The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-07

legged insanity, the counsel for the
defense producing testimony to show that
the mental disorder of Lady Durham had
been mainly brought about by the shock
which she received on witnessing atten-
tions of a somewhat intimate character
on the part of her husband to the widowed
Countess oflLonsdale. The latter's very
pronounced Irritation with Lieutenant
White, of the Scots Guards, who has since
became Lord Annaly, gave rise for time
to considerable amount OF gossip In Lon
don, which could not but have proved an
moving to her relatives, while the sudden
rupture of her engagement with Sir Edgar
Vincent, on the very eve of the day ap-
pointed for her marriage, created quite a
sensation in Mayfair. Sir Edgar was not
at that time as enormously wealthy as he
has since become, and 1T is asserted that
the cause which led him to break off the
match was the discovery that his bride
would lose her jointure of $4,000 year,
as widow of Lord Lonsdale, on her mar
rage, and that, moreover, her debts
amounted to considerably over a quar-
ter of a million of dollars, which her
second husband would have the privilege
of being forced to pay. Sir. Edgar Vim
man, subsequently welded Lady Helen
Duncombe, sister of the Duchess of Lem
ster, while the bride whom he had de-
serted consoled herself by marrying the
very homely but very wealthy Earl de
Grey, whose principal title to fame at
pre- sent is his almost European pre-emi-
nence as sporting shot and his posses
sion of the beautiful Lady Gladys Herbert
as his wife.
The name of Kate Vaughan has been
mentioned above as one of the two origin
ators and creators of the skirt dance on
the professional stage. She by rights de-
serves to find place among the women of
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connection with the society nautch of
Great Britain. For although she for many
years figured as member Of the
dramatic. or rather the burIesQue
profession, yet she is well born, her
father having been q country rector of
lineage sufficiently ancient to admit of his
name being included among those of the
county families of England She was
brought up and educated with no other
object in view than to assume the rank in
society to which her birth entitled her,
and the circumstances which led her to
seek both a vocation and livelihood on
the stage were of painful character. which
it is unnecessary to describe here. In 1887
she married Colonel the Hon. Frederick
Wellesley, brother of the Earl of Crowley,
and who stands in the line of sue
cession to that peerage. She had previ-
ousy figured as the cause of the decree of
divorce which his first wife, daughter of
the exam bassador Lord Augustus Lotus,
had secured from him. Colonel Fred
Wellesley, although his name is retained
on the list of retired officers of the army,
is no longer a member of the Guards and
other leading London clubs. The reasons
which led to his semi-ostracism, from
which he is gradually now emerging, were
identical with those which caused
the queen to deprive him of his post in
the diplomatic service, of his Office of
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to place him upon the retired list of the
army. While acting as charge d. affaires
of Great Britain at Vienna he had ap-
peared in the embassy box at the opera
in perceptible state of intoxication and
accompanied by notorious demi-mon-
doine. 1t was on night when the en-
peror and empress happened to be pres
emf, and when Colonel Wellesley was seen
taking his seat by the side Of his frail COM
panion in the most conspicuous portion of
the box, and in full view of the court and
of the whole house, the empress rose and
withdrew. A few minutes later the gal
liant colonel was called into the little salon
at the rear of the embassy box, and there,
after the exchange OF few angry words,
received a singing blow on the cheek
from Count Hugo Kalnoky, younger
brother of the present Austrian minister
of foreign affairs. and who, like every
other Austrian officer present, was frantic
with rage at the insult to which his
sovereign had been subjected. On the
following day, while walking on the
Ringsasseh, he was again struck in the
face, this time by another cavalry officer,
and for the same reason as on the night
before. To neither the one nor to the
other of these blows did the gallant col
onel make any response. and Incredible
though it may appear, took no notice
whatsoever of the challenges thus forced
npo- him OF cOurSo his m m arv pca1l
from Vienna Immediately followed. 1t
may be added that he has large families
of children both by his former as well as
Inv ia nre sent wife