Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-14
GOSSIP OF Old WORLD
London Excited Over the Strange
Marriage Of Annie Jewell to
Lobengula.
The Latter is Full Blood katabele
From the Wilds Of South
Africa.
Vehement Protests in the Press
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Vehement Protests in the Press
Against Degrading Fad-Th
Transvaal Crisis.

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London to the exclusion of the chances
Of war with the Transvaal and the rec
ords of trial that may cause a revolu-
ton in France, is the marriage of an
uneducated savage son of Lobengula
| to white woman of fair position in life
and worth money and named Jewel.
Lobengula tells how he was logged
in Africa for walking on a pavement
with Europeans. In this country
women run after him in spite of the
fact of his being married and he is
made the hero of the hour. This is of
course largely a mere matter of ig-
norance of his comparative Importance
in his own country.
| The attitude of the English people
toward blacks is not understood by the
Americans. 1t is common sight here
/ to see black man walking with a
white woman.
The strange marriage between pretty
Annie Jewell, daughter of the late
Mexican miner, with the so-called
Prince Lobengula, who has been en-
gagged in the savage South African ex-
hibition, excited much widespread dis
gust among the clergymen that two
London churches declined to perform
the ceremony and the couple was ulti-
mately welded before the civil registrar
only. Lobengula had been persuaded
| by the manager of the exhibition TO
abandon the project, but Annie would
have no denial and taking the giant
Matabele into her own hands forced
him to marry her. They started on
their honeymoon from Southampton,
| joining a Cape liner there Sa.u day to
return to South Africa.
| This unpleasant episode has provoked
numerous vehement protests in the
press against the familiarity displayed
innocentlyt by English girls to the
Matabele natives now performing a
the Earls Court exhibition. The au-
Idience is allowed to visit the Matabele
1 in savage costume at their kraal, where
respectable girls shake hands with
4 them and some in u spirit of bravadcs
even kiss them. An Afrikander attend
4 ant at the kraal said: IF girls who
allow their hands to be pressed by these
lniggers only understood the comments
i they make among themselves they
would sink with shame. To us -Afr-
II Handlers who know what the Matabele
are it is revolving to see white women
4 allow themselves to be touched by
them, but girls here seem fairly
7 crazed about these half naked brutes,
who receive their homage and display
their limbs to their enraptured eyes.
80 feature OF the exhibition has drawn
so we'll as this kraal. Eighty per cent
of the visitors are women and girls
Il some coming night after night. They
fe.1ff
4 giving them presents of all kinds. But
for the difficulty in making themselves
understood and the severe restrictions
We place on the liberty of the Malta
4 belle / am convinced half dozen could
. have been married to English girls be-
fore this
The south African authorities realize
they made big mistake in permitting
this show in London. as it utterly de-
fnoralizes the Matabele, who lose all re-
spect for whites when they return,
making them more difficult TO manage
than ever.
Mrs Howard Kingscote, who induced
5, Lord Byron and two sedate country
parsons To ruin themselves to supply
her with money for no consideration
, whatever, has appeared in still more
extraordinary suit. In 1890 she became
acquainted with Capt. Adams, a young
Lancer officer. She told him that a
widow friend of hers was involved in
debt, and that the only means of saving
her from bankruptcy was marriage
Operated upon by the mystic influence
y Mrs. kingscote exercises on all her VIC
tins, Adams promised to marry hei
: friend, whom he had never seen, the
i conditions being they were not to live
together. the woman not to take hel
{ husbands name. nor was he to support
!, her. They were married but never liveo
: together Adams on the day of his wed
Y ding leaving for India with his regi.
ment
y Adams returned to England in 1879
and met his Wife, who said she was act
y ing as a trained nurse with wealthy
family and was perfectly comfortable
= She did not desire to live with him. Fl,
subsequently learned she had been liv
ing with a man named Bell. and tool
= proceedings To secure divorce. obtain
y ing decree. 1T TRANSFERRED In the cours
OF the hearing of the suit that the di
~ vorced woman was Mrs. Drummon,
" Wolff. sister-in-law of Mrs. Kingscote
g and that the latter recently induced he
to make q perjured affidavit declaring
",
~ the strength of which Mrs. kingscot
raised a large sum of money. Nothin
y was CLEANED of Mrs. Kingscotes motiv
= in bringing about this strange mar
riage. The whole story was declared b
" the judge to be the most extraordinar
ie ever disclosed in divorce court.
The only explanation offered for Mrs
~ klngscote's achievements is hypnoti
!, influence. as it was not even suggeste
~ that any of the men she ruined were /
the slightest degree in love with he
. Under the pen name of Lucas Cleeve
- she has written many stories, wit
~ some success, and from one victim {
Z. another is declared to have extracte
., over million dollars in eight year
III Her curious humor Is shown in her az
count Of herself where she describe
nc herself as educated at 1.-THE School fl
" Scandal" AT present she is hidin
VI abroad. but no apparent effort is bein
He made by the authorities to secure hi
re arrest. probably owing to her high cor
e nections.
RS OLD WORLD GOSSIP.
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