The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-01-13

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Chicago Board of Trade, showing
the bulls and bears elsmoring In the
pit at fever heat. Twelve pounds Of
lfashlipht powder being distributed at
800 different points around tile bal.
cony ard igriteds simultaneously by
electricity. % II
BIG FAMILIES.
Two record smashing families bound
for Chicago landed from q steamer at
Baltimore in April. The head Of one
family was Joseph Zowinski, aged 7S,
whose sons, daughters and grandchil.
dren number 80. The head of the other
was Carl Zenke, the father OF o brood
numbering IL. The Two Million club,
for promoting population, ought to
hand out few medals to Joe and
Carl.
An extraordinary instance OF punct-
.uality in maternity was given by
Nine. Byrres, giving birth to a boy,
fourth TO arrive on the same date at
exact Intervals of one year. Men Of
science regard this as q remarkable re-
cord, and great curiosity is felt as to
whether the woman will again bring
Off the feat in January, 1905.
ALI hands agree to place the terpsi.
chorean pennant over the domicile Of
Mrs. John Polinski, Jersey City
bride, who danced seventY-ssvsn times
at her wedding reception and then
fell In a swoon. She had kept her feet
twinkling from 4 p. m. until long
after midnight, and 1t took a quick
and clever doctor to pull her back to
consciousness.
QUICK MARRIAGE. DEATH. EvoRCE.
At South Bend, Ind, Miss Mary
Mamie Tutt, saleswoman, married
George P. Morehead, well to 90 mer
chant, In haste, but subsequent events
came SO swift that she never thought
OF repentance. A few minutes after
the ceremony Mr.. Morehead willed bis
bride $50, 600; two hours later he was
dead
AZ 4:15 o'clock one afternoon r. C.
Dobbins OF Chicago was closing up a
sl5 600 business deal for big depart.
ment store; at All was slipped out to
3 justice shop and 1T 4:lS was married
10 Miss Eiscle; ut 4:2O o'clock he was
hack In the trta!mln. engaged In an.
other big transaction.
No time for sentiment. in this
great age OF ctviliza tiol and progress, -
he said
But it remained for David Metcalf,
4 Chicago printer, to experience all
the degrees Of matrimonial entangle-
ment In n shorter time than any other
man In history.
He was first marrIe7 In April, 1882.
Tie separated from his wife, and last
september, when entering the sere
and wrinkled period, courIed and won
Miss Lucy Rounds, aged 20: applied
for divorce and supp sei it was gran.
ed; married Miss Rounds, who learned
he had tot been legally divorced. and
had him arrested for bgamy; held to
the grand jury; divorce given to the
iirst. vile on cross bill: blga M st re.
leased on Il Writ Of ha0eas corpus; Fl ivc
minutes later remarked to Miss
Rounds in The presence OF first wife.
Slow music and curtain on the love
affairs Of Dave, al these later events
having occurred within few weeks
Deserted fourteen times in % years
was a record that didn't suit Emma
Larsen of Chicago, and with Tie
courts aid she le6 Carl 90 for keeps.
1t seems almost Incredible" said
Judge Brentano Of this city, when
Mrs. Cosenzo told her tale Of woe and
asked for divorce, that this slip OF
a girl should have had such marital
cxperier &C."
Il was marritd at A." sho said,
and now I'm almost l6. My husband,
Saveria, beat me morning, noon ana
night, and 6on'u want to go back to
hinl any more"
She didn't have to.
The s1 I'd for divorce was
?7rrfrdhisE -yM. Roach, who
sen Of the president OF the Chicago
Union Traction company, in proceeds :
ings lasting 20 minutes.
Leo Peltz, also n Chioagoan,
achieved the high water mark in max.
ing threats.
On o36 different occasions since
our bridal trip in 1885," the wife de-
clarea, Leo has menaced me ana
warned ne that | would soon see my
tiniSE.''
The judge assented when she added:
This is where get f."
After 20 unsuccessful attempts
Itcil Davis OF Cadllaco, Mich, com.
mitted suicide at Milwaukee, by tax
ing poison. She had tried almost
every known method, including bridge
and was afflicted with a
sui ;idal mania, The final blow fell
when she was reprovcd for complain.
ing about the color Of the curtains in
her room.
TIE BIGGEST LOBSTER.
The biggest lobster ever seen in
Chicago arrived from the Atlantic
coast in November. 1t weighed Is
pounds aud 8 ounces, was over eight
feet long ard had claws Is inches in
length. The dealers estimated It's
age at 100 years. AS 1T died on the
way, fine lot OF salad was missing.
Monster. ribbon bedecked Iowa
steer weighing 5000 pounds, broke
all records for heit at the live stock
show in Chicago.
Beef at SO cents pound on the
hoof' was the precendented price
paid ct this show for ohc cham pion
steer, Clear Lake Jute, exhibited by
the University Of Minnesota.
The largest rab Dit hunt of the year
took place In Oregon in January,
when IL was reported that 10, 900 cot
tontailS were killed. some 700 p1en
l-d women participating in the
slaughter.