The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-09-27
MATRIMONIAL ALTAR ELUSIVE,
Former lroquois Minister Gets Two Lii
censes to Wed, but of No Avail.

rormer iroquois Minister Gets Two liz
censes to Wed, but of No Avail.
lroquois, S. D., Sept. 26.-Dispatches
from Yankton give Interesting accounts
Of the efforts of a former %Iroquois min
lister to obtain a wife. The first chap
ter should have been located in Iro-.
quois. the home of the lady whom the
minister hopes to some time make his
wife.
Evedis Asadoorian is an Assyrian and
for some time the pastor of the Con-
gregational church here, where bis
Wife died last January, leaving three
or four small children. Very soon at
ter the death of his wife Asadoorian
became infatuated with Jessie Harris,
a prominent %Iroquois lady, and last
April he procured from the clerk of
courts for Beadle county a license to
marry, giving his w age as 3S years
and that of Miss Harris as 81 years.
objection 10 the union being made by
relatives and friends of the lady, the
marriage was not consummated. and
criticism Of the minister's actions was
SO severe that it was deemed best for
hlm to locate elsewhere, and according
~ ne resigned his passionate at Iroquois
and took up his abode at Lebanon.
People of Iroquois meanwhile were
beginning to forget the sensation v-len
suddenly Asadoorian appeared in Iro-
quois n obtained an interview witt,
his hoped-for bride. The minister's
stay was brief, and the next heard of
him he appeared in Yankton with Miss
Harris and applied to the county Judge
to be united in marriage. The license
secured in Beadle county was regarded
10 be OF no value in Yankton county
and the officer therefore declined to
perform the ceremony until a Yankton
county license was procured. This done,
Asadoorlan and the lady again sought
the judge, and when tho ceremony vas
about to he nnrfprnoaJ tha l,;a%U $50
clared that she nae changed her mind
and decided not to be married until
CnrlstHias. This seems to have sur
pr1sed the reverend gentleman, bu, he
could do nothing but abide his time.
The young lady returned to her studies
as a student of Yankton college. and
Asadoorian has gone back to his work
at Lebanon.
Asadoorian is an Assyrian, well ed
ucated and quite successful in pastoral
work. U appears to nave some Pc
culiar notions as to matrimonial ar
fairs. He has held pastorates at Henry
and C~enterville, this state. His wife
VINO died last January, was a missions
airy to Armenia and there met and con-
verified him.
DUEL MAY PROVE FATAL.
Custer, S. D., Sept. 26.-Because he
would not take suggestions REGARDING
MS work, John Trewhella, a powerfully
built man and a former prize fighter.
lies at the point of death with five ugly |
wounds in his body.
John Nelson, a fellow employee on
the ranch. tried to tell Trewhella how
his work should be done but his sug-
gestlons We're not we'll received by the
latter, who made several threats. SAT-
urdaY was Trewhella's birthday, and To
celebrate the event he got g~loriously
drunk ana in that condition an
NnO1nGe03 MS FinfnntinrM ofH lrs1It. y.yEZWHsj
IN self defense Nelson used d large
pocketsknife with the result that at
the8end Of the melee Trewhella had re-
ceiyed g number Of ugly wounds which
VII probably Y his death.
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klLLED#BY FALL DOWN STAIRS.
Prominent Yankton County Farmer
Meets Death in Peculiar Manner.
Yankton. s. p, Sept. 26.-The lifeless
remains OF James McKeachie, a promi-
snene farmer residing near WaIshtown.