The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-24

San Diego. Cal. Nov. 24.-Mrs
Katherine Tingley's colony OF theo-
sophists is all agog in anticipation OF
the wedding tomorrow of Lyman j
Gage, ex-Secretary of the Treasury
and Mrs. +. Ada Ballou, whose en-
gagement recently became known de-
spite the efforts OF the principals to
keep 1t secret Mrs. Ballou Is a recent
convert to theosophy, but Mr.. Gage for
some years past has been one of Mrs
Tingley's most eminent dicisples. Af-
ter their marriage the former Secretary
of the Treasury and his bride will take
up their residence in a palatial home
recently completed for them at Point
Iona.
This will be Mr., Cages third ven-
ture into matrimony. His first wife, to
whom he was welded In 1864. was
Miss Sarah Etheridge, daughter of a
physician of Hastings, MINI. She died
in 1874, and some ten or twelve years
later Mr.. Gage married Mrs. Cornelia
Washburn Gage of Denver. whose
death few years ago left Mr.. Gage
a widOwer for the second time.
Mr.. Cages finacee, who is the daugh-
ter of George NJ. Ballou. a prominent
San Diego merchant, has passed
through a varied matrimonial career.
Several years ago she was married to
a Pittsburg man who was winter
visitor here. The courtship was brief
but romantic. She told friends that he
proposed while they were on sail
boat becalmed in the bay at night.
He died soon after the wedding and
the widow returned here from Pitts
burg, where they had gone to live.
She resumed her maiden name by
Three years ago a Kansas City capi-
talist named Moore was here for the
summer and fell before the charms
of the widow Ballou. He was an elder
ly man and soon after their engage
ment was announced he returned to
his home in Kansas City to prepare
for the wedding and died there before
his bride-to-be could reach him. She
contested his will, but failed to win
a portion of his large estate.
Notable Washington Wedding.
Washington. ID. c.. Nov. 24.-St
Johns church was the scene of a not
able wedding at noon today, when
Miss Yulee Noble. daughter of Mrs.
william Belden Noble and grand
daughter of the late United States
Senator David Yule of Florida, be-
came the bride of Lieut. Sherman
Miles. u S. A., only son of Lieut.. Gen.
Nelson A. Miles. The church was
crowded with prominent representa-
tives OF the official and social life of
the national capital, together with
guests from New York, Chicago and
other points.
The brides attendants were Miss
Elizabeth Parker, daughter of Con-
gresham and Mrs. Richard Wayne
Parker of New Jersey; Miss Joanna
Schroeder, Miss Evelyn Chew and Miss
Trythena Read of New York The
bridegroom had Colgate Hoyt of New
York as his best man. The ushers
were Lieut.. Philip Matthews of Fort
Monroe, Lieut.. Harold w. Huntley of
Fort Myer, Percy Weeks and Sher-
man Hoyt of New York. Chauncey
Haskell and William Emery. Jr., of
Washington.
To Wed at Fort Adams.
Newport, r. l., Nov. 24.-Fort Adams
Is to be the scene of brilliant military
wedding tonight. when Miss Caro-
line Gibson, daughter of Major Robert
]. Gibson, U. s. A., and Mrs Gibson,
is married to Lieut.. Avery ]. Cooper,
of the Coast Artillery Corps. Lieut..
Cooper will take his bride to Fort
Plckens. Fla, where he is now sta
toned. s3lf