St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-10

1.-THE wife, came all the way from New York,
with her two children. She was so poor that
she could not afford sleeping aecommoda-
tons on the trains, and sat in day coach
for three days and two nights. The plaintiff
was living here with woman who passed as
his sister, He married the woman Us soon as
the case WAS decided in his favor, and now
stands in the peculiar position of being in
danger of arrest for bigamy, as it is certain
that the judge was bribed.
The wife of ex-Congressman Durham, of
Chicago, sued for a divorce here last fall, and
after long trial received her decree. The
ex-congressman put in no appearance at the
last minute, though he had led the plaintiff
to believe that he would. Mrs. Durham
rented the handsomely furnished house of
MIR. Phillips, the warden of the jail, for a
year, and is still living here. Durham has
just began suit against her in Chicago.
There is considerable money and real estate
mixed up in the affair. A Colonel Allen, who
is named as correspondent, stops frequently
at the Cataract House, while visiting Mrs.
Durham here.
About the 1st of last December a Mrs.
Lockwood, Of Brooklyn, came to town, and
Immediately electrified the inhabitants with
her magnificent dressing, her striking ap-
pearance and her lavish expenditure of
money. The proprietor of the Cataract
House could not or would not give her the
desired accommodations. She moved to the
Commercial Hotel, engaged six rooms for
herself, two daughters and maids. The car
pet on her parlor not suiting her, she had it
taken up and bought new one to please
herself. She afterwards hired Mr.. Styles
house. on Duluth avenue, one Of the hand
soonest houses in town, and pays S125 per
month for it furnished. This is an enormous
rent for Sioux Falls. She left here the first
week in January and is still away; notwith-
standing which fact, when her six months
are up, she will swear out her papers and
claim that she has lived here for the required
time. She initiated Mrs. Blaine in hiring the
only private box in the Opera House for the
length of her stay here, and her toilettes and
gold-handled lorgnette opera glasses were
the talk of the town. The theatre was pack
ed every evening just to see her.
There are more men than women here
now. One of the principal members of the
colony is New York painter, one of whose
signs can be seen all over the city-two
Brownies. holding up a banner, on which is
the legend: 'Little, the Big Painter
The Princess Colonna was expected here.
It was even rumored that house had been
taken for her, but alas the rumor proved
false; the hopes Of the lawyers, in perspec-
tive, fell fiat, and she wended her way to the
California coast.
The Sioux Falls papers, a few weeks ago,
published the notice of Mrs. Olea de Silva
Young's approaching marriage to Mr.. Foster
Gaines, of Warrentown, Va. Mrs. Young
lived here about two years ago, obtained her
divorce, and was reported engaged to the
young and fascinating editor of daily paper
here. .
There are often some laughable reasons
given for desiring divorces, for instance, the
following:
Especial to the Argus-Leader.l
esYANKToN, Feb. 12.-Fred. L. Kilborn, in
the employ of the United States Government,
in the Bureau of Animal Industry, at Wash
ington, d. c., is here to procure divorce
from his wife, whom he charges with extreme
cruelty, inasmuch that she refused to bear
him children, and adopted extreme measures
to this end.''
Another funny case was that of lady who
came here after Christmas and opened
dressmaking and millinery establishment in
the Syndicate Block. A bomb-shell exploded
one day in March, when her husband from
Texas appeared with this greeting: 81 have
come for that cup of tea, and ID long
distance, too" 1t seems, so gossips say,
that the husband, being ill in bed, the wife,
kissing him, said: 81 am going to make you
cup of tea, dear" He never saw her again
until he came to Sioux Falls. She sold out
her business and they left for their home in
Texas.
The wife of an New York editor is here in
retirement and under an assumed name. It
has caused much surprise among those in
the secret, as the editor in question has the
reputation of being good friend to strug-
Cling women.
One word about the Cataract House. Its
reputation is far spread. All the drummers
in this section arrange their business in
such way that they can spend Sunday in
Sioux Falls at the Cataract, and the hotel is
always filled to OVERLOOKING from Saturday
till Monday. The utmost license is per-
mitted; the hall boys, chambermaids and
elevator boys are all spies and town-criers
They are SO well posted as to the dates of the
different trials, and keep the townspeople so
thoroughly informed, that as rule the court
rooms are filled to their utmost capacity,
with strangers eager to assist in the .swash-
ing of dirty linen"
The more respectable Of the ladies seeking
divorce, live in private houses. They are
known on the streets, and oftentimes,
in passing a crowd of school children. YOU
will hear the little ones, says: s'There goes
one of them The little fve-year-ofd
daughter of a lady living in one of the
private boarding houses came running into
her mother one day, in a great state of indig-
nation. ga man asked another man who
was, and he said: oh, she belongs to one of
the divorces next door, What did he mean
by divorcee?'
Even the children are spariahs." col
onlst is not welcomed in the churches,
though they are glad enough to take their
money In the subscription box; no invita-
lions come to them for social gatherings; no
positions are open to the poor ones in the
stores. They are barred out from every
thing; truly colony among themselves!
The good ones suffering for the sins of the
wicked!
At the hearing. the poor woman is asked
by the Judge: "Do you intend to make South
Dakota your home?" She is obliged to swear
that she does. Now, that would be an i'm
possibility. She could not make her home
here, for she would be more isolated than
Robinson Crusoe on his desert island. 1t
would be like shipwrecked man dying of
thirst with oceans Of water all around
The mere fact that she once belonged to