New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-22
Titles at a Discount.

tiles at a Discount
81 dent think any more Of. our
Pittsburg girls want to marry Euro
pean titles, said a. prominent law
yer from the lron3city to a New York
Star MAN at the Fifth Avenue hotel.
Every one is famiiiarw with the mis-
fortunes ofpoor Virginia Knox, who
n1arred the pseudo Italian Count di
Montercole. and was beaten by him
in Paris while on their wedding trip.
The affair was freshened up in our
minds at home recently by the APP
pearance in Pittsburg Of the Hon.
Francis RaWle, the well-known Phila-
delphia1awyer, who had charge OF the
estate Of the late Mr.. Knox, father
of the unfortunate countess. Mr..
RaWle is also counsel for Mrs. Knox
and her daughter, and while in Pitts
burg was quietly securing evidence
foru in a suit for divorce whichwill
be brought against Di Montercole
by the countess in short time She
IS living instruct seclusion with her
mother near Philadelphia.
''The other horrible example held
up for a warning to our susceptible
and ambitious maidens is that OF the
Baroness Lagerfelt. The baron had
a right to his title. He Greatly came of
Il noble and highly honorable Swed-
ish family, and his uncle is on the per-
sonal staff OF the king. The baron
himself held a commission in the
Swedish army. He came to Pitts
burg about ten years ago as consul.
He was one of the handsomest men
[ ever saw. Six feet two in height,
broad shouldered, with curly, blonde
hair, and a long, dropping blonde.
mustache-a picture OF good health
and manly strength, and lookinglike
one OF the old vikings of the Morse
mans story books. He was an
agreeable, cultured fellow, with
charming manners and plenty ofmon-
ey, anil he became ageneralfavorite
He engaged in business, along with
the duties Of his Office. and three or
four years ago married Miss Jennie
Doty fSteubenville, a girl we'll known
in Pittsburg, where she was educated
at the Pittsburg female college Her
father was rich, and she was hand
some, accomplished, and the wedding
made a stir in society circles. The
baron for the last two years has been
specializing instocks and getting tied
up in Il number OF business ventures,
and some time ago suddenly put
what property he had in his wife's
name and lett for London to visit a
sick uncle Since then it has been
found that his affairs were in very
bad shape and that he was a forger
to large amount in cert ain stccks.
At first 1T was thoughtthat his defnl-
cations would only amount to
$4,000 or $4,000, but attar-
neys in the case told me that they
would amount to 100000 atleast.
The. baroness, who, by the way, is n
most estimable woman, is at her ia
theirs home nearly heart broken, but
the baron's whereabouts are I'M
known.
vi course the same misfortune
might have come to these young Ia
dies if the bridegrooms had been
Americans with no more title than
mister but the titles give the case
much more prominence. Taken with
the blooming young son of some
British lord or other who worked his
way into all the Pittsburg clubs and
into the best society circles, about
four years ago, they have had some
pretty good lessons. That fellow
had been valet in the family of the
noble lord whom he represented as
his father, and majority OF the
younger society bloods OF Pittsburg
and some Of the solid men still retain
numerous l 0 US as mementeos of
their acquaintance with the British
aristocracy."