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fication. have just come from calling
on Mr.. Z-{uaming wealthy widower
we'll known In the, American colony.
My visit was for the purpose OF offer
ing him my hand in marriage, and
he was so cruel as to refuse me"
Here she burst ~lAt0, fresh passion OF
tears, and I.bade my hostess good by and
went home, leaving the incOnsOlable
lady to weep'over her disappointmentat
her leisure.
AS far as many of these impecunious
mobiles are concerned, there is no scan-
dial that they will not swallow,
no irregularity of birth that they
will not overlook, in the bride that
brings her husband fortune. One OF
the most notorious women in Paris, and
also sOneof the wealthiest, Dy dint Of be-
slowing an enormous dOwry on her only
daughter succeeded in marrying off the
Young lady Ito whose birth NJ. lie Marie
tom to all Italian noble of an old his
toric family. He took his wife at once
to his native land, and she has never
seen her mother since.
: But of all these marriages l think
that the worst was the one that be-
slowed the name of Bonaparte and the
title of princess On Mile. Marie Blanc,
who married Prince Roland Benaparte,
the grandson of Prince Lucien and
grand-nephew to Napoleon the
Great. She was the daughter of
the proprietor and founder of
the gambling house at Monte
Carlo, who had originally been courier
and who had married his cook. Her
dowry was percentage on the receipts
OF the establishment, and it constituted
a colossal fortune-s0 great, in fact,
that when, after her death, Prince Ro-
land desired to contract second mar
riage with his kinsWoman the Princess
Letitia (who afterwards became the
Duchess d'Aosta), he offered to settle
upon her million of dollars. AS the
lady is now widow she may yet re-
consider the offer of the young widower.
The eldest Mile. Blanc married one of
the innumerable Princess Radziwill.
As to rich American girls, their ar
rival in Paris is watched and noted,
their prospects inquired into, and their
fortunes estimated before they are
fairly settled at the Hotel Continental
or the Grand hotel. There are titled
women q will not call them LADIES' who,
for percentage on the dOwry, agree to
arrange the preliminaries of the mar
riages of high-bOrn gentlemen to these
transatlantic heiresses. The best
known of these women is Russian,
and another is a Belgian. More than
once have l been requested to intro
duce some prince or other to certain
well-endOwed unmarried American
women of my acquaintance, but to such
request l always oppose an infieXible
refusal. A few years ago an advertise
ment conched in the following terms
was published in one of the Franco
American newspapers of Paris:
''Ssveral princes, dukes, counts, and
viScountS desire to marry rich Ameri-
can young ladies. Write in all conf
dence in the .first.instance to the Baron
ess d'EmiIy,n and. then followed the adj
dress. l have often wondered if Nine.
d'Emily (what a nameD succeeded in
attracting many clients. Probably she
did not. for after some months her adj
vertisement vanished from the columns
of the paper aforesaid. where. indeed, it
should never have been suffered to APP
pear.
a. h.
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sided for many years In Paris. received
one day from member of one of the
| greatest families in France letter re-
questing list of the daughters of the
MeSSrS. Vanderbilt, and also of those OF
| the Messrs. AstOr, with full particulars
respecting the fortunes that each one
would probably inherit tits needless
! to state that the letter aforesaid never
| was answered. .s1
In good many instances those high
| born gentlemen, the representatives of
| illustrious families, and the wearers of
magnificent titles, who. WOO American
| heireSses, constitute as cOnsummate
set of ScampS as are to be met with ont
side of the four walls of prison.
Loaded down with debt, eXiled from
| the circles of their own set for reasons
too fragrant to mention. almost invaria
bly, gamblers of the most freuZied type,
and rOues that could have given points
to the friends of the Regent Philippe
d'Orleans or to the cOurtierS of Louis
XIV, this group forms class apart,
Outlawed, disreputable, and such beings
as every pure-minded woman and every
honorable mau ought to avoid.
Yet they are usually the most fasci-
mating OF men, winning OF manners and
of speech, polished, accomplished, and
altogether attractive. And the c0ndi-
tionS to which the American bride will
sometimes submit to secure possession
of her noble bridegroom are occasionally
most extraordinary. l. know of one
such international marriage, which
tool. place in Paris some. years ago, in
which provision was made in the mar
riage contract for the maintenance from
funds provided by the bride of the
chere annie of the noble spouse. And
the American betrothed consented.
ANY one who has lived long in Europe
and who has investigated the result of
such alliances could tell some melan-
chOly stories concerning the fate of our
young cOuntrywOlnen in many in
stances, The Italian count who beat
and kicked his American wife at
Partisan hotel year agois by no means
an isolated specimen of his class. More
than once has the American wife of the
bearer of lofty title died under circun-
stances so sudden and so mysterious as
to give rise to the grayeSt suspicion of
poisoning, In another instance the
aristocratic husband refused to support
his wife and child because the former
would not consent to associate with the
woman for whose sake he had separated
from her.
The American woman who marries a
titled European must expect to go
heart-hungry all her days. There is no
more question of love in the home that
owes its SpleudOr to the wealth of the
wife and the rank of the husband than
there is of cool springs and rushing
streams in the Desert of Sahara. But,
of course, for this deprivation there are
certain eOmpensations, such as the
entree into the first circles of European
society, the privilege of stamping Oue's
note paper with eoronet, the satisfac-
ton of having ones servants announce
the carriage of Nine. la Princesse, or
the dinner of Nine. la Comtesse. There
are two elements, however, that must
always he reckOned with in these mar
rages-namely: the gaming-table and
the demi-monde, and the frst-named is
he most universal and the worst of tie
two.
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IOWA BANKEitS INDICTED.
Peculiar Financiering Probed by
n Federal Grand Jury.

