The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

NEWSBOY MILLIONAIRE.
LOndOn to See the DenOuement of a
Pretty Romance.

London Daily Mail.
The romance of the Copper King of
oolofad0 and It's APPROACHING happy ending
at st. Dunstan's, in Fleet street, is the
thing of particular interest to American So
clety IN London at the present moment.
The Copper King is Mr.. John McDon-
ough, the president of the John McDonough
Security Company, of Denver, head of such
a splendid property as the Gholson Copper
Company, and principal member of the
company working the mother vein at Clear
Greek, Col, adjoining the famous Stanley
mine, from which gold, silver and copper to
the value of $4,000, 900 nave been taken. The
bride, who is expected to arrive in England
directly, on the steamer Mobile, of the At
Iantic Transport line, is Miss Margaret
making a name for herself in literature in
New York, writing over the nom de plume
OF Richard Dare. She is a New Orleans
girl, and comes from an old and distin-
guished Creole family.
That Miss Dare is a beautiful young
woman goes without saying. How Miss
Dare ana Mr.. McDonough met, fell in love,
We're engaged to be married, separated and
came together again would make far more
interesting reading than most novels.
A number of prominent Americans with
some Welf-knoWn English guests are to ac-
company Mr.. McDonough when he goes
down TO meet his bride at Tilbury. which
ne Will do on a specially chartered boat as
soon as the Mobile is signa1ed.
Mr.. McDonough is a Liverpool English
man by birth, He went to America as a
lad, and his first experience of life on the
other side of the Atlantic was gained in
selling papers about the streets of New
YORK. he was bright and energetic, and
rose steadily. finally going to Albany and
Troy, in New York State, and securing con-
troll of a small library. which he soon de-
Veloped into a publishing house that gained
of the State. Pr
1t was at Troy, when he had distanced a
NUMBER OF rivals in the bookselling bust
ness, that Mr.. McDonough met Miss Dare.
This was a little over five years ago. Every
talng went well for a time. But the course
OF true love did not run smoothly. The Nc
Donough establishment was sold, the local
society was disappointed of a splendid we'd
ding 1t had anticipated for nearly a year.
heart.
The young Observation-Disclosures went
StraighI TO Colorado. and tried to forget the
loVely Southerner. Perhaps it was with the
desperation of disappointed love that he
started in to rival the famous w. S. STRAIT
ION VINO, IN beginning life in Denver, in
tells about. but at present counts his for
tune in millions. McDonough got into the
real estate business in Denver, made money
1aSt. organized the First National Bank. Of
colorado, of which he is still the president,
became director of the Commonwealth Saw
lngs Bank, and then started in to buy up
prospectors claims in mines that had
proved good. he went in for copper when
almost everybody was seeking only silver
ana gold, and the event proved the wisdom
of his judgment.
Mr.. M~cDonough, making copper his spe-
clalty, IN this way organized syndicate after
s3hdlcate 10 operate the mines Ahe secured.
one OF these mines, in Custer county Colo
RADIO, is now paying good dividends on over
$~2.G00,QO0. The Gholson mine is an immense
deposit of native copper, such as have here
tofore only been found in the State of
Michigan.
When the copper mines were in such a
highly remunerative condition Mr.. McDon-
ough, who had all along kept a close watch
on the movements of Miss Dare, again lay
active siege to that young lady's affections.
She had allowed no other sutton to take his
place IN ner heart, and her reply to him
was a promise to come to London to be
married.