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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1897
Page
3
Amos Bencroft tells Mabel he loves her and plans to marry before departing for Sergein. He faces disapproval from Mabel's mother but wins her blessing after proving devotion. A confrontation with Mr Crue flees. Amos proposes a private, registrar wedding for Christmas with his mother present. Nearby, a rattlesnake hunter in Susquehanna cements a harsher frontier tone.
Gen Thomas Howard Ruger major general US Army retires by law on April 2 1893 after forty three years in service. He graduated from West Point in 1854 as third in class headed by G W Custis Lee with contemporaries like J E B Stuart. Ruger fought in Civil War campaigns including Maryland Shenandoah Valley Antietam Gettysburg and the Franklin battle earning brevets. He served as superintendent of the Military Academy 1871 1876 and held commands in Georgia Alabama Montana Dakota and the Pacific. His successor is expected to be Maj Gen Wesley Merritt. Two final anecdotes about journalist Justin McCarthy are included.
A mass meeting of nearly two thousand women at Omaha Nebraska elected eleven women to the Board of Lady Managers for the Trans Mississippi Exposition. The selected women include an author of note a noted china painting artist a skilled musician a prominent library board member a former general manager of foreign mission societies of the Christian Church three teachers with city school ties and others prominent in literary and social circles. They are deemed well suited to help ensure the exposition's success.
Amid letters from Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates, the marriage of Miss Maude Millett, famed for Sweet Lavender as Minnia Gilfilian, stirs much interest. Her celebrated status as a typical English girl with good looks and maidenly archness fuels speculation on lasting happiness after the wedding.
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