The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-10
ABOUT THE FAIR SEX
Women Are Forging Ahead at
Rapid Gait. vT
A BRIGHT FEMALE LAWYER
Another Woos and Webs Inside of
Three Days-An HeIress VIII
Marry a Hospital Nurse-A
Love Affair and Suicide.

Columbus. Dec. "a woman took
the GLASS honors to-day in an examina-
ton by the supreme court committees
OF applicants for admission to the bar.
Miss Amy #. Acton of Dayton. q grad
uate OF the Boston lsw school. who has
bern for some time assistant COUNSEL
for the National Cash Register com-
pany OF Dayton. passed the examine
ton committee with probably the high
est percentage ever made in This state.
Several of her papers were perfect.
reaching 100 per cent and all were far
above the average e
Whiting. Ind. Dec. 9.-Tt required but
three days acquaintance for pretty
Ella Vie and Christian Able to meet
and We'd About three weeks ago Miss
Vie. a handsome belle of Parkersburg.
w. Va, came here to visit relatives.
who occupy a high social position. AT
Thanksgiving festivities she made the
acquaintance of Christian Able, a
prominent feed and produce dealer OF
EAST Chicago. 1t was Cupids opportu-
nifty Able pressed his suit with all the
vigor and tmpetuosity of youth. Miss
Vie reciprocated. A secret visit to
Chicago was planned, a license secured
Where and a Chicago justice did his
part din this speedy union. Mr.. Able
and Miss, Vie returned to Whiting as
Mr.. and Mrs. Able, but, wishing to
keep their marriage entirely to them
selves for a few hours. did not tell of
1t till to-day, when they announced It
to their friends here.
Akron, Dec. 9.-Melancholra caused
the suicide of Miss May Wills at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Hugo Schu-
maker. this morning. On being missed
by her maid a short search revealed
her lifeless form in the attic. She had
tied a rope about her neck, the other
end having been previously fastened
to rafter. She stepped from a. ladder
failing some distance, but her neck was
not broken and she died of ssrangula-
ton.
Miss Wills was leader in local So
csaa circles for several years past and
was The possessor of host of warm
friends. She was "a years of age. being
born In Cuyahoga Falls. She has.
however, resided in this city almost
adj her Life. She had not been well for
several months. and her family was
preparing Ito take her to a sanftardum.
Miss Willis was engaged two years
ago to leading young business man,
but 1.-The engagement was broken, and
batter to a young manufactures. The
halter engagement was terminated by
Miss Walls a short time ago.
Philadelphia, Dec 9.-nwo weeks ago
Mlss Elizabeth Kelly, residing at No.
1888 lajtonia street in "a two-story
house, crowded IN with members of her
family, was notified THAT an Australian
uncle had died and that she was the
sole heir to $4,000, 900. For two years.
English attorneys had been searching
for her.
The Transformation was as great as
it1nat of Cinderella and the people call
at the house daily just to look at the
girl who had so much luck.
When the news was first announced,
Miss Kelly received proposals of mar
riage by every mail. Fifteen came In
one batch of letters one day and the
hast mstalIment amounted to IL. which
the struggling postman dropped at her
doorstep.
AS soon as Miss Kelly receives a big
slice of her fortune. she intends TO
marry James Calhoun, a hospital nurse,
who proposed to her before news of her
good fortune came.