The evening world., 1903-01-31

All things seemed to have combined
TO make the marriage Of william North
run Cowles to Miss Marie Isabella zane
The beautiful California belle, a brilliant
and a happy marriage. The ceremony
was celebrated at the home OF the
brides uncle, DIR. Edward l.. keyes,
Fifth avenue and Seventy-fourth street,
and the happy couple set up their W
establishment in a fashionable quarter
with much eclat. But in n snort eight
weeks. ere the briGal roses had tatrly
lost their fragrance, love died II the
bride went in tears in her wedding
gown, hguratively speaking. to the d.
vorce court to ask for liberation.
The case was surrounded with the
protection of secrecy. The husband put
in a defense. which enabled Justice
Blanchard to send 1t to 4 referee,
which means that nobody would ever
hear OF the scandal unless one OF the
parties became a tsttle. All that the
public was allowed TO know was that on
the report OF the referee and his recon-
h~sndation an absolute divorce was
granted to pretty Marie Zane Covles.
Behind the main charge, which alone
could entitle her to her liberty. was per-
haps what Charles Dickens assigned as
che cause OF his own domestic infellcity:
"Incompatibility OF temperament" dis
covered, alas, too late, and after the
Hateful words of the minister OF God
II pronounce you man and wife" 1t
wa just one OF last summers romance
tragedies.
FOR "Nine and Women.r
John Danielf, the veteran ~dry-goods
millionaire, dlsinherited his favorite
grandson, william Sohier Daniel. and
his young and beautiful wife divorced
him after long. patient, loving efforts
to persuade him from his ways, At the
trial a former employer testified thai
young Daniel had forfeited his sltua-
tion and a $40, 900 salary for wine M
women"
Deserved n Good Spanking.
The daughter of Chancellor Runyon.
formerly Minister TO Germany. asked
for a divorce from Harry Carl Haskins
because he told her he was her boss
and she was his chattel. and said What
she deserved was a good spanking. lie
asked for absolute divorce on alleged
acts OF hers at the Embassy in Ger
many. She named Vivian Blackburn.
an actress, During suit they lived in
separate apartments at the Waldorf
Astoria,
william F~ayershAm, the matinee
Idol" was divorced by his wife. and
shortly after married Julie OPP. He was
directed to pay allmony Of 49, 200 a year
70 his. divorced wife.
Threw Umbrella Overheard.
Deacon William NJ. Abbott. OF the
First Reformed Presbyterian Church,
was sued by Katherine, his wife, who
charged that he assaulted her ON a
fe~rry-boat and threw her umbrella over
board revlled and lnsulted her; called
her a witch and said she ought 10 be
shot. and, besides went with a strange
woman TO Washington.
file replied with a string OF charges
n said he threw her umbrella over
board because she pOked him In the ribs
with It, and the Washington companion
vas . aeventy-year-old widow for whom
he sought a pension After six months
OF legal auarrelling the deacon and his
wife made up, discontinued the suit,
and notified their friends by an endless
chain letter that peace had returned.
she Started Fires.
John X Erskine sought 4 divorce al
teging that his wife started hras IN tho
eo44e, tried 70 kill herself with poison
~ has. and = > be left her because