Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-27
A DELAWARE SCANDAL.

Mrs. Rosalie Addicks, wife of J. Ed
ward Addicks, millionaire and con-
testant for the United States Senator
ship in Delaware, has filed libel for
divorce fromher husband in the Superior
Court of Newcastle county. In her
libel Mrs. Addicks charges adultery as
the grounds for the application, and
names Mrs. Ida Carr Wilson as CO.
respondent. Mrs. Wilson resides at
MiraAores, handsome country seat at
Claymont, Del, adjoining MIR. Addicks's
home farm.
Mrs. Addicks's application is for ab-
solute divorce with alimony.
The petition, which covers several
close-written pages of legal cap, is on
file in the Prothonotary's Office, in Will
mington, but so closely is it guarded
that its contents can only be conjected.
Mrs. Addicks and her stepdaughter,
Florence, young woman of eighteen
years, have been in Europe for the past
year. They were in Wilmington Sat-
urday, the day on which the libel was
filed, and visited the Gables, their for
mer home. 1t is said they are now in
Philadelphia, but their address could
not be learned last night.
The gossips have been whispering
about the case for many months, and
it has been repeatedly stated that such
an action was merely question OF
time, but the proceedings were con-
Quoted so queitly that every one was
taken completely by surprise when the
facts became known that definite steps
had actually been taken. Wilmington
is taking of nothing else, and it is the
principal topic all oyer the State. Now
that the case has become public prop
erty it is recalled that much adverse
comment was current about MIR. Ad-
dicks's domestic affairs about the time
that Mrs. Addicks went to Europe,
and some of the most intimate friends
of the family asserted even then that
the couple had separated permanently.
It is now said that since Mrs. Ad-
dicks's departure for Europe her hus-
band spent 80 much of his time at Mira
flores, the country seat of Mrs. Wilson,
as to set all the tongues in the neigh
borhood wagging. 1t is asserted be
kept handsome pair of thorough
breds in Mrs. Wilson's stable, and that
she frequently drove him to and from
the railway station when he visited
Wilmington.
Mr.. Addicks's candidacy for the
United States senatorship to succeed
Senator Higgins has greatly intensified
the interest taken in the divorce suit,
and emphasizes the fact that there have
been rumors of an intention upon the
part of his opponents to spring scandal
which would blast his hopes and polit-
ical aspirations. No attempt has been
made to conceal the fact that the pro-
posed exposure was based on the very
matter which forms the basis of Mrs.
Addicks's divorce proceedings. Those
politicians who are opposed to Mr.. Ad-
dicks for the Senate make no attempt
to conceal their satisfaction at the turn
affairs have taken. Mrs. Addickss coun-
sci assert, however, that politics cuts
no figure in the present suit, and deny
that it was brought at this time for po-
litical effect. They say their case was
ready, and they putt into court.
Mr.. Addicks, who was in Philadel-
phia last night, when asked about the
divorce proceedings said "The charges
are entirely false trial of the cause
will demonstrate this. That is all L
have TO say