The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-10

in the vicinity he charged down upon the
band like a rlving maniac. The fat from
bone player stopped blowing his iustrU-
mcnt, the second cOrnet ran across the
street. the man with the big horn fed
precipitately, but the little cornet player
held his ground. He was unconscious Of
the fate awaiting him, and he calmly kept
on playing after the Ball" The enraged
Keenan, leaped upon, seized him by the
throat, tore the cornet from his grasp aud
began to whack the unfortunate player
with his own instrument When keenan,
was through belabOring the cOrnetist the
latter was PROSTATE upon the ground, the
blood streaming from many wounds upon
his head while his instrument lay en-
sanguined in its owners blood upon the
sidewalk. The cOrnet was ruined for all
musical purposes. BY this time te com
rades Of the cornetist had recovered their
courage and, making bold and united
dash, they rescued their unfortunate fell
low musician, and he was carried to the
hospital in an ambulance in a dying con
dition.
But keenan, was not yet satisfied. Still
animated by intense anger, he went into
A. @. Doremus' saloon on the corner and
asked the proprietor why he permitted
such song to be played in front of his
house. Doremus objected to being adj
dressed in such forcible fashion and
vigorously resented Keenan's uncalledfor
interference. He came out from the bar,
threw down the bung starter for fear of
losing his temper and killing his man,
and tackled keenan, rough-and-tumble
The two men became tangled up and they
rolled over and over each other upon the
floor, striking and biting one aAother like
t1endS, and when they were at last sep
arated by the police Keenan, was so Sc
YereIy injured as to neceSsitate his re-
moval to the Eastern district hospital
When singing in St. Louis not long ago
a messenger knocked upon the dressing
room of Miss Morals apartment and told
her there was woman sick and dying at
the ST James hotel. 1t was a case of
heartbreak. In an excited manner the
messenger asked Mora to sing the song
Comrades" during the evening perform
ance as favor to the sick woman. The
invalid husband had been killed in Hon
olulu by a spear thrust a few days pre-
viously.
PECULIAR INCIDENT,
The letter informing her of the sad
event had been signed, ''Your Husbands
Comrade." In spite of the doctors inter-
diction and the nearness of death the
sick woman insisted upon being brought to
the theater that she might hear Mora
sing the song suggested by the signature
of the letter. She sat in her seat in an
exhausted condition, and at the conclus-
ion of the first verse tainted. She was
conveyed back to the hotel and died dur
ing the night, her last words being ''Oh,
do let Mora sing Comrades ,"
But the incidents connected with the
singing or playing of popular music are
not all of tragical nature. Only few
days ago handorgan grinder stopped
in front of a residence in Brooklyn and
began to grind out his repertoire of wear
isome airs. A man troubled with insom-
mia, who had been tossing uneasily upon
his pillow all night, arose, and, going to
the window, shook his fist angrily at the
player. This, however, had no more eff
feet upon the Inherent musician than to
make him smile derisively BY this time
the would-be sleeper was in a white heat.
He seized pitcher full of water and
threw it so accurately that it struck the
organ grinder upon the head, giving him a
serious scalp wound and damaging his in
strument. The aggrcssor was arrested
and taken before Judge Tighe, who fined
him $40, explaining his severity by saying
that he was forced to endure the music
and considered it to ba an evil which not
even water pitchers could remedy.