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CLINGING IVY QUICK.
How She Was Made Mrs. Wood
Without a Minister's Aid.
A QUEER CASE IN A COUNTY COURT.
The Bride Is Middle Aged and the
Groom in His Teens—Citizen Groff
Ties the Knot—The
band Denies the Ceremony
the Wife Sues for Desertion,
West CHESTER, Pa, Sept. 9.
of the most interesting cases ever
in Chester county is now on in the court
here. Judge Clayton, of
county, is on the bench, as both
Waddell and Judge Hemphill are
lated 3 the defendant. It is the case
Ivy Quick against James
Wo ig "Miss
wife of young
with desertion.
tional character
rious points,
Miss Quick is a plain,
wearing woman of 45,
Vood, the defendant,
years ol 1, slender and
mg. He will become
a large property when
majority.
The first witness heard
G. Goff, who married a
and at whos
leged to hu
ers have ma
story for I x
was given to the public
in court
Groff Tells His Story.
“On March 30,
Emile Woo
there stated
umden on sor
father, Rev.
Judge
The cage is of a sensa-
and brings out many cu-
masculine
while ¥
is than 20
intelligent look-
the POSSess 1
he I't
less
aches
house the
He said: 1888
Mr: James
house and
going to
Ivy 8
next «
that the F ha
have the
minister r
to Af r
Cass Of
when the
Was not
he wished a marriag i
I did not know how to fill
“‘He suggested that 1
copy that. My wif
got 1% am
I signed :
« opal BETViC
ant parts
tions A sme.
the <1
as a birthday pr
ring and they were 1
Witness was
tificate and identified
he had filled the parties, The
witness then proceeded: ** We next went
to supper and Ivy and Emile remained
over night, They were several times
my place ofterwards. 1 had
afterwards that they were
They enjoined secresy upon me conoeern-
ing the matter because Emile sdid he
did not want his folks in Pittsburg to
know of his marriage.”
The Marriage Certificate,
The following is a copy of the mar-
riage certificate as produced in court
I. a citizen Tredyfivin, | !
that on the thirty-first day
thousand eight hundred and « ‘
Chester Valley, James Emile Woo 1
Ashton Quick were by me united
riage. tL.
Witness John G.
Signatures of partis
Wood, Ivy A. Wood.
The name of Ivy A. Wood was first
written Quick, and Wood was written
over the top of this. The O88 ©X-
plained that after she had written it that
way she said. “Ah, that is " and
then wrote Wood over the the
first signature,
Walter PP. Ash,
ship, this county, sta
that Ivy and Wood, while
said they were marri ey They did
occupy the same rooin, as Miss {
parents were there at the same
he understood they wanted
marriage a secret,
shown ring
it as that which
up for
at
no doubt
married
of
i ivy
AAT.
tr. GROFF,
nded
4 app
of West C
ted
ain town-
on the stand
at his house,
to keep
Stricken from the Charch Roll,
Mepia, Pa., Bept. 5.-Bev. W. W,
Grimes the pr in charge of Bethel
African Meth Kptacoy church,
Media, was the for
slander and haracter
heard before Squire Tra Honth
Media, The charge wax by Mra,
Sydney T INGE, B it 1 oner of
the pastor's, whose une had been
stricken from the chareh by the
minister. Mre. Thomas was the only
witness heard in support of the charge.
‘Bquire Trainer promptly dismissed the
case against Pastor Grimes after hearing
his side, and directed that Mrs. Thomas
pay the costs of ¢ the suit.
Big Fire in Philadelphia.
PriLaverriia, Sept. 6.-—Fire last
night in the building extending from
No. 4 to 18 South Eighteenth streets,
destroyed property valued at over
00,000, The principal losers are the
le-Knmdler Jaking company, $70,000;
. R. Mulford, manufacturing chemist,
$40,000 ; John (3, Seemiller, upholsterer,
L000; Earl W. Eckel, printer, $3,000:
1 & C. R. Sitnons, in. ware
men, $5,000, and D. Fuller $60,000
on building. The losses are about one-
half covered by insurance,
witcher
ochiat
defendant in
re $3
Getamation
Fores
CONGRESSIONAL HRHESUME,
Labors of the National islators
Wa
Leg
at shiington,
Wasa
thes
elected speak
Ohio, tool
Clayton-B
senate Toy
alluding
silence of Rey
ing bas hot
Ale
dr
ment i fis
Wass
sideratio
under the ni
of Mr. Davi
1st w
peaked Mir
to put bind
as agreed to (4 Lo;
use, Mr. Car
nation in x
3 black
imin
personal « pia gat
Cannon’
Iu
WasniNGT
anseat J
I'he wm
tak
tor
© hil
move
AWE and «
feat
Wasninay
tinued *
amen
were de
he hous
RIO) a mo
Freel tot
r and ha
DICKSON'S DARING DEED
Performs
Tight Hope
eats
raya,
ail
Startling | on
at Ni
i attract
She Th
first cia GOI ion
ractive program As Dovn
v hy
tra a 5 in
anal
an ait Dro
vided,
Preparing for an Execution,
aNROW Hina Sent u ror
for the ation of Johm Shelly
aon here on Friday next bye
menced by Shoerifl Locke
five men hay
guard. Th
of the = « yen Hi $
tion will tak place ! vard ili
rectly adjoining the conrt Ln mac, de spite
the protests of many respionts of the
town who desire have the execution
beyond the town limits. The last exe
eution took place here four years
ago, and ex-Sheniff Fooks, who then
officiated, has tendered to Sheriff Lock-
erman the rope used on that oceasion
Hudson maintains that he ready
to die.
