End of a Pretty Rommance.
Boston, April 14. —There was a romance in the life of Mrs Mahlon Ogden Jones of Chicago, wdo dropped dead while giving a reception at the Hotel Vendome on Wednesday. Her husband, after his college days, travelling in Switzerland, one night applied for roomsat a little hotel, but the whole house had been taken by a Russian Countess. She was Nada, Countess of Trofinoff, a friend of the Czar and a grand lady. Hearing of the American’s predicament, sheordered himtobe received and entertained as her guest. She was nineteen years old and very rich. Love followed, and despite the opposition of her family, the young American married her in Paris. He took her back with him to Chicago, where she made a great stir in society for the first two winters they resided there. On Wednesday night she had just sung a Russian song, and, being encored, was beginning another,{when she dropped to the floor, dead.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 860, 24 August 1888, Page 4
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