DUBUQUE. To-, April 12.-It has Just
become known that the Uuited States
grand jury, which was discharged last
Wednesday night, found indictments
against President r. f. Graves and
Cashier G. II. Harris, of the defunct
Commercial bank which failed for $780,
600 in March, 1888. President Graves is
indicted on two counts, one of over
drawing his account when he had no
means of making restitution, and an
other of classifying the accounts of the
bank in carrying as assets claims which
had been condemned as worthless and
in classifying overdrafts as demand
loans. 1t is claimed that Presiden t
Graves had 0verGrafts of $1,000 or s., 900
for some time before he left the bank.
Cashier Harris Is indicred as being an
accomplce. President Grave, is now
running bank in Arizona. Cashier
Harris is now cashier of bank in
Pueblo. Col. The indictments have
caused much excitement here, where
the men were formerly very prominent.
The prosecution is being pushed Ivy a
syndicate of country banks, who hold
claims against the Commercial bank ag-
gregating S275.000
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kindred sports with him. whose beard
and expenses he paid for the
sake of their company. The amount
of his unpaid bill at the Girard
house, nearly $4,000, is an indication
that he and his companions lived toler-
ably high. How much money he paid
at the Girard house is not known, but 1t
is thought to be as much as he left UNI
paid. 'Af =.
A good deal OF fiction has been told in
regard to his wild extravagances. 1t is,
not true, for instance, that he took Off
Tense at the management of q Philadel1
pnia hotel, bought the property, IN:
stalled new management of his own, !
and then firing Of-the hotel business,
made somebody a present of the whole'
outfit. 1t is authenticated, hOweyer.l
that he bought carriage and team, and
in day or two gave the rig tOtb6l
driver. He squandered large amount
of money in taking minstrel troupe
around the country, perhaps as much
as S75, 600. He had a boon companions
that he always took with him on his
travels, and Johnny paid all expenses.
He was a young man from Erie. Both;
dressed exactly alike. even to jewelry
and neckties. e@,:;ssa
Revival of Coal-Oil Johnny's Farm
1t is curious fact that the old, played
out Steele farm has been revi we'd and Isl
making another man rich. That ma1l
is John w. Waits, of Oil City, who
bought the old place few years ago
for $1,000. He has since been offered
$4,000 for it. Waits was street gamin
about Housewife when Johnny Steele
was cutting a wide Swath here, and fire.
quently held the young oil princes
team while the latter went into
a saloon to get a drink. Waits
grew up among the Oil der
ricks around Housewife, and under
stands thoroughly the business of man.
aging oil wells. He has made study.
of the old wells along Oil creek. HeWas
very familiar. with the wells On the old
Steele, or the McClintock, farm, and be-
lieyed, with the improved appliances for
pumping, they coHld be made to yield oil
in paying quantities. although they had
been abandoned for years. He bought
the farm from an Oil company that
was glad to sell it, paying $1,000. Sew
eral of the old wells were cleaned out,
torpcdoed and rugged up for the pump
ing. They all produced oil, as MIR.
Waits thought they would. The best
results, howe yer, have been obtained
from new wells that he drilled On the
farm. Nearly all of his new wells were
good producers,a as Oil creek wells gonow
though, OF course, they are small affairs
compared to the spouters that poured
