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Show HANGS ON A HAIR. THE LIFE OF EMMA ABBOTT OSCILAT-ING OSCILAT-ING BETWIXT LIFE AND DEATH, Doctors Plnkerton and Itascom Pronounce Her Condition Vary Dangerous -The Entire Left Luna; A fleeted and Vitality Low. The condition of Miss Abbott is even more critical than it was yesterday. Doctor Pinkerton was seen by a Times reporter late this afternoon, and was informed that Miss Abbott's condition con-dition had not improved and that her recovery was uncertain. The entire left lung is effected, and at this stage of the disease it is impossible to predict the result of the struggle. Dr. Pinkerton is an old friend of Miss Abbott, having known her when she sang in Beeeher's Plymouth church at Brooklyn, When she was indisposed indis-posed on Wendesday evening Dr. Pinkerton insisted that the curtain should be rung down and that she should be t:keu to the hotel. He found her pulse to register 104 and insisted that she was a very sick woman. The plucky little woman laughed the doctor off and dismissed him by saying that it was only the bronchitis in her throat, anil she went on with her part. On Thursday night the doctor had a hard time to keep her from singing, even when her condition was worse than on the preceding night. There is certain fatality to the Abbott Ab-bott company in this city. When here in October of 1888, Miss Abbott nml her husband both contracted colds. Miss Abbott persisted in singing every uiglit, in spite of her bad voice. The newspapers were very cruel in their criticisms and Miss Abbott felt it keenly. Hit husband went to Denver, and the particulars of his death were given in The Times of yesterday. This time Miss Abbott expected to make up her laurels with the critics, but alas, she is now trembling in tho balances betwixt life and death, with little hope for her recovery. Tho noble, pure hearted little woman in her struggle with that dreaded malady, pneumonia, has the sincere sympathy of the entire community. |