Hal
Cite
eX
nave
rigan
y
SUILBON
Ean thie
@ been
sherifl
to
1%
A Dastardly Assault,
NEw York, Sept. 8,—Mayor Gleason,
of Long Island City, committed an un
provoked and brutal assault upon
George A. Crowley, the Long Island
representative of the Associated Press
last evening. Mr. Crowley stood talk-
ing with a number of prominent gentls
men in Miller's Long om 1 hotel when
the mayor entered, and,
exclaimed, “You. are
thief." Mr. Crowley resented the ac-
cusation, whereupon Gleason struck
him a savage blow in the face, knock-
ing him down. The mayor in his fury
kicked the prostrate Crowley several
times in the face,
Senator Farwell Dangorvously HL
CHICAGO, Sept. 10. A dispatch from
Wankeshaw, Wis, says that Senator
Charles B. Farwell is lying dangerously
ill at the Fountain House in that city
and that his family and intimate friends,
as well as the physicians in charge,
almost despair of his ultimate recovery,
Walter Farwell, a son of the senator,
said that Mr. Farwell's illness is not re-
garded as serious. Over work and men-
tal fatigue have rendered his health
very uncertain.
The Burglar ¢ Goes a Burgling.
May's Laspixg, Sept. 9.-For the
t three weeks a gang of burglars
ave been operating in this place and
vicinity, Several houses have been
broken into, but so far they have met
with little success. Several small arti-
cles were stolen from the residence of
Mrs. Asa Ford, Several men have shot
at the thieves, but none have been hit.
——
seeing Crowley,
a loafer and
John L. Sullivan's Father Dead,
Boston, Sept, 8.--M
father of John La
died h ore yesterday
age and mnt To
Tish Attempt on the
New York Centr al,
(1K
CK
JA BY \ FAITHF ULT
MAN |
Front
Track.
rot ion
"laced
fled 1
the
ANLern an
Ileveives a Bullet in Shanlde
‘onflicting Stories
Ana
t of
NY, Sey
W xF
ew
1 66 Sohodia hd ‘then
ardavy might one of
wind him at a
The chief detectiy
tap « hin on the 1
we want you
The man to
for* that
squealed?”
He was locked up and was brought
here yesterday afternoon.
son and Sat Rew
teotives [i
tution.
tae
house of prosti
sf
wk and satd, “Reed,
at
What
rived
job
Two More Wreckers Arrested,
ALpaxy, Sept. $ Information far
nished by John Reed resulted in the
arrest of two more train wreckers, The
men are John Cordial, 34 years, a con
ductor, and John Kearnan, 36 years of
age, a brakeman. Joth are Knights of
Labor and strikers,
A Chicago Paper for Clarkson,
WasHivorox, Sept. 0.~8Senator Quay
has not succeeded in securing Gen,
Clarkson for the editorship of the Pitts
burg evening paper which his friends
are about to purchase, A bigger field
has been hind ont for the general.
It is understood that a syndicate of
wealthy Republicans has been formed
for the purchase of Joo Medill's Chicago
Tribune for Clarkson, and that a pool
of 82,000,000 has been raised for the
puirpose, The Tribune has been wab-
ling on the tariff for several years, and
one of the objects of the purchase is to
change it into an orthodox high tariff
organ. Gen, Wanamaker is one of the
subscribers of the pool.
Plisburg Boys Strike,
Prrmsavng, Sept. 9.--About 500 fin.
ishing boys at T. GG. Evans, Hagan,
Evans & Co, the Peerless (Hass com-
pany and Atterbury & Co's chimney
factories on the south side struck for an
increase in pay of 5 cents a tarn. Should
the strike continue for any length of
tite the chimney fin business wonld
ber gerionsly injure
Mrs, ¥ onng “Dead,
Arianne Ciry, Sept. . 0, — Mm,
Joseph T, Young, who waa shot Thurs.
day mbrhing by her husband at the
10:50 lust evening. Dr. Rell ¥. the at
tending physician, gave as the cause
pressure on the brain,
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whe
wane {J ee
del the
large st Si
vania to
clothing and dents’
Can
male 8, finest fits and
tock in Contra Pennsyl
ron for the con-
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Our eon
men 's tear.
a 1 he qua
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particu lar, and
gay. 7
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You {0 ve usa eal;
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a wspect
We asi
value
a
y b. 7
poss pr
of returning
wou
pr 104 ilege
your money will be refunded as ¢ heer ful-
Give us a call; come
that we ask.
the balance.
satisfied,
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