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( Unique Marriage Ceremony.' i Strange Assyrian Customs Observed and Bride is Silent Three Days. For three days Lizzie Ilerra, an Assyrian bride, surrounded by hundreds of relatives and friends, has not spoken a word. Bedecked in her bridal gown j1 ot blue satin brought from faroff Asia, she sits like a throned i queen, an attendant on either ' side, receiving her guests, but saying nothing, says The Mil- I waukee Journal. Silence for three days after the wedding is i one of the laws of the Assyrian < religion. The wedding, one of the few Assyrian weddings that has ever been held in Milwaukee, has been in progress for one week at the bride's home, on Fifth street, between Wells and Cedar. All the strange customs of the mother country have been observed. 1 Assyrians from ,Chicago, Escan ( aba, Marinette, and other cities 1 came to Milwaukse for the cere- 1 mony. Over 200 guests were ^ present. The bridegroom is liichard 1 Frenn. c The wedding ceremony, lasting L three-quarters of an hour, was, ^ performed by an Assyrian Oath- k olic priest from Chicago. For v three days before the ceremony 1 the women of the wedding party ^ with the bride, staved in one * ? . c house, smoking, dancing, talkillg' I In another house were the mon, also smoking and dancing. 1 According to the Assyrian cus- I lorn, they must not mingle. In ' each house there was feasting ' and merrymaking. g The wedding ceremony was ^ performed Sunday at 2. Halt an c hour before it the wedding guests were allowed to enter the same ' house together. But the women ^ remained in one room, the men y in another. As the bride enter- j tered the house of the bride- a 1 n 11 m olm >?'?' " ? 1 ?'-1- " " ifs"<">? " <?n suunrorou w11> 11 ^ strange flowers and confetti. u Then came the weird Assyrian custom of the handkerchief throwing. Before she could be married, Lizzie Iierra, the bride, must throw her handkerchief, infilled with flowers, to the ceding, v And she must continue throwing e it until it clings to the ceiling of 1 the room. And all this time the |< guests were showering her with flowers, rice, and confetti. I Again and again and again she threw the bit of linen, only to see it flutter to the floor. When [ it finally did remain fluttering v from the ceiling the bride quiet- ^ ly fainted from the exertion and e anxiety. But she was soon re s vived, and the ceremony went e on. following the wedding there s Willi II u;o/l.litii? K in/i n/il "I '-1- * .. vvmui, I only foreign dishes were served, id There were chicken andjriee cook- t ed after the fashion of the conn 1 try, and egg plant, hollowed f out,stuffed with mutton, the chop 1 ped moat of the egg plant and I other vegetables,and baked but no bread, cakes, or sweets, as these t aro forbidden at wedding din- I nors. No knives, forks, spoons, ( ? or plates were used. n ? Oriental pipqs, with their long . tubes and queer mouthpieces, [' were smoked and only the pur- i "V TiiE eat Assyrian leaf tobacco was used. After the wedding sup- i per caine the dancing, but the j women danced alone in one room j and the men in another. At one time the bridegroom's I sister at the request of her hus- ? h n ?-?ft ? ? ? ? - " * ' 1 vamw nuo uie men's room ? to dance for them. Immediately the priest seized his hat and ; threatened to leave the house, { and the dancer retired in confus- \ ion. The Assyrian dance is typically Oriental and slow moving. While it was in pro- < gress tne weird strains of the t Assyrian pipes floated down the t neighborhood ol Wells and Fifth fstreets. War Claims?Southern Peo- I r pie May be Paid for Con- J fiscated Property. I Washington, Feb. 12.?About > ?10,000,000 may be secured 5 From the government by people I Df the South if a bill reported 1 inanimously by the House com- t> tnittee on war claims h*rnmoa u 5 aw. The bill gives to the court g >f claims jurisdiction of the * daims for captured and aban ^ ioned property which was sold ? hiring the civil war and the pro- | seeds turned into the United r 5tate9 treasury. During the ? var the government authorized ^ he seizure of abandoned pro- * )erty, to be sold and the net ^ iroceeds placed in the United h hates treasury. There vu9 a ^ irovision that if any one should ^ ring suits within two years af- ? er the close of the war and 3 >rove that the property gold be- ? onged to him the money receiv ^ (1 for it should be paid over, but o do this the citizen bringing the \ uit had to prove loyalty to the ? Jnion. This disqualified most ^ loutherners until the amnesty roclamation was declared in ^ 8dG, which came too late to > ake the claims to court, the two ? ears' grace having expired, gj "he object ol this bill is to en rt ,ble the original owners of the ca onfiscated properly to get the ^ noney it brought when sold. j Three Killed in Wreck. | > Portland, Ore., Feb. 13.?A buthern Pacific passenger train r. (? ras wrecked to-night near For- ^ st Grove, -0 miles from Fort- * and. Three passengers were illed and 18 injured. ? I Date for Florida's Primary * Jacksonville, Fla. 12.?The jS lemocra'ic State executive com- > nittee met hero today and fixed day lfHh as the date lor primary lections to nominate a United hates Senator, Congressman in ?ch of the three districts, and ill State and county officers. A econd primary will be held June G'h for ali ollicers where candi ; lates do not >ecure a majority in he first primary. 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