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tifaiOSINESS,fore the Attorney General, just as it was found, which Mr. Lockhart intimated was tar from satisfactory, j Less than half a dozen persons knew Mr. Lockhart was here and the first intimation that there was to be a shake up appeared in the Indianapolis papers a few v days later. The rest is known.Circuit Clerk Carr Decides Issue No More Licenses To Elopers.ToBLUE BLOODED,Several Couples Who Came This City On Thursday Refused.ToHOW THE DISGRACE WAS STOPPED*1rettyGW-vs air Out-Is-Wino-1* your.looting,it year.r wereso Wl-mutttu-ro was'i'OWllwhileus foil 1 sfore-o liave eon nty, nails.iiuimmlot forOf |HKIschool »e (‘refill this Kt Hep* ►r boysMineral itr eon-tmpniiy 1* build-W ritern. s.v have Mpletiisisultingwritten It id let-way». of thernkt\ nhaving c I n n ip.lie tiuH* ofn the 1 allsdu io. An a ho iul-lt;i upon ho was id. lie lire theis said, merryia tldkv is on-Hovoral0 In thet, agoyt1 Instir-titaf he njujmriyTllsilU'Sfn‘ amount one** Yotrtoh,Ti.»rs one-lire stillIt is all off and the matrimonial•»business in Jeffersonville has met its finish.No more licenses are to be issued unless the applicants furnish an affidavit that the female has resided in the state at least 30 days. This will scotch the snake.Circuit Clerk Carr, who is in Oregon township visiting his father, telephoned his deputy', Edward Hanlon, not to issue any more li-c -uses unless the law was strictlylived up to. That finished the gatne.People who think the stoppage is only temporary will find out different if the disgraceful practices art renewed. Impecunious ruralists f ora Kentucky,who are too poor tlt; p ly moie than a quarter for a ceremony and high toned society pc-opL who corae here to marry to hide their shatae will- now have to go elsewhere.Deputy Clerk Hanlon was seen last evening and he said in response to questions: ‘‘Yes, it is true that Vfr. Carr notified me from Oregon not to issue licenses to non-residents, and that means that no more licenses will be issued except in cases where affidavits are made covering every requirement of the law as to the age and location of the applicants. ”The reporter called up the clerk’s office at New Albany, and the deputy stated that non residents could not get license there. Several couplei came to! Jeffersonville yes terday afternoon, but they were sent to New Albany. Two of them applied to Magistrate Hause and he •*ent the first pair to the clerk’s office and the second to his rival, Magistrate Nixon, as lie had, in the meantime, learned that the die was cast, and “finis’' might be written of the matrimonial business.“It’s all over, boys,” said the jolly ’Squire Hause, as he lounged in an easy chair in front of his office, “and I’m really glad of it. The business had become distasteful to me, and I would have been out of itlong ago, but for the pleasure I hadin beating the opposition magis trates and ministers.* But I’ll be doing business at the old stand for many a day yet. though, ol course, in other lines, A good man can’t be downed, and I’ll give 'em a surprise before long. Let’s go and have a little game of ‘sell pitch,’ ” and he led the way to his famous matrimrnial parlors, where tne bidding roon began on the gain*.It may be interesting to know how the beginning of the end was brought about. First it was the stench that surrounded the whole business. Secondly the secret marriage of some three or four Clark county couples,one couple es pcciallv. The point was reached where it was next to impossible to learn of a license being issu d to any one.On June 24,a letter wa» addressed to Attorney General Taylor asking him to construe the law on the right to keep secret the names of local couples. This letter e^n-taiiied statements about elopements ‘hat were backed up by newspaper clippings, telling how Kentucky couples were coming here and making the solemnity of marriage a mockery. Nothing was heard from this letter until August 9, some six weeks later, when the following was received from Attorney General Taylor:“I have dela3cd answering yourMrs. Atm Wilson, mother of A. Wilson, of Scottsburg, is dead at Fort Scott, Kas., where she was visiting a daughter. * Mrs Wilsonwas born in V jrginia in 1811, andcame to Jefferson county with her parents when six years old. She was married to Thomas Wilson In 1833. She was the mother ofseven children, four of whom are living. She traced her ancestry to Robert Bruce I, of Scotland.RED MEN COMING.Madison Herald.The Red Men’s excursion from this city to Jeffersonville on Labor Day, Monday, September 2, will leave here at 7 o’clock sharp, or the steamer Columbia. After the parade and celebration in Jeffersonville many will go the grapd picnic at Arctic Springs. An unusually pleasant trip is promised all whogo,etiat!8F. TAYLURElected Deputy Grand Master Of Colored Masons.The Grand Lodge or Colored Masons in Indiana adjourned at Anderson late last night after