The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-14

Speech-maIRlng Record-Fast Time by
Railroad Trains-Great Prices Paid
for Cattle.
and curious fields have had their busy
days in the year 1900. Many achieve
ments outside of sports and athletics
seem to have established high-water
marks that may serve to inspire emu
lation in the first year of the new GEN.
tury.
For one thing, Dan Cupid was busy,
In the cream colored city of MiIWau-
kee, where the best families speak The
language in which Heine once acolfed
and Schopenhauer sighed, Louis EllracA,
one fine July day, fixed new criterion
an the perilous side of matrimony by
wedding his mother-in-laW, Mrs. Alber-
tina Abrahams. 1t was said that he
had learned to love her cooking before
he proposed and she accepted him.
Many of the wise and learned have
married their cooks, but Hirsch, Waiv-
ing disparity in ages, outdid the old
time philosophers. and solved the moth
er-in-law problem by one bold stroke of
genius. The bridegroom was thirty and
the bride sixty.
In Minneapolis, the other day, Ed
ward Roth shattered conventional ideas
by marrying his stepdaughter, who is
eighteen, this proceeding having trans
posed his former wife, from whom he
was divorced, into his mother-in-law.
The latter is said to have been as in
different to the change as if she had
never met her son-in-law.
From Chicago, long noted for it's sup
prising statistics in marriage and d.
vorce, comes the record for the swiftest
courtsh1p of the year, though not the
speediest divorce. One cold, inhospit-
able day Charles Korpes stepped into a
Chicago saloon in search of a drink to
warm the inner man. Now it happened
that the owner of this particular bar
was buxom widow. Korpes bought
drink-a long one-and while slowly
slipping 1t like true connoisseur, sized
up the comfortable surroundings AT
ter fifteen minutes of wooing he pro-
posed and was accepted. The sequel
was told in court one month later, when
the erstwhile buxom widow was seek
ing relief from her husbands eXtrava-
gance and his habit of drawing a re-
volver on her to enforce his demands.
More marriage licenses were issued in
Chicago in June, 1900, than in any pre-
vious month Of Cook countys history,
2,150 couples obtaining permits to wed.
Chicago's Gretna Green is st. Joseph,
Ialra All Sunday
matrimonial records were broken there
on August u, when seventy-eight cou-
pie were Joined together for better or
for worse-mostly worse, probably.
Courtship and marriage implies di-
vorce to a greater or less extent. The
blue ribbon for sundering the greatest
number of tangled hymeneal ties in a
single day was proudly taken by ST.
Louis. Yet people sometimes will sheer
at st. Louis as a slow town. Poor lit
tie overworked Cupid was battered and
and twisted out of all recog-
milton, on November rs, when four cir
cult court judges took off their coats,
tiguratively speaking, and after hearing
the total of one hundred divorce cases,
granted fifty DEGREES.
San Francisco contributes the record
for the speediest divorce, and a neat
and workmanllke job it seems to have
been. Edwin w. Evans, wide-awake
commercial traveller, with the timely
aid of a swift California court, got his
decree of legal separation from an in
partner Of the maiden name
of O'Brien in precisely twenty minutes.
At ten o'clock on the morning of July
II he filed his complaint; ten minutes
later lawyer submitted the wife's an
swer; at 1920 the judge signed the de-
cree, and the liberated husband bolted
from the courtroom to catch a train.
But Mr.. Evans 1t is proper to add,
brought to his aid in preparing the
case the knowledge Of a professional.
He was no amateur He had every
thing cut and dried. He had been in
The divorce mill before and had care
fully written out copy of an old de-
cree, which the Judge obligingly signed
80 that he shouldn't miss his train
The record for the largest aggregate
business in divorces still Is held by Chi |
,ago, the great center of this industry.
The Chicago divorce mill grinds with
steady all-the-year-round motion The |
average grist Is about a dozen divorces
a day, or, say, four thousand year. !
About two thousand petitions were
granted in the first six months of 1900 |
William Bateman Leeds paid the rec (
ord price for Chicago divorce. 1t is
said that he gave his wife one million !
1ollars.
There have been several new stand
ards raised in long-distance , talking
feats. 1t was said that Mr. Bryan
)roke all campaign speaking records on
October 20; when he finished speaking
n Brooklyn, shortly before midnight,
lie had in one day made thirty speeches.
At Battle Creek Mich, October H. he
made four speeches before breakfast,
smashing his ante breakfast record
Twenty-seven speeches was his highest
single days output four years ago.
Mrs. Charles Reeves, patient in the
Michigan Asylum, at Kalamazoo,
alked herself to death on September IS.
She talked incessantly, and when her
local organs refused longer to respond
he died of spasm of the CLOTHS. Mrs.
Anna Mitchell obtained an injunction
rom a Chicago judge in November to
estrain her husband, from whom she
lati-- separated, from talking her to
leath. Mary Novak, another Chicago
voman was arrested last May for talk
ng on the street. She talked when a
POLICEMAN took her III charge, she
alked on her way to the station, she
alked in her sleep, she was still talking