The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-15
SEEKING A DIVORCE.
Dramatic Climax to a Decidedly
Romantic Career.
STORY OF NINE. DE sTEuRS LIFE
her Mother Was an Actor who Married Poor
Young han = She Welded Titled
Belgian, but Loved Another.
Especial to THE HraALD-Exam,ner Dispatch.

Especial 10 THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch.
NEW YORK, July 14-Information from
Sioux Falls, S. D., states that Mime. de
Steurs. a niece of Mr.. William Astor and
wife of Baron &c Steurs, now and for many
yeats Belgian minister to Paris, leased q
cottage in that town of divorces just six
weeks ago. Nine de Steurs does not keep
a full establishment. She takes her meals
in the principal hotel, being constantly &C
companied by her agent, Mr.. Elliott, who
is described as young gentleman of very
athletic build, a splendid horseman, of dark
complexion and very English in dress aud
in manner
The story of the married life Of Nine. de
Steurs up to its dramatic climax may be-
very briefly indicated Before her mar
riage she was Miss Carey. Her mother
was Aida Aston, who was the youngest
sister OF the late John Jacob Aston and the
present William Astor. She married an
Englishman named John Carey, who won
the hand OF Aida Astor, notwlthstand-
ing that he was man without fortune.
On the death OF William b. Astor he be-
came, however, enc of the executors of
his father-in-law's will John Carey and
his wife lived at Newport most of their
lives and left three children. Two Of
members of the knickerbocker club and
one OF them recently distinguished him
self by going to Africa on a lion hunting
expedition. The daughter, Miss Carey.
married eight or ten years ago the Baron
de Sreurs, who is a Belgian by birth. 1t
was the common understanding in New
York before Nine. de Steurs' marriage
that Mr.. Elliott Zbroskie, whose father
left him millionaire. was deeply ena-
mored OF the handsome helress, and this
was at the time believed to be recipro-
Gated, so that her marriage with the Bel
gian created a profound surprise In New
York society. Young MIR. Zbroskie was
also firm friend to Nine. de Steurs in her
subsequent matrimonial trouble. He is q
wellknown member OF the Rockaway
hunt, and unless ii is Foxhall Keene. is ac-
counted as the best horsemen in or about
New York. He was last definitely heard
from here as having been in India, where
Mime. de Steurs is also understood to have
passed last winter.
Mime. de Steurs is an exceedingly eccen-
trio and interesting personality. Her do
nestle history has furnished series OF
very romantic chapters during the past
two or three years and society has been
prepared for an additional chapter moro
romantic and fascinating than any of its
predecessors, very possibly, in case she OBJ
tains divorce, her marriage 10 the devoted
lover OF her glrlhood days. According
10 the generally accepted story, Nine. de
SteurS appeared at Hamburg, the famous
German watering place, last August and
astonished her American friends, includ-
ing Miss Marion Longdon, by declaring
that her husband had tnre atened IN Paris
to have her confined in lunatic asylum
and that she had run All y from him to es-
cape certain Imprisonment, the duration of
which she had no means of predicting, but
knowing French laws she had anticipated
IL with the utmost terror. There are two
or three children and these are now under
stood to be with the father in Paris
The marital differences of the de Steurs
first came to tie surface in the spring of
1889. At that time Nine. de Steurs came
over to this country with the avowed in
tention of securing a divorce. She secured
residence at Newport and this she still
holds She made no secret OF her inten-
tons and furnished material for comment
in society during the winter of lSo9-1S9O
Mrs. William Aston is said to have been
very much disturbed over what she re-
garded as a scandal and the story is that
her trip TO Europe year ago last March
was undertaken with the purpose
Of effecting reconciliation between
her niece and her husband. AS
result of her mediation Nine, de Steurs
returned to Europe in April or May. and it
was then commonly understood that her
domestic differences had all been arranged.
Nothing was heard to the contrary until
Nine. de Steurs made her appearance st
Hamburg, as already related. Nine. de
Steurs asserted that she had offered her
husband any reasonable amount of money
if he would give her control of the chill
drer and secure divorce from her. She
had offered to pay his gambling debts,
which were considerable, and to settle q
handsome fortune on him or yearly in.
come. To these propositions he turned .
IoE~ -E<< H. l.
quite what to do. If she il now acquiring
q residence with q view to q divorce april
cation she doubtless believes her pressnt
action warranted by the circumstances.
She has $4,000 a year, it is stated, all of it
derived from American property. Unless
he accedes to her terms il is believed the
baron cannot reach any portion of it The
purpose of Nine de Steurs in this decid-
eddy unconventional proceeding, according
TO friends who profess to have knowledge
of the situation, was to force Baron de
Steurs into procuring divorce from her SO
that the road to her subsequent marriage
would be perfectly clear.
In speaking of Nine. de Steurs some time
ago society woman referred enthusiast
ticslly to her magnificent figure and de-
clared that when she appeared in evening
dress her shoulders lit up any room where
she entered II Nine. de Steurs' Sioux
Falls proceeding are successful she will
doubtless contribute good deal Of llumi-
nation to the drawing rooms of New York
next winter.
The young millionaire Of this romantic
story of high life is descended on his
mothers side from an old Dutch family,
and he inherited from his mothers family
large fortune, estimated in the millions.
He is Newport young man in the summer
time, devoted to polo playing, and it was
at Newport that he met Nine. de Steurs.
He is accounted handsome fellow and Q
man Of charming manner.
A Victory for Ed iscn.
New York, July 14.-In the suit
of the Edison Electric Light company
against the United States Electric
Light company for infringement Of patent
of the incandescent lights, Judge Wallace
to day rendered q decision in favor Of
Edison.
The decision broadly, squarely and fully
sustains Edison's patent Judge Wallace
also orders an injunction against the de-
tendant and an accounting of profits for
past manufacture. The present output Of
| incandescent lamps in this country is about
| fifty thousand q day, Only half OF which
are now made by the Edison company. The
patent was sustained by two appellate
courts In England and the decision of Judge
Wallace apparently agrees with the Eng
lish decisions. IL IS thought the Thomson
Houston and Westinghouse companies will
continue their business much a. before.
The patent has only two or three years
more 10 run. The Unite1 States company,
against whom the decision is rendered,
proposed to take an appeal at once.