The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-15
THE DEAD HoME-RuLER.

Doctors say the Demise of Mr.. Parnell
Was Due to Natural Causes Comment
on the Event.
LONDON, Oct. "a dispatch from
Brighton says that the doctors GER
states that Mr.. Parnells death was
caused by rheumatic fever resulting
in excessive temperature and failure
of the heart. Mrs. Parnell is still
prostrated with grief, and though
weak and exhausted from long watch
ing and the terrible shock experienced.
she positively refuses to partake Of any
food or refreshment and will only see
her daughter.
After giving the subject considerable
deliberation the medical authorities
have decided to forego the proposed
post-mortem examination. Dr. Covers
and two other physicians carefully ex-
amined the body before it was depos-
tied in the coffin.
DIR. Covers, son of the famous spe-
cialist on nervous diseases, DIR. William
Richard Covers. L. II. s., both of
whom were in attendance upon Mr..
Parnel during his last sickness. in
an interview said that the death
of Mr.. Parnell was due to acute
rheumatism and to congestion of the
lungs. The elier Gowers signed the
certificate of death. but he would not
say anything for publication in regard
to the last moments of his distin-
guished patient, giving as his reason
for reticence that he does not wish to
disturb the grief of the sorrowing rela-
tives by newspaper reports.
DIR. Covers said that the dissolution
tended. During the patients delirium,
some hours before he died. he talked
constantly Of Ireland, and told what
he would do for her if he lived. In a
brief lucid interval just before death
he said-and they were almost his last
words: Let my love be conveyed to
my colleagues and the Irish people. =
When these words were subsequently
communicated to a meeting of the dele
gates many of them burst into tears.
The Parnellite parliamentary dele
gates now at Brighton, Immediately
after receiving the certificate of the
physicians as to the cause of Mr..
Parnelrs death, held a meeting.
At this meeting q resolution was
adopted expressive of their great
sorrow at the death of the illus
trious Irish chieftain. and Offer
ing their heartfelt sympathy to the
Irish people and to the widow Of the
dead leader. Mrs. Parnelrs daughter,
L
ing, conveyed to her mother the sym.
| pathetic messages of the delegates.
Timothy Harrington, mem mber of par
lament for Dublin Harbor. and other
prominent members of the Parnellite
party in reply to numerous solicita-
tions for interviews upon Mr.. Parnell's
death refuse to discuss the political
situation at present, claiming that they
do not consider it proper or respectful
to the memory of the dead chief to talk
about political matters until after his
! funeral.
| Timothy NJ. Healy, member of par
lament for North Longford, and prob
ably Mr.. Parnell's most bitter oppo-
nent. was asked for an expression OF
opinion upon the political situation.
He declined to say anything of politics,
remarking: ''As Mr.. Harrington has
! declined to make statement of the in
tention of his party, We, for our part,
are determined to maintain truce for
the present.
| Justin Mccarthy said that no move.
ment had yet been made by either sec
ton of the Irish party towards recon.
ciliation. and that nothing was likely
to be done in that direction until after
the funeral of Mr.. Parnell had taken
place. All the nationalists would Ger.
tainly attend the obsequies of their
former leader, and he hoped that a
meeting of the opposing sections of the
| party on such an occasion would result
in a reunion of the Irish forces.
+. Maloney and J. Redmond while al
Brighton Thursday sneered at the idea
that the Healyites would venture tc
attend Parnell's funeral. In this they
reflected the concurrent opinion in
| Dublin, where threats are freely made
to mob any traitors who dare insult
the dead by pretense Of sorrow fol
the man they bounded into his grave. >
DUBLIN, Oct. 9.-At a meeting of the
corporation of the city of Dublin reso-
lutions of regret at the death of Mr..
| Parnell were passed, and the lord mayor
and members of the corporation were
empowered to attend the funeral in
their robes of state. At meeting
! of the members of the Purnellite
party of West Clare a resolution call
ing for John Redmond. member OF
parliament for North Wexford, to as.
sumo the leadership of the party was
passed. Resolutions of deep regret al
the death of Mr.. Parnell were also
unanimously adopted. Most of the
stores throughout the leading towns
Of Ireland are closed out of respect fol
the memory of the dead leader.
! New YORK, Oct 9.-Mr. Michael
Davitt says that one very important
fleet of Mr.. Parnell's death, would
be the release of 100000 of Irish
funds now tied up in the hands of Paris
bankers. A part of this money would
be devoted. he said, undoubtedly
toward the aid Of the evicted tenants,
and the remainder would be used by
the Irish parliamentary party for the
expenses of the general elections.
Some other Irishmen who were in.
terviewed were less sanguine as to the
release of the Paris fund and feared
that Mrs. Parnell would follow her late
husbands policy and refuse her consent
to the release of the fund. In that
case, it is thought, serious complica-
tions would ensue.
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