St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 3, 1900

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* es» THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. (OUIS: POST-DISPATCH SWORN AVERAGE SUNDAY CIRCULATION FOR FEBRUARY, 152,565. Contribute to Mrs. Ballington Booth, e {Rey. Phebe Hanaford, Carrie Chapman Catt, Lillie Devereaux Blake, aus Tons, Sten, | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, GEN. BULLER CAN FIND — NO TRACE OF BOERS. , Toe ~ Reports That the Enemy Have Disappeared After Blowing Up the Bridges They Have Crossed. ‘a = St. Patrick’s Day Marshals... To-Morrow’s Sunday Post- Dispatch. 3 VOL. 52. NO. 194. Representative men from ° all the Catholic parishes in the city, pictured in To- Morrow’s... »++ Sunday Post-Dispatch. FORGO] IT WAS LENT, Thomas J. Kelly and Mrs,Fitz- gerald Were Not Married. SATURDAY EVENING—ST. LOUIS—MARCH 3, 1900 WENT TO DEATH |OUR GIFT TO FRANC WITH HIS DOG, essa FIRST LAFAYETTE DOLLAR IS PRESENTED TO LOUBET. | } af bt ‘ yx William E. Knapp Killed by a KINDLY SPEECHES EXCHANGED. sicneit Ghiseemeuiaiaes ADMINISTRA ) ohat 3 Train at Newbern. American Orator Says the Money Is | the Emblem of Friendship of the Two Greatest Republics. PRICE! THEY A GARBAGE PROBLEM. HE WAS AN AGED FARMER. - . TRIP TO BELLEVILLE FOR NAUGHT. AFTER THE LICENSE WAS SHOURED DID THE TRUTH DAWN. (ONLY Then a Priest Reminded Them of the Season, the License Was Torn Up and They Will Wait Till Thomas J. Kelly, prominent in Catholic church affairs and also in the contracting and pbuilding industry of St. Louis, and wnder ordinary circumstances one of the most jovial, good-natured and easy-going fellows in the world, is a Kittle disconcert- ed over the pwhblicity of the news from Belleville that on last Tuesday a marriage license was issued in that Illimois haven of true love to one Thomas J. Kelly and Mrs. Mary Fitzgerald, both of 8t. Louis. “I have not been married to Mrs. Fitz- gcrald or to any one else,’’ said Mr. Kelly, with much emphasis of the indignant sort Saturday morning. ‘‘Am I the only Thomas J. Kelly in St. Louis? Are there n0 others?” ‘ Further questioning revealed, however, that Mr. Kelly’s displeasure over the ru- mor was much like that of Henmry Clay's chent, who objected to @ report that he had once been in jail—not because the ru- ‘Mor was groundiess, or was based upon mistaken identity, but because it was true, every word of it. The Thomas J. Kelly, who secured the marriage license in Belleville, and the Thomas J. Kelly, contractor, in the Oriel building, president of St. John’s Council, No. 2, enights of Father Mathew, and president of St. Alphonsus’ Branch Catholic Knights of America, are oné and the same person. However, it is absoiutely trve that there has been no marriage. ‘he license wus never used. Portions of it, in llttle squares | ut the size of stage snowflakes, are in | r. Kelly's coat pocket, where he piaced than in anger and Pemenceent. Faas ec. nse was not ulil..zed afier having Ce iRERS for cash, to say nothing of a ous ride through ‘Tuesday’s storm to eville, was no fault of Mr. Kelley’s. Or Was Mrs: Fitzgerald to blame, eitner. ere was nobody to biame. It was aill an illy-timed transaction, and after Haster the chances ere that (Mrs. Fitzgerald wiil «become Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. Fitzgerald resides with friends at 4153 Page avenue. Mr. Kelly lives with his family around the corner at 3%2 Evans ave- nue, Mr. Kelly, by the way, is a wid- cower. He is 53 years o!d ard his prospec- tive bride's age is représented by those two fyures reversed, How long they have been engaged or have known eech other or when and where they first met, does not enter into the story, and besides it’s nebody's business. Mr. 60n_ he and the widow decided to slip over to Bellevilla and be married without dis- ncaa the neighborhood at home with a more formal wedding ceremony. They went to Belleville in the stcrm Tues- day and had a mighty uncomfortable time in the j ge:ting there. It was,5 o’eloek afternoon when thev reached the office of the marriage license clerk. That official had put up the sbutters and closed shop for the day, but the thoravehgcoing Mr. Kelly made him open it again and issue the required document. ank you, genilemen,”’ said Mr. Kelly. folding up the paper and placing it in his inside pocket. ‘“Good day to you all.” it are you not going to get married here,” said a man coming forward from the little crowd in the clerk's office. ‘‘f am a justice of the peace and I can -marry you as fast and as well as anybody on this side of the river.” “Not much, my good sir,”’ returned Mr. Kelly. “We are going to be mirried by the priest. But cheer up. Here's $1. Go have a drink on Thomas Kelly, Esq. And rmit to congratulate you, sir, on losing @ mighty fine job.” It ‘will be seen from these words that Mr. Kelly is something of a joker. He could mot resist having a bit of fun with the disappointed justice. But the justice didn’t see the joke that per, He pocketed the ¥il. Mr. Kelly and Mrs. Fitzgerald hen departed for the residence of Bishop bishop was not at home when they ed the residence. But the chancei- f the diocese, a priest who knew Mr. dy well, was in. 1@ couple stated their to him “Tl cannot marry you, Thomas,” said the est. And then this occurrence recalled at it was Tuesday, Mardi Gras, the day efore Ash Wednesday, the beginning of during which holy season the Catho- hreh does not countenance marriage. ~~ . . 1 nll sh, tefl Nl se alight eae: * ste eae Le, ree a, ) i]