out their wealth for Coal-Oll Johnny.
Johnny Waits is a very different man
from Johnny Steele. He is extremely
practical, and none of his money is
spent foolishly. From an abandoned
farm. Thought to be next to worthless,
he has developed a very profitable prop
eftY.
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Continental Europe. Nor are they, in
many Instances, at all particular about
the appearance, the social station,
or even the moral character of the lady
that they WOO, provided only that she
has plenty of money.
Here is an illustration of this state of
affairs matrimonial. Any one who goes
often to drive in the Bots de Boulogne
may have noted amongst the habitues
of the place a tall, raw-boned, elderly
English woman, with hard, red, un-
prepossessng face, who is known as
Lady X. She was an English demi-
mondaine. who was married by
her lover, wealthy manufactured,
herit his title, together with the large
fortune that he had bequeathed to her
by will. She has lived in Paris for
years, and is noted for coming to the
Bots from time to time in state of up
roariOus lntOXication, when she will
shrek and Screech, and shake her fist
out of her carriage window at anybody
and everybody whose looks or equipage
may chance to displease her.
/ She was at one time forbidden all ac-
cess to Bots for some months because
during one of these attacks she in
dulged in threatening bowls and geSt-
ures towards the Prince of Wales. she
having gone to call on the princess and
having been refused admission. In
spite of her character and her peculiari-
ties this improper and eccentric
dame was sought in marriage
by the chief of one of the great
prineely houses of Europe. noble
whose proud pedigree and lofty title
figure among the principal ornaments
OF the Almanch de GOtha outside the
records OF royalty. The lady accepted,
cussed and arranged, and the date of
the wedding definitely settled. But
in an evil hour Lady K de-
cided upon giving a grand dinner
party to celebrate her betrothal
to Prince Z. 1t was superb affair,
ana the prince was installed in the post
of honor as host. Towards the close of
the dinner the fine wines that had been
freely supplied during the banquet
quite got the better of the hostess dis
erection. She suddenly hurled a tumbier
at the head of Prince Z, and shouted
| In StentOrian tones to her Wallets to
put that man out of the house; he had
come there TO steal the Sp0onsw That
little scene was more than even pen
niless prince could stand, and so Lady
x lost all chance of becoming the
Princess Z. Yet she might have
managed it, think. in spite of that lit
tie scene had she only doubled the in
come she had agreed to settle on her
ariStoeratic sutton.
Nor are these arrangements confined
to male aristOcrats only. l remember
witnessing very curious scene during
the first months of my stay in Paris
when came here to reside some sixtee n
years ago. | was accustomed to meet
at the house of the wife of one of the
prominent American officials in Paris
an elderly lady who was the daughter
OF a deceased prince of historic renown
and the widow of a gentleman of the
same rank as her father. though of
different nationality. Calling on my
friend on one of her reception days.
what was my amazement to see Nine.
la Prncesse enter weeping profusely.
Her hostess inquired with solicitude
what was the matter. so. Mrs. ""
sobbed the princess, imagine my morti-
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Observation-Disclosures MAN.
Two Chicagoans shot and Fatally
Wounded by Mistake.

