The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16
END OF A NOBLE CAREER.

Death In New York City of tho Dis
tinguished PFelate, Cardinal MeCloskey
The End Peaceful and Quiet-Brie
Biographical Sketch.
NEW YORK, Oct 10.-Cardnal Nc
Closkey died at $50 o'clock this morning,
peacefully and surrounded by relatives ana
clergymen of his sect. Soon after four
O'Clock yesterday afternoon the Cardinal
sank into Inconsistencies, and so continued
through the evening. The grayest appre-
tensions were based on this fact and
Mgr. Farley, Father Donbresse and Mrs.
John Kelly-who was at her home
were hurredly summoned to the Cardinal
house aid bedside. At ten o'clock those
about the bedside of the sick man were of
the firm belief that he never again would
regain consciousness. The Cardinals
nephew had been sent for he being in
Philadelphia. For some hours prior
to his loss of consciousness the
Cardinal had taken no nouriShment,
and those who watched felt that all
that now was left was the inevitable and
speedy exhaustion of the unsupported vital
forces Rev. Father Doucey came hurriediy
soon after ten o'clock and joined the group
OF watching friends. 1t was yet thought
that dissolution might be from ten to
twelve hours distant, but this was not to be.
About midnight lights began flashing from
various rooms in the Cardinals house, and
to the groups waiting outside there came
the consciousness that the unusual activity
inside was indicative of the approach of
closing scenes. AT 1880 nervous tWitch-
o. of fhG ola of ho-J Twin 70
was observed and the household drew
i.earer The doctor bent by the bedside
and constantly felt the rapidly fckerlng
pulse The reverend monsignors
prayed fervently and repeated invocations
for the dying. Half-past twelve, and the
scene was one simply of waiting. On
one side of the bed were the Cardinals
nieces, Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Cleary, and on
the other side were Miss McCloskey and
Miss Muller, the latter another niece. Be
hind them and standing almost in circle
were Mgrs. Farley, Preston and Quinn,
Archbishop Corrigan, DR.. Mcdonald, Father
Donbresse and the assistant priests attached
to the Cathedral, who recited the prayers
for the dying. DR.. Keyes, at the head
OF the bed, anXiOusly watched the ebb-
ing life of his patient, who, though uncon-
scious, still held in his hand crucifix, the
emblem of his faith. AT 1850 the end
came, and so peacefully and painlesSly that
those who watched scarcely new that
the great change had come, until DIR.
Reyes signified that all was over and
that the Cardinal was dead. Then the
butler, Walsh ushered forth to a cab the
venerable Rev. Donbresse. The serv-
ants eyes We're wet, and DR.. Reyes who
supported the reverend father on one side,
said to the waiting crowd outside: "The
Cardinal is dead" Mgr. Preston remained
with the relatives and offered prayers for
the repose of the prelate's soul. The other
dignitaries and priests retired after the
death.
John McCloskey was born in Brooklyn
March 10, 1910. He studied theology in a SEM
mary at Emmettsburg, Nd, and graduated
from Mount st. Mary's College He received
the first orders January 9, 1884, and then went
year i'll France he returned to this country
and was appointed assistant pastor of St.
Joseph'S Church in this city, and six months
after became rector. Bishop Hughes, in
1S41, nominated him first President of ST.
Johns College, at Fordham, but in 1912 he le-
sumed the rectorship of st. Joseph's Church.
November q, lS43, he was. appointed, at the
suggestion of Bishop Hughes, his coad tutor,
and was consecrated with the title of Bishop
of AXiere March 10, 1874. Bishop McCloskey
was nominated first Bishop of Albany May
"A, in the division of the diocese of New
York, which took place in 1917. After
the death of Archbishop Hughes he was
appointed to the See of New York May g. 1864.
He gave $4,000 from his private purse toward
the building of the Fifth Avenue Cathedral
He was created Cardinal Priest March Is, 1875
The jurisdiction over which Cardinal McClos
key presided comprises the city and county
of New York, and the counties south of the
forty-seco"d degree north Latitude excepting
those on Long Island.
Cardinal McCloskey was the first Cardinal
of America, and upon his death he does not
of necessity have a successor. The growth
of the Catholic Church in this country
has been SO satisfactory, however, that
there is no doubt felt about the con-
tinuance of the Cardinals cap in New York.
But it is thought that even greater favor
will be shown the Catholics in this country
than that, and that before the cap is again
given to New York either Archbishop Glib
bons, Of Baltimore, or Archbishop Williams,
of Boston, will be made Cardinal 1t is
thought most likely that the cap will be given
to Archbishop Gibbons. The cap will prob
ably then be given to Archbishop Corrigan
and there will be two Cardinals in America.