elect ing the following officers: GrandMaster, D. W. Caine, of Seymour; Deputy Grand Master, R F. Taylor, of Jeffersonville; Grand Sento Warden, P. C. Ten ill, Mitchell; Grand Junior Warden, Walter Rus sel, Wabash, Grand Secretary, F. D, Blake, Terre Haute; Grand Treasurer, Charles Leeneer, Indianapolis; Grand Lecturer, H. V. Eggleston, Bloomington; Grand Chaplain, Henry White, Muncie. The naxt meeting will be held at Crawfordsville on the third Tuesday m August, 1902.The Grand L’jdge indorsed Mr.Eggleston’s plan for a Colored in dustriul school colony at Bloomington, and he was ek ted Grand Lee* turer in order that he might travel at the expense of the Graud Lodge and promote his colony plan Andrew Carnegie promised by let* ter to aid the colony.1SaniianaiMrjis vui1EdCbicaMif two'v vibe.C.Bloot his mMuhas 1JohnMiTexMiAla.,Mrs*Mi Jeffei M. VALL READYTo Qo When His Wings ReachHim.John Bourke, a well known character uf Columbus, has had the eof fin in which be will be buried made from a tree planted by his daughter.Bourke was born in County Galway. Ireland, In 1820, and carue to this country in 1838, since when he has never heard from bis family. When he came over he helped a poor Irish girl, who was a stowaway on the ship, and who hid in a barrel, by carrying her food until well out at sea. Contrary to romance he never saw her after landing.He settled in Bartholomew county and his daughter Annie planted a fine walnut sapling in front of their home. It grew under her care to a tall tree. Two years ago he had it made iuto lumber from which a fine coffin was constructedin which the remains of Bourke will rest after he dies.Miand son cm:CoorHiglitiR*MSatuvisit dell M Orar Miss a weMJone ty ai evenP(gran are 1at RUMot-ExpTrirSHERIFFSSecond Term Begins With TheNew Year.claimed jImtn i letter respecting the matrimonial*Tthie ) business in your town until I couldget time to take it up. I have beeu(1 i( ’it » l«*w»-snhs 1* j crowded with other matters, that Marian jcarae in ahead of this btuiness, L ....1 {T ! that 1 have been utterly unable toive it attention until now,“1 will in a few days have myt| deputy call on you for informationI on this subject. I assure you that♦’ that the tic’ay has not been on ac-1j count of any discourtesy, but ab i Mhite lack lt;i time in which to take1.1 W Sllcf I lt;b■iue »utlt;* ir T!i«‘MT t.CMJUJiilm t\ u bv’nf\)‘ ; it Up.,|lt;lh I “1 think st advisable that noth-By an act of the last Legislature the term ol Sheriff Rave, which should have expired yesterday, has been extended to January 1, when he begins his second term. This gives him about four years and five months in office.While Mr. Rave has been acting as Sheriff he has had custody of r.early 100 prisoners, not one of whom ever escaped by sawing out of the tin jail of Clark County. A tew trusties, most of whom were recaptured, took advantage of the Sheriff’s confidence and walked away. Those who hive never re turned have done the city a great service.Mters sorn at tlMHusW.beetPayMCoobonwhohuslNter'hi*V.mailiveChi.Oheir C ditbdistpiklt;awa Ions the whi fic lt;neoMETTh(! i* »'n ‘. iiid. iii.i'i 'i .*.lt;-151' ■ . t1 *•’?.lt;■«! al-SH !«***t U'jusrtjting at all be said about the matterpv u d m g lev es 1.1 g a tun:, asitin* *intetfcre with cjUeetins*i VKiemt. wi.l appreciate this.| I can assure you tnat if the coti li-I tion of urs exists, as is reported,h *' n* !'t is H shame and disgrace andn. ‘lt;ii ; UJ11 St 1k‘ stnpped.”nji, j ^jn of July 13, I)ep-, t j utv Attorucy (general L B. «AckUi' j v;,r,u r *•! hart reached the city and remained tWt m.jii I *IKre umij \ 45 that afternoon wheniI he went to Louisvil-e to gather some statist ilt;-s there. Duting his stay here he was at Auditor Badger’s office and itr the afternoonrailed on Circuit Clerk Carr. He*was at the Nr:ws office where h; ob lained a dozen or moie papers of various dates containing references sensational marriages. WhenHer Former Husbands FuneralProcession.\Ti*.-.h:v ('on *v si tiby Win. i v. whSU■ v In,j 1*\ 1 ^ Iinu0» »f »«.lt;* t lit’1,itleft he said be bad no idea ualt; juii-1 what the outcome would be, but the whole matter would be laid be*William Bright, an inmate of the Brown County Infirmary, died yesterday of dropsy. He was married a few years ago to Mattie Fainter, and in a short time poverty drove them to the county farm to live. His wife became tired of fife at the institution and secured a divorce, marrying Cornelius Followell a few weeks ago.Followell was afterward stricken with paralysis aud having no resources but a small pension wascompelled to go to the iufirtnary, taking his wife with him. As the'ouple approached the countv farm.he body ol her first husband wa being earned to the grave, Followell is in a serious condition. He wasa soldier io the Mexican and Civil Wars,S Coiandwot has; qti€ pla;whlt; hadHaHatha top the the HacouIancriglault; sta hatsiti anc ouswe:
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