Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1896-11-04
4 MATRIMONIAL HUSTLER.
i""iNc wives In Twenty Years the
pncr of HnnNinr.

The matrimonial career of Abraham Rhimes
on fulton county Indiana, is believed In TN,
point OF number of wives, to be without a
parallel in the United States. Rhimcs is ~
years OF age. The story OF Rhimes' remark
able experiences with wives relates the Gin
clnnati Tribune covers a period OF tweut,
years, during which time he has divorced
eleven wives, and has just taken TO himself
wiie No. II. Rhimos started in life poor.
but by frugal Industry succeeded In sc
cumulatins a comfortable fortune. which
after 1876, rapidly dwinllcd as the result OF
litigation in divorce courts Rhimes NAV
nov be said TO be rich only in experience.
Miss Emclinc Candy of Minneapolis was
the Indiana mans first wife When Rhim,g
was 90 years Old he decided to marry, ana adj
iertised in a Chicago publication. Mis-,
Candy answered the want notice. and Inns
seven days elapsed after the exchange of let
terS until their betrothal their marriage
speedily following Rhimca lived with his
hist VIE two years, when Mrs Rhimcs on
vorcc.
He remained single for two months yber.
ne chcse for his second companion Miss
Martha Robbins. an Indiana girl Their mar.
Iled NE was one Of disCord and six month.
after the second marriage Mrs Rhimes'
temper FORMED the basis OF a complaint for
divorce which was granted. Rhmts immr
"dteiE set about TO capture his third wife
aud found helpmate in Miss Samantha Bon
sil OF Detroit, Mich. Their welded lie wa.
remarkable fer its hrcvity. and In 1852 tb,
divorce court was again called uDon T,
record the familiar story OF domestic I'm.
felicity. Rhimcs next found peace of mind
IN an alliance with Miss Lavina Straw of In
dianspolis, and, contrary to past experience
llHed happily for upward of a year when tho
hand OF fate separated Rhlmes from his girl
bride and the much-marred hoosier wa.
again at liberty.
Iaft I,.l
later with Mrs. Anna Roland. whom he
met in ST. Louis and married. April >
1886, Rhlmes was again divorced and no
enjoyed single blessedness until July If on
me succeeding year, when he again entered
the ranks OF the married. His sixth wife
was woman advanced in years Mrs
sarah Overly whose incompatible temper
suihced to drive Rhimes to seek redress i'm
the courts, and the woman who took him 10
be her third husband, made way for Miss
Rachael Magnum of Cleveland, O., their
marriage taking place in 1883. Rhimcs di-
Norced her September s, 1889, and two
months later repented and their recon
citation having been effected, Mrs RhimCs
No. 4 nee Miss Magnum, became his
eighth wife But an estrangement soon
resulted, and the inevitable legal separa
ton became matter of court record
when Rhimes agreed to disagree with his
ninth wife the Indiana courts refused TO
longer issue bills of divorce. and Rhmes
went to Dakota, where he acquired a resi-
dence, secured a decree, and returned to
Berrien county, Michigan. where he was
married to Miss Stella Bloomhagen, aged
"a. Rhimes lived long enough in Michigan
to divorce his tenth wife, and, returning
to the scenes of his former marital con
quests, was married to Mrs Mary Walsh.
with whom he lived longer than any OF
his previous wives. But the mania for di-
vorce still controlled him, and in Marcel.
1898. wife No II cast off the name of
Rhimes.
The Hoosier patriarch was married to
VIE No II last week. During the twenty
years that Rhimes has been a familiar
alimony $4,000