The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-29
HIS PROPOSED WEDDING.
Mr.. Harrison and Miss Howard Were
to- Have Married ON Nov. =.

to- Have Married ON Nov. =.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CHICAGO. Oct. 2S.-Two weeks from next
Tuesday, had Carter II. Harrison lived for
that brief period. he would have taken TO
himself a third wife, in the person of Miss
Annie Howard, of New Orleans. 1t is less
than two months since his engagement to
the only daughter of the late Crescent City
millionaire and king of the Louisiana lot
terry, was made public. At first the report
was received with incredulity, and even
his closest friends were lcath to believe that
in view OF his advancing years and especi-
ally of his statements after the death of his
second wife, that the city OF Chicago would
be his only bride-that he contemplated
again entering the matrimonial state When
questioned on the subject the Mayor was at
first inclined to be reticent. and made jo-
cose replies To his interrogators, but finally,
when concealment was longer possible,
he owned up to the soft Impeachment with
some light-hearted dissertations on the
power of love even over grey-headed men,
and to some of his questioners put the
pointed question as TO whether they did
not think he would make pretty vigorous
bridegroom for man of his age. What
this age was he would not definitely say,
old residents by his suggestion that he had
yet to round his sxtieth year At this time
the prospective bride was the guest of
some local relatives residing on the south
side of the city, about half way to the
worlds fair grounds and it was the daily
visits of the Mayor to this residence that
gave the color TO the first reports of his
engagement At this time no definite date
had been fixed for the wedding
In the early part of September Miss How
ard, who had been for some time in poor
health, left for brief visit to the East,
returning here about ten days ago. 1t was
only on yesterday morning that the Times,
the Mayors own paper, announced that the
day had bsen fixed for Nov. z, and that it
would be solemnized in the brides native
city. Apparently, all concerned had over
looked the fact that Tuesday next was
election day, and that if the programme was
carried out Mayor Harrison would miss an
opportunity to cast his vote in a municipal
election in which he had taken great inter-
est. The day following the paper announced
that the wedding had been set for week
following.
The invitations were to have run up into
the thousands ranging from President and
Mrs. Cleveland down to the Governors of
nalf dozen states ana the Mayors or a
score of cities whose intimate acquaintance
Mayor Harrison had enjoyed for years
The wedding dejeuner was to have been on
scale of unprecedented magniflcence even
for the prairie city, where expenditure is
secondary in high society matrimonial
functions, and a special train had been
CHARTERED for the accommodation of the dis
tinguished bridegroom, the members OF his
family and his most intimate friends This
was the Mayors share in the preparations
In New Orleans. according to letters re-
ceivcd from friends Of the bride-to-be
preparations there had been made on an
equal scale of grandeur. But IMAM pro-
poses and God disposes." and tonight he
who was To have been one of the two CEN
trail figures before the altar but two short
weeks hence, is stiff and cold in death, the
victim of a bullet of an assassin