The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-25
.CH0ATE IN TIME.
American Ambassador to the
Court of st. James
Will Meet the Queen Before She
Goes South.
TO LIGHT ST. PAUL'S
Electric Lights to Be Placed
in the Cathedral.
Expense of $4,000 Borne by
j. Pierpont Morgan.
copyright, 1899, by the Associated
Press.


London, Feb. 25.-It is expected that
the new United States ambassador to
the court of ST. James, Mr.. Joseph H.
Choate, who left New York on board
the American line steamer st. Paul on
Wednesday last, will be presented to
Queen Victoria by the British prime
minister, Lord Salisbury, on March Z,
at Windsor castle, when her majesty
VIII hold a privy council prior to her
departure for the south of France.
A representative of the Associated
Press learns that Mr.. J. Pierpont Nor
gan is to bear the entire cost, amount
ing to $25,000, of the installation of cleo
trio lights in ST. Paul cathedral.
A SAD STORY.
A sad story came out in the divorce
court this week when the Hon. darcy
Lambton, seventh brother of the Earl
of Durham, obtained a divorce from his
wife, formerly an Australian actress.
There were three correspondents.
I4ambton's counsel said the actress had
persuaded his client before their mar
riage that she had e500 a year and was
expecting a fortune when she came of
age. They were married in 1888 and re-
turned to England from Australia in
1890. Later Mrs. Lambton attempted to
commit suicide in a hotel at Paris.
Finally, counsel added, the Earl of Dur
ham heard unpleasant rumors and told
his brother. The latter taxed his wife
with the statements made and she ran
away from her home. Afterward she
wrote her husband a pitiful epistle,
which was read in court, pleading for
giveness for the sake of their child.
miserable life she led. Mrs. Lambton
said: when you have heard the truth
you will not wonder why L have SO
often tried to end my life. L began with
are nearly starving. My confession of
guilt is the greatest punishment of my
life. Like a coward, was vile enough
to tell stories about my own mother
az iStn 1ad
1 am guilty of nearly all the vile things
they say of me. If L could only have
the chance of being good again would
jump at 1t. Have mercy upon me-
The scandal recalls the painful cir
eumstances of D,Arey. Iambton's
brothers marriage. The -drl of Dur
ham welded a strikngly beautiful girl.
The bride appeared strange at the we'd
ding and when the couple went to the
earls country seat she behaved in
most peculiar manner. Eventually the
truth dawned upon the earl. His wife
was mad. Treatment was tried, but
not successfully. The earl applied to
the courts to nullify the marriage; but
his application was refused. The count
the insane at Sussex. She is a hope
less idiot, but the doctors declare she
will live to an old age. The earl was
born in 1855 and was married in 1882.
WALES SCHEME FAILS.
The Prince of Wales hospital fund
which started off with such flourish
of trumpets, is now known to have
proved more or less failure. Matinees,
concerts, balls and every such expedient
has been tried, eliminating in the in
genious hospital stamp idea, which is
also admitted to a ffascO. Now a new
and extraordinary scheme is projected
the creation of a new order, to be en-
titled the League of Mercy, in which
those who collect and promote the col
lection of subscriptions for the hospital
fund are enrolled as members. The new
order will be based on the royal Vic
torian order and will consist of five
classes, the highest being knights
Grand Cross. There will be a distinc-
tive badge ribbon and festival. The
motto of the order will be Christie ct
Regina" The Prince of Wales will be
grand master.
THE CZAR'S BAD MOVE.
Advices received here from Scandina-
via say that the cZar'S decree for the
Outstanding of Finland has awakened
a feeling of indignation and sympathy.
The Swedish papers characterize the
decree as a coup d'etat- 1t provides for
alliance of the Russian forces, the ex-
tension of conscription and makes Rus
sian obligatory and the official Ian
guage. The Swedish papers indignantly
call upon the government to abstain
from taking part in the cars peace