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oncerned in the establishment of the


that Flood should withdraw also. He
wanted Mackay to tie up all his money
in the bank SO he could not go into
other enterprises. Flood fell in with the
suggestion, but when Fair had with
drawn he put back his money. Then
Fair was bitterer than ever.
In 1887 the Nevada Bank was reduced
to desperate straits by the speculation
in wheat of its Vice-President in the alb
sence of Mr.. Mackay. The bank bought
the wheat crop of California at 80 cents
above its market price. To save the
bank Mr.. Mackay had to invite his old
enemy Fair to become President and
put his money in it. Fair did so.
Mr. Mackay married his wife in 1867.
She was the daughter of Colonel Daniel
c. Hungerford of New York and the
widow OF q California doctor. She had
social ambitions, which she determined
to crafty when her husband made his
fortune.
The fashionable society of San Fran
cisco snubbed the miners wife, and Mrs.
Maokay wisely went to Europe. Her
career there has been a brilliant sue
cess Mr. Mackay first bought her q
house in the Rue de Tilsit in Paris, and
gave her S10,000,000 in Government
bonds to keep things going. Later she
bought a magnificent house at No. q
Carlton House Terrace. in London.
HIS DAUGHTERS MARRIAGE.
In 1885 Miss Julia Bryant Mackay,
their adopted daughter, married Prince
CoIonnia di Galatro. This marriage
turned out very unhappily, and the
Princess recently obtained a divorce. In
Europe she had been obliged to hide
with her children from her husband.
Charges of cruelty and generally dis
reputable conduct were made against
the Prince.
The Bonynge- -AIackay feud is one of
the most amusing of the many rows
that Mr.. Mackay has ben concerned in.
1t has been carried on by means of a
fistic encounter, by law suits, by in
spired paragraphs in newspapers on
both sides of the Atlantic and by book.
The exact truth about it cannot be
known, but the following account was
given by q person favorable to Mr..
Mackay when he last assaulted Mr..
Bonynge:
Charles William Bonynge, it appears,
is man of uncertain origin, but prob
ably English, who made a fortune as
broker in California 1t is alleged that
he originally spelt his name Burning.
When he became rich he went to Lon
don in search of social triumphs. He
preferred to pass as an American, be-
cause high English society will tolerate
an American more readily than an
Englishman of low birth UnfOrtu-
ma tely, in California he had laid stress
on the fact that he was an Englishman.
r hen someone wrote a letter signed
''Publicola' or 'Veritas" to the Lon
don Morning Post asking how it was
that an EngliShman not eligible for
presentation at court could go to Cali
fornia, make money and come back and
be presented.
Mr. Bonynge Immediately concluded
that this letter referred to him and that
Mr. Mackay, or one of his hirelings,
wrote it.
THAT BONYNGE ROW.
He replied with a number of revela-
tions concerning Mr.. and Mr. Mack
ay's early life, published anonymously
III London papers. 1t was said that Mrs
Mackay had been washerwoman and
her father a barber and not an officer
in the United States army, as alleged.
In an interview in a New York paper,
Mr. Bonynge remarked of one of these
attacks that sit was not libel"
Mr.. Bonynge passed from New York
TO San Francisco, and there, after read
ing the last attack, Mr.. Mackay sought
him.
Mr.. Mackay found Mr.. Bonynge in
the Office of President Hellman of the
Nevada Bank. With all the energy of
an Irishman and a former miner he
sprang at Bonynge and knocked him
down. A rough-and- tumble fight fol-
lowed in which the two rolled all over
the floor of the Presidents Office. Bon
ynge had the worst Of it.
Mr. Mackay brought suit against
the Galignani Messenger of Paris for Ii
heling Mrs. Mackay, and won it. He
brought similar suit against the Man
chester Examiner. This was settled out
o. court.
SHOT BY A MADMAN.
On February 24, 1893, Mackay was
shot by Wesley c. Ripley, an old man
me- de insane by losses in stock 'gamb-
ling. Ripley shot Mr. Mackay in the
back while he was walking in the
street The bullet entered between the
sixth and seventh ribs and passed dan
gerously near the spinal column and
the kidneys. Eventually it proved not
20 be serious.
It was a month before Mr.. Mackay
was able to go out. On the day that he
did this for the first time he was taken
with a sharp pain, which later devel-
oDed into appendicitis. He had par
taken of a dish of peas recently and one
Of the latter had lodged in his vermi-
form appendix.
The attack threatened his life, and he
was removed to New York, where Drs.
McBarney and Townsend operated on
him and removed the dangerous and
unnecessary appendage.
SOME OF HIS LAWSUITS.
In 1890 Mr.. Mackay tried to recover
| $3.50 Geo from Leon Alfassa of Paris.
II was ALLEGED that he had loaned the
money to Alfassa, who was son-in-
| law of q broker associated with Mr..
Mackay in speculation in Paris. he
lost this action.
The action which Edward s. Stokes
has just won against Mr.. Mackay was
first fled in 1892 before Justice Ingra-
ham. of the Supreme Court. Stokes
sued for. $4,000 with interest from
| 1884. claiming that amount to be due
on a contract signed by Hector de Cas-
tro on behalf Of Mr.. Mackay, and rati-
| fed bv Mr. Mackay, by which Stokes
was to receive 100000. and he and C.
II. Reed were to be relieved of all obli-
cations to Mr. Mackay. In considera-
| tion of this Mr. Stokes was to turn
over to Mr. Mackay all the telegraph
property including the Bankers and
Merchants and the United Lines that
| Stokes had purchased for Mr.. Mackay
Judge Ingraham directed verdict
for Mr.. Stokes. Then the Court of Ap-
meals ordered that certain points should
/ be submitted to jury. The latter gave
verdict for Mr.. Stokes.
! MIR. Mackay appealed again, with the
result now known. The decision means
that he must pay 100000 at least, and
that note for $4,000 of Stokes and
Reed will be rendered void if Mr. Stokes
returns certain securities to Mr. Mac
/ kay.
Another suit against Mr.. Mackay was
brought by Count Dillon, who claimed
! S5OO.00O for helping to establish tho
| Commercial Gable Company The
Count lost.
These are some of the business
! troubles of the millionaire. \ much
greater one occurred about a week ago
when his eldest son, John w Mac1ay
Jr.. was thrown from his horse and
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