Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-10-06
SOME WIVES OF ILL OMEN.
Unfortunate Matrimonial Ventures
of a Number of European
Women.

VI q Al
Women.
Though but just turned 80 a well
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 lnsur-
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
E~nglishman. who, being killed in a car
riage accident, gave place to an Amerl-
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-wedded 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 a 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, a 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 a 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'
anu MtlO. Eelidlu u q laSSlliuIAAS ne
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 deaf
: at the hands of a burglar; and her fifth
l a Belgian, was mysteriously drowned.
Not long since there died in the Mort,
, of England, at the ripe age of over 81
! a lady who in her time had married 81
t husbands, all of whose deaths had bee.
| tragic. A native of Washington, U. s.. A
she there married her first two hus
!. bands, both of whom were murdered
l the first meeting his death at the hand
of a drunken desperate, while the sec
ond was fatally stabbed by his bushes
partner during a quarrel.
A second time a widow she cam [
= Europe, where, in Dresden, she wa
wooed and won by a German, WI
barely a year later met a mysterior
? death by poison. Her fourth HUSBAND
y a Pole was shot in a duel, giving plat
: to a Frenchman whose luck was no be
:, ter than that of his predecessors, as /
was murdered by a thief while defent
= ing his property. Her sixth, and las
husband thought perhaps to avert h
. fate by desertion, but Nemesis overtoc
=. him and he was killed in a railway a
cident.
= Between 1880 and 1895 nc fewer this
seven men, who had in turn espoused
Mexican lady, Sonora Rey Castillo, m
with violent deaths. Her first husbal
- was killed by being thrown from a ca
: riage; her second was accidentally pc
=. soned; her third was fatally injured
a mine explosion; her fourth commi
!, ted suicide; her fifth received a fat
- fall while hunting; her sixth was kill,
through a fall from a scaffold; and h
&c seventh met his death by drowning.
For more extraordinary, howevt
az than any of the foregoing is the ca
10 uoted by Evelyn in his DIARY" 9Th
showed" he writes, lat HARLEM, a CT
tage where they told us dwelt a won'
who had been married to her twent
he fifth husband, and, being a widow, "
m prohibited to marry in the future; y
it could not be proved that she had ey
ne made away with any Of her HUSBAND
- though the suspicion had brought h
divers times into trouble"
Wise Provision.
80 The London county council has
dered that the work Of tearing down
. buildings in the city shall be done
tween six O'Clock In the evening and I
o'clock in the morning, and that I
~ walls shall be thoroughly watered d.
ing the process. The object Of the ore
is to prevent the spread of disease in
dust from the germ-infected wa
lid Such a rule in the older American cit
lid would doubtless be followed by a
crease of the germ diseases in the d
ess tricts affected. In the country old hui
lat ing usually stand until they burn, Q
the fire destroys all the seeds Of disea