CHICAGO, April 12.-Daniel Malone
and Thomas Keefe received two shots
from arevolyer this evening, which were
said to have been intended for another
man. Malone is shot through the lung
and will probably die. Keefe'S wound
is not so serious. With German
laborer named Jacob Hutf0rbtt, Keefe
and Malone have been working at
Crumps' foundry. Hufforbitt quit work
about week ago, and this evening
came to the foundry when the en-
ployes were leaving for home. AS the
crowd came out two pistol shots were
heard, and Malone fell to the ground
with a bullet in his right side.
Keefe was struck in the left
arm, the bullet coming out of
the shoulder. The workmen were
amazed to see their companions fall.
Turning about they saw Hutforbltt
walking away carrying the revolver in
his hand. They at once captured him,
and called the police. He appeared very
cool and collected. By means of an in
terpreter, he said the shooting OF Keefe
and Malone was accidental: that he in
tended the bullets for tOughs who had
threatened him mischief.
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FEARFULLY MAETREATED.
A Kansas SchoOlmarin Assaulted
nv Three ITrainnS

A Kansas Schooimarm Assaulted
by Three Tramps.
ELLSWORTH. Kan, April 1a.-Miss
Myrtle Hill, teacher of a country school
about eight miles from here on thetUn-
ion Pacific railway, was assaulted this
morning in most brutal manner by
one white and two colored tramps. The
assault occurred at lonely spot on the
road She was thrown to the
ground and fearfully maltreat-
ed. Her assailants filled v her
mouth with acid so as to prevent her
cutlery, assaulted and then robbed her.
During the struggle with her assaiants
three of her ribs were broken. When
discovered she was in an Unconscious
condition and it is feared that she may
die. A search for the party was made
up as soon as the news of thesassault
became generally known. Hundreds
of men are now searching for the
tramps. and if they are found they will
be lynched.
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REFUSED TO PAY HIS FINE.
A Tough Georgian Attempts
Double Murder and Suicide

BRUNSWICK, Ga, April u. To-day,
young VIII Beldin was summoned to
appear before Recorder Borchardt TO
answer the charge of disorderly con-
duct and striking woman who insult
ed him the night before, for which Of
Tense be way fined IS. He paid the
fine and started to leave the court
house, and encountered the same
woman ON the steps. She
brushed against him. ana he
promptly knocked her down again, for
which offense he was fined So. He in
formed the recorder that he would have
a HI of time getting it. and he started
to leave the court house. Recorder
Borchardt ordered Patrolman r. T..
Massey to stop him. Beldin grew his
pistol and fired two shots at Massey.
Chief of Police Houston rushed up to
the scene. and Beldln shot him twice
through the chest, and then tried to COM
nit suicide by shooting himself. Pa
trolmau Massey died two hours after
from his wounds. Neither OF the other
parties are expected to live.
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vULTURES OF PARIS.
Titled Birds of Prey Who Lie
in Wait for Their
Victims.
How the Nobility Of Cont
81 mental Europe Secure
4 Wives.
Money the Object, Reputation
: and Birth Not Being Con-
|, sidered.
KPenniless Aristocrats Seeking,
+ alliances With Wealthv
sPenniless Aristocrats Seeking
j Alliances With Wealthy
= American Girls.

Lucy III. Hooper's Paris letter in the
!. Philadelphia Telegraph: Lam often
good deal amused, when reading the
accounts of marriages In the French no
billty, by noting the gushing way in
which the society reporters of the Par
isian papers allude to the tender love-
existing between the happy pair. Love
forsooth! There is just so much ques-
+ ton of love in such aunion as there is
between the master of a dog. or a
horse which he has just purchased and
the creature which. by lawful negotia-
ton, has become his property. He may
get fond of his new possession after a
time, and it may become attached to
him. But, for the moment, the trans
action is wholly and solely a business
one.
The one JOY chat the girl of Cont
mental Europe of the higher ranks of
life can never know. no matter how
lofty her birth nor how extensive her
possessions may be, is the browning
bliss that comes to the American
damsel as the golden possibility
of existence; it is that OF pas
sionately loving and being passion
ately loved by the man VINO seeks to
become her husband. In the United
States, and also to a great degree in
England. mutual loveis, i'll the major
ity OF instances, the foundation TOR a
marriage. In France such thing as
mutual inclination is never considered.
An heir to a title marres the daughter
of a gentleman bearing a title as lofty
as that of his own father, because it is
the proper thing to do. 80.
But more frequently, and especially
of late years, since the nobility has
ceased to hold prominent position in
the political circles of France, and is
consequently shut out from the fucra-
tive posts in the gift of the govern.
ment. the chief aim and object
of the aristocrat who seeks a
wife is the obtaining of "a fortune
with his bride. In this he is fmi-
, ed.witlf less excuse, by his .high-b0rn
colleagues of the other. countries Of
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JOLIET BAr1lsps AT ODDS.

