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Show MADAME NORDICA DEAD. Great American Prima Donna Succumbs Suc-cumbs to Attack of Pneumonia. Batavla, Java. Madamo Lillian Nor-(Ilea, Nor-(Ilea, tho singer, died here Sunday night. Madamo Nordlca had been ill since the steamer Tasman, on which she wus a passenger ,went nshore on Bramblo key in the Gulf of Papua, Decembor 28 last. Nervous prostration wbb followed by pneumonia. pneu-monia. Lillian Nordlca was an American singer of world-wldo fame. Her admirers ad-mirers ranged from tho men of tho bowery section of Now York, whore she hnd sung nt mission meeting, to tho most critical box holders of grand opera houses In nil tho world'B great musical centerB. The purity of her voice, employed In many tongues, had delighted hundreds of thousands since tho day, forty years ago, sho 'first appeared ap-peared in public as soprano soloist at Grave church In Boston. Madamo Nordlca was born on n farm In Mnino In 1859. Sho had been married three times., |