Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1912 — WEDS HIS CHINA HEROINE [ARTICLE]

WEDS HIS CHINA HEROINE

American, Saved. From Boxers, Re- > v veals Romance of tha John Bmlth Order. New York. —A romance as extraordinary as that of Captain John Smith of colonial times and his Indian princess came to light here with the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. William Dromberger of Philadelphia en a trans-At-lantic liner from Havre. They are on the last lap of their wedding journey,'

which has taken them around the world! Mrs. Dromberger Is a fullblooded Chinese. During the Boxer uprising Mr. Dromberger was in China, was captured by the Boxers and sentenced to be beheaded. On the day of his execution his present wife rescued him. Later she was sent to his home in Philadelphia and educated as an American girl. She then married the man she saved.