The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-07
Mrs. Jessie Lincoln Beckwith,
the Granddaughter
Of Abraham Lincoln, Returns
to the Parental Home.
DISCRETION ALLEGED
She and Her Husband Have
Been Living Apart
And There is Talk of An Action
For Divorce.

Chicago, Oct. IA japanese butler,
an English coachman and g French
nurse assisted last evening in taking
from a private car in the Union depot
train shed a tenderly- handled bundle
that hung with folds of dreamy white
f1annels and silks. This bundle con
tanned the at-granddaughter of Alb
raham Lincoln
Preceding the bundle in leaving the
car was Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln, the
grandmother of the peacefully sleeping
contents of the package, and after it
came Mrs. Jessie Lincoln Beckwith. who
kept sOlicitOusly near all the time as it
changed hands. She was the mother
of the distinguished cherub in the mid
die of the silk and el-envelOped
bundle, whose name is Mary Lincoln
Beckwith
Mary Lincoln Beckwith and the nurse
were the only passengers in the New
port which is the private car of Rob
ert Todd Lincoln The arrival at this
time of Mrs. Beckwith and her baby
from Mount Pleasant Ia, IS alleged by
the gOssips to indicate that another
chapter in the romance of Jessie Lin
coin has been enacted. That IS why
so much interest attaches to their com
ing to Chicago. Mr.. Beckwith did not
come.
DesertiOn is Alleged.
1t is publicly gossiped in Mount Pleas
ant Ia that Mrs. Beckwith has left
her husband and will probably take
action to secure a divorce from him
This was denied last evening by Mrs
Lincoln. She says her daughter, Jessie,
has not left her husband, except for
visit to the Lincoln home in Lake Shore
drive and that it is absurd to say that
a divorce is to be asked for.
Z do not know how such re
port started" said Mrs. Lincoln to Al
There is no foundation for it. then?"
None whatever
in ChicagO2''
THAT has not been determined. She
is here on a visit, but how long she viii
remain do not know
Mr.. Beckwith Not Coming.
"lfr. Beckwith is not coming, is he?"
ooh, no. He is employed in the rall-
road office in st. Joseph.
Mrs. Beckwith said nothing on the
subject of the alleged estrangement
between herself and her husband. ShS
looked exceedingly pretty as She Walheu
alone, the train platform keeping her
ewes on the bundle of white in the arms
of the nurse. She wore hat OF DlacK
feathers tossing on the side and top ana
a big black feather boa partly cohceaieu
nor face but permitted the Iuxuriant
faxen hair to display itself above heF
shoulders in cleaning masses. she had
nothing to say whatever on the suOJS0''
Not Living Together.
It is scarcely more than year and
a half since Miss Jessie Lincoln leaped
into the list of romantic maids by an
unheraIded and unexpected marriage
with Warren Beckwith of Mount Pleas
ant. Ia. Young Beckwith is the son OF
Captain Beckwith, who is the most
substantial citizen of Mount Pleasant
but the substantially of young MI
Reckvith is mostly confined to his
York H,oTiz" IN in the left field of a baseball
ground He is great at gathering EN- IN
a hot grounder or pulling down long
flv. and was a member of a professional
bail team this year. His mother secured
his release and since then he has been
living with his parents in Mount Fleas-
ant ,--. 1,,.os,.,,t
in the Lincoln private car ana lasI
evening she brought back her daughter
and sranddaughter.