Show MRS Q FRANK LESLIE The Famous Widow is Finally Married h CIRCULAR LETTERS OF REFUSAL She Was Compelled to Use Them In Answer to Offers of MarriageHer Husband is Oscar Wildes Brother Special toTHE HERALD Examiner Dispatch Ni w YOKE Oct 5Mrs Frank Leslie became Mrs William Wilde last evening The wedding was reserved as a surprise to her friends and although it was not altogether alto-gether unexpected a surprise it really was The ceremony was performed at the Church of the Strangers of which the Rev Charles S Deems D D is pastor The Presbyterian service was read and the wedding was private Deems is a warm personal friend of Mrs Wilde He it was who got out the first number of Frank Lcs lics Sunday Magaziic Said Mrs Wilde 1 could not endure the thought of being married by anybody else so tie postponed the event until Mr Wilde could come to I this country Mr and Mrs L H Cramer and Marshal P Wilder were the only guests The bride was attired in a pearl gray cassimere a Worth costume with a satin skirt embroidered em-broidered She wore a hat of the same color with lace She also wore diamonds The groom wore a Prince Albert coat with checked trousers and patent leather shoes A rose was in his button hole Alter the ceremony the bridal party drove to Delmonicos where a wedding uinnor was served The wedding announcements that wero sent out bore congratulations to the journalistic friends of the bride and groom and goodwill good-will Mr and Mrs Wildo have apartments apart-ments at the Gorlach They leave tonight for Niagara Falls and the west They will receive on Thursday at tho Garlach on their return The couple became acquainted in London eight years ago and since that time they have regularly corresponed After Mr Wilde arrived here on Thursday he hastened to see her It was only on Friday that she consented to have the wedding last night Quite a while ago Mrs Leslie was reported re-ported as saying that she was wedded to her profession that the proudest position she ever hoped to aspire to was the proprietorship propri-etorship of Fratilt Leslies Illustrated Acwt paper She also said she appreciated the honor conferred upon her when marriage was proposed as she believed the highest compliment a man could pay a woman was to ask her to become his wife So many offers of marriage came to the energetic business woman that the found it impossible impossi-ble to reply personally to them all To meet this emergency she is said to have prepared a circular letter acknowledging the honor and decling it with thanks How many of these circulars have been sent through the mails no one will probably ever know In March 1S90 Mrs Leslie was booked for the second time to wed the Marquis de Leuville that is in the newspapers Five years previous all Europe and America had it that tbe match had been made it was admitted by the marquis but denied by Mrs Leslie When in 1590 rumors began be-gan to fly thick and fast Mrs Leslie admitted ad-mitted she had loved the marquis five years ago but she denied very positively that there was any truth in the three repeated rumors The marquis was a second time readily induced to admit that this time there would be a wedding sure Closely following this admission Mrs Leslie grew I less positive in her denials and finally they began to be accepted as an admission One day however she announced very firmly that the talk was all bosh and there it ended again Mrs Leslie being a very vivacious woman as well as a very wealthy one was the heroine of many similar rumors ru-mors She has a faculty of captivating the nobility as she did everyone else for that matter In an interview with a reporter on a southern newspaper at the time of her visit to New Orleans several years ago Mrs Leslie in speaking of the women there and notably several Creoles said she was creole born Mrs Leslie at the time of her husbands death took a vow never to dance again and never to wear colors in her dress To this vow shs has always adhered Mrs Leslie as an author wields a racy pon writes only when she has something to say and then expresses herself brilliantly in excellent English The expenses of her immense establishments prior to the sale to Mr Arkell and Russell Harrison were over 1500000 a year Mrs Leslie always enjoyed en-joyed good health She never misses a cold plunge in the morning winter or summer and then follows fifteen minutes exercise with the dumbells A giant source of pride too has always been her feet She wears a No1 boot She is about forty years oldMr Mr Wilde is the eldest son of Sir William and Lady Wilde and was born in Dublin about forty years ago Oscar Wilde who set society circles agog when he visited this country in 18S4 is the grooms brother Mr Wilde was graduated from Trinity college Dublin in 1S75 with honors as senior moderator and gold medallist of his class In 1S79 he was called to the Irish bar and practiced with success in the northeast north-east circuit Then he entered the journalistic jour-nalistic profession and became quite successful suc-cessful Mr Wilde is tall with a fine presence pres-ence He has dark hair and piercIng brIght eyes and wears a closely cropped beard He is a capital story teller and has an inexhaustible in-exhaustible fund of anecdote In all probability pro-bability he will talre his wifes place in the management of her interests in the several sev-eral journals with which she is identified Vflll Demand Indemnity From Spain WAsniNGTOX Oct 5It is said the President Pres-ident will demand indemnity from Spain for the maltreatment suffered by American missionaries at the hands of Spanish priests and officers on the Caroline islands James A DeWitt of Washington has been appointed special agent of tile land oftico for surveys and will be assigned to duty in Washington Oregon and Montana English Commissioner Report on Seals OTTAWA Ont Oot 5Vord was received re-ceived hero by the department of marine and fisheries from Victoria B C that her ajestys steamship Pheasant has brought news from Bearing sea of the movements of Powell and Dawson the British commissioners I com-missioners investigating the goal fisheries question They are at present on board tho steamer Danube and have been visiting Commander islands in the Russian waters to the west of Behrlng sea They obtained from the Russian authorities permission to visit these islands in order to study the movements of seals and to discover what truth there Is in the theory that in seasons when seals are plentiful St Georges St Pauls and other islands on the eastern aIde of Behrlng sea they are scarce on Commander islands and vice versa This season seals have been plentiful at the breeding islands i there are millions of r them at St Paula full half a million seals in sight at St Georges island however the number was not so great It was found r by fastening tin clips to the tails of young I seals they do not remain in the vicinity of I their native place but cross from side to side of Behring sea The Pheasant brings a report that several female seals were killed during the suckling suck-ling season by she commissioners and their stomachs found to contain nothing but a I little seaweed and pebbles This is an important im-portant point and ono on which the commissioners com-missioners received special instructions during the last conference at Washington Secretary Blaine held a most serious reason rea-son for stringent restrictions on the taking of seals in Behrlng sea was that the mother seals which during the suckling season swam fifty miles every day to the feeaIn K grounds would be taken in great numbers and the young seals which they left on the shores of the island would perish unless the mother seals were protected He said the race of seals would thus soon be exterminated ex-terminated Sir Charles Tupper argued against this i that as a matter of fact the mother seals I S i 1 u over left their young in the suckling season sea-son during which time the mothers took no food at all Secretary Blaine ridiculed the idea as one unheard or in natural history but Sir Charles pointed out that the seal is a hibernating hiber-nating animal had a store of food on which it could well subsist for a long time The eportthat the stomachs of the mother seals wore found empty bears outTuppers statement tatTl The steamer Danube is expected at Vies I toil Vie-s before the end of the week |