The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-03-01
A sCANDaLoUs sTORY.

a seurriioas Statement which Is Siirrisg the
Depth OF Wa.hisEtea seeieiy-Presideus
Gessip.-Tbe story as 10 Grew from shc Brain
ofa Seneme"s Newspaper Correspondent.
Special Dispatch 10 TIE Globe,pcEaocrst
WAsHIsGToN. ID. C.. February a0.-Tbis city is
alive just with OF the biggest scandals which
drawing-rooin. bar-roof hotel and boarding house
teens with il now. The of the President of
the United States is involved in the Stories the de
tails OF which arc unfit far print and which shock
the mos: callous ear At every repetition. The fol-
lowing review Of the matter appears in an evening
paper, the perusal Of which will give better idea Of
the nature and extent Of the scandal than could be
otherwise conveyed:
An TSJURED uU-BASD THREATENS To LICK TIE rKEs-
IDEsI
Prom Saturdays Pitsbu-g Leader.I
WASHINGTON n. C.. February I7-There has been
for sometime a good deal of dsagreeabe gossip of
seandalous nature, in which the name of the Pres-
dent of the United States been coupled with that
of distinguished lady. There is apparent
ground for these stories further than can be found
in the ndiscreet conduct of the lady herself who is
as beautiful as distinguished, aud who has habitu-
ally thrown herself in Mr. Arthurs way to the scan
dal Of her husband and soilin. Of her own honor.
Yet these stories have thickened and grown since
last SIMMER. until they in the mouths Of every
male gossipmonger and on the tongue of every 40
ciety woman in the Capital. 1t is whispered about
to-day that the husband OF the lady, who has pro
tested in vain against his wfes reckless exposure of
her character these scandalous insinuations and
attacks, has gone higher with his complaint, and
has personally threatened to hold Mr.. Arthur ac-
eountable. If but small part of what is talked
about is true, there j. n tempest brewing in the
neighborhood of the White House which will raise
the hair of the whole conntry.
[The following special originally appeared in Sat
ur'lay mornings Pttsburg Dispdck, under the head
ing '.Storm Signals Hoisred Over the Presidential
Mansion by an lrate Husband. The dispatch below
appeared. 50 far We know now, only in the Dis
pd,eh.-Ed CFitc.1
THEIR LAsT EEsOfT-SrAR RoUTERs CALCULATE Az I'M
PEoBABLE STORY AEorT Orr PRESIDENT
From the Sundays Pitt,burg Dispatch
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE following story abort
President Arthur is pretty freely circulated about
town to-day: The Star Route folks-Brady Dorsey
ct al.-knowing the desperate strnts they are in,
put private detective the track Of the President
They discovered lGr claim tol that three separate
occasions he left the White House alone and met on
the corner Of Seventeenth street and PENNSYLVANIA
avenue, lady of high social standing. mo one
seems to know her name or if they do il has been
suppressedl After meeting they proceeded on foot,
and shadOwed by the detective. TO a well-known,
though private huO.e Of assignaion in the West End
Now the Star Route people say that unless President
Arthur mitigates entirely suspends the proseeu-
tion against them, they will disclose the whole mat
ter. General Arthur is man like other men. and
doubtless enjoys life, but that no proceeded to n
public assi-naiion house on foot ia ridiculous.
Then came correspondence sent to his paper the
next dayl:
The scandal about the President was eagerly read
yesterday morning, upon the arrival of the Pttsburg
paper containing il. But one opinion is held in
gard TO the sending of such matter TO be published,
even il true, and that condemnation, and that
it was unpatriOiic thing to do all admitted. The
story sent to the st. Louis Globe Democrat the
Philadelphia Times and the Pittsburg Dsldfck, the
latter of which published it, but the former pa
pers did not use it. No one believes the story and
il is rumOred that the husband of the lady-a high
State Department oficial-whose name is thus
brught into dishonOr and i'll rePute, to pro
ceed against the paper that has injured him foul
". There is but opinion among the better class
of correspondents here; among whom the gossip has
been known for several weeks, and that Is that il
rcproaeh 10 the profession to deal in such material
The subject the talk of the city all day yester
day, and still continues this morning, and every
unites in condemnng the correspondent and paper
alike, and express hope that both sender and pub
Usher may receive punishment. "a"
To this the Critic adds:
THE PRES IDENIIAL SCAN. NAG-THE AIR FULL oF
EUuoEs-HpwEvER, THERE'S BEEN 40 KNOCKOUT.
IL was rumarad Ou the streets last night and gain
to-day. that the alleged trouble between President
Arthur aud the injured husband had eliminated in
an assault upon the President The rumOr, howev-
er, could not be traced to any definite The
President usual, In to visitors to-day, and
did not appear to be, "a has been represented by
certain special correspondents in 'sea of trouble
On the contrary, those who saw him say that he
cheerful and in good spirits. Neither the President
nor the department official whose has been
mentioned in this connection has a single mark up
his face suggestive Of knock down. and if they
gagged in fight at all the blows must have been de-
hvercd below the belt, which is cantrary to the
prize ring, and the battle therefore declared a
draw There all sorts of stories going the rounds
to-day, concerning the President and the agsreved
official Tie last story is to the effect that the az
grieyed husband has already placed in the hands OF
Secretary Frelinghuysen his resignation to take rf
feet Immediately.
This correspondence of the Pittsaurg Commercial
Gd-cfe has furnished another version of the Presi
dental scandal. in which the whole matter is attri
buted the jealousy of certain LEADERS in society,"
who are incinded in the elegant generalization of