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I ‘ - I ■ ...... .... .........adding, Unit tijf sum ^ir-rivifleci shall he In full compensation.Quickie o( u Son of Jsaar 31. Singer.Njuv Yoiik. Nov. V.-—The suicide Sunday morning of Charles A. Matthews, of this city, iu the Colon mule Hotel. Philadelphia, was ft painful surprise to Ins many friends and sef|i tain Janets here, who ran miritmle no reasonable motive for the ad'. Hr. Matthews wa-; only twenty-six veal's ohf. One thin only seemed to trouble him ul time?, lt;tnlt;l lhatwn* Uie remembrance Unit his father, ilm lab; Isaac 31. Singer, of sewing machine fame, had been illumed a great number of times, and that he was oneof fifty-seven children. He changedhis name to Matthews, the maiden name of his mother. In order to keep his parentage unknown to the world in genera!, and he wa very sensitive on this one point, so sensitive that some of his friends believed that lie was driven crazy by dwelling upon it ami committed suicide while in a state o£frenzy. He received a tine education in Europe, and upon returiling to this city in 1SS1 took rooms at the Hoffman House, where lie lived in line style on the income derived from several hundred thousand dollars left him by his father.1 Inreatcncil (ilii$)lt;wi)rkcr»' Strike.Pittsuuitcir. Pa., Nov. T—.The windowmnnnraehirprs flfRplIofonte vnstnrdav
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Evening Observer
Dunkirk, New York, US
Wed, Nov 07, 1883
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