St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-05

CUPID NEARING DEATH
Little Daisy Murdoch, Well Known
Throughout the Country, Dying Of
Quick Consumption.
Some Of the Companies With Which She
Has Travelled Consumption
Was Developed.
Louis Friechette, the Renowned
Canadian Poet, Sues Lawyer for
$4,000 for SANDER,
The Latter Having Charged Him
With Conjugal Conduct D1shon-
orabIe and Disgusting.
Cupid is Dying.

Special to the Globe.
NEW YORK, July cupid Is dying In
in this city. The pretty creatures disease
Is quick consumption, and she Is destitute.
She is fragile little Daisy Murdoch, who I'D
to three months ago was the admired of
New York, and had also become celebrated
throughout the country. The impersona-
stlon was fatal. She wore thin covering
of flesh-colored knitted silk, and in the
stage draughts caught heavy cold which
settled on her naturally weak lungs, and
lately developed into consumption. The
audacity of her costume was for
given by audiences by reason
of her juvenility. though she was
rather older than she looked, but disease
was not partial. She is breathing her last
at 1913 West Forty-eighth street. Her
mother is at her bedside. The girl is pen
niless. Pauline Hall. who was the Venus
to her disastrous Cupid, has been one Of
several who have assisted her during the
week. A benefit is being managed. Daisy
Murdoch was born in Williamsburg, Nov.
%, 1867. and her first appearance in public
was made in 1872, when she sang in con-
certS IN Brooklyn, Jamaica, and other
places in the vicinity of her home. She
was so
that stage career at once suggested itself
to her friends. Her first appearance be-
fore the footlights of a theatre occurred
May IL, 1879, when as member of jack
Haverly's Juvenile ''Pinafore" company she
sang the role OF Hebe at matinee at the
Fourteenth street theater, in this city.
With Juvenile ''Pinafore' troupes have
such favorites as Irene Perry, Ida Mule,
little Corinne Kimball and Flora Welsh
commenced their professional lives. Miss
Murdoch continued with the company at
the Lyceum, singing at daily matt
nees, and afterwards on the road,
her engagement closing in June 1880.
The first tour was in itself severe for one
so fragile. 1t lasted thirteen months and
she never once rested. The following
season she went with r. E. J. Myles, now
OF Myles Sc Barton, at the Bijou, in hiss
juvenile opera company, playing in '"Thej
Little Duke. 1.-THE Chimes of Normandy, ''ss
etc. The ensuing season Of 1SS1-S2, shes
was engaged to play leading roles in still
another miniature opera company, this
time with John j. Braham and J. G. Scan
Ion, enacting ''Patience' and ''Billee
Taylor" Early in 1883 E. E. Rice got her
for his
'ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE."
company, and with them in that old bur-,
lesque she appeared as Psyche at the OPEN
ing of the then new Bijou in December,
1888. There she continued until March,
when she went on the road with the COM
pany. In San Francisco Ida Mule, who
had been playing Cupid. left the company.
Miss Murdoch took the role and did so well
that she continued to play it to the close of
the troupe's tour, late in the summer. She
then appeared as Cupid in "Ixion" at the
Comedy, and afterwards went to Bos-
ton to create the role of Puck in
the burlesque Bottoms Dream" After
short rest she Joined Goodwin, to play
Amelia Tubbs in the Skating Rink" In
In this skit she made clean hit, and she
continued to play until April last, when
her illness compelled her to return to this
city. But the exposure as Cupid had al
ready done irreparable damage. a and the
increasing fragility of the girl, while it won
the hearts of the dudes. was sign of the
death that is now within day or two. Of
her.