Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
NEWS OF THE METROPOLIS.


Like the EIack Case.
txEw YORK BUREAU sPEcIALs.l
| NEW YoRK, September 6.-There was .
Flack case in the Brooklyn courts to-day. Mrs.
Julia Bligh. Of Brooklyn, had her husband.
John Bligh, arrested to-day on q charge OF
abandonment Mr. Bligh is Republican poll
tician, and the proud possessor Of big ''pull."
He was an Assistant United States Weigher
under President Arthur, but went out with
the advent OF President Cleveland. Recently
he has been United States Weigher at the
Wall street stores. When Bligh was arraIgned
in court to-day he produced paper which he
claimed to be certificate of decree Of d.
vorce. He said he got the divorce in Chicago,
and it cost him s55 The decree, he said, had
been granted by the Illinois Supreme Court.
proper notice having been served on Mrs
Bligh by mail. Mrs. Biigh vigorously denied
that she had ever been served with notice of
suit of divorce. or law papers of any kind.
Justice Patterson adjourned the case for
week.
Preparing for Emmons Blnine's Wedding.
Emmons Blaine is in town. spending the last
days of his bachelorhood in making prepara-
tions for the great event on the 26th inst EN-
mons takes little or no interest in politics. Six
months ago he was elected General Manager of
|
ing made record with the Santa Fe. It was
while living in Chicago, as the freight manager
of the Santa Fe, that Emmons met Miss Anita
Mccormick, whom he is to wed Gin Richfield
Springs three weeks hence. The honeymoon
will be.spent in Secretary Blainc's house at
Bar Harbor, which will be placed entirely at
the disposal of the young couple. Before going
there, however, they intend spending week
journeying in ex-senator Davis private car.
West Virginia Miss Mccormick, it ID said,
will be worth million in her own right on the
day of her wedding.
Southern Mayor Buucoed.
Mayor M. R. Marks, Mayor of the thriving
city of Orlanda Fla. called at police head
quarters to-day. It was business call of a
rather embarrassing character, The Major
confessed he had been buncoed. Mayor Marks
reached this city few days ago and made his
home at the st. George Hotel, on Broadway.
There is scarcely . man of any note in Florida
who Is not at least an acqu aintance of the
Major. He was not surprised, therefore, when
dapper young man stepped up to him, and
grasping him cordially by the hand said effu-
sively: Good day, Colonel" 'Major. if you
please, sir; Major Marks, Of Orlando" the
Southerner replied. innocently, having faint
idea that he had met the dapper young man
somewhere in the Sunny South. 81 am glad to
| see you, Major" responded the stranger, land
how is my old friend Judge Hughes, of Jack
sonyillef" Now it seems that Judge Hughes,
Of Jacksonville, is one of the Majors best
friends, and the stranger, who claimed to be a
nephew of that judicial parsonage, readily
won his way into the confidence of Major
Marks. The Major was induced to 90 to an
office on Eighteenth street, and there the
dapper young man robbed him of $40, ali the
money the Major had. The young man is still
missing.
Lawrence Barrett Back From Europe.
Lawrence Barrett the tragedian. returned
from Europe this morning by the Aller. Mr..
Barrett has much improved in health, and he
says that he is ready and eager for the work of
this winter.
George 9. knights Broken Health.
Two years ago worry over the failure of his
piece. "Baron Rudolph" drove George 8.
Knight, the actor. to the verge of insanity at
San Francisco, and his wife, Sophia Worrall,
the burlesque actress, and one of the famous
trio of sisters who were at Woods Theater,
brought him home and nursed him until he was
sane. He has never been the same since, men
tally or physically, and to-day he is at Orange,
| N. j., stricken with progressive general pare
| sis. His devoted wife, who began to pay the
| expenses of his last illness year ago by dis
| posing of her diamonds, declines aid, but is
| going TO star in Rosina Vokes repertoire,
and starts on Monday. Knight was affection
ately spoken Of to-day by Benjamin a. Baker
and John II. w. Byrne. who knew his life his
| tory He was the leading exponent of German
comedy in variety theaters. In "Over the
Garden Wall' he made barrel Of money. to
| lose it in his pet hobby, ''Bafon Rudolph"
Poor Sophia last appeared before the public
| five weeks ago at Asbury Park, and she is as
good an actress as ever.