The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-06-01
MARRIED the DAUGHTER
Though I'M nad Expected All the
Tims n We'd ths
Mother.
Romance Of Real Life In the Big
City Nv Lake Micht-
gan.
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Altar.

CxruAao, MAY 3l.--Whsn AuRust Pohlia
Y younR man 81 uncouth dress and grin
Ming cosntsnance, strobe awkwardly up e
thS marriage license Window . few day
AGO, Mr.. Salmonson, the clerk. beanie,
upsn hin with that happy official oourtss!
Of which he has the secret. Is was plail
AOtAs o6aoial cys that this particular appli
can't VA not accustomed to the frock
coatsd ranks OF life; he was tall and strap
ping and Of military carriage, but no hat
nsithe1 the ~insouoiant cir OF the German
lieutenant nor the blass indifference Of I
count 10 diaguise; yet there was something
~undsniably odd and grotesqus in his man
neI. Ons moment he would BE- Qrinninl
Like CAltban, and the next looking sad like
! man Who has turned up only a deuce.
MI. Pohlie, after a short but confidential
Interview with Mr.. Salmonson, went away
with . document in which romanos. rash.
ness, Law. and gospel are 10 happily made
10 work together that 1t may safely be re-
cardsd % the nsatest compromise which
has svsr been invented since Adam sinnsd.
The wonderful document was in this par
ticular case . license for the marriage OF
Nj. Pohlig and Miss Alma Gottschalk.
The strange story brought to light by
this marriage has seldom boon surpassed BY
svsn the widest Of imaginative writer's who
deal with love and wsdlosk.
In the city directory Mr.. Pohlig 10 tsrsely
described an . grinder" " living at No. SO
Kemper place. It il not stated, however,
whether he grinds razors and butchsrs' inn
Elements, or simply puts the crushing heel
o. defeat upon all who attempt to crosse him
In tho paths Of love and ambition. He 10
20 years Of age. His bride 10 II. and the
eldest daughter Of the late Charles Colt
Schalk, q wealthy north side maltster. Their
marriage was solemnized late on Saturday
pastor OF the LnSalle Avenue Baptist
church, at No. 40 North Clark street,
In the presence Of the young woman's
dying mother, and at,the lattsf's urgent APP
PEAL. The grotesque feature Of this matri-
mouial transaction 10 found in the fact that
up to the very hour when the doctor told
tho mother she could not live, she herself
and not her daughter. had expected to be
married 70 the accommodating Mr.. Pohlig.
When all hope was gone, however, she said
she could not die happy unless Mr.. Pohlig
and her daughter Alma were united in the
bonds which she herself had long hoped to
espouse. Moreover. she made . dying re-
quest that Mr.. Pohlig be appointed admin
istrator Of her estate, which 10 . very con-
siderable property.
About an hour before the strange pro-
ces6inR Mr.. Pohiig, with his license in his
lpo0lks rushed sxcitedly into q neiRhboring
druid store and said that 4 justice or a min
ister1 was wanted % quickly rs he could b
got W perform o marriage ceremony. A
Stelep1 bone message was therefore sent to
JustidAe Gibbons and the nature of the er.
NaM2 - knnuvN Rnk hAfOrn kha S,1akSNn
could 81 fAvsl from the Uhlich block to the
0otted 1halk house . messenger had scudded
rIw4y to the residence of the Rev. Mr.. Row.
lands q block or two distant, and secured
the services Of that gentleman. Justice
Gibbons came putting in too late and lost
. foo.
But the minister arrived not q moment
zoo soon. Mrs. Gottschalk was indeed
dying. The death rattle could be heard
amid the solemn words Of the preacher
-pronounclng the ceremony in the semi
dArksned chamber. All was over within .
few minutes; the mother vas q corpse; the
daughter, In tears, q bride. The spring
blossoms had mot been removed from the
girls fair hair before somber Grape was
dnttering at the street door; and while
passers by thus learned that death had
come to some waiting one within, there was
no Eymbo! by which the wedding was in
like manner proclaimed.
The body of Mrs. Frederick Gottgohalk
Was buried at Rose Hill on Tuesday. Her
age was AZ years. Her late husband,
Charles Gottschalk, who passed away some
two years ago, is said to have left property
valued ct $4,000 or 100000. He was prssi-
dent and general manage of tho Chicago
Malt and Grain company, No. II West
Division street, and also proprietor Of the
Royal vinegar works. 1t is said thai in his
last will Mr.. Gottschalk left the bulk Of his
estate to his widow with tho stipulation
that abe should forfeit all claims to the
same in tho event of her marriage, and that
i should go to the children; and this it il
thought caused the postponsment of her
proposed marriage to Pohlig until it was
too late and she forced her daughter to
take her place. She had been ill during the
last six months, and for at least a year past
Pohlig had made his home in her house.
DIR. IL, Geiger, q next door neighbor and
formerly physioinn to the Gostsohalk fam
lily, said yesterday that on one occasion he
demonstrated with Mrs. Gottsohalk for
keeping Pohlig in the house a. a member
OF the family. and she replied tha she had
q right to do as she liked about the matter.
This scene caused an enlargement between
tho physician and his patient, out on her
death bed she once more sent for him. He
said that both Mr.. INC Mrs. Gottschalk
mad been previously married and divorced.
"Gottschaik," said tho doctor. 'waa a
grasplnR, Ryaricious man, not pleasant in
his home, but with a faculty for making
money. Not till he died did bis wife begin
TO enjoy life. But her old friends talked
about her when she took Pohlig into her
houses; yet she paid nc heed. She set a bad
example for her three daughters and her
little son. Pohlig himself was divorced
from a young wife, and deserted his two
chlldEen only about Il year ago. I have
been told that Mrs. Gottschalk sold her
home at No. 479 North Clark street & few
months ago for $4,000, and that shortly
aiterward Pohlig opened a shop for the sale
Of barbers' supplies. People believe that
Mrs. Gottschalk furnished the capital. I
have also been informed that she made u
wlll bequeathlng her property to her chill
cfen. but with the provision that they shall
not come into possession of the same until
shey have reached the age of Is years. She
also made the request that Pohlig should be
marriage has brought to light q remarkably
queer state of Affairs. Mrs. Go~ttschaik's
dying request was that her eldest daughter,
Alma, should marry Pohlig; and it is we'll
known that the girls intellect is not of the
brightest. 80 that she was clay in her moth
er's hands.
by this former marriage Charles Gott.
schalk had several children, but none of
these come in for any share of the property
ne left. One is a lawyer in Brooklyn, and
another a fireman, I believe, in Chicago.
PohliR seems to have everything coming his
way just now"
Portraits OF Bismarck. Won Moltke and
benjamin franklin, toeether with several
prints of German battle scenes. form a
lively panorama on the walls Of the doc
tors office. and these are taken as evidence
shat his mind, when it leaves its legitimate
channel of medical science, runs TO mill
tary glory and abstract philosophy.