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HEIRESS JILTS LI BELLE MANWEDS WYOMING RANCHER AND BLIGHTS ROMANCE / OF SIX YEARS.WAGNER WILL SAY NOTHINGGRANDSON OF FORMER MISSOURI SUPREME COURT f JUSTICE. ; TBUTLER, MoL May 24.--Blighting a six years' romance. Miss Ida M. Dillon, of Butler,vtoday jilted B. Paul Wagner, of La Belle, Mo/, grandson of David F. Wagner, formerly chief justice of the Missouri Supreme court, and was married in Kansas City to S. Ernest Lotspeich, ; a, wealthy ranch Owner of Ranchester, Wyo. Miss Dillon is ;an heiress, and sajd to hole property in her; own right' valued at obout $50,CK)0, * :,It is said here ithat Miss Dillon; was to have been married to Wagner he fore the close of /the summer, Wagner .is. a newspaper rrjah, formerly of St/ Louis,WashingtonE and^Baltimore and lately assistant city editor of the Topeka State Journal. He now is at his home near La Belle. 'Never‘Saw Each Other.Six years ago Wagner and Miss Dillon began a- correspondence through a friend of both. This correspondence continued and last summer, when Wagner was employed on a newspaper in Baltimore, they became engaged,' Wagner thenreturned to the middle/west; , Iii this time neither has seen the' other.Miss Dillon inherited her fortiing at the death of her ^grandfather abouttwo months ago. Y She is a member of a vv^ll known tahd: prominent Bates county family. ‘Wagner Refuses to Talk.LA BELLE, Mo., May 24,—When seen tonight B. Paul I Wagner, who has been at his home near La Belle since March 1, refused to make any statement regarding a dispatch from Butler, Mo., to the effect that he^ had been jilted by Miss Iua M. Dillon, who was married r today: in. Kansas City to Ernest Lotspeicty of. Ran-^Chester, Wyo. He admitted that lie and Miss Dillon had corresponded for several ^years^vWagner has been here; because of; illness. ;BARRY. ILL.
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Quincy Weekly Whig

Quincy, Illinois, US

Thu, May 25, 1911

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