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Show STILL A SISTER TO HIM. Although Annie Married Him, he Refused to Be a Wife. Simply a sister to him. That is what Eugene F. File says his wife has been to him since his marriage, and that alone. File is a leather finisher and foreman in the shops of McDermott & Howard in the eastern district of Brooklyn. For the reason given he has begun suit for the annulment of his marriage, which was celebrated eight years ago. Mrs. Moore keeps a boarding house at 225 Havemeyer street Her daughter Annie, known in the neighborhood as Miss Mooro, is slender. Among the boarders is Mr. File, who now claims that ho is known among Annie's friends as Mr. Moore, her brother. Ir-'short, although al-though the marriage ceremony was perforated per-forated between them Dec. 1, 1886, he declares under oath that tho ceremony ended at the church door, and that since then Annie has refused to play the part of wife to him. File says that out of a salary of $lft a week ho has paid his mother:in-law $18 part of the time and $10 the other part for the board of himself and "Sister "Sis-ter Annie." A year or two ago, maddened by the circumstances by which he was surrounded, sur-rounded, he left town. His wife persuaded per-suaded him to return, but it was not to marital happiness, for his wife continued contin-ued to be a sister to him, as before. At last the husband-brother got one of the visiting cards of "Miss Annie Moore, 225 Havemeyer street" and paid a visit to Mr. "Westlotorn and asked him for 'advica Papers were prepared and served upon the daughter. . The answering affidavit was to the effect thatAnnie had been his wife and lived with him as such until he left her and began proceedings. She asked the court that he be forced to pay her $10 a week and $300 counsel fees in order that she might defend the action. Justice Bartlctt has signed an order directing the plaintiff to 6how cause why he should vr put up the cash, New York Journal. In sprrngfield, the capital of Illinois, over 000 women registered, and most of them . exercised their right of franchise, fran-chise, including Mrs. Altgeld, the wife of the governor. The election of Mrs. Lucy L. Flower, the women's candidate for trustee of the state university, ia now an accomplished fact |
