The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-17
ANIRIsHMAN,s LUCK.
One OF the Heirs 70 IN Estate Worth
-, 0oO, 900.

one OF the Heirs TO IN Estate worm
= s24,ooO.oo0.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
As raw specimen Of the native
Irishnsn as could be fouId between
Limerick and Chicago-and that 10 .
wide streteh-appeared before Mr..
Hoyne yesterday and besought his kindly
Offices. HIS whole appearance indicated
poverty and toll and care, and as he ap-
preached Mr.. Hoyne he did 80 with q
bashful air, as If he was conscious OF his
own position, and he was there to ask q
favor. The man told Q strange story,
and told it in an Irish brogue &C 1trong-
ly marked as to be almost as unlntelllgi-
BILE to an American as the speech of 8
Yorkshire plowman. He ssld his name
was Daniel O'Keefe, had been in this
country for five years, and was now re-
siding at Calhoun avenue, lrondale,
South Chicago. Some thirty.two years
agoa brother aud cousin Of his, named
Charles. UKeets lett London for India,
for the pupose Of .'msking their for
tunes" From that time forth the family
had only received two letters, one OF
which informed the relatives in Ireland
that they were doing well, and the other
was an ivitation to the visitor of Mr..
Hoy ne to come to India, and his passage
would be paid out. The offer was not
accepted, and the letter was unans wered.
This was years ago. These two young
lrishmen sailed from London about 1845.
They had little or nothing in the shape
OF worldly possessions and landed In
India with an almost empty treasury,
wide country before them, good constl-
buttons, and fountain of perseverance in
their hearts. As The dramatist says, we
will suppose twenty years to have
elasped, and we find these two India
emigrants transformed into India
princes, so lar as wealth IS concerned.
They have settled at Allababad, own
large estates, have troops of servants to
minister TO their wants, and look for
ward to the time when they will come
back to their native land and in the eyes
OF the world be men among men. An.
other ten years elapse, but before they
have completed the project they die, are
buried by people foreign to them and
leave in the hands of lawyers goods and
chattels valued at no less than $24 ,000,.
600. Where the heirs are 10 be found
is mystery to them, and they adver-
tise. Daniel, as stated above, came to
this city FIVE years ago, and some months
ago the tact was brought to his notice that
he was beng advertised for as an heir to
this bonanza in American papers. He
with his people in Ire
land, who are all as ignorant as he, and
received undubitableproof that he was
one Of five who are entitled to the
property of the deceased men at Alfalfa
bad. Daniels relatives are as poor as he
ls, and he cane to Mr.. Hoyne in order
to diviss some way of crossing the ocean.
There he can establish his identity. He
produced papers showing his relationship
TO the deceased mlllionsires, and he
spoke in confident tones as 10 his ability
to establish his personality could he
only reach Great Britaia. After consul
ta.ion he resolved to try and raise by
the necessary smount among
his fellow lsborers at the rolling mill
where he is employed, but he seemed
rather doubtful of success in this direc-
ton, the mills having been closed for
some time.