Salt Lake Times | 1890-08-18 | Page 1 | Miss Lida Watson Wedded

MISS LIDA WATSON WEDDED. The 1'iietess of Fission SUrrlcil to tramis YV. HicElll. Boston, Aug. IS. Miss l.ida Lewis Watson, who is called the New Kng-laml Kng-laml poete-sof passion, and Mr. Francis W. Higgins, recently of St. Louis, were united in marriage today. Several false annouueemcms of the wedding have been made, but today the nuptials wore quietly solemui.cd a"t the Holy Cross cathedral. No one was present but the members of the bride's family. The ceremony was performed by the Key. Father Bolaml of the cathedral, who also celebrated the nuptial mass. The bride, who is tall, dark-haired, blue-eyed blue-eyed and stately-looking, was most becomingly be-comingly attired in a whito frost wedding wed-ding ri'bo w ith full court train. The dress was of original design, a modification modifi-cation of a Spanish idea of far-away date. Mr. Higgins is a southerner. He served with distinction in the Confederate Confed-erate army and after the Mar went west, where ho became connected with lucrative mining seluunes, principally in the Black Hills. Mr. Higging. who has a dash of the romantic in his makeup, make-up, conceived a very pretty idea iu regard re-gard to the wedding ring. Instead of purchasing a ring in the conventional way from some jeweler ho himself mined the quart, "panned it out" with his own hands, had it smelted under his own eyes and took it to a jeweler and had it made into the heavy gold band his wife now wears.