The. Scandal Involving Pastor
whitman Preceipitates a Fight.
JoLET, ILL.,, April 12.-The scandal in
the First Baptist church, involving the
pastor, Rev. DR.. Whitman, who came
here from CharlottetoWn, p. e. l.,
reached climax at the annual meeting
of the church. The eleetion of officers
resulted in the cholce.of a board of .Irus-
tees and a clerk favorable to the pastor,
by small majority. "A resolution, was
offered sustaining the pastor and de-
tated the most unseemingly wrangle
eyer.witnessed in a church. Brothers
fdrglt brothers in sharp. sarcastic
language. and the shrill voice of the
sisters was also heard. while charges of
forgery and lying were freely banded:
The pastor said he would not be logged
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Homely Women of Portugal.

Kansas City Times.
The Portuguese men are rather below
the medium height. of olive complex
ION. and have brilliant black eyes. For
the most part they are very handsome.
The women, on the contrary, are excess
sively homely, but dress in very good
taste. Both gentlemen and ladies copy
the Partisan fashions. The prettiest
women are the fisher maids, who 60
about the streets barefooted with their
baskets of fish on their heads, after the
fashion of the Egyptian women with
their pitchers Of water. Some of these
girls are remarkably pretty, and.
strange to say, their feet are small and
dplicate-lo looking and their forms grace
full.
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into punishment by conspiracy, and
amid a great tumult thesyote was taken
on the resolution, which was carried
by a vote of 81 to ~. The result was
hailed with the most tumuItuous APP
plause. Then ID. M. Stiles and wife,
the first accusers of Dr. Whitman. were
expelled. The opposition will build a
new church. Ky
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Myer Wants to Fight Mcaulifre.

BUFFALO. N. Y, April 12.-BilIy
Myer, the ''Streator Cyclone," says he
is now more than anxions to meet Jack
McAuliffe. "Anythlng within the
bounds of reason that Nc
Aulitfe wishes l am willing TO concede.
| will fight him in Buffalo; my home is
in Streator, ILL.,, and his III New York
city-Butfalo is just half way and ought
to please Jacks people. The Erie
County Athletic club, of Buffalo. offers
a $4,000 purse for the contest, which is
more than Jack fought Carroll for in
California;,
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SWINDLED MS FIANCE.
A Smooth Californian Bilks an
Old NJ I'D of Boston.

ola NJ III OF Boston.
Boston, April Through mutual
Acquaintance. Miss Christie McAskiel,
of 10 MiddleseH street, thirty-Seven
years old, became acquainted with
George w. Shepard of Los Angeles, Cal.
some time ago, and since then the
two have correspondent. Shepard came
here few days since, proposed mar
riage and was accepted. The wedding
was fixed for tonight at Vieth's hotel,
on fremont street. Shepard, it is said,
INDUCED Miss McAskiel to draw $500
from the savings bank and intruSt it to
him TO be.forwarded by express to their
prospective home in Los Angeles.
Shepard has not been seen since re-
ceiving the money, and although Miss
McAskiel, the clergyman and witnesses
were at Vieths hotel tonight promptly
on time, Shepard came not. Miss Nc
AskieI is greatly Frustrated over the
disappearance of her money aud lover.
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Strikers Gain Their Point.

CAIRO, ILL.,, April 12.-Freight trains
are running again on the Mobile &
Ohio road north, after blockade last
ing three days. A settlement was
arrived at this morning at
9 o'clock between. the striking
freight brakempn and General Manager
Clark. by when the men are paid 2.64
cents per mile. and pay for extra time
over twelve hours. The strikers all
went to work, and the new men
brought from the Southern division of
the road have returned south. No linz
itation was placed on the time OF trains.
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Depositors Panic stricken.

New YORK, April 12.-The. run OIL
the Long Island City Savings bank con-
tinued all day; and at the close>of busi-
ness 1890, 900 had been paid out. Sew
eral Brooklyn banks have offered to as
ciaIs saw thew are making money by the
run, as the depostors who withdraw
their money will forfeit three months
intnrpCt
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Making 1t Hard to Get Away.

Harper's Bazar.
Mother do you allow Mr.. Comeagain
to kiss you, Bertha?
Bcrtha--No, indeed, I assure you
mother; he kisses Inc only when he
starts to leaye. s,rsa
Mother-How many times did he
start to leave last night2
Bertha-About fifteen times, l think.
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Lost All Her Fortune.

AsBURY PARK. N. j.. April 12.-Mrs.
Sarah Drummer, of this village, widow
of the late William -Bruuner, of .Deers-
town, Pa. lost every penny of her prop
j. Munroe SchelleDberger, of that place.
She has two children dependent upon
her. =.