St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-27
TWO FLOUR CITY SENSATIONS.
c. D. Bissel, Head Bookkeeper of the Cargill Ele-
vator Company, Takes His Life With
a Revolver.
HIS SUICIDE DUE TO DOMESTIC TROUBLE.
Hiss Blanche Culbertson and Leigh French the
Central Figures in an Affair Which
Creates Talk.
NUPTIAL KNOT THE PROBABLE OUTCOME.

Pretty Blanche Culbertson -the same
merry maid and heiresS to million.
whose blonde beauty and infectious
merriment won lasting place for her
in the hearts of all Minneapolis people
who met her when, year ago, she spent
some time with Mrs. F. B. Semple at
the Hawthorne avenue mansion, is the
most talked of girl in America today.
Miss Culbertson is the youngest daugh-
ter of the deceased Millionaire GILBERT
son, and sister of Mrs. Semple. She
is heiress to S1,000,00 and aside from
her wealth is one of the most charming
to be met with, either at home or abroad.
She is now, too, the heroine of rO
nance which involves two continents in
its plot, and is as fully interesting in de-
tail as the most carefully devised pro-
duction Of the modeon novelist. The
home of the Culbertsons Is at New
Albany, Ind. Blanche, the youngest of
the several daughters. has always been
The Pet Of the Family,
and has had very much the same free
dom of thought and action accorded to
her as have most American girls. She
has been accepted among her friends as
the intended wife of captain in the
British army. and has been in Chicago
recently. She left her home, at 594
Division street, Wednesday night at
midnight in company with another
lover, leaving behind her tne now irate
and almost distracted mother Of the
British army officer, who had gone to
that city to be present at the marriage
Of her son to the American helresS.
Immediately after her flight from her
home Miss Culbertson cabled to Eng
land, informing her erstwhile intended
husband that he need not come, as she
was about to be married TO another man.
The mother also cabled her son, and
Thursday night packed her luggage and
left for the shores of England. The
triumphant lover in the case is Leigh
French. son of Or. George F. French, of
Minneapolis, a student in the medical
department of the University of Min
neSota.
The Disappointed Lover
is Capt. Donald Mckay, of her majesty's
troops stationed at Portsmouth, Eng
land. Miss CulbertsOn is the youngest
daughter of the late multimillionaire,
w. S. Culbertson, of New Albany, Ind.
She is handsome and accomplished
young woman. More than one year ago
Miss Culbertson went to MINI eapolis to
icit Tnorrnh OF Arc Il
Semple. While there she met young
French, and he began paying attention
to Miss CulbertSon, and some months
later he proposed and was accepted.
Millionaire Culbertson, when asked for
his consent to the engagement, posi-
lively refused. and went further by
adding a codicil to his will depriving his
daughter of 100000 if she married
Leigh French. One week after adding
this codicil to his will Millionaire Gull
bertson died. After her fathers death
Miss Culbertson went to Europe and
travelled until the first of the year.
While abroad she met Capt. Mckay. He
became enamored of her and soon
Proposed Marriage.
Miss Culbertson positively declares
that she did not become engaged to him.
and that she never even considered him
as more than friend. BY the articles
of the will Miss CulbertSon was to be
given $1,000 year for ten years, and
then S5OONO0 was to revert to her in
case she did not marry against the con-
sent of the executors of the will.
A GLOBE man called at the residence
OF Mrs. Semple, IN Minneapolis, yester-
day morning. 1t was found that Mrs.
Semple was in Chicago visiting friends
there. The next house is the residence
of DIR. George French, father of the
young man who cut so conspicuous
figure in this romance. Or. French
said:
The Father Talks.
miss Culbertson and my son had