The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-17
LETTERS TO PRINT
SEIZURE OF A MATRIMONIAL
AGENCY SPREADS TERROR

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Arrested for Running q fraudulent
| Concern and Carloads of Letters Seized,
| the Writers Whereof Tremble Lest
Their Documents Should Come Out in
Evidence on the Trial of the Case--Eng-
lish Criticism of Dunraven just Fairly
Warming Up-Foreign News.
Copyrighted 1896 by Associated Press)
London, Nov 1.-THE arrest here OF
the directors and managers Of the
| Worlds Great Marriage association, on
the charge Of having been engaged in
defrauding a long suffering public in
| an extensive manner, has created quite
q furry of excitement among the many
deluded persons of both sexes whose
weaken ins1edness or romantic DISPOSE
| tfons. or both. have led them into the
habit Of applying ito matrimonial agen-
cfes for Husbands or wives. as the case
might be. These people are now In a
state Of trepidation, fearing that their
teIl-taae letters may be introduced as
evidence. Some idea of the business
done by this interesting agency may be
gathered from the fact that the police
have seized hundreds Of packages of
photographs and carloads OF feftters-
The manager Of the agency alleges
that the writers Of these seized letters
include not only peers and peeresses,
members of she house OF commons,
judges, lawyers, clergymen and doc
TORS, The governor Of a large colony and
members Of tine dristocracy. male and
female, Of all sorts, but even cabinet
ministers. Naturally under these cir
cumsitarces the trial of the manipula-
tors Of the Worlds Great Marriage as
ISOLATION is expected to prove highly
edifyfng.
NOT DONE WITH DUNRAVEN.
Strange as 1T may seem. the offensive
vaporings of the Dumaven pamphlet
slim fill the air hereabOuts, and his lord
ship may be hkened to an Old Man Of
Sea, clfrsging 'tenaciously to the back of
aforementioned sport. determined. ap-
paren,dfy. loo tire n curt of existence. But
Dunrayen VIII not find much conSlola-
rfon in tihe comm rfs upon his conduct
by the weekly newspapers, which
speaking generally, condemn him in I'M
mfstlakable terms
The Sunday Review, for example.
Says 1t finds it difficult to sympathize
with the feelings which induced Lord
Dunraven ITO publish his Extraordinary
Statement" and adds:
Neither 1.-THE matter nor the manner
fnclines us in his favor He surely
ought never to have mixed up the seri-
GUS charges of fraud with the COM
placent expression of his belief that in
various points the Valkyrie is superior
ito the Defender
HIS assertions in regard to inter |
ference seem ito Show THAT he is incapa-
bic OF fmpartjalbty. He asks us to be- |
Heve that he captains of 500 competing |
steamers entered into a conspiracy 30 |
give their wash to THE Valkyrie"
The Saturday Review concludes with /
renarktng THAT it feels certain that the |
New York Yacht club will deal with the |
matter fairly and fonorably.
The Speaker says: 1.-The i'll judged |
has done much to alternate our
and make us acknowledge
that THE supporters of the New York
Yacht club Ghave ample grounds for the
ind gnetion they express"
THEY CALLED 1T BLACKMAIL.
The mtfhods of the big London photo
graphers are receiving an airing Just
now in the columns Of the Times. 1T
has been THE habit of these house to
request the honor" Of a sitting of roy-
alties, beauties, stage celebrates, etc.
and II appears that many thus accept
ting a free sitting, under the English |
copyright law, unwittingly relnquish
The copywright of the photograph ITO
the photographer. who then tries 10
make money out of it. Blackmail has
been the term used here in all direc-
tons. The Illustrated newspapers es-
pecially seem ito have been mulcted in
al kinds of ways. There is one in
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for the use Of royal photograph and
IN the following week another paper
oaSd $500 for the same photograph
In another case a photographer
charged the two newspapers s525 apiece
'or THE use Of portrait and soon after
Wards big firm, unaware of the copy
light, republished it and the next day
'ecefved a threatening letter demand
ne big danc.5s
Mem'ebers Of the royal family are a
arge source of income TO this class OF
an1 it is a common ex-
,er-ience among the newspa pers TO re-
,eive a shower Of demands for fees OF
III kinds from photographers 50 soon
IS the new photograph IS published.
INFLUENZA AND CHOLERA.
The British Medical Journal says |.
hat as the result of extensive inquiry
lmong the principal medical officers of
fealth it is able to state that there are
Instinct Indications of influenza again
ecom2rg prevalent in the north and
asst of London. in Surrey and in the
rest riding of Yorkshire. Deaths from
Influenza have occurred at Birming-
am, Manchester and Liverpool.
Many Americans and others here who
Intended ITO winter IN Egypt have de-
ided to change their plans owing 60
he reports of the prevalence OF cholera
4 certain parts of that country. Cairo
nd Alexandria have. tbs far. not been
ffedted but cholera is said to have ap-
cared in d serious form elsewhere IN