Smallpox Doesn't Postpone Wedding

News Items Condensed For Hasty Perusal

1899

At Seymour, Ind., Frank Robinson, a merchant of North Vernon, and Miss Caroline Musser, also of that city, had sent out wedding invitations to be married in North Vernon. The smallpox having broken out in North Vernon, and the bride's father having exposed himself, the young couple had to change their plans. Robinson stole her from the house and they stood in a buggy and were married by a minister who stood some distance away.

When George E. Sterry, druggist, opened a package received by mail, an asp crawled upon his hand. Prompt action in shaking it off saved his life. Police are investigating.

Maz Haala, a bride of a week, committed suicide, at Bucyrus, 0., after cooking her husband's dinner. She said married life was not what she thought it was.

In London yesterday an American millionaire paid $2,500 for one of the only two copies of "The Troublesome Raigne of John," dated 1591, supposed to be the work of Shakespeare.

Mary Anderson, whose beauty, talent and fame to this day are the hope and despair of uncounted American women, the admiration of as many men, is in New York again. She has come to pay a long promised visit to her mother and stepfather and to the relatives of her husband. She is accompanied by her husband, Antonio de Navarro. They arrived by the White Star liner Majestic yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Navarro traveled incognito, as "Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Hope." But their effort to conceal their identity from fellow-voyagers was unsuccessful.

—Trenton Evening Times, Trenton, NJ, April 27, 1899, page 3.