Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1888 — Mr. Owen's “Romance.” [ARTICLE]

Mr. Owen's “Romance.”

LogfißSport Journal ■ The silly romancing of the Chicago special disbatch to the Indianapolis Journal of last Sunday,

with reference to the engagement of Hon. W. D. Owen to Mrs. Luce, ! during his illness at the Republican National Convention, is “going the rounds’’ of the newspapers, j and will probably be generally ac- | cepted as the truths when there is 'scarcely a word pf truth in it. This Journal has. given the correct version of the matter, and the Lafayette Call furnishes a further statement of the facts in the case, as follows: “The romance'is all ‘moonshine/ as we are informed by a lady of this city, who has been a steady correspondent of Mr. Owen’s and is now about to reluctantly relinquish that privilege. Mr. Owen was, in fact, taken sick in Chicago, at the convention, being overcome by the heat, and he was nursed by the ledy, Mrs. Luce, but she had a right to do so, for she had then been his affianced wife for nearly a year, and their presence in the same hotel at that time as guests was by arrangement, and not by accident, eaeli being there in company with friends in order that the whole party might attend the convention and see the sights of the city at that most interesting season. It is only needful to say further that Mr. Owen has many warm friends here in Lafayette, gained during his former years of residence, who will co|dially join in “wishing him joy” in his new relation, and congratulate him upon winning so fair and worthy a bride.”