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Death Of Jenny Lind

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Day
11
Month
November
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Jenny Lind (Madame Goldsohmidt), the celebrated Swedish singer, died at Wie; baden, Nov. 2, aged (k5 years. Bhe has been very ill for ssveral weeks, and her death was the result of sneer exhaustion, her last hours being free irom pain. Jenny land, or Jlmo. Goldschmidt, "the Swedish mghtingale," wasbornof humble parentage at Stockholm, Sweden, in 1821. She was admitted to the conservatory at Stockholm wheuonly nineyears old; sang before the court with succcsb at 16 appeared in grond opera at 22; sang in Berlin in 1845, following her season there with tours in l'russia and Austria; and made her great success in London in 1847. In 1850 she in ade nn engagement with P. T. Barnum for tt concert tour in America, extending through the United States, British provinces, Mexico and the West Indies, The receipts oí this well-managed tour were $010,000, of which ïlademoiselle Lind received f3U2,0J0. VVhile in America she was marriol to M. Otto Goldschmidt, a native of Hamburg, who accompanied her as piauist. They returned to Kurope in 1852, aml resided at Dresden, after she had visitod Stockholm and expended $200,000 in endowing schools in her native country. Since then Madame Goldschmidt has rarely ung at concerts. In 1874 she and her busbond became loading professors at th Rhenish academy of music in Wiesbaden. Her kind manners and abundant charities contributed to her popularity aud succes. __ Probably a Canard. Thomas Owens feil from the roof of a building at Homestead, near Pittsburg, Fa., the other day, and broke his neck. At the coroner's inquest afellow workman with Owens testified that Owens bad said to him: "I am yery sorry for those anarchists in Chicago who re now in jail charged with throwing thebombat theHaymarketriut. There are others outsido more to blama than they. I was at the liaymarket riot and am an anarchist, and say that 1 threw a bomb in that riot." Impressed by tliese statements the coroner made an investigatiou of the effects of tiiedeceased. In his trunk were fouud a number of letters, one of which was from bis sister in Chicago, warning him to keep away from all socialists, as they had been ths cause of all his trouble. Another letter was from a brother advising him to put as great a distance between himself and Cnicago as possible. Loailoil Rombs Found. Four loaded bombs were tound in Lingg's cell in the Chicago jail the other morniug. The greatest precautions have been exercised all along, and how the missiles got into the jail is a mystery. The night before the bombs were disco vered Anarchist George Engle attempted suïcide by takine an ounce of laudanum. As soon as this discovery was made emetics were given him, and after an hour's hard work he was pronounced out of danger. Engle refuscs to teil how he obtained the poison. The attempted suicide is what led to the search of the celia, and the discovery of the bombs.

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