The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-23
some RECORDS OF 1900
REMARKABLE CASES OF MAR
RAGE, COURTSHIP AND d.
VORCE ARE NOTED
MANY ARE DONE IN A HURRY
Mr. Bryan's SpeechmaLing Record
Established in New YOrI1-Fast
Time by Railroad Trains
Great Prices for Cattle.

Ambitious record breakers in divers
and curious fields have had their busy
days in the year 1900. Many achieve
ments outside of sports and athletics
aeem to have established high-watcr
marks that may serve to inspire emula-
zion in the first year of the new century.
For one thing, Dan Cupid was busy.
"a the cream-colored city of Milwaukee,
Nnere the best families speak the LAM
E<1age in which Heine once scoffed and
llopenhauer sighed, Louis Hirsch one
fine July day fixed a new criterion on
the perilous side CT matrimony by we'd
ding his mother-in-law Mrs. Albertiua
Abrahams. 1t was said that he had
learned 10 love her cooking before he
proposed and she accepted him Many Of
the wise and learned have married their
COOKS, but Hirsch, waving disparity in
ages, outdid the old time philosophers and
solved the mother-in-law problem by one
bold stroke of genius. The bridegroom
was thirty and the bride sixty
In Minneapolis the other day Edward
Roth shattered conventional ideas by
marrying his stepdaughter who is eigh-
teen, this proceeding having transDosed
his former wife, from whom he was d.
Vorced, Into his mother-in-law The lat
ter is said to have been as Indifferent
TO the change as if she had never met
her son-in-law
From Chicago, long noted for its sur
prlslng statistics in marriage and divorce.
comes the record for the swiftest court
snip or the year, though not the speed
lest divorce says the New York Sun.
one cold, inhospitable February dav
CnarIes horpes STEPPED into a Chicago
saloon in search of drink to warm the
inner man. Now, it happened that the
owner OF this particular bar was a bux-
ON widow. Korpes bought a drink
long one-and while slowly slipping it. like
a true connoisseur, sized up the comfort
able surroundings After fifteen roin,1+es
OF Wooing he proposed and was accented
Inc sequel was told in court one month
later when the erstwhile buxom widow
was seeking relief from her husbands
ACi d asahce and his habit Of drawing a
revolver on her to enforce his demands.
MORE marriage licenses were issued IN
CnIcago IN June. 1900, than In any nre
go Inonth OF Cook county's history.
[,!oo couples obtaining permits f., we'd
SSIncago's Gretna Green is st. Iosenb
MICH across the lake. All SUNDAY mat,
IIInohlaI records were broken there On
aug Il, when seventy-eight couples were
joined together for better or for worse
mostly worse, probably.
tShlp and marriage implies d.
T1Ice 10 greater or less extent. The
pIue ribbon for Sunderino, +bo -
number Of tangled hymeneaI +ies ca =, uese
91LsIe Gay was proudly taken to St. 7 ouis
people sometimes will sheer AT St
NouiS as slow town. Poor little over
worked cupid was battered and ham
ie "a ana twisted out of all recognition
1n NOV. ~ when four circuit co1,rt
Juuses TOOK off their coats, figurativeIv
speaking, and after hearing the +otoI -
1UU divorce PqSAS 81
oan francisco contributes the record
Ior the speediest, divorce, and a neat and
MoEhHanllke job 1t seems to have bee,,
Edwln w. Evans, a wide-awake CONNER
cIai traveller, with the timely aid oF q
swift california court, got his decree Of
Iesal separation from an incompatfbIe
partner of the maiden name OF O'Rrinn IN
precisely twenty minutes. At 10 o'clock
on the morning of July q he filed his
complaint; ten minutes later q lawvor
submitted the wtfes answer: at 1920 the
judge signed the decree, and the uber-
ated husband bolted from the court
room to catch a train. But Mr.. Evans
II is proper to add, brought to his aid
In preparing the case, the KNOWLEDGE Of
professional. He was no amateur.
he had everything cut and dried. He
mad been in the divorce mill before and
mad carefully written out a copv of an
old decree, which the judge obliginglv
signed so that he shouldn't miss his
train
The record for the largest aggregate
business in divorces still is held by Chi
cago, the great center of this industry.
The Chicago divorce mill grinds with a
steady all-the-year-round motion The
average SriSt is about a dozen divorces
day, or, say, 900 a year. About 2.OOG
petitions were granted in the first six
months of 1900 William Bateman Leeds
paid the record price for a Chicago d.
vorce. 1t is said that he gave his wife
81, 900, OOO
There have been several new standards
raised in long-distance talking feats. 1t
was said that Mr.. Bryan broke all cam
paign speaking records on Oct. 20; when
he finished speaking in Brooklyn, short
ly after midnight, he had in one day
made thirty speeches. At Battle Creek
Mich, Oct. II, he made four speeches be-
fore breakfast, smashing his ante-break-
fast record. Twenty-seven speeches was
his highest single days output four
years ago.
Mrs Charles Reeves, a patient in the
Michigan asylum, at Kalamazoo talked
herself to death on Sept. %. She talked
necessarily, and when her vocal organs
refused longer to respond she died of
spasm of the Cloths Mrs. Anna Mitchell
obtained an injunction from a Chicago
Judge in November to restrain her hus-
band, from whom she had separated
from talking her to death. Mary Novak
another Chicago woman, was arrested
last May for talking on the street She
talked when a policeman took her in
charge, she talked on her way to the
station, she talked in her sleep, she was
still talking when she awoke she talked
in the police court and his honor Offered
to let her go If she would be silent only
five minutes. A fine of 800 made her still
more laxative, and she talked as she
was led back to the cell, and her verbal
Epeed was steadily increasing as she dis.
appeared behind the portals of the Bride.
well. From such reports 1t is seen thai
the takers of 1900 have made a fail
showing.
The session Of the 11fty-sixth congress-
which ended in June, passed into history
with several new records established
In 1ST working days both houses passed
1,215 bills, of which 2S3 were public acts
of general Importance and 932 private acts
granting pensions. paying claims, etc
The best previous record was 723 bills In
lie days. One private pension day in tbs
house that body broke all records by
passing $50 of these bills. Among con-
gressmen who have been unanimously
renominated John B. Ketcham, of New