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Show DIES OF JOY OVER LETTER. Man Collapses When He Reads Cood ! Tldlnnt of Old Friend. Phllndelphln. Overjoyed by tho re I celpt of a letter from an old friend, Alexander Alcorn, 40 )ears old, surfer- . ed an attack of heart disease and 1 died. The letior leached hero late Sntur I dny afternoon, hut Alcorn did not receive re-ceive It until Sunday morning. He did not upiHUir to iocukiiIju tho handwriting hand-writing on the rut elope, but, upon opening It. bo smiled mid became tery lunch excited "flush! I nm Kind lo gut this letter. ll' from u fileud I have not heard from for ton )ear.- ho said, lie had rend a ixirtlon of the letter and wn about to sit down In u chair, when hu colhiwod uud died Several men who saw Alcorn collapse col-lapse thought nt first thnt ho had no-(Mentally no-(Mentally fallen l'ion lifting him they wore surprised to find Hint ho wu dead. The letter was still In hi right band It wn dated from New York city and wn algm-d "Joe." |