A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

Evening Star, Issue 10901, 8 April 1899, Page 1 (Supplement)

A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

On February 9 Alexander Maodonald. kn»wn as the Clondyke King, was married in London to a daughter of a superintendent of the Thames River police. Mr Macdonald owns the best properties m Clondyke, and is said to be worth anything between fifteen and twenty million stsrling. He is under forty vears of ags, and has been a-miner half his life. He made the foundation of his present fortune in the silver mines of Mexico Four years ago he went to Alaska, and afterwards to Clondyke. Success smiled upon him. Last year he bmlt the Roman Catholics of Dawson City a cathedral and very recently he came to England. Though himself born in New Brunswick, his pdrents now live in Scotland. Having visited them, he came to London, with an introduction, among others, to Superintendent Chisholm, of the *iver police. When he called on Mr Chisholm he fell in love with the formers eldest daughter, and on the day named he two were married at the Corpus Christi Catholic Church, at Brixton. Mr Macdonald is said to be the owner of seventyeight mines, including the Eldorado and Shookum groups.

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