, Caroline G
Adams by name, and in some way thu
old gentleman got the impression that shC
was a Miss Adams OF whom some of his lady
friends had spoken favorably to him. On the
strength of this he urged his suit, was &C
cepted, and went so far as to secure a mar
riage license. He then learned his mistak,
and now refuses to wed Miss Adams, and sh'