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Show DAY'S NKWK HKCOHI1S lti:.M.ltK.lll.i: COIN'CIDKNCK i S Tollot Man In Vnlti'tl KlntOH IHllll. TKXAItKANA. Tex. Nov. 1. J. W. rottomoii. 7S, native of Mil- lor count)', ArhantHH, reimted lu- call)' to lio tlio tallcwt man In tlio Unlloil Btates, tiled BuiiiIhv lit 111 lionio in llloomljurt;. lie was 7 feet i Incites tall. Count Mori I, l'limoiw Dwarf, 4- lleiirM l.iiht Call. JtlDDI.KIIOltO, Mass., Nov. 1. Count I'rlmo Muki'I, 71, soconil ! husband of Mrs. Tom Tliuml, and himself a famous dwarf died at a hospital last nlKht after un UlneaH of two wcrnlw. 4 Two weeks ago Count Muurl held an auction sale nf the lute Tom Thumh's effects anil those of his wife and with tho proceeds iilanned to return t Italy, the country of his birth. Count Mab'll was horn In nolo- una In 18-10. He first amieared on an Italian staKo In 1KU5 and his huccchs was wi marked that 0- four sours later ho received his tltlo from I'opo Plus IX. Uo and his brother Kriiest, an- other dwarf, oame to tho United States In 1S7U usd later Jolnod tlio famous llunuim troupa which Included Mr. ana Mrs. Tom Thumb. In 1886, two years after tho death Of Tom Thumb, the widow was married to Count Maori at Trinity ohurch, New York. f |
