Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — MERRITT IS MARRIED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MERRITT IS MARRIED.

Ceremony la in Private on Account of the Illness of the Bride. Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt. United States army, and Miss Laura Williams of Chicago were married in London Monday. Elaborate p!*ns had been made for the wedding, which was to have taken place at St. Andrew’s Church in the presence of Gen. Merritt’s staff nnd a large gathering

of British nobility and army officers, both the bride and groom being well known in the London exclusive set. But the serious illness of Miss Williams disarranged all the plans aud the wedding was a quiet and most unostentatious ceremony, according to London dispatches, performed in the apartments of the bride’s mother in the Savoy Hotel.