Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-10-06
SOME WIVES OF. ILL OMEN.
Unfortunate Matrimonial Ventures
of a Number of European
Women.

Though but just turned 30a we'll
Connected lady of Logrono, in Spain. has
lately married her eighth husband.
None Of her previous partners has sur
vived the wedding ceremony for more
than two years. and how general Is the
opinion that her present mates luck
will not be better than that of his prede-
cessor's. says London Tit-Bits, may be
gagged from the fact that no life insur-
ance Office will insure his life.
A few months since the 27-year-old
daughter of a well-to-do Milan trades
man married her sixth husband. On the
death Of her first mate she welded an
Englishman. who. being killed in car
riage accident, gave place to an Ameri-
can, whose experience of married life
lasted but three years. OF many suitors.
a Russian commercial traveller was her
next choice, but scarcely had the proud
husband reached his home in Odessa
with his newly-wsdded wife ere he sue
cumbed to typhoid fever.
His widow then returned to Milan.
where she gave a favorable response to
the address of an old school friend.
who six months after marriage was
killed while on mountain excursion.
This bereavement gave her a pause,
and for two years she turned a deaf ear
to all matrimonial offers; but the per-
sistent wooing OF Herr Schmutz. Ger
man engineer at length persuaded her
to change her name once more.
Surely few women have had such an
unlucky number OF matrimonial ven
lures as lady of Lucy, near Lucenay.
whose fifth husband. three years since,
committed suicide by hanging himself
a grim fate that also brought the lives
of the woman's first and fourth hus-
bands to a premature end. Her second
was accidentally burnt to death, while
her third likewise voluntarily terminal
ed his existence. preferring, however,
water to rope.
Five, too. in number were the hus-
bands Nine. Fenard, fascinating ma
tive of Brussels, welded. Her first hus-
band was killed in an American gam
bling saloon; her second was bludge-
oned to death in a low viennese suburb;
her third was drowned while yachting:
her fourth, a Frenchman, met his death
at the hands Of burglar; and her fifth,
Belgian. was mysteriously drowned.
Not long since there died In the North
of England, at the ripe age Of over 80,
lady who in her time had married six
husbands, all of whose deaths had been
tragic. A native of Washington, U. s. A.,
she there married her first two hus'
bands, both of whom were murdered
the first meeting his death at the hands
of drunken desperate, while the Sec
ond was fatally stabbed by his business
partner during quarrel.
A second time a widow she came ia
Europe. where. in Dresden, she was
wooed and won by a German, who
barely a year later met a mysterious
death by poison. Her fourth husband
Pole was shot In duel, giving place
to Frenchmanlwhos luck was no bet
ter than that of his predecessors, as he
was murdered by thief while defend.
ing his property. Her sixth, and last
husband thought perhaps to avert his
fate by desertion. but Nemesis overtook
him and he was killed in a railway &C
cident.
Between 1880 and 1895 no fewer thar
seven men, who had In turn espoused
Mexican lady. Sonora Rey Castillo, met
with violent, deaths. Her first husband
was killed by being thrown from car.
rage; her second was accidentally pol
soned: her third was fatally injured In
mine explosion; her fourth commit
ted suicide; her fifth received a fata
fall while hunting; her sixth was killed
through q fall from scaffold; and hel
seventh met his death by drowning.
For more extraordinary. however
than any of the foregoing is the cast
uoted by Evelyn in his DIARY" They
showed" he writes. "at HARLEM. cot
tage where they told us dwelt woman
who had been married to her twenty
fifth husband. and. being a widow, wal
prohibited to marry in the future; yei
It could not be proved that she had evel
made away with any Of her husbands
though the suspicion had brought he
divers times into trouble"