Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-03-15
SOME RECORDS OF 1900.
REMARKABLE CASES OF MARRIAGE,
COuRT5HiP AND DIVORCE.

Quick Time in Ending and Loosing Mat
riinonial Ties - Great Prices Paid for
Cattle - The shortest Murder Trial on
Record-The Prize Servant Girl.
Ambitious record breakers in di-
verse and curious fields have had their
busy days in the year 1900. Many
achievements outside of sports and
athletics seem to have established
high-water marks that may serve to
inspire emulation in the first year of
the new century.
For one thing, Dan Cupid was busy.
In the cream-colored city of Milwau-
Kee, where the best families speak the
language in which Heine once scoffed
and Schopenhauer sighed. Louis
Hirsch, one fine July day, fixed a new
criterion on the perilous side of matri-
mony by wedding his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Albertina Abrahams. 1t was said
that he had learned to love her cook
ing before he proposed and she &C.
cepted him. Many of the wise and
learned have married their cooks. but
liirsch, waving disparity in ages. out
did the old-time philosophers and
bciNNu tuO IOIutl-ln-l ny
one bold stroke of genius. The BRIDE
groom was 80 and the bride 60.
In Minneapolis, the other day, Ed
ward Roth shattered conventional
ideas by marrying his stepdaughter,
who is 1S, this proceeding having
transposed his former wife, from
whom he was divorced. into his
mother-in-law. The latter is said to
have been as Indifferent as if she had
never met her son-in-law.
From Chicago. long noted for it's
surprising statistics in marriage and
divorce, comes the record for the
swiftest courtship Of the year, though
not the speediest divorce. One cold,
inhospitable February day Charles
Korpes stepped into a Chicago saloon.
Now it happened that the owner of
this particular bar was a buxom wild
ow. Korpes sized up the comfortable
surroundings. After Is minutes of
wooing he proposed and was accepted.
The sequel was told in court one
month later. when the erstwhile bux-
ON widow was seeking relief from her
husbands extravaganza and his habit
of drawing a revolver on her to en-
force his demands.
More marriage licenses were issued
in Chicago in June. 1900, than in any
previous month of Cook county's his
tory, 2150 couples obtaining permits
to wed. Chicago's Gretna Green is st.
Joseph, Mich. across the lake. All
Sunday matrimonial records were
broken there on Aug. ~, when 7S
couples were Joined together for bet
ter or for worse-mostly worse. prob
ably.
Courtship and marriage implies di-
vorce to a greater or less extent. The
blue ribbon for sundering the greatest
number of tangled hymenial ties in a
single day was proudly taken by st.
Louis. Yet people sometimes will
sneer at st. Louis as a slow town.
Poor little overworked Cupid was bat
tered and hammered and twisted out
of all recognition, on Nov. 26, when
four circuit court judges took off their
coats, figuratively speaking, and after
hearing the total of 100 divorce cases
granted so DEGREES.
San Francisco contributes the rec
ord for the speediest divorce, and
neat and Workmanlike job it seems to
have been. Edwin w. Evans. a wide
awake commercial traveller, with the
timely aid of swift California court,
got his decree of legal separation
from an incompatible partner of the
maiden name of O'Brien in precisely
20 minutes. At 10 o'clock on the morn
10 minutes later a lawyer submitted
ing of July 81 he filed his complaint
the wife's answer; at 1920 the Judge
signed the decree, and the liberated
husband bolted from the court room
to catch a train. But Mr.. Evans. it is
proper to add. brought to his aid in
preparing the case, the knowledge of
a professional. He was no amateur.
He had everything cut and dried. He
had been in the divorce mill before
and had carefully written out a copy
of an old decree. which the judge
obligingly signed so that he shouldn't
miss his train.
The record for the largest aggregate
business in divorces still is held by
tnlcaSO, the great centre or the In
dustry. The Chicago divorce mill
grinds with steady all-the-year
round motion. The average grist is
about dozen divorces day, or, say,
1000 q year. About 1000 petitions
were granted in the first six months
of 1900. William Bateman Leeds paid
the record price for Chicago divorce.
1t is said that he gave his wife ST.
100000.
Mrs. Charles Reeves, a patient at
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 glottis. Mrs.
Anna Mitchell obtained an injunction
from Chicago judge in November to
restrain her husband. from whom she