Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1908 — THIS SEEMS TO BE OFFICIAL [ARTICLE]

THIS SEEMS TO BE OFFICIAL

After All. Was It • Lie That MM* Elkins Was Engaged to the Italian Duke? Pittsburg, Oct 13.—1 nan authoritative statement United States Sena* tor Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia, branded as untrue an alleged interview accredited to his wife to the effect that there was no engagement between Miss Katherine Elkins and the Duke of the Abruzzi. Ln an emphatic manner Senator Elkins says that neither his yrife nor he could give such an interview, for the simply reason that it was impossible to deny something that did not exist. Senator Elkins talked over the longdistance telephone from Elkins. W. Va. He was exercised over the many wild reports, published from time to of his daughter to the Italian nobleman “There is no foundation for the reports,” he sAld. “Neither in Europe nor in America has any announcement of an engagement been made. There is no engagement.”