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Show Famous Diva Soon to Become Bride of the Idaho Millionaire. Mil-lionaire. PRESIDE OVER HANDSOME MURRAY HILL MANSION House Being Pushed to Completion Comple-tion in Anticipation of Happy Event. Special to Tho Tribune. NEW YORK, Oot. 26. Mme. Lillian Nordlca will soon becomo -the bride of Capt. Joseph R. De La Mar. the wealthy owner of tho Idaho sliver mine that bears his name. She will prcsldo In ono of the handsomest mansions on Murray bill here, which will cost when completed more than 51,000,000. Doesn't Deny It. Tho engagement of tho former sailor lad, who now owns a silver mino, and of tho daughter of a Mnino farmer, who has long been ono of the world's most famous opera and concert singers, was I announced today on good authority. -The singer could not be scftn today to verify tho Information, but Capt. Do La Mar r.-M,1r4 tint .1...,,, !,.,. Il an Struck It Rich. Capt Do La Mar, who Is now In tho fifties drifted West years ago and finally Btaked out a mining claim In Idaho. Thcro he uncovered immenso deposits of sliver, and the Do La Mar mine Is considered con-sidered ono of the rlchost In Idaho. It has made Its owner soveral times a. millionaire. mil-lionaire. Former Wife Living. Tho Captain's former wlfo la now living liv-ing In Paris, wedded to a former secretary secre-tary of one of the Vanderbllts, whose letters nro said to have caused the Can-tain Can-tain to divorce her and to take the custody cus-tody of ihelr little daughter. The Captain Is a director In a number of big corporations. corpora-tions. Hurries Work on House. When tho diva returned from abroad a few weoks ago the Captain began to hurry hur-ry tho work on his Murray hill house, going among the- men with cigars wrapped wrap-ped In live dollar bills. This proved bo effective that ho was ablo last week to take possession of the two upper floors, with his llttlo daughter. lladame's Matrimonial Career. Mme. Nordlca, who was Miss Lillian Norton and who was born at Farmlnc-ton. Farmlnc-ton. Me., some forty-six or forty-seven years ago. began her matrimonial career In Paris In 13. when she was married to Frederick Gower. an American. Two year.M later the singer brought BUit against him for separation, and this was still In process when, about 1SS7. Mr. Gower Gow-er was reported lo have lost his lifo while making a balloon trip across the English channel. Wedded Young Tenor. In l&M Mme. Nordlca was singing cilsa In "Lohengrin." at Bayreuth. and at that Wagnerian shrine she met Zoltan Doehmo, a young Hungarian tenor, strikingly strik-ingly handsome. In Indianapolis on May 27. 1S97, they were married. But wedded l'fe with Doehmo palled on the famous singer and In January, 1P04. she obtained an Interlocutory decree of divorce horc on the ground of his nllrged misconduct. Sho accused him of squandering 500.000 of h"r money nnd thcro were many sensational sen-sational countor-charcca. |