The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-03
MISS JANE FULLER TO WE'D
Chief Justices Daughter Engaged to
Mr.. Francis of Boston.

Washington, Dec. 3.-The latest en-
gagement in the fashionable set is that
of Miss Jane Fuller, youngest daughter
of the chief justice to Mr.. Francis of
Boston. The marriage will be one of
the events of the early spring. When
the marriage takes place the chief JUS
tice of the United States supreme court
will enjoy the unique distinction of
knowing what it feels like to be the
father-in-law of seven sons-in-Iaw, as
out of his eight daughters there will
then be but one remaining unmarried,
That one IS his second daughter by his
first wife, who, after the family's first
years residence in Washington, has pre-
ferred to make her home in the west.
Washington society is generally doing
more than legitimate amount of worry
ing over something. In this particular
is Mrs. Aubrey, daughter of Chief JUS
tice Fuller, and Jessup Blair, whose
marriage was publicly announced to
take place on August at Weston, Me,
the place having been selected by the
bride-elect because of certain romantic
memories attached thereto.
The reason why the marriage did not
take place at the time named or any
other time read like the intricacies,
plots and counterplots of the modern
fashionable novel Mrs. Aubrey was
widowed by the law some two or three
years since, and the published career
of her eX-huSband shows him to have
been altogether a sad lot.
About a year since Jessup Blair be-
gan to hover upon the Aubrey Fuller
horizon. His devotion to the chief JUS
tees daughter became from the start
apparent to all their friends, who were
prepared for the announcement of the
enga cement that followed in the early
spring. The wisacres, however, smiled
and shook their heads and declared that
it was a marriage destined never to be
celebrated.
When Mr.. Blair who must certainly
be far more than double the age of his
ex-fancee, presented himself to the
searching gaze of the CHIEF justice IN
the light of an aspirant for the position
of sOn-in-laW he represented himself as
abGndantly able to provide for the
worldly and creature comforts of Mrs.
Aubrey, hence the announcement that
the marriage would take place on the
18th Of August.
With prudent forethought the chief
justice had put in some odd hours an.
Vestigating the financial condition of
his wOuld-be sOn-in-laW. What he
found was that certain properties of his
prospective relative had been made over
to his mother. It is rumOred that the
mothers bounty was curtailed to actual
living expenses because of the power
behind the throne in the person OF
sister of the groom elect.
This sister being Stanch high church
Episcopalian, neither looks upon divorce
with favor nor acknowledges the right
of one so separated to contract second
marriage.
Yet. strange to say, this woman has
a husband who once a yeargoes through
the form of running up from New Or
leans to pay his wife visit. so this
sister who does not believe in divorce
has ali along declared that her brother
was not engaged to the chief Justices
daughter, because of the alleged legal
disability of the latter to contract q
marriage Mamma BIaiT's generosity
is held in check by the power behind the
throne.
marriage has been called off for the
present. Yet the ex-fances, according
to cruel gossip, are still meeting, and
it is impossible to predict what will hap
pen.