The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-28

l killed her
The Princess Maud, it seems, is warmly
attached to the earl. They first met so
clally three years ago, but il is only eight
or nine months since a genuine attach
ment arose between them. The royal
maid is fond of social and scientific stud
les, and the affinity of the pair appears to
be genuine and thorough
The wedding may not take place until
september The earl will become a duke
/ and the ceremonies are TO be ON scale of
/ magnlhcence as easy to imagine as TO
/ write. The pair will make London their
home. It is admitted that only the action
| Of her majesty and decided action at that
| can prevent the union.
King Alexander of Servia, whose pros
| pective marriage to a Monteuegrin prin-
cess is the national topic in his country,
| VIII meet his royal mother in Belgrade on
| June 1, to make final arrangements for
| the event IL occurs next year, when the
monarch becomes of age, and the only
/ question is which of the two eldest daugh-
tiers of Belgrade's ruler, Nicholas, will be
chosen. He may have which he likes
best, a question the young king hopes
| shortly to determine
The wedding of Miss Marion Phelps,
| daughter of the United States minister TO
| Germany and DR.. Franz Won Rottenburg,
under secretary of the interior i'm the
tatherland and possible cabinet minis
ter, is to take place early in June The
| American chapel in Berlin will be the
| scene of the solemnity, and after tour
about Prussia and Saxony, with posi-
| BILE trip to the south of France the couple
| VIII settle down in Berlin. They are to
visit this country in the fall if at all pos
sible. The doctor is u medium sized,
stout man of forty, native of Dantzic.
He is versed in science and the languages
and has written upon ethics. He was
| BiSmarck's right hand man during the
| vice chancellor's administration and is
/ represented in the celebrated painting
! Won Werner, which represents Bismarck
| at critical scene in Europe's history.
| AT present DIR. Won Rottenburg is held in
high esteem by Chancellor Won Caprivi
and by the emperor.
Miss Phelps was born twenty-four years
ago at Englewood, n. j., her fathers
country seat She is good sized, plump
and with pretty dark hair. She first at
tracted attention during her fathers CON
| gressional campaigns when she travelled
all about with him. Very few prominent
men and women in New Jerseys social
and political life have not met Miss
| Phelps. Her education was unusually
well attended to. Besides music, paint
ing and the languages Miss Phelps has
| studied political and scientific questions
very thoroughly When little girl re
was decidedly fat, characteristic she
has not entirely lost to this day.
The formal announcement of the en-
| gagement of Commander William II.
! Whiting of the United States steamer
! Alliance to Miss Eta All Fong, the full
| blooded Chinese daughter of All Fong, a
wealthy celestial merchant of
establishments of the year. The
! young lady is nearly20 and her race is de-
noted only by yellow complexion, black
hair and eyes. Besides her native Chi
ncsc she is conversant with French and
! English. Her father did for years the
largest trade in Hawaii and the Sandwich
| Islands as an exporter and importer,
After accommodating q fortune he went
back to China with his two sons, erecting
there magnificent palace, in which he
proposes to spend his declining years.
He still kept up, however, an immense
establishment at Honolulu for the sale of
Chinese and japanese goods. Many
Americans have been royalty entertained
by him in his Sandwich Island villa
The mother of Miss All Fong did not re-
turn with her husband to China. Miss
Eta has eleven sisters who, with her
mother and herself, continued to reside
in Liliuokalani's capital There superb
home became the scene of constant enter
| tainments extended to naval officers, and
| there it was that Commander Whiting
first met the young lady and succumbed
TO her charms. Mrs. All Fong is part
Kanaka and part Haytian, being described
as gracious, mOtherly old soul, very
proud of her husband and children The
entire family rank among the aristocracy
of the Sandwich Islands. All Fong's
name has long been synonym for probity
and his children are all very good looking
The latter was educated partly in Eng
land and the daughters are on terms of
intimacy with Princess Kaniani
Commander Whiting is now past 80 and
was appointed TO the navy from Wiscon-
sin, entering the service in 1860. He lis
tinguished himself during the war Last
December he sailed with the Alliance to
Samoa. He is well known in Brooklyn,
having lived there in Greene avenue with
a married sister. He has a handsome
villa on the Hudson, where he spent the
summers when on shore duty.
The commander has never been regarded
as marrying man, and when in charge of
the equipment department and head of
the board of inspection at the navy yard
was noted for his indifference to the
other sex. His family have always
been distinguished in naval circles. Will
lam b. Whiting, the old sea dog of ante
bellum days, was born in Troy and rose
from one grade to another in the navy
until comparative recent years. He
asked to be retired in 1871 and died in 1888
at Milwaukee. HIS record as a tactician
and all-round sea dog was one of the best
of Uncle Sans service. The present com
mander will bring his bride to this coun-
try after the wedding, which is expected
to take place in the early autumn. He is
now in this country attending TO matters
of leave and furlough and putting his
villa in order for the future Mrs. Whit
ing's reception.
When George Washington Vanderbilt
leads Miss Minturn to the altar, which il
is declared he will do as soon as the pres
emit period of family mourning has ex-
pired, one of the world S richest bachelors
will have become a Benedick. A good
deal of mystery involves this engagement,
which is not yet formally announced. The
young man is the youngest son of the gen
tleman whose aspiration anent the pub
lie is nowadays so often quoted. He in
herited $4,000, 900 from his fathers estate
and has added TO it since, not to mention
a S2,500,000 windfall few years ago. Mr.
Vanderbilt has always been noted for his
studious and liberal tendencies His Ii
brary is the most judiciously stocked and
cared for one in the world--at least of
private book collections. His love of
books led him TO establish a free circu-
lating library in New York five years ago.
His efforts toward the improvement of
manual training are well known.