The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-09
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
The matrimonial mart usually has big
things to show in IL year. All nuptial
speed records We're smashed on Sun
day, August 10, at St Joseph Mich,
Chicagos Gretna Green, when twenty
seven couples from Chicago We're deftly
spliced in one hour and three-quarters
each couple thus having less than five
to go through the mill.
The minister who in 1901 clained the
record with reference to the grand total
of marriages and funerals, connected
with n long minister's life, is the Rev.
j. NJ. Haughey. of Mason City, little
town thirty miles south of Pekin, ILL.,
During his career as Il preacher, a
period of some forty years, he has mar
ried 1857 couples and conducted 500
funerals.
Turning to the divorce side of matri-
mony-a side peculiarly rich in speed
records-one naturally would look to
Chicago, Oklahoma or the Dakotas for
winners. The Chicago speedy divorce
calendar for the year found it's stellar
performance in the case of Mrs. G..
Krueger. 1t took this lady a trifle less
than ten minutes to convince Judge
Dunno that she ought to be cut loose
from her husband Henry William
Krueger, saloonkeeper of the Windy
City.
At $50 a. ~, August 2S, she filed her
bill in the Circuit court charging that
Henry. whom she had welded in the
preceding April, was cruel spouse. At
$40 a. m., the decree had been signed
to l,a
bride and taxing the recreant Henry
$1,000 alimony. The highest speed
achievement in former cases in any
part of the United States was twenty
minutes for the legal separation of Il
San Francisco couple, in 1900.
FEATs IN TRAVEL.
Referring to feats in travel, it cer-
tainly was n great year forFthe au-
tomobile. Even in those days OF
chronic record-breaking such per-
formance as that of Henri Fournier,
the French chauffeur, who drove a
heavy French racing machine mile
in 81 As seconds on the Coney Island
boulevard, in November, was most
noteworthy.
The long distance record for horse
less vehicles was broken by Arthur j.
Eddy of Chicago, Il former president
of the Automobile club of that city. In
sixty days, from August l, to Septem-
Der 80, he covered $500 miles, travelling
through Michigan, Indiana, Ohio
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey
massachusetts and part of Canada
He averaged about 100 miles II day and
at times maintained Il speed Oh forty
miles an hour.
Wonders incident to travel were pro
claimed in other classes: for example
the unchallenged record of Charles
Bellamy, a Burlington railroad firemen
who in eleven years of faithful SER
vice Travelled 606,S40 miles and SHOW
elled 32,5O1 tons of coal on the way
He never lost trip or received
scratch through accident. Railroad
men say that it Is Il case of physical
endurance never equalled.
An engine of the Great Northern
Railway in England, which was buil
in 1870 completed in August an aSGre'
gate of 100000 miles, breaking the
English record in this respect.
The speediest long-distance delivery
of mail ever accomplished in the worlc
was that of the consignment which lef
Sydney, Australia, oct 10, for London
England, by the American route, :
distance of TO- 2G5 miles was covered il
thirty-one days. a saving of four days
over the Suez Canal route.
Around the world in 60 days 10 hours
and 80 minutes is the new globe-gird
ing record, which was completed las
July by Charles c. Ft2monis chi
cago high school boy, This beat TIN
best previous fast circuit of the worlt
by several days.
FEATS OF APPETITE,
The champion gormand of the yea
was Elmer Pfeifer, an Arcola, ILL.,
youth with an elastic stomach--a chal
that Carlyle probably would haV'
called Il patent digester-who one hun
CRY day in February devoured twenty
four fat ham sandwiches in eNactl!
forty-eight minutes, thereby winning
a wager, with side bets of $15 and es
tablishing a record which undoubted
ly was world beater,
Harry $. Black of Chicago and New
York, recently made the largest con
science contribution to Uncle san
known in the history OF the govern
ment. lie sent to the propero tiicial
SIS. 10000, representing the duty OF
Jewels imported by his wife, which ha'
escaped the vigilance of the inspectors
II was a fruitful year in unprecedent
ed financial, commercial and industrial
transactions. The largest shipment O
gold which ever left New York in
single day was sent to Europe Noy, i
gtaa,,1glin IEuiGAR WIN aim do
Crosse The sum was $7OS2, 5S3l9, ~
other ship in the worlds history ha
ever been so richly laden, Anothe
record Is noted i'm the statement tha
at the opening of business on July 3
the United States treasury had i'm II
possession The largest fund of gold he'll
by any nation in the world and tn
greatest ever owned by this govern
ment the amount being S5O4,354,279.
Wall street had record hreakln
40 To 40 ttt,