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Show AS AraUCAaT "FJIIXCX." BUrla aUarsi rataa la Vn With Bexluc, Dec 30. An unmarried lady named Maria Blocb, 30 years of age, daughter of a wealthy merchant mer-chant here, paid a visit tost summer Is aa uncle in Chicago. While there aha made the acquaintance of A handsome young negro named Albert Roy, who to said to have been an African prince. Forthwith Forth-with tba lady feH in love with the unsay Apollo. Her uncle, becoming becom-ing aware of his niece's passion, sent her back to Berlin la the hope that absence and distance would effect a cure, but the lovers kept up A secret correspondence and the result re-sult is that two weeks ago the African Afri-can prince landed In Hamburg, accompanied ac-companied by a German from Chicago. Chi-cago. Maria Bloch met them at the hotel, carrying with her a bundle of Prussian bonds worth 7000 marks, inherited from her grandmother. While the lovers were enjoying the first raptures, Runyon, the Chicago friend took away the bonds b get them changed Into American money, and did not return. The lovers were left with nothing to live upon and Maria waa forced to put herself in communication with her father, who put an end to the romance by bringing his daughter daugh-ter back home, after paying tho "PriuceV' patsage to Chicago. The police are now searching for toe friend. |