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Show ; OPERA STAR SHOOTS v HIMSELF IN HOTEL . ' QCIVCT. IIL. Oct. llMaklng his sorrows like the clown lrt the opera ' Pagliaccl, from which he had s6ng , "Vesta la Outhhn." a few hours be ' fore. Jost-ph Hmith ft usee 11, tenor, who came to Wuincy from Chicago, where . he bad sung with several large opera r companiee. shot himself io a bolel i 'bere tody. I I'rtluUia the se lection wiUj an ex- 1 planatlon of the -song the story of a clown, betrayed in love, who flings himself upon the stage to lautrh in spite of an aohlng heart Kusaell ple&aed a large audience at a Landing day banquet given by the Kniaht of Columbus. When he return d to Wuincy college., where he had been teaching, he found a not of dlsTnlaaaL He returned to the hotel where the banquet had been held. Russell was found by hotel employes too late to save hi life. His life was the life of a 'Tagil-accV 'Tagil-accV school. -executives said.. . , . e |