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Show WEDDING-WASDEATH WEDDING-WASDEATH Preparation of Trousseau tost a Hew York Girl Her Life. NEW YORK. Nov. 22. Her health broken by the work of preparing the trousseau for her wedding, which was, 'to have taken place last Sunday, Miss Mary Nyerges of No. 77 East Twenty-third Twenty-third etreet, Bayonne, N. fell an easy victim to pneumonia, dying on the eve of her wedding. Her funeral took place Sunday from St. Joseph's Catholic Catho-lic church in that city, in which she waa to have been married. - Joseph Pope of Brooklyn, her prospective pros-pective husband, was constantly with the girl during her illness, and she died : iri his arms a few minutes after she had asked that a priest be sent for that she might be married on her deathbed. The bridal gown which she had fashioned fash-ioned with her own hands was used for the shroud, and the wedding veil and white slippers were used, while a wreath of orange blossoms was placed in her hand, which, bore the wedding ring which Mr, Pope had procured. A pair of white horses yesterday bore the hearse containing the young woman In her bridal shroud to St. Joseph's church. Six girl friends in white and elx young men were the pallbearers. The girls, who were to have been Miss Nyerges' bridesmaids, wore the clothes they would have used at the wedding. |