Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-22
Thirty-Seven Couples Married in Lit
tie Over an Hour by English
Clergyman.
URGED TO WAIT, BUT REFUSED
Desire to Be Married on Christmas a
Growing Fad.
Scotch MINERS ARE SOCIALISTS
Bill to Pay Members Of Parliament
VIII Be Rushed.
TO RECEIVE $4,000 A YEAR
u vasIon of irish OfficehoIders Is Dis
turbinE LOndOn-Q of
brothers Have Golden
Weddiurs.
BY PAUL LAMBETF.

BY PAUL LAMBETH.
LONDON, Jan. 2l.-(Speciai to The Bee)
The record for marriage belongs to the
town OF Canning In that quaint place
there Is an increasing fascination about a
Christmas wedding, and as consequence
last Christmas there was a greater rush
than ever, thirty-seven marriages being
celebrated in seventy-flve minutes by the
vicar and his curate Despite all the per
persuasion of the vicar. these thlrty-seven
couples insisted upon being married on
Christmas after calling OF banns. Canon
Buckley would have spread the weddings
over several days, ~ Canning refused
and only one couple postponed the cere-
mony.
4 LOnR->.iVed Tribe.
Five brothers belonging to the Sheerness
family OF Penney have lived to celebrate
their golden weddings. Mr.. and Mrs. r..
j. Penney reached the anniversary last
Wednesday and Mr. Penney is the last of
the five brothers to attain this distinction.
Excepting in the case of the eldest brother,
who is 30 years Of age and had celebrated
his golden wedding, the wife of each
brother is still alive
scotch Miners for Socialism.
Al the recent conference at N9A NhN
Scottish Miners federation unanimously
declared that workers cannot obtain the
value Of their labor and disputes be
avoided until the means and instruments
OF all material production distribution
and exchange are owned and controlled
by the state. The conference called for
the amendment of the mines act so that
miners should have the right TO appoint
by ballot local pit inspectors to be paid
by the state.
Pay for Members.
Members of the labor party say they
have been given to understand that the
salary which the government proposes to
pay to all members of Parliament is 600 a
year, and that the proposal will be retro
active, so that salaries fall due at the
opening of the new Parliament. The gov
eminent bill will, therefore, be introduced
early In the session and passed rapidly
through ali its stages
EiEht-HOur Law Sustained.
The first case under the miners eight
hour act was heard at Newcastle, stat
Yorkshire, recently, when Frank Hall, as
sistant engineer, and Thomas Dobson man
ager at the Silverdale collieries, pleaded
guilty to abettng and conniving with
= William Myott, ump-minder. and Others
I'm a violation Of the act.
The act provides that pump minder'
should not be below ground over min,
and one-half hours per day. Some of thos,
employed at Silvetdale collieries, however
urged Hall to allow them to work double
.shifts, and it was alleged defendants con
nived at this, Dobson was fined 20 shil
lings and costs, and Hail 10 shillings anC
costs.
woman I'm Hard Luck.
An English woman forty-fiye years Az
married a sailor in one Of the seapor
towns. The sailor deserted her and durinl
all these forty-five years since the de
sertion the woman has lived a hard-work
ing life but she cannot obtain her oil
age pension now because, having married
foreigner, she has lost her English ma
tionality.
Music Makes Prisoners Weep.
There was a touching illustration of tn
truth Of the old saying that music hat
charms to soothe the savage beast a
Norwood Scrubs Jail, II was during a
entertainment provided by the members a
the Western District Choral society whic
took the form OF selections from Handel
Messiah" So deeply affected by tn
music were the prisoners that in man
cases tears toulu ne seen liitNllub hoN
their cheeks A proportion OF them wer
comparatively young.
The tragic death of Thomas Nesbit. VIII
was found murdered in a railway carriag,
recalls the fact that the mystery SURROUND
ing the deaths of Miss Money whose bod
= was found I'm Merstham tunnel In Septeu
her, 1895, and Miss Camp, who in Febrl
AIRY 1897. was murdered while travelling b,
tween Hounslow and Waterloo, has nevt
been solved.
In the case Of the murder Of Thoma
Briggs a bank clerk, on the North Londo
railway in 1864, the police had to travel
New York TO arrest the Murderer-Frar
Muller-who was ultimately found guilt
and executed
Irish Collectors in London,
The Irish invasion Of England has b,
gun. The civil Service Gazette" stat,
that James Murphy, formerly OF Clonm
and Limerick collection has been aprolntt
collector for North London OF the fol
London collectors three are Irishmel
Messrs. Murphy Oliea and Hallaghan.
NapOriEed Alcohol.
Prof Leonard Inn OF the London ho
pltal has invented an apparatus by whiC
alcoholic stimulant can be conveyed d
rectly TO the lungs OF pneumonia patien
In the form OF vapor
GIANT URSUS FALLS ON LYGII