The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-01

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and that she had believed him to be 9
bona fide Spanish nobleman when she
married him. But the fact that he keeps
hotel isn't evidence that he mayn't be
real nobleman. A great many real foreign
noblemen are connected with American
hotels in one capacity or another. The
count was held in bail.
When Miss Clara Ward, Of Detroit, was
welded on May 20, 1850, to Prince Joseph
Chimay Caraman, in Paris, the cable dis
patches said much regret was felt st see
ing the young and beautiful girl entering
family which has one of the worst repu-
tations in all Europe. The old Prince de
Chimay looked thoroughly worn out with
loose living. The regrets and the worn
look were so characteristic of such alliances
as to leave the reader wondering why the
people wondered.
A litigation still pending has, by the
decision of Judge Lacombe, resulted so far
in the decision that when Miss Josephine
Cregier, of New York, thought she was
wedding Count Blasius NJ. Cheesebrough
she wasn't at all, and that her daughter,
Lenora A. Arnold, isn't entitled to share
of Count Cheesebrough's millions. In this
case the titled foreigner had gold galore,
but the count said he wasn't legal hus-
band. Most of the real titled foreigner
husbands havn't any gold, galore or other
wise. And the bonds that hold their
American wives to them are very legal, in
deed.
Miss Miner. one of the "belles of Har-
lem, " IN 1887, was ''captivated by q dis
tinguished foreigner" whom she met
under the title of Count Duffia. Her re-
turn home, already alluded to, gave the
neighbors something to talk about.
Before Count Batonyi sailed for Australia
in 1891 he left 5000 in the hands of an I'M
dertaker of Millerton, N. Y, to keep his
wife's mothers grave green. His wife
didn't seem to appreciate this token of
misplaced affection, and has gone and
sued for the money. The count put the
widest kind of an ocean between himself
and his American countess, in spite of her
beauty. She was Miss Smith, of Pough-
keepsie.
The grandson of Field Marshal Won
Butcher, himself a count, married Miss
Alma Loeb. of Brooklyn, in Detroit last
July. His German relatives disinherited
him, it was then announced, in conse.
quence of his marriage. He died in the
February following of the grip in modest
His American countess was not by his side
Father Geyer said that on his DEATH
bed the count-he was real one-said his
marriage was q ''trick." The countess
went to Denver in September to live long
enough in Colorado to get divorce. The
brother-in-law, whom this Brooklyn girl
was visiting when she and the count fell
in love with each other, forced them to
separate the next day, because, as the pub
lie prints said at the time. he was ''afraid
the elder Won Butcher would disown his
son and cut off his allowance"
There has seldom been a sadder sequence
than this to the union of American beauty
and foreign rank. Romance has rarely
fegned anything stranger than the Blu
cher-Loeb story.
Some of the counts have most amazing
names. "Couut W. c. KoochIjay" was ar
raigned in Camden, n. j., December IS,
1891, on a charge of bigamy. Described as
1.-THE prodigal son of wealthy Partisan, !"
he married in June, 1887, the daughter of
James NJ. Scovel, of Camden. In January,
1891, he welded again Miss VIM
gate, of Camden. Although his own
first father-in-law, Colonel James M.
Scovel, appeared as his counsel, Count
koochijay was convicted. The prosecu-
ton was aided by Lawyer Scovel, a brother
of the Countess Koochijay and son of the
prisoners lawyer. Judge Hugg on March
81, 1892, sentenced Koochijay to five years
in state prison. but the count got q stay
and may have a new trial.
Count Pietro Cimbar was for some time
in Raymond street Jail in consequence of
his wife's suit for abandonment They
his father was veteran general, then liv-
ing in Rome, and his mother the Countess
de Missana. Count Cimbar claimed ac-
quaintance with many of Americas lead
ing citizens. He said Speaker Carlisle had
invited him to dinner at the Fifth Avenue
hotel and then given him letter of intro
duction to John Kelly. He met and mar
ried Bertha Burchard, sister of an actress
at the Thalia theater. Then she sued him
for support.
just suppose all the American count
esses and duchesses and marquises would
try to get the American courts to require
their foreign lords to support theml Dis
trict Attorney Nicoll's new court would
then indeed be necessity.
June 6, 1890, in the Eleventh police
court in Paris, the Marquis de Boyer
d'Eguille, descended from one of the old
est and richest families in Provence. stood
q prisoner in the dock This misfortune
of his, which could not fail in any event
to be q misfortune of his American wife,
was the direct result of their marriage.
She had been a Miss Fanny Fuller, of
Philadelphia, reputed the daughter of
United States Senator Oliver Fuller, who
died in 1868, and consequently the puta-
tive heiress to the famous Chase fortune of
100000. The marquis, in all good
faith We will suppose, tried to establish
his wife's claim to this money, and spent
his time and money in that direction. At
last he couldn't pay his household bills,
and was arrested. His wife's tears and
the eloquence Of his lawyer got him off:
but the shame of the dock will finger
about this as about many another such
match.
The name Of Talleyrand-P erigord, sug-
gestive equally of diplomacy and patties,
is also associated with at least two of the
kind of alliances herein treated. Maurice,
Marquis of REORGANIZATION to whom
his elder brother, the head of the house,
afterward coded the title of Due de Dino.
married Miss Elizabeth Curtis, of New
York, daughter of Joseph ID. b. Curtis, in
1s47. That marriage proved an unhappy
one, and when on January Is, 1887, he
married the divorced wife of Mr.. Frederick
Livingston. of New York. he was a grass
widower." having been divorced in 1887.
Mrs. Frederick Livingston was Adele
Sampson, daughter of Joseph Sampson, of
New York city, and the divorced wife of
Frederick Stevens. On December 16, 1891,
one of this lady's daughters was welded to
Prince Orlowski, Polish noble. By the
bye, the most eligible Polish noble and a
real one, too. at whom American girls in
search of titles have had a chance for a
long time, is Jean de Reszke, the tenor of
the Metropolitan last winter.
In this connection 1t is worth mention
that in the winter of 1s91-92 one of the
topics of scandaIous discussion in the
Casino at Monte Carlo was the gambling
losses of the Due de Dino, and the period
during which the fortune of his American
wife might be expected to hold out.
Baron I. F. Lagerfelt, Swedish vice.
consul at Pittsburg. married on December
II, 1884, Miss Mollie Doty, daughter of Mr.,
Calvin B. Doty, of Steubenville, Ohio, zone
of its wealthiest and most respected citi-
zens. The baron's official position, guar
Doty was belle, happy, rich and hand
some. Baron Lagerfeft's father, said to be