Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-29
AN EDITORS TRAGEDY.
How News Condenser Received Dis
patch About His ~wceuheRrt's Death.


How News Condenser Received Dis
! patch About His >wcetheRrt's Death.
1t is well-known fact that newspaper
men, As rule. do not get credit for being
susceptible To anything like the feeling,
that ordinary beings have. says the St Pau
Globe. but one case is ON record Of a man
worn out with hard work, and perhaps
some dissipation. who showed t0 the few
that knew him nature more like wo-
mans than the brave newspaper man that
he was. lie had his Office AT the time in All
oNerhratpd and hadiy-lightrd room. such aS
are often made To do duty A. newspaper
offices in New Hampshire city. He was
the Telegraph rdtor" on a morning paper.
and all through the evening and morning
hours he Cut the sheets az manifold. dotted
the is" put in the periods. >traightrned
the twisted sentences and occasionally
s"Urr AT the operator who made such moor
copy. His name matters not He had been
one Of the brightest in Chicago al twenty
five and had worked in ST Louis and &,
dozen other cities IN the ten years tha. fol
lowed
He was at the tim. L,.,, lin. ,,;.,,,
temperate. A. aftrrward learned dms -
the TACT that while in New Orleans Ia. lsJ
fallen in love with a yuuuf, ,,irl j., ,,,,,;,,..,
circumstances vino ha,I rrurrisrJ IN ~.
his wife when he shnulI rnr.iI.r I,,,.,,i',
in circumstances Il, ,,,rr.,,,, .,f
never tuId ma. ,t mis- h,,t ,,,,,., - T. ~,
rrrfrrriu, IN 1.-Two in .,,,,T, Ppm "'
INN, fI,. Inv o,,J ,.l'',r.. away
more mnnr, WrbaJ ~ ,,...,,,u, =" '"' " save
lady. that WA, aI,yay. an I"s ID a ou.'I
ot,Ir, IN tin. mint III. ..,,.. ,,.II I>N' an"
from the ..manrrnld" and I,,L fnr f,','. "'.,'.v'
ME, ON tra f,rs-,b,t. ~ '"' "'T "llI,- .i
with darL, hair and hi, .,,,.s ,i', 81
p;rtur,. seemed d,..n and i,,.,,;., }" '''o
one night or rather ,nnI,,i,. s.,
nearly time for tL.s nar.r -, '"' 1t was
night editor came in and .,i7I. ..I,I tue
how i, tb,. r,nnrt cnm,,r., -, ,r,... W.
| 'uinu .kid" had ius, hr-,,.,l,. 'tn
sheet of crl,y and fine ,,l.-,r,. ..'ii, "a, 'I,'
phrd; ..Tnirty i in e IW.I,... .,'i'". .' te
lyrarh orrr,tur r.,.,i,.,.. ,l... Ia'. -"
the night he writas r,I..r v, "' i''', Il ."'
tiouaI sim IA - IN. ri.,r,, ,I;,
that unless th.r. was .oI,,.-,t;,', ,H,'"' ,"lu
Ia kill il far if was ,a,,ir,, ''''p"' '"i''
Nv friend win his re1oiI j., h,i. g..
ran hastily ihrpurh il anI ,yh.., L,. r.,,,I -
,l.,...r.,,h .,,,,,,..i H., - a 'l'"
,nnciI drn,,,,,.J - ~. ,',,' III W. ''s
r.,.,,,.arsJ f;,,l,rf w. ,',-', ',u' .''
,Jy Ia tina Moi. ..,ii,',r, .''' ,G',, 80 -,
y.ariI, ..Tbrrn orr. ,,,,, -, ,,r,,,r.,,.i,' ,"''
m. ON the E...rLnr ,ri@I ''P'. ,r.I
,unth.r ahnut Sor,., ,.,,,,,,,, Iai,.
being str,rrk by H,htniuy in a rnv.,, in
Ioui,iana. that.s all -" ,.Serd nm ,I,.',,,.,
,hout Rrrrhrr and kill Tin. nrh,.r" .,iJ tr.
night editor. ..unhndv in mis- mar, of tb,.
rnuutry cares A d-n ahout any. ,n,r,r l,d,.
being killed two thouSanJ mills frn,7 Lar.
not at this time in tine mnrniny q"
Nv friend yrut,. , h.ad far tLa R..,b.r
story and put th.. rest nC the ap,,mifoIJ ,,an.r
in hi, rocket He ppt nm his coat ,yith n
tired air and left the nt,ic,. nas,ir,, th,. nn-
lice r,.rortrr in the adinirinr rom w,itL n
brief gond-nigbt
Next evening he did NOT sbov IN, ,t tho
usual hour and the night editor svore for
h. had ia LandIa tb. t.,I.,,ro,,L L;,,,.,,f !,
was two davs before | saw or hrori fron
my friend and th.r I L.,rI tho, L., had
,mit bis inh and | went Ia nj. rn,,,,, ,,,a,,
dawn nm Elm, ,tr,at
Il am nnt we'll " he said "I had IN
mi, uirht work ayhiI. I'm about dnna
" That V1S ghput all h. .aiI ,,I fnrs
week as / made raIIs nm linn !, ,,a. tha
same He gn, no b,.tter I'M, said /, h,., he
got over a had rnId h,. wnuIJ ha oil r,.,ht
Two weeks LATER he died 4 dnc,or l..,J ,t-
tended him and said II was = .,rt of ,,ricl
,oi',u.'i ,''.I, '''i' III 'lIN l"'Ne'S M'Ir i"""H
''"Ne u""'!' ie'l"'s' one winch tie "cdu
man """ 'N I!eht4! "I'ttth anu hTsitcltd 10
mai, was G"ec'eu I" MISS Anne l.. Gem
tht' New orleans. was intending l" mail
Il "htH came a'l">S' among the papers
copy, on which was written, as near as |
can remember. the following:
derstorm this evening IigItminp struck hnm,e
M-, F. Clement No. - Carnnunlrt street
and lady's daughter Annie, ayed twenty,
instantly killed