Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-04-29
SEEKS A DIVORCE.
SENSATIONAL sEQUAL TO AN ELOPEmENT JUST ONE
 YEAR AGO.
Mrs. Ulysses Altheimer Sues for Di- vorce Parties Well Known
 Here.

The following will be read with in terest here where the parties arc well known. It is from the St. Louis Globe Democrat: The upper Jew ish social circles of St. Louis are al present in a fever of excitement over the sequal to the Altheimer- Scharff elopement of last May. Mrs. Altheimer who, as 17-year-old Ophelia Scharff, eloped with Ulysses Aitheimer not quite year ago, will shortly file suit for divorce. She so stated to Globe-Democrat reporter yesterday, but refused to say on what grounds her suit will be based.
 The couple have notlived together for three weeks. Their separation, which was brought about in day, was as sensational as if was sudden. Mr. Altheimer left for his office in the morning, and returned at sup per time, to be informed that he could never again see his wife and baby Since that night he has seen neither. Mir Altheimer says he is at loss to know why his wife wants divorce. He has made repeated efforts to see her and his child since the separation, but without success. He said yesterday that he had en- gagged an attorney, and will proba- ply take legal steps in day or two in order to secure the child.
 Mrs. Altheimer is a daughter of Mir. A. Scharff, of 3104 Washington avenue. Her husband is a son of Col. Louis Altheimer, prominent cotton planter Of Pine Bluff, Ark. Mr. Altheimer, since the separation, has made his headquarters at West End hotel. The elopement of the couple last May caused decided sensation in St. Louis on account of the youth of the girl and the stren uous objection of the Scharff family to the match. The couple were married at Springfield, Ill.,, and re turned to St Louis three days later, when they were apparently forgiven by the brides parents They then went to Pine Bluff, Ark. They lived there until last December, when Mrs. Altheimer came to St. Louis on a visit to her parents. Her husband followed few days later, and they decided to permanently live here. They stopped at the Scharff residence while making ar rangements to go to housekeeping. As a mutual friend of the parties concerned said last night, there never was a happier couple than Mir. and Mrs. Altheimer, in spite of the fact that in the Scharff home, below the surface, it could be seen that the family had not quite for gotten the elopement and its attend ing circumstances
 Yesterday three weeks ago MT. Altheimer, as usual, left for his bus mess about o'clock in the morsing, kissing his wife goodbye. Return turning at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, he was met in the front hall by Mr. A. Scharff, his father-in law, who ordered him from the house, telling him not to show his face there again. As can be imagined, the young man was thunderstruek, as he did not know what to make of his father.in- laws action. He asked to see his wife, but was told that his wife would have nothing more to do With him. He begged for an explanation, and it is probable he would have forced his way to where his wife was, only he noticed there were some strange men in the parlor and thought it best not to create a scene He earnestly and repeatedly asked to see his wife, and at last Mrs Altheimer was sent for. She came to the front door and declared thai