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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1903)
THE I LLUSTKATED BEE. 19 r Romantic Matrimonial Fits and Misfits October 4, 1903. ;ik'. fare' ul de Uen speeding liith.r; bi and the si. that saye one Journey I ily ove. ' strange-i cf the c Here y the den .'till, and ! witlt vent in l' uvenut fill ven ' were bl hold n .1 the g structure niiKI gal. they oil' ncir it coul or I did mirs y hall, ciirce be to lin in Itop at, the f ri.ll gua i'm the ti nI Put, siijht on d; fo- Roman av beer 'liaxlans for m nth mlgi no hit' ,:r5:" The. most strenuous matrimonial career levealed since the century began la pub Mcly charged up to an Indiana woman by Henry 1'ohlmnn, her last husband, in a toss bill tiled In a divorce suit pending In the court at Koknran. Mr. I'ohlman Bays his wife, who Is suing for divorce, has mairled fourteen hiixhunds, thirteen of whom are living. Klght of the fourteen, he asserts lived In Mercer county, Ohio, and the other six reside in Howard county, In diana, five dwelling In Kokomo. The names of the Indiana husliunds are James Mc Clure, Thomas McVety, Thomas Eades, John Tyler, Richard Johnson and the pres ent husband. Henry Pohlman, the woman declares, has had a startling matrimonial career himself. She says before she married him he had been married nineteen times. She asserts he married and divorced one woman four teen times. When he led her to the altar she was under the Impression that she was only bride No. 6, she says. She learned with a sense of disillusionment that she really was bride No. 20. Mrs. Pohlman admits having married all the Indiana men charged against her as husbands. She declares, however, she had too much good taste ever to marry more than one man from Ohio. Ohio men, she BHys, make good presidents, but poor hus bands. "If I have thirteen husbands living," she said, with line scorn. "I wish I could find them. Perhaps out of the collection I mlsht come across one that could support me. As It is I am compelled to earn my own living. I told Tohlman once for spite that I had eight husbands living in Ohio, but It was not the truth. My only Ohio husband was James Mcdure, who died after we came to Indiana. "Ven I goes eourtln' dat vomans I not know alretty dat she have the marrying habit," Raid Pohlman, an old German in comfortable circumstances, who owns a farm near Kokomo. "I tink she vas a quiet little vidow vomans and she make me a goot frau. Ven I makes her mad one day she say to me she hav eight husbands in Ohio. I vas a leetle surbrleed at dot. but I ijt ttlc wall. Ja1e llP my mind alretty to stand for it. I it, for soon w uKht I vas yoost her second husband. a- doorway th I could worry along as No. 9, as I had j vomans and de farm, while the odor .ght fellers was off in Ohio. But ve.n I arned dat five more husbands was living alretty yet, and right here in dis county, I throws tip my hands and quits. I married her in good faith. I never tought I va marrying into a large family, most of whom vas husbands." An Kleetrle UrildiiiK. One of the most novel weddings ever held In1 New York will be that of Miss Agnes Hose Iane of 40 Rodney street, Brooklyn, and James Rossman, known as the "Elec tric Wizard of Georgia." The marriage will take place In Christ church, Bedford avenue and Morton street, Brooklyn, on September 16. To honor Mr. Rossman's southern birth the chimes at Christ church will play 'Dixie" as the bridal party enters the church, which will be lavishly decorated with electric lights specially Introduced for the occasion. The Joined initials of the bride and bridegroom will be written in electric lights over the altar. These will be dark till the bridal procession approaches, when they will suddenly burst Into flame. Lines of tiny electric bulbs will sepurnte the pews reserved for relatives and special guests instead of the usual white satin rlblKins, and there will be twenty pews re served for mcmtiers of the Professional Woman's league, which win attend In a body. The bride Is a member of the league and a well known actress, having played with Joseph I lu worth, Otis Hurlin and other noted actors throughout the country. Her future husband, whom she met while on a tour of the southern states, is known in Atlanta as "Electric Jim," and In the proprietor of a pleasure resort simi lar to Luna park. After the novel elec tric wedding the conple will reside In At lanta. Society Leader Klopea. Preferring the liveryman she hved to any ehoioe that influential parents on high sta tion In life might bring her, and eluding the vigilance of her family, who had kept her under close surveillance for several days, Miss Cloyetta Brownlow of Knox villc, Tenn., aged 1. became the wife of Mark E. Pritchett at Bristol last Monday. The bride is the youngest child of Congress man W. P. Brownlow of the First district and the man she married is a liveryman of Jonenlx.ro, who is a oousin of Senator P. D. Pritchard of North Carolina, although they spell their names differently. For Mime time Prilcbelt desired to pay attention to Miss Brownlow, but the first effort be made resulted in the young woman's being forbidden to apeak to him. A few weeks ago Congressman Brown- left for tl west to investigate the management of the branches of the Na tional Soldiers' honM. This gaye the daughter an opportunity to communicate with her lover, and the result was the ar rangements were made for the trip to Bristol, where they were married. Cnorsge He-warded. Last winter Miss Jennie Foss was teach ing school In the vicinity of Florence, Wis. One cold morning when she opened the schoolhouse door a wildcat was sitting where the second reader class usually roosted and it tcgan to fix Its legs as If It would fain leap upon Miss Foss and rend her. She promptly released a scream that beat anything the wildcat had ever heard and as she screamed she quickly opened an umbrella. The ferocious feline was not prepared for such tactics and was glad to make its escape through a window, taking a little of the aash along. A certain young man named Bower heard of the accident and so admired Miss Foss' courage that he laid selge to her heart and the other day they were married. This Is an exceptional case. There are a good many girls who could scare wildcats, but few of them are engaged. f'llmax of Romance. A marriage of interest to Kenwood and I'niversity of Chicago circles was that of Miss Louise Dodge of Dixon, HI., to William Ralp Kerr, jr., of Chicago. The romance which led to the wedding is another to add to the already long list of I'niversity of Chicago student love af fairs. Miss Dodge and Mr. Kerr were members of the same class at the university, both getting their degrees in 1902. Mr. Kerr immediately entered Into business In Chicago. Miss Dodge taught for one year at Mrs. Starrett's school for girls, on the South Side. As undergraduates Miss Dodge and Mr. Kerr were both prominent In all the student affairs of the college. Both were members of the university dramatic club, and it was while rehearsing the dramatic club plays, many of which had love scenes, that' the two amateur players learned to feel in reality the love which they acted on the college stage. Mr. Kerr was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi and of the class honor societies. Miss Dodge was a Quad ra rgler. Matrimonial 3otes. Charles Tjitln of Chicago and Miss Iatira Jeanne of St. Paul were married in St. Paul by Court Commissioner ClJllU'k on the condition that they shall not live to gether for a year. She Is 19; he is 2t. Daniel Overmyer of Michigan City, Ind., Is In search of a wife. "1 know exactly what kind of a woman I want for u wife," he says, "and 1 can't be Imposed on by any gold brtcK schemes. I'm too old to be In a hurry, but I'm getting anxious to settle down and have it over with. I'll give a bunch of money and half a beef to the man that finds me what I want." When the yacht Pathfinder, with F. W. Morgan of the firm of Morgan &. Wright of Chicago and Mrs. Morgan on board, anchored off Milwaukee last Tuesday a telegram was given them announcing the marriage of their son Ernest to Miss Lillian tiiffert in Denver Monday. Ernest Is only IS and his bride was a Chicago nelghlior. As the parents objected to the marriage on the score of youth, the young couple eloped. Thomas Haskell of Marshalltown, la., arrived In Peoria, III., Tuesday and in the afternoon met a young woman named Mary Hufford of Lincoln, Mo. In lesn than an hour they were married, left town in a covered wagon and ramped on the outskirts of the city. At an early hour next morning the bridegroom was awak ened by strange noises, and, looking out, saw his bride climbing into a buggy occu pied by Hnother man. Before he could call to her the fellow drove rapidly away. Haskell asked the police to help him get his bride hark. Mrs. Ralph E. Brown of Hendricks county, Indiana, in her suit for divorce, charges that her husband let a horse select his wife. She and Mr. Brown weru mar tied in August last, and separated in De cember. She says Mr. Brown was paying attention to a woman in Indianapolis, and she herself lived In Clay ton. On the day fixed for the wedding Brown got into his buggy, undecided whether to marry her or the In dianapolis girl. He droped the reins over the dashboard and left the decision to the horse, which turned off at the Clayton road, thus deciding the defendant iu his choice of a wife. Surprise was caused In Boston by tite an nouncement that William H. Baker, a young Boston lawyer, and Miss Marie K. Sweet of Denver had been married June 15 by ReV. Edward Everett Halo. Eighteen months ago Baker met Miss Sweet iu Den ver. She Is the duughter of Colonel Owen J. 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