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Show DEMANDS A MILLION FOR DIPLOMATIC SNUB NEW TORIC. Juno 2S. A big bundle of papers purporting- to bo the complaint In a suit for $1,000,000 damages against Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Bacon, American embassador to France; Charles Graves, American minister to Sweden, and his wife, is in thc county clerk's office of-fice here awaiting disposition. Tho bundle bun-dle was thrown Into thc office today by Mrs. Ida Von Clausson aftcr the cleric's refusal to filo them because of Irregularities. Irregulari-ties. The attempted suit Is an outgrowth of the refusal of Minister Graves to present Mrs. Von Claussen at tho court of the late King Oscar of Sweden. Tho complaint com-plaint begins: "1 hereby make formal demand of the supremo court of the United Slates to procure me an honest lawyer to plead for Justice- for mc if the United States of America has laws capable to protect me; then thc legislature must be appealed to." So far Mrs. Von ClausHcn continues: "I therefore file in the supremo court this complaint and institute a suit for Hlander, malice and revenge to recovor Sl.000.00O. The gross Insult and slander I received in Sweden, of which the world has cognizance, is laid directly to tho foregoing conspirators." Mrs. Von Claussen says King Oscar gave her his photograph and Invited her to visiL him. |