The Archive · 1897

ORDINARY JEALOUSY

Another strange case of jealousy, or at any rate of wounded affection, comes from a western American city. According to a Dalziel's telegram it would appear that a certain candidate for the office of Mayor has been defeated owing to his previous treatment of a lady living in the same town. For twelve years he had been engaged to be married to a school teacher. Last November, without giving any warning whatever to the lady that his affections for her were changing, he suddenly broke off the match, and shortly afterwards married a rich